1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:04,320 He's a good God. He's a good God. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:09,600 Amen. Thank him tonight. 3 00:00:10,120 --> 00:00:13,920 I say We thank him for the simple things that we sometimes 4 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:17,160 overlook. Mobility, soundness of mind. 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:20,040 I guess in reality, though, they're not simple. 6 00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:22,520 They're really complex. They're just things that we kind 7 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:26,800 of overlook, take for granted. They're quite complex in 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:28,520 reality. Amen. 9 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,160 He is a good God. Amen. 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,760 This coming Sunday night, Brother Alex Mason will be 11 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,240 ministering the word of the Lord. 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,040 We'll be here too, of course, but he's going to be ministering 13 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:39,400 the word of the Lord on Sunday night. 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,120 We're glad to have Ray Ray with us tonight. 15 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:44,400 Ray. Ray. 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,840 Yeah, girl, we're glad to have you. 17 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,120 We're glad to have you with us. Amen. 18 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:53,800 Come with the gamblers. Tonight's their niece. 19 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:55,840 Amen. We're glad to have her. 20 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:57,760 Amen. Isn't she a pretty girl? 21 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,840 Wonderful, Amen. Absolutely going to be turning 22 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:11,360 to the word of the Lord, Genesis chapter #26 Genesis chapter #26 23 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,160 Amen. This evening we just have a 24 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:21,360 about three more Wednesdays here Genesis before we have a little 25 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:26,480 something different as far as my wife and I will be gone and then 26 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,880 we'll come back with the the interview that we missed with 27 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,160 brother Mason and then it'll be NYC the week of Thanksgiving. 28 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,800 It's hard to believe it folks. I mean Turkey day already around 29 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,400 the corner. But here we are. 30 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:42,240 Genesis chapter #26 New Testament writer says all these 31 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,880 things looking back at the Old Testament were given to us were 32 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:50,560 written a four time for our learning right That through the 33 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,400 patience of of and comfort of Scripture we might have hope so 34 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,080 we can look back upon these. I'm going to read the first 5 35 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,720 verses here tonight. Bible says and there was a 36 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:05,360 famine in the in the land beside the first famine that was in the 37 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,639 days of Abraham and Isaac went unto Abimelech, king of the 38 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:14,320 Philistines, unto Gerard. The Lord appeared unto him and 39 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,960 said, Go not down into Egypt, dwell in the land which I tell 40 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,960 thee of sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, will 41 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,480 bless thee. For unto thee and to thy seed I 42 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,440 will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,080 which I swear unto Abraham thy father, and I will make thy 44 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,840 seed, it sounds like I know redundancies. 45 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,400 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, 46 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,160 and will give unto thy seed all these countries, and thy seed to 47 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:48,080 all the nations of the earth. Be blessed because that Abraham 48 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,600 obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my 49 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,000 statutes, and my laws. Amen. 50 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,080 For a little while tonight, I want to speak along these lines, 51 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,640 and probably some next week as well. 52 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:07,080 But nonetheless, for tonight, living between famine and 53 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:11,000 fulfillment. Living between famine and 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,520 fulfillment. Hallelujah, Father, we need you, 55 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,720 Jesus this evening. God, we're so thankful for your 56 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,800 goodness, God, your mercies that are new every morning. 57 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,480 We're grateful today for those, God, to be able to center our 58 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,560 lives around your word one more time. 59 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:28,640 That we know they are the words of life. 60 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,000 God. Help them to speak life, Lord to 61 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,160 us. Help us to learn God from them. 62 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,200 God, how to order our own affairs in the lovely name of 63 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,680 Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah and Amen and the 64 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,520 church say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this evening. 65 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,600 Genesis 26 in the book of Genesis is one of those chapters 66 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,000 that almost seems out of place in the book of Genesis. 67 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,040 And the only reason why I say that is because the last chapter 68 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,320 that we studied was focusing on Jacob and Esau and these 69 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,040 brothers and their birth order. Kind of a little bit of how they 70 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,960 were like and the competition that they had, or rather how one 71 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,960 despised the birthright, the other one desired the 72 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,600 birthright. It kind of ended with that 73 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,440 tension between them. And then whenever you get to the 74 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:20,279 next chapter, chapter #27 the focus is going to be on Jacob in 75 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,680 the Esau again. And it's going to be following 76 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:26,640 how 1 is going to usurp the other and getting the 77 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,880 birthright, or rather the blessing from their father 78 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,560 Isaac. And there was going to be 79 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,080 conflict that's going to happen there. 80 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:38,880 But between these two episodes, it seems about Esau and Jacob, 81 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,480 we have been a chapter here That concert concentrates pretty 82 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,600 solely up on Isaac. So it almost just seems kind of 83 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,120 out of out of place a little bit. 84 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,680 But it is the interlude. And we see that a little bit in 85 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,960 Scripture sometimes a chapter that comes in a spot that seems 86 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,480 like it's just not full following the flow or line. 87 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,680 But but it is. And the Lord has something to 88 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,480 say to us through it because although chapter 26 interrupts 89 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,160 that flow of thinking, it is an insertion here that's going to 90 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,400 clue us in on some things concerning Isaac. 91 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,680 It's the deja. Genesis 26 is what I would 92 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,280 affectionately called the Deja Vu chapter because so much 93 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:22,080 through this chapter sounds like man, I've read this before. 94 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,480 I've heard this before, yes, promise and blessing and things 95 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,960 like that, yes. But we also read about how 96 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,040 there's famine in the land and we've read about famine before. 97 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,600 We read about God renewing his covenant, about Isaac repeating 98 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,120 his father's mistake of exception with his wife. 99 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,080 We read about disputes over wells. 100 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,400 We read about Beersheba again. We read about an oath being made 101 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,440 there between Abimelech and Isaac. 102 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,480 And these are things that we've seen before, it seems like, 103 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,360 happened with Isaac's father Abraham. 104 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:57,440 And it's almost as though God put his thumb down on Scripture 105 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:01,200 and said repeat, you know, but just in another generation and 106 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,840 in another time. But it is essentially what has 107 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:07,840 happened. And so God shows, though, in 108 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:12,760 this chapter that the promises that he has, they're not just 109 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:17,240 dependent on, you know, just fresh sets of circumstances, but 110 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,920 they're anchored in the faithfulness of his people 111 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,040 through time. He's going to show us that the 112 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:28,960 God that walked with Abraham is the God that also walks with 113 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,640 Isaac. And it's going to be the same 114 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:37,680 covenant, similar testing, similar proving ground. 115 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,720 That's the reason why it just seems like it's just a repeat of 116 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,320 Father Abraham. But we see this played out in 117 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,280 Isaac's life. Because my understanding is 118 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:49,080 this. Each one of us matters not, but 119 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:53,120 every generation has to experience God's promises for 120 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,880 themselves. And with that sometimes come 121 00:06:55,880 --> 00:07:00,880 similar trials and testings. And the adversary real has not 122 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:02,720 changed. His tactics are still the same. 123 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,160 He's not like have a new rabbit he could take out of his hat. 124 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,400 He's still a deceiver, he's still a liar, all these things. 125 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,040 And so the trials and the temptation that he comes to the 126 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:16,720 people with are not not, you know, unique to just the Old 127 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,360 Testament. It's for every people age, which 128 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,720 we can draw comfort from because then we can see things that are 129 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,160 playing out in our own lives that was played out in the lives 130 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,920 of like Joshua and Jacob and other people in Scripture and 131 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:30,760 see that they made it. That should be the hope of the 132 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:32,040 trout. See that they made it. 133 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:35,240 And so that should give us hope that we can make it as well. 134 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,400 And so he repeats this through God's word. 135 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,920 So God instructed Abraham at one time back in Genesis 12, this is 136 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,160 rewind whenever he was an herb choudies. 137 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,120 He said, I want you to leave your country, your people. 138 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,680 He said, go into the land that I will shew him to thee. 139 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Well, something very, very similar to that is being spoken 140 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:57,800 to Isaac here in Genesis chapter 26, except Isaac is already in 141 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,480 the lamb that God had told Abraham to go to. 142 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,520 And God is telling and to Isaac basically dwell in the land, 143 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,680 which I tell the of which is going to be the land that his 144 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:08,720 feet is standing in right at the moment. 145 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,600 So the one he told to go to get there to the other one, he's 146 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,200 telling to stay there. He's telling to stay there. 147 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:18,120 The wording is almost identical. So they're they have different 148 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:21,400 sets of circumstances. Isaac and Abraham do somewhat, 149 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:24,080 but God's pattern is a little bit the same. 150 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:26,880 One get to the land, the other one stay in the land where I 151 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:30,480 told you all to go. And so Abraham Isaacs father, 152 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,840 whenever he reached that land of promise, the Bible says there 153 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:38,320 was famine in the land and as a result of it, he just no sooner 154 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:39,919 got there. I mean, he's traveled hundreds, 155 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,799 hundreds, hundreds of miles to get there, no sooner got there 156 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:45,480 with them in the land and he decides he's going to go down to 157 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,800 Egypt. Isaac is in the land of Canaan 158 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,280 and here comes a famine. It denotes that it's different 159 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,640 from the famine that that that Abraham first experienced. 160 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,520 But there's famine in the land. And so there's something inside 161 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,760 of Isaac that says, you know what, I need to go to Egypt. 162 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,640 Egypt as well. Now. 163 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:05,200 Now, Isaac wasn't alive when Abraham went to Egypt, but I 164 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,560 don't know if stories were told or something was handed down. 165 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,520 That's what Dad did when famine happened in the land. 166 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:13,800 And so just kind of following suit in his mind, that's what 167 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,480 he's going to do too. He's going to go to Egypt 168 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,200 thinking that that's going to cure everything that needs to be 169 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,600 cured. But on his way to Egypt, he 170 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,280 stops in a place called Gerard. It's still within the land of 171 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:29,040 Canaan, but it's a region under under Philistine control. 172 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:34,800 He stops in Gerard and as he is there God admonishes him 173 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,320 plainly, quite different than what happened with Abraham. 174 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,720 Abraham didn't hear no word either way, but but Isaac hears 175 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,800 from God clearly. In verse 2, God says go not down 176 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,120 to Egypt. He said, dwell in the land which 177 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,160 I shall tell thee of. And so here Isaac responds very 178 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,880 similarly to famine as his father did. 179 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:59,040 He's fleeing from it, Amen. And Isaac was about to repeat 180 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:03,240 the same mistake as his father by going down in there because 181 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,120 why there, there, there's, there's famine in the land. 182 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,040 There's, he's looking for human provision right there. 183 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,000 Everything's going to dry up. Cattle's going to kill over. 184 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,360 He's, he's looking to lean on his own thinking, his own 185 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:18,640 ingenuity in order to solve this, Amen. 186 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:23,480 But in doing so, he might step outside of the promise of God by 187 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,320 leaning on his own thoughts and his own ideas on how to cure 188 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:30,040 this. And so God stopped the cycle 189 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:34,320 before it could get started, sojourning this land in the land 190 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,880 of Gerard. Here in this place within the 191 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:41,240 borders of the land of pride, God is saying Isaac Egypt's off 192 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,560 limits. Matter of fact, in Scripture you 193 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:46,640 see this. And this is something you learn 194 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,920 early on in Scripture. But Egypt always has this idea 195 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:54,840 of representing a self-sufficiency, human 196 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,280 provision, reliance on the world. 197 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,280 It seems like they had everything there was to offer at 198 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,480 Egypt. Whereas Canaan on the other 199 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,760 hand, is usually that thing which which denotes the things 200 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,720 of God, promises and faith and dependence on God. 201 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,120 So the famine is real, absolutely. 202 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:19,640 But what God wanted Isaac to learn was that his promises were 203 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:26,240 greater than the famine. This is the land that I said is 204 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,240 going to be yours. Your descendants are going to be 205 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,640 many. If I've said this is going to be 206 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,240 yours and this is going to be many, it's not to say you'll 207 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,040 never have any heartache, but it's to say that the promise 208 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,120 I've given you will be greater than the heartache. 209 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,680 It will not overtake you. You will not be overtaken by it. 210 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,520 And so sometimes God allows, I believe for Isaac, he he's 211 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:54,280 following a similar, a similar problem of famine like his 212 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:59,000 father Abraham did, but having that similar problem. 213 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,920 God doesn't want him to repeat the same failures that the 214 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,840 previous generation had, that his father had. 215 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:13,080 If God wants to redeem a pattern here in Isaac's life, don't just 216 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,600 always look to Egypt as though it's your answer when there's a 217 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:22,880 famine in your land of promise. Let me put it in layman's terms. 218 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:27,800 Sometimes people want to jump ship on what God is instituted 219 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:36,720 as the church when things get rough, but God has his hand on 220 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:42,360 the church. We we don't always have to look 221 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,880 elsewhere whenever it gets you know, Rocky in the church. 222 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,600 The church is that the old song says the old ship is iron. 223 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,200 She's been test, she's been tried, she's proven herself. 224 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:58,920 Just stay with it. Amen. 225 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:01,440 Because whatever the church faces isn't bigger than the 226 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:03,280 promises the church has been given. 227 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,400 All right? So you just got to stay still. 228 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,920 Amen. And so Egypt, remember, though, 229 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,960 God is looking at this and knows that doubt. 230 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,240 Isaac may not know everything, but he's probably heard some 231 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,320 stories. You know, Egypt played a very 232 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,640 complicated role in the life of Isaac's father, Abraham. 233 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:24,360 Again, if we go back to the past, that is most likely, that 234 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:25,920 is the most likely they went down there. 235 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,840 That's most likely the first encounter where his cousin Law, 236 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,440 Abraham's cousin Law had an encounter with Egypt, received 237 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,920 the well well watered planes there that whenever then they 238 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,600 would see Sodom tomorrow it was time to pick land. 239 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,360 He said he chose this because it's like the well watered 240 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,320 plains of Egypt. I don't know if he had had a a 241 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,840 rule of thumb for that. Had they not went down to the 242 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:54,400 Egypt first, Secondly, that's most likely where Hagar the 243 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,080 handmaiden came from. That became a part of Abraham 244 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,600 and Sarah's family. That would soon be the woman 245 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,840 that Sarah would say. I give her to you, Abraham, 246 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,800 because I'm Baron, although the promise is God, we know gets 247 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,040 very detailed that it would be Sarah's womb. 248 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:12,520 But I'll give you Haggard. And they have a son, Ishmael, 249 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,960 which causes some havoc in the family, which is still causing 250 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,680 havoc today between these peoples and nations. 251 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:25,520 And all that is due to a trip to Egypt during the time of famine. 252 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,760 And so no doubt with these things in mind, God is is 253 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:33,800 wanting to prevent Isaac from repeating the same missteps of 254 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,760 his father or being in a position where some of those 255 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,360 things could happen. And so he says plainly in 256 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:45,200 Scripture, he ties his blessing to Isaac, linking that blessing 257 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,880 to the land where his feet is standing, linking that blessing 258 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,240 to the land of Canaan. Stay here in this land. 259 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:54,320 Look at verse 3. And God says basically stay here 260 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:59,560 in this land, sojourn here and I will be with thee and will bless 261 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,720 thee. Folks, we might as well mean go 262 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,480 on and turn off the car. At that moment when you hear 263 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,560 that, God says you stay here, I'll be there with you and bless 264 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,280 you. We I don't need any other 265 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,680 explanation. If God says he's going to be 266 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,320 there, I'm good. If he says he's going to bless 267 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,200 there, I'm good. It's kind of like Moses later in 268 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,600 Exodus whenever they were leaving and he he came to a 269 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,960 moment, he said, Lord, he said if you go not with us, if your 270 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,400 presence go not with us, then I don't want to go. 271 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,840 He didn't care if the whole nation of Israel wanted to go. 272 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,720 He says, God, what it really comes down to are you going, are 273 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:34,920 you going to be a part of the trip? 274 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,280 If you're going to be a part of the trip, I want to be a part of 275 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:39,000 the trip. He was just saying, I don't want 276 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,480 to be anywhere where you're not. And I know God is everywhere, 277 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,040 but he says where, you know, the hand of God's blessings. 278 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:47,120 I don't, I don't want to, you know, bring something the 279 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,440 presence of God, say, OK, now God, you bless that. 280 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,280 No, just put me where he's already blessing. 281 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:55,360 So he says, I I want to be there. 282 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,080 And so that's, that's the mindset that God has here with 283 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,000 Isaac. And so there's, there's some 284 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,800 perks then to the obedience. You stay in the land, I'll be 285 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,480 with you. I bless you. 286 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,960 All right. It wasn't connected to his 287 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,000 movement. It was connected to him, staying 288 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,840 to him, abiding. Sometimes, sometimes God's 289 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,160 blessings is just learning how to be content in whatever state 290 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,760 you are. As New Testament scripture says, 291 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:24,680 it's not always the next flashy thing, the next new thing. 292 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,640 And sometimes we get caught up and we, I mean, there's 293 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:31,800 sometimes in walks with God. I mean that this is so fabulous. 294 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,640 It's just mind blowing. But there are other times that 295 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:36,600 you just got to learn how to walk with God. 296 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:42,920 It won't always be a run and it won't always be a shout and it 297 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,440 won't always be the mountaintop. You got to learn how to just 298 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:50,920 walk with God. Storm, rain, good bad, valley, 299 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:52,880 mountain. Just learn how to walk because 300 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,040 the proving of your relationship with God is in the walk. 301 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,720 The Bible says the New Testament Scripture, you know, we read all 302 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,240 the genealogies as we did earlier in the book of Genesis. 303 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:03,640 Don't worry, we're not going back there. 304 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:07,359 But that little, that little abnormal phrase that says, and 305 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,200 Enoch walked with God and was not. 306 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,000 We're like man. Yeah. 307 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:17,760 But note, it just describes it as he walked with God day in, 308 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,440 day out, Monday through Sunday, just a walk. 309 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:26,880 Oh, Brother McGee, it's not boring because he's with me and 310 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,960 he'll bless me. Amen. 311 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,800 And so then God continues his promises, though he begins to 312 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,440 promise to Isaac what he had already promised to Abraham. 313 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:42,000 He, he assures Isaac that the promises of his father would be 314 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,080 his. Again, he reiterates, I'll give 315 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,080 you these countries or these nations, your seeds going to 316 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,920 multiply like the stars in the sky. 317 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,440 And because you are a blessed people, your people's going to 318 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,720 be blessed by you, other nations around, you're going to be 319 00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,200 blessed because of you. This is the exact same things 320 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,880 that God had spoke to Abraham, Isaac's father. 321 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,480 And note, though this is important Scripture, if you look 322 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,680 at this, that the Lord makes this sure to Isaac. 323 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:15,320 Look at verse #5 He says all these things that he had said 324 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,000 into Abraham in verse 5. He said because that Abraham 325 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,560 obeyed my voice, that's powerful. 326 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:28,600 He says all of this, that was Abraham's, He's dead now is now 327 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:36,480 yours because your daddy obeyed. Your daddy obeyed. 328 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,600 He said the promises are going to continue because your dad 329 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,360 obeyed. They're valid to you because 330 00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:46,000 your dad obeyed. Look, look at these series that 331 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,160 God states here. He says you obeyed. 332 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,800 Note, note, note the pronoun. It's used over and over again. 333 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:59,120 He said my voice, my charge, my commandments, my statutes, my 334 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:02,680 laws. He says God, God obeyed all 335 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:04,000 this. My, my, my, my, my. 336 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,480 They were mine. And I know there's a new nuances 337 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:09,880 between these words like commandments and laws and 338 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:14,320 statutes and so on and so forth, but they're listed here for a 339 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,160 purpose. They're not synonyms. 340 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,800 For instance, a charge is something that that speaks a 341 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:25,080 personal responsibility or duty. A charge, a commandment, refers 342 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:30,000 to a specific directive. A statute implies enduring 343 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,840 principles or decrees. A law reflects an established 344 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,160 boundary or righteousness. He says your father kept these 345 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:41,560 things. All right, now let's think for a 346 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,880 moment. This is Genesis. 347 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,480 This isn't Deuteronomy. This isn't after Mount Sinai 348 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:53,720 where the law was given. This is Genesis before there was 349 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:58,640 a written law. Isaac's father Abraham were 350 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,160 keeping laws that would later be written law. 351 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,720 Wow. Now we know that God had 352 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,920 conversation with Abraham. We know that God told him about 353 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:15,440 circumcision and he kept those things, yes, but Abraham was 354 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:20,360 living out divine principles that were not written in stone 355 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,920 yet. But you know where they were 356 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:30,320 already impressed On his heart and mine, a man that was already 357 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,760 living in such a relationship with God that he was sensitive 358 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:37,720 to the likes and the dislikes of his God. 359 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:42,920 He didn't have to have a letter. He didn't have to have a manual. 360 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:49,520 No, he, he was impressed by God's Spirit, these laws and 361 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,800 commands and statutes and things before there was ever a Sinai. 362 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,560 And so we we see reflected in all these things and we've seen 363 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,520 this before already in Genesis. Genesis, from the moment of 364 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:05,640 creation forward, has stuff from creation that the law will later 365 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,760 have written in stone. For instance, a Sabbath. 366 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:16,360 Creation establishes that the law hasn't written, but creation 367 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:21,080 established it the the marriage being defined as one man and one 368 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:26,320 woman. Unity creation established that 369 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,000 the law will have it will have it written whenever you read of 370 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,680 Cain and Abel bringing offerings to the Lord. 371 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,200 Levitical law will establish that in in writing, but it it's 372 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,400 illustrated right there in the book of Genesis whenever you 373 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:48,840 read of Noah that he takes 2 of each kind, yes, upon the ark, 374 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,760 but he takes 7 of of of the clean birds fouls on kind. 375 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,480 And when we really find out, whenever they come off the ark, 376 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,000 the purpose is because there's going to be sacrifice. 377 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,800 When he comes off the ark, there's clean and unclean. 378 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,880 That language you don't usually see until Leviticus, but it's 379 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:05,440 established. What are these things? 380 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,760 There are these are things that that God without a written law, 381 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,320 he's already by just even creation itself. 382 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,720 The book of Romans even bears this out in Romans chapter 1 and 383 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,640 verse 20. It says for the invisible things 384 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:22,280 of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen and being 385 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:27,120 understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power 386 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:30,320 in Godhead, so that that they are without excuse. 387 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,680 The writer of Romans is saying there are some things, Amen, 388 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,600 that we would say are invisible things that are concepts and 389 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:42,400 ideas that are made clear by what God has done in creation, 390 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,800 by how he he works in the affairs of men. 391 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:50,560 It's being known into mankind. And so here is God that they had 392 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:54,600 spoken some things to Abraham. But along with that, here is 393 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,880 Abraham with a God consciousness, right that he's 394 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,120 starting to pick up on things in his spirit. 395 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:01,840 There's promptings and awarenesses. 396 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,720 And as a result of that he didn't have to have a written 397 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:09,160 code, but he walked by revelation and by relationship 398 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,720 with God and he obeyed what he knew, Amen. 399 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,640 And when he failed, here's important follow me right here. 400 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,560 When Abraham failed, at least from what we can gather in 401 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,760 Scripture, he made restitution for his failure. 402 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:31,000 Everybody say repentance. Bible says Isaac, I'm giving you 403 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:37,200 all this because Abraham obeyed obedience doesn't mean that he 404 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:43,360 was flawless. Sister Angie, we read in his 405 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:47,840 life 2 occasions he was deceptive about his wife saying 406 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:53,360 that's my sister rather than given the full description that 407 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,520 and it was his half sister, but rather than the relationship he 408 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:01,840 was in at that moment with her. That's my wife deceptive about 409 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,960 Sarah. But he kept the law. 410 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,280 Just just follow me here for a moment. 411 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,360 Consider David for a moment, Brother Alex, immoral, a 412 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:16,280 murderer, yet he is described as the man that's after God's own 413 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,800 heart. Everybody go follow me just for 414 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,680 a moment. Because keeping the law doesn't 415 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:29,800 mean that we never break the law, but it means when we do 416 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:34,320 break the wall, wall law, that we do what is necessary to get 417 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:41,400 back good standing. Repentance is what we do when 418 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,600 we've been a law breaker. As a matter of fact, repentance 419 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,720 is a part of the law itself. That's the reason why it was 420 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,960 ordered to them and the book of Leviticus. 421 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:56,560 Sin trespassed these offerings called sin offerings and 422 00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:00,880 trespass offerings. That was for the purpose of 423 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,520 making good what was wrong, what they had done wrong. 424 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,280 Repentance serves as that today. But all of that was a part of 425 00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:10,200 law. So the repentance is a part of 426 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,440 the law. So if I try to walk and keep 427 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:17,120 God's commands and I do wrong, but I repent, I'm in keeping 428 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:20,840 with the law because repentance is a part of the law and it puts 429 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,400 me in proper standing with God concerning that. 430 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:29,760 Now, if you don't repent, if you don't repent, that's a different 431 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,560 story. You're walking in opposition to 432 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,800 God. You're not a law keeper because 433 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,640 you, you, you didn't die with him, if you will. 434 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,960 You didn't crucify that, if you will on the cross, Amen. 435 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,840 Whatever it was if you don't. But in the sense of repentance, 436 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,520 that is part of keeping the wrong law. 437 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,480 So whenever God looked at Abraham, he said he's been 438 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,960 obedient. Yeah, he's made some mistakes, 439 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,920 but he's also made those things right. 440 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:56,240 He's had contrition, he's had repentance. 441 00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:59,000 He's made those things right. So because of his obedience, 442 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:02,480 these promises are going to continue upon you. 443 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,240 But the New Testament writer, the Apostle Paul, said it like 444 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:10,200 this in Galatians 2 and 20, he said, I am crucified with 445 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,440 Christ. I am crucified with Christ, 446 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,040 Christ crucifix on the cross. Amen. 447 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:21,160 He said I've stood where he stood. 448 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:24,320 I'm I'm going through a crucifix process, which in the New 449 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,720 Testament in order for us to be crucified with him is through 450 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,840 our repentance. That's how we're crucified with 451 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,960 Christ. And God then says they crucified 452 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,440 with me. I'm going to put them in good 453 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,720 standing. So much so in the Old Testament, 454 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,400 in the New Testament, you know what God says, he says their 455 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,160 sins and their iniquities. I will remember no more. 456 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,480 God chooses to do that. This is powerful to me because 457 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,680 sometimes it's people say it like this, God won't remember 458 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,280 your sins as though as he forgot their your sins. 459 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:58,560 But it's that God knows every one of our sins. 460 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,960 He just chooses not to remember them, which I think is more 461 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,480 powerful, huh. Because to forget something is 462 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,280 like accidental, right? I forgot my keys, I forgot my 463 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,600 wallet. I didn't mean to, but I did. 464 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,480 But to know where they are and to purposely leave them there, 465 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,040 that's a whole different scenario. 466 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:22,080 God, God's God's not somebody suffering from Alzheimer's. 467 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,040 He's not forgotten. He just chooses not to remember. 468 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:27,120 He chooses not to hold it over our head. 469 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,640 He chooses not to cause it to go in the scales against us. 470 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,960 He will remember our sins no more. 471 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:37,800 The Bible says in Micah 7/19. He will subdue our iniquities 472 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,000 and that will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 473 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,800 The rider of the Psalm says in Psalms one O 3 and verse 12, as 474 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,920 far as the east is from the West. 475 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,040 Have you ever reached the end of the east, Josh? 476 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,760 You ever went West and reached the end of it? 477 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,840 Of course not. You go so far West and then 478 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,400 you're starting to go E. You go so Far East and you're 479 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,960 starting to go West. It's like the Infinity circle. 480 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:05,280 You can't find the end of the east. 481 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,760 Says that's how far I've removed our transgressions from. 482 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,880 You can't find it. You can't find it. 483 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,280 And so that the covenant that was handed down to Isaac because 484 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:20,680 of Abraham, it wasn't because Abraham was flawless, that's 485 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:27,000 because Abraham was faithful. Perfection doesn't pass down 486 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,840 blessing or #1 there's no such thing as perfection. 487 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:41,960 But there is such a thing as repentance and being obedient 488 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,240 with repentance. God's not looking for those who 489 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,840 never fail. That would be a search of a 490 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,560 lifetime. One person said, I don't 491 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:56,760 remember who it was said. God doesn't use people who don't 492 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,160 fail because there's no such people around. 493 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,000 Amen. He's looking for those who know 494 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,600 how to get up, rebuild altars, and keep walking in faith. 495 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:12,440 Now look at this. So the Bible says the obedience, 496 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,680 and I think this is the powerful truth about it, Samantha, that 497 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:22,160 the obedience of Abraham became the blessing of Isaac. 498 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,840 The obedience of Abraham became the blessing of Isaac. 499 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:37,320 One generations faithfulness, Amaya created favor for the next 500 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,400 generation. Meaning then the covenant don't 501 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:47,560 expire with Abraham, but expands through his lineage to Isaac and 502 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:52,800 even to others. So every generation concerning 503 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:58,160 the promise was going to inherit a couple of things, promises and 504 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,520 patterns. Patterns, how they deal with the 505 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,240 trial and the turmoil in their life. 506 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,440 Abraham had showcased of how he dealt with some things in his 507 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,360 life. We're going to see in the book, 508 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:17,320 chapter 26, that Isaac a lot of times follows that pattern, 509 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,520 Sometimes, not always, but promises and patterns. 510 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:27,480 And so God wants us to keep the promise, but He's hoping that 511 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,800 from looking over our shoulder, we'll redeem some patterns. 512 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,480 What's your meaning? I'm saying just because mom and 513 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,160 dad may have made certain mistakes does not mean you have 514 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:48,680 to make the exact same mistakes. I know there's the concept. 515 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,280 Oh, there's generational curses. Well, no. 516 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:57,400 What we have, what we have is the learning capability of our 517 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:02,240 children speaking up on and capable of mirroring what we 518 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:07,880 have done in our generation. A curse seems as though it's 519 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,920 inevitable and they can't be changed, right? 520 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:18,520 But when we think of it in terms of patterns can change, then the 521 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,400 next generation can still have the promise and still face them 522 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,400 the very same things you faced, but react differently to what 523 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,240 they face in their generation from the way that you faced it 524 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,960 in your generation. We can learn, right? 525 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,240 They say they history is supposed to be a tremendous 526 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,920 teacher, right? We can learn from others 527 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,840 mistakes. Amen. 528 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,280 And so sometimes the the blessings of our children are 529 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,600 shaped by our obedience. Today, Abraham, some things are 530 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,880 going to continue because of your obedience. 531 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,120 And so how we handle this is important. 532 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,560 So what was it with Abraham that that that put this into play? 533 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,400 How did he handle my statutes, my commandments, my laws, my 534 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,800 judgment, so and so forth? So how we handle those things 535 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,280 today, how we handle those things today, what we'll put 536 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,920 into place, what type of situation, the promises in going 537 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,720 forward into the next generation, is it redeemable? 538 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,560 Can it be retracted? Absolutely. 539 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,360 But I'm just saying to the best of our ability as we stand here 540 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,000 in the now, we want to try to keep it as intact as possible. 541 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,200 That makes sense. Try to make it as intact as 542 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,960 possible. And so with all that being said 543 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:39,080 tonight, understand that that Isaac's story isn't just Isaac's 544 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,240 story. Isaac's story is my story. 545 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,360 The Isaac story is my story because he is a generation 546 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,240 that's living between famine and the possible fulfillment of the 547 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,200 promises of his father. He's living somewhere in between 548 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,520 and he's tempted in this moment, do I run or do I stay? 549 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,440 And that's where we find ourselves often times. 550 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:06,840 But we got to hear the Clarion call of God that says stay Sam. 551 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,560 You appreciate Sam, proud of her all over years. 552 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,280 But listen, there have been times in Sam's life she could 553 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:21,800 have ran. Have there been rough times you 554 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,440 out? Have there been times she's been 555 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,080 on fire and times that she's all of us. 556 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,080 But you know what The thing is, she stayed. 557 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,400 If you're going to have problems and doubts with God, it's best 558 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,960 you have those problems and doubts sitting right here than 559 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:42,120 you do out there. You want to struggle, struggle 560 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,040 right here. Anybody you want to struggle, 561 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,480 struggle right here. You huh, You're going to weak in 562 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:55,760 your faith, Be weak right here. Amen. 563 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,960 Nobody you're going to question your faith, question it right 564 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:05,400 here. Don't disengage, don't run. 565 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,199 That might be more problematic than you warn with it right 566 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:13,840 here, because as Isaac standing there wandering day after day, I 567 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,840 wonder when, who you know, when, when the food's going to come, 568 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,520 when the rain's going to come. At least he's standing right 569 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,400 where God said this is the land. I promise. 570 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,080 This is where I'm just going to hold on. 571 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,560 You know, maybe days when there wasn't anything coming from the 572 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:26,960 soul. Maybe he just picked up a hand 573 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:28,800 of soul and just kind of rubbed it through his fingers. 574 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,800 This is the land that God has promised. 575 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,120 This is where He's putting his name. 576 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,520 This is what he wouldn't have had that in Egypt. 577 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,080 Pick up that soul. There's nothing for that, but in 578 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:43,960 the promise he could there, he could go back and he will folks, 579 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,800 which is amazing here. Later in the chapter, he's going 580 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,920 to go back to some other wells, other places his dad has been, 581 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,679 other encounters where God has been. 582 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:57,000 He could do that being in the land of Canaan. 583 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,480 He wouldn't. There wouldn't have been that 584 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:07,240 connection in Egypt. He could go back to the same 585 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:09,800 spot where his dad put a shovel till they reached water. 586 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:19,920 He could say because he was in that land, this is the same 587 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,520 ground dad tread on. This is this is where they drank 588 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,080 from. He's not going to have that 589 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,480 connection in Egypt, So staying was important to him. 590 00:35:30,720 --> 00:35:33,520 He had to learn to trust every generation. 591 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,320 It doesn't matter. We all got to learn to trust the 592 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,360 Lord for ourselves. The old saying used to be you 593 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,920 can't make it on the apron string of mom or the suit coat 594 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,040 of your daddy. It's true, you can. 595 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,680 Nor can you make it on the apron string or the suit coat of your 596 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,440 pastor. You can't. 597 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,600 Somewhere there will be a pivotal point in your life where 598 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,480 you'll have to trust God for yourself. 599 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:00,520 You'll be based upon the relationship that you have 600 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:06,040 forged with God. Yes, yes, yes, yes. 601 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,480 You'll be based upon that relationship, not anybody 602 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,080 else's, but the one that you have forged with God. 603 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,200 And the amazing thing about God is God isn't like we're going to 604 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,520 play leapfrog right here and we're going to skip Isaac's 605 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,720 generation. No, he didn't skip Isaac's 606 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:22,840 generation and he won't skip your generation. 607 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,760 He's looking for people that will plant themselves. 608 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,200 Amen. Even when the ground feels dry, 609 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,040 right? Even when there's no water to 610 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:31,400 speak of. Who? 611 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,960 Who we'll see even later next week and Isaac that says I'm 612 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:42,280 going to sow seed during famine. Seems like the most idiotic 613 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,920 thing a person could do. We're right here in the middle 614 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:46,840 of the famine. There's no water coming from the 615 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:52,720 sky, and you go sow seed. I can because God said he'd be 616 00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:55,080 with me here and he'd bless me here. 617 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,000 So I'm going to do what looks unconventional. 618 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,640 The other thing used to be if you could accomplish on your 619 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,840 own, it's probably not faith. But if it takes God in order to 620 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,360 get it accomplished, it's probably faith. 621 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,680 I'm going to put this in the soil. 622 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,000 By all the standards of what's going on right now that should 623 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:19,160 fail if there's something welling up inside of Isaac by 624 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:23,160 faith on God's word of being with me and blessing me and put 625 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,600 it in the ground. And the Bible says in the same 626 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,920 year, you'll read it later in the text in the same year. 627 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:32,160 He reaped A hundredfold. Mind you, it's in the South of 628 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:37,320 of of Israel, which is Gerar, which is typically a dry place 629 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,360 to begin with. It's famine and he's getting a 630 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,160 hundredfold from the ground in that day for them, just even get 631 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:48,200 a 25% yield was quite a miraculous, but he's getting 632 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,160 100% yield. Amen. 633 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:51,960 Why? Because God says I'll be with 634 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,200 you and I'll bless you and I told you to stay and you stayed. 635 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,480 I'm really not supposed to be in all this. 636 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,720 The Bible says it gets such recognition of the Philistines 637 00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:12,920 in the region that they envied. They envied Isaac. 638 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,720 You know what they're wishing. We wish we had the type of 639 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:22,360 outcome that you're having because we're in the same soil. 640 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,200 We're living right now in this area of Gerard, the same land, 641 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:33,480 but we're not seeing the same results, Isaac said. 642 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,960 I'm tell you the secret. God's with me. 643 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,080 God's bless me. My father obeyed. 644 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:44,400 I was handed down some promises and I plan on staying with a 645 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,840 pattern that can be passed on to my children. 646 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,640 I got to go. All right. 647 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:56,880 Amen. So, and I will, I'll finish up 648 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,960 here soon. So Abraham is known for building 649 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,960 altars. We're going to see that that's 650 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,320 carried out, right? Isaac, he, he builds some 651 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,840 altars. Jacob is going to build some 652 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,040 altars. It's amazing how you see this 653 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:15,560 process that started in a family pitching their tent, digging 654 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,440 wells. Matter of fact, you know what's 655 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:19,600 important? We'll get to a probably 656 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,680 mentioned in this chapter, maybe I'm just doing it all tonight, 657 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,200 but the order in which they did things, the first thing Isaac 658 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,240 does in this chapter later at Beersheba, is he builds an altar 659 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:37,400 before he pitches his tent. He builds an altar before he 660 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:42,400 digs a well. He gravitates toward the 661 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,160 spiritual aspect before he starts taking care of the more 662 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:51,480 practical being. Good old humans we are, son. 663 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,600 We're all about getting the home ready and getting the resource, 664 00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:55,840 you know? No, he says. 665 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,840 Alter first, is it not been amazing? 666 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:01,360 I mean, folks, think about it for a moment. 667 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,520 In the book of Ezra, when are the nation of Israel is going 668 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,920 back to Jerusalem after being separated from it for 70 years 669 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,720 and it's all dilapidated and it's in ruins and all those 670 00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:13,200 things. In the book of Ezra, what's the 671 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:19,440 first thing that they do? They build an altar before walls 672 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,240 and gates and all this other stuff before houses and homes 673 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:28,080 altar. It's prioritizing what is 674 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:31,720 essential and actually important because if you can get you an 675 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:36,920 altar, houses can be burned from that altar, another temple can 676 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,560 be burned from that altar. Please do not. 677 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,680 If we're getting here toward the end of the year about race star, 678 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:43,040 New Year, everybody's going to make their New Year's 679 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,800 resolutions. God, I'm going to pray all that. 680 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,560 Think about it again, prayer in the year 2026. 681 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,960 So however, again, I just don't have time to pray. 682 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:57,560 You don't have time not to pray. Every other thing in your life 683 00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:02,640 can be contingent on your altar. You need walls and protection in 684 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,880 your in your life, your altar. You need God to work in your 685 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:10,040 family, your altar. You got diagnosis, your altar. 686 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,960 Amen. Well, OK, so Abraham had his 687 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,960 altar. This is what I want to say. 688 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,880 Among all that Abraham and his altar later in the generation of 689 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,920 Jacob, we're going to see that he had a ladder where angels 690 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,000 were ascending and descending in that vision. 691 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,760 But in between the Abraham and between the Jacob, between 692 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:39,200 Abraham's altar and Jacob's ladder was again an Isaac that's 693 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,760 bridging the two with his obedience. 694 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,240 He's seen what God had done, but he also wanted to see what God 695 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:52,000 could do in the future. If you'll stand with me tonight, 696 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,000 then I think God's simple word to us this evening is this. 697 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:00,000 Stay sojourned, so to speak. Trust, trust in the Lord. 698 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,120 Because here is the fact of the matter. 699 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,800 Parents, here's the fact of the matter. 700 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,120 The next generation is watching what you're doing with the 701 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:15,920 famine you're in. So let's redeem patterns of the 702 00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:21,320 past, huh? Because God will make sure we're 703 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:22,760 faithful. God will make sure that the 704 00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,680 promise doesn't stop with us, but rather that He'll cause it 705 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:32,960 to flow through us. Sometimes you got to be 706 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,560 somewhere between that famine and that fulfillment. 707 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:40,640 It's a tenuous place to be in, but it can also be a marvelous 708 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,720 place to see the handiwork of God in as well. 709 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,840 Everybody wants to see a miracle, but no one wants to see 710 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:47,800 anybody. Sick. 711 00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,040 Miracles, healings, all these things only come about if 712 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:58,480 there's a problem. We want the, we want the, we 713 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,240 want all the, the fanfare of the miraculous by bypassing the 714 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:03,560 problem. But it's the problem that 715 00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:10,480 necessitates the miracle. Well, glory, let's bow our heads 716 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:11,760 tonight. Father, I love you. 717 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:17,840 Oh God, help us tonight. God, help me, Lord as a pastor, 718 00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:22,080 help me God as a father. God, I pray, O Lord Jesus, God, 719 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:26,160 how I handle Lord, God promises and how I handle Lord, even 720 00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,480 statutes and judgments. Lord, today I have things 721 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,600 written, but there are still the impressions New Testament 722 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,120 scripture talks about. Lord God, the spirit of the law, 723 00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,920 more so than the letter of the law, the spirit of the law 724 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,680 should still have impressions upon our hearts and upon our 725 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,000 minds for the ordering of our steps and the activities of our 726 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,280 life. I pray, oh God, today, help us 727 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,680 God, to have the staying power, God to hear the voice of the 728 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,640 Lord, to want to be where God said he would be God and where 729 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,840 God would have his blessing to flow. 730 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,640 Lord, I want to, Lord Jesus, to be in that arena and in that 731 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,840 space. Help me God, to handle sin. 732 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,040 Something down, God to those that are coming after me. 733 00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:08,400 Lord, God that I've kept some things intact. 734 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,400 Lord that even if it is Lord in shambles, God, you have the 735 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,480 means of repairing it. But God, to the best of my 736 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,680 ability, I want to be able to transfer something. 737 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:17,640 I want to be able to hand down something. 738 00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,560 I pray, O God, help me to live the way that you want me to 739 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:24,280 live. The Lord in my generation, in my 740 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:29,480 lifetime, in the name of Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah 741 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:34,880 and the church say Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. 742 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,760 Folks, I know there's no way you'll remember all these names, 743 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,320 but just be praying for the church, all right, with all 744 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:43,520 these different ones missing sicknesses and recoveries and 745 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:47,360 travels and so on and so forth and pray, pray a prayer 746 00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,280 protection over you that God keeps you healthy, Amen, And 747 00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:52,840 strong Hallelujah. God bless you. 748 00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,560 We'll see you on Sunday morning, all right, and Sunday night, 749 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,320 there is no extra activities this week. 750 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,760 There's no revival going on per SE, all right, as far as the 751 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,040 assembly here. So I pray that you have a 752 00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,960 blessed, blessed week in Jesus name. 753 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:11,240 God bless you and and be sure to tell Ray Ray hello, Amen before 754 00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:12,440 you leave tonight. Amen.