1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Welcome to the First Apostolic Church Podcast. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:08,000 Our church mission is to love as God loves, showing compassion 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,480 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,680 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today and we hope that you're blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:24,480 by today's podcast. Amen. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,280 Glad to see each you in the house, the Lord. 8 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:28,640 Glad to have the Johnson family back with us after. 9 00:00:29,060 --> 00:00:34,340 Vacationing and fishing and and things not going as planned but 10 00:00:34,340 --> 00:00:37,780 still making the best of it type of scenario a man and so we're 11 00:00:37,780 --> 00:00:40,380 glad to have them back today in the House of the Lord. 12 00:00:40,740 --> 00:00:41,820 A man we're going to be turning to. 13 00:00:41,820 --> 00:00:47,700 Joshua Chapter #1A man Joshua Chapter #1 and we do Brother 14 00:00:47,700 --> 00:00:50,460 Malone hit the nail on the head we do covet your prayers. 15 00:00:50,780 --> 00:00:54,500 We're going to be apart, together and apart and all this 16 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:57,020 type of stuff for the next three weeks. 17 00:00:57,300 --> 00:00:59,780 It's going to happen in the next three weeks. 3 camp meetings 18 00:00:59,780 --> 00:01:01,780 will be preached in anniversary service. 19 00:01:02,220 --> 00:01:05,019 Amen. And I'll be in Texas, Illinois, 20 00:01:05,019 --> 00:01:08,420 New Mexico and North Carolina by the time those three weeks are 21 00:01:08,420 --> 00:01:11,020 all said and done. And so I covet your prayers. 22 00:01:11,380 --> 00:01:12,500 Amen. Absolutely. 23 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:15,300 And so my great wife, we're going to be traveling to Texas 24 00:01:15,300 --> 00:01:17,540 and all of us as a family are going to Illinois. 25 00:01:17,860 --> 00:01:21,340 And then me and Trevor is doing a father son trip out to New 26 00:01:21,340 --> 00:01:24,180 Mexico and North Carolina. And so we're going to have a 27 00:01:24,180 --> 00:01:26,990 good time. A man and I am not as young as I 28 00:01:26,990 --> 00:01:29,510 used to be. I'm not as young as a matter of 29 00:01:29,510 --> 00:01:31,270 fact. The last time I preached 3 camp 30 00:01:31,270 --> 00:01:34,950 meetings back-to-back was in the year 2004. 31 00:01:35,270 --> 00:01:38,390 And there's just a little bit of time that is a lapses between 32 00:01:38,390 --> 00:01:41,190 then and now. And if you pray for anything, 33 00:01:41,190 --> 00:01:45,430 just pray for this thing right here called a voice because that 34 00:01:45,430 --> 00:01:48,550 will be the thing. Allergens and different 35 00:01:48,830 --> 00:01:52,200 calignments and. It is all over the map. 36 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,920 I was listening this week to brother Nathan Cannon and 37 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,320 brother Simon King camp. Allah was going on this week in 38 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,080 Louisiana, which we preached last year. 39 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,280 And I've listened to almost all they're preaching down there and 40 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:09,039 I heard there toward the end of the week, that gravelly voice 41 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:11,080 going on. I thought Jesus helped me. 42 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,160 That's just one week and I got 3. 43 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,360 And so God's going to help us, I know, undoubtfully. 44 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,840 Amen. But we're we're excited about 45 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,080 it. Excited about everybody that's 46 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,320 going to Indiana district camp. Know the Lord's going to bless 47 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,960 you, got great speakers and no doubt people's been praying and 48 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,000 fasting for the Lord to do a good a great work. 49 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,960 Amen. Joshua, Chapter #1 and verse 50 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,840 #12. But with all that being said, 51 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,000 let's not forget everybody that's going to keep the fires 52 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,680 burning right here at home. Amen. 53 00:02:45,030 --> 00:02:47,670 Keep the fires burning here. Those you're going to hear from 54 00:02:47,670 --> 00:02:50,230 various ones of the ministry throughout the weekends. 55 00:02:50,550 --> 00:02:52,070 Amen. In the next three weeks and 56 00:02:52,070 --> 00:02:54,790 such. And so we absolutely tip our hat 57 00:02:55,230 --> 00:02:58,070 Amen to them, Amen. Because they're an integral part 58 00:02:58,070 --> 00:03:00,830 of what makes this be able to continue on. 59 00:03:01,150 --> 00:03:02,390 Amen. Whenever we're not here. 60 00:03:02,390 --> 00:03:07,670 And we appreciate that, you know, from my estimation and the 61 00:03:07,670 --> 00:03:10,590 things I've read and what I've been taught is, and I'm not 62 00:03:10,590 --> 00:03:12,630 saying this for me, but I'm saying this. 63 00:03:13,090 --> 00:03:15,650 That they always say that a sign of a great leader is that he can 64 00:03:15,650 --> 00:03:18,690 be absent and things can just still go on and carry on as as 65 00:03:18,690 --> 00:03:25,450 regular and meaning that it doesn't just the fulcrum of the 66 00:03:25,450 --> 00:03:30,530 church doesn't lie upon one person or just the pastor or so 67 00:03:30,530 --> 00:03:32,810 and so forth, but it's a collective group of people. 68 00:03:33,130 --> 00:03:38,330 Joshua Won and verse #12 this morning, the Bible says. 69 00:03:38,330 --> 00:03:40,610 And just kind of give the setting or where we're at. 70 00:03:41,020 --> 00:03:43,900 Here in the book of Joshua, this first chapter, there's there's 71 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:48,860 been a transition of leadership. Moses has has died, He's 72 00:03:48,860 --> 00:03:53,580 ascended the mount, he has died, and now the one that has been 73 00:03:54,340 --> 00:03:57,260 groomed, that's been under his shadow, so to speak. 74 00:03:57,260 --> 00:04:02,180 Joshua's taken his place and they are on the cusp of passing 75 00:04:02,180 --> 00:04:06,340 over into the land of Canaan, which is what they have been 76 00:04:06,420 --> 00:04:09,700 trying to get to and trying to accomplish. 77 00:04:10,150 --> 00:04:13,070 And so Joshua is taking leadership here in the Bible 78 00:04:13,070 --> 00:04:16,550 says he's speaking some things to the nation of Israel, and 79 00:04:16,550 --> 00:04:20,470 then he hones in on a few tribes in verse #12 and to the 80 00:04:20,470 --> 00:04:25,350 Rubinites and to the Gaddites. And to have the tribe of 81 00:04:25,350 --> 00:04:31,070 Manassas make Joshua saying, Remember the word which Moses 82 00:04:31,070 --> 00:04:35,270 the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying the Lord 83 00:04:35,270 --> 00:04:40,380 your God hath given you rest. And have given you this land. 84 00:04:40,700 --> 00:04:45,220 Your wives and your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in 85 00:04:45,220 --> 00:04:49,380 the land which Moses gave you on this side, which was the east 86 00:04:49,380 --> 00:04:53,380 side of Jordan. But ye shall pass before your 87 00:04:53,380 --> 00:04:58,740 brethren, armed all the mighty men of valor, and help them 88 00:04:59,220 --> 00:05:05,420 until the Lord have given your brethren rest as he hath given 89 00:05:05,420 --> 00:05:09,110 you. And they also have possessed the 90 00:05:09,110 --> 00:05:13,070 land which the Lord your God giveth them. 91 00:05:13,350 --> 00:05:17,990 Then ye shall return, and to the land of your possession and 92 00:05:18,110 --> 00:05:24,070 enjoy it, which Moses, the Lord servant, gave unto you on this 93 00:05:24,070 --> 00:05:28,230 side, Jordan, toward the sun rising. 94 00:05:28,510 --> 00:05:30,910 Amen. And so he's admonishing 2 1/2 95 00:05:30,910 --> 00:05:33,820 tribes. Men that wanted to stay on one 96 00:05:33,820 --> 00:05:37,100 portion of the land that would be given them as an inheritance. 97 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:40,100 But he said, in order for you to do that, in order for you to 98 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:43,660 have that rest and inherit that, and even in order for you to 99 00:05:43,660 --> 00:05:47,500 enjoy that, you need to go along with all the other tribes and 100 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:50,660 walk the whip and the breadth and the depth of the land that 101 00:05:50,660 --> 00:05:55,700 God has promised and yoke up with them, Yoke up with them. 102 00:05:56,060 --> 00:05:59,940 And conquer the land. For lack of any better title 103 00:05:59,940 --> 00:06:01,060 today. Amen. 104 00:06:01,060 --> 00:06:03,460 I just want to talk about stronger together. 105 00:06:04,460 --> 00:06:07,140 Stronger together. Amen. 106 00:06:07,140 --> 00:06:08,900 Can we go to the Lord in prayer right now? 107 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:11,340 Father? You're able to touch us today, 108 00:06:11,660 --> 00:06:13,460 God. I lean Lord upon your 109 00:06:13,460 --> 00:06:17,700 everlasting arms this morning. I pray, O God, today that you're 110 00:06:17,700 --> 00:06:20,420 able to minister in this place. You're able to guide us. 111 00:06:20,420 --> 00:06:23,600 The Lord by the Holy Ghost. God, in your spirit, you're able 112 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,920 to make yourself known in this place today. 113 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,040 God encourage your heart and encourage your soul. 114 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,880 And God help us, the Lord, to open our eyes. 115 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,600 God to this collective Lord membership, Lord of the body 116 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,760 that we call the church. God will not fail to thank you 117 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,000 and praise you, Lord, for what you do, Jesus, in this place 118 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,120 today, and we'll give you the praise and the glory for it. 119 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,000 In Jesus name. Amen. 120 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,520 And Amen The Church. Amen. 121 00:06:49,040 --> 00:07:02,550 You may be seated. Few weeks ago or so I suppose it 122 00:07:02,550 --> 00:07:07,430 is now that I come across the story or read a story that 123 00:07:10,190 --> 00:07:16,270 somehow just touched my my mind and my heart concerning the days 124 00:07:16,270 --> 00:07:20,430 of war which America seemingly has always been in some type of 125 00:07:20,430 --> 00:07:23,670 day of war throughout its history. 126 00:07:24,250 --> 00:07:28,490 But it was a captain by the name of Charles Charles Plum. 127 00:07:28,490 --> 00:07:34,290 He was a graduate from the Naval Academy and his plane was shot 128 00:07:34,290 --> 00:07:40,690 down after having 74 successful combat missions over North 129 00:07:41,130 --> 00:07:44,370 Vietnam. He he parachuted to safety but 130 00:07:44,370 --> 00:07:51,810 was captured and he was tortured and spent some 2103 days in a 131 00:07:51,810 --> 00:07:55,610 small. Box like Cell and After 132 00:07:55,610 --> 00:08:01,130 surviving this ordeal for almost over almost six years, Captain 133 00:08:01,130 --> 00:08:05,410 Plum received a lot of high honors and respect for his 134 00:08:05,410 --> 00:08:09,330 service and what he endured and what he accomplished. 135 00:08:09,330 --> 00:08:13,810 He received the Silver Star and he also got awarded to him the 136 00:08:13,810 --> 00:08:17,730 Bronze Star. He had the the Legion of Merit 137 00:08:17,730 --> 00:08:22,010 that was bestowed upon him. He went away with two Purple 138 00:08:22,010 --> 00:08:24,540 Hearts. From all of this and he returned 139 00:08:24,540 --> 00:08:28,740 to America and began to go almost on tour. 140 00:08:28,740 --> 00:08:32,820 And he spoke to many groups about the hazards that he faced, 141 00:08:32,820 --> 00:08:37,340 the torture that he endured, the successes of it all, how his 142 00:08:37,340 --> 00:08:40,500 experience and how it could compare to some of the 143 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:43,059 challenges of the everyday lives that we face. 144 00:08:43,059 --> 00:08:46,820 And then shortly after coming home, he was setting just in a 145 00:08:46,820 --> 00:08:49,940 quaint little restaurant where they lived and. 146 00:08:50,230 --> 00:08:54,510 Someone spoke out to him, he and his wife as they were sitting 147 00:08:54,510 --> 00:08:58,190 there, this man arose from his seat and he approached their 148 00:08:58,190 --> 00:09:02,310 table and he walked over and said to this gentleman, he said, 149 00:09:02,310 --> 00:09:07,350 your your Plum, your Charles Plum, you you flew jet fighters 150 00:09:07,430 --> 00:09:11,510 fighters, fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty 151 00:09:11,510 --> 00:09:14,790 Hawk that that's you you you were shot down. 152 00:09:15,140 --> 00:09:19,020 And surprised to understand that this man knew who he was, and 153 00:09:19,260 --> 00:09:22,180 greater than that, knew what he had went through and knew that 154 00:09:22,180 --> 00:09:25,300 he had been shot down. He was a little surprised and 155 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:29,300 looked this man steely in the eyes and said, how in the world 156 00:09:29,740 --> 00:09:32,860 did you know that? And the man replied. 157 00:09:32,860 --> 00:09:35,620 He said. I'm the man that packed your 158 00:09:35,620 --> 00:09:39,090 parachute. And was surprised. 159 00:09:39,090 --> 00:09:43,050 Charlie took a few steps back there in his seat and shrugged 160 00:09:43,050 --> 00:09:46,210 his shoulders and scooted over. And the other man just pumped 161 00:09:46,210 --> 00:09:50,010 his fists and looked at him and said, well, I guessed it worked. 162 00:09:50,490 --> 00:09:52,250 I guessed everything went all right. 163 00:09:52,610 --> 00:09:56,170 I guess what I'm getting at this morning is that Charlie Plum 164 00:09:56,450 --> 00:10:00,570 probably is going to concentrate more in his life on those over 165 00:10:00,570 --> 00:10:03,170 2000 days that he spent in the cell. 166 00:10:03,630 --> 00:10:08,350 Those over 2000 days that he was tortured and maybe barely made 167 00:10:08,350 --> 00:10:12,830 it with the skin of his life, and maybe never second thought 168 00:10:13,150 --> 00:10:18,350 that he would not even endure 2103 days in the cell had not 169 00:10:18,350 --> 00:10:22,190 there been some cellar in the belly of a aircraft carrier. 170 00:10:22,530 --> 00:10:26,530 That was just properly folding over a parachute and making it 171 00:10:26,530 --> 00:10:30,890 ready and it was Charlie's. He survived his being shot down 172 00:10:30,890 --> 00:10:35,330 from the sky and landing because there was another man that was a 173 00:10:35,330 --> 00:10:40,130 part of the team. He had survived 64 accounts in 174 00:10:40,130 --> 00:10:42,130 the air and his mission and made him. 175 00:10:42,130 --> 00:10:46,450 Many of those were by himself, but the idea and the concept is 176 00:10:46,450 --> 00:10:48,930 this. There is always somebody else. 177 00:10:49,830 --> 00:10:54,430 That is a part of the team. Whenever we look at this thing 178 00:10:54,430 --> 00:11:00,150 that we call the church. This is not a Lone Ranger type 179 00:11:00,150 --> 00:11:05,190 of scenario. This is not a this is a pastor 180 00:11:05,190 --> 00:11:09,550 or this is a certain group of people or a certain family that 181 00:11:09,550 --> 00:11:13,070 is charging, if you will, the mountain. 182 00:11:13,070 --> 00:11:17,590 This is a team type effort and it takes everybody that's 183 00:11:17,590 --> 00:11:22,670 involved in this team, Amen for us to have any type of success. 184 00:11:22,670 --> 00:11:26,750 The Bible says that in this thing called the Church that 185 00:11:26,750 --> 00:11:31,760 there is neither Jew nor Greek. There's neither male nor female. 186 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,080 There's neither bond nor free. There's neither circumcision nor 187 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:39,840 uncircumcision. Yes, there are all those types 188 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:45,000 of people, from various walks of life and from various races and 189 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,680 from various identities that make up this thing called the 190 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:51,200 Church. But whenever we become a part of 191 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,440 the church, we yield all of that just to be known as the Church. 192 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,960 Whenever Christ comes back someday, he's not coming back 193 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,520 for the McGee. Family, whenever Christ comes 194 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,960 back someday, he's not coming after the Penrod family. 195 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,320 Amen. But the voice of heaven was not 196 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,320 this that the Penrod family would make themselves ready, 197 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,240 although they should. But the voice was this, that 198 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:17,600 he's coming after a church, a glorious church that have made 199 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,280 herself ready. Because this is not a lone 200 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,480 individual or a lone group of people or a particular family 201 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,640 that this hinges upon. We are the body of Christ. 202 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,760 And as it states over and over again in scripture, there are 203 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:38,760 many members, but it always emphasizes there is one body, 204 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,280 there are many divisions, there are many operations, but there 205 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,080 is one body. Can someone say man for that 206 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,480 matter, whenever we understand this concept and this Organism 207 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,540 called the Church? I read in Scripture that 208 00:12:53,540 --> 00:12:57,860 whenever Jesus spoke unto Peter, he said, Peter, who do men say 209 00:12:57,860 --> 00:12:59,620 that I am? And they had all these things 210 00:12:59,620 --> 00:13:02,020 that were going on. And he finally came to the 211 00:13:02,020 --> 00:13:05,180 conclusion with Peter. Amen, that that that Peter said, 212 00:13:05,180 --> 00:13:07,540 Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 213 00:13:07,740 --> 00:13:11,780 The Lord said, Amen, and thou art petered upon this rock. 214 00:13:11,980 --> 00:13:17,100 I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail 215 00:13:17,140 --> 00:13:19,820 against it. Notice what the Scripture says. 216 00:13:20,220 --> 00:13:21,660 Amen. The gates of. 217 00:13:21,780 --> 00:13:24,860 Hell shall not prevail against it. 218 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:29,380 And the IT that is being referred to is the church. the 219 00:13:29,460 --> 00:13:34,580 IT wasn't Paul McGee. the IT wasn't Timothy the IT wasn't the 220 00:13:34,580 --> 00:13:39,180 Apostle Peter the IT was this conglomeration and body of 221 00:13:39,180 --> 00:13:43,100 people that have been born by 1 spirit into one body. 222 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:47,380 The gates of hell shall not prevail against the church. 223 00:13:47,580 --> 00:13:50,580 What are you saying then this morning, Pastor McGee, I'm 224 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:53,700 saying this morning. Stronger together because the 225 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:56,860 gates of hell may come a man against. 226 00:13:56,860 --> 00:14:00,340 You but when you've. Made yourself a part of, and 227 00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:04,540 you've sewn yourself into this organization called the Church. 228 00:14:04,940 --> 00:14:09,380 The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. 229 00:14:15,460 --> 00:14:17,220 It's not going to prevail against it. 230 00:14:17,860 --> 00:14:21,340 So we have this type of terminology over and over again 231 00:14:21,340 --> 00:14:25,140 in the scripture about this collective body of believers. 232 00:14:25,420 --> 00:14:28,780 It was the New Testament church. The Bible says that they were 233 00:14:28,780 --> 00:14:32,820 selling all things, and they had all things in common. 234 00:14:33,020 --> 00:14:37,100 The Bible says there was equality among the church, Amen, 235 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:40,300 Those that had surplus, and there were those that lacked, 236 00:14:40,540 --> 00:14:43,860 but there was equality among them because the surplus have 237 00:14:43,860 --> 00:14:46,420 won. Amen met the need of the lack of 238 00:14:46,420 --> 00:14:47,700 the other. And there was a. 239 00:14:47,860 --> 00:14:49,500 Equality among them. Why? 240 00:14:49,660 --> 00:14:52,820 Because they were a part of this thing called the Church. 241 00:14:53,140 --> 00:14:56,060 If someone lacked and they were by themselves, they're just 242 00:14:56,060 --> 00:14:58,420 going to lack. If someone had surplus and they 243 00:14:58,420 --> 00:15:00,940 was by themselves, they're just going to have surplus. 244 00:15:01,180 --> 00:15:03,580 But because you and I are born again of the water in the 245 00:15:03,580 --> 00:15:06,980 Spirit, and we're a part of this thing called the church, when 246 00:15:06,980 --> 00:15:10,980 you lack a brother over here has surplus to meet your lack. 247 00:15:11,140 --> 00:15:13,220 And you might not lack every day of your life. 248 00:15:13,460 --> 00:15:15,540 There might be other days you have surplus. 249 00:15:15,740 --> 00:15:17,700 But because you're part of this Organism. 250 00:15:19,140 --> 00:15:23,460 Yes. You asked me this morning. 251 00:15:23,460 --> 00:15:26,220 You tell me. You tell me the numbers of times 252 00:15:26,420 --> 00:15:28,340 that you have been down and someone else has been 253 00:15:28,340 --> 00:15:31,900 encouraged, yet they have been the wind in your sail because 254 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:34,340 you were a part of this Organism called the Church. 255 00:15:34,540 --> 00:15:37,020 You tell me the other times that you were a voice of 256 00:15:37,020 --> 00:15:39,860 encouragement to somebody else, that we're going through some 257 00:15:39,860 --> 00:15:43,620 struggles and some hardships, and we're overwhelmed by life. 258 00:15:43,980 --> 00:15:45,500 Amen. And you came alongside them and 259 00:15:45,500 --> 00:15:47,660 helped uphold their hands because you were. 260 00:15:47,860 --> 00:15:54,780 Part of this grouping and this Organism called the Church and 261 00:15:54,780 --> 00:15:59,820 the Church of the New Testament is very reflective of the church 262 00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:06,500 or the nation of Israel found in the Old Testament. 263 00:16:07,460 --> 00:16:11,540 With good reason. In our text this morning, this 264 00:16:11,580 --> 00:16:14,900 is probably going to be common for several weeks. 265 00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:19,640 We have good reason. In our text this morning, Joshua 266 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:26,040 as the new man in command, he begins to jar the memories of 267 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:30,280 the 2 1/2 tribes with the words of Moses. 268 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:35,360 This agreement that was made with the 2 1/2 tribes was made 269 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:39,760 under the leadership of Moses. But Moses is dead now, and so 270 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:44,040 it's up up to Joshua to honor the agreement that was made. 271 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,240 And so he's jarring the memory of these 2 1/2 tribes. 272 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,600 Namely, he's jarring the memories of Reuben and Dad. 273 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:52,920 You can read of it in your scripture. 274 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,560 Go home and read it in Numbers, chapter 32 where Moses first 275 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:01,400 made this agreement. Hey man, the tribes of Reuben 276 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,920 and Dad had approached them about remaining on the east side 277 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:10,760 of the Jordan because it was a land that accommodated their 278 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,790 possessions. They had tattled, the Bible 279 00:17:13,790 --> 00:17:18,030 says, quite a good bunch or multitude of cattle, and the 280 00:17:18,030 --> 00:17:21,670 land that seemed to be good for housing, cadible. 281 00:17:21,910 --> 00:17:26,750 It seemed to be suitable to them and suitable for them, and so 282 00:17:26,750 --> 00:17:29,710 they desired to stay on the east side of Jordan. 283 00:17:30,070 --> 00:17:33,990 And inherit that land and allow their cattle to graze in that 284 00:17:33,990 --> 00:17:38,350 land that was good for them. Furthermore, the battle had 285 00:17:38,350 --> 00:17:43,430 already been waged and won for this particular land on the east 286 00:17:43,430 --> 00:17:46,590 side of Jordan. Most of what they desired to 287 00:17:46,590 --> 00:17:51,590 have as land, and as pasture had already been secured in battles 288 00:17:51,590 --> 00:17:56,270 against the kings of Sighon and Aug, it had already been 289 00:17:56,270 --> 00:17:58,230 accomplished. But there's something that 290 00:17:58,230 --> 00:18:02,230 happens in Numbers 32. When these two tribes first 291 00:18:02,230 --> 00:18:06,270 appeal unto Moses, why don't you give us this land? 292 00:18:06,430 --> 00:18:08,990 And why don't you allow us to secure this land? 293 00:18:09,150 --> 00:18:11,430 Because it's accommodating to what we have. 294 00:18:11,710 --> 00:18:15,670 It suits where we are. There's something that rose up 295 00:18:15,670 --> 00:18:20,350 inside of Moses at this request of these 2 1/2 tribes. 296 00:18:20,670 --> 00:18:24,990 Sure, that land was a part of the original promise that God 297 00:18:24,990 --> 00:18:29,990 had spoke to Abraham that could be theirs, and sure that. 298 00:18:30,070 --> 00:18:35,190 Land was respectable and good, a man for raising cattle there. 299 00:18:35,390 --> 00:18:38,910 But there's something, a man that is in Moses, his mind. 300 00:18:39,150 --> 00:18:44,430 The whole nation of Israel fought for that land on the east 301 00:18:44,430 --> 00:18:48,950 side of Jordan. Zebulon and Natalia and Simon, a 302 00:18:48,950 --> 00:18:53,070 man, and Judah, all of them fought for that land that was on 303 00:18:53,070 --> 00:18:56,470 the east side of Jordan. And because of their fighting 304 00:18:56,670 --> 00:18:59,990 and because of their victory, that makes that land available. 305 00:19:00,430 --> 00:19:03,110 Even to inhabit. And there's something that 306 00:19:03,110 --> 00:19:06,990 arises in Moses right now. He asked them a question in 307 00:19:06,990 --> 00:19:10,710 Numbers 32 and Six. He says, You're telling me you 308 00:19:10,710 --> 00:19:13,830 want to settle here. You're telling me this fits your 309 00:19:13,830 --> 00:19:15,990 needs. You're telling me that this 310 00:19:15,990 --> 00:19:19,150 accommodates who you are and what your possessions are. 311 00:19:19,350 --> 00:19:23,110 And they even said, don't bring us over the Jordan, don't take 312 00:19:23,110 --> 00:19:25,470 us over the Jordan. We're fine right here. 313 00:19:25,630 --> 00:19:28,670 But something arose, and Moses he questions him. 314 00:19:28,830 --> 00:19:32,470 He said, Shall you? Shall your brother and go to war 315 00:19:32,670 --> 00:19:36,990 on the opposite side of Jordan and you sit here? 316 00:19:37,270 --> 00:19:40,750 Are you going to allow them to go over and fight for everything 317 00:19:40,750 --> 00:19:42,470 that God promised them? Amen. 318 00:19:42,670 --> 00:19:46,350 And when I say them, I'm saying the nation of Israel and you're 319 00:19:46,350 --> 00:19:49,870 going to sit here. In other words, how in the world 320 00:19:50,150 --> 00:19:55,870 can you 2 1/2 tribes settle in a land here, reaping the benefits 321 00:19:55,910 --> 00:19:59,630 of the land that not 2 1/2 tribes won the victory up? 322 00:20:00,070 --> 00:20:04,790 But a nation won the victory of and then not go to war alongside 323 00:20:04,790 --> 00:20:09,070 your brother and your sister and their children and apprehend the 324 00:20:09,070 --> 00:20:11,470 land on the opposite side of George. 325 00:20:11,470 --> 00:20:16,110 Someone say man, he says. You don't understand, he says 326 00:20:16,110 --> 00:20:20,270 we've gotten to where we are because we did it together. 327 00:20:23,630 --> 00:20:30,030 Someone say man, and there's something about God that says, I 328 00:20:30,030 --> 00:20:32,510 brought Israel out of Egypt together. 329 00:20:33,550 --> 00:20:36,670 They celebrated the first Passover together. 330 00:20:37,190 --> 00:20:40,030 They left Egypt with a high hand together. 331 00:20:40,430 --> 00:20:44,710 All 12 tribes passed over the Red Sea together. 332 00:20:45,070 --> 00:20:47,790 And if I brought them out of Egypt together, I'm going to 333 00:20:47,790 --> 00:20:49,830 bring them into the land together. 334 00:20:50,030 --> 00:20:53,360 They're one nation. No, no, no. 335 00:20:53,360 --> 00:20:56,160 There's one nation. God, has he, he, he somehow just 336 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,200 looked at this and exploited this all throughout the 337 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,840 Scripture. How this nation, though it may 338 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:06,000 be many tribes, it is primarily 1. 339 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,320 And so Moses is a little bit troubled. 340 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,760 You've done all this together. You ate a man from heaven. 341 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:13,600 Together. You ate from you. 342 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,400 You drank water from a Flintstone. 343 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,160 Together you've been dirt, fiery serpents. 344 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,160 Together. You lacked bread. 345 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,080 Together. There were times. 346 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,080 Amen. You didn't know where your next 347 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,040 meal was coming from, and you did that together. 348 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,760 You ward against adversaries together. 349 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,880 And now you're telling me that while you're at the very cusp of 350 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:37,360 having everything God wants, you're going to sit here and 351 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:39,400 you're going to let them fight? No, no, no. 352 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,920 This is not just a 7 1/2 tribe battle. 353 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,200 This is a 12 tribe battle. We're one nation. 354 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:51,440 We're one Israel. We're Someone came in. 355 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,560 Moses was troubled. It's a bit of boldness rose in 356 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:04,280 him. Stay with me here today. 357 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:11,520 Moses is no doubt at a place with the 2 1/2 tribes in numbers 358 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:19,360 32 that you want the nation to fight for you, but you don't 359 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:20,840 want to help fight for the nation. 360 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:31,320 You you want to experience a major of rest that's been 361 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:37,000 brought to you by Israel without laboring for any other portion 362 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:42,600 for the rest of the people. Moses saw this. 363 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:48,720 What he saw was this proposal almost threatening Israel's. 364 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:54,460 Unity. They had endured Egyptian 365 00:22:54,460 --> 00:22:58,460 bondage as a collective of 12 tribes. 366 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:01,380 They'd done many things together. 367 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:06,140 They'd received the law of God from the Mount of God together. 368 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:09,940 And Moses is dead, and Joshua was serving in his stead. 369 00:23:09,940 --> 00:23:14,220 And what Moses now has brought the nation to, Joshua's going to 370 00:23:14,220 --> 00:23:17,620 bring them through. But here being at the Jordan 371 00:23:17,620 --> 00:23:22,830 River in Moses's mind and in Joshua's mind, it's been anti 372 00:23:22,830 --> 00:23:25,750 climatic before. Because this isn't the first 373 00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:29,270 time we've been at this river. This isn't the first time that 374 00:23:29,390 --> 00:23:33,030 we looked with longing eyes for everything that God said he had 375 00:23:33,030 --> 00:23:36,870 for us 40 years earlier. There were voices that were 376 00:23:36,870 --> 00:23:40,910 doubtful about crossing over, which held a whole generation 377 00:23:40,910 --> 00:23:45,180 hostage from claiming and enjoying the land of God. 378 00:23:45,460 --> 00:23:48,420 And God had rightly said that it was theirs. 379 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:52,380 And there were only two tribal members that were optimistic. 380 00:23:52,660 --> 00:23:57,580 But God was so saddled upon his nation being a nation, that he 381 00:23:57,580 --> 00:24:03,070 said I'm not going to allow two to have it without the 10, not 382 00:24:03,070 --> 00:24:04,950 going to allow two to have it without the 10. 383 00:24:05,350 --> 00:24:08,790 If they're going to have this, all of Israel is going to have 384 00:24:08,790 --> 00:24:13,310 this, all 12 tribes. Because the promised land was 385 00:24:13,310 --> 00:24:17,510 not a tribe of Judah promise. And the promised land wasn't 386 00:24:17,510 --> 00:24:20,070 just a tribe of Ethereum promise. 387 00:24:20,390 --> 00:24:24,030 The promised land was a children of Israel promise. 388 00:24:24,350 --> 00:24:28,270 And there are some places that God wanted to take his nation 389 00:24:28,470 --> 00:24:32,070 that belong to the whole nation. And I'll declare on this Sunday 390 00:24:32,070 --> 00:24:35,870 morning, there's some places God wants to take the church that he 391 00:24:35,870 --> 00:24:39,350 wants the whole church to have. He's not interested in taking a 392 00:24:39,350 --> 00:24:41,710 portion. He's not interested in taking a 393 00:24:41,710 --> 00:24:43,990 faction. He's going to wait if he needs 394 00:24:43,990 --> 00:24:52,230 to until all we'll go over. Even now, in Joshua one and two, 395 00:24:52,830 --> 00:24:56,910 he says all this people, everybody say all all this 396 00:24:56,910 --> 00:25:02,570 people, he tells Joshua the children of Israel are to go 397 00:25:02,570 --> 00:25:10,570 over this Jordan. Yes, they have been 12 tribes of 398 00:25:10,570 --> 00:25:14,210 people, but together they were a nation. 399 00:25:16,130 --> 00:25:18,010 As a matter of fact, through scripture, each tribe was 400 00:25:18,010 --> 00:25:21,250 counted separately for the different censuses that they 401 00:25:21,250 --> 00:25:24,930 had. Each had its own stone. 402 00:25:25,450 --> 00:25:29,650 On the breastplate of the high priest and upon the shoulders of 403 00:25:29,650 --> 00:25:33,300 the garments that he wore. There were twelve of them. 404 00:25:34,060 --> 00:25:38,500 As a matter of fact, they each had a designated position in 405 00:25:38,500 --> 00:25:41,980 their marching order where they were to be, and where they 406 00:25:41,980 --> 00:25:45,660 pitched their tent around about the Tabernacle when they first 407 00:25:45,660 --> 00:25:49,020 approached the Jordan River. Each one of them had a solitary 408 00:25:49,020 --> 00:25:52,940 representative Amen, that represented each of the tribes. 409 00:25:53,140 --> 00:25:56,540 But I will say this. Israel seizes to be Israel. 410 00:25:56,660 --> 00:26:02,120 Without them all. Israel ceases to be Israel 411 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,800 without them all. It was a nation composed of 12 412 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,440 parts. Anytime they built an alter the 413 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,800 Old Testament scripture, it consisted of 12 Stones each 414 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,240 representing each tribe. And whenever a memorial is 415 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,720 finally built here in Joshua, whenever they pass over the 416 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:24,360 Jordan River, it is a memorial. That's bill that stands for the 417 00:26:24,360 --> 00:26:28,080 nation of Israel. Not memorials, but it's made-up 418 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,600 of 12 Stones. But the rider of the scripture 419 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:37,120 and God himself said those 12 Stones are a singular memorial. 420 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,920 It stands for Israel because I know that they are made-up of a 421 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,600 lot of working pieces and parts, but they are my people. 422 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,640 They aren't my nation. They aren't my son. 423 00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:53,560 I count them as one. Here's the body, here's the 424 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:54,600 body. When you look at the Old 425 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:59,500 Testament writh and and Jacob did the blessings up on the Suns 426 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:04,580 that would manifest and develop into tribes of people. 427 00:27:05,460 --> 00:27:11,060 Judah had the majesty of the lion is a car. 428 00:27:11,060 --> 00:27:16,180 The donkey's perseverance Dan the snakes ingenuity was placed 429 00:27:16,180 --> 00:27:18,940 upon him. NAFTA NAFTA, lie had the 430 00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:22,260 swiftness of a gazelle and so on and so forth throughout the 431 00:27:22,260 --> 00:27:24,380 mall. But they were one nation. 432 00:27:25,210 --> 00:27:30,050 Judah produced kings and legislators is a car Scholars. 433 00:27:30,330 --> 00:27:33,450 Zebulon had seafaring people and merchants. 434 00:27:33,690 --> 00:27:37,770 Warriors came from the tribe of Dad, School teachers came from 435 00:27:37,770 --> 00:27:40,450 Simeon, all of growers from Asher. 436 00:27:40,610 --> 00:27:44,330 Shepherds came from the tribe of Manassa, so on and so forth. 437 00:27:44,530 --> 00:27:48,660 But they were one Nation. Someone say man. 438 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:52,700 They all had different talents and different abilities and 439 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:55,780 different things for them to offer a man, and different 440 00:27:55,780 --> 00:27:59,700 places of locations where they would live, but certain things 441 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:02,340 that they would raise up among the tribal people. 442 00:28:02,540 --> 00:28:06,020 But what made the nation wasn't just a bunch of school teachers, 443 00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:10,540 but it was school teachers yoked with merchants, yoked with kings 444 00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:13,380 and legislators, and yoked with olive growers. 445 00:28:13,740 --> 00:28:17,060 It was people that had the perseverance of a donkey in the 446 00:28:17,060 --> 00:28:20,660 swift this other gazelle, and the majesty of a lion and the 447 00:28:20,660 --> 00:28:29,340 ingenuity of a snake that make someone say man. 448 00:28:30,380 --> 00:28:34,370 There were one nation, some of you may aspire, and you might be 449 00:28:34,370 --> 00:28:37,090 good. Praise and worship someone else 450 00:28:37,090 --> 00:28:40,330 at prayer, someone else at kindness, someone else at 451 00:28:40,330 --> 00:28:44,690 generosity, somebody else, if you will abodeness somebody else 452 00:28:44,690 --> 00:28:47,290 at confidence. But it won't be built upon any 453 00:28:47,290 --> 00:28:49,410 one of you. It will be built upon the 454 00:28:49,410 --> 00:28:52,450 collective of all of you. That's what makes the church, 455 00:28:52,890 --> 00:29:09,680 the Church. 12 sons of Israel develop into 12 tribes different 456 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,520 of these boys. They all come from four 457 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:17,800 different mothers, but at the grassroots of it all, they all 458 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:23,640 share 23 chromosomes from the same Father Jacob. 459 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:30,280 And even God recognizes the solidarity of this nation. 460 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:37,080 When He has Moses plead for captive Israel and Egypt, notice 461 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:41,840 what he labels Israel notice. And when I say Israel, I'm 462 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:48,400 talking about all 12 tribes. Exodus 4 and verse 22 and verse 463 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,800 23. They're in bondage. 464 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,440 God wants Moses to address Pharaoh. 465 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,760 And he says, And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, thus say of the 466 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:09,850 Lord. Israel is my son, even my first 467 00:30:10,570 --> 00:30:16,930 born. They're comprised of 12. 468 00:30:18,290 --> 00:30:23,690 But the Lord has Moses address Pharaoh as them being one. 469 00:30:25,370 --> 00:30:33,250 He did not say Israel or my sons, and they are no, no, no, 470 00:30:33,410 --> 00:30:38,800 He said my son, my first born, and I saying that he let my son 471 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:45,120 go, that he may serve me again. God did not address them as a 472 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,560 plurality. Amen saying these plurality of 473 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,160 sons need to be free. No, he said. 474 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,880 It's my son. They are many. 475 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:58,120 They make up various tribes. But when I look up on him, I see 476 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,840 one. When I look up on him, I see 477 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,100 one. And if they're going to be freed 478 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:07,660 as one nation, then I want them to inherit as one nation. 479 00:31:07,860 --> 00:31:11,020 If I bring them out of Egypt, I need to bring them as a nation 480 00:31:11,220 --> 00:31:14,900 into Canaan. Folks, I don't. 481 00:31:14,940 --> 00:31:18,060 I don't know if you realize this, but the church is like a 482 00:31:18,060 --> 00:31:21,740 finely woven garment that whenever you pull a string over 483 00:31:21,740 --> 00:31:30,910 here, it's going to snag all. Over this just a few weeks ago 484 00:31:30,910 --> 00:31:34,790 our our daughter was was staying there with Grace and Alex and 485 00:31:35,030 --> 00:31:37,750 they got those those many horses in their house. 486 00:31:39,630 --> 00:31:42,430 Those dogs are theirs and and they like to play and they like 487 00:31:42,430 --> 00:31:44,230 to play around and they were doing whatever. 488 00:31:44,230 --> 00:31:47,070 I'm a Ryan it just caught just a little thread in a in a skirt of 489 00:31:47,070 --> 00:31:50,750 hers and now you can just see this trace mark of snag all the 490 00:31:50,750 --> 00:31:59,860 way across because that garment is 1 but it consists of threads 491 00:31:59,860 --> 00:32:04,980 that's interwoven and you couldn't touch the thread 492 00:32:04,980 --> 00:32:12,500 without impacting the garment. New Testament scripture says we 493 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:16,860 weep with those that weep and we rejoice with those that rejoice. 494 00:32:17,460 --> 00:32:20,900 And I don't know necessarily, Sister Milin, if it's so much a 495 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:25,340 choice as it is a byproduct of being part of the church. 496 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,520 Mike Penrod came up here today and for prayer know what's 497 00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,120 everything going on with all the different nerves and his O in 498 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,040 there and and and his median, his radial nerve, all these 499 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,680 things. And he comes up here and we're 500 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,280 starting to pray and tears start going down my face. 501 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,400 I didn't approach their thinking I'm going to cry this morning 502 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,640 over Mike Penrod. But something happened. 503 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:46,680 There was a piece, There was a piece. 504 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,480 There was a tribe. There was a portion. 505 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,440 Hey man, there was a snag there and it pushed it just, it just 506 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,760 brought, it just brought a little bit of something out of 507 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:56,840 me. Amen. 508 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,720 Because we're a part of this network called the Body. 509 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:02,920 And I thought, my God, he's going through and in the same 510 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,840 mode I'm going through because I have a connectivity, I have an 511 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,200 association, I have a fellowship. 512 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:22,240 Yes, with him God can do anything. 513 00:33:28,150 --> 00:33:30,590 Listen. And this is kind of side note. 514 00:33:32,510 --> 00:33:36,990 The Bible says many times Jesus was in areas where there are 515 00:33:37,030 --> 00:33:39,430 those that were sick and afflicted and had disease and 516 00:33:39,910 --> 00:33:41,630 some things that were totally incurable. 517 00:33:42,910 --> 00:33:45,750 That's what the Bible says in many of the places. 518 00:33:46,510 --> 00:33:50,910 And he had compassion upon them and healed them. 519 00:33:55,330 --> 00:34:01,130 Healing takes place. Healing takes place in the arena 520 00:34:01,130 --> 00:34:09,250 of where compassion is, And compassion happens whenever your 521 00:34:09,250 --> 00:34:15,050 need becomes my need. Compassion happens whenever 522 00:34:15,050 --> 00:34:17,409 you're affected. And because you being affected, 523 00:34:17,409 --> 00:34:20,610 that affects me. Compassion happens when you're 524 00:34:20,610 --> 00:34:22,969 tethered to this thing called the body of Christ. 525 00:34:24,830 --> 00:34:30,870 When that happens, we are all set up for witnessing healing. 526 00:34:34,350 --> 00:34:36,550 They say the best healer of the body is the body. 527 00:34:40,670 --> 00:34:43,870 The best healer of the body is the body. 528 00:34:44,510 --> 00:34:46,190 There have been scientific studies. 529 00:34:46,590 --> 00:34:49,909 Yes, prayer is very important. They've done them actual science 530 00:34:49,909 --> 00:34:52,389 studies that whenever that's the reason why, you know there's a 531 00:34:52,389 --> 00:34:54,949 lot of hospitals now that they they are not going to go without 532 00:34:54,949 --> 00:34:57,990 a chaplain, somebody to come in pray with whoever's in need and 533 00:34:57,990 --> 00:35:00,230 with the family. They have done studies that 534 00:35:00,230 --> 00:35:02,750 prayer helps. But they also, they also have 535 00:35:02,750 --> 00:35:08,750 done studies that whenever the nurses are kind, when those that 536 00:35:08,750 --> 00:35:13,190 are tending to those that are in need are kind and compassionate 537 00:35:13,630 --> 00:35:17,630 toward those that are going through a very traumatic thing 538 00:35:17,830 --> 00:35:23,030 health wise, that the kinder nurses have greater success of 539 00:35:23,030 --> 00:35:25,550 seeing their patients come back to health. 540 00:35:25,790 --> 00:35:27,550 Because there's a spirit of compassion. 541 00:35:32,110 --> 00:35:34,910 Honey, if you want to be a island alone by yourself, go on, 542 00:35:35,630 --> 00:35:39,510 meet your trouble head on. Deal with your hell, your head 543 00:35:39,510 --> 00:35:42,900 on. Rejoice all by yourself, but 544 00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:46,220 connect me if you will, to another person and another 545 00:35:46,220 --> 00:35:49,420 person and another person that whenever we throw the party, 546 00:35:49,420 --> 00:35:52,700 says Erica, we're all going to be able to celebrate that 547 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:56,100 whenever I'm down. And how the Bible says two are 548 00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:59,900 better than one because if they both fall, then there's one 549 00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:01,820 that's going to be able to pick the other one up. 550 00:36:02,020 --> 00:36:06,260 The Bible says that one may be able to be prevailed against hey 551 00:36:06,260 --> 00:36:08,460 man, but two may be able to withstand them. 552 00:36:08,620 --> 00:36:11,780 And a three folk forward is it's not quickly broken. 553 00:36:11,940 --> 00:36:14,460 What's that talking about? That's talking about a nation, 554 00:36:14,460 --> 00:36:16,660 Israel. That's talking about a grouping 555 00:36:16,660 --> 00:36:18,820 of body members that make up the charts. 556 00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:30,100 Strogger together. I need a hurry. 557 00:36:32,540 --> 00:36:33,780 You see this over and over again. 558 00:36:35,140 --> 00:36:37,820 Listen, even other people's failure. 559 00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:42,820 I don't want to miss this. Even other people's failure 560 00:36:43,940 --> 00:36:49,260 should have impact upon all if they've been tethered to this 561 00:36:49,260 --> 00:36:54,060 thing called the body. Whenever Aiken took the 562 00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:59,100 Babylonious garment, the shackles, the golden wedge 563 00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:02,700 Israel was going into, like here in Joshua, right here in the 564 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:06,380 book of Joshua going into the land of Canaan, he took those 565 00:37:06,380 --> 00:37:08,260 things that the Bible says were a cursed. 566 00:37:09,020 --> 00:37:10,940 He took those things that were accursed. 567 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:17,140 And the Bible says that God laid the burden of the sin of Aiken. 568 00:37:17,420 --> 00:37:24,580 Upon look at it now upon all of Israel and Joshua, 7 Aiken, 569 00:37:25,780 --> 00:37:30,340 Aiken of the tribe of Judah failed. 570 00:37:31,380 --> 00:37:38,100 But the sin, the impact was up on the whole nation of Israel. 571 00:37:38,660 --> 00:37:42,100 We do read in scripture whenever Miriam spoke things against 572 00:37:42,100 --> 00:37:44,340 Moses and she was struck with leprosy. 573 00:37:44,740 --> 00:37:48,580 Miriam was of the tribe of Levi. It wasn't just that tribe that 574 00:37:48,580 --> 00:37:52,140 was set aside, hey man, and had to stay in one place for seven 575 00:37:52,140 --> 00:37:53,700 days and the rest of the nation went on. 576 00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:57,460 No, that's not what the Bible says that she was set aside for 577 00:37:57,460 --> 00:38:01,500 seven days and the whole nation stopped and for seven days they 578 00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:04,140 didn't go anywhere. They did not move forward until 579 00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:09,740 Miriam was brought in again. So in your successes, we're 580 00:38:09,740 --> 00:38:12,780 going to do it in your celebrations. 581 00:38:12,780 --> 00:38:15,420 We're doing it together, Yeah, yeah, yeah. 582 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:18,380 In your woes and your trials, we're doing it together. 583 00:38:18,820 --> 00:38:22,340 And when you fail, it does not go without affecting us. 584 00:38:22,340 --> 00:38:29,940 Or should not, the apostle Paul recalled to the church at 585 00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:33,060 Corinth. He says listen here, he says the 586 00:38:33,060 --> 00:38:35,980 Church of Corinth. He says, Let you remember all, 587 00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:38,940 hereby say all. All our fathers were under the 588 00:38:38,940 --> 00:38:41,780 cloud. They all passed through the sea. 589 00:38:42,020 --> 00:38:45,580 They did all eat the same spiritual meat and did all drink 590 00:38:45,580 --> 00:38:48,780 the same spiritual drink. In other words, he says listen. 591 00:38:48,940 --> 00:38:51,500 I know they had different temperaments and different 592 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:55,300 abilities and different faults that they brought to the table, 593 00:38:55,500 --> 00:39:03,730 but they were one. So Josh was bringing all these 594 00:39:03,770 --> 00:39:10,050 things to the memory of these 2 1/2 tribes in the agreement that 595 00:39:10,050 --> 00:39:13,610 they made with Moses. Because the final agreement was 596 00:39:13,610 --> 00:39:19,090 this. You 2 1/2 tribes, you're going 597 00:39:19,090 --> 00:39:24,970 to have a major of rest, but you will not have complete rest 598 00:39:26,370 --> 00:39:30,450 until you go with your brothers and you fight in their battles. 599 00:39:31,390 --> 00:39:34,870 You you're going to have a land of possession over here and 600 00:39:34,870 --> 00:39:41,870 notice the scripture, but you won't enjoy it like you can 601 00:39:41,870 --> 00:39:51,230 enjoy it until everybody's able to enjoy their allocated spot in 602 00:39:51,230 --> 00:39:54,190 the land. And he says, So what I want you 603 00:39:54,190 --> 00:39:59,810 to do is I want you to go over and fight alongside your 604 00:39:59,810 --> 00:40:03,450 brethren, and if you'll fight alongside your brethren, that 605 00:40:03,450 --> 00:40:05,810 will be your portion. If you fight alongside your 606 00:40:05,810 --> 00:40:07,970 brethren, that will be your rest if you fight. 607 00:40:08,090 --> 00:40:11,170 I know right now, if I can say it like this, I can see Moses 608 00:40:11,170 --> 00:40:14,690 that's trying to pull the participation of somebody that's 609 00:40:14,690 --> 00:40:17,330 starting to become disengaged, he says. 610 00:40:17,330 --> 00:40:20,930 I know you say this is suitable for you and that it meets all 611 00:40:20,930 --> 00:40:24,580 your needs. It's just, but I'm trying to 612 00:40:24,580 --> 00:40:27,260 remind you you're a part of something that's larger. 613 00:40:27,260 --> 00:40:32,540 Than you. I'm trying to remind you this is 614 00:40:32,540 --> 00:40:37,580 bigger than the 2 1/2 tribes and I know you've had a major of 615 00:40:37,580 --> 00:40:40,180 rest and you've built some sheep boats and you've built some 616 00:40:40,180 --> 00:40:43,940 cities and all of that is fine and well, but you won't be able, 617 00:40:44,180 --> 00:40:49,200 Amen, to draw the fullness of the enjoyment from that without 618 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,640 participating in the enjoyment of the others that you call 619 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:58,480 family man. Time gets awake. 620 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,360 Look at this very quickly. Look what this group of people 621 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,840 as a group of people had done together. 622 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,880 Watch me now. Whenever, whenever the 623 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,000 Tabernacle was created and all the members were created and all 624 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,210 the furnishings were created, the inaugural day of its 625 00:41:17,210 --> 00:41:20,730 dedication, all 12 tribes came together. 626 00:41:20,730 --> 00:41:22,530 You can read of this in like, #7. 627 00:41:22,850 --> 00:41:25,410 Right around there, all the tribes came together on the day 628 00:41:25,410 --> 00:41:27,090 of the dedication of the Tabernacle. 629 00:41:27,330 --> 00:41:30,730 Now let's understand, God said, make me a sanctuary, that I 630 00:41:30,730 --> 00:41:35,890 might do well among you, right? The Tabernacle, the sanctuary. 631 00:41:36,090 --> 00:41:39,890 The church was always God's idea, he says. 632 00:41:39,890 --> 00:41:42,370 You make me a sanctuary that I might do well among you. 633 00:41:43,060 --> 00:41:46,660 And so this Tabernacle, even temple later it would be, if you 634 00:41:46,660 --> 00:41:50,660 will, the thing that ushers and carries with the the presence of 635 00:41:50,660 --> 00:41:55,180 the Lord, that God would come down right there and you'll just 636 00:41:55,180 --> 00:41:56,100 have. Pardon me for a moment. 637 00:41:56,100 --> 00:41:58,420 I don't need a fan. It's going to take me. 638 00:41:58,740 --> 00:42:00,660 Amen. Too soon, voice wise. 639 00:42:01,010 --> 00:42:02,690 Amen. I'll just sweat it out. 640 00:42:02,930 --> 00:42:03,570 Amen. Amen. 641 00:42:03,570 --> 00:42:06,210 But whenever they come together, it would be, it would be that 642 00:42:06,210 --> 00:42:08,410 Tabernacle that would be usher in the presence of the Lord. 643 00:42:08,410 --> 00:42:12,930 For on the day of its dedication, each tribe came with 644 00:42:12,930 --> 00:42:15,810 an offering and was sacrifice and things that they gave. 645 00:42:16,010 --> 00:42:19,690 I remember years ago, Brother Mason preaching on these verses 646 00:42:19,690 --> 00:42:23,010 of Scripture because he's talked about a spoonful of praise. 647 00:42:23,010 --> 00:42:25,450 If I remember it, Amen. Somewhere along those lines, 648 00:42:25,650 --> 00:42:31,210 there were 35 items that each tribe brought and all 35 those 649 00:42:31,250 --> 00:42:33,530 items. If it was an animal, it was the 650 00:42:33,530 --> 00:42:36,650 same species. It had to be the same age. 651 00:42:36,890 --> 00:42:39,850 It wasn't as though one tribe brought one three years old and 652 00:42:39,890 --> 00:42:41,370 the other one brought one one years old. 653 00:42:41,650 --> 00:42:44,010 It's not as though one of them brought a donkey and somebody 654 00:42:44,010 --> 00:42:47,610 else brought a lamb. Across the board, all 35 items 655 00:42:47,610 --> 00:42:50,210 were the same. It were to be so many shekels, 656 00:42:50,210 --> 00:42:52,810 weight of gold. All of it across the board was 657 00:42:52,810 --> 00:42:55,130 the was was the same. And when you get to that spot in 658 00:42:55,130 --> 00:42:58,650 your Bible reading of numbers, you get there and it's like deja 659 00:42:58,650 --> 00:43:04,230 vu because Judah brought item 123, and it lists them all, 660 00:43:05,030 --> 00:43:08,510 their weights, their numbers, their species, their gender, 661 00:43:08,790 --> 00:43:11,110 list them all. And then it says, well, the 662 00:43:11,110 --> 00:43:15,470 tribe of the tribe of Judah brought the exact same thing. 663 00:43:15,550 --> 00:43:19,510 And rather than just saying Ditto, you know, it's been great 664 00:43:19,510 --> 00:43:22,110 to come to NAFTA, like Ditto according to the tribe of Judah. 665 00:43:22,110 --> 00:43:24,500 No. You read your Bibles and you 666 00:43:24,500 --> 00:43:26,180 probably kind of get just a little sway there. 667 00:43:26,180 --> 00:43:28,820 You kind of get lost because you're reading the exact same 668 00:43:28,820 --> 00:43:31,060 sentences. I've looked at it meticulously 669 00:43:31,060 --> 00:43:34,620 before. It's the exact same for like 70 670 00:43:34,620 --> 00:43:36,940 something many, many, many verses. 671 00:43:37,220 --> 00:43:42,680 And it's every tribe bringing the same thing like God. 672 00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:47,520 What is the big deal about this? The dedication of ushering your 673 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,960 presence in what's going to be carrying your presence. 674 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,120 And every tribe has come with the same the same weight of 675 00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:57,320 spoon, the same species, the same animal and God, which is 676 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,600 underwriting something there as you read that after All in all, 677 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,240 Judah comes, but his sacrifice is the same. 678 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:05,720 Simeon comes, but his sacrifice is the same. 679 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,200 Not till I comes, but his sacrifice is the same. 680 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,640 They're 12 tribes, but they're one people. 681 00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,760 But they all have the same sacrifice. 682 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:14,480 I'm here to tell you this morning. 683 00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,480 Hey man, if it took all the tribes to fight for what the 2 684 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,400 1/2 had, it's going to take all the tribes for what the seven 685 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,360 and a half's going to get. It's going to be equal sacrifice 686 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:30,400 across. Yes, God purposely does things. 687 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,320 This Tabernacle that was in the wilderness, it's making its 688 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:34,680 movements throughout the wilderness. 689 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,200 I think the Bible says that they had 48 different times that they 690 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,640 pitched their tent and they pulled up steak 48 different 691 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,760 times, that they had locations that they stayed at. 692 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,960 And that meant the Tabernacle was set up at each one and then 693 00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:52,440 tore down at each 148 times. And we know in Scripture that 694 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,440 the tribe of Levi, they're going to carry the arc of the 695 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:55,880 covenant. They're going to carry the table 696 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,560 of shoe bread. They're going to carry all the 697 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,370 furnishings, but the Bible says concerning the skeleton of the 698 00:45:01,370 --> 00:45:04,290 Tabernacle, the boards and the members, and the curtains and 699 00:45:04,290 --> 00:45:06,090 the badger skins and the goat skins. 700 00:45:06,490 --> 00:45:09,250 They were going to be carried just by men on their shoulders, 701 00:45:10,010 --> 00:45:15,850 but they were provided with oxen and wagons, and the Bible says 702 00:45:16,090 --> 00:45:23,090 there were six wagons with 12 oxen, 2 a pair of yoke. 703 00:45:23,090 --> 00:45:28,510 For each wagon there was one ox from each tribe. 704 00:45:29,710 --> 00:45:35,510 And then two tribes had to pair up to furnish a wagon so that in 705 00:45:35,510 --> 00:45:39,590 order for this presence of God to move through the wilderness 706 00:45:39,870 --> 00:45:43,270 to get to the Jordan and pass into the Promised Land. 707 00:45:43,830 --> 00:45:46,390 It hinged upon the tribes coming together. 708 00:45:48,590 --> 00:45:51,070 Judas Hawks next to Naturalize Hawks. 709 00:45:51,270 --> 00:45:54,270 One wagon that's carrying some of the boards and the beams and 710 00:45:54,270 --> 00:45:55,670 the curtains and the goat's hair. 711 00:45:56,030 --> 00:45:57,310 Amen. It's going to take their 712 00:45:57,310 --> 00:45:58,550 efforts. Amen. 713 00:45:58,550 --> 00:46:02,030 Together that there was no single tribe that could have 714 00:46:02,030 --> 00:46:05,390 brought Amen or ushered that presence by themselves. 715 00:46:05,590 --> 00:46:08,470 It was the collective body. And it's whenever we come into 716 00:46:08,470 --> 00:46:11,870 services and I start sensing the presence of the Lord, you know 717 00:46:11,870 --> 00:46:14,870 what I sense? There's been somebody's tribal 718 00:46:14,910 --> 00:46:18,590 Hawks that's come along, my tribal Hawks, and it's hearing 719 00:46:18,590 --> 00:46:21,390 something that's going to usher the presence of the Lord. 720 00:46:21,510 --> 00:46:25,070 When I feel little presence of God begin to come down, I say 721 00:46:25,070 --> 00:46:28,790 there's the members that are supplying what each joint needs 722 00:46:29,110 --> 00:46:31,390 in order for this thing to mechanically work. 723 00:46:31,830 --> 00:46:34,750 Amen. To usher in the presence of the 724 00:46:34,750 --> 00:46:44,630 Lord, he says. And you understand with me, I 725 00:46:44,630 --> 00:46:59,880 see the red, he says. When everybody's had rest, you 726 00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:03,560 can return to your portion and you'll have rest. 727 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,560 When, when we've totally did all the warfare that needs to be 728 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:15,040 done, you can return to your possession and you'll be able to 729 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:23,980 enjoy it, because we're stronger at this together. 730 00:47:25,140 --> 00:47:29,060 Do you know it's been a ploy from the beginning of the nation 731 00:47:29,060 --> 00:47:34,380 even to now the church, for there to be separation among the 732 00:47:34,380 --> 00:47:37,100 members? It happened before there was 733 00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:39,540 ever a nation. You see all the schisms and the 734 00:47:39,820 --> 00:47:46,540 heartache and between the brothers of J of Joseph trying 735 00:47:46,540 --> 00:47:51,860 to cause division among the brothers, Even so much so that 736 00:47:51,860 --> 00:47:54,260 one time as they were leaving Joseph and he finally made 737 00:47:54,260 --> 00:47:57,940 himself known to them. He says As you go along the way, 738 00:47:57,940 --> 00:48:01,260 he basically was saying, don't you all get caught up in all of 739 00:48:01,260 --> 00:48:05,660 those divisive things. Again, he says, because we're 740 00:48:05,660 --> 00:48:08,340 all going to bring Jacob over and we're all going to come into 741 00:48:08,340 --> 00:48:09,660 this land. We see it. 742 00:48:09,660 --> 00:48:12,300 Then throughout the scriptures, we see a moment of time that 743 00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:14,540 there's two tribes separated from the 10 tribes. 744 00:48:14,540 --> 00:48:17,020 There's there's Judah and there's there is Israel. 745 00:48:17,020 --> 00:48:18,540 There's the division of the tribes. 746 00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:20,660 Amen. And there was nothing really 747 00:48:20,660 --> 00:48:23,980 good Amen happening during these times of division. 748 00:48:24,820 --> 00:48:28,940 But it's when the church comes together, when the members come 749 00:48:28,940 --> 00:48:31,580 together, when the body comes together. 750 00:48:33,180 --> 00:48:35,330 We function. We propel. 751 00:48:35,810 --> 00:48:44,450 We operate at the height of what God would desire for his people 752 00:48:45,050 --> 00:48:50,250 to operate at. We close our eyes. 753 00:48:50,250 --> 00:48:56,050 This morning, you were not meant to celebrate alone. 754 00:48:59,210 --> 00:49:02,330 You were not meant to fight alone. 755 00:49:03,810 --> 00:49:09,210 You were not meant to suffer alone, and you were not meant to 756 00:49:09,210 --> 00:49:17,570 deal with your failure alone. He's given us a nation. 757 00:49:18,730 --> 00:49:25,890 He's given us a church. And when God comes back, that's 758 00:49:25,890 --> 00:49:33,980 what he's coming after. The church, the church. 759 00:49:35,740 --> 00:49:38,260 So let's go on and celebrate together now. 760 00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:45,260 Let's go on endure the hardness together as a good soldier of 761 00:49:45,260 --> 00:49:54,140 Christ now, because whether you realize it or not, you didn't 762 00:49:54,140 --> 00:50:01,820 pack your own parachute. We're a body of interdependent 763 00:50:01,820 --> 00:50:04,800 people. It's something that the world 764 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:08,520 calls community. Some people have hard hardships 765 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:10,600 with community because communities are messy. 766 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,640 Communities are messy. You put anybody of people 767 00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,800 together for any length of time and they don't always get a 768 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,840 loan. They got difference. 769 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:23,720 Differences of opinions guarantee you there's someone 770 00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:26,000 that you work with, that you have probably some pretty sharp 771 00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,680 differences of opinion with, but you still go to work every day. 772 00:50:31,170 --> 00:50:34,210 Some of you been part of certain groups and clubs or me, maybe 773 00:50:34,210 --> 00:50:36,890 even sporting events and team sports, that there's certain 774 00:50:36,890 --> 00:50:39,290 people on that team that it's just hard to belly sometime. 775 00:50:39,290 --> 00:50:41,450 But you know what? You still go out on the field 776 00:50:41,450 --> 00:50:44,690 and you try to work together as a group of people. 777 00:50:45,850 --> 00:50:50,050 And whenever the game is won, everybody celebrates it because 778 00:50:50,050 --> 00:50:53,810 you couldn't play pitcher, catch your third base, shortstop and 779 00:50:53,810 --> 00:50:58,290 outfield by yourself. We're stronger. 780 00:51:00,030 --> 00:51:04,030 We're stronger together. These altars are open this 781 00:51:04,030 --> 00:51:08,710 morning if anybody would like to come to a place to pray and just 782 00:51:08,710 --> 00:51:16,150 maybe boaster in their own life. God, individual parts by 783 00:51:16,150 --> 00:51:25,030 themselves are not as strong. It's not as beneficial as all of 784 00:51:25,030 --> 00:51:27,510 us together. This is the last time you're 785 00:51:27,510 --> 00:51:30,300 going to hear my voice for three weeks. 786 00:51:32,780 --> 00:51:35,660 We're stronger together today. Do you have a woe? 787 00:51:36,900 --> 00:51:40,100 Let us bear it together. You dealing with the 788 00:51:40,100 --> 00:51:45,420 intimidation of a failure. Let's bear it together. 789 00:51:45,860 --> 00:51:48,180 Or maybe you're on the mountain of rejoicing. 790 00:51:48,180 --> 00:51:52,020 Let's grass pans. And let's raise our voices and 791 00:51:52,020 --> 00:51:54,420 clap. And let's exalt the name of the 792 00:51:54,420 --> 00:51:59,000 Lord together, because I know your allocation of land came 793 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:02,960 because everybody thought. And that allocation of land came 794 00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,520 because everybody thought. And we all passed over Jordan 795 00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:10,360 and we all came out of Egypt. And we all have made the drink, 796 00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,160 that spiritual drink. The body was stronger together. 797 00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:27,760 Hallelujah, Jesus. Thank you for listening. 798 00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,440 If you would like more information about our services 799 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:33,720 and activities, you can find us on Facebook, Instagram and 800 00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:39,160 Twitter with the username FACMC. Again, that's FACMC. 801 00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:41,560 Thank you and have a blessed day.