1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,200 Hallelujah all. Let's just thank him for his 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,480 goodness. Hallelujah, Hallelujah for his 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,600 goodness to you. Thank you Jesus. 4 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:16,120 Oh, I don't want to overlook the goodness of God. 5 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:21,880 Hallelujah, Jesus, Amen. He is good. 6 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:23,640 Sometimes you got to pause and think. 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:30,120 Take in consideration his goodness sometime this past week 8 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,400 there was just a lot of negative things going on around our house 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,320 or attached to each one of us. And so I just started saying 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,800 God, I thank you for this and that and it was just all kinds 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,680 of things that some people just might think was little, but 12 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,360 they're really big when you think about it. 13 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,480 A home to live in air conditioning. 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,240 I just started going, I just combat and everything that bad 15 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,760 was going on with just being thankful for all the good that I 16 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:55,560 knew about. Amen. 17 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:02,480 And sometimes it takes that got to combat the the bad with the 18 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,080 good, right? She's saying just the other day, 19 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,840 like within the past probably 24 hours, she's had her whole 20 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:15,320 college school schedule changed like 3 times and she's supposed 21 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,880 to go back to school tomorrow. I hope she knows where she's 22 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,800 going, but she was like, man, I'm finding a hard time to find 23 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:23,520 the good right now, you know, type thing. 24 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,200 And I believe we all get moments like that sometimes it's hard to 25 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,680 find the good, but it's there, isn't it? 26 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,840 Amen. The goodness of our God, Amen. 27 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,200 Please remember this week is Bishop and Sister Mcgee's 28 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,520 ministry appreciation Week. Also all the ladies are leaving 29 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,840 out those that are going that is to conference at 9:00 AM on 30 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,600 Friday, Amen. So we pray that the Lord be with 31 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,760 them travelling mercies and that they would be refreshed and the 32 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:53,360 Lord and maybe have you know something that conferences in 33 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,680 all things like this are just kind of they're they're they can 34 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:01,280 be remote gas stations on Long road sometimes that you just get 35 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,280 to just to get a fill up just to make it to the next spot. 36 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,320 Amen. So we pray that that is for 37 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,199 them. Haven Music Conference, 29th and 38 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:11,440 30th of this month and then the 5th Sunday of this month, Pastor 39 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,920 Anthony Wilkes, Sister Lisa Wilkes, Amen, will be with us. 40 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:17,120 And so we'll have a good time in the Lord. 41 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,200 Genesis chapter 21, that's where we're at. 42 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,560 Brother Fred had conversation with Pat, several conversations 43 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,040 about Pat said, going to be in Genesis tonight. 44 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,760 And brother Fred said, I imagine unless the Lord changes his 45 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,800 mind, that's exactly what we'll be for Pat. 46 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,640 So here we are. Amen. 47 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:39,920 Here we are, Genesis chapter 21 and I'm going to read the first 48 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:44,400 7 verses and then we'll read some more later, later in the 49 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,560 night here tonight. All right, all right, the Bible 50 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:54,400 says, and the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and people are 51 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,800 giving me, maybe they were making light of, I don't know, 52 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,720 but they were joking that tonight is like my part 39. 53 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,800 But we had 37.5. So there's been 40 weeks of 54 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,520 Genesis. So they said it's about time for 55 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,560 Isaac to be born, 40 weeks. It just matches up well 56 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,720 nonetheless. Amen. 57 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,480 Sarah, as he had said. And the Lord did unto Sarah as 58 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,960 he had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bare 59 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:28,000 Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had 60 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,400 spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of 61 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,680 his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bear to him Isaac. 62 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,440 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old as 63 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,040 God had commanded him. And Abraham was 100 years old. 64 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,880 Some of y'all thought it was bad having a child at the age you 65 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,880 had a child. And you're thinking, man, I wish 66 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,360 I did that when I was younger and have stamina, you know, 67 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,160 pitch around the old pigskin with the boy. 68 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:03,560 Imagine being 100. Lord help him when his son Isaac 69 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,520 was born unto him. And Sarah said, God hath made me 70 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,360 to laugh, so that all that here will laugh with me. 71 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,320 And she said, who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah 72 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,000 should have given children suck, or for I have borne him a son in 73 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,360 his old age. Amen. 74 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,960 Little while tonight in this title is encompassed in other 75 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,640 scriptures we'll get to, but it's all kind of here together. 76 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,680 Tonight. I want to talk about the weaning 77 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,600 moment. WEAN like weaning, like weaning 78 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,840 a child from having been breastfed. 79 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:40,680 I want to talk about the weaning, the weaning moment. 80 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:42,600 Amen. Let's ask the Lord to help us 81 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,800 the next little well, Father, I love you, God, Your word, the 82 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,880 Lord is forever settled. The grass, Mayweather, the 83 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,480 flower may fade, but the word of God will stand forever. 84 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,080 And there's not one jot or title of this word, God, that will not 85 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,760 be fulfilled. Lord Jesus. 86 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,640 God, I pray it all will be. Lord, it's a wholesome word. 87 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,880 It's a word for life. It's a word Lord Jesus for 88 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,880 salvation. God, we're thankful. 89 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,760 Let it be all of that and more to each of us, Lord, in our 90 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,040 daily walks and conversations with you, the lovely name of 91 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,480 Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah in the church say 92 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,200 Amen, Amen. You may be see you tonight. 93 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,800 Now, unless we think it's a little anti climatic that 94 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,320 there's only about 7 verses of scripture here or even probably 95 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:31,920 less than that, that totally relate to the birth of Isaac. 96 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,560 Don't let the feudeness of verses kind of over shadow the 97 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,000 miraculous event that has taken place right here. 98 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,440 Because as you know, for the past 10 chapters or so, there's 99 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:47,960 been little glimpses and hints of this going to happen all 100 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,480 along the way. And so now it's it's finally 101 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,200 has. All those other chapters have 102 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:55,640 been conditioning us for this very moment. 103 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,080 It's been building our anticipation. 104 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:58,880 I don't know about you. I've been on pins and needles 105 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:00,880 just waiting on. Yeah, Brother Reese over. 106 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,040 He can hardly stand it. Been on pins and needles waiting 107 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,280 for Isaac, a man to be born. And for this moment. 108 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,920 And the reason why I think one of the reasons I should say this 109 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,960 is so important to us because when we started this journey 110 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,960 about the possibility of Isaac, which was actually Genesis 12. 111 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,200 But when you start the journey of Abraham and Sarah in their 112 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,600 marriage with each other, I just want to recall to you the whole 113 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,680 scenario of that back in Genesis 11. 114 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,920 Because the Bible told us then that the name of Abram, remember 115 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,520 this before his name change, that the name of Abram's wife 116 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,560 was Sarai. And it says that Sarai was 117 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,640 barren. She had no child. 118 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:46,120 And so that means it throughout their entire married lives, she 119 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,720 has been unable to have children throughout that, the entirety of 120 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,080 that. And so again, the 1st mention of 121 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,600 God making Abraham a great nation, which then unfolds the 122 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:01,080 concept of needing or would have children happens in Genesis 123 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,080 chapter #12 and soon from therefore. 124 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,120 And I'm not going to go through them all because I've done that 125 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,240 other times. But there is so many different 126 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:13,000 words that came to Abraham or to Sarah or Abraham and Sarah kind 127 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,480 of narrowing down or giving more details about this this great 128 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,880 nation, more importantly about the birth of the child, if 129 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,360 you'll remember. And I said, I'm not going to do 130 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:23,360 this. I'm not going to do this. 131 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,480 But nonetheless, you know, Abraham was the idea that even 132 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,400 in the beginning, you know, what are you going to give me? 133 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,360 I have no children. He thought maybe it would come 134 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,560 through something else, but the Lord specified it would be 135 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,760 through your loins, right? And then the specification got 136 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,880 more narrow that it wouldn't just be his loins and like some 137 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,640 other woman, right? But it would actually be Sarah. 138 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:45,480 And he was even given the name that they should give him even 139 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,040 before it ever happened. So this thing has come narrowed 140 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,880 down to this moment and the additional chapters. 141 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,040 Yes, they've explained to this more recently in Genesis 18 and 142 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:56,680 10 and it'll be before you tonight. 143 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,520 The Bible says and he and the he is the Lord said, I will 144 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:04,280 certainly return unto thee according to the time of life. 145 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,480 And lo Sarah, thy wife shall have a son. 146 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,320 He's very specific here. And Sarah heard it in the tent 147 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:14,000 door which was behind him. Verse 14 says, and the Lord is 148 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,760 saying is anything too hard for the Lord because they had their 149 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,920 concerns being the ages they were that this would happen at 150 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,320 the time of point. I will return to Thee according 151 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,880 to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. 152 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:31,880 So God again has reaffirmed this over and over again to Abraham, 153 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:37,280 Sarah, or both of them that He would do what He promised. 154 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:40,880 I know we're talking about a child, but that applies to 155 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:45,080 anything concerning the Lord. He will do what He promised. 156 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:52,600 It took time from about Genesis 12, when it was initially spoken 157 00:08:53,560 --> 00:08:56,720 at the time that they're holding that baby in their arms is a 158 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:04,680 process of about 25 years. 25 years waiting on the promise, 25 159 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:06,800 years waiting on what God said He would do. 160 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:11,360 He did 25 years of holding that baby in their heart before they 161 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:17,000 held it in their arms. 25 years of time. 162 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,000 But I believe this little few verses that we have in chapter 163 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:26,000 21 comes to bear on all of this, letting us know that you can 164 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,160 trust God. I see. 165 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,080 I see the wording here in the 1st 2 verses here that the Lord 166 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:37,080 visited. As He said, the Lord did as He 167 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:42,600 had spoken, Sarah conceived at the set time at which God had 168 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,520 spoken to him. So all of these things what what 169 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,960 God his visitation, what he did and Sarah conceiving all of this 170 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,840 wasn't taken Abraham and Sarah really by surprise because God 171 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,960 said he would do it. God gave them the appointed time 172 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,200 in which it would be done and so we can trust in the Lord brother 173 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,960 makes them appreciative several weeks ago. 174 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,360 It's a common thing the message that happens sometimes in our 175 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,840 churches that just because God delays doesn't mean that God is 176 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:16,160 denying and so that is a 25 year delay, but they weren't denying 177 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,360 the child that God wanted to have them and no doubt they did. 178 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,880 We looked at this, Sister Sam, that the Abraham and Cerebell, 179 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,240 they have wrestled with the doubts concerning the promise. 180 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:27,960 They've wrestled with the doubts. 181 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,840 But I think it's important the first couple of verses, this is 182 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,200 what we should do. When you wrestle with the 183 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,640 doubts, with what God has promised, then you must go back 184 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:42,880 to what God said. You must go back to what God 185 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:47,080 said and God makes good on his promises, not just here, but in 186 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,520 other places. The Scripture, for instance, in 187 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:54,680 Numbers 2319 Balaam, he asked a record, a rhetorical question 188 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,040 about God's faithfulness that that were expected to be 189 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:01,160 answered in the affirmative that yes. 190 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:02,880 Whenever he asked these questions. 191 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:08,000 Here's the rhetorical question he asked, he said, has he said 192 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:14,400 he's Speaking of God and will he not do it or has he spoken and 193 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,680 will he not make it good? Of course the resounding answer 194 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:21,760 is yes, but that's speaking about your God. 195 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,520 Solomon was given a blessing upon the congregation of Israel 196 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,120 and he even spoke and said in First Kings 8. 197 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:34,400 He said there have not failed one word of all his good promise 198 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaking of God. And so the Lord came and he, the 199 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,360 Bible uses this word and this is important word here in verse #1 200 00:11:42,560 --> 00:11:47,000 He came and visited. He came and visited Sarah 201 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,800 because that little word visit there in the Hebrew means it 202 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:55,920 indicates a divine intervention for either blessing or cursing. 203 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,400 So either way, and for this one, it is definitely for blessing. 204 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:07,000 Either way, whenever God visits a people or a person or whatever 205 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,640 it may be in Scripture, when He visits, there's going to be a 206 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:15,800 destiny change. When the Lord visits, He won't 207 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,800 leave the person, the place, or the location. 208 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:24,960 The same when the Lord visits. And that's what happened to 209 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,000 Abraham and Sarah. Isaac is born, the Scripture 210 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,200 tells us, and amazingly, the Bible also tells us, and it's 211 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:39,080 important that Abraham obeys God because in Genesis 17, again, 212 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,760 God had already spoke to them. This is what you'll call the 213 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,880 child. You'll call him Isaac. 214 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:47,040 What do we see happen in this chapter? 215 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:52,720 Abraham is calling that child Isaac, just as God prescribed. 216 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:57,200 Also, though in Genesis chapter 17, it's in that chapter that 217 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,800 the Lord made that covenant with Abraham and told him the sign of 218 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,240 the covenant, that it was circumcision, That you should 219 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,720 circumcise anybody that's born in your house or adopted into 220 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,560 your household, whoever they may be, on the 8th day. 221 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:13,120 You should do that because that's a sign of a covenant 222 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,600 between you and me. What do we see happening now in 223 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,360 this chapter? That Isaac is born on the 8th 224 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,120 day. The Bible says that Abraham 225 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:26,840 circumcised his son Isaac. This is important. 226 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,880 After the promise was born in their lives they continue to 227 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:38,040 obey God concerning the promise. Now let's apply that to life, 228 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:45,040 that once you've received the promise, you need to continue in 229 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:50,080 obedience with everything that concerns the promise. 230 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:57,520 Oh Lord, that means it's one thing to be born again or 231 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,240 receive the promise. It's another thing to walk in 232 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:05,520 obedience to what God says is accompanied or attached to the 233 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:11,120 promise. He was born, but He obeyed God 234 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:14,000 as well concerning this, this promise. 235 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,880 Abraham and Sarah, the Bible tells us that in the past, each 236 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,320 individual at their own time, when they heard about the 237 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,840 promise of God, they laughed within themselves, right? 238 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:27,600 It was within themselves, yet God called Him on it each time 239 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,360 because He knew their heart, He knew their thoughts, but they 240 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:35,800 laughed within themselves yet whenever God told them about 241 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,320 this. And this actually comes to 242 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:42,520 fruition now in chapter #21 Now whereas before their laughs 243 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,960 might have been some laughs of doubt or uncertainty or even 244 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,640 amusement, now today though, Sarah is laughing. 245 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,760 And it's a different laugh that Sarah has. 246 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,400 There's not the doubts or the amusement, but it is the joy and 247 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:01,600 the thrill holding what she wants, thought disbelief, could 248 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:04,240 or was amused that may even happen now. 249 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,400 It's a laugh of joy that's filling her life and she's 250 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,680 hoping she's saying God's caused me to laugh and he's probably 251 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,000 going to cause some other people to laugh in my life as well. 252 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:15,160 Number one, it could be two different things. 253 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,400 They might laugh at the absurdity of this old man and 254 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,680 this old woman having an infantile child here in their 255 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,760 hands, right? But they might also join in on 256 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,680 the joy that this woman's been bearing for her whole her whole 257 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,960 marriage, and now she's able to give a child unto her husband. 258 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:34,480 So there's a lot of different laughter going. 259 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:36,440 But maybe there's some critics too. 260 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,200 You know how it goes. Everybody's OK with getting 261 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:47,640 promises, but not OK with other people having them. 262 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:53,360 So there could be something else. 263 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,400 But none the less, here is Sarah. 264 00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:00,000 She is ecstatic and she knows unequivocally that no one could 265 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,040 have predicted this but God. No one could have done what has 266 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:08,120 happened here but God. A barren woman, a post 267 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:15,160 menopausal woman, an old woman, 90 years old, an old man, 100 268 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,560 years old having the baby. Gosh. 269 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,200 Amen. The amazing thing about God 270 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:30,520 concerned Abraham and Sarah is what seemed impossible in their 271 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:34,120 lives. What seemed impossible in their 272 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,360 lives had become the very place that God demonstrated his power. 273 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,240 It was an impossibility, but God says watch. 274 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:51,640 Watch what happens when I step into the impossible. 275 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,200 Wasn't he not spoken with Mary concerning that? 276 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,320 All things though are possible with the Lord. 277 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:02,960 Amen. Let's continue with verse #8 278 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:04,440 here. Sorry, got to get out my 279 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,839 spectacles here. Although I see some among us are 280 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:15,640 wearing spectacles now too. Congratulations, we love you. 281 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:21,319 We do verse 8. So the child is born. 282 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:25,800 Here we go. And the child grew and was 283 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:29,000 weaned. And Abraham made a great feast 284 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,760 in the same day that Isaac was weaned. 285 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:36,120 And Sarah saw the son of Haggard the Egyptian, which she had born 286 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:39,080 to Abraham Monkey. Wherefore she said to Abraham, 287 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,520 cast out this bondwoman and her son. 288 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,560 For the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, 289 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,800 even with Isaac. Please just note that Sarah 290 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,520 never calls either of them by their name, she just makes 291 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:56,960 references. Bondwoman, Son of the bondwoman 292 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,960 anyway. And the thing was very grievous 293 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,400 in Abraham's sight, because of his son. 294 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,520 God said unto Abraham, Let it be not grievous in thy sight, 295 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,800 because of the lad and because of the bondwoman. 296 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,600 And all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her 297 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,200 voice, For an Isaac shall thy seed be called, And also of the 298 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,040 son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy 299 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:21,240 seed. And Abraham rose up early in the 300 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:24,520 morning, took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Haggar, 301 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,760 putting it on her shoulder and the child, and sent her away. 302 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,040 And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 303 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:33,720 Now you have to walk with me just a little bit here tonight, 304 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,680 OK? The whole Hagar Ishmael 305 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:44,240 situation here that we read in Genesis 21 needs to be held in a 306 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:49,160 little bit of tension through a view of New Testament Scripture 307 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,120 where the apostle Paul writes in the book of Galatians chapter #4 308 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:56,600 looking back on this whole occurrence. 309 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:02,720 Because in Galatians 4, Paul identifies Ishmael as the one 310 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:08,800 that was born after the flesh, and as Isaac as the one that was 311 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:14,800 born after the Spirit. The one that was born first in 312 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,680 Abraham's life was the one born after the flesh. 313 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:18,960 The one that was born secondly in Abraham's life was the one 314 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,800 that was born secondly in Abraham's life was the one that 315 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,880 was related to the Spirit. So we need to keep that 316 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,720 intention. Scripture bearing on Scripture 317 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,760 here is vital for us going forward tonight. 318 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,400 So Isaac was born, Let's just get real. 319 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:39,800 Isaac was born of the Spirit because number one, by this 320 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:46,280 time, by the time his parents conceived, they were fleshly or 321 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:57,120 biologically dead. OK, nonetheless, when the Spirit 322 00:19:57,120 --> 00:20:03,160 wanted to bestow the promise upon them and it did, here is 323 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:07,840 the amazing thing to me. Spirit want to bestow this upon 324 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:12,400 two people who are biologically and fleshly dead, yet it still 325 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:18,080 required in their involvement. Naturally, their bodies are 326 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,880 dead, deemed dead. But I'm not going into all the 327 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,920 mechanics of it. I think everybody's OK and we 328 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,240 got young ears around here. But there was still involvement 329 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,680 both for Abraham and Sarah's part. 330 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:36,000 Someone say Amen. For me, In my view, this is just 331 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,240 a beautiful picture of us receiving the promise of the 332 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,240 Father because we couldn't make it happen. 333 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,120 Bible tells us works couldn't do it. 334 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,880 We couldn't make it happen. Flesh wise, there's nothing we 335 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,680 can do, but God still involves and incorporates us in the 336 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:00,440 process. He uses our mind, our tongue, 337 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:07,320 other members of our human bodies, our intellect, and our 338 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,440 obedience to bring about what only He can get the glory for. 339 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,440 Which is amazing to me. Isaac grew, the scripture says, 340 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,080 and was winged. Now here's the thing. 341 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:25,320 I looked at this today. I looked at it several times. 342 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:31,200 Isaac grew and was winged. In ancient Israel, mothers 343 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,080 typically winged their children around the age of three years 344 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:37,240 old. Around the age of three years 345 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:44,080 old, they would nurture them, nurse them up into that period 346 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,280 of time. The amazing thing concerning 347 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:53,640 Ishmael, if you'll remember from our studies gone by, remember 348 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:59,680 Ishmael had the right father, but he had the wrong mother. 349 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,240 Do you remember that conversation? 350 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,400 Because a Hebrew faith comes from the mother. 351 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:12,200 A Hebrew is only a Hebrew if Mama is a Hebrew. 352 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:18,240 Hagar was an Egyptian. Ishmael had the wrong mother. 353 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,880 You remember I told you that whenever we talk about that, 354 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,120 just for today's language, there's a lot of people that 355 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:30,040 claim God is their father, but they don't have the right 356 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,320 church. They don't have the right 357 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:42,000 mother. And yet you're not a spiritual 358 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,560 child unless you got the right mother and the right nurturing 359 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:50,920 that comes from Mama. All right, well, in ancient 360 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,160 Israel, here's here's Isaac, though he's got the right 361 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,880 father. His mother is a Hebrew. 362 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,960 She's she's Sarah. He's nursing there. 363 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,920 And so three years in, she's going to wean him from nursing 364 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,880 and they're going to have the Bible says a festival, a great 365 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:10,520 celebration. As a result of all this, I start 366 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,640 asking myself the question, Brother Fred, you know, I'm just 367 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:15,960 I'm just Paul McGee living in this century. 368 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,560 What's so celebratory about a child quitting nursing? 369 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,160 I mean, I'm sure it is for the mother. 370 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,880 But I mean, as far as gathering everybody around and let's have 371 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,320 a big party, you know, Johnny's not going to be hanging on, you 372 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:36,000 know, mother all the time anymore. 373 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:41,120 Let's eat some roasted lamb and you know, all these things. 374 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:42,840 What's so celebratory about that? 375 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,360 What is celebratory about that is this is that there was a high 376 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:54,920 mortality rate, high mortality rate for children for sure, 377 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,120 particularly between that zero to three years old range. 378 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:05,320 In that day, lot of children died, lot of children never made 379 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:12,200 it. And so Isaac is here and his mom 380 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,520 has nursed him and she has done this for three years. 381 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:21,480 Listen to me carefully now, because she couldn't chance his 382 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,560 survival without him having a purposeful attachment to her. 383 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:37,240 Oh, Jesus, help me right now. He has the right Mama, but for 384 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:41,440 good success, there's going to have to be a a concrete 385 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:48,040 attachment for several years in his infantile stage in order for 386 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,720 him to be able to survive. God hear me. 387 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:58,720 What I'm saying tonight is we get, we get born by the promise, 388 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:06,400 but sometimes we're not staying at mother's breast drinking the 389 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:13,880 sincere milk in order to mature and grow in stamina enough that 390 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,920 we can survive after our new birth. 391 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:21,280 Come on, come on. A purposeful attachment is 392 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,840 necessary. Yes, with the church, but mostly 393 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,560 after you first come to know him. 394 00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:30,280 Because you know what I found out? 395 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:33,080 People sometimes get the Holy Ghost, their greatest battles, 396 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,760 right after that, soon as they exit the double doors, it's on 397 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,320 them like Donkey Kong. You know what they need? 398 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,800 They need to be able. There's hours and hours they're 399 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:45,000 being cradled in the arms of Mama, hours upon hours they're 400 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,560 laying in her breast, hours and hours that they're being 401 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:56,840 nurtured and they're being Amen. Because now if this infant gets 402 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:02,880 to a toddler stage three years in, they'd said this is not me, 403 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,720 this is culture. They said it was reasonably sure 404 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,640 that the child was past that, that stage of of possibility 405 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,880 being one of those deaths that it was reasonably sure that they 406 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:19,360 would live. That's the reason why there was 407 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:23,440 a celebration at the weaning because everybody's wiping their 408 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:27,440 brow about whether or not the child would die from zero to 409 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,520 three years old if they would make it or if it would be laying 410 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,800 the grave. But once they got to the three, 411 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,000 they were pretty sure that he was going to be able to make it. 412 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,320 And so they gather all the family and rejoicing because 413 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,960 this child's going to be able to live because he had a concrete 414 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:50,360 attachment to Mama for the first 3, someone say Amen. 415 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:57,600 It necessitated a celebration, especially for this couple 416 00:26:57,600 --> 00:26:59,960 that's been barren for so long. The last thing you want is a 417 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:03,160 child born and dying in the first three years for someone 418 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:11,880 that's waited 25 years for their And here's the interesting thing 419 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,440 though, and you read it just right down through there. 420 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,560 They had this festival. He's winged in verse 9 is where 421 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,840 you see them. The mocking as it's described in 422 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:29,680 the King James Bible of Ishmael, the first born toward Isaac, the 423 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:34,960 second son of Abraham. The Bible says that Ishmael, if 424 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:39,200 I'm put in these terms, the son of the flesh mocked as the King 425 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,200 James says, the son of the promise. 426 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,840 One ancient translation says that he was playing with her son 427 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,080 Isaac. There are other tenses that I 428 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,200 could get into it, but I I don't want to bore you all out of your 429 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,640 gourd, but a certain verb tense that this is used compared to 430 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:03,640 cause the word mocked here is the same word as Isaac's name. 431 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,760 Isaac's name is Yitzhak in in Hebrew, same word, but it's a 432 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,840 different tense. And as a result of it, the verb 433 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,360 stem here means to jest, to make sportive, to play with, not 434 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:20,240 simply just to laugh. And so there's a lot of 435 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,400 different ideas out there. And I don't know if anybody 436 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:29,200 knows for sure what it was that Sarah saw, but note that 437 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:34,480 whatever she saw took place at the celebration or shortly 438 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:40,480 thereafter what she saw. Some believe that they saw what 439 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:45,520 now was a three-year old Isaac being scoffed at or made fun of 440 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:51,720 by Ishmael, who is now every bit of 16 to 17 years old. 441 00:28:54,760 --> 00:29:03,200 Others see a Ishmael that is laughing and Sarah seeing 442 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:09,760 another boy, the product of the flesh, laughing, attempting to 443 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,760 fulfill Isaac's namesake, which is laughter. 444 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,960 Whatever she saw, it triggered something inside of that Mama 445 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,480 that she come to the realization and told her husband that I 446 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:30,360 don't want Ishmael to be an heir with Isaac again. 447 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,920 We don't hear about it like there were three years. 448 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:39,200 We don't hear anything about this until the celebration until 449 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:46,440 the someone say until the celebration because it wasn't 450 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:51,240 until the celebration. Follow me here that Ishmael 451 00:29:51,800 --> 00:30:00,360 didn't have any certainty that Isaac was going to survive until 452 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:05,120 the weaning moment. So why in the world even mess 453 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,600 with it? He might not survive anyway. 454 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,240 But once you reach the stage that you prove the statistics 455 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:18,640 wrong, God Almighty and all the naysayers wrong, and you're 456 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,680 still here the third year and you're still here the 4th year 457 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,120 and you're still maturing and God the 5th year and you're 458 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,520 climbing up higher from where you started the 6th year and the 459 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,480 7th year. You've involved yourself in the 460 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,960 body and you're doing things to help see others. 461 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,320 And by the 8th year, you're, you're winning people to God. 462 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,520 And by the 9th year, do you understand what I'm saying? 463 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:43,120 Once you reach a stage that they say, hey, wait a minute, there's 464 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,920 a certainty here that they're going to be able to survive. 465 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:52,160 They're going on. That's when your flesh wants to 466 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:56,680 rear its head and say, hey, wait a minute, I got some competition 467 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,800 on my hand. Because what you were first born 468 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,160 into, Brother Trout, was your flesh. 469 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,400 What you was first born in into Brother Fred, was your flesh. 470 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,360 And how old were you whenever you got the Holy Ghost? 471 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,560 Come on, Sister Sheila, do the math. 472 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,200 We'll go over here. Reese, what age were you when 473 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,520 you got the Holy Ghost? 17. 474 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,480 The Flesh has had 17 years with him. 475 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,880 Do you hear me? The Flesh has had 17 years him. 476 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:37,280 But when he gets the promise, it's starting right there at 17. 477 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:43,480 17 years the flesh has had his way with him. 17 years the flesh 478 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,920 has been able to weave itself into his heart. 17 years the 479 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,080 flesh has been able to weave himself in his mind. 480 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,360 But now there's a Isaac on the scene and the flesh is wondering 481 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,720 what's going on. But we're waiting one year and 482 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,600 then two year and three years. He stayed attached to Mama. 483 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,560 He's been nurtured by Mama. I think he might survive. 484 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,960 And the flesh is, I got competition on my hand, I can't 485 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,840 have that. And troubles him, and tempts 486 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:16,840 him, and tries him because. I'm I'm like border lighting 487 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:25,000 treat you in here. You know you what's amazing Ray 488 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:30,880 your flesh didn't think he was going to survive it never raised 489 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,800 a hand or gave any qualms until they still see you there so many 490 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:39,680 years now coming to the church, him baptizing Jesus name and 491 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,120 filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost. 492 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:47,040 And it says she's still here and it begins to mock and play and 493 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:58,040 spore and jest and antagonize and someone said I'm still here. 494 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:08,200 Yes. Ishmael realizes his 495 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:14,400 competition, all that nourishing he received from his mother, all 496 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,200 that nurturing he received from his mother has brought Isaac to 497 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:23,480 a level of maturity that he isn't solely dependent upon mom, 498 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,440 that there's been enough take place in that time frame that he 499 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,720 can stand on his own 2 feet. Brother Mickey, what are you 500 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,880 talking about? OK, case in point, Moses. 501 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,560 Moses. During that day, all the boys 502 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,280 were to be thrown into the river. 503 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,000 Bible says Jacobet saw that Moses was a goodly child. 504 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,920 She hid him away. She made him a basket of bull 505 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:55,040 rushes, put him into the river. Pharaoh's daughter found him. 506 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:02,480 Miriam, Moses's sister, talks to Pharaoh's daughter. 507 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:08,440 Do you need a nurse for him? Yeah, I do. 508 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,440 Miriam go gets her Mama Jochebed. 509 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:21,120 That was Moses's mother. He's he is now under the care of 510 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:28,040 the daughter of Egypt, but he's being nurtured for and fed by 511 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:33,080 his Hebrew Mama. And the Bible says when the time 512 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,040 comes, he's taken into the palace of Pharaoh. 513 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,719 But he said, I'd rather suffer the afflictions with the people 514 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,360 of God. And what how's that happened? 515 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,719 I tell you how that happens. For all those years of nurturing 516 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,080 and nursing, he had attachment to Mama and now he had grown to 517 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,639 a place of maturity. He can stand on his own in the 518 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:56,440 palace of Egypt and say, this is not my lot in life. 519 00:34:56,639 --> 00:34:59,880 I know who's I am. It's. 520 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:17,440 He's listen, I'm not saying, well, if you can just be three 521 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:18,960 years in the church, all your problems go away now. 522 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,000 Wrong. That's when Ishmael is going to 523 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:26,240 show up. Well, I'm saying we've made it 524 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:30,120 through some rocky roads if we can get through those first few 525 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,160 years of living for the Lord with the promise He's birthed in 526 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,400 our lives, we've made it through some iffy spots. 527 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,640 Galatians 429. I got to hurry. 528 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,800 It's my famous words. Now listen, I didn't get through 529 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,400 everything. I wanted to get through today to 530 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,000 be here. This is what Paul reflecting 531 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,560 back on this time. This is what he said. 532 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:56,320 But as then he that was born after the flesh, Ishmael, and 533 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,320 it's there in Galatians where you can read all of the chapter 534 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,760 persecute everybody say persecuted him, meaning Isaac 535 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:10,760 that was born after the Spirit. Even so it is now Paul inspired 536 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,840 by the Holy Ghost. He takes his back on what was 537 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,200 happening with Isaac and Ishmael. 538 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,640 He gives the definitive definition in my estimation. 539 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,400 He says Ishmael was persecuting him. 540 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,000 The Son of the flesh was persecuting the Son of the 541 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,520 spirit that we're persecuting. The Greek means to put to 542 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,480 flight, to chase away, to pursue. 543 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:39,840 He's being hard on the old boy. But what that interprets for me 544 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,480 is that your flesh, the Son of the flesh, is not happy with the 545 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:49,600 growth of the promise. For sure. 546 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,240 You're not happy with the growth of the promise to have a more 547 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:57,080 substantial, secure standing in His existence than He did at His 548 00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,840 birth. So my word to you is this, 549 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:08,000 Sister Amaya, you better expect conflict when you start growing 550 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:14,760 in the Spirit. As you grow stronger in God, 551 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,720 that gets the attention of Ishmael. 552 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:23,320 And the Spirit, or the flesh rather, will always want to come 553 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,680 along and resist the Spirit's maturity. 554 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:30,440 Yes, Sir. Yeah, that's right. 555 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,280 It's hard times. I know. 556 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,240 Sometimes we say I just don't understand why this is 557 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:35,960 happening. You need to reflect. 558 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,120 Have you been trying to make strides and growth patterns in 559 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,520 God? Because if so, he's going to put 560 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,320 all the the blockades and all the speed bumps in your path to 561 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:56,400 try to prevent that. He's he is afraid of someone 562 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,000 that is growing in their experience. 563 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,160 It's one thing to get born again and always be in diapers and 564 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,120 sucking your thumb and cooing and all that, but it's another 565 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:12,040 thing to learn how to start to walk and talk and articulate 566 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:20,760 what you have subscribed to. You're dangerous in the eyes of 567 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:28,400 your flesh. So Sarah tells whatever she 568 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:34,760 observes her, the the mocking, the jesting, the persecuting, or 569 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,120 maybe just seeing those two children even playing there. 570 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:39,600 Both of those are Abraham's kids. 571 00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,000 One of those is mine. One of those is Egyptian and 572 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,960 just starts processing maybe the past 25 years. 573 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:53,440 And she tells Abraham Ishmael's not going to be an heir or an 574 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:58,880 inheritor with Isaac. So she comes up with this 575 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:03,440 brilliant idea. I want you to cast out again. 576 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,520 She don't mention them by names. I want you to cast out the 577 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,480 bondwoman. So what? 578 00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:13,720 Galatian 4 even in reference to us along with the child, the 579 00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:16,160 amplified, the classic amplified version version says it like 580 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,960 this. I don't want him to inherit 581 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,000 anything. It should all go to my son. 582 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,280 Now here's the interesting thing about that culture. 583 00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:28,600 In time, Sarah, She can request the banishment, but it's 584 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,040 Abraham's responsibility to issue the banishment. 585 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,480 Sarah can do what she pleases with Hagar, but Hagar is her 586 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,760 handmaiden. It belongs to Sarah. 587 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:46,320 She belongs to Sarah. But the child Ishmael belonged 588 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,400 to the man who sired it, Abraham. 589 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,400 Because whenever Abraham accepted Ishmael and has his 590 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,240 son, you know what that meant. That meant then that son was 591 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:01,520 entitled to inherit part of Abraham's estate. 592 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:09,120 But here's the caveat. If a person releases an enslaved 593 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:16,400 person like Hagar and for sure the son, then along with her 594 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:22,960 then they lose rights. To inherit any property of the 595 00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:27,120 estate. So when Abraham let them go, 596 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:34,680 particularly when he let Ishmael go, Ishmael now has no rights as 597 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:42,040 an heir to Abraham's portion. Someone say Amen. 598 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,320 Now here's here's the real life stuff, folks. 599 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,760 Upon first mention of having his wife tell him, why don't you 600 00:40:54,760 --> 00:41:00,200 cast out Hagar and Ishmael? This kind of sets a little heavy 601 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:05,840 for Abraham. I mean as as as Sarah, not my 602 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,480 boy. You know what I mean? 603 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,720 And I know I had the bright idea for this whole scheme to begin 604 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:19,200 with, but not my boy. But this was flesh and blood of 605 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:25,240 Abraham, if you'll remember even that I don't know, several, 606 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:29,840 several times ago there came a portion in, in I think it was 607 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:35,400 Genesis 16, that whenever all this covenant was being made and 608 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,800 it was brought up again that they would have a son, that 609 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,200 Abraham even raises his hand and says, Lord, what about Ishmael? 610 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:48,080 Let Ishmael live before you. And God even told him then, oh, 611 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:53,360 bless Ishmael. But my covenant that's that's 612 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,320 that's with Isaac. All right. 613 00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,600 And so whenever this is first mentioned to Abraham, the Bible 614 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:05,040 says that he's very grievous, which means he shook violently. 615 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,760 He's very grievous again. Why brother Reese? 616 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:14,880 Because he's had 16 or 17 years with Ishmael. 617 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,600 Mr. Merlin. I mean, you're oldest Graceland. 618 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,840 That's asleep up here in my wife's lap. 619 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,520 Are you asleep, Gracely? She is. 620 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,840 How old is she? Right. 621 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,560 Even Brother Zach couldn't imagine her with being without 622 00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:31,760 her at this juncture in the road of your life. 623 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,160 Just because how she has woven her life into yours. 624 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:42,920 Here's Abraham, 16 to 17 years of the weaving of the sun of the 625 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:49,520 flesh into the life of Abraham. But God has already set the 626 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,240 expectations. Again, I'll bless Ishmael, but 627 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:57,720 my covenant is with Isaac. And so here again then in our 628 00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:01,880 chapter, God is affirming that He tells even Abraham he'll 629 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,080 become a great nation. Ishmael was, and the only reason 630 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:08,720 that's possible is because of his relational attachment to 631 00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:11,440 Abraham. Abraham's going to make you a 632 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,280 great nation. There's a lot of people that 633 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,920 came from Abraham's bowels that wasn't through Sarah, that still 634 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,360 became quote UN quote, great nations just because of their 635 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:25,920 association with Abraham. But the seed, the Bible said 636 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,400 would be called in Isaac. The seed that's most important 637 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,680 in particular is that we trace all the way into the New 638 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,760 Testament of the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. 639 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,240 That's not coming through Ishmael. 640 00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,200 It's coming through the seed of promise that's coming by Isaac. 641 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:50,280 The Bible says in Romans 9 and verse number 7 and now skip up 642 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,040 just verse 5 and grab the phrase verse 5 says of whom as 643 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,120 concerning the flesh of Christ came. 644 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:59,800 It's Speaking of of the seed. Neither because verse 7 neither 645 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,520 because they are the seed of Abraham. 646 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,720 Are they all children? But in Isaac shall the seed be 647 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:08,560 called? That's the line of direction. 648 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:09,720 Now let's go on a little further. 649 00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:12,680 I'm doing 3941. You guys ahead of me, I'll go by 650 00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:13,880 my clock. Amen. 651 00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:18,840 Divine, Divine assurance, You only do it whenever it's 652 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,640 favorable to you. Divine assurance, though, had 653 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,400 Abraham consenting to do what his wife asked him to do. 654 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,240 It wasn't just that she asked, but God said, and ladies, let me 655 00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:31,960 tell you, if you want to underline and highlight a verse 656 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,800 of the Bible, this is the one to highlight and I'm going to read 657 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,120 it from the ESB because it's just more poignant. 658 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:43,200 The Bible says God said this. Whatever Sarah's Sarah says to 659 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,760 you, he's speaking to Abraham. Whatever Sarah says to you, do 660 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:51,040 as she tells you, underline it, write it down and vote it. 661 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:52,280 That's one that you want to take home. 662 00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:57,760 He's basically whatever Sarah said. 663 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,200 Go on, go on with that. Alex has just highlighted it so 664 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,120 he knows to make sure his wife doesn't use it. 665 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:10,680 He's up here like so he for him did as Hagar, as Hagar said and 666 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:13,960 as God encouraged, he sent away Hagar in Ishmael. 667 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,920 And here's something what I want to know, the difficulty of 668 00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:24,080 separating from the sun of flesh that's been in your life, the 669 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:27,920 difficulty separating from the Son of flesh that's been in your 670 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,600 life. Because we note the struggle the 671 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,280 Bible says talks about him giving them provisions of bread 672 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,640 and water, and then they wandered in the wilderness. 673 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,760 But look, look at the struggle here of the sending off of the 674 00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,920 Son of the flesh. The Bible says that he rose 675 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:47,520 early in the morning. He rose early in the morning. 676 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:53,480 Verse #14 Some might say, well, he's just being quick to obey. 677 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,640 But I sense with the other things that I read, Sister 678 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,240 Sheila, that he doesn't necessarily want to see anybody, 679 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:06,720 doesn't want anybody to see him doing what he's doing, telling 680 00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:10,400 this boy that's been born with an Egyptian, the son of his 681 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,760 flesh, that it's time for you to go. 682 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,760 He gets up early in the morning and he does this. 683 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,640 And I think the order is important. 684 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:24,360 He gives her bread. He gives her water first. 685 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:28,280 The Bible talks about him placing that bottle of water on 686 00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,480 her shoulders. All right, or on her shoulder 687 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:37,000 just for a moment. A goat skin for water held about 688 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:42,520 3 gallons. That's about 30 lbs of water. 689 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,840 So he's placing this on her back lot of people interpret well 690 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,360 she's placing the and he says in child. 691 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,200 Well, she's placing Ishmael on her back. 692 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:56,080 No Ishmael 1617 years old. I don't know anybody around here 693 00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,920 wants to give their 17 year old a piggyback right along with 30 694 00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:02,760 lbs of water on their back. That's not happening. 695 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:08,040 But he's placing the look what he's doing Bishop, here's 696 00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,720 provision, here's water. Oh here, let me get that on your 697 00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:16,200 back. But then the child, he's doing 698 00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:21,720 everything he can do up to the point of having to release the 699 00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:24,880 child. He could have did the child 700 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:26,680 first, no. And then did the bread and the 701 00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:28,760 water, No. But he's doing everything he can 702 00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:34,360 do until the moment comes. He's got to then entrust the 703 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:38,600 child into the hands of that Egyptian woman. 704 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:43,960 Oh, listen folks, because I see this in my life. 705 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,440 I see it in our lives. We don't want to part with the 706 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:52,240 flesh. And so we'll do all everything 707 00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:58,800 else we can do to buy us a little bit more time without 708 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,320 having to take it and say you need to go now. 709 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:06,680 I'll find things, I'll invent things. 710 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:08,760 You need bread, you need. Oh, what else can I do? 711 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:13,960 What without addressing what God said needed to be addressed? 712 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,600 Please understand, God didn't say anything about giving her 713 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:24,400 bread or water. The mandate was let them go. 714 00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,440 But He's given bread and water and that's fine. 715 00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,840 I think that, I mean, as long as we live in this earth, we still 716 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,120 got to have this flesh to a degree. 717 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,680 You understand what I'm saying. But nonetheless, so He's doing 718 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,040 everything he can because he's committing trusting the Son of 719 00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:44,280 his flesh to her. I think it's a telling of of his 720 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:48,840 attachment that has grown. Alan P Ross and I got to hurry. 721 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,320 I know I've just said it three times. 722 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:54,720 Whatever Alan P Ross said, the divine approval of sending away 723 00:48:54,720 --> 00:49:01,200 Hagar in Ishmael was a sign not of divine abandonment of 724 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:08,360 Ishmael, but of protection for Isaac that these two couldn't 725 00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:14,760 coexist, both couldn't be heirs properly. 726 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,360 And we even see later in Abraham's life after Sarah dies, 727 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:24,320 the Bible talks about how he has another wife, Katura, and they 728 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:27,000 have children. And this is what the Bible says 729 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,720 concerning that in order in order to preserve the Isaac in 730 00:49:31,720 --> 00:49:36,360 his life, the promise in his life, those other sons he sent 731 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:37,720 away as well. Look at it. 732 00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:39,640 Genesis 25. I'm coming, I'm coming to the 733 00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:41,320 land, and I see the tarmac. Amen. 734 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:46,960 Genesis 25 and verse 5 And Abraham gave of all that he had 735 00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,280 unto Isaac. What is that? 736 00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,040 No parting or portioning out the estate. 737 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,720 It all goes to Isaac, every last bit. 738 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,760 How's that happened? Verse 6 But unto the sons of the 739 00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:03,160 concubines which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts and sent them 740 00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:09,120 away from the promise, from Isaac his son, while he yet 741 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,200 lived eastward unto the E country. 742 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:13,960 So it just wasn't a Ishmael thing. 743 00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,000 Anything else that was going to come and be competition for the 744 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,640 promise. He says you can be blessed and 745 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,520 I'll give you gifts, but you can't stay here. 746 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,600 Don't say that. Now the very last portion of 747 00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,280 verse 14 will set us up for next week. 748 00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,960 That gave you great comfort. I see the amplified classic 749 00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,720 Bible says this, the last phrase of verse 14. 750 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:47,600 And she, Speaking of Haggar, wandered on aimlessly and lost 751 00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:49,640 her way in the wilderness of Beersheba. 752 00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:54,240 And the root of the word wondered in the Hebrew is 753 00:50:54,240 --> 00:50:58,800 describing like strain, animals or a person who is lost. 754 00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,360 So next week we'll begin to investigate what God can do with 755 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,800 people who have lost their way while tending to the sons of 756 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:12,920 their flesh. Stand with me tonight. 757 00:51:19,690 --> 00:51:21,610 So the weaning, the weaning moment just wasn't a 758 00:51:21,610 --> 00:51:25,520 celebration. It was a revelation to show that 759 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:31,760 God's promises and dirt right that His covenant prevailed, and 760 00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,920 ultimately that the Spirit's work surpasses all efforts of 761 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:40,680 the flesh. And Isaac survived Sister Abby 762 00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:45,400 because he belonged to the promise, when Ishmael, though he 763 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:49,400 had been born of Abraham, was of the flesh, and he would not 764 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:53,080 inherit what God had ordained for the Spirit. 765 00:51:55,080 --> 00:52:00,360 Even the book of Corinthians tells us that certain reason why 766 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,760 some people have a hard time with spiritual things is because 767 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:07,080 their carnal mind can't comprehend that which was first 768 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,320 was carnal and that which was second was spiritual. 769 00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:14,120 And people are grappling with spiritual concepts and spiritual 770 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,400 things when they're still sons of flesh. 771 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,360 But whenever you're born again, the Bible talks about how the 772 00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:24,960 Holy Ghost to lead you and guide you into all. 773 00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:28,840 There comes an understanding of revelation. 774 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,680 Here's what I know tonight, that God is probably doing a similar 775 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:37,320 work in our lives tonight. And here's the question, though 776 00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,240 I have for us. Have you reached your weaning 777 00:52:40,240 --> 00:52:45,400 moment yet? Have you reached your weaning 778 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,000 moment? That moment when the promise 779 00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:53,400 becomes visible and tangible? That moment when there might 780 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,320 come some extra opposition and doubt or even mockery from the 781 00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,040 flesh or even the world because you reached a moment they're 782 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,800 like, surely there's no turning back after this. 783 00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,720 I tell you what I want. I want there to be a moment in 784 00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:14,040 my life that my flesh and the adversaries like he's too far in 785 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:20,160 now. It would take a lot for 786 00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:32,360 mortality now. Our glory, the weaning moment. 787 00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,320 Doesn't that just have a nice ring to it? 788 00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,520 The weaning. What's your pastor teach about 789 00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:37,680 life? Oh, he teach. 790 00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:43,880 Talk about the weaning moment. Oh, God, we need your help. 791 00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:46,200 Let's talk to him right now and close here tonight. 792 00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:52,320 Father, I love you, oh God help me Jesus in my walk, in my 793 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:57,200 process, God to have some apparent attaches the Lord to 794 00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,800 Mama. I pray God that there is 795 00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:03,360 nurturing, there is growing, there is stability, there is a 796 00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:07,520 life giving source to Lord Jesus that is happening God and being 797 00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,160 maintained right there. But God let there be also be a 798 00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:15,200 moment God when I can stand and I can walk and I can talk and I, 799 00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,040 I can make it and I, I still have an attachment, but it's not 800 00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,960 like that I had in those formative times that there's a 801 00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,640 certain amount of maturity and growth and stability and God 802 00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,000 there that we can March on God. The flesh is always beckoning, 803 00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:32,960 always calling, always the Lord trying to get our attention or 804 00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,360 God somehow divert our attention. 805 00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:39,040 I pray, O God, today it persecutes even today. 806 00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:42,520 Lord, the Apostle Paul said, help US, O Lord to give in to 807 00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:45,640 the things of the Spirit. Help us Lord not allow the flesh 808 00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:49,240 Lord room to be in competition with the promise to be in 809 00:54:49,240 --> 00:54:52,360 competition with the Spirit. I pray God empower us now. 810 00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,640 Help us Lord to go forward in this week Lord, and to live 811 00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,680 Lord, after the pattern, Lord, and after the promise that you 812 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,480 have birthed in US. I pray, O God, today and let us 813 00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:05,440 continue to celebrate Lord, that experience like we did when we 814 00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:07,920 were first born. Let there be a continuous 815 00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,920 celebration, I pray and will not feel the thank you in the name 816 00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:15,280 of Jesus Christ, Hallelujah and Amen and the church say Amen. 817 00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:20,640 MMM the weaning moment. It's just fun to say God bless 818 00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,760 you tonight, Jesus name ladies, you're leaving Friday at 9. 819 00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:27,960 Those that are going Friday at 9, you'll want to be here before 820 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:29,600 that so you can load your luggage. 821 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,040 I know how you say well it's just one night. 822 00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,640 I know what a woman can take in one night, Amen. 823 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,680 So be early to load your luggage, Jesus. 824 00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:39,680 I know.