1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:06,520 I need that little midweek fuel station where I can get somehow 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,440 top off my tank, so to speak. Amen. 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:12,960 Top off my tank. Hallelujah. 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,760 Just a couple of announcements here this evening as we get in 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,240 the Bible study here. Tomorrow night is power hour 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:21,840 from 7:00 to 8:00 here at the church. 7 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:25,640 So you can come and pray, come and go as you desire in that 8 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,760 hour's time. And so we have that opportunity 9 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,920 and then after tonight, the following five services, after 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:34,840 tonight, you're going to have opportunities to hear from 11 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,960 Doctor Jerry Mason, from brother Alex Mason, from brother Zach 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,000 McGee and from Bishop while my wife and I are gone. 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,480 So you'd have opportunities to hear from all of them. 14 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,120 And so next Wednesday with Zach will be here. 15 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,160 The Wednesday following that when we get back will be our 16 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,680 what was the postponed interview of Everyone leads with Doctor 17 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,360 Jerry Mason. And then the Wednesday after 18 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:03,240 that will be National Youth Convention in Nashville. 19 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,080 And so there will be no service there on the Wednesday prior to 20 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,360 Thanksgiving. The 5th Sunday then of the month 21 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,040 of November will be the Daniel Taylor family will be here with 22 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,240 us after NYC. And he's going to minister in 23 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,120 that Sunday morning service and we'll try to twist his arm to 24 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,080 play and sing or let somebody sing. 25 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,920 Amen. And so it'll be good, it'll be 26 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,320 good, it'll be good. I know I see tears already in 27 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:34,200 the eyes because this last time you're going to hear about 28 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:35,960 Genesis on Wednesday for a little bit. 29 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:38,640 I see. I, I mean, I've really had to 30 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,360 comfort some people before service ever started as a result 31 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,280 of this. If we turn to Genesis chapter 32 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:50,800 26, Genesis chapter #26 and we're still not going to finish 33 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:55,360 this chapter purposefully, purposefully. 34 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,600 I'm not going to talk about the last two verses because they fit 35 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,840 well, really with what comes next. 36 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,800 Amen. All right, verse #15 I'm just 37 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,240 going to read a few verses to get us started here tonight. 38 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:14,840 Verse #15 The Bible says, And this is where we left off, for 39 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,080 all the wells which his father's servants had digged. 40 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaking of Isaac's father's servants had digged in the days 41 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,960 of Abraham his father. The Philistines had stopped them 42 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,720 and filled them with earth. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, 43 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,240 Go from us, for thou art much mightier than we. 44 00:02:32,640 --> 00:02:35,360 And Isaac departed fence, and pitched his tent in the valley 45 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:39,080 of Gerard, and the Welt there. And Isaac digged again the wells 46 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,320 of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham, his 47 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,200 father, for the Philistines that stopped them after the death of 48 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,760 Abraham. And he called their names after 49 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,920 the names by which his father had called them. 50 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,880 They'll get us started tonight. My, my title tonight is kind of 51 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,360 broad because we're going to be hitting several different things 52 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,240 here. So I'm just calling it following 53 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,920 in Abraham steps with with Isaac in view, following in the steps 54 00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:08,200 of his father Abraham Amen. Will ask the Lord to touch us 55 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,400 here tonight. Father, I thank you Lord today, 56 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,480 God for an opportunity, Lord to be in your house. 57 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,520 Center our lives one more time around the word of the Lord God 58 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,120 hear the book of beginnings. God, from which so many things 59 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,520 the Lord Jesus find their place of origin. 60 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,280 I pray, O Lord, anoint our minds and our hearts. 61 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,560 Lord, this evening help us to learn of you and will not fail 62 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,520 to thank you God for what you accomplished. 63 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,960 Lord, in this place, in the lovely name of Jesus Christ that 64 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,240 I pray Hallelujah and Amen and you may be seated tonight in 65 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:46,240 Jesus name. We stopped off last week talking 66 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:51,600 about Isaac and the hundredfold harvest that he got during the 67 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,080 time of famine. And that was unlikely even 68 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,840 whenever there wasn't famine, and how his herds and flocks and 69 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,640 even servants had to increase during this most horrific time. 70 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,920 And then how these people who would come to be known as the 71 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,440 enemies of Israel, the Philistines, envied Isaac for 72 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,120 the things that was happening in this soil because they were 73 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,520 sharing the same soil, living in the same land, but not having 74 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:18,320 the same results as Isaac was having. 75 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,640 And so one of the things that happens as a result of this, 76 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,840 perhaps perhaps some of their envy that's toward Isaac as they 77 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:29,560 go around, then to all these wells that Isaacs father had dug 78 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,560 for the purpose of water. And they fill these these wells 79 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:38,520 up with earth then making the water inaccessible to Isaac in 80 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,840 his generation. Because in essence, they wanted 81 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:45,280 to have what Isaac had, right? They wanted to have what Isaac 82 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:47,360 had. They wanted that same major of 83 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,360 success from the famished land and the surrounding area that he 84 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,440 had of of the harvest and the flocks and the herds and the 85 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:56,840 servants. And they no doubt probably 86 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:01,040 wanted access and to be able to use the same wells that Abraham 87 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,120 had dug as well. But since they couldn't have all 88 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,040 these things, they didn't want Isaac to have access to them 89 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,160 either. You ever find anybody like that 90 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,360 in your life that if they couldn't have it, they didn't 91 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,360 want you to have it either? And so this is the scenario with 92 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,760 the Philistines. And there's a lot of negative 93 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,440 traits that we've looked over the past just couple weeks that 94 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,600 Isaac picked up on of his father. 95 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,000 But from everything negative that he could pick up on and 96 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,680 mirror and mimic. This is 1 positive trait in his 97 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,240 life that he picked up on from his father. 98 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,000 And that was digging wells or even re digging some of the 99 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,160 wells that his father had dug. Because what his dad had done in 100 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,760 his generation and the wells that he had dug in his 101 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:49,680 generation would be water for generations to come, in essence. 102 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:53,800 So he wasn't just digging a well for himself, he was digging a 103 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,680 well that was gonna serve generations to come. 104 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,440 And so those wells then were available to Isaac as a result 105 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,680 of that, and they were available to him because Isaac was 106 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,440 obedient. Remember, the Lord said, I want 107 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,280 you to not go down to Egypt. I want you to stay in Gerard. 108 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,800 And as a result of that, these wells are in that vicinity that 109 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,640 his father had dug. And so he has the availability 110 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,160 of them, partially because his dad dug them, but also partially 111 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,720 because he was obedient to the voice of the Lord and he stayed 112 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:28,120 in the land of promise during some hard times that the land 113 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:31,120 was going through. So more than just these wells 114 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,320 being an inheritance, right? He has herds and he has flocks 115 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:38,880 and he has family. They're very vital just to the 116 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:44,080 welfare of his family and of his his flocks and his harvest. 117 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,160 It's, it's just wells are important for the watering and 118 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:52,440 for the sustaining just of life. And so the Philistines 119 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,520 understood without doubt that they could not dry up the wells. 120 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,680 They could only fill the wells with dirt. 121 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,520 They could not dry them out. As a matter of fact, whenever 122 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:10,600 Abraham's servants dug the wells as any well, that is since then 123 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:15,400 until now, you dig well, you're tapping into an already existent 124 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,560 water source. You just dig into where it's at. 125 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,680 So it was an already existent water source. 126 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:27,240 I did a little looking to see about drying up a well, and they 127 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,040 say in order to dry up a well you'd have to disrupt what's 128 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,080 called the aquifer. And the aquifer is a body of 129 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,520 permeable rock. Fancy word permeable, but it 130 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,160 means porous or a rock with hose in it. 131 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:46,520 You got to you got to that permeable rock that can contain 132 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,240 all the groundwater and transmit it for the well. 133 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,840 You'd have to disrupt that aquifer. 134 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,080 Now in order to do that, they say you're going to have to 135 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,640 alter the geology of the area or the hydrology of the area in 136 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,320 order to dry it up. Meaning this, that you usually 137 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,640 can't make the water underneath the well just disappear. 138 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,960 Now, I said all of that to say this, and we've already seen 139 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,240 this a few times in the book of Genesis when we talk about wells 140 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,160 and anytime you talk about wells and Scripture, really we are 141 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:26,280 pointing toward a well in the future, a well that sat on a 142 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:33,080 well in John 4, Jesus Christ. And so I'm reminded of Jesus 143 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,320 Christ even in all this picture, because in John 4, he's the 144 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,360 whale sitting on the well, right? 145 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:42,400 He's the one that can provide the water to the woman when she 146 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,880 thought she needed the water. That was from the well that he 147 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,600 was sitting at or upon. And you've heard me say this 148 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,200 before, but in the New Testament, first Corinthians 10, 149 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,960 for the Bible says the apostle Paul says that they drank of 150 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,480 that spiritual rock that followed them speaking in the 151 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,560 wilderness journeys, and that rock was Christ. 152 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:04,360 Everybody say rock. That rock was Christ. 153 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,960 As a matter of fact, that rock is foreshadowed in the Old 154 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:10,000 Testament as being Christ. Even with Moses, the striking of 155 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,680 the rock, striking of the rock is for shouting, the smiting of 156 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:16,760 Christ in the New Testament Scripture. 157 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,080 And so with the smiting of Christ, there's the beating that 158 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,480 he had before he was ever taken to the cross. 159 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,400 There's there's the crown that the soldiers planted together 160 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,520 and put on his head, piercing into his body. 161 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,320 There's the nails that they put in his hands and feet put in 162 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:35,120 places in his hands and his feet, the ones that he had even 163 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,840 to feel that indeed it is in me you have the Pierce side that 164 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,360 the spear going through the side. 165 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:43,800 Another, let me state it in these words, holes in hands, 166 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,240 holes in feet, holes in head, holes inside. 167 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:53,360 And he was denoted as the rock, if I can say the permeable rock, 168 00:09:53,680 --> 00:10:01,400 the holy porous rock, due to all the hoes that had been placed in 169 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,840 him, Even so much so that the Bible says when the soldier put 170 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,560 the spirit through the side, out of that came blood. 171 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:12,920 And the life of the flesh is in the IT was living. 172 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,600 It was living water, the very thing that he told the Samaritan 173 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:26,280 woman in John 4, You drink this water, you're first again, but 174 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:31,400 I'll give to you, he said particularly living water. 175 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,600 So whenever we talk about Abraham digging the well for 176 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,240 that, generations after him are going to be coming to and taking 177 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,520 from the same water source. Even so much so that whenever we 178 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,760 read in John four of the host scenario of the Samaritan woman, 179 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,840 the Bible says she was around the city of Sikar and she was at 180 00:10:52,840 --> 00:11:02,560 Jacob's well 19 centuries after Jacob's well, which was Isaac's 181 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:07,360 son, 19 centuries after Jacob's well had been dug. 182 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:13,960 There's a woman still frequenting that well for water. 183 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:19,000 And by doing so meets the source of living water. 184 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,280 And Speaking of mankind, Jesus said in John 4/14, he says the 185 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:31,840 water that I shall give him shall be in him, a well of water 186 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,160 springing up as everlasting life. 187 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:40,880 That's the reason why we sing out of your belly when we do 188 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:41,960 that song. That's the reason. 189 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,160 That's where the whole concept in terminology. 190 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,720 I mean, if you don't have no, if you don't have no connection to 191 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,360 Scripture, you're saying I don't know about those folks they're 192 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,760 talking about. Out of your belly shall flow, 193 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:58,120 flow, flow. Your mind can go a lot of places 194 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:06,320 with that if you don't have a scripture precedent for it. 195 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:11,240 So I put a well of water in you, springing up to everlasting 196 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:15,640 life. And the the magnificent thing is 197 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:20,360 of this Christ Jesus, this permeable, holy, porous rock 198 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,840 that we know of. Just as in real nature. 199 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,040 So in Christ you cannot disrupt the source. 200 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:31,240 You cannot dry up the source. It's there. 201 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:35,720 Other things can maybe block you from the source, or you can 202 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,840 allow other things in your life to block the source. 203 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:42,040 All right. But if you're diligent in 204 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,840 digging, as Isaac was, you can dig back through whatever's 205 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:49,640 blocking it to reach the source that is still there, always 206 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:50,600 there. Amen. 207 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,000 And rediscovered the flow. And so the Bible tells it that 208 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,440 Isaac dug the wells again. He tapped back into the same 209 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:03,160 water source his father had had. And so the only solution that 210 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,560 seemed then for Abimelech and those people was to somehow keep 211 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,880 Isaac from this water source was that they were going to tell 212 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:13,680 Isaac that he was going to have to remove himself from the 213 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:16,200 location of the well. They're going to tell him you're 214 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,280 just going to have to go and you're going to have to go 215 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,480 somewhere else. And that's all well and fine for 216 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,080 a natural whale somewhere in the desert. 217 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,800 But that is insufficient for the whale that you and I have today, 218 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,480 because the location of the whale is not some little 219 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:36,120 geographic marking over here. You have a whale in you, Amen. 220 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:41,040 So anywhere you are, you have the well, Amen, and Christ is 221 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,080 still supplying that well for your life. 222 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,040 And so whatever we took all this into into mine and he's telling 223 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,240 them to go. He's telling Isaac and those 224 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,120 that are with him to go. The the Philistines are going to 225 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,680 eventually in Scripture become adversaries to the children of 226 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,320 Israel and so they are told then by these people that will 227 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,600 eventually become absolute adversaries to them that they 228 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,880 need to leave for this very reason. 229 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,760 The Bible says in verse 16, they said, we want you to go because 230 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:16,560 you are much mightier than we. And this isn't so much that 231 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:21,280 Isaac and his ragtag group of a family at this point in time is 232 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:24,000 so much so that they're they're, they're more powerful as far as 233 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:26,280 in strength. But they can tell by what they 234 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,080 have and what has happened in this famine and the the harvest 235 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,560 that they have gotten that there's some type of visible 236 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,280 influence, some type of visible growth. 237 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:38,320 There's some type of favor that is upon their life and a 238 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:40,960 blessing that God has placed upon their life. 239 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:45,120 And it's come, no doubt. We know that has come absolutely 240 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,080 from the Lord that the favor of God has placed upon Isaac has 241 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,080 elevated them from the people in the world that is around them. 242 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,160 And this is something that God does over and over in his people 243 00:14:57,160 --> 00:14:59,440 whenever he places his favor upon them. 244 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,480 Because you'll read in the book of Exodus that whenever there 245 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:07,200 was a king that that arose over Egypt that knew not Joseph king 246 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,200 a new pharaoh. The Bible says that he witnessed 247 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,960 the same thing about these Israelites that have been bound 248 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:19,200 in Egypt for about 400 years. The Bible tells us in Exodus 19, 249 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,520 the people of Israel, this is what the new king of Egypt said. 250 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,960 He said the people of Israel are more and mightier than we. 251 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,480 It's the same thing that even Rahab the harlot said when the 252 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,160 spies came into Jericho, that first city that's that's going 253 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,800 to be conquered, a man in Israel and some spies come to her. 254 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:44,800 She tells those spies that are invading. 255 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:52,280 She says, your terror is falling up on us and we faint because of 256 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,960 you because ever since we heard you crossed over the Red Sea and 257 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:01,200 the Lord separated and made a path for you, we've been fearful 258 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:02,560 of you. What is that? 259 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:04,960 She's. And they noticed the favor and 260 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,000 the blessing of God on the children of Israel, whether it 261 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,320 was from Isaac's time or when they were in Egypt or even now 262 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,680 that they're about ready to go into the promised land. 263 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,760 God's blessing, God's favor makes his people mightier. 264 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,720 Amen. And not in the sense of being 265 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:25,560 arrogant, All right? Scripture tells us over and over 266 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,560 again, we don't need to think more of ourselves than what we 267 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,240 ought. New Testament Scripture. 268 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,560 No, no, no, no, no. But, my dear, in the sense that 269 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:38,360 there is a visible influence that God has upon his people, 270 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,240 and it's not human strength or ingenuity. 271 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:46,120 All right. This sounds just a little bit 272 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:50,560 loud to me right here. Ingenuity or strength, It's not 273 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:56,160 about that, but because his hand, God's hand, is upon them. 274 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,600 Amen. And so whatever the tactics were 275 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,880 against such power, Abimelech says, Isaac, you guys, you got 276 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,839 to leave, whether it was Pharaoh, Pharaoh says they look 277 00:17:08,839 --> 00:17:11,200 mightier than us. We're going to afflict them hard 278 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,240 taskmasters. We're going to do what we can to 279 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,079 stop this. Jericho. 280 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:19,240 They're they're intimidated by them with, with their, you know, 281 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,680 well fortified walls and all these things. 282 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,240 So so if, if that type of thing is happening to you affliction, 283 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,760 if that Ting is happening to you, you know, you need to go, 284 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:33,160 you need to leave the, the, the indication may be you might pose 285 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:38,600 a threat. You might be posing a threat to 286 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,800 your adversary If you're feeling some of the heat of those 287 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,640 things. They could clearly see God's 288 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:47,640 influence on their life. Amen. 289 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,480 But they just didn't know how to respond. 290 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,520 Get out of here affliction, all this stuff. 291 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:56,120 But Rahab the harlot did The Bible says she took those spies. 292 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:58,960 She invited them in. She was honest with them. 293 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,040 And whenever destruction hits Jericho, the Bible tells us that 294 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,040 those that were with her were spared in her house because she 295 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,720 responded rightly to the influence of God she's seen on 296 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,160 the life of individuals rather than being critical of it, she 297 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,680 says. I want to know about it, right. 298 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,600 And so the response to God's favor, it's not rejection, it's 299 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,800 not suffering, it's not fear, it's not any of that. 300 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:24,640 It's accepting it, right? It's accepting it. 301 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,440 And so that that will save a a damned generation and that will 302 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,200 bring new life into a person if rather than criticizing the 303 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,720 favor, they'll just look into it and investigate the favor. 304 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,720 And so as a result though of those words, here's Isaac, he 305 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,920 leaves the city of Gerard and he settles, the Bible says in the 306 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,400 valley of Jarrar. So it's not like he went a long 307 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,480 ways. But Isaac is is different than 308 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:57,920 Abraham in this respect, that Isaac doesn't seem to be a very 309 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:03,600 confrontational person. He doesn't struggle with people 310 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,880 much. He's more passive, more 311 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:11,520 peaceable, more more intentional about avoiding conflict. 312 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:17,240 Bishop, I mean the moment of surrender on Mount Moriah when 313 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:24,880 he was the sacrifice, no fight. Philistines are saying get out 314 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:29,320 of here, No fight. We're going to see other places 315 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,760 in this story. He's digging wells, there's 316 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,320 strife, He moves from that place, goes on. 317 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,280 No fight. He's just leading somewhat of a 318 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:43,280 peaceable life as much as lieth within him, He's trying to be 319 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,680 peaceable. And so he's avoiding some of 320 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,520 this confrontation. And that that's that's, you 321 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,360 know, quite different, a little bit different than Abraham and 322 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,600 in many instances of Abraham's life, because although Isaac is 323 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:00,720 avoiding fighting, it doesn't mean that Isaac's be an idol. 324 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,600 I think that's important. Sometimes we think if people are 325 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,160 avoiding confrontation then they're just no good. 326 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,360 Well, man, I had to sit here and work for a little bit. 327 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,320 Let's put it like this. Sometimes the Abraham fighters 328 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:25,400 can be critical of the Isaac non confrontational ones. 329 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:36,520 You should be fighting well, but although Isaac's not fighting, 330 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:41,680 he's not idle. He's re digging the wells. 331 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:49,680 That is, father Abraham had dug that the Philistines had filled 332 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:54,400 up with earth. You'll know that the Bible says 333 00:20:54,400 --> 00:21:00,240 particularly that they did this. They did this after Abraham had 334 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:05,440 died, after Abraham had passed away, because they know Abraham 335 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,960 to be more of a fighter. They're not going to challenge 336 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,880 him while he's alive. Abraham fought 4 kings in order 337 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,640 to get Lot and his family back and get him back to Sodom. 338 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,480 Abraham was the one that went to interceding for Sodom. 339 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,320 And so he has this personality a little bit more than Isaac of, 340 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,040 of confronting the threats directively and being aggressive 341 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:28,640 if he needs to be. But here on the other side, 342 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,160 Isaac chooses a different path and a different plan. 343 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,440 He just has a peaceful determination over open 344 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,240 conflict. And I'm not saying one's right 345 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,840 and one's wrong, but I'm saying both is OK in their proper 346 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:48,400 place. The thing that marvels me about 347 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,600 Isaac re digging these wells, and I think I alluded to this 348 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:56,080 one other week, is that in order to do so, he had to know where 349 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,560 the whale whale was located. And if he called them by the 350 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,480 names of his father, he had to know what they were called. 351 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:09,920 The only way that could have happened is if Abraham took him 352 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:15,600 to where the wells were and told him what the wells were called. 353 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,200 And Isaac must have been attentive enough during those 354 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:24,560 visits that though Dad's dead, I'm not scratching my head about 355 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,240 where it's at or what it's called. 356 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,240 Someone say Amen. So with that, Isaac just isn't 357 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,160 inheriting the land. He he's inherited to a certain 358 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,920 degree, a knowledge, right? A knowledge of these wells, the 359 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:43,000 naming of these wells, a strategy, all these things. 360 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,440 And he paid enough attention to put it to heart and put it to 361 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,200 mine. Oh, that's a big one. 362 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,360 That's a big one. There's a lot of things 363 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:54,360 generations before me have showed me and told me and talk 364 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:58,840 to me about. Sometimes Sister Abby, I'm going 365 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,360 to be the duck and just let it fly off my back. 366 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:06,320 Well, that's good that Mom and Dad know that I'll just live my 367 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,960 life with second hand information through them. 368 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,400 I'll never study these things out for myself. 369 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,520 I'm about ready to get the meddling, but I'm the preacher, 370 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,160 I'm the pastor. So I guess it's not meddling. 371 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,400 We, we talk in this sphere right here. 372 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:33,040 We talk about the oneness of God, we talk about we talk about 373 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:39,520 lifestyles, we talk about Jesus name baptism. 374 00:23:42,360 --> 00:23:46,000 Here's the thing though, what happens when the generation 375 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,640 before you dies? Let me put it in these terms. 376 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,880 Will you know where to locate it and how to call it? 377 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:12,990 Apostolic people, you need to know your doctrine, you need to 378 00:24:12,990 --> 00:24:17,350 know where the wells at, and you know you need to know how to 379 00:24:17,350 --> 00:24:22,270 call the well by what it's called, because you don't want 380 00:24:22,270 --> 00:24:24,990 to be carried about with every wind of doctrine that blows. 381 00:24:25,630 --> 00:24:29,790 If you don't know where the well is and you're not confident, 382 00:24:30,310 --> 00:24:32,430 you're not sure whether that's your well or not. 383 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,840 And so things start sneaking in about, well, you know you. 384 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,080 We can give you options about being baptized in Jesus name or 385 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,160 being baptized in the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. 386 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:48,240 That's OK. Now it's one thing for you to 387 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,720 sit there and say no, but can you take them here and tell them 388 00:24:52,720 --> 00:25:01,120 why? Got to know where the whale is, 389 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,480 got to know why, what it's called by. 390 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:09,560 And if necessary, if the world has filled it with Earth, you 391 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:19,330 got to carve it back out. You can't grow satisfied with 392 00:25:19,330 --> 00:25:21,610 whales that were true and honorable. 393 00:25:21,610 --> 00:25:23,890 That someone is filled up, say, well, I guess just going to have 394 00:25:23,890 --> 00:25:28,810 to go on. Isaac didn't dig new wells, but 395 00:25:28,810 --> 00:25:33,810 not without first undoing the filled up wells that Daddy had. 396 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,880 Well glory, Jesus, Hallelujah, Amen. 397 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,520 So sometimes listen, sometimes you're sometimes you're called 398 00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:50,480 to a ministry of digging wells and maybe not fighting. 399 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,720 Remember God's reference throughout Scripture. 400 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:04,670 He's the God of thank you soprano, altone tenor and 401 00:26:04,670 --> 00:26:06,230 baritone bass. Appreciate it. 402 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,920 Saddam mentions just one, but the collective of the three, 403 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:19,600 because in Abraham you have that faithful fighter, in Isaac you 404 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,360 have that diligent digger, and in Jacob we're going to find the 405 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:26,400 passionate pursuer. Not that 1 is better than the 406 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:32,720 other, but the collective, the collective, the God of Abraham 407 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:36,080 and Isaac and Jacob. Let's go on. 408 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:40,160 Verse #19 We didn't. OK, you started time, I didn't. 409 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,240 God bless you. Amen. 410 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:47,560 Verse #19 The Bible says. And Isaac's servants digged in 411 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:52,920 the valley and found there a well of springing water. 412 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:58,760 Verse #20 And the herdman of Gerard did strive with Isaac's 413 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,480 herdman saying, the water is ours. 414 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,960 And he called the name of the well the SEC. 415 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,440 And because they strove with him, and they digged another 416 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,080 well, and strove for that also. And he called the name of it 417 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,240 Sitna verse 22 and removed from thence, and digged another well, 418 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,400 and for that strove not. And he called the name of it 419 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:24,640 Reho both and he said, for now the Lord have made room for us 420 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,360 and we shall be fruitful in the Lamb. 421 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,240 There is a there is a changeover in verse 18. 422 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,840 It's talking about how he dig the wells of his father. 423 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,120 And so the 1920, the verses I just read to you is the digging 424 00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:42,120 of the new wells that's taking place in verse 18. 425 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:45,120 He dug the old wells, the one his father, yes, had originally 426 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,840 dug with and his servants had dug with their own hands. 427 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,400 And and that that's the inheritance of faith. 428 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,880 Yes, that's passed on to his, to his son, their spiritual 429 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,280 investment that his father made in the soil there in one 430 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,560 generation, that's going to benefit even another generation. 431 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,400 All right, water is there. Amen. 432 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,000 As a matter of fact, folks, you know you can dig more than one 433 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,520 well, but they all have the same water source. 434 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,440 It's so powerful to me because Abraham's well source, and 435 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,840 seeing where these things are, more than likely sharing the 436 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,200 same source from the new ones that Isaac had dug. 437 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:29,480 It's not different water. It's water connected to the same 438 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,720 source. And so there's that blessing. 439 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,600 But in verse 19, Isaac begins to shift. 440 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,680 He's not just going off what he's inherited as a blessing. 441 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,480 Yeah, but now Isaac has a personal breakthrough for 442 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:47,120 himself. He begins digging some wells, 443 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,400 not the wells of Abraham, but these are what we could call 444 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,920 Isaac's wells. And he digs them not in the time 445 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,360 of peace. He digs them in the time of 446 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:04,040 contention, a time of strife, time of opposition, and each 447 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:06,720 wells tell him the story of that in Scripture. 448 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,200 Amen. That there's a struggle going 449 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,000 on. The Bible says that the herdsmen 450 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,520 of Gerard disputed claims over one of the wells that Isaac, 451 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,480 Doug, and he called it by that new name, which means 452 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,520 contention, essec contention. They had this striving between 453 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,800 his herdsmen and Isaac's herdsmen and that should just if 454 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,920 you a Bible reader stuff you should start just connecting 455 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,160 with you. That should make you herald back 456 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,640 to something we already studied of when Abraham's herdsmen had 457 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:39,120 contention with Lot's herdsmen and they separated and went 458 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,760 there two different ways and Lot chose the well plains of of of 459 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,320 Jordan went down to Sodom, Gomorrah and Abraham had 460 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,120 everything else. We see this played out now again 461 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,760 in Isaac's life. Guess what, you'll see it played 462 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:54,960 out again in Jacob's life. I told you this is a bunch of 463 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,720 Deja vu. It's just shown us that similar 464 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,600 things happen to similar generation, similar challenges 465 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,120 and you come out, you've even learned or you've been buried by 466 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:06,960 it. You've either adopted or you you 467 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,040 went on with it. And so here it is. 468 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:13,080 This is a moment of how blessing sometimes brings tension. 469 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,280 He found a well, Amen. Isaac has instinct right here, 470 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,400 much like Abraham does, Amen, of finding the right place to dig. 471 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,240 The favor of God is upon him. But but whenever contention 472 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,960 comes, he's not putting up his Dukes, he says you can have it. 473 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,040 I'm going to go on and I'm going to dig another well. 474 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,600 And he digs another well. And he calls it sitna, meaning 475 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:43,240 hostility or opposition. And the Hebrew root here is 476 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,720 related to a verb in Hebrew called Satan. 477 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:57,720 If you spell it, it's Satan, Satan, which means oppose or act 478 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:02,320 as an adversary. Now Isaac doesn't give no 479 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,920 confrontation, brother Fred, but the name of of his well, I think 480 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:13,720 is a jab. I know what I'm dealing here 481 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,480 with in the contention of digging these wells, the 482 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:23,200 opposer, the opposition, the hostility, I see what's I know 483 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,640 what's behind all of this that's happening right now. 484 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,440 And so even without finding, he discerns the spiritual 485 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,320 resistance that's taking place here. 486 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,120 Amen. And his little jab if the 487 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,000 turning point comes with his third well, the Bible says this 488 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,320 time there's no contention, there's no opposition, no 489 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,880 hostility, no striving. And Isaac names it Riho, both 490 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:46,640 meaning room or broad place. This is the exact same word in 491 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:51,280 Genesis 13 that he used to describe the land of Canaan as 492 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,880 being a broad place or the breadth of that place. 493 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,080 It's an expansion. There's endurance. 494 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,280 And so they've had a lot of pressure. 495 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,040 But after the pressure, now Isaac has found some peace. 496 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,640 And so you see then his, well, he has contention here, then he 497 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,960 has the opposition, and then he has room. 498 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,120 And all of that took place after all the problems, all the 499 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,840 pressure, all the hitting, if you will, all of the the enemy 500 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,640 looking in and wanting to attack. 501 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,600 After all of that came the enlargement, the place of room, 502 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,640 which I believe illustrates a very good biblical example from 503 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,400 Proverbs or Psalms rather chapter #4 and verse number one 504 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,360 that says, hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness, Thou 505 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,640 hast enlarged me when I was distressed. 506 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,080 And it seems we have stories in Scripture like that. 507 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,440 Enlargement comes after your problem. 508 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,920 Enlargement comes after your distress. 509 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,240 Enlargement comes after proving truth through your difficult 510 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,400 time. A lot of people want it without 511 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,760 the difficulty. But the principle in Scripture 512 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,720 many times is let's see how you handle your difficulty. 513 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,280 You know, let's see how you are over a few things and I'll make 514 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,800 you ruler over many. But you don't have to cross the 515 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,280 bridge a difficulty to get to your enlargement. 516 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:11,160 How you, how you deal with that will determine room for you. 517 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,320 So often times it comes with with some discouragement and it 518 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:18,160 comes with some distress and it comes with some hard times. 519 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,200 Let's continue on verse #23 we'll never get done. 520 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,920 Amen. The Bible says, and he went up 521 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,360 from fence, from that valley of Gerard, this is Isaac to 522 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,360 Beersheba. He's been there before. 523 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:33,440 And the Lord appeared into him the same night and said, I am 524 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,040 God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee and 525 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,840 will bless thee, and multiply by seed for my servant Abraham's 526 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,360 sake. And he builded an altar there 527 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,200 and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. 528 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,640 And there Isaac's servants did well. 529 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:54,680 So Isaac is returning from the valley of, of Gerard to 530 00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,000 Beersheba that that was his hometown, so to speak. 531 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,760 Whenever Abraham died, Isaac had to whelp there in Genesis 532 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:07,480 chapter #25 And so God was going to do, God was going to do what 533 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,600 he did in Isaac's generation. The Bible says in our, in our 534 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,719 verse of Scripture, he was going to do it for Abraham's sake. 535 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:15,760 No, he said, I'll bless thee in verse 24. 536 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,120 I'll bless thee multiplied by seed for my servant Abraham's 537 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:20,280 sake. I'm going to do that for you, 538 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:25,159 Isaac, because of Abraham. It's good to have. 539 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,440 It's good to have proper upbringing. 540 00:34:35,860 --> 00:34:39,100 He said, Isaac, I'm going to do this for you because of his 541 00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:43,620 sake. The Bible says look at verse 25. 542 00:34:43,620 --> 00:34:47,219 I want to read again and he builded Isaac builded an altar 543 00:34:47,260 --> 00:34:50,340 there and called up on the name of the Lord and pitched his 544 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:54,420 everybody say tint tint there and there Isaac servants dig 545 00:34:54,420 --> 00:34:59,140 day. Everybody say, well, well, well, 546 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:02,760 so Isaac's not just inheriting blessing. 547 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,920 He's not just inheriting land and seed. 548 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:10,640 He's inherited by his choice. We said last week, we have 549 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,760 things shoved our direction. We have a choice whether or not 550 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:18,760 to adopt them. So he's inherited by choice a 551 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,760 good aspect of his father's faithful lifestyle, and he put 552 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:27,720 it at his own because Abraham has a pattern in Scripture too. 553 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:37,240 He builds altars, he pitches his tent, and he digs wells, Isaac 554 00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:39,480 said. That worked pretty good. 555 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,000 I'm going to build altars, I'm going to pitch my tent, I'm 556 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,880 going to dig wells. The order, though, I believe in 557 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,400 scripture, is important. I think I alluded to this a few 558 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,200 weeks ago. The first thing he did wasn't 559 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,720 dig a well. The first thing he did wasn't 560 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:00,400 pitch a tent. The first thing he did was built 561 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:06,040 as altar. We get life UN prioritized 562 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:12,520 sometimes and we're busy pitching our tents when we 563 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:18,040 should have built our altar. We're busy digging our wells 564 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,560 when we should have built our old altar. 565 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,720 I believe it's a divine order. It's like if we just look at 566 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:37,760 altar tent and then, well, I see God, I see family, I see work or 567 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:42,760 Bishop, I see worship and this tent Pilgrim idea, pilgrimage 568 00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:47,320 and, and, and a stranger idea. I see separation because I'm not 569 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:52,120 putting down my roots anywhere in this earth with permanence. 570 00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:58,120 And I also then see my work. So before Isaac built anything 571 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,560 else, I'm going to build this altar. 572 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,120 See, we start justifying things about the trout. 573 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,040 It'll take too much time to do this. 574 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,880 I need to get my tent up for my family. 575 00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:23,600 You will do nothing any more important for your family and 576 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:28,760 establishing your altar first. I'll say the flip of this. 577 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:33,600 You'll do a disservice to your family not getting your altar 578 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:40,120 first. Altar first. 579 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,200 What's that show? It shows priority. 580 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:46,120 It shows priority. His worship. 581 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:51,760 His altar came before his work. I'm going to go home now. 582 00:37:54,240 --> 00:37:58,160 His worship came before his work of digging the well, right? 583 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,200 That altar is the place where the believer has communion with 584 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,040 God, has communion with God. There. 585 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,440 The altar was a place, typically Old Testament Scripture, that 586 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,360 that's where the fire falls. That's where our hearts are 587 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,280 surrendered. And before I can draw from a 588 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,960 well, I need to kneel out an altar. 589 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:21,800 I want to draw from the well. I understand the blessing of the 590 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,480 source of the water from the well is really founded from the 591 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:30,680 knees at an altar. Hey, man. 592 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:33,800 And so after worship comes after I build my altar, now I'm 593 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,360 looking out about where I live or how I live again. 594 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,720 That tent, it's reminded Abraham, it's reminded Isaac for 595 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:43,120 sure. They are nomadic people at this 596 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,360 stage of life for sure. They're pilgrims, They're 597 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,560 strangers as the book of Hebrews says. 598 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,400 Abraham said he's he's looking for a city whose had 599 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,760 foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 600 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,600 And so the tent for Abraham and Isaac in this point of time of 601 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,520 the nation of Israel is speaking to them that this world, what is 602 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:06,600 not my home, I came and put it in these terms or a child. 603 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,200 These wasn't Amen her and wasn't. 604 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,600 And I know the promised land is what God's given us for the 605 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,680 moment, but in the grand scheme of life, there is a promise that 606 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,640 I know I'm not. I'm not even going to see in my 607 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,160 generation. This a world is not my home. 608 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:26,040 I'm in it, but I am not of it. I'm in it, but it is not my 609 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,720 source. I'm in it, but it is not my 610 00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:34,160 origin, huh? Don't you know you're living for 611 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:39,760 another world? You living for another country, 612 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,120 huh? Another country, Amen. 613 00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:51,080 And so he's got this tent. Why? 614 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:54,600 Because it's portable? Because it's temporary, Amen. 615 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:59,080 And so finally, at at at last, he digs a well. 616 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:04,920 And you can have a sanctified well, because the altar will 617 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:09,840 sanctify it. Tint will separate us, make us 618 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,280 different from anybody else. And the whales going to sustain 619 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,480 this. But that, well, yes, it's a 620 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,560 product, man, you dig? There's some labor in there. 621 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,000 There's some patients there. There's some persistence there. 622 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,760 But I'm going to worship 1st and I'm going to walk or have my 623 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,440 family life 2nd and I'm going to work last. 624 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,720 And so when we get the altar right, everything else just sets 625 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:35,840 us up for a divine flow. As the New Testament scripture 626 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:40,120 says, all these things shall be added unto you. 627 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,640 Put chief first, the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and 628 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,760 all these things will be. Why? 629 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,280 Because they were worried about what they were going to eat and 630 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,720 what they were going to wear. And about all these things, he 631 00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:54,360 says, no, you're looking at small pebbles. 632 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:58,680 You need to think about the big rock put she first, the Kingdom 633 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:03,680 of God and these things that you're worrying about and that's 634 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,720 parsley on the plate. It take care of itself. 635 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,720 But we live our lives often times brother trout worrying 636 00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:16,640 about the things that would come in an alignment. 637 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:22,440 If we would get into alignment, we become the human fixers. 638 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:27,320 That's right, that's true. Clove, make them do all the I 639 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:32,600 got to take care of all this when if we would just take care 640 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,840 of this, he'd take care of everything else. 641 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:40,640 Amen. Amen. 642 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,120 And so the commanders verse 26. Let's go on. 643 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,480 We're getting there, folks. I'm going to I know at you. 644 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:49,520 Just a few comments here at the end. 645 00:41:50,240 --> 00:41:56,080 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerard, and Zuzath one of his 646 00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,320 friends, and Picole the chief captain of his army. 647 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:04,040 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me seen ye 648 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,640 hate me, and have sent me away from you, right. 649 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,040 That just happened a little while ago in Scripture. 650 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,520 And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee. 651 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,480 And we said, Let there be now an oath between betwixt us, and 652 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,120 even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with 653 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:25,000 thee, that thou wilt do us know her as we have not touched thee, 654 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,160 and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent 655 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,280 thee away in peace. Thou art now the blessed of the 656 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:34,520 Lord. And he Speaking of Isaac made 657 00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,200 them a feast. And they did eat and drink, and 658 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:41,120 they arose up at beat times in the morning, and swear one to 659 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,960 another. Isaac sent them away, and they 660 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:46,160 departed from him in peace. And it came to pass the same day 661 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,880 the Isaac servants came and told him concerning the well which 662 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,800 they did, and said unto him, We have found water. 663 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,120 And he called it Sheba. Therefore, the name of the city 664 00:42:55,120 --> 00:43:04,560 is there, Sheba, unto this day. So Abimelech has basically a 665 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,880 couple of people with him, two witnesses really, to give 666 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:09,880 witness to the event that's taking place, right? 667 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,880 It's kind of like you want somebody there with so that no 668 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,280 one can say something that wasn't said, that was said or 669 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,800 agreed upon, wasn't agreed upon, want to have a couple of 670 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,600 witnesses. And so Isaac asked a very proper 671 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:22,480 question. Why are you here talking to me 672 00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,600 now? You just pointed me to go. 673 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,440 Not long ago I was with you and you told me to get out of here. 674 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,960 So why are you? Why are you coming here now? 675 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:36,760 And they say we've recognized the hand of God on your life. 676 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,960 God's with you, Isaac, number one. 677 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:44,040 This is great because whenever God told him, Isaac don't go 678 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:48,360 down to Egypt, his thing to him was, I will be with thee and I 679 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:52,160 will bless thee. And God is so much so with Isaac 680 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,720 that not only does Isaac know it, that anybody that can 681 00:43:55,720 --> 00:44:01,320 observe his life knows it. And so they and what what's 682 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,000 proven some of this, let's think for a moment. 683 00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:04,680 They've been contentious with him. 684 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,280 They have strove with him, but they've seen how he responded. 685 00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:15,680 Let's put in these terms. Any other Joe blow during this 686 00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,040 contention and strife scenario wouldn't have acted like you 687 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:25,280 acted Isaac. God is with you. 688 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:38,160 Could we be convicted by those that observe our lies that God's 689 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:45,720 with us? They seem how he responded. 690 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:50,080 Let's go a step further. They could even observe Sister 691 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:54,800 Abby how he ordered his life. You know, I was talking to Joe 692 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:58,120 the other day and the first thing that guy did when he got 693 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:05,840 down there was build an altar and then he pitched his tent and 694 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:11,160 then he dug. Folks, it's not just what pastor 695 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,120 observes in your life. It's what people that are not 696 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,680 even in covenant with God, what they're observing in your life. 697 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,280 What's their order? What's their prior? 698 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:35,080 What's their priority? You shout in a little bit, Amen. 699 00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:37,680 And so they're they're taking in all this as well. 700 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,080 And so from all this, they're like God's hand is with you and 701 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,080 we make we want to make a covenant with you. 702 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:49,040 These were people that very, I mean, accosting them earlier, 703 00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:51,800 but not now. And I believe there's a 704 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,240 principle in the Scripture, then, Bishop, that bears us out 705 00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:59,720 in Proverbs 16 and seven that says when a man's ways please 706 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:05,240 the Lord, he'll make even his enemies to be at peace. 707 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,400 He'll even make his enemies be at peace with him. 708 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,360 What's Isaac do? He doesn't say. 709 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,240 Okay, you're coming for it now. Yeah, I know I was. 710 00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,960 I was on the opposite end of this stick earlier and I had to 711 00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:23,360 be on the defensive side. But now you're in my territory. 712 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,240 Where my 10s at. Hallelujah. 713 00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,640 You know, where I built my altar and all of that. 714 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,360 So it's going down off with your head. 715 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,080 No, the Bible says he was hospitable to them. 716 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:37,200 He threw them a feast, He fixed them food. 717 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,360 He was kind of compassionate to them. 718 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:40,960 Amen. You got to think what what's 719 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:42,560 going on here? It's kind of like the whole 720 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,400 prodigal son thing, right? Because whenever the prodigal 721 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,960 son comes back, there's dancing, there's merriment, there's the 722 00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,520 killing of the fatty calf. Why? 723 00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:53,320 Because all of those are signs of the mending of a 724 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,640 relationship. And that's what Isaac is 725 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,280 contended with right here. I'm not going to go off with 726 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,080 your head. I'm going to consider this a 727 00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,680 reconciliation moment and we're going to celebrate and have food 728 00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:10,240 because of amended. Pray for those that despitefully 729 00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:19,560 use you, your enemies. That's that's that's a wishbone 730 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,040 trying to swallow go down your throat. 731 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:27,120 Amen. Isaac has disciplined that this 732 00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,960 year. So Abraham had made earlier on 733 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:34,040 in Scripture, Abraham had made a covenant with an abimelech, 734 00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,920 which an abimelech is more so a title than it is a personal 735 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,600 name. And now here is Isaac making an 736 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:45,760 oath with an abimelech here at the same place, Bearsheba, and 737 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,400 he calls the well that's dug there Sheba or oath. 738 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,680 You'll stand with me tonight. Isaac is folks just tracking the 739 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:59,440 footsteps of his father. New Testament scripture urges us 740 00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,280 to follow the footsteps of his faith. 741 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,720 Speaking of Abraham's footsteps, So I think Genesis 26, the 742 00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:09,520 overarching thing is that he is following these the same the 743 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,280 same experiences, the same pattern of life. 744 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:17,160 Look at it. Abraham left during the famine. 745 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,440 Isaac attempted to leave during the famine. 746 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,160 Huh. Due to fear, Abraham said that 747 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:28,120 woman is my sister. Isaac said this woman is my 748 00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,480 sister. Abraham dug wells. 749 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,440 Isaac readigs the wills of his father and digs some wells. 750 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,280 God makes his covenant with Abraham. 751 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,000 God reassures his covenant with Isaac. 752 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,320 Both at Bare Sheba, they received the same divine 753 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:48,200 promises. Land and descendants, both of 754 00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,480 them do. Isaac is really reflecting the 755 00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,160 image of his father in faithfulness and obedience and 756 00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:00,400 all of these things. And yes, also in some of his 757 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:04,400 flaws, but also in some of his repented moments. 758 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:11,000 They continue in Isaac just as they continued in Abraham. 759 00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,080 That just affirms really a final verdict of everything. 760 00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,920 Isaac's life is going to try to be in as close as possible 761 00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:23,760 alignment as the legacy that his father has left him. 762 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,080 And that sets us up for a promise that is preserved right 763 00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,880 from generation to generation that keeps everything intact for 764 00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:37,360 God's special people, His peculiar people by following in 765 00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:43,160 the footsteps of Father Abram and Jacob and Esau will come 766 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:48,720 sometime next year. I know if anybody needs to call 767 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:53,880 me a hotline tonight due to you sobbing over Genesis. 768 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,680 What's The funny thing going to be this problem between now and 769 00:49:56,680 --> 00:50:01,760 then it's going to come back up and it might not even be me. 770 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,960 It might not even be me. I'm praying God let brother 771 00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:10,720 Daniel Taylor, you say everybody turned to you know that's 772 00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:17,720 already happened a few times. Folks, let's raise our hands to 773 00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:24,960 the Lord right now. We need to be purposeful about 774 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:28,880 re digging some wells. We need to be purposeful about 775 00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:31,280 learning where they are and knowing their names. 776 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:35,800 We need to be purposeful Oh Lord Jesus today, God, it's it's not 777 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,840 just always about fighting. Sometimes it's about Lord Jesus 778 00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,040 just going on and you'll bring the proper moment God when all 779 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,560 things can come to a head Lord of reconciliation. 780 00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:49,320 Lord Jesus, God, if we'll just trust your timing. 781 00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,440 I pray, O Father today that you have to help us tonight. 782 00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:56,800 God as we go from this place. Lord that those that know us and 783 00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,120 those that don't even know us, we'll be able to pick up on. 784 00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,400 Lord that God is with individuals, Lord Jesus that 785 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,560 leave this because of the way that they order their lives, 786 00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:09,080 because of the way that they respond and react to things in 787 00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,200 their lives. God that they would for sure 788 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,200 guess would be a different reaction. 789 00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:16,800 Lord God be with us. We need the Lord that promise. 790 00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,920 We need that stamp, Lord Jesus upon our life. 791 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,840 Help us, O God today, God, to live the way. 792 00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:24,640 Lord that you would have us to live. 793 00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,960 Lord, give us an open mind and understanding. 794 00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,080 Our hearts will be easily impressed by your spirit and 795 00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,080 will not fail to thank you for it in the lovely name of Jesus 796 00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:37,320 Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah the church say Amen, 797 00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,840 Amen. What's tomorrow night prayer 798 00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,160 from 7:00 to 8:00 Amen. Come and be a part of this Sir 799 00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,720 that that prayer time and services on the weekend. 800 00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,800 Amen. If you this is my last service, 801 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,120 it's going to actually be here for five services. 802 00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,640 And so if you have anything that's like emergency situation, 803 00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,120 you can get a hold of Bishop and he'll he'll do something for 804 00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,360 you. He'll do something, Amen. 805 00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,240 You can get a hold of Bishop. If you happen to forget and get 806 00:52:05,240 --> 00:52:08,520 a hold of me, I'll get back with you as soon as I can, Amen. 807 00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,800 But if it's dire, please get a hold of Bishop, Amen. 808 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,120 God bless you tonight in Jesus name.