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Hallelujah. 
Thank the Lord. 

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Good God. 
Thank you, Aiden. 

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I appreciate it. 
Amen. 

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Come on, my soul. 
Apostle Paul, at different times

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he spoke to himself too. 
He said, I think myself happy 

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sometimes. 
You got to talk to yourself, 

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David. 
He did too, through the Psalms. 

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I had to talk to himself. 
Sometimes you don't have it from

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anybody else, so you got to talk
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Come on, let's get going. 
Don't do that. 

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Be encouraged, right? 
Live for God. 

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Sometimes it's like you got to 
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neck. 
Amen. 

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They call that self-discipline. 
It's becoming more of a lost art

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in the world today. 
Amen. 

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It's called self-discipline. 
You can be seated tonight. 

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Hey, man, few announcements that
this coming Sunday will be 

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Bishop Sunday. 
All right, My wife and I, we're 

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going to be gone. 
We'll be gone. 

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We're going to be celebrating 27
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And so Bishop, it's going to be 
Bishop Sunday. 

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Next Wednesday, Brother Zach's 
going to be teaching here. 

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The following Sunday is going to
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right and such. 
So there's some opportunities. 

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You don't want to miss a man to 
hear another voice. 

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Time changes this weekend. 
All right, So keep that in mind 

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as well as as we go into the 
weekend and you might actually 

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you, you could show up early to 
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Hey, man, how about that? 
Just forget I even said times 

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changing this weekend. 
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No, nonetheless. 
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is Power Hour, I hear at the 
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The 7th of November is power, 
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right? 
It's not corporate or LED prayer

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or anything like that. 
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And so that's on the 7th Amen of
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month of November. 
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said this, I'm going to start a 
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criteria for finding a mate. 
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worth series, I just kind of 
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needed to go back to this and do
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Now I would have done it right 
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need to do election series with 
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So now here we are finally with 
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this. 
I created this series about 12 

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years ago. 12 years ago I did 
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Here's the fact of the matter. 
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probably relates to singles, 
whether it's not someone that's 

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ever been married or someone 
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looking at remarriage or or 
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It could be a widow or widower 
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So there could be those things 
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But overall, I think if we are 
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spouse or so and so forth, we 
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but there are certain aspects of
this then that you can support 

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and get underneath it with me 
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you're single or not. 
Whenever I did this about 12 

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years ago, back then about 90% 
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and only 10% were remaining 
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getting married and 25% are 
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Never marry. 
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of why that is. 
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thing now and people don't get 
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married life without having the 
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marriage. 
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benefits sometimes by 
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some of these things. 
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still a majority them of people 
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important to know the criteria 
finding me. 

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I'm coming to you tonight from 
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not like Pastor Mcgee's, you 
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wants to share his full of 
knowledge of having been married

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for 27 years. 
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That's not what it is. 
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in, you know, advertising this, 
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not some, you know, pop 
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that. 
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This is biblical idea. 
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got a lot of scripture tonight. 
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verse #4 the scripture says a 
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husband, but she that maketh 
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In his bones, all right. 
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is, is a father that's primarily
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that's right to her son. 
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he's. 
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a male chauvinist or anything 
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scripture tonight or using this.
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put a man in there that he can 
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Bring glory to his crown of 
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her bones just as easily. 
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perspective that this is being 
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here is a principle that I say 
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not what the relationship is, 
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relationship, whether it's a 
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relationships we have in life. 
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Applies to both sexes, but for 
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someday your spouse all right 
your spouse is going to be of 

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one of two things to you a 
liability liability or asset all

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right a liability or asset look 
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on his head, but. 
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the liability aspect rottenness 
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I mean deterioration, decay, you
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associate with that? 
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middle ground, people, even your
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Categories an asset or 
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relationships or possible mates 
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dating, as you're doing these 
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the net is the net balance line 
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a liability to me. 
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at Genesis chapter 24, and I've 
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several weeks, Genesis 24, when 
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verses in length, it is the 
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Genesis. 
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having sent his eldest servant 
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or a wife or his son Isaac. 
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Genesis is devoted to this. 
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there's some importance 
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important about who you bring 
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who's going to be that till 
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partner. 
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Abraham in in Genesis 24, 
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old at this time, around 140 
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tells us that Isaac was 40 years
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To be his wife. 
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that Isaac was 40 years old when
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he's going to bring the eldest 
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to, to hear Isaac and they're 
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So we're about 140 years old. 
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The Bible describes him that he 
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Abraham a lot at different ages 
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He's old. 
You know you ever had. 

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I know as a kid, like, I 
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growing up that I grew up that 
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when I was a kid. 
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they're still old. 
You know, it's just like they 

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were just always old. 
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stricken in years. 
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Scripture, he dies when he's 175
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So in the next 35 years from 
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die. 
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already been dead for about 3 
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And no doubt, you know, he is 
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of death, maybe even coming to 
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It's already come to his wife. 
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his spouse to death, that their 
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about their own appointment, you
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of his life. 
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number one of Genesis, Genesis 
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that the Lord had blessed 
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So he's blessed Abraham and all 
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He's an old stricken man. 
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considering even perhaps his own
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proper mate. 
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having a mate, and he's going to
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servant of his house. 
All right? 

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Here's a man that's going to die
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His wife's already died. 
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his children and who they're 
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All right listen the guys here 
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your parents should be concerned
about who that makes going to be

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someday for your lives should be
Amen and so Abraham entrust this

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process to his elder servant. 
More than likely Eleazar that we

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can find in Scripture are I want
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And for my son Genesis 24 and 
verse #3 the Bible says, And I 

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will make thee swear by the 
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And the God of the earth, that 
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my son of the daughters of the 
Canaanites, among whom I dwell, 

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that thou shalt go unto my 
country and to my kindred, and 

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take a wife unto my son, Isaac. 
There are several criteria that 

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we'll get to over the next three
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This is number 1, and I just 
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chapter, all right? 
I don't know if they're set in 

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line Bishop according to 
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It doesn't tell me that, but I 
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Verse 3 again says thou shall 
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son of the daughters of the 
canaanites #1 criteria is do not

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date or marry a unbeliever. 
All right? 

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Do not date or marry a 
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Don't get, don't get my son a 
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people among whom I dwell. 
All right. 

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Now, the Canaanites. 
Canaanites were Pagan 

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worshippers, right? 
They worship Pagan gods, a 

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multiplicity of gods, they were.
They worship idols, gods of 

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wood, gods of stone, and yes, 
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Because God said their land I'm 
going to give to you, their land

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I'm going to give to you, and 
we'll get to it here a little 

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bit later. 
Although that would be the case,

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he still wanted them to be a 
people among the people separate

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and distinct from where they 
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We know that in Scripture. 
Amen. 

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And so he didn't want them, him 
to take a wife from the 

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Canaanites. 
Why? 

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Why do you want this God? 
And this is the reason why God 

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did this it several times in 
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We look at Scripture and there's
times he doesn't want them to 

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marry different nations of 
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And please understand it wasn't 
because of the nationality, it 

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wasn't because of the race, it 
wasn't because because of the 

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ethnicity. 
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someone of a other nation, then 
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there was going to be influence 
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served going to come and 
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marriage. 
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it later. 
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it wasn't untypical in those 
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married groups come together, if
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the marriage was each one 
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Amen, we say. 
Well, there shouldn't be nothing

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wrong with that, brother. 
You can't imagine a Pagan 

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adopting God is God. 
Yeah, but then you're going to 

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adopt all their multiplicity of 
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Last time I checked, God is a 
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He doesn't share platform with 
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Does it do that? 
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then the Abraham is cautious 
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Well, if she's if this is her 
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context, then she won't be true 
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She won't be true to the one 
true God, right, Amen. 

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And throughout my lifetime, 
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thing called missionary dating 
alert and convert. 

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That's what they called it. 
And let me, I'll stand here 

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today and tell you that some of 
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successful. 
Some of those things have been 

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successful. 
If they are, that's God's mercy,

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not God's endorsement. 
God's not changing his mind. 

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OK. 
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hope you understand, Pastor, I'm
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is saying. 
If you fell or fall, I'm going 

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to love you and all that good 
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All right. 
But that doesn't keep me from 

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declaring what the word of the 
Lord has to say concerning the 

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matter. 
OK, So he said, get him a wife 

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from my country and my kindred. 
In other words, get him a mate 

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from, from people who will be 
serving our same God and, and to

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kind of under, under support 
here this concept idea. 

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You say, well, let's think about
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He's from or of Chaldees and 
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Yes. 
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people, his country, his family,
and they set off on the journey.

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Let's look at it just for a 
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According to Acts chapter #7 
it's in Acts chapter #7 that 

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Stephen, who was the first 
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beginning to recall the history 
of Abraham and Isaac and those 

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to those he was speaking to. 
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in Acts chapter #7 that God had 
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before his name was ever changed
to Abraham. 

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God already spoke to Abram once 
in ur of childies to leave. 

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So we see again this family that
that that who were idol 

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worshippers, Abraham's father 
Tara was Amen. 

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We understand that. 
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separating from that. 
He has Abraham making some 

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distance from that. 
And there's some of the family 

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as well that goes. 
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There's a lot, right? 
There's some of these that go 

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with him and they separate from 
this heathen idultery that is in

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err of Chaldees. 
And they go around 730 miles to 

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the place called Haran. 
All right, 730 miles to a place 

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called Haran, which Haran is 
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Nahor, which is where the eldest
servant is going back to, to 

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find a wife for Isaac, the 
people, the land. 

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And so Lot, Abraham's nephew had
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They had some kids before 
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And Abraham learned from Lot's 
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Can I tell you it's OK to learn 
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Matter of fact, I encourage it. 
I encourage it. 

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Abraham learned from Lot's 
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destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah in 
the book of Genesis in Genesis 

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19 in particular, and the Angel 
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they were going to go around and
and make sure that Lot and his 

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daughters and his wife and the 
son in law's of his daughters 

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for them to get out of Sodom 
tomorrow. 

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Because it's going to be 
destroyed. 

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It's wicked, it's perverse, it's
prideful, it's going to be 

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destroyed. 
That Lot's son in law's would 

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not leave the city, although 
they were given opportunity to 

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leave the city. 
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Scripture, there's nothing that 
comes right out and says it just

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verbatim black and white. 
But what we can deduce from 

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scripture is that these two sons
in laws of a lot more likely 

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were of the cities of Sodom, 
Gomorrah, meaning that his 

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daughters had married outside of
their people. 

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All right, look, if you will, 
and I'll go there. 

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Genesis 19 and I think I have it
up there, but Genesis 19 and 

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verse #14 of this particular 
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And Lot went out and spake unto 
his sons in law, which made his 

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daughters, and said up, get you 
out of this place, for the Lord 

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will destroy the city, but he 
seemeth as one that mocked. 

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Unto his sons in law. 
Couldn't take him serious. 

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Really. 
Leave this place, especially if 

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that's what they had known. 
Leave this place. 

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What's the big deal? 
Is everybody OK? 

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What's the big deal? 
The problem was they didn't know

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the true God. 
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steeped in the Pagan religion 
and the context and atmosphere 

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of Sodom and Gomorrah. 
And so as Lot says go, they say,

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what's the big deal? 
For that matter, let me step 

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back a little further, like on 
the parental side and say, Lot, 

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what did you say whenever they 
even got married? 

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Did you have any conversations 
before they got married? 

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Are you puzzled about them not 
leaving now? 

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But wasn't puzzled about what 
could happen before all of this 

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ever came into wedlock? 
Amen. 

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And so when Abraham had his 
eldest servant go back to Haran,

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All right. 
Or in the core, his remaining 

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family, there had been a family 
that had been removed from earth

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child. 
These had been removed from that

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Pagan worship that Abraham had 
grown up. 

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Amen. 
To know had been separated from 

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all of that for at least 65 
years until this moment here of 

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them, of them coming to the 
horde, trying to find a bride. 

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They'd already been separated 
from all that for 65 years 

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because Abraham or Abram was 75 
years old when he left, all 

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right? 
And so now he's 140 years old, 

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all right. 
So 65 years have have elapsed 

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since that time. 
So he says, go back to these 

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people. 
If I'd say like this, go back to

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these people that's been 
separated. 

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From all that for several years.
And find my boy a wife there. 

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Find the wife where? 
Where they've been separated 

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from the idolatry and separated 
from those things that our 

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family we have in our past, but 
we've. 

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Moved on from that. 
Genesis 24 and verse 10 The 

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Bible says these words, and the 
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camels of his master, and 
departed for all the goods of 

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his master. 
Were in his hand. 

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And he arose and went to 
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Nahor, which is known as Haran 
back then. 

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Note Now Eleazar had a. 
Trip on his hands here. 

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I mean to leave where he was 
from Canaan and go back to 

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Nahor. 
The city of Mesopotamia, or 

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Haran if you will, is a literal 
400 plus mile trip. 

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He has camels, but he has not a 
lot of horses under a hood like 

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we do. 
Today. 

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All right. 
He has camel. 

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This is going to take a little 
bit of time. 

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It's going to take a little time
for him. 

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Going to take a little time, a 
little bit of effort, a little 

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sacrifice for the eldest servant
to go find a spiritually 

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inclined mate. 
Fries it rather then just 

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settle. 
For a compromise that's readily 

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available, all right, We have 
access to all types of things 

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around us. 
To marry a Canaanite would have 

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been an easy route because they 
were all around Abraham's 

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family. 
That's the context in which they

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lived. 
That's where they do well, many 

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of them. 
Amen. 

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Sometimes it requires a little 
more effort. 

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Sometimes it requires sacrifice.
Sometimes it requires not giving

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in to settling. 
Sometimes it requires no 

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compromise. 
Again, I say this 12 years ago 

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and I still say it because I'm 
older now and I've seen it. 

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Many young people are lost out 
of the church because of who 

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they decide today or marry. 
That was 12 years ago, right? 

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We had we, you could brought a 
microscope, didn't even need a 

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microscope. 
You could have brought it right 

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down in here. 
Most of the young people that 

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time that we lost, we're due to 
relationships. 

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I'm not just talking about lost 
from this church and went to 

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another church. 
I'm talking about lost was due 

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to relationships. 
Amen. 

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And so, yes, I probably should 
have done it before 12 years 

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from now need to talk about this
again and preach about this 

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again and address the subject 
matter again, right? 

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Absolutely. 
And so Genesis 26, look at this 

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now and verse 34, because this 
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Genesis 24 thing that we see. 
We see this in various places in

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Scripture, this, this going 
outside of the people of God, so

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to speak, and finding a mate or 
a companion or a fiance or 

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whatever you want to call it, a 
mate for life. 

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Going outside of that, Genesis 
26 and verse 34 and Esau was 40 

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years old when he took to wife 
Judith the daughter of Bury the 

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Hittite, and Bashimat the 
daughter of Elon the Hittite, 

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which were a grief of mind unto 
Isaac and to Rebecca. 

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Now Rebecca's is Esau's mom and 
dad. 

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He took Hittite girls to, to, to
wed. 

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Hittites were right there 
alongside the Canaanites, all 

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right in the land of Canaan. 
They dwelled among there as 

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well, but they also, like the 
Canaanites, opposed Israel and 

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opposed Israel's God. 
Let's let's just get real 

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sincere for a moment. 
Anyone that opposes your God has

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no business being a possible 
candidate for a mate, all right?

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It just shouldn't even be a 
possibility in your mind, he 

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says here, look at this in verse
35. 

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Again, these unions were a grief
of mine to Isaac and Rebecca. 

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Why? 
Because again, here's Esau 

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bringing these women into his 
life and they did not serve the 

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Lord. 
They were of the Hittite line. 

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All right, now look at this 
Genesis 27 and verse 46. 

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And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am 
weary of my life because of the 

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daughters of Heath. 
The daughters of Heath are 

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female. 
They're female Hittites. 

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They're female Hittites. 
She's saying I'm wearing my life

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because of the daughters of 
Heath. 

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If Jacob. 
And we just talked about Esau, 

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but now she's thinking about 
Jacob. 

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If Jacob take a wife of the 
daughters of Heath. 

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And remember, she was kind of 
favorable a little bit toward 

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Jacob. 
Rebecca even was. 

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So this is probably, you know, 
maybe get close to home for her 

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because this is her favorite 
son. 

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You know, she kind of. 
She says if Jacob take a wife of

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the daughters of heath such as 
these which are of the daughters

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of the land, if he takes 
daughters of the Hittites just 

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like he would if they were 
taking daughters of the land or 

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the Canaanites. 
She says, what good shall my 

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life do me? 
What good should my life do me? 

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She says, so we got female 
Hittites out there that that 

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Esau took. 
If Jacob would do the same and 

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join himself or he would even 
take from some of the 

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Canaanites. 
She says we're we're already 

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here grief stricken over Esau. 
Our mind has just grief 

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stricken. 
She says what what are we going 

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to do? 
Said because if he took of the 

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Canaanites it would be no 
different. 

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Why? 
Because they serve other gods, 

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too. 
They don't subscribe to the 

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things that we subscribe to. 
They don't keep the holy law of 

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Moses. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

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They, they, they, they, they 
don't care about separation. 

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All the scruples that we told 
God that we were, you know, my 

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statutes, my commandments, my 
dad. 

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So all those he says they, they 
have no connection to that. 

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So what, what are we going to 
do? 

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Look, Genesis 28 verse #1 this 
is after the, the 27th chapter 

451
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,920
there and Isaac called Jacob. 
So he calls Jacob in after this,

452
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:53,080
you know, speech from his wife, 
which sometimes those speeches 

453
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,400
are important to pay attention 
to. 

454
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,960
Guys, just telling you sometimes
we're blind. 

455
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:05,040
I'm just saying, all right, 
sometimes we needed that voice. 

456
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:13,720
And Isaac called Jacob and 
blessed him and charged him and 

457
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,800
said unto him, Thou shalt not 
take a wife of the daughters of 

458
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,000
Canaan. 
It's like, I know your brother 

459
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,520
took daughters of the heath, but
Canaan's off bounce too. 

460
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,360
All right, in case you're 
thinking or wondering, thou 

461
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,040
shall not take a wife of the 
daughters of Kingdom. 

462
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,720
Verse 2 arise go to Pandana Ram 
to the House of Bethuel thy 

463
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,440
mother's father and take the a 
wife from fence. 

464
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:41,080
He tells Jacob fence of the 
daughters of Laban thy mother's 

465
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:41,520
brother. 
Where? 

466
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,520
Why did they keep this in the 
family type thing? 

467
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:48,720
Again, it's because of the God 
factor, Amen, of what they 

468
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:53,520
served and what they supported. 
Now look, look there at 28 verse

469
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:57,720
#1 look, he said the charge 
there, thou shalt not. 

470
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,320
It's pretty plain. 
Thou shalt not take a wife of 

471
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,920
the daughters of Canaan. 
He didn't just bless him, but he

472
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:10,040
charged him. 
Young people, we and we should 

473
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:14,080
be open to both. 
We want the blessing, but we 

474
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,160
should also appreciate the 
charge. 

475
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,280
Because if we'll accept the 
charge, years down the road, 

476
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:22,200
you'll look over your shoulder 
and realize that was. 

477
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,520
Part of the blessing, too. 
Amen. 

478
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:35,720
Look now at Genesis 28. 
It goes on in verse #5 And Isaac

479
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:41,720
sent away Jacob, and he went to 
Pandanaram unto Laban, son of 

480
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:46,800
Bethuel the Syrian, the brother 
of Rebecca Jacobs. 

481
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,400
And Esau's mother looks at verse
6. 

482
00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,160
And when Esau saw that Isaac had
blessed Jacob. 

483
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,280
Wait a minute, what are we 
getting in here? 

484
00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,720
We're understanding something 
right now that as Isaac was 

485
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,160
speaking to Jacob, there was a 
third party that was listening. 

486
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,000
When Isaac was speaking to 
Jacob, there was someone 

487
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,320
overhearing the conversation and
seeing what was done. 

488
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:16,960
Esau saw that Isaac had blessed 
Jacob and sent him away to 

489
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,600
Pandana Ram to take him a wife 
from thence. 

490
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,440
That as he blessed him, he gave 
him a charge. 

491
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,120
He heard all this. 
Saying, Thou shalt Nate not take

492
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,880
a wife of the daughters of 
Canaan. 

493
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:33,960
And that Jacob obeyed his father
and his mother, and was gone to 

494
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,400
Pandanaram. 
Verse 8. 

495
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,200
And Esau, seeing that the 
daughters of Canaan please not 

496
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:45,120
Isaac his father. 
Then when Esau unto Ishmael and 

497
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,800
took and took unto the wives 
which he had Mahalat, the 

498
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:53,880
daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's 
son, and the sister of Nabajov 

499
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,760
to be his wife. 
Here's something very troubling.

500
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,320
Esau's witnessing everything 
that took place between Jacob 

501
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,840
and Isaac and the charge and the
blessing that took place. 

502
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,920
Amen. 
Everything, the words that are 

503
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,440
spoken, thou shalt not taken to 
the a wife of the Canaanites. 

504
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:17,000
And it's almost as Esau if you 
read it, really just take time 

505
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,520
to read it. 
He saw, he heard the charge. 

506
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:26,720
It's almost as though Esau. 
And Jacob may have never been 

507
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:34,680
told or taught this before until
this moment, that marriage to a 

508
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:39,720
Canaanite, because look what 
verse eight said, Esau said. 

509
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,280
Seeing the daughters of Canaan, 
please. 

510
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,160
Not Isaac, his father. 
It's like it's never been talked

511
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,120
about before. 
As though that's the first time 

512
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:53,160
he realized that wouldn't be 
pleasing to his father, that 

513
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:57,040
that would be inconsistent with 
God's will or unsatisfactory to 

514
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:02,960
the parents, parents, 
grandparents. 

515
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,280
You can't talk about it early 
enough. 

516
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,200
If you're going to wait to talk 
about it until you need to talk 

517
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,160
about it, you probably waited 
too late to talk about it. 

518
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:23,480
You, you, you can't talk about 
it early enough. 

519
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:29,440
And so I I need to take my 
God-given role right in in my 

520
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,120
home. 
And as parents, we need to in 

521
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,200
our home in the admonition of 
our day to age. 

522
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:39,480
You're going to be, you know, 
flirt, age, whatever you know, 

523
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,880
children about what's 
acceptable, not acceptable in 

524
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,960
God's eyes, right. 
Take the burden off yourself. 

525
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,080
This isn't a harping mother. 
This isn't a harping father. 

526
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,920
Let's see what God has to say 
about it. 

527
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,640
Let's see what God's opinion is 
on. 

528
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,320
Let's see what Scripture says 
about it. 

529
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,200
Amen. 
Again, Scripture silent whether 

530
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,400
or not Esau's parents ever 
share, shared their grief or 

531
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:11,120
disapproval until after he had 
already got married to the 

532
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,760
daughters of Heath. 
And now they're greed, Huh? 

533
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,120
Now you're overwhelmed. 
And Rebecca, you don't know what

534
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,120
you're going to do with yourself
because this happened. 

535
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,000
Was anybody talking about it 
before it happened? 

536
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,120
Commentators deduce that that 
Jacob and Esau was somewhere 

537
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:36,080
around 77 years old when Jacob 
went to Pandanaram. 

538
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,639
If that is the case and I 
understand the life expectancy, 

539
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,320
you know, somewhat different 
then, but still yet if that's 

540
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,520
the case, that's just a little 
bit late in life. 

541
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,120
Telling your son about not 
taking a wife from the 

542
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:57,920
Canaanites. 
Esau married a Hittite woman at 

543
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:02,480
age 40. 
So if they're 77 now, there's 37

544
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:06,000
years that they missed. 
You know, you understand what 

545
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,920
I'm saying. 
They're a little bit late. 

546
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,640
Parents, grandparents, listen, 
we we got to be more proactive 

547
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:20,880
than reactive. 
More I don't know what sometimes

548
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:22,920
why you know the. 
Pastor says stuff around there, 

549
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:23,880
there's none of that stuff going
on. 

550
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:29,040
No, but it might. 
Sometimes you're just trying to 

551
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:33,520
get a get a head of running 
before you know the big pack of 

552
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:38,200
bulls, right? 
He's trying to run before him. 

553
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:43,680
Look at look verse #9. 
Now Esau takes this withheld 

554
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,760
information. 
All right, verse 9 and he 

555
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:52,160
spitefully, maybe, perhaps out 
of rebellion, then knowing for 

556
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,320
sure then that dad doesn't like 
us wearing canines already 

557
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,360
married to Hitt tight. 
Well, I'm going for broke, maybe

558
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,520
even a little bit of rebellion 
by marrying more women who are 

559
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,320
non believers. 
That's what he does. 

560
00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:08,560
He marries. 
He marries some that are of 

561
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:15,120
Ishmael, which remember is the 
son that was really had against 

562
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,160
God's purpose with Abraham and 
Sarah. 

563
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:26,720
He marries some from that line. 
All right, again, not, not not 

564
00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:30,480
endorsing the things that that 
they would want to endorse, 

565
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,360
because think about it, Ishmael 
and those that come from a son 

566
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:42,000
of compromise anyway come from a
son of compromise anyway of 

567
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,280
Haggard, the Egyptian handmaid, 
and Abraham. 

568
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,920
All right, whenever we look at 
the end, and I'm not saying all 

569
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,520
things are connected like this 
so that we can draw a Direct 

570
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,280
Line, I'm just saying it's 
something to think about. 

571
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:58,360
But when we look at the end and 
the destinies of Jacob and Esau,

572
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,480
they are vastly different. 
Jacob is the inheritor of the 

573
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:07,760
promise of God and the Esau, 
which is Edom, the Bible says is

574
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:13,400
a constant troublemaker for the 
children of Israel, even up to 

575
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:21,360
this day through his lineage. 
I'm not just relating that 

576
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,200
necessarily directly to who they
married, but I'm saying it could

577
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:29,280
have some play into it. 
All right. 

578
00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:32,080
Definitely a factor to be 
considered. 

579
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,640
So again, so we've seen it. 
We've seen it with Abraham and 

580
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:42,600
Eleazar concerning Isaac, we 
soon Jacob and Esau and what 

581
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,280
they should do, so on and so 
forth. 

582
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,920
What about the children of 
Israel just going into the land 

583
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,880
of Canaan? 
They're on the verge of taking 

584
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,760
king and on the verge of taking 
the promised land, right? 

585
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,520
They are this mighty nation that
has been born out of Egypt, so 

586
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,240
to speak. 
Did your years of wandering in 

587
00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:00,840
the wilderness. 
And now they're out about ready 

588
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,600
to go into Canaanite land, Pagan
land, idol worship land, and 

589
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,400
these are the instructions from 
the Lord. 

590
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:10,480
Right that Moses was to tell 
this group of people. 

591
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:15,480
Deuteronomy 7 and verse #1 When 
the Lord thy God shall bring 

592
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:20,480
thee into the land where thou 
goest to possess it, and have 

593
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:24,960
cast out many nations before 
thee, the Hittites, and the 

594
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:29,000
Gergashites, and the Amorites, 
and the Canaanites, and the 

595
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:34,240
Perizzites, and the Hivites and 
the Jebusites, seven nations 

596
00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:37,320
greater and mightier than thou, 
when the Lord thy God shall 

597
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,960
deliver them before thee, thou 
shalt smite them and utterly 

598
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,400
destroy them. 
Thou shalt make no covenant with

599
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,360
them, nor shew mercy unto them. 
Verse 3. 

600
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,280
Neither shalt thou make 
marriages with them. 

601
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:56,800
By the way, marriage still is a 
covenant thou shalt make thou, 

602
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,040
neither shalt thou make 
marriages with them. 

603
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:04,240
Thy daughter thou shalt not 
given to his son, nor his 

604
00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:09,080
daughter shalt thou take unto 
thy son, for they will. 

605
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,400
He gives us the reason. 
Does it leave us just out here, 

606
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,200
No man's land? 
He gives us the reason. 

607
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:21,440
For they will turn away thy son 
from following me, that they may

608
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,880
serve other gods. 
So will the anger of the Lord be

609
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,040
kindled against you and 
destroyed thee settling? 

610
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,440
Well, you know, good thing God 
doesn't still do that. 

611
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,440
Population of the world would be
a whole lot less. 

612
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,240
So the problem here was clearly 
marrying outside of their faith,

613
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,800
right? 
Marrying outside of their faith.

614
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,080
He said it'll cause Israel to 
turn away from the true Lord 

615
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,720
because you're, as you invite 
them in, you're inviting what 

616
00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:56,200
they serve in, you're inviting 
what they worship in. 

617
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,680
All right. 
And God was serious about this. 

618
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,400
I have another passage of 
Scripture here. 

619
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,680
He was very unyielding and 
adamant about this. 

620
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,280
All right. 
This wasn't like suggestive God.

621
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:15,440
He's very plain during the time 
whenever Israel was committing 

622
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,640
whoredom with the daughters of 
Moab and it was taking place 

623
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,840
whoredom and, and, and, and they
were embracing a lot of false 

624
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,400
gods and false practices that 
we're following. 

625
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,440
And it was really getting out of
hand. 

626
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,160
I mean, they were going beyond 
the lines of, of boundaries and 

627
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:32,680
stuff. 
It's really getting out of hand.

628
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:37,160
This episode happened then in 
Numbers chapter 25, whenever 

629
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,920
this type of things were 
happening, it's like, you know, 

630
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,840
the Bible even talks about sin 
leading to more sin. 

631
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,880
You know, there's like this 
increase. 

632
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,680
It's a whenever you start, 
whenever you start making 

633
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:54,560
negotiations, hear me today, 
when you start making 

634
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:59,200
negotiations with truth, you 
think you have control over 

635
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,320
that. 
And it's like, I know when I'll 

636
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,200
stop, will you? 
Because when you start 

637
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:07,800
negotiating with truth, you 
negotiate more with it. 

638
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:16,560
Seen it for, I mean, I'm 46 
years old, surely I could say 

639
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,280
something now that I've said 
I've seen in my life, I've seen 

640
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,080
it. 
And so when we get the numbers 

641
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:27,800
25, this is how unyielding and 
how adamant God is about us 

642
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,280
keeping, if you will, from being
unequally yoked. 

643
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,280
So to speak. 
Verse #6 Numbers 25. 

644
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,880
Verse 6. 
And behold, one of the children 

645
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,400
of Israel came, and brought into
his brethren a Midnightish 

646
00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:44,840
woman. 
Midnightish woman in the sight 

647
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,800
of Moses, and in the sight of 
all the congregation of the 

648
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,800
children of Israel, who were 
weeping before the door of the 

649
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:57,160
Tabernacle of the congregation. 
And when Venus, the son of 

650
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,680
Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the 
priest, saw it, he rose up from 

651
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:04,600
among the congregation and took 
a javelin in his hand. 

652
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,520
And he went after the. 
Now notice. 

653
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,920
He went in after the man of 
Israel into the tent. 

654
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:21,280
So a man of Israel has taken a 
Midianitish woman into his tent.

655
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,400
Number one, that's a male or 
female been in a different one's

656
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,920
tent in this age was no, it was 
taboo. 

657
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:33,360
Didn't happen. 
All right, If it's happening, 

658
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:34,320
it's because something's 
happening. 

659
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,880
Shouldn't be happening. 
You hear me? 

660
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,080
It's inappropriate. 
Yes, and so he went in after the

661
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,360
man of Israel into the tent and 
thrust both of them through. 

662
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:44,720
Remember he took a spear with. 
Him it. 

663
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,120
Was pretty severe thrust both of
them through the man of Israel 

664
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,520
and the woman through her belly.
So the plague was stayed because

665
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,680
the plague had broke out because
of all the iniquity that was 

666
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,800
taking place then pushing the 
envelope on every hand a plague 

667
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,800
had broken out all right as a 
result of this and he said he 

668
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,560
did this so the plague was 
stayed from the children of 

669
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,760
Israel and those that died in 
the plague. 

670
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,600
It tells us 20 and 4000. 
Look at verse 10 and the Lord 

671
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,600
Lord spake and the Moses saying 
Venus, the one who had done 

672
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,920
this, the one with the spear, 
that is the son of Eleazar, the 

673
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,200
son of Aaron the priest, have 
turned my wrath away from the 

674
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,800
children of Israel. 
Why he while he was zealous for 

675
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,120
my sake among them, that I 
consume not the children of 

676
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,400
Israel, and my jealousy. 
Wherefore say, behold, I given 

677
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:34,960
to him my covenant of peace, and
he shall have it, and his seat 

678
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,760
after him, even the covenant of 
an everlasting priesthood, 

679
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,480
because he was zealous for God 
and made an atonement for the 

680
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:44,760
children of Israel. 
So here's Venus. 

681
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,520
He is the son of a line of 
priest. 

682
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,560
He's the son of the line of 
priests and priesthood. 

683
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:57,320
And he was so zealous over 
Israel not being yoked up with 

684
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,360
the Midianite or Moabite or 
whoever. 

685
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,600
It was yoked up with someone 
that was going to pull an 

686
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:07,200
Israelite away from the ways of 
God, that whenever this thing 

687
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,600
happened that he went in with 
the spear and struck the 

688
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:14,760
Israelite man and the and the 
Midianites woman through in the 

689
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,880
tent among the tent. 
And God said that's a zealot act

690
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:22,720
that He did. 
He stood firm and it was key to 

691
00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:25,720
stopping the plague that was 
coming up on Israel for their 

692
00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:27,880
whoredoms and their sin that was
taking place. 

693
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,400
And God stops. 
You know what he basically says,

694
00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:35,560
I honor you, Phoenix. 
I honor you, Phineas, for doing 

695
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:40,480
what you did about something 
that was not to be yoked 

696
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:45,240
together. 
That shows how adamant, 

697
00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:52,560
unyielding God was in support of
Phineas in what he did and God 

698
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,440
honors him, makes a coming to 
peace with him an everlasting 

699
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,240
priesthood. 
He said throughout your 

700
00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:05,720
generations now folks, that's 
episode that sounds pretty 

701
00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:09,520
serious. 
That sounds like it matters to 

702
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:15,040
God. 
Genesis 24 and verse 8. 

703
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:16,760
I'm moving alone. 
I know. 

704
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:18,640
How do I feel like I'm dragging 
my feet tonight? 

705
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:20,560
That's all right. 
Let him drag. 

706
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:28,080
Genesis 24 and verse 8. 
This is criteria #2 all right, 

707
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,240
We're moving on from from that 
board. 

708
00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:36,920
And if the woman will not be 
willing to follow thee, was 

709
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:38,800
Abraham speaking to his eldest 
servant? 

710
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,320
And if the woman will not be 
willing to follow thee, then 

711
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:47,800
thou shalt be clear from this My
oath only bring not my son. 

712
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:52,760
Don't take Isaac thither again. 
Don't take him back there. 

713
00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:59,080
Bring her up here again. 
There may be something that 

714
00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:00,640
don't grieve me on this, and 
that's fine. 

715
00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,640
You have the right to be wrong. 
Just joking. 

716
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:09,280
Second criteria Do not marry a 
person with a incompatible 

717
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:14,280
spiritual appetite or continue 
dating them after you've learned

718
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:29,000
this. 
Abraham received a call from God

719
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:38,640
back there to tread onward to 
this Canaan that God had for 

720
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:43,680
him, that promise that God had 
for him. 

721
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:49,360
And Abraham was telling the 
servant, though, you may even 

722
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,960
find this woman among our 
people. 

723
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:57,640
Someone hear me right now, you 
can be Apostolic or church and 

724
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,000
religious and still be 
spiritually incompatible. 

725
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:11,040
He says, though you find this 
lady among our people, if she 

726
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:16,360
isn't willing, if she isn't 
willing to advance in her 

727
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:22,640
pursuit from where she is to 
where God has promised us, she's

728
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:28,400
not willing to make the trip. 
He says, then you just leave her

729
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,360
right where she is and you don't
worry about the oath I gave you 

730
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,280
concerning this. 
Everything's fine, everything is

731
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:38,800
OK, he says. 
Because I can't let my boy 

732
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:43,120
revert back. 
Can you hear me? 

733
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,000
Since this is what God has 
called us to, this is what God 

734
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,760
has promised for us, and this is
where we are, I can't allow my 

735
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:55,360
boy to go back away from the 
promise, away from the promise 

736
00:47:55,360 --> 00:48:02,480
of God for her. 
People talk themselves out of 

737
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:07,360
callings because of somebody 
potential they're going to 

738
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,960
marry. 
No, no, no, no. 

739
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:15,360
You can't go back from what God 
has called you to or to the 

740
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:18,520
level that God has brought you. 
You don't need to dumb down your

741
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,920
prayer life. 
You don't need to dumb down your

742
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,400
worship life. 
You don't need to dumb down your

743
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,120
attendance to church because 
there's a possible way. 

744
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,200
No, no, no. 
Find somebody that likes going 

745
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:31,320
to church just as much as you 
do. 

746
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,720
Find somebody that's living for 
God on fire just as much as you 

747
00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:38,480
are. 
Don't take me back away from my 

748
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:39,800
promise. 
Let's. 

749
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,160
Isaac can't go back and ignore 
the call of God on us and our 

750
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,880
family. 
He has a promise of God on his 

751
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,000
life. 
This is a he gets all. 

752
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,800
He gets it all. 
I it's all his. 

753
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,280
He can't go back. 
You know what, you know what you

754
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:08,720
want, Abraham still on the 
oldest servant. 

755
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:14,320
I'd rather see my son remain a 
unmarried, single young man then

756
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,840
stoop to a lesser calling than 
what God has on his life. 

757
00:49:32,660 --> 00:49:35,380
My wife. 
I told my wife before we ever 

758
00:49:36,060 --> 00:49:39,460
got married. 
Sorry, God was dealing me with 

759
00:49:39,460 --> 00:49:41,140
evangelizing someday. 
Just in the wind. 

760
00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:45,680
Let her know up front, matter of
fact, one of the first things I 

761
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,640
ever said to her was this, just 
want to let you know, I'm a 

762
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:53,320
minister, 14 years old. 
Just want you to know I'm a 

763
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:54,920
minister. 
Might as well get it out there 

764
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:59,840
on the playing field. 
So then three years after 

765
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,320
marriage, you know, we started 
evangelizing all that. 

766
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,080
But prior to that evangelism 
day, the camp meeting prior to 

767
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,360
that, but the Carpenter was 
preaching that camping, you'll 

768
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:08,600
remember this. 
I did this just to Alex and 

769
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,600
Grace at camping because I felt 
compelled by the Holy Ghost to 

770
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,920
do so. 
Brother Carpenter told me to 

771
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:19,440
place my hand on her head and 
her hand on my heart. 

772
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,880
And he said, Brother McGee said,
I'm praying right now that she 

773
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,600
will always follow your heart 
wherever you go and be 

774
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,720
submissive to that. 
Leading folks I understand here 

775
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:37,120
37 years later and a lot of 
ministry under under, under the 

776
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:41,120
bridge. 
And we've we've went in a tip 

777
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,760
post, a stake, stayed in some 
unlikely places. 

778
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:47,280
She's been there. 
She went to Brother Boyd's those

779
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:48,760
nine months before we ever came 
home. 

780
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,920
She came home with me. 
We've been to prison, all this 

781
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,440
stuff. 
What is that? 

782
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,800
Because whenever I would sit at 
camp meetings with her, we'd 

783
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,760
find each of us both clapping 
her hand, saying Amen, jumping 

784
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,360
up at the same time to back the 
preacher lingering in the altar.

785
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:06,960
Not one lingering the other one 
I know lingering in the altar. 

786
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,600
But she was doing that before 
she ever met me. 

787
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,000
You hearing? 
Listen to me. 

788
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:17,000
She wasn't trying to conform to 
get on the good side of me, so 

789
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,280
I'd be interested in her. 
Watch that. 

790
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:25,800
Watch that if if they never 
prayed before but now that 

791
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,000
they're in a relationship with 
you. 

792
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:28,920
They're going to walk the walk 
of prayer. 

793
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:34,680
Is that is that truly happening 
or is that just a facade in 

794
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:41,640
order for you to stay with them?
Discernment. 

795
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,480
I've told you folks and I have 
stories I have stories of people

796
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:55,120
evangelist that evangelized even
in our day minister's wife is 

797
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:59,840
they're they're they're they 
never sink in their ministry in 

798
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:01,400
days evangelism. 
There are a lot of horror 

799
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,880
stories that follow them. 
It was because of dude a lot of 

800
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,560
times to some of the antics of 
his wife a lot of disturbance 

801
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,760
and havoc in their travels find 
some reason why she couldn't be 

802
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,600
at church later came off the 
road. 

803
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:17,280
She later in there divorced him.
There was a incompatibility when

804
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,280
it comes just to spiritual 
matters. 

805
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,720
Another pastor years ago was 
taught me at Jim seems 

806
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,440
encouraging his daughter to go 
away to a Christian college 

807
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,680
She'd already attended the 
Community College but he 

808
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:29,440
encouraged her to go away from 
home. 

809
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,960
Why he was just wanting to 
broaden her scope of Herman 

810
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,400
Pool. 
I'm just being honest with you. 

811
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,520
They had just so many there in 
the church and wonder broaden 

812
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:40,800
her scope of her manpool. 
She'd been in a relationship 

813
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:45,160
with a local man and he wasn't 
sure about that spiritual level 

814
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:49,560
aptitude between the two and he 
was worried about it. 

815
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,400
Positive thing about all that is
that young man came to a place 

816
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,440
of greater aptitude and now 
they're both married to now and 

817
00:52:57,440 --> 00:53:00,520
and life has went on. 
But he was just giving it some 

818
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,320
time and he want his daughter to
give it some time. 

819
00:53:04,240 --> 00:53:07,480
All right to seek these things 
out worried about entering into 

820
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,800
that that type of relationship. 
There's going to be the same 

821
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:15,800
type of spiritual aptitude for 
one another. 

822
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:23,760
There are more things hinging on
your mate than just a spouse. 

823
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:32,120
Genesis 24 and verse 7 And I'm, 
I'm trying to hurry folks, 

824
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:37,640
everyone, I've only got 3 weeks 
to get this done. 

825
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:42,440
Just 24 and verse 7 The Lord God
of heaven, which took me from my

826
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,600
father's house and from the land
of my kindred, which spake unto 

827
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:52,680
me, that swear unto me, saying, 
unto thy seed will I give this 

828
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:55,560
land, You shall send his Angel 
before thee. 

829
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:59,280
Thou shall take a wife unto my 
son from thence. 

830
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:04,160
You see, there's more that 
depends upon a mate than just a 

831
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:10,440
spouse, because possibility is 
you going to have children 

832
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:16,280
together. 
You hear me? 

833
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:21,440
You have children together. 
So what influences of your two 

834
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:25,680
lives, if they're incompatible, 
what's being poured in the next 

835
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:32,080
generation and what agreement 
and disagreement with that 

836
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:36,600
incompatibility? 
What's the kids to listen to, to

837
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:39,440
be exposed to are. 
You hearing me right now? 

838
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:42,520
Huh. 
There's a lot of children today 

839
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,320
shouldn't even be messing with 
the things they're messing with,

840
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,920
but they're messing with the 
incompatibility of a union. 

841
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:53,880
And he said the the land 
inheritance, he said it's going 

842
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,480
to going to depend upon this. 
You, you said the inheritance, 

843
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,960
it's going to come on to you. 
All right, I got to run. 

844
00:54:59,960 --> 00:55:01,840
We got to run, don't we? 
We got to run. 

845
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,520
Let's go to the New Testament, 
First Corinthians 7, verse 32. 

846
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:11,360
Apostle Paul speaking here, he 
says, But I would have you 

847
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:16,160
without carefulness, he that is 
unmarried. 

848
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,800
Care for the things that belong 
to the Lord, how he may please 

849
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,480
the Lord, but he that is 
married. 

850
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:27,200
Care for the things that are of 
the world, or whatever is 

851
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:32,840
natural, how he may please his 
wife. 34 There is difference 

852
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:34,760
also between a wife and a 
virgin. 

853
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:39,520
The unmarried woman care for the
things of the Lord, that she may

854
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,480
be both holy in body and in 
spirit. 

855
00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:45,480
But she that is married care for
the things of the world, how she

856
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,960
may please her husband. 
And this Paul says, I speak for 

857
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,280
your own prophet. 
Not that I may cast a snare. 

858
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:54,720
Upon. 
You but for that which is 

859
00:55:54,720 --> 00:55:59,440
comely, and that ye may attend 
upon the Lord without 

860
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,640
distraction. 
So he says from both sides, male

861
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:08,120
or female, that those that are 
unmarried individuals carry care

862
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:13,040
for the things of. 
The Lord but a husband, there's 

863
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:15,960
a new dynamic that enters his 
life now that he's married. 

864
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:21,480
When you have children, there's 
another dynamic that enters now.

865
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,520
He seeks to please his wife. 
A wife seeks to please her 

866
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:28,320
husband, all right. 
They're going to seek to please 

867
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:32,040
each other emotionally and 
physically, all right, 

868
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:35,480
spiritually. 
So when there's verse 35, Paul's

869
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:39,280
just saying. 
For their own good or their own 

870
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:41,640
good. 
He's not saying what he says to 

871
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,160
deter them from marriage. 
That's not the purpose of this. 

872
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:48,960
He says, I understand, He said, 
I'm trying to, you know, I mean,

873
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:50,880
he's not trying to deter them 
from marriage. 

874
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:54,040
And he's saying that as they're 
unmarried, they have all of this

875
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:58,280
time and all of these resources 
that they can devote totally 

876
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,760
unto the Lord for the things of 
the Lord without any 

877
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:05,520
distraction, right? 
He says, but whenever a wife 

878
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,320
gets in the picture, then then 
there's some attention. 

879
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:09,120
It's got to be shown there. 
Here's the thing. 

880
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,520
If you don't have your spiritual
life staked down. 

881
00:57:14,240 --> 00:57:18,920
When you get married. 
Listen to me Well, if you don't 

882
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,560
watch it, your spouse can become
your new God. 

883
00:57:28,810 --> 00:57:32,370
It's just all about. 
Them it's about what's important

884
00:57:32,370 --> 00:57:35,730
to them, even if it compromises 
absolute. 

885
00:57:35,730 --> 00:57:40,970
Commands of scripture. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

886
00:57:41,370 --> 00:57:43,490
So you want to marry someone 
with spiritually compatible? 

887
00:57:43,490 --> 00:57:46,170
That you're spiritually. 
Compatible with because after 

888
00:57:46,170 --> 00:57:49,450
married people after you get 
married, you have a tendency to 

889
00:57:49,450 --> 00:57:53,240
please your spouse. 
Here's the thing, if you have a 

890
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:56,920
spouse that wants to be pleasing
to God, then whatever she wants 

891
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,720
pleased from you is and likewise
going to then serve Him. 

892
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,480
Are you hearing me right now? 
Huh. 

893
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:04,360
You want to. 
Find someone that's pleasing to 

894
00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,400
God so that whenever they want 
you to please them, it's in step

895
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:12,000
with Him. 
But if that's all messed up and 

896
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:17,600
skewed and they're worried about
themselves and the world and how

897
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:22,960
they're perceived in the world. 
Can you join in that pleasing 

898
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:24,800
them is not going to be for 
pleasing the Lord. 

899
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,560
It's going to be about pleasing 
self then what they want to do. 

900
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:35,960
Oh, he just goes to church all 
the time. 

901
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,120
I just don't understand why he 
never stays home with me. 

902
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:44,360
Remember, I don't really need to
please my wife, you know, and 

903
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:48,640
stay home with her and then just
totally betrayed then Scripture 

904
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:57,590
by doing so. 
Amen. 

905
00:59:03,270 --> 00:59:06,390
If a spouse is not particularly 
someone that's going to be a 

906
00:59:06,390 --> 00:59:09,550
mate is not comparable in 
spiritual ambitions. 

907
00:59:11,670 --> 00:59:14,190
It could really 'cause a 
stalemate for what God wants to 

908
00:59:14,190 --> 00:59:20,590
do in their lives as a couple. 
It's been a few years ago now. 

909
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:26,880
We were preaching for a district
and we preached them for a 

910
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:30,400
district Superintendent or a 
pastor in the same area. 

911
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:33,760
I preached on that Sunday 
morning altar service was taking

912
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:40,800
place and asked her son and a 
young girl was in a relationship

913
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:46,760
and I I was praying in the altar
around doing things and, and 

914
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:51,000
with her son, I noticed him 
involved in the altar service 

915
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,760
and worship and all this stuff 
just bawling, just overtaken by 

916
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:58,560
all these things. 
And I seen his significant other

917
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:05,120
and God spoke to me and said 
she's a Michael sitting on the 

918
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:12,640
window seal for this young man's
wife life Michael and David 

919
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:15,920
despised his worship in her 
heart. 

920
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,880
She's a this, she's a Michael in
his life. 

921
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:22,160
Talked to the pastor's wife 
later. 

922
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:23,400
I ain't don't know how it came 
about. 

923
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:26,120
I said sister so and so, so I'm 
just going to tell you what God 

924
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:31,840
told me said God said that she's
a Michael in your son's life. 

925
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:35,720
I said because while he was all 
in this, she was totally just 

926
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:40,400
total, just removed code and 
indifferent to what was going 

927
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:44,600
on. 12 years went by. 
Now that relationship is no 

928
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:46,160
longer there. 
He is now married, totally 

929
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:49,320
someone different, totally else.
What are you saying? 

930
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:52,000
I'm saying spiritual 
compatibility matters. 

931
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:56,840
Spiritual compatibility, it 
matters. 

932
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:59,320
Let me read the same passage. 
We have it up there in the 

933
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,080
message, don't we? 
Let's do it. 

934
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:05,120
Paraphrase Bible message. 1st 
Corinthians 7 verse 32, I want 

935
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:08,600
you to live as free of 
complications as possible. 

936
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:13,080
When you're unmarried, you're 
free to concentrate on simply 

937
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:16,440
pleasing the master. 
Marriage involves you and all 

938
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:19,240
the nuts and bolts of domestic 
life and one to please your 

939
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:24,320
spouse, leading to so many more 
demands on your attention. 

940
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,360
And listen, I tell guys that I 
mentor and my arms sharpens 

941
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,880
aren't thing in ministry. 
I tell them, hey guys, if you're

942
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:32,400
not married right now, you have 
all this time you can pour into 

943
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,480
your ministry. 
You need to be studying your 

944
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,240
brains out right now. 
You're not going to have any 

945
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:39,520
more time in any more time in 
your life than what you do right

946
01:01:39,520 --> 01:01:43,160
now as a teenager, before 
marriage, before kids, before 

947
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:46,120
other obligations. 
I said invest now. 

948
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:48,080
That's what that's what Paul's 
saying. 

949
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:50,640
He said you have all the time, 
all the resources, all the 

950
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:52,400
attention just to direct One 
Direction. 

951
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:54,960
You're you're not divvied up for
all these other things at that 

952
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:56,240
moment. 
I'm that's really what Paul's 

953
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:58,720
saying he said. 
So you have all the nuts and 

954
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:00,920
bolts of domestic like, yeah, 
many more demands on your 

955
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:04,840
attention, the time and energy 
that married people spend on 

956
01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:06,480
caring for and nurturing each 
other. 

957
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,760
And that's important. 
And we should, right? 

958
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,840
We should. 
The unmarried can spend and 

959
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:13,680
becoming whole and holy 
instruments of God. 

960
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,480
I'm trying to be helpful. 
Make it as easy as possible for 

961
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:20,120
you, not make things harder. 
All I want is for you to be able

962
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:22,880
to develop a way of life in 
which you can spend plenty of 

963
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:25,520
time together with the master 
without a lot of distractions. 

964
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,360
In other words, I want you just 
to get it right now, because if 

965
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:33,400
you don't have it right now, 
when you add more variables in, 

966
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,240
if you don't have the Lord 
placed where the Lord needs to 

967
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:40,560
be placed now as you add 
variables, it's most likely not 

968
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:45,840
going to get better. 
There's some things you got to 

969
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:52,080
settle the issue on. 
While you're single, Amen, he 

970
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:53,640
says. 
So I'm, I'm trying to do this. 

971
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:55,800
Amen. 
So again, we, we don't want 

972
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:57,360
them. 
Boyfriend, boyfriend, 

973
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:01,960
girlfriend, fiance. 
Don't let them become your idol.

974
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:06,680
If you can't be in a 
relationship with someone 

975
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:09,520
without maintaining your 
relationship with God, you don't

976
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:14,160
need the relationship. 
And maybe it's you more than 

977
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,080
them. 
I don't know. 

978
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:17,800
But either way, you need to get 
it figured out. 

979
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:20,560
You. 
You. 

980
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:20,880
You. 
You. 

981
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:27,520
You need to have that 
relationship with God showed up.

982
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:30,920
You need to find someone you 
could love, but you can still 

983
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,040
love God, just with the same 
intensity. 

984
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,400
And maybe it'll even be 
bolstered because they have a 

985
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:37,800
love and affection for him as 
well. 

986
01:03:44,350 --> 01:03:46,710
They with me. 
Oh, but I'm so. 

987
01:03:46,790 --> 01:03:52,470
In love with the brother Mickey.
The eyes, the hair. 

988
01:03:52,830 --> 01:03:54,350
Listen. 
Someday it might be here like 

989
01:03:54,350 --> 01:03:56,790
this. 
So you can't just love them for 

990
01:03:56,790 --> 01:03:58,190
who they are. 
Now you got to love them for who

991
01:03:58,190 --> 01:04:04,190
they'll be. 
I've spoke at Christian schools 

992
01:04:04,190 --> 01:04:07,920
and done guys purity state 
sessions with guys and stuff 

993
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:10,000
before when it's just guys. 
I probably won't go into any of 

994
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,680
that right now because I could 
be brutal. 

995
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:21,840
Yeah, but her carry three or 
five of your kids. 

996
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:25,320
You still going to love her 
after the bodily changes that 

997
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:36,400
may take place in her life? 
Lastly, listen to me, a single 

998
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:39,080
life shouldn't just be viewed as
a passage to married life, 

999
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:44,080
shouldn't just be viewed as 
that. 

1000
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:46,960
You need to view that, as Paul 
said, it's a time to home my 

1001
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:52,440
relationship with God without 
any other distractions, without 

1002
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,760
anything else vying for my 
attention, so that I'll be so 

1003
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:59,760
spiritually sound that when it's
time to find that lifetime mate,

1004
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:06,840
I'll be ready, or at least 
hopefully be more ready than 

1005
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:11,160
what I would have if I didn't. 
I could say it like that because

1006
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,760
there's still a lot of dynamics 
that come Amen with a mate. 

1007
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:18,280
Those are just the two 
principles, right? 

1008
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:22,240
To marry the Canaanitish, the 
Mobitish, women or men. 

1009
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:28,960
Find someone that is spiritually
compatible with you. 

1010
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,040
Here's the awesome thing about 
that, folks. 

1011
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:37,000
Maybe today they're not, but 
maybe you hold your peace and 

1012
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:39,640
let the Lord fight your battle 
and you stay faithful to God. 

1013
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:41,920
Maybe they'll grow into an area 
that they will be. 

1014
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:48,600
Maybe they will, but don't. 
I wouldn't be saying no. 

1015
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:55,040
I do unless I do Amen. 
Let's pray tonight. 

1016
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:57,360
Hope I did the press everybody, 
God, we.