1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:05,600 Thank God for his mercy. Hallelujah, Jesus, Amen. 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,040 That lid that was upon the Ark of the Covenant, the Old 3 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:12,800 Testament, the Bible called it the mercy seat. 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,320 It's where they would go in and sprinkle the blood of the 5 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,800 sacrifice that was made in the outer court. 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,960 That mercy would have blood sprinkled on it and that priest 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,640 would go in there and God would meet. 8 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,240 I would meet with that man between the two cherubim that 9 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,640 were upon that mercy seat, cloaked in all of that. 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:37,240 It's that very mercy seat. The Bible says after the ark had 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,840 been gone for a while and they came to the place called Beth, 12 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,200 the Mesh, there were some men there that looked into the ark 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,040 and had the laws of God. When they did, there were 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:49,040 several thousand that died. Because we can't withstand, We 15 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:51,440 can't stand the law without God's mercy. 16 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,120 We can't stand it without His mercy, Amen. 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,240 And I'm thankful tonight for the mercy of the Lord, Amen. 18 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,160 Just as a few reminders, time changes this weekend. 19 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,600 You're either in a hate relationship or love 20 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,400 relationship with that. I don't know. 21 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,360 But nonetheless, it's going to happen folks, Amen. 22 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,440 Sometimes going to fall back. If you don't do that, that just 23 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,280 means you'll be here early on Sunday morning. 24 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,680 And so my my advice to some of you is don't do it. 25 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:39,440 Well, it is. Well, it is. 26 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,480 Well, Amen, Amen. Also. 27 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,840 Then next week, next week, we're folks, we're going to dip right 28 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:48,960 into the month of November here this weekend. 29 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,600 All right, So next week on Thursday is Power Hour. 30 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,200 Amen. We want to come and be a part 31 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,520 Amen of that time of prayer here at the church. 32 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:03,120 Doors open, Genesis 26. Everybody say next Wednesday. 33 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,960 Next Wednesday is the last time you'll hear about Genesis for a 34 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,560 while, at least on a Wednesday night. 35 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,000 Let's not say it won't make some cameo appearance or something on 36 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,040 a on a Sunday. All right, that as far As for 37 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:21,680 Wednesday, that will be the case because after that, then Brother 38 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,600 Zach is going to be teaching on a Wednesday while my wife and I 39 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,040 are gone. And then whenever we get back, 40 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,080 we'll be doing that interview with Brother Mason. 41 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,720 And then the week, this Wednesday after that will be 42 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:38,920 National Youth Convention man. And the week after that we have 43 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,320 a guest, the missionary. We're going to be here. 44 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,480 The Hirsch family to Honduras will be here with us on that 45 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,520 Wednesday, missionaries to Honduras. 46 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,720 So that'll be exciting. All right, so just a few things 47 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,760 to keep in mind. Genesis 26, also in the month of 48 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:56,200 November, the 5th Sunday, we just have one service. 49 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:02,120 We'll have Pastor and Sister Taylor and their family on that 50 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:07,080 Sunday morning from Wilburton. OK, so we're kind of just kind 51 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,600 of piggybacking off them being at NYC and just see if they'll 52 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,000 come by and not yet. They are. 53 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:15,600 They're coming by, Amen, to be in service. 54 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,800 Genesis 26 and verse 6 is where we left off last time. 55 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:27,560 And Isaac dwelled in Girar. The men of the place asked him 56 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,800 of his wife and he said she is my sister. 57 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,320 This is the Deja Vu stuff we're talking about. 58 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,520 For he feared to say, She is my wife, lest, said he, the men of 59 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,040 the place should kill me For Rebecca, because she was spared 60 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:47,160 to look upon that came to pass when he had been there a long 61 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,760 time, that Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out the 62 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,360 window and saw him. Behold, Isaac was sporting with 63 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,480 Rebecca his wife. And Abimelech called Isaac and 64 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:01,480 said, Behold of a surety, she is thy wife, how saddest thou, she 65 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,160 is my sister. And Isaac said to him, Because I 66 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,240 said, lest I die for her. And Abimelech said, What is this 67 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,120 that thou has done unto US? One of the people might lightly 68 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,000 have lain with my wife. You just can't help. 69 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,040 I mean, King James just just makes me smile sometimes, and 70 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,880 thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. 71 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,440 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, he that toucheth 72 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,200 this man or his wife just really be put to death. 73 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,160 Then the Isaac sowed in the land and received in the same year a 74 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,600 hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him and the 75 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,200 man waxed great and went forward and grew until he became very 76 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,520 great. For he had possessions of flocks 77 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,600 and possession of herds and great store of servants in the 78 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,440 Philistines envied him. Just kind of put all this under 79 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,560 umbrella tonight. I'm just going to label it the 80 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:58,160 Gerard Challenge, Amen. Because this is where he was 81 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,680 supposed to stay instead of going to Egypt. 82 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:02,600 And we'll ask the Lord to help us. 83 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,080 Father, I thank you again, God, that we can walk into this 84 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,760 place, the Lord at midweek, God, when we've already faced the 85 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,520 Lord heartaches and difficulties and God try to reign in Lord 86 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,640 Jesus, our flesh. We can come on a Wednesday 87 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:21,480 night, Lord, and perhaps to get Lord Jesus another breath of 88 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,920 air, Lord, to help us in this run, this race. 89 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,560 Lord Jesus, God help us tonight. We'll not fail to thank you for 90 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,600 it. In the lovely name of Jesus 91 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:36,120 Christ that I pray Hallelujah in the church, say Amen, Amen. 92 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,520 You may be seated tonight in Jesus name. 93 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,440 So our dear gentleman Isaac this evening has been obedient to the 94 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:51,520 voice of the Lord. He he gave ear that whenever God 95 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:55,520 told him not to go down to Egypt, like his father had went 96 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,920 down to Egypt during the famine, he listens intently and he stays 97 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:04,680 in Gerar rather than going down. And it's at Gerard that that 98 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:08,720 Isaac follows, though, in some of the same footsteps of his 99 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:10,960 father. He might not have went down to 100 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,000 Egypt like his dad, but he's about ready to do something 101 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,720 right here that looks so familiar to what Dad had done 102 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,400 whenever Dad was in Gerar. And so the Bible tells us he 103 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:22,160 follows some of the same footsteps. 104 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,960 The Deja Vu begins because if you'll recall in Genesis 20, we 105 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,120 have two episodes really with Abraham. 106 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,920 He called Sarah his wife and his his sister rather in Egypt. 107 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,720 And he called her his sister and Gerard. 108 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,720 And Genesis 20 is where he said that whenever he was in Gerard 109 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:44,680 and here now Isaac, his son is calling this woman that is his 110 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,120 wife, Rebecca, his sister to these people as well. 111 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,880 And Isaac has some of the same, some of the same reasons for 112 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,760 doing what he's doing. He, he testifies, and I think 113 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,960 every any wise man would testify this. 114 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:59,920 You know, his wife's fair to look upon. 115 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,080 You know, she's, she's a beautiful specimen of a woman. 116 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:09,160 And so he's a little afraid of of going into the city as she 117 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,080 being his wife for the same reasoning that Abraham was. 118 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,240 Let me refresh your memories that if you have this fine 119 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:22,360 specimen as a sister, then people's going to be kind to you 120 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,520 to win your favor of this relative of yours. 121 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:31,440 But if you go in and this fine specimen is your wife, you are 122 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,480 just a obstacle, Amen, that they're going to try to 123 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,120 eliminate in order to get this fine woman. 124 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,800 And so this is the mindset of both Abraham and of Isaac in 125 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,280 Gerard. And so he calls Rebecca his 126 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,280 sister. But again, there's a little 127 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,880 difference between him and his dad. 128 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,480 Sarah was Abraham's half sister. That's not the case in this 129 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:57,040 scenario with Rebecca and with Isaac. 130 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,400 And so it's at these points then that we see Isaac repeating some 131 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,320 of the things that his father had done in his generation in 132 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,160 time that people start to cite scriptures. 133 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,480 And I may have alluded to some of this because I kind of, you 134 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,480 know, hit everything after I was finished last week, you know, 135 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,320 about these other scriptures. And but nonetheless, it's where 136 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,920 people start citing the Scriptures that that come from 137 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,200 first Kings 15 and three that talks about and he walked in all 138 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:28,080 the sins of his father, which he had done before him, or other 139 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,760 verses of Scripture that say visiting the iniquity of the 140 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:37,320 fathers upon the children and to the 3rd and the 4th generation. 141 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,600 Amen. And so we see this in Scripture 142 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,880 and sometimes people try to relay this in the fact that that 143 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,880 if if your father did particular sins, then the generation after 144 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,160 him is going to walk in those same particular sins. 145 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,960 Or if your father committed particular sins, then you're 146 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,560 going to have to give, if you will, an account for your father 147 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:59,040 sins to the 3rd and the 4th generation. 148 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,360 And So what we have here in Scripture with Abraham and 149 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:06,000 Isaac, it's not that if the father sins or the previous 150 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,720 generation commits a sin that the next generation and know how 151 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:15,280 I say this, has to follow suit or has to follow in the same 152 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,760 footsteps or is cursed without anything else in order. 153 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,480 They they're just cursed. They're going to have to take 154 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,000 the same path. That's not necessarily the the 155 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,920 case, but it is a strong indication or a strong pattern 156 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,160 that we've seen from Abraham's day even into our day. 157 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:37,880 That is humanity. Children seem to follow and and 158 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,040 mirror the generation before them. 159 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,880 They, they imitate in many ways whatever came before them 160 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,480 because that's the pattern that was lived before them. 161 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:48,480 That's the pattern that was lived before them. 162 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:50,520 I know sometimes we're a little put out. 163 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,080 We're like, man, there's such a resemblance between that, that, 164 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,240 that guy and his son. And we're not just talking about 165 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,840 looks. We talk about mannerisms, the 166 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:04,080 way that they hold their hands or that folks isn't necessarily 167 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,640 genetic design. That's a learned design. 168 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,120 That's because they shared the same home, the same space. 169 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,760 And so they stand there with their hands behind their back 170 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:15,880 because their dad stood with their hands behind their back. 171 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:19,560 And so it's, it's just a common thing, a mirror that takes 172 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:21,880 place. And I think it illustrates to 173 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,200 us, even with Abraham and Isaac, the power of the parental role, 174 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:33,400 the power of the parental role. It shows how how sin is common 175 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:38,240 and sin is very persuasive for every person across all 176 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:42,360 generations, that we sometimes succumb to the same things that 177 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,320 other people did in generations before us. 178 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:47,560 And for one thing, Brother Reese, that gives me comfort 179 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,880 because I don't stand in this century and believe then that 180 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,840 I'm the only one and it's all by myself. 181 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,400 I look through the pages of Scripture and I see other people 182 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:59,720 that struggled with lust and struggled with pride and 183 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:04,040 struggled right. And so there's a certain amount 184 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,120 of comfort that comes to me with that too. 185 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,200 The New Testament Scripture says, and many of you may be 186 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:11,880 familiar with the verse, but the Bible says there have no 187 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:21,120 temptation taking you but such as is common to man. 188 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:26,920 The temptations that arrive on our our our porches and, and at 189 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:30,760 our doors and in our lives, whatever they may be, they are 190 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:34,720 common to mankind. I know we all thought we were 191 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:36,960 special and it was just specially designed for us, but 192 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,640 the fact of the matter is there's probably somebody else 193 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:44,240 that has been accosted, if you will, by similar temptations 194 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,040 that you are dealing with just this week. 195 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,160 But if we stop right there, brother Fred, sometimes then we 196 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:55,280 can almost start justifying our temptation leading into sin and 197 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,440 say, well, this is just common to man. 198 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,160 So Lord, let me punch my ticket and my participation badge, you 199 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,160 know, for this thing and just start to justify it. 200 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,360 But if we keep reading the Scripture and don't stop there 201 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:13,360 in 1st Corinthians 10 and 13, the Bible says but God is 202 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:19,280 faithful who will not with the temptation will with the 203 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:25,040 temptation will also make a way to escape that ye may be able to 204 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,000 bear it. So that means although the same 205 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:36,160 things may come to all men, not all men have to succumb to what 206 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:43,960 pills and waves and lures at our door. 207 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,440 The Bible tells us in the book of Ezekiel. 208 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:52,040 Ezekiel clearly states in his book that a person should not be 209 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,920 punished for the sins of their father. 210 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,120 That nor should the father be punished for the sins of their 211 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:00,840 children. The Bible states in Ezekiel 212 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:05,920 1814. Now lo, if he begat a son that 213 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:10,120 see if all his father's sins which he have done and 214 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,920 considereth and doeth not such like. 215 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,600 So we said there can be a father that sins, but the son doesn't 216 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,600 have to follow in the same path. He does not have to do like his 217 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,040 father had done. And when you read in in Ezekiel, 218 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:29,080 it gives us some examples of what happened in one generation 219 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,000 that did not have to be repeated in the other generation. 220 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,520 Although there may have been the temptation, the allurement, it 221 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,760 did not have to happen. And some of the things that he 222 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,400 mentioned was just because the fathers ate meat that was 223 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:43,840 sacrificed to idols. The sons did not have to just 224 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,280 because the fathers worshipped idols gods, The sons did not 225 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,800 have to just because the fathers defiled their their neighbors 226 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,560 wife. The sons did not have to just 227 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,720 just because the fathers were very oppressive other other 228 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,000 people, the sons didn't have to they could keep their pledge. 229 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,320 They they didn't have to worry about being spoiled by violence. 230 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,720 They they could help the poor, unlike what their fathers did 231 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,240 all these different things. And this is what verse 19 then 232 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,600 of Ezekiel 18 says it says yes, say ye. 233 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:17,120 Why does not the Son bear the iniquity of the Father? 234 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:22,160 When the Son hath not hath done that which is lawful and right, 235 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,440 and have kept all my statutes, and have done them, and he shall 236 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,720 surely live. 20 The soul that sinneth it shall die. 237 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,120 The Son shall not bear the iniquity of the Father, neither 238 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,200 the Father bear the iniquity of the Son. 239 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,560 The righteous of the righteousness of the righteous 240 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,640 shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall 241 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,840 be upon him. Ezekiel was saying this during 242 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:48,600 the rubber meets the road. Every individual's responsible 243 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,360 for themselves. So I can't push off my misdeed 244 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,320 on my parents. I can't push off my misdeed off 245 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,080 grandma and grandpa. Oh yes, I might have a common 246 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:07,760 temptation come to me, but my choice is my choice for Isaac. 247 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:09,200 Number one, Isaac's not even alive. 248 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,880 When this whole scenario happens with Abraham, the best that he 249 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,800 has is information through story. 250 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,640 You know, they're all sitting around the fire one day with the 251 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,080 lamb's leg. Mom brings up how Dad one time 252 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:26,960 Calder is sister. That's the best that Isaac has. 253 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,400 Amen. But he does not have to repeat. 254 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,000 And so there's the influences of all these things that affect all 255 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 mankind. That's common to all mankind. 256 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,160 But folks, and I think this is where we need to own things. 257 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:42,400 We someone say me, we have a choice. 258 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,640 Just because it was Gerard doesn't mean he had to do the 259 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,680 same acts that Dad did at Gerard. 260 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,440 So he might have been influenced maybe by his father's story 261 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,960 because that's all he had was his father's story. 262 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:04,440 But how he handled it, how he handled it was his decision. 263 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,720 My father might be an alcoholic and I know there's smearing 264 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:16,240 tendencies there, but how I handle it, the temptation at my 265 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:20,240 door, it's my decision. Amen. 266 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,280 Amen. So Isaac's not guilty of his 267 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:28,520 father's sins, but what we see in this chapter is that he does 268 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,360 inherit. In this chapter 26, we see that 269 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:36,040 Isaac does inherit both positive and negative qualities from his 270 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:41,920 dad, and it's up to Isaac to choose to adopt them or adapt 271 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:49,680 them. So if I'm not careful, I can 272 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,400 live my life and blame everything on Marilyn and Paul 273 00:16:53,400 --> 00:17:01,140 McGee. I wouldn't be aware. 274 00:17:01,820 --> 00:17:04,060 I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing right now if it wasn't for 275 00:17:04,060 --> 00:17:11,859 them how they handled XYZ. And please don't misunderstand 276 00:17:11,859 --> 00:17:14,780 me, I'm not saying tonight that our parents choices don't 277 00:17:14,780 --> 00:17:18,460 profoundly affect our lives, all right. 278 00:17:19,020 --> 00:17:23,040 I'm not denying that one bit, but I don't believe their story 279 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:30,280 has to be repeated in our lives. If it could only be like that, 280 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,160 we would all continue a life of sin. 281 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:37,000 There would be no one redeemed. There would be no one safe from 282 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,600 addiction. There would be no hope that we 283 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,640 would just all be living a life that we're in a rut in the 284 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,200 trench that we can't get out because every previous 285 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,480 generation followed the generation before that. 286 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,480 And it all started with Adam and Eve who flubbed up in the very 287 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,600 beginning. And so we're cursed with a curse 288 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,200 that we can't get rid of. But I know according to God's 289 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,840 Word, that is not the case. I do not have to repeat. 290 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:09,840 I do not have to be a product of my ancestors, Huh. 291 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,520 And to believe otherwise, Bishop, then I have limited 292 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:19,640 God's power. As I said, Sunny, I'm not going 293 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,920 to accept the fallen state of my bloodline. 294 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,800 Yeah, right. And my biological parents, 295 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,840 because there is a bloodline greater than the biological 296 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:35,960 bloodline. So certain things in our lives 297 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,120 of those who went before us, yes, set us at greater risk, 298 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,360 right? Because we're put in positions 299 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:45,080 and places that we would otherwise not be put in had it 300 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,560 not been for them. But it doesn't mean you got to 301 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:56,880 become a statistical outcome. When the Bible says in the books 302 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,280 Old Testament books of Samuel and kings, it states words that 303 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:04,520 we see over and over again as as you see the different kings. 304 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:07,880 And I know it's crazy. You see this king comes and it 305 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,880 does something for so long and then he's assassinated. 306 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,320 Another king comes on and you're trying to keep it straight in 307 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,520 your Bible reading. Which king is for the northern 308 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,560 Kingdom of Israel, Which Kingdom is for Judah and the 2 southern 309 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,080 kingdoms, they're popping up left and right and you know, 310 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,560 it's just all over the place. But there's, there's common 311 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,280 words that's often spoke about these two kings. 312 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,840 And they'll say that a king either walked in the ways of his 313 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:33,080 father, David, or that a king walked in the ways of his 314 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:37,720 father, Jeroboam. It relates these two primarily 315 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,080 usually always these two kings that it goes back to and it is 316 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,160 David those that one that represents everything that is 317 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,200 godly. It seems like at the man after 318 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:49,080 God's own heart. It's it's the right way to act 319 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:50,960 right? That when he did fall, at least 320 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,840 he repented all of those type of things. 321 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:57,000 And then you have Jeroboam, who is the one that did just so 322 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,720 badly in history that he kind of set the. 323 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:04,120 He set the bar high for wrongdoing in the lifetime. 324 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:07,560 And so the history of the nations of the kings of Israel 325 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,480 where either they did after after they followed in the 326 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,200 footsteps of David their father, they followed in the footsteps 327 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,760 of Jeroboam, their father. And so the future, the future 328 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,560 will hold right and wrong here according to those two. 329 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:26,800 And but each generation, every king that came into power had a 330 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,960 choice to make of which he was going to pattern himself 331 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,120 afterward. And so on the day-to-day, in a 332 00:20:34,120 --> 00:20:36,760 week to week basis, I'll say this. 333 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,000 Sometimes we vacillate between King David and King Jerome. 334 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:47,000 Jeroboam, huh. You're serious? 335 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,960 Yeah, I'm serious. There's some days I'm on. 336 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,760 You know the old saying used to be please no one crucify me over 337 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,760 this is some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the 338 00:20:55,760 --> 00:21:03,560 statue. Folks, real life's like that 339 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,320 even walk for the Lord sometimes. 340 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:10,760 But here's the fact of the manner. 341 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:17,840 Don't judge me too quickly over one day, because I'm going to be 342 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:25,760 judged by my lifetime. Because whenever I stand on the 343 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:31,920 day of judgement someday all things will be given account for 344 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,320 this is a scripture I've shared with you off before I'm I felt 345 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:42,200 this week to share it again First Corinthians 4-5 Paul right 346 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,560 into those at Corinth. He says therefore judge nothing. 347 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,040 Everybody say nothing before the time. 348 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:54,240 What's the time until the Lord come, who both will bring to 349 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,200 light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest 350 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:04,320 the council's of the hearts, and then shall every man have praise 351 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,800 of God. So don't judge me over a day 352 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:14,160 because I'm going to be judged over my lifetime, even though 353 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,080 Testament scripture talks about that. 354 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:21,160 I've done very, very wickedly in the first part of my life, but 355 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:28,280 if I have a moment of change that I forsake that and I start 356 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:33,440 walking differently, the old from that point backward is 357 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,400 seemingly forgotten. So I scrubbed from the record so 358 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,960 that when my lifetime is looked at, it's looked at all the other 359 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,360 days, for that matter. I might flub up one day. 360 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,880 I might be the son of Jeroboam one day, but it's how many other 361 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,080 days where I live in as the son of David. 362 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,440 Don't judge me too soon until the Lord come. 363 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,000 So I'm not sitting here today, brother. 364 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,640 I just can't. I mean the man and you took a 365 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,240 hook, line and sinker. We, we don't want that. 366 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,120 We don't want that. But sometimes it happens. 367 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:12,080 But whenever the day of the Lord comes, we'll have Brother Trout 368 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,240 made right the wrong on that day. 369 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:20,280 And how will all the other days of his life look in the full 370 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:25,480 spectrum of his lifetime? Amen. 371 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,680 So the Lord's not going to be fooled because the Lord even 372 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,680 knows the counsels of the heart, does he not? 373 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,640 He knows the motivations of the heart. 374 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,800 The Lord knows the strugglings of your mind and heart. 375 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,240 When people don't know, they see sometimes someone doing, and 376 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,640 I've said this before and I probably will again, it's only 377 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,440 been 15 years pastoring. Amen. 378 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,840 That someone does something, there's something that's acted 379 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,480 out in their life, but you as an individual don't know how many 380 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,080 times they told themselves no before they came in. 381 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,440 You don't know that, but God does. 382 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,640 Amen. And so, yes, I, I, we want to 383 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,760 endeavor to live each day as though it was our last day 384 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,400 because it may not be the trumpet that calls us home. 385 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,320 It may be death that calls us home. 386 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,520 And so, yeah, we want to, we want to finish well, but in 387 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,840 order to do that, then it means we must decide and then choose 388 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,240 each day in each scenario wisely. 389 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:32,560 And that's up to us. So a long time is spent. 390 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,680 The Bible says a long time. Bible says a long time that he 391 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:45,200 was in Gerar verse #8 says that he'd been there for a long time 392 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:53,520 under the deceit that Rebecca was his sister. 393 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,120 The Bible says the king of the Philistines here Abimelech, and 394 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:00,680 I've just preached on this this year, but I'm not going to 395 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:06,560 preach it again right now. But Abimelech spied Isaac 396 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:13,280 sporting with Rebecca. In other words, we could talk 397 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:17,520 about things, but whatever was happening between Rebecca and 398 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:23,720 Isaac undematiably removed all doubt from Abimelech that not 399 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:33,320 his sister, that's his wife. He saw some type of activity 400 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:37,640 between them that would have only been appropriate if they 401 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,800 were husband and wife, not brother and sister. 402 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,280 And so they live, though in Girard for a long time before 403 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:50,160 this discovery, before this was revealed or found out about to 404 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,200 Abimelech that they were husband and wife. 405 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,760 Amen. Matter of fact, since that is 406 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,760 the case, looking at the whole chronologicalness of this 407 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,760 Genesis thing, it may have been a little hard, if Esau and Jacob 408 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:10,680 were already born at this point, to keep undercover that this is 409 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:15,000 just brother and sister rather than husband and wife. 410 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:23,840 One of the marvels of this passage is this is the 411 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:30,080 difference between how Sarah was discovered as Abraham's wife 412 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:35,680 compared to how Rebecca was discovered as Isaac's wife. 413 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:43,520 One for Abraham and Sarah, it was revelation that was given by 414 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:50,720 God in a dream that that woman was Abraham's wife. 415 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:57,120 But in this scenario, it's something that the king, mortal 416 00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:01,160 king observed that tipped him off. 417 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,760 God had to reveal the Abraham Sarah situation. 418 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:11,480 But now this is revealed to the human king here of the 419 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,120 Philistines, Abimelech. They're there a long time before 420 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:17,360 this has happened. And here's the interesting 421 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:21,920 thing. But Abimelech saw them, Isaac 422 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:26,920 and Rebecca, when they were not aware that someone was peering 423 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:35,320 into their life. And then in that moment of 424 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,320 whatever activity was going on, when they weren't expecting 425 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:45,560 someone to be peering into their life, they realized that there 426 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,440 was something going on here. See saw something that they were 427 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,600 not aware of. And what he what he witnessed 428 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,280 proved that that that there's something in private here that's 429 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,240 unlike what they are showcasing publicly. 430 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,120 This can happen in two ways, folks in Scripture. 431 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,960 Let's let's just talk about ourselves as Christians for a 432 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,720 moment. And that is this people can 433 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:16,800 profess one thing publicly and demonstrate and live another way 434 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:24,400 privately. Or, you know, the inverse of 435 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:29,920 that can be the case as well. Abraham and Isaac did what they 436 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:34,360 did, the Bible says, because they were both fearful that they 437 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,000 might lose their life. Or if I can say it like this, 438 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:43,880 they were both fearful about how they would be accepted in the 439 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:50,480 community that they were living. And so I don't want a chance how 440 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,800 I'll be accepted in the community that I'm living. 441 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:59,840 So I'm going to showcase one thing publicly and live 442 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,600 differently privately. I'm going to live publicly where 443 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,600 I'll be accepted in the community, but in the privacy of 444 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,160 my home. I'm going to do who and what I 445 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:14,360 am by nature with my wife and with you. 446 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,120 Understand what I'm slicing here just a little bit. 447 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:22,960 They feared for their lives, but their actions, their actions in 448 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:28,040 reality, for Isaac, his actions potentially jeopardized the 449 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:33,920 promises of God because had one of Abimelechs men laying lightly 450 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:38,560 with with again Rebecca, there was going to be a different a 451 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,800 different legacy and lineage of seed that would be introduced in 452 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:47,560 that womb rather than that of being a Jew and a Jew. 453 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,960 Hey, man, there's going to be something different than the 454 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,600 promise. And so to a degree the Bible 455 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,640 talks about then, then they're here among the people and they 456 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,800 did this and Abimelech says, I can't believe you did this. 457 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,240 I can't believe you. You put some some of my people 458 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,080 even even in danger for having done this. 459 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:07,440 And in essence, I guess I bring it all around to say this. 460 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,840 Sometimes the way that we live publicly and privately, whether 461 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,800 or not there's harmony between the two, can bring a mockery on 462 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:25,980 our faith. They're responding according to 463 00:30:25,980 --> 00:30:29,980 their doubts. They're responding with deceit. 464 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:34,640 But here's the scenario. For fear of no acceptance, 465 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:43,280 Isaac's like she's my sister, wink, wink, Rebecca, she's my 466 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,160 sister. Because this is the way we want 467 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,040 to be perceived before the public. 468 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:53,160 This is how we'll be accepted. But in privacy, we're going to 469 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:54,760 hold our devotion to one another. 470 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:06,280 Someone say Amen. Or we live in such a way that we 471 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:11,480 have this big exterior devotion to God, and then in the privacy 472 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:21,800 of our home it falls apart. We perform our lip service and 473 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,880 we raise our hands in church. We have sweet adoration to the 474 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:32,480 King of glory, but behind closed doors we can't even speak 475 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,400 sensibly to our children and our mate. 476 00:31:40,350 --> 00:31:45,430 How can you love God whom you've not seen, and love your brother 477 00:31:45,430 --> 00:31:49,910 who you do? James poses. 478 00:31:52,510 --> 00:31:55,550 Amen. The old adage The old adage says 479 00:31:55,550 --> 00:31:58,150 that your character is your private life. 480 00:31:58,790 --> 00:32:03,840 Your reputation is your public life, but there's got to be a, a 481 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,880 harmony between our character and our reputation. 482 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:11,120 The reputation that people know us by because that's what they 483 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,080 see publicly. Amen must become the character 484 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:25,320 that we live by in our privacy. It's what it's what we are when 485 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:32,400 we think no one is watching. Isaac and Rebecca weren't aware 486 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:37,480 of it, but Abimelech had a had a window view into their private 487 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,240 lives. And it's at those times what 488 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,600 happens is people catch a glimpse of the core of the 489 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,600 individual. The Bible tells a story I'm 490 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,080 trying to move here. The Bible tells a story that 491 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,880 whenever the spirit of the Lord had departed from King Saul and 492 00:32:55,880 --> 00:33:00,160 the evil spirit had replaced that, and he's troubled in his 493 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,480 spirit, he's trying to get relief, some type of soothing 494 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,920 that that he calls for servants in his court to go find someone 495 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:12,200 that was skilled or cunning and in playing the harp. 496 00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,200 And so they went to find someone that was cunning and doing so. 497 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,360 And whenever one of the servants heard the request of his king, 498 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,120 he admitted unto him, this is what he said. 499 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:28,880 He says I have seen David. It's interesting because the way 500 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:33,360 that it's portrayed as though this servant had seen David or 501 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,160 spied upon David when David was just tending the sheep in the 502 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:43,280 backfields of his father when he wasn't aware that anybody was 503 00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,280 looking in on his life. The Bible says in first Samuel 504 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,800 16 and verse 18 then answered one of the first servants and 505 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,560 said, behold, I have seen the son of Jesse, the Bethlehem 506 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,280 might. That is cunning and playing and 507 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:00,360 a mighty man, a mighty valiant man, and a man of war and 508 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,720 prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with 509 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,120 him. Verse 19 Wherefore Saul sent 510 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:11,159 messengers into Jesse and said, send me David thy son, which is 511 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:14,719 with the sheep. The servant had seen David in 512 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,120 reality on two fronts of David's life. 513 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:23,120 He had saw David privately as the songstress and the heart 514 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:27,880 player in the backfields of his father, and he had seen him also 515 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:33,920 publicly as a valiant man of war and warfare before all the eyes 516 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,920 of the people. He said he's a comely, A comely 517 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,920 person. But the aspect that Saul was 518 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:44,600 needed in this moment was the private aspect of David's life 519 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:50,280 of being a heart player, Amen and a sumptress Amen on the loan 520 00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,400 backside of his dad's pasture somewhere, often times just 521 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,560 tending sheep. See what David up to this time, 522 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:04,040 he mainly up to this time, David had resorted to the private 523 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,360 action and sector of his life. At this time, he's more or less 524 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,520 not known in the public realm for the most part. 525 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:17,240 Not till the big Goliath gig took place, stones flying to the 526 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:21,560 air and timber of a man of great stature compared to him. 527 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,800 But he is only known in the private sector. 528 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,040 That hard play in among the sheep. 529 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,760 But the servant says I've seen him. 530 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:38,160 He wasn't aware of it, but I seen him. 531 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:45,680 What he is, what he does when no one else, when he doesn't have 532 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,920 an audience. I've seen what he's like, Oh 533 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:56,440 God, how do we act when we don't have an audience? 534 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,360 And I'm not talking about the church service. 535 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,920 I'm just talking about audience with anybody else. 536 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,160 How do we act when we don't have an audience? 537 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,560 So the question is that we ask ourselves, and this is just to 538 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,680 be introspective tonight, ask yourself this question. 539 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:24,480 What do people notice about me when I don't think anyone is 540 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:32,400 watching? Isaac admits that what he did, 541 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,880 the deception that he did Edgar, are he admits that he did it, 542 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,160 and he admits he did it because otherwise he might have died. 543 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,200 However, it doesn't seem as though he gave, similarly to his 544 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,640 father, any regard for his wife Rebecca, or any regard for the 545 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,840 promises of God, for that matter, or any regard of what 546 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,960 might happen to Abimelech's Kingdom or the people. 547 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:07,720 That is a selfish way to live life when all that matters as if 548 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:19,760 you matter. Oh God, So what if my husband 549 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,960 gets angry? So what if the kids can't handle 550 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,080 it? So what of people if I work with 551 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,040 with that kind? You understand what I'm saying? 552 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:34,440 Right now, only whenever everything's OK with me is 553 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:43,800 everything OK. Oh, God help me, Jesus, the 554 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:50,440 Bible tells us in Romans 14. For none of us liveth to 555 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,720 himself, and no man dive to himself. 556 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,280 We, we, we are strung together, folks. 557 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,640 We do have impacts and ripples of water where the pebbles fall. 558 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:05,520 Here they go, Isaac, do. Well, I'll continue on. 559 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,240 I need to go, don't I? We don't. 560 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,640 I continue to end Gerar. And the Bible says, and I 561 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,120 mentioned this last week, that he sowed in the land during the 562 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,520 famine. He sowed seed in the land that 563 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,960 God told him to stay in. Gerar, again, it's in the 564 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,440 southern most, most part of of Israel. 565 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,000 Whenever there's not even a famine, it's usually a dry land, 566 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,160 an arid land, an arid region of Israel. 567 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,480 Hey man, it's known to be parched. 568 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,680 It's barren landscape even when there isn't a famine. 569 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:40,280 So how much the more now in this place when there is a famine? 570 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,200 Some, even the rabbinical commentary say that the land in 571 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:48,600 which Isaac was was hard ground and did not usually produce much 572 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:54,280 on a good day. But just as God attributed his 573 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,760 his promises to Abraham that we did last week in verse 5, 574 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,680 because of Abraham's obedience, the promises of Abraham now 575 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,760 continue in Isaac's life and the blessings of the Lord follow 576 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,520 Isaac. Likewise, because of Isaac's 577 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:14,960 faithfulness as well, he stays in Gerard during the famine. 578 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,040 God's told him to do so. He didn't go to Egypt. 579 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,880 He's obedient to the voice of the Lord as a result of that and 580 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,840 the presence of God as God says, I'll be with you. 581 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:32,400 Remember, the presence of God in that prescribed place where God 582 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:39,280 told him to stay comes into Isaac's life a hundredfold in a 583 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:43,360 typically dry, now famine stricken land. 584 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,120 But you got to understand that wasn't just Isaac's land for the 585 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,200 moment. That was God's promised land for 586 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:58,720 the now and future. And so we applaud Isaac, Great 587 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:01,640 job, Isaac for sowing, great job. 588 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,520 But we got to stop and acknowledge that the results, 589 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,960 more than his sowing, was God's doing. 590 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,200 He incorporated Isaac to see if he would be obedient in the 591 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,720 sowing. But what came from the ground, 592 00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,160 Yes, sowing was involved, but what came? 593 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,080 There's been times things have been sown and nothing's come 594 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,680 from the harvest. What came from the ground, 595 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,360 that's a God result. That's a God acknowledgement for 596 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:32,080 sure a hundredfold. And so here Isaac, yes, in his 597 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,680 life already he's failed to some of the negative patterns of his 598 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,880 dad. Yes, yes, he has been deceptive. 599 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:40,760 And here's what I want to make plain. 600 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,360 God is not rewarding Isaac's deceit. 601 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:54,440 God is remaining faithful to his own covenant and his own land, 602 00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,640 Huh. That's God's land. 603 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,480 That's God's covenant that he has with that land. 604 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,960 He's not endorsing that Isaac was deceptive. 605 00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:08,920 He's endorsing that. That's my land of promise. 606 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,400 And thank God that He does endorse His own covenant 607 00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:20,880 whenever we're numbskulls. I'm just telling you the truth. 608 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,360 The Bible says in Second Timothy 213, it says if we believe not 609 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:30,520 yet, he abideth faithful. Do you believe not yet he 610 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,240 abideth faithful? He cannot deny himself. 611 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,320 God turned around and acknowledged what Isaac was 612 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,680 obedient to. You stayed in the land, but I 613 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,000 was going to bless this land whether you were here or not, 614 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,280 Isaac, because this is part of my covenant. 615 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:49,040 This is part of my promise. It just so happens by staying 616 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:54,440 and by sowing, you made yourself a part of the promise you, huh? 617 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:56,400 It's kind of the whole scenario with Esther. 618 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,680 You remember Esther, she's there in a foreign Kingdom of, of 619 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,600 Persia, right? She's in Persia. 620 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,240 Captivity has taken place. She's been brought up by 621 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:06,040 Mordecai. They went through the the 622 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,480 Nebuchadnezzar, they went through the Babylonian 623 00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,920 captivity. Now here's Merc medo Persia that 624 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,160 overtakes Babylon. She's there. 625 00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:16,080 There's a decree out that's going to slaughter all of the 626 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,640 Jews. And Mordecai's weeping heads on 627 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:23,000 sackcloth, he tells her, Amen. You got to go in before the king 628 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,960 because for such a time as this, perhaps you're in the Kingdom 629 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,240 because of this. Maybe this is what you're here 630 00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:29,960 for. You got to go. 631 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,120 But she says, if, if you've not been before the king, if it's 632 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,680 been 30 days and you go before him and you've not been 633 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,160 beckoned, there's a law that says he might give you the 634 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,880 golden scepter and accept you, but there's also a good chance 635 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,880 you might die, she says. But nonetheless, you know what 636 00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,360 Mordecai told her. He says, this is what I know. 637 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,600 He says deliverance is going to come to God's people. 638 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,720 Why? Because they're God's people. 639 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:59,200 He knew the promise, he says, but if you go in there and it, 640 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,400 he says deliverance going to happen nonetheless, whether 641 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,000 you're a part of it or not, Esther. 642 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,720 But if you go, you can be a part of the deliverance. 643 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,000 You can step into the promise that God's going to honor. 644 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,280 So what is it about? It's about choice, Amen. 645 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,400 It's not God endorsing bad beast. 646 00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,960 It's about God endorsing His covenant and His promise. 647 00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,280 And we have a choice to be a part of it or not a part of it. 648 00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:32,560 That's what Isaac found here with a hundredfold increase and 649 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:37,480 flocks and herds and servants constantly increasing. 650 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,480 I think I said last week he's here in the same soil as they 651 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:46,200 had those Philistines. Same sunshine, same lack of 652 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:50,320 rain. God blesses his efforts because 653 00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,200 he's where I told you to stay, in the land that I've already 654 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:57,920 coveted with my promise for. And it draws the attention to 655 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:04,800 the Philistines. This ground's hard. 656 00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:13,360 You're just planting seeds. Harvest time. 657 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,600 Well, better not next year, boys. 658 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,600 Isaac, bringing in the seeds. Bringing in the seeds. 659 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:30,360 We will come. It drew their attention how the 660 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,120 Bible says that they envied him. In verse 14. 661 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,640 They envied him. When you talk about envying 662 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,280 something, it's talking about someone that's desiring to have 663 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:45,920 what you possess. You know what the these people 664 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:47,880 that we become arch enemies of Israel are saying? 665 00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:56,520 I wish I had what they had, but Isaac's living in such a way in 666 00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,080 a place that God has ordained where a promise is stamped upon 667 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,920 to get the attention then of the would be adversary saying I wish 668 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,720 I had what they had. Let me tell you, it's not 669 00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:09,760 because my daddy was Abraham, and it's not because I got 670 00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:13,120 everything always right, but it's because I'm keeping my feet 671 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:31,040 where the promise is. Let's go on verse #13 I'm, I'm, 672 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:32,680 I'm getting here, folks, we're doing good. 673 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:37,560 We're doing good. Verse #3013 It's vital. 674 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:45,200 I think it's vital because here's Isaac and he's, he's 675 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:51,120 gotten to a, a very clear God view of life. 676 00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:58,440 His world view is a God view and his God view of life is this. 677 00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:03,680 He doesn't see as though life with God has a ceiling. 678 00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:11,400 No limits. Yes, he's inherited great riches 679 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,200 from daddy Abraham. We knew he was rich or they went 680 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:20,400 on the whole marriage thing. Remember camel's gifts, rich 681 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,720 guy. But the Bible says that Isaac 682 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:31,560 already having been rich with goods, it says he waxed great. 683 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:38,520 He's already inherited quite a bit, but even during the time of 684 00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:44,320 a famine, he's waxed great. That's not the conditions that 685 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:48,440 you waxed great under. But he waxed great. 686 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,520 At that point, Brother Alex, he could have said, but at my 687 00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:58,640 mailbox right here, I'm living. I mean, I got stuff from Daddy 688 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:03,080 and I've grown to a certain place of status right here. 689 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,560 Boom, I've arrived. But the Bible doesn't stop 690 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:09,760 there. Says that he waxed great and he 691 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:17,240 went forward and grew until he became very great. 692 00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:23,680 We can settle for great sometimes when God has very 693 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:28,600 great for us and the path from great to very great is simply 694 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:35,680 this going forward. You can't stop or stalemate just 695 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,440 whenever you think through your human understanding that you've 696 00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:42,880 arrived because we think that's all that there could be. 697 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:47,040 That's human view. That's not God view. 698 00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:53,360 He don't have a ceiling. Israel, the Old Testament, they 699 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,040 stood at the edge of the Red Sea after their deliverance from 700 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,080 Egypt. After 400 years of being under 701 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,000 that type of oppression and bondage, they probably thought, 702 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:06,200 hang my hat on the hook, honey. We got out of Egypt this pretty 703 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,200 cool, you know, kill lamb and slap some blood, some blazes and 704 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,400 praise God, here we are. Amen. 705 00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:17,280 But God spoke to Moses at the edge of the Red Sea as they're 706 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,160 all just standing there motionless and there's no 707 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,160 movement. And God told Moses, he says, you 708 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:28,000 tell Israel to go forward. What? 709 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,880 Yeah, go forward. Mountains on each side of them, 710 00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,680 Pharaoh's army vehemently behind them. 711 00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:35,440 And here we just got our deliverance. 712 00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,280 It's like, man, this is the big we we're we have arrived, boys. 713 00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:46,680 No, God says go forward and they're saying water, water. 714 00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:48,600 You know what God was doing, He said. 715 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,120 I'm trying to move you from your human view to my God view. 716 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,800 You see it as a limitation. I see it as an obstacle to 717 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,640 overcome. I want to broaden your view. 718 00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:02,880 They reached in Sinai not long after crossing the Red Sea. 719 00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:06,200 And the Bible tells us they've witnessed many marvelous things. 720 00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,720 Amen. There at the Mount of God, there 721 00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:11,360 were times it was surrounded with smoke and there were 722 00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,160 thunderings and lightnings that took place. 723 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,480 And they heard the Bible says, the audible voice of the Lord 724 00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,320 from Mount Sinai. It's there that Moses would 725 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,360 receive the law, the Lord, that he would share with the people 726 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,520 of God. But the Bible tells us in 727 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:29,880 Deuteronomy, after being there for about a year, that the voice 728 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:34,240 of the Lord came to them again and said, you've dewelt long 729 00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:37,320 enough in this mount. You know what he's saying. 730 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,840 He's saying I brought you 2 here, but I got more for you 731 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:44,160 than this. It was the mount of the Lord of 732 00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:45,440 God. I brought you here. 733 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,600 I've given you governance, I've given you guidance, but you 734 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:52,440 you've stayed here for a year. Now it's time to move on. 735 00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,280 And so they trampled among the mountain ranges. 736 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,760 The Bible says of Sierra for extended period of time. 737 00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,760 And wouldn't you know after they had done that for a long time. 738 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,320 Here comes the Spirit of the Lord again in Deuteronomy and 739 00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:09,760 says, you've come past this mountain long enough, turn you 740 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,880 northward at each juncture. They could have thought, man, 741 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,680 that's the epitome of my experience. 742 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,120 That's the epitome of what God has for me. 743 00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,680 But that was not the case. God was constantly trying to 744 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,680 urge them on. Can I ask someone today, is 745 00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,240 there a mountain that you've been circling in your Christian 746 00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:29,680 relationship, that you've been circling that same thing because 747 00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:33,080 you thought it was the threshold of what God had for you or what 748 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,280 God could do through you? Can I tell you it's time to go 749 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,000 forward? It's time I'm urging you on God. 750 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:45,880 There is a God view for your life that supersedes what you 751 00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:53,520 think you can or cannot. As we get stuck on our mountains 752 00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,320 as Christians, we get stuck on them. 753 00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,920 We get stuck on some of them because it may have been easier 754 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,040 getting to there than it's going to be to get to the next 755 00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:08,520 mountain. And I'm comfortable with where 756 00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:15,440 I'm at without any further effort that would have to be put 757 00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:21,080 in to the next one. I says no, you're great. 758 00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:27,680 But if you go forward, you can become very great. 759 00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,600 So the path from one to the next, I'm close to staying with 760 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,000 me. The path from one to the next 761 00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:40,400 then is you got forward motion. Here's the fact that matter. 762 00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:46,120 None of us has reached the limit of God want what God wants to do 763 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:50,240 in us. There's no ceiling. 764 00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,640 I know you our human minds can't wrap around, but there's no 765 00:51:53,640 --> 00:52:02,680 ceiling to that for you and God. So there's a few little things 766 00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,760 to think about. I'm closing. 767 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,320 We go away tonight. We're asking ourselves our 768 00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,480 private actions and our public actions. 769 00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:18,160 Are they aligning with each other in a good direction? 770 00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:24,360 And I'm, I'm, I'm going away here thinking just because I've 771 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:29,440 inherited tendencies from the generation before me doesn't 772 00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:33,000 mean I have to choose them for myself. 773 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,720 Then we're just going to keep moving forward in faith when it 774 00:52:39,720 --> 00:52:43,360 feels and looks barren and there's dearth all around. 775 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,840 We're going to stay where God tells us to stay. 776 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:50,760 We're going to sow and plant in that area and acknowledge God 777 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:58,840 when God does what God does. And we're going to accept that 778 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:03,960 God can see things in us, about us and for us that we've not yet 779 00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:07,880 even grown inclined to yet ourselves. 780 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:12,080 He has, He told Israel, he says, I have plans for you, right? 781 00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,360 Everybody loves it and I have plans for you, huh. 782 00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,840 He hasn't expected in for you. Israel as a nation. 783 00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,480 God has it. That's just not a nation thing 784 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,480 that moves down to an individual thing. 785 00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:29,800 He hasn't expected in for you. And there's no ceiling in it. 786 00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:35,360 There's no ceiling in it. Those are some of the challenges 787 00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:41,160 of Garrar Hallelujah. Let's pray here tonight. 788 00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:42,960 Father, can we lift our voices together? 789 00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:48,480 God, we need you tonight. God, there are some challenges 790 00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:52,520 at Girard. Lord, let there be harmony. 791 00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:56,840 God and the public and private spheres of my life. 792 00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:03,720 God, help me to have a a God world view rather than just my 793 00:54:03,720 --> 00:54:09,600 humanistic world view. I pray, O God, help me Jesus, to 794 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:14,600 participate, God, in what you have placed your name upon. 795 00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:18,680 Let me participate in what you have placed your promises upon. 796 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,560 Let God, I have a choice to be a part of that or not to be a part 797 00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:24,720 of that. I have a choice, God, whether or 798 00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:28,160 not I'll give in to tendencies that's been passed down to 799 00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,720 generation or tendencies that are common to all men, I have a 800 00:54:31,720 --> 00:54:33,760 choice. It's a responsibility of the 801 00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:37,080 ball in my court. I pray, O Lord, help me God to 802 00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:41,400 approach it, God with wisdom and Lord to approach it, Lord Jesus, 803 00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,840 in such a way, God, that I will not bring mockery, Lord Jesus, 804 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:50,600 upon you or your name, but God, that if I do fall, that no one 805 00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,400 will. Lord, just judge me on a moment 806 00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:56,880 in the day, but my lifetime is in the scope of the divine. 807 00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,120 Lord, when all things are considered. 808 00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,400 I pray, Lord Jesus, help me to live the way that you want me to 809 00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:07,280 live and to forgive Lord Jesus and to seek forgiveness in the 810 00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:11,160 name of Jesus Christ that I pray I love you and thank you for it 811 00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:16,000 In Jesus name, everybody say in Jesus name, Hallelujah. 812 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,200 God bless you tonight. Amen. 813 00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,880 Services here, of course on Sunday. 814 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:25,120 Come and be a part of those. Don't forget times change, 815 00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:27,800 unless you just want to be here early and we'll gladly accept 816 00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:27,880 you.