1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:07,480 I pray, oh, to be enamored by the presence of the Lord, the 2 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:13,080 Lord. Oh yes, Jesus. 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:18,280 Yes, Jesus. Hallelujah, someone say thank 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,720 you, Jesus. Amen. 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,960 You may be seated for a spell. You desire to tonight. 6 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,240 Amen. Mike Penrod reached out 7 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,400 yesterday, was asking if maybe he could get some help, maybe 8 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,880 some from members here in the church. 9 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,600 He has some trees that have been taken down on his property that 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,880 need cut up and the quicker he gets them off his property and 11 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:49,560 cut up, the quicker he can get permit, a building permit and 12 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,120 such. So if you can help in any way, 13 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,000 you can see him after this service and coordinate with him. 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 He says I got 4 chainsaws, he just can't operate all four of 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,959 them at the same time and such. So if you can help him whatever 16 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,280 time of day or day of the week, whatever you coordinate that 17 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,480 with, with Mike Penrod, he meant tonight and I'm sure he'll be 18 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,200 appreciative of that. You can help him in that regard. 19 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:18,520 Amen. Want to thank everybody for 20 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:19,960 giving to the camp. Offering. 21 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,440 We brought in some money and then we put a little bit more 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,880 with it and we sent $500 off for camp. 23 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:31,480 Also here just recently, we paid $768 for three students with 24 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,880 fees in order to for graduation. We do that each year. 25 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:40,280 We just pick those that may need some help with that, that can't 26 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:45,480 get it by any other way or means without it being very taxing. 27 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:50,800 Some of these kids are doing all this on their own without any 28 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,560 parental support. They work a job in order to try 29 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,280 to pay those fees and. And that that would be. 30 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,880 Difficult. And so we try to help. 31 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:03,360 We don't make no fanfare about it, we just do it. 32 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,400 And the Lord keeps good records. The Lord keeps good records. 33 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:13,440 Amen. Also this coming Sunday, and, 34 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:20,280 and this is in preview of this coming week, but actually on 35 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,400 Sunday is International Firefighters Day in celebration. 36 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,120 We usually try to honor our firefighters here in the 37 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,120 community. And so there's going to be food 38 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,520 and such prepared for them and taken to them. 39 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:37,520 But in previous years, people of this church have helped supply 40 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,240 desserts for that. And so if you can. 41 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,080 Supply a dessert. For that, you can bring it on 42 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,120 Sunday. Make sure it's in some type of 43 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:47,880 throwaway pan or dish so we don't have to, you know, put 44 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,960 agps tracker on your dish. All right, so they can just go 45 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,360 in the trash. But if you can do that, if you 46 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,080 can help bring a dessert or offer dessert. 47 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:57,800 If you have any questions concerning that you can see 48 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,240 sister Angie Cruz or sister Sheila McGee and they can help 49 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,240 you in that regard. But if you can help us, Amen. 50 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,920 Serve people who serve us consistent consistently here 51 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:09,880 within our community. I. 52 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,840 Appreciate that everybody say tomorrow night, tomorrow night 53 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,960 prayer here at the church. Prayer from 7:00 to 8:00. 54 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,920 Come be a part of that and join your voices with other voices as 55 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:23,960 we pray unto the Lord. The 11th of this month is 56 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,080 Mother's Day. I say this month because this 57 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:27,480 isn't really the last day of the month. 58 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,160 Next month, I guess I should say. 59 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,720 I'm already in. May all right, but it's Mother's 60 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,840 Day camp registration. Then it's on the 12th, the 61 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,400 actual time of. That of the day that's still 62 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,680 forthcoming. The 23rd of May is game night. 63 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:46,080 Starting at 7, kind of for the summer months of May, when I say 64 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,680 summer months, those months that we're not in school. 65 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,280 All right, let's state it like that. 66 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,640 August is still a summer month, but somehow they move school. 67 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,320 Up earlier and earlier. Compared to when I was a kid. 68 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,240 And so you start in the month of August also. 69 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,320 Then summer kick off Sunday, which is Sunday the 25th. 70 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,760 That's Memorial Day weekend. And we want that to kind of have 71 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:12,800 a feel like our chilly supper and fall event kind of kicking 72 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:18,040 off the the nicer weather. I'm I'm crossing my fingers on 73 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,440 that. And it's not till I came 74 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,800 tonight, I realized that we're under a tornado watch tonight. 75 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:26,120 I said, oh, not again so we can be watchers. 76 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:26,920 All day. Just don't be. 77 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,560 Warnings so we can sit here and watch all night. 78 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,400 Praise God. No warnings so hope the weather 79 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,800 is better again. June the 1st through the 4th. 80 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:39,280 Sunday through Wednesday is revival of Adrian Sanford that 81 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:42,000 will be right here. Adrian Sanford, Genesis. 82 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,160 Chapter 16 if you'll stand. With me tonight, feel like I 83 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,600 might make some friends tonight. I don't think I'll be real long. 84 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:52,640 I took you in. Consideration. 85 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:54,000 I'm not even finishing the whole chapter. 86 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:56,920 Matter of fact, I got to a certain spot and I thought. 87 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:04,120 If I continue this this is with another like chunk, it could be 88 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,360 long. So I didn't. 89 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,080 So we'll see or not whether or not I was very, very kind to you 90 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,400 or just kind. Genesis chapter 16 I want to 91 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,360 read the. First 3 verses and this, this is 92 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,040 where we'll be tonight. The first 3 verses. 93 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,920 All right, I don't know what it is, but that's what it is, the 94 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,240 Bible says now. Sarah Abraham's wife. 95 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,320 Bury him. No children. 96 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,640 You've heard this before. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian 97 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,160 whose name was Hagar. Sarah, I said to Abram. 98 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,040 Behold, now the Lord hath. Restrained me from burying. 99 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,080 I pray thee go in and to my maid. 100 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,960 It may be that I may obtain children by her. 101 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:51,440 The Abram hearken to the voice of Sarah. 102 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,800 Sarah. Abraham's wife took. 103 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,280 Hagar, my phone's thinking I'm saying Siri. 104 00:05:58,280 --> 00:06:02,720 Every time I say Sarah, it's popping up saying yes. 105 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,560 Can I help you? Took Hagar, her maid. 106 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,760 The Egyptian were in verse 3 after Abram had dwell 10 years 107 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,720 in the land of Canaan and gave. Her to her. 108 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:17,800 Husband Abram to be his. Wife. 109 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,040 Amen. I'm going to prophetically say 110 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,320 by faith, say. For a little while tonight. 111 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:28,240 I want to speak to you on this subject. 112 00:06:29,280 --> 00:06:33,920 Navigating the process without losing the promise. 113 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:41,040 Navigating the process without losing the promise let's. 114 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:42,720 Ask God to help us. Father I thank. 115 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,080 You Lord, one more. Time God for your spirit, for 116 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,120 your anointing. I pray, O God, that you're able 117 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,960 to help. Us, Lord, in this place open our 118 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:54,640 mind, our understanding, give us wisdom and knowledge, but God 119 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,640 give us revelation, enlightenment, the touch of the 120 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,360 Holy Ghost Lord upon us tonight as we look at these scriptures 121 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,120 in these verses. Let them speak life, let them 122 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,560 give direction. Lord for our own lives, God for 123 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,120 they are. No doubt applicable, Lord Jesus. 124 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,480 For all of us, in the name of Jesus Christ, that I pray. 125 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,680 Amen everyone. Say Amen, you may be. 126 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:25,160 Seated tonight in Jesus name. We have looked at extensively 127 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:30,040 already the promise that has been given to Abraham, Sarah, 128 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:36,640 been given to them concerning a great nation, a land descendants 129 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,120 of. People, and this is what I know 130 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,280 not. Just from their story, but from. 131 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,440 The stories that manifest themselves. 132 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:50,920 In my own lives concerning promises, and that is sometimes 133 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,560 there is pressure that comes with a promise that's not yet 134 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,160 fulfilled. Pressure. 135 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,720 Pressure the exact time that elapsed between the last 136 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,440 chapter. Where the covenant was made. 137 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,280 With Abram and God through. The the burning lamp. 138 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:14,240 The smoke had moved. Through the divided pieces and 139 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,640 what now happens? Here in chapter #16 the exact. 140 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,040 Time frame of how much time went by we. 141 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:23,680 We don't know. We don't know for sure. 142 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,600 However, verse #3 does. State that. 143 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:31,800 When this occurred, it occurred after Abram and they had been in 144 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:36,880 Canaan for 10 years. And so if you'll remember, if 145 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,880 you go back to Genesis chapter #12 Abram was originally 146 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:42,960 promised this great nation which. 147 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:48,000 Factors in both land and people. Before he ever. 148 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,160 Left for Canaan. When he was still in urge how 149 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:52,440 these that. Came to him so. 150 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,560 We we have at least that period of time and now these 10 years. 151 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:57,920 Of. Being in the land of. 152 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:03,880 Canaan and still. Without certain aspects of the 153 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:09,640 promise, it had been repeated to them over and over, right? 154 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:14,600 The the covenant guaranteed their inheritance because Abram 155 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,480 even asked the question. How shall I know that this Shall 156 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,600 I this? Shall be my inheritance and then 157 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:23,320 he does this whole covenant thing concerning that for his 158 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,160 land. And if he was going to have land 159 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,000 and if it was going to quote. UN quote be an inheritance, it 160 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,560 was going to mean there need to be an offspring for to. 161 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:34,120 To be inherited. So we have all this right here. 162 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,400 And So what? What I believe sometimes we can 163 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:37,840 do. And I've done and I'm guilty and 164 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,160 Pastor McGee and I've done this. You know, we sit around in the 165 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,800 chair and state our name and become part of this anonymous 166 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,080 club. You know of of of having done 167 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:49,520 this. But it's easy to criticize Abram 168 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:55,080 and it's easy to criticize Sarai for what seems to be a very 169 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:01,760 faithless compromise on their part with what what unfolds and 170 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,960 entails here. In Genesis chapter #16. 171 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,960 But whenever you really take everything that happened, you 172 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,480 view it in the context. Of what happened? 173 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,600 We also see through this that their actions, to a certain 174 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:21,440 degree picture that there was a intense longing in them for 175 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,320 wanting the. Promise to come to pass. 176 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,680 We always focus on that. They shouldn't have done that. 177 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:30,640 Bless God, yes, but there's also another aspect. 178 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,520 The things that they did do was just showing that they wanted 179 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:39,600 it, that they desired it. And I, I can connect with that. 180 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,080 I'm a part of this fabric of of humanity. 181 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,320 I can connect with that as when God speaks certain. 182 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,480 Things I want to see that when he's. 183 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,000 Given all the promises like he's given per SE to this church, I 184 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,160 get weary in waiting because I desire that. 185 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,040 I'm long for that. I want that. 186 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,200 I mean, it's been 10 years, right? 187 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,720 Abraham and Sarah. Could be it's been 10. 188 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,480 Years since we've been in Canaan. 189 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,960 Sarah or Sarah I or Sarah, however you want to call her. 190 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,080 Watch it. She's been barren this whole 191 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:22,600 time, but when we take all of that that it's been 10 years, 192 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,720 she's bearing this whole time and we and we get just a little 193 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,880 bit of understanding the culture there this day, we begin to 194 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,360 understand that this could also just be a picture of their 195 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:35,120 longing for what God. Was going to give to them. 196 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:40,040 Again, if you will, remember the origin of Abram's call back in 197 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:42,440 Genesis 12. It was this, he said. 198 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:47,240 Get out of thy country from thy kindred right from your father's 199 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:54,720 house and I will make of the a great nation was like 200 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:56,880 conditional. In other words, I'll make of you 201 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,080 a great nation if you get out bloom, bloom, bloom, bloom. 202 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:05,720 The Bible says apron departed indication that he desired. 203 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,360 I'll meet the condition because I desire the outcome. 204 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:15,400 He desired it and historically, I know today this is a little 205 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:21,080 peculiar to us, but historically it would have not been uncommon 206 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:28,040 for a husband to release his wife if over 10 years. 207 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:30,400 And that's just a being in Canaan. 208 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,080 It's longer than that since their marriage. 209 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:39,640 If Sarah hadn't born a child, any child. 210 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:47,280 Particularly a son unto Abram. In their culture, if a woman 211 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:52,000 wasn't giving birth to children, particularly a man child, many 212 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,760 times she was released from her burden of being that man's wife. 213 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:02,760 The Abram, he's not doing that. It's been this. 214 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,800 Length of time. And he's still faithful to 215 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:07,880 Sarah. Still faithful. 216 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,720 What's that indicate to me, Sister Sheila? 217 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,560 He desires it. He desires. 218 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:18,360 The promise to happen. And also then culturally and 219 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,800 this, this is the case with other Near Eastern texts that 220 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:23,680 that reflect on this time period. 221 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:29,440 It wasn't unusual for a wife to offer her maid to her husband. 222 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:30,960 I know we ain't doing that today. 223 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:38,600 Well, we ain't all doing. That all right, she would give 224 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,360 that maid to her husband, especially if she wasn't having 225 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,400 children. For one, that they might have a 226 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:44,920 child, or even if they already had. 227 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,840 Children for increasing. The number of children right? 228 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:48,600 We. We. 229 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,840 See that happen with Jacob? He takes the two handmaids right 230 00:13:53,800 --> 00:14:00,000 of Leah and his wife. Other ones escaped my name there 231 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,840 for a moment, Rachel. And so they did that. 232 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,880 So Hagar was given to Abram according to scripture, as a 233 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,240 wife a a legal. Surrogate, if you will, or as 234 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,320 some translations. Put it given to her him as a 235 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,720 concubine and according to the era of that time, this is what 236 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:25,080 we know sons of concubines or that type of relationship did 237 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:32,360 not inherit unless the father adopted them as legal sons. 238 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:38,960 So I'm saying perhaps they have this in mind as they're going 239 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:40,600 forward with their activity, right? 240 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,680 Here all. Right, we often read this story 241 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,280 and we we begin to judge it as a compromise and I get to 242 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:51,000 understand the end result. Overall arching thing is that it 243 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,280 was incorrect and it was. But when you factor in all the 244 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,840 cultural expectations, the emotional weight of what they 245 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,160 had up on them, of the infertility, the pressure of a 246 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,960 unfulfilled promise. It reached to me a little bit 247 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:10,280 more like this was 2 human beings that were desperate for 248 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,160 the promise of God. Not necessarily just outright 249 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:20,520 rebellious, but desperate. Does God ever promised something 250 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,520 to you? Because this is really kind of 251 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:23,520 the way it. Happens. 252 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,200 And you want to get your hand involved just to see it through, 253 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:37,360 'cause you desired it so much and you wanted it to be true. 254 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,680 And it came from God. You know it's true, but you want 255 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:45,000 it to be true quicker then later so that their their their 256 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,160 attempted bring all this to pass by their human wisdom. 257 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,200 Right. By by by all the cultural 258 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,080 standards, trying to figure out the dynamics, you know, so that 259 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,080 I've always said, you know, God, we could get this stuff. 260 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:57,320 You just. Get over a little bit and let me 261 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:58,840 help. You out, you know, we, we, we 262 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,520 just do this. And they're not really trying to 263 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,680 avoid the promise. They're trying to facilitate the 264 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:11,720 promise before the covenant that God made with Abram. 265 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,960 Genesis 15 and 4. Abram learned a little further 266 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:19,560 details concerning the promise that whenever he said Eleazar in 267 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,200 your own house, it's not going to be the one to inherit it, he 268 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,800 said out of thine own bow shall. Thine a or be. 269 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,920 It's going to come from your bowels, it's going to be of your 270 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,600 seed and so whenever they start. Thinking if they were to. 271 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:35,560 Start to think sister Sheila, well if I give my mate Hagar, if 272 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:39,040 I give her and to Abram, that still will be a seed from. 273 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:43,200 His. Bowels, huh? 274 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,880 Maybe Sherry. I wasn't trying to replace God's 275 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,040 plan, just trying to help. It alone just a. 276 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:54,400 Little bit, you know, just have a little shortcut. 277 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,720 I mean, would you like a shortcut to some of the promises 278 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:04,800 in your life? But her short cut incorporated 279 00:17:05,079 --> 00:17:09,160 using the right father but just the wrong mother. 280 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,880 They wanted this They. Wanted this and so the. 281 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,200 Danger in these. Things and what happens is this, 282 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,119 and we're not just talking about, oh, disobedience. 283 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:24,119 Sometimes what it is is this. Misguided obedience. 284 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:31,320 Misguided obedience. In the Old Testament scripture, 285 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:33,840 we read of a story. Where Saul? 286 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,080 Offered a burnt offering. I, I I made. 287 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,880 Mention this not to me weeks ago it seems like the Saul made an. 288 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,520 Offer to burnt offering. Unto the Lord, whenever Samuel 289 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:47,040 the the prophet, the the priest, if you will, was. 290 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:50,800 Delayed in arriving to do it on a particular day, he said. 291 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,520 He said I'll be there on the 7th day. 292 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,480 I believe it was. I'll be there on that day and 293 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,520 I'll do it. It became that day. 294 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,520 The people are getting nervous and that made Saul nervous. 295 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,920 You know, it's like it's not happening yet, right? 296 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,720 That's when we want to get. Involved. 297 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,160 When we feel like it should have already happened, but it's not 298 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,000 happened yet. And it's like, well, what can we 299 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,200 do? And so Saul, he's really wanting 300 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,120 to honor God. He's one to make the sacrifice 301 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:18,400 before they go off, you know, into war. 302 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,440 But he disobeyed the clear structure. 303 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,320 Only the prophet, only the priest could offer the 304 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,760 sacrifice. And so he thought. 305 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,920 He thought that worship would justify the method. 306 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,920 But what did God tell? Him, he said, obedience better 307 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,920 than sacrifice. Aaron's sons, nay dab in the by 308 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:44,360 who the Bible records, they offered strange or if you will 309 00:18:44,360 --> 00:18:48,840 unauthorized fire before the Lord, and the Bible says those 310 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,840 two boys were consumed. They engaged offering fire. 311 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:54,760 Amen. Is this form of worship? 312 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,320 They offered worship, but not according to the divine pattern 313 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,800 and structure. That God had had laid. 314 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,800 Out and so whenever they did that and it was outside of God's 315 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,040 design. It became dangerous. 316 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,280 Amen. For sure, whenever worship's 317 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,920 supposed to be spiritual and it's outside of God's, it 318 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,320 becomes dangerous. And so sometimes we, we are 319 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:19,640 doing the right thing, facilitating the promise, but 320 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,240 we're out of alignment with God's specific instructions 321 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:32,760 about timing, design, spirit. In other words, if we got to be 322 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:37,040 careful not to take matters into our own hands concerning the 323 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,840 promise he's given us, huh. A good desires that we have for 324 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,840 the promise still got to submit to God's design. 325 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:51,160 I want it to happen, but it's got to happen God's way and 326 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,720 according to God's timing. Oh, that. 327 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:59,440 Kills me. So they had the right, the right 328 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,040 father. They had the wrong mother. 329 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,600 Right, they're playing. They got him. 330 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,000 Abram was going to be the man. It's going to be according. 331 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,080 To his bowels even his heir would come. 332 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,000 But they got the wrong mother. But here's the awesome thing 333 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,440 about Scripture, especially historically. 334 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:21,840 Faith comes from the mother. Faith comes from the Mother. 335 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:27,120 You were not a Hebrew. Unless your mother was a Hebrew 336 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:36,760 Hagar verse, one tells us, was. An Egyptian lineage, tribal 337 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,200 identity, all those. Things are typically traced. 338 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,640 Through the father for inherits reasons land rights tribal. 339 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,720 Affiliation. All that was through the Father. 340 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,000 But when you talked about spiritual identity or covenant 341 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,640 status, things got a little bit more complex. 342 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:01,440 Many times both parents. It was a necessitated. 343 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,000 It was connected to both. When I say that fate comes from 344 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,720 the mother, or the influence of that least comes from the 345 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,400 mother. We have a few examples. 346 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,000 Even the book of Ezra, chapters 9 through 10 we read of it. 347 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,360 Also in Nehemiah. Nehemiah concentrates on this 348 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:17,760 fact. That there were concerned. 349 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,360 He'd come back. To Jerusalem after he left. 350 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:22,640 For a point in time. And he noticed that there were 351 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,880 some of. The Jewish people that were 352 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,760 marrying foreign. Women. 353 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:31,120 And he called them out on this aspect of of them having done. 354 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:32,880 This and this. Is what the Bible? 355 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,560 Says that he. Came to find his findings. 356 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,280 Were when he got there and they had done this. 357 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:38,720 He says. In there and this. 358 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,280 Is in verse. 24 of Nehemiah 13. He says, and their children 359 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:46,400 spake half in the speech. Of Ashdod and could not speak 360 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:50,320 the Jews language he was. Point to the fact of a mother's 361 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:55,160 influence in the life of a child, all right, that it messed 362 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,320 with her identity and even their covenant faithfulness, because 363 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,240 according into what type of mother that you had. 364 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,720 He said if you. Choose a mother that is not a 365 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,560 Hebrew. For these children, it'll have 366 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,760 influence on the spiritual context of their life and the 367 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,160 covenant context of their life. Amen. 368 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:17,960 Not only that, Rabbinical law. Rabbinical law codifies what is 369 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,320 known as the matrilineal identity, and it states this. 370 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,200 If a Jewish or Hebrew woman was a child has a child with a 371 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:29,920 gentile man, the child is Jewish. 372 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:34,240 If a Jewish man has a child with a gentile woman, the child is 373 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,600 not. Jewish faith is connected to the 374 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,160 woman. So Ishmael, that child that's 375 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,080 born of the union of Haggar and Abram, Ishmael cannot be the 376 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,400 promised seed because he had the wrong mother. 377 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,840 Let me say like this. It doesn't. 378 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,920 And I say. This like gingerly. 379 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,400 Here it doesn't. Matter who Your father. 380 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,840 Is. If you don't have the right 381 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,680 mother. Let's just. 382 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:11,880 Transfer just a little bit. In a spiritual sense, many claim 383 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:17,880 God as their father. There are generations and eons 384 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,640 of people that claim God is their father, but you also have 385 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,160 to have the right mother, the church. 386 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,240 New Testament Scripture speaks of Jerusalem, even the New 387 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,360 Jerusalem, even that thing, that entity that's known as the 388 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:37,560 church, as being the motherly figure. 389 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,240 It's a lot of people that's claiming God as their father, 390 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,880 but they don't have the church as their mother. 391 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,160 And if you don't have the church as your mother, you don't have a 392 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:56,880 good transfer of faith. You have covenantal, you have 393 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:02,720 covenantal issues. So we could really plunge in 394 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,600 deep right here. There's a lot of teachings in 395 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:10,280 the ideologies of Scripture that get mixed and muddled when you 396 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,600 just claim and God is your father, but you don't have the 397 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:19,320 right mother. Is it important? 398 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,080 It is. It is important. 399 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,360 You need the right mother. Galatians 4 verses 22 and 23. 400 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:26,640 The Apostle Paul is writing about this whole. 401 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,680 Scenario of Sarah and Hagar. Speaking of it as a allegory and 402 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,400 such, and the Bible says in verse 22 of Galatians 4. 403 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,040 For it is written that Abram had two sons. 404 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,680 Yes, we know that to be Ishmael and Isaac as they'll come about 405 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:43,600 the one by a bond maid meaning Hagar, and the other by a free 406 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,600 woman meaning Sarah. But he who was of the bond woman 407 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:54,160 was born after the flesh, But he of the free woman was by the 408 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,760 promise. It matters who your Mama. 409 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,400 Is. Amen. 410 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,920 He who was of the bond woman was born after the flesh. 411 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,880 There's another aspect to this statement as well. 412 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:13,840 Abram was not circumcised when he had relations with Hagar. 413 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,400 He was. Circumcised. 414 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:24,480 When he had relations with Sarah, when Ishmael was 415 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:32,200 conceived, that that thing that indicated his flesh had not yet 416 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:37,360 been cut off. But before he conceived Isaac, 417 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:42,800 circumcision had happened. Circumcision, which we'll get to 418 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,840 in the next chapter, which was a sign of being God's covenant 419 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,320 people. What you said, I say this, no 420 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,400 spiritual children can be had until you do away with the 421 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:00,680 flesh. We'll perhaps look at that more 422 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,400 in the next chapter, but it takes the cutting off the 423 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,560 severing away, if you will, of these sort of things. 424 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,200 And so when we look at this, there's, there's a few, there's 425 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:16,720 a few indices here in Scripture that that could have tipped 426 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:22,240 Abram and Sarai off perhaps at, you know, the timing. 427 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:28,720 Isn't right, timing isn't right, and one of those is. 428 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,360 The blessing that was up on Adam and Eve. 429 00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:34,000 You remember this all the way back to. 430 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:40,240 Genesis 1 was for multiplication reproduction. 431 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,560 Same thing was spoken. After the flood with Noah. 432 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,720 And his family for multiplication, for 433 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,760 reproduction. Abram now is getting the words 434 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:54,160 of great nation descendants. So on and so forth and so. 435 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,720 Sarah must surmise, as she did in verse #2 she. 436 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,640 Says then. The Lord hath restrained me. 437 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:03,440 From. Bearing. 438 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:09,560 And if God did, then we must. Subject ourselves to His plan. 439 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,160 If you get the mindset, if God is all for the blessing of 440 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,920 reproduction and multiplication and yet I'm not having a child, 441 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:21,280 then he must be restraining me. I mean, if God is for and he's 442 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,560 not allowing it, then he must be the one that has the hand on the 443 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,160 dial, so to speak. He must be the one that is 444 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,000 restraining me. And if he is, then I got to 445 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,480 subject myself to the plan of God that it's not never, it's 446 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:39,360 just not now. Oh, the hardest thing to deal 447 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:43,040 with. A promise is a maybe. 448 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,600 It's not never, just not now five years go by, it's not. 449 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:51,080 Now 10 years go by, it's not. Now 15 years go by, it's not. 450 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,800 And you remember some of the things that apron that was 451 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,280 really promised to him. Were not things relieved for his 452 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:00,960 enjoyment? As much as it was his 453 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,360 descendants, I'm not trying to. I'm not trying to cause someone 454 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:07,160 to be in in despair right now over the promise God-given. 455 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,320 You know this ain't for me. Yeah, but your descendants will 456 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,360 never be. Or enjoy if you're not a link to 457 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:19,600 it. Amen. 458 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,480 And so that should have tipped them off a little bit, because 459 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,920 when we talk about faith, faith is more than just believing in 460 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,880 the promise, trusting. The process. 461 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,880 Trusting. The process. 462 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,360 That he's going to bring. It to pass when it needs to be 463 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,720 brought to pass because what we understand sometimes we 464 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,480 separate, but what we understand we should understand is that 465 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,480 both the. Promise and the process. 466 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:53,480 Are God. Ordained. 467 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,240 Sometimes we only think the promises. 468 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,280 Ordained. And somebody's really messing. 469 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,680 With this process, thank God, that might just all be. 470 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,840 God. It's hard and it's hard. 471 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,320 It's hard to wrestle with that concept or idea. 472 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:16,240 But yes, it could just all be God later in Genesis. 21 and. 12 473 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:22,040 God said through Isaac that Abram's seed would be called, 474 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,560 states it plainly. God gets more detailed with his 475 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,160 promise to Abraham. As they go along the process. 476 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,760 In the beginning it's real vague, but he starts filling in 477 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,920 some of the blanks of details as Abram. 478 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,080 Goes through the process. He says plainly, through Isaac 479 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,000 shall thy seed be called. And then later he would ask 480 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,480 Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. 481 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,480 But the writer of Hebrews tells us in Hebrews 11 that Abram 482 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:57,200 believed that God would even raise up Isaac from the dead if 483 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,960 necessary. How in the world do you believe 484 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:01,400 something like that? How in the world do you even 485 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,640 think like something like that? Abram, Because Abram believed 486 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,760 now at that point in time, later he believed in the promise of, 487 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,400 of descendants, but he also got to a place where he trusted the 488 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:17,240 process. We had our time accepting the 489 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,040 process early on and they make some choices and decisions, but 490 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,040 they're finally got a place in this journey. 491 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,920 I believe the promise, but I also trust the process. 492 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,680 So if you're going to take my boy on the altar, you'll raise 493 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:31,000 him up because I know that the, it, it's going to happen. 494 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,240 The promise is sure, the process, it may look jagged, 495 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:39,480 unknown, uncertain, but I trust it because the same person that 496 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,320 has his hand on the process has his hand on the originality of 497 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:51,560 the promise. So we got to navigate, navigate. 498 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,920 Amen. So. 499 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,040 Who else we have with Joseph? There's a good one, right? 500 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:04,760 Dreams of rulership. Dreams of. 501 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,920 Prominence even among his. Family. 502 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:14,240 In his young mind, these dreams betrayal, slavery. 503 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:22,640 False accusation, prison, all of those things brought the dream 504 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,280 to pass. And amid all that, the Bible 505 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,600 constantly lets us know that Joseph. 506 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,920 Remains faithful. Why? 507 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,040 He believed in the dream, and he trusted the process. 508 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,160 David anointed to be the next king when he's still just a 509 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,840 youth, yet he spends years after that moment in time. 510 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:51,760 He's running from Saul, he's living in caves, he's facing 511 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,800 betrayal. And even when David had sister 512 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,800 Melinda the opportunity to kill Saul, take him out. 513 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:05,600 Shortcut, shortcut. I know what God already wants. 514 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,160 He wants me to be the next king. What a better shortcut than 515 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,960 eliminating the former king straight to the throne room, 516 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,560 honey. Shortcut that when he had 517 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:21,400 opportunity to do it, he didn't. He refused the shortcut. 518 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,800 He refused to shortcut the process because God's timing 519 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,960 mattered just as much as the promise. 520 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,880 Secondly. This whole thing should have. 521 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:41,000 Sounded a little strangely familiar to Abram and Sarai. 522 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,960 This should have sounded familiar to the foundational. 523 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,640 Oops, in the garden. Let's. 524 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,120 Let me reread Genesis 16 and I'm going to skip around a little 525 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,120 bit, but verses 2 and 3. Are we doing? 526 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,320 Oh, I'm still doing OK. I'm not lying yet. 527 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,560 Genesis 16, verses 22. 3 And I'm skipping around a little bit in 528 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,120 this, these verses and listen to these, just close your eyes for 529 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:06,400 a moment and just listen to these, will you? 530 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,240 And Sarai said, I pray thee, go in unto my maid. 531 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,720 It may be that I may obtain children by her and Abram. 532 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,560 Hearken to the. Voice of Sarai and. 533 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:22,360 Sarai, Abram's wife, took. Hagar her maid and gave her to 534 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,040 her husband Abram to be his wife. 535 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,040 Now watch this Genesis 3/6 And when the woman saw that the tree 536 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,240 was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and 537 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,120 the tree to be desired to make one wine, she took of the fruit 538 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,960 thereof, did eat, and gave also unto her husband, and he did 539 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:45,520 eat. There's a lot of similarity 540 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,760 happened right there. Abram listened and heeded. 541 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:56,800 To what Sarai said. Adam listened and heeded to 542 00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:58,520 what? Eve said. 543 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,120 And there's a dangerous pattern to be followed here. 544 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,240 Adam partook of the fruit. It was a mistake. 545 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:11,560 Abram I don't. Want to use the word partake 546 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,320 but. Abram lay with Hagar. 547 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,159 And it. Was not what God? 548 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,560 Had in mind concerning the promised seed? 549 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,320 Adam hearken to the voice of his wife. 550 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,520 Abram hearken to the voice of his wife. 551 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,360 And there were consequences in both both men. 552 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,840 And you say, well, brother McGee, are you are you endorsed 553 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,960 him, Brother McGee. That means a male in the 554 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,880 leadership of my family that I don't have to listen to my wife. 555 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:46,920 No, that's not what I'm telling you. 556 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,040 I'm telling you. They put too much stock. 557 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,440 In human. Counsel over godly counsel, all 558 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,080 right. So, men, don't be going home and 559 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,720 putting that scripture on your refrigerator. 560 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:05,160 There you go. He's a hen Peck. 561 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,840 I just so happen to like the hen that doing the Peck and they say 562 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:17,280 well never mind. Here's what I'm look at. 563 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,000 He says you have any tree in the garden. 564 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,920 Except that in the midst of knowledge of good. 565 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,960 And evil. We see later in the scripture. 566 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,240 Of Genesis 322. That God even omits. 567 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,240 Had they done that, he said they'd be like he said me. 568 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:39,760 God possessed the knowledge of good. 569 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:45,320 And Evil Bob doesn't even say that that knowledge. 570 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,360 Was evil just the knowledge? Of good and evil, but acquiring 571 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,320 it. Through disobedience would have 572 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,080 been incorrect. Follow me here in Hebrews. 573 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,160 Chapter #5 and verse 14 the Bible states this, these words 574 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,440 in this verse, but strong meat belongeth to them that are full 575 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,200 age right? Saying you're not going to give, 576 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,720 you know, a stake to a 2 month old. 577 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,480 It's those of maturity, even those who by reason of use, have 578 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,280 their. Senses exercised to deserve 579 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:20,520 them, both good and evil. This scripture follow me this. 580 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,880 Scripture shows us that maturity or maturity. 581 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,840 Is. Tied to discerning good and 582 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,600 evil. This is just a Could it be with 583 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,520 Pastor McGee? Hey, that rhymes. 584 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:39,280 Could it be that God intended for Adam and Eve to grow in such 585 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,240 maturity? With him, by walking with him 586 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:47,880 and learning his ways that. The knowledge of good and. 587 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:52,720 Evil was to be learned gradually by them from him. 588 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:59,160 Rather than. Season it in a moment from the 589 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,320 tree. What does that boil down to? 590 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:09,720 Then process. Process because there's some 591 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:14,360 things at certain stages of your journey you're not mature enough 592 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:15,240 to handle. That's. 593 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:22,760 So true. Even promises that it takes a 594 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:27,840 little bit more maturity and walking with God for you to be 595 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,280 able. To really process and hold on to 596 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:37,640 it correctly. Process matters as much as the 597 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,800 knowledge. So we serve, undoubtedly, yes, 598 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,160 we serve a God that makes. Promises, but God also ordains 599 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,680 process. And whether it's stated or, it's 600 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,960 like the fine print at the bottom of the document every. 601 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,160 Process. Every promise comes with some 602 00:37:55,160 --> 00:38:00,800 sort of process. But too often we're like the 603 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,960 Abram and we're like the Sarai, right? 604 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,480 We believe in the promise, but we're trying to help him. 605 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:12,000 Manufacture the outcome. I say I trust God. 606 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,680 I trust you God. I trust you, God. 607 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,360 And then we start to operate on our own timeline. 608 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,960 We cling to His word, I cling to His word, but sometimes we act 609 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,640 like his methods need our management. 610 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,200 No, but I'm not talking to anybody in this church tonight. 611 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:35,000 Ain't nobody. Here I'm talking about what it 612 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,040 reminds me of, what this whole story reminds me of. 613 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,480 Just three verses of this. Story. 614 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,000 What it reminds me of is this is that I can have the right desire 615 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:48,560 but the wrong delivery, right father, but Hagar was the wrong 616 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,800 mother of the promise. I can. 617 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:55,760 I want to facilitate but sometimes me want to facilitate. 618 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,840 Is just frustrating the total outcome. 619 00:39:04,370 --> 00:39:06,250 So. Did they have it? 620 00:39:06,250 --> 00:39:09,250 They desired it, they wanted it, yes, I agree with that 100%. 621 00:39:09,490 --> 00:39:11,290 It may not just been blatant rebellion. 622 00:39:11,290 --> 00:39:14,450 They wanted it. It was just misguided obedience. 623 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,680 And whether it's unauthorized fire, whether it's building 624 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,120 calves in the wilderness, you know. 625 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,200 To the Lord, the Bible even says. 626 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,680 Whatever it is. We got to you there. 627 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,880 There's ability. Where you can worship. 628 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:31,240 God. In, in, in, in the. 629 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:33,520 Wrong way. Does that make sense? 630 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,200 Who was it? Jeroboam. 631 00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:40,600 He made 2 gold, he made 2. Golden. 632 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,680 Calves and Dan One and Beersheba. 633 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,240 The Bible says he. Did that for the convenience of 634 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:47,360 the children. Of Israel so they wouldn't have 635 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,160 to travel all the way to. Jerusalem and have to travel. 636 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:56,560 All the way to Jerusalem worship, yes, but number one, 637 00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,280 wrong way, wrong place. Right. 638 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,480 And so. I am absolutely. 639 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,640 I'm absolutely. Convinced that there are there 640 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,240 are sincere. People all in the world. 641 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,280 They're sincere. People all over the world. 642 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:16,720 Right. Their hearts are sincere. 643 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,400 But no matter how much. Sincerity there is our shortcuts 644 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:31,280 are still not sanctified. So fate doesn't just merely wait 645 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,160 on the on the promise. It also walks in according to 646 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,360 the promise. If you're staying with me 647 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,800 tonight, see I'm doing good. I held, I kept my. 648 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:39,880 Promise. And that was the. 649 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:46,800 Process. God, don't you know God? 650 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,200 Understood that whenever he promised Abram what he promised, 651 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,280 he knew the womb was buried. He knew that. 652 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,920 He knew that. So he's not really after a human 653 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:02,320 solution, He's just after their trust. 654 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,240 So as we close tonight, I just got a few little, little bullet. 655 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:10,520 Points here as we close to help us along. 656 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,640 The way as we're navigating. This, this promise and this. 657 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:18,920 Process everybody say stop, stop. 658 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,880 Trying to manufacture the promise through fleshly means. 659 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:31,360 God doesn't need your help. He needs your faith. 660 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:40,800 The flesh will always. Produce a Ishmael only faith can 661 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,200 bring forth in. Isaac so stop trying to do it #2 662 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,760 submit your desire to God's design, huh? 663 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,640 We even got to. Take our good intentions, we got 664 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,480 to filter it through the divine. Instruction of the Lord, huh? 665 00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:59,960 Because what you may want it may be absolutely right, but. 666 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,640 How and when you pursue it, that's still got to be under his 667 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,600 submission. How that takes place you got to 668 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,280 discern to listen to the voice of God among all the voices that 669 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:16,600 are in the world Eve right say right and all the how good they 670 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:21,400 sound instruction wise, we got to have an ear to the voice of 671 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,560 the Lord above all others and this is the last big one. 672 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,960 It's the one that gets me at my gizzard. 673 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:35,360 We got to learn to wait well. I'm going home now. 674 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:44,400 We got to learn. To wait, well, keep walking. 675 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,360 Keep worshiping Abraham. Keep, keep, keep. 676 00:42:50,360 --> 00:43:00,130 Exploring the areas of the. Promise keep obeying because. 677 00:43:00,130 --> 00:43:06,440 Whenever you have a promise and it's without God's process, you 678 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,160 still are going to have a flesh born outcome. 679 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,280 They go together. They go together. 680 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:15,920 Sometimes don't look like they fit. 681 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,280 It's like finding that piece, I said. 682 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:18,880 I don't think that puzzle piece really fits their. 683 00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,880 Site and you start. Pushing on it, you know what it 684 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,560 does? It's just like an optical 685 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:23,920 illusion. It just didn't think it, really. 686 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:28,520 Fit, but it does. Your process fits your promise. 687 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:34,040 Your process. It's your promise. 688 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:35,880 Hallelujah. Let's go to the Lord in. 689 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,880 Prayer right now I saved you all. 690 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,840 Amen. God, I need you tonight. 691 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,560 God, I'm in this. Life and there has. 692 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,680 Been spoken to us collectively. And to many of us individually. 693 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,400 God promises into our life God. They've come by the word of God. 694 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,560 They've come, Lord, through a prophet. 695 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,360 Or. Or someone Lord speaking 696 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,920 something in our. Ear that identified with our. 697 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,680 Soul and spirit about something. Perhaps in the future. 698 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,880 Lord a promise God. But sometimes we get weary. 699 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,160 In the waiting. God, we desire it. 700 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:07,840 We. Want it? 701 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,000 But there's the. Pressure of an unfulfilled. 702 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,120 Promise in our life that. That drives us to seek out. 703 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,280 Answers and drives us to. Seek out ways for the 704 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:18,960 materializing of that which has. And spoken. 705 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:22,000 I pray, O God, help us, O Lord, to subject ourselves to your 706 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,080 timing. Help us, O God, to subject 707 00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,160 ourselves to your plan and your process. 708 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:27,720 They're not working against each other. 709 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,960 They're working in tandem. They're working with one 710 00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,080 another. Help me, O Lord, to mature and 711 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,520 grow and Lord, find the stage pre adventure in the future that 712 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,320 I would be at a eager place God and a place the Lord in 713 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,280 maturity, God, where I can accept. 714 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,600 Got something that maybe you said 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 715 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,560 20 years ago. Help me, O Lord, to derive Lord 716 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,440 that maturity God from you. Help me God not to be idle. 717 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:54,840 Help me Lord still to go forward and pursue and and walk the path 718 00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,080 that you've shine light upon Lord and and scratch off Lord 719 00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,280 the details Lord that you share along the jury that become more 720 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:04,800 detailed as I go along the way. But God help me to navigate. 721 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,000 Help me Lord not to act prematurely or just be searching 722 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,640 for a shortcut. God is something that has an 723 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:14,560 outcome that is not really Lord Jesus, what you prescribed for 724 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,520 me. Help me, O Lord, today, God, to 725 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:21,920 give you glory, praise and have faith and trust, Lord Jesus, the 726 00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,640 path and the trajectory, Lord, of every promise that's spoken 727 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,720 in my life, in the life of this assembly and will give you all 728 00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:32,200 the glory and the honor for it in the name of Jesus Christ that 729 00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:36,080 I pray Hallelujah and Amen. The church say Amen. 730 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,600 Amen. God bless you. 731 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,880 That was just three verses, folks, so we couldn't. 732 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:47,240 Have done it, God bless you. Amen. 733 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:52,160 OK, tomorrow night prayer. Don't forget that tomorrow 734 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:53,800 night. Prayer if you can help, Mike. 735 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,640 Penrod with cutting up trees. That are on his property, talk 736 00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,560 to him. About it, all right, About 737 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:05,960 coordinating with him and also desserts for firemen on Sunday. 738 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,960 You got questions or you want to let them know that you're going 739 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,680 to be bringing something that might even be a nice courtesy so 740 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:15,600 that they know what's coming. Talk to Sister Angie and Sister 741 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,760 Sheila about that Throw away dishes. 742 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:21,760 OK. All right. 743 00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:23,000 Mother's Day.