1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,800 Good morning, everyone. It is great to be here together 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,000 with you. I'm glad to see you all who are 3 00:00:06,008 --> 00:00:07,700 here. I know we have several visitors 4 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:10,900 today and I'm happy that we're able to worship with you 5 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:13,700 together. We do not love know how long we 6 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:17,300 have on Earth to be here and to give our lives to God. 7 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:20,600 But we're here today and is honored to be able to spend it 8 00:00:20,608 --> 00:00:23,200 with you, and to direct our study today. 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,500 There's nothing, I'd rather be doing and then studying God's 10 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:28,400 word. With you today, we have Hebrews 11 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:32,900 chapter 11, we're going to do part, To and that's just where I 12 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:37,700 stopped last time around verse 16 or 17 of Hebrews chapter 11, 13 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,800 and we're going to pick up right there and move along. 14 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,300 I know we have a lot of a lot of visitors today and so this may 15 00:00:44,300 --> 00:00:46,600 be a random pick up for you. You don't know where in the 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:50,500 world we are and all this. So a quick pick up the book of 17 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:55,600 Hebrews is written to Jewish Christians who are dealing with 18 00:00:55,600 --> 00:01:00,100 the switch, from the transition, from the old, lots of the New 19 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:02,700 Covenant, Covenant. So, when Jesus came, he 20 00:01:02,700 --> 00:01:06,300 fulfilled, the Old Testament, which is kind of that back, 21 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:08,800 two-thirds of your Bible. That's the Old Testament. 22 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:10,800 And the New Testament is, where Jesus came. 23 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:12,800 He died. He set up his church. 24 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,600 And now that's the Christian age. 25 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:17,800 We are Christians. The Old Law was Jews today. 26 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,300 We are Christians, because Jesus fulfilled, all the prophecies 27 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:25,000 that would happen in the Old Law and this book of the written to 28 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,900 the Hebrew Christians is called Hebrews. 29 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:28,600 Because that's who it's written to. 30 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,000 It's written to people. Who are trying to deal with this 31 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,700 transition of going into Christianity and really facing 32 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:40,200 challenges because they don't the writer does not want. 33 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,900 These new Christians to go back to Judaism. 34 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,200 And so what he has going through different arguments in this book 35 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,200 to a test. Why they should follow Jesus. 36 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,500 Because number one, he's even greater than Angels. 37 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,500 Jesus is deity. He is not some lower life form, 38 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:01,400 he is greater than Angels who did All these amazing things in 39 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,400 the Old Testament, he's greater than the prophets and the Old 40 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:06,100 Law. They revered their profits 41 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:08,199 because they gave them God's word. 42 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:14,500 They were that hand and sharing the truth of God's of the, the 43 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:16,900 Old Testament. They had all these things 44 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:20,600 delivered through them, but even Jesus is greater than their 45 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,900 profits, he's greater than everything that came before them 46 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,400 and more specifically where we're getting out in Hebrews 11 47 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,600 and he's trying to help connect them. 48 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,000 To these Heroes of Faith to show them that it took faith. 49 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,400 I love the Denny LED that song right before the study this 50 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:41,100 whole chapter is about by Faith by faith, all these things 51 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:45,500 happen, and the writers trying to show us how Faith was working 52 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:48,700 in these people in the Old Testament and faith has to be 53 00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:52,000 working in us today as Christians, if we are going to 54 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,800 please God, we learned that without faith, it is impossible 55 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 to please him. We have to have faith in God. 56 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,100 That transcends? What? 57 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,100 We can see with our own eyes to please Our God. 58 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:06,200 So, we talked about a couple examples and Hebrews chapter 11 59 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,300 so far. We talked about Abel, Enoch, 60 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:16,800 Noah, Sarah, and we're going to pick up with Abraham and verse 61 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:23,800 17. So some people left on our list 62 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:26,800 to talk about, we're going to talk be talking about a 63 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,200 deceitful liar. We're going to be talking about 64 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,600 a murder and a prostitute who are all commended for having 65 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:33,900 faith. We might not get to all of them 66 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:35,700 today. But one of the things I wanted 67 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:37,900 to pull out as we go through this, study of faith, is how 68 00:03:37,900 --> 00:03:41,700 these people weren't perfect. These people were commended for 69 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:46,200 having faith, but they had some past, they had some events going 70 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:50,100 around in their life that were not necessarily the best. 71 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:51,500 And, and many times were really bad. 72 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:55,200 So keep that in mind as we pick up this study, will be talking 73 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,400 about some of those mistakes with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 74 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:05,600 Verse 17 says by faith, Abraham, when he was tested offered up 75 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,700 Isaac and he who had received the promises offered up, his 76 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:14,400 only begotten son of whom it was said and Isaac, your seed Shall 77 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:19,100 be Called concluding that God was able to raise him up even 78 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:22,200 from the dead from, which he also received him in a 79 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:24,200 figurative sense. Okay. 80 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,400 So we're going to go back and explain a little bit more eye of 81 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,500 Abraham in You're not familiar with who this guy is. 82 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,900 But here's a couple things that tells us in the verse in 83 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:38,500 Hebrews. It says, he this man was tested 84 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:40,400 by God. So he went through some kind of 85 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,400 trial by God, in which he was tested, and you're going to 86 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,500 learn to use tested to prove whether his faith was 87 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:51,200 illegitimate. He offered up, Isaac who was his 88 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:55,300 only begotten son, his only son, Isaac Abraham gave up, and he 89 00:04:55,300 --> 00:04:58,300 who had received the promises, offered him up of whom, it was 90 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:00,800 said in Isaac, your seed shall be called. 91 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,900 So this is a quote to the Old Testament where this man Abraham 92 00:05:05,300 --> 00:05:09,100 was told by God, you are going to have a lineage of people that 93 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:11,800 come after you, through this child, Isaac? 94 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:14,700 Okay. Well, this is his only son and 95 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:17,500 it says that he was going to offer him up and sacrifice him 96 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:21,000 to God. Yes, it was by faith. 97 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,800 That did that that he did that verse 19. 98 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:29,500 He concluded Abraham was reasoning that God was able to 99 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:32,000 raise him up, even from the dead. 100 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:37,200 This Abraham was going to sacrifice his son. 101 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,100 And he had him from an old age. So Abraham was never supposed to 102 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:43,400 have this child. As we're going to see in a 103 00:05:43,407 --> 00:05:45,700 minute. It was not by natural way, that 104 00:05:45,700 --> 00:05:49,500 he had Isaac his son. He received him in a figurative 105 00:05:49,500 --> 00:05:53,100 sense from the dead. And he was assuming, you know, 106 00:05:53,100 --> 00:05:55,900 what, God gave him to me when I was 100 Year somewhere around, 107 00:05:55,900 --> 00:05:58,900 100 years old, he can raise him up from the dead, if he wants to 108 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:02,100 and it was all by faith that faith that he did this. 109 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:05,300 Okay, so that's what we're given in Hebrews chapter 11, but I 110 00:06:05,308 --> 00:06:07,600 want to go back just to kind of fill in this picture a little 111 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,000 bit more. So, we And Abraham who he is. 112 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:14,500 So in Genesis chapter 11, this is pretty close to the creation 113 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:16,700 of the world. Relatively, the world is not 114 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:20,500 that old at this point, and we read about this man named 115 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:23,300 Abraham. And God, basically calls him out 116 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:26,800 in chapter 11. We learn that he leaves this 117 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:29,100 town or the city of are right here. 118 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:32,300 So, the war in the Middle East, this is the Mediterranean Sea. 119 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:33,900 This is called the Fertile Crescent. 120 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:37,000 This is where a lot of the early civilization was developed in 121 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,400 the world. It was a real fur. 122 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,900 It'll area. Good growing good water supply 123 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:43,900 and it was surrounded by a lot of desert. 124 00:06:43,900 --> 00:06:45,500 So people really settled in here. 125 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:50,600 So he starts out in chapter 11 right here or of chaldea and he 126 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:56,800 travels up to her on in chapter 12, verse 1, God calls him, out 127 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,800 of her on. So he gets his call from God. 128 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:02,200 He says you need to leave your family. 129 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,200 You need to leave, where you came from, you need to leave and 130 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,100 go out to this Promised Land. I'm going to give to you and I'm 131 00:07:08,100 --> 00:07:10,300 going to give Descendants and I'm going to bless you and 132 00:07:10,300 --> 00:07:13,100 you're going to be special and he calls him out. 133 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:16,900 There, we study about that last time we read it by faith. 134 00:07:16,900 --> 00:07:20,200 Abraham went out, not knowing where he was going, he was 135 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,800 called out right there in chapter 12 of Genesis. 136 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:27,600 So once you leave is there, he gets in 12:5 to the promised 137 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,500 land. So it's in this region right 138 00:07:29,500 --> 00:07:31,700 here. That is the promised land in 139 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:33,800 chapter 12. That's where he arrives from. 140 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,900 There he goes down to Egypt. So there's a famine in the land, 141 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:41,200 so he goes, Down to Egypt to get food and get some things to 142 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,500 provide for his family. And then in Chapter 13, he ends 143 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:46,700 up going back into the Promised Land. 144 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:50,700 I think when he was called out, I believe it said he was 75 145 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:52,500 years old. So this is an old guy getting 146 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:55,000 around. Getting God's promises. 147 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:59,100 Getting God's call to go. He is no spring chicken and I 148 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:02,400 can't imagine that the toil and the burden of doing all these 149 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,900 things to fulfill God's plan in chapter 14. 150 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:09,900 It's in here that he gets the blessing from Melchizedek. 151 00:08:09,900 --> 00:08:12,800 We talked about Melchizedek and Hebrew, so there's a little kind 152 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,800 of pin in it. From what we said earlier, he 153 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,700 gets that blessing. And in that blessing, 154 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:25,000 Melchizedek. Basically he pronounces the the 155 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,300 special blessing that, you know, God will be with you and all 156 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:32,299 these things and in chapter 15 is we're going to read a couple 157 00:08:32,299 --> 00:08:38,500 of verses 22 to zoom in on, in Genesis chapter 15 verse 1 after 158 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:41,799 Melchizedek blessed it, blesses him, it says, after these 159 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:44,800 things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. 160 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:48,400 So his name is Abram. God changes his name later to 161 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:52,200 Abraham, but for now it's Abram. The Lord came to Abram in a 162 00:08:52,208 --> 00:08:55,000 vision saying, do not be afraid a room. 163 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,300 I am your Shield, your exceedingly, great reward. 164 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,600 So this is a super important point that he calls that he, 165 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,800 that he addresses Abraham with, I'm your protector and I am your 166 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,500 reward. Okay. 167 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:14,800 We're going to come back to that but Abram said, Lord God, what 168 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:17,900 will you give me seeing? I go childless and the air of my 169 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:22,200 house as Eliezer of Damascus. This guy up and Damascus is. 170 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,500 We're down here. This guy have a Damascus is 171 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:26,200 going to be the are, what are you going to give me? 172 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,900 I'm an old man. Who's going to be the one who is 173 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:31,700 my descendants. You I was going to have this 174 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:34,600 great family and I was gonna have all this happen after me. 175 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,400 Where is it? It who my are the next person to 176 00:09:37,408 --> 00:09:38,500 get? It's going to be this guy up in 177 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:41,500 Damascus. Then Abram said, look, you have 178 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:45,500 given me no Offspring. Indeed one born in my house is 179 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:49,500 my indeed. One born in my house is my are 180 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,400 so he's complaining to God right after God said, I'm your 181 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:59,000 exceedingly, great reward. So in his faith we're going to 182 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,200 see a Journey of Faith and the The first thing that happens 183 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,800 when God is assuring him that he is Abraham's reward. 184 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,800 He's trying to figure out the pieces, he's trying to get it 185 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,500 all straight. How is it going to happen, Okay? 186 00:10:12,900 --> 00:10:16,300 Genesis 15 verse 4 and behold the word of the Lord came to him 187 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:18,800 saying, this one shall not be your Heir. 188 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,300 It's not going to be Eliezer but one he'll come from your own 189 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:26,300 body shall be your Heir. So it's not going to be somebody 190 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:28,200 else's kid. It's going to be yours who's 191 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:33,400 going to be your heir. verse 5, then he brought him outside and 192 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:37,400 said, look now toward heaven And count the Stars. 193 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,800 If you're able to number them. Go outside and try to count all 194 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,900 those stars out there. He said, now the city disrupts, 195 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:46,400 our view of a lot of the stars and he was out in the 196 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,300 wilderness, where there would have been no lights, he could 197 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:52,300 have seen countless Stars, if you go up into the mountains 198 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:55,000 it's unbelievable. How many you can see, sometimes 199 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 they look like clouds of white because you there's so many of 200 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,500 them. He said, if you can count on go 201 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:03,200 out there Abraham try to count them. 202 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,200 And he says and he said them. So shall your descendants be 203 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:13,000 somewhere around 80 year old man is being told by God who this 204 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,800 man has no kids, you are going to have descendants that look 205 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:21,300 like the stars in number. And he, so Abraham's response 206 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:25,100 and he believed in the Lord and He accounted it to him for 207 00:11:25,100 --> 00:11:29,800 righteousness. So God, I counted to Abraham 208 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,500 righteousness, because he believed in the Lord, in this 209 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:36,700 promise, that I'm going to take care of you, I'm going to give 210 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:39,600 you this great nation behind you. 211 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,000 But what goes on the happen. He gives him this promise, but 212 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,300 then it doesn't happen, right away. 213 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,200 And So, eventually Abraham's wife is like, I can't give you 214 00:11:52,208 --> 00:11:56,400 any kids. Take my servant Hagar and have a 215 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,300 child with her. So your descendants can happen 216 00:11:58,300 --> 00:12:00,600 because obviously, something's not working here. 217 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,300 So, Abraham goes and okay. And he has, he has a baby with 218 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:08,400 his servant, with his lights, with his wife's servant. 219 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:15,200 Out of this comes Ishmael. Now this is not the way God 220 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,900 intended it to happen. Ishmael is not the child of 221 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:24,000 Faith Ishmael is going to be the child that comes out of Isaac 222 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,900 and sitar Abraham and Sarah going. 223 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,800 We got to figure this out because we're not having any 224 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,900 kids and so we're going to make our own way of doing this. 225 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,600 And Ishmael is the firstborn son of Abraham. 226 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:41,800 Now, eventually when, when Ishmael gets older, they send 227 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,700 Ishmael and Hagar away because it becomes a problem in their 228 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:52,100 house because eventually, Isaac, or Abraham does have a kid. 229 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:55,900 God says, okay, now it's time, you're going to have a child. 230 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,100 That's what we talked about last time. 231 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:59,000 Sarah laugh, like, you gotta be kidding me. 232 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,700 I'm gonna have a baby. This old God made it happen. 233 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:06,200 God made from a reproductively dead, man. 234 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,100 And woman, he gave them a child. And his name was Isaac. 235 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:14,300 And it was Sarah's faith, that has committed for being able to 236 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:17,800 have this baby. Okay, so there is now two on the 237 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:22,900 scene, there's Ishmael the first born who was the result of them 238 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:24,100 being like, we got to figure this out. 239 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:28,000 We gotta, we gotta make sure you have a descendant and an 240 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,600 afterword. God says, no. 241 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,600 Now I'm going to give you a baby to you old to people. 242 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:35,900 You're going to have this child and in their faith. 243 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:40,100 They had that child. That was the child of faith and 244 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:42,400 that's a big thing. In the Bible, the child of 245 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,200 Faith, the child of Promise who come through. 246 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,900 Okay. So now we've got these two and 247 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:52,000 then becomes a conflict. There's an issue between Hagar, 248 00:13:52,100 --> 00:13:56,600 and and Sarah, because ishmael's the older son, and the Old 249 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,600 Testament, that was a big deal. You are the older son, you got 250 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,600 bigger Birthright, you've got more inheritance. 251 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,400 It was all part of the superiority. 252 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,400 And So eventually Sarah's like you got to, you got to get her 253 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:11,000 out of here. So Abraham goes along with it 254 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,700 and, and Sarah or Hagar and Ishmael are sent out into the 255 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:18,500 wilderness. They're sent out into the 256 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:22,500 Wilderness and they go near death. 257 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:25,800 At one point Hagar goes away from her son and says I can't 258 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:30,100 watch my son die they were so close to death that the Lord had 259 00:14:30,100 --> 00:14:33,900 to miraculously provide water. The god of heard Hagar and her 260 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:38,500 suffering, even though it wasn't the The Chosen lineage to go 261 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:42,400 through Hagar and to go through. Ishmael God, heard them and he 262 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,300 provided for them and he cared for them. 263 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,400 Our God is so good. And so, Before. 264 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,800 Little pause right here. Did you know that? 265 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:58,800 This is where Islam started? Then in the Old Testament, we 266 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,900 read about these two people. Isaac is the child of promise 267 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:05,700 and all the Jews come through, Isaac, that's the promise 268 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:07,600 lineage. And so they come through Isaac, 269 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,300 Christianity and zip coming through Isaac's lineage, but 270 00:15:11,300 --> 00:15:16,500 the, but the Muslims say, no, Ishmael was the first born son. 271 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:21,300 He should have been given the air and so he is the one that 272 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,000 all their descendants follow through. 273 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,100 And that's where Islam all started. 274 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:29,100 God said that this Always going to be a warring people and that 275 00:15:29,100 --> 00:15:30,900 he was going to be a violent man. 276 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:36,700 And, you know, That was no small mistake, Abraham, and Sarah, did 277 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:40,800 they were supposed to have faith in God and have faith that he 278 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:43,700 would provide in his time. But they took matters into their 279 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:46,500 own hands and not ended up being a big mistake today. 280 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:50,300 There is a lot of people, I'm sure there's a lot of good 281 00:15:50,300 --> 00:15:52,700 people. I know of Muslims that are very 282 00:15:52,700 --> 00:15:55,700 very good people. That's not the claim on making 283 00:15:55,700 --> 00:15:59,400 that they're not. But because of Abraham's mistake 284 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:02,600 it led to a whole lineage of people who would be led away 285 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:07,500 from God and serving the true God and his plan through faith. 286 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,300 That's the difference between Isaac and Ishmael one is the 287 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:15,300 child of faith. And whole point of our religion 288 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:19,400 is to have faith in a God who will provide and Ishmael was the 289 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,000 product of going away from God without faith. 290 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,600 Okay. So as we consider Abraham, this 291 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:33,400 is the guy who in verse 17, who made all these mistakes, this is 292 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,800 the guy who it says by faith Abraham. 293 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:38,400 So let's consider his perspective. 294 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,100 He had a long life and he had trouble having kids. 295 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:45,000 He had a he lived a rigorous life, he went out, he was called 296 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:50,300 out, you follow God, he had made mistakes, And then eventually, 297 00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:53,300 like I said, he had that Miracle happen where he was able to have 298 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:59,700 a son through his old wife. So in chapter 22, this is where 299 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:02,700 we build up to how great of Faith. 300 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:07,900 He had to have to do this. The verse that we read in 301 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:12,099 Genesis chapter 22 now it came to pass after these things. 302 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:16,000 So after God had given him this child Isaac. 303 00:17:17,700 --> 00:17:22,099 He said to him Abraham and he said, here I am then he said, 304 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:28,000 take now your son, your only son, Isaac whom you love and go 305 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,400 to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on 306 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,100 one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. 307 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:38,200 So we're going back to when Isaac was a lad. 308 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,800 The word lad can be anywhere from a kind of a younger boy all 309 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:44,800 the way up to somewhere in his 30s. 310 00:17:45,500 --> 00:17:48,500 And many commentators believe he might have he was probably in 311 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:52,400 his 30s, it tells us Clues. Like when he went up to this 312 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,400 mountain, Isaac are Abraham. Put the wood that he was going 313 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,800 to burn. His son all on on the back of 314 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,000 Isaac. Isaac was strong enough to carry 315 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,100 enough wood, to make a burnt sacrifice of himself. 316 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,000 What in the world this this guy's about to sacrifice his son 317 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:12,000 and Berman burn him altar. Well, what happens is God ends 318 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,300 up when Isaac has the altar prepared or in Abraham as the 319 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:17,800 ultra prepared? His son, Isaac is laid on that 320 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,900 altar. He's got the wood, he's got 321 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:22,400 everything ready. He lifts up his knife to do it 322 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:27,900 and Hebrews 11 doesn't say he was waiting around for God to 323 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:32,200 stop him. No, Hebrews 11 says he was gonna 324 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,800 do it because he believed that God, if he promised him that he 325 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,300 was going to rate that he was going to have lineage through 326 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:42,800 Isaac. He promised him that so he 327 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,800 believed that, even if he killed him and sacrifice him, God was 328 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,300 going to raise him up from the dead. 329 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:53,100 So Abraham had enough Faith to sacrifice his own son and give 330 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:58,700 up his hope to God. But what happens we do know is 331 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:01,200 when he was about to sacrifice him, God says stop. 332 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:05,400 Don't do it for now. I know that you would give up 333 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,800 your only son for me. Now, side note, we should be 334 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,100 hearing, we should seeing pictures of Jesus and what God 335 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:16,600 did for us as he laid his son down to be sacrificed for our 336 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,500 sins on the altar, of all of our mistakes. 337 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:23,300 But there was no one to stop God's hand. 338 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:26,700 There was no one to say, no, I'm going to cover for you. 339 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:32,000 God, sacrificed his son on the cross, his only son who is 340 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,600 somewhere around 30 years old. And his son died willingly. 341 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,500 So we could be saved. There's so many pictures here 342 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,400 that are drawn from the Old Testament so we can see the 343 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,200 gravity of God's love. Above All Else. 344 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,600 But even, but regardless of the picture we have a, we have God's 345 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,700 stopping Abraham's hand from sacrificing Isaac. 346 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,300 And God says, now there's a, there's an animal to sacrifice 347 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:01,000 over here. Go ahead and sacrifice it 348 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,800 instead and so Isaac does not end up being sacrificed, okay? 349 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:11,100 And in this process, we see a journey of faith for Abraham and 350 00:20:11,100 --> 00:20:14,100 starts out that he had enough Faith to go out. 351 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:18,200 He's commended by his faith, to leave his father's house to go 352 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,800 and get the promised land when he didn't know where he was 353 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,900 going, and maybe for you today. Maybe you feel like you need to 354 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:27,400 make changes that are going to disrupt what you are comfortable 355 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,900 with what you are used to, because it will take, that's 356 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:34,600 what faith requires of you. Do you have the faith to step 357 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,600 out of your comfort zone and follow God in the way he asks? 358 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:43,700 So Abraham did that and in chapter 15 God affirms I 359 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:48,000 highlight that verse it. God said I am your reward but 360 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,600 you remember Abraham kind of What past that I said, but what 361 00:20:52,608 --> 00:20:57,300 are you going to give me? His Hope was in Isaac, his 362 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,600 future was in Isaac. His descendants were in Isaac. 363 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:07,300 That's why it is such a big deal in chapter 22. 364 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:11,700 When he lays Isaac down. That was his hope. 365 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,300 That was everything to him. And the beauty of his faith when 366 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:21,500 he didn't did that is he was surrendering everything to God 367 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:28,500 and God was his reward. God was Abraham's reward when he 368 00:21:28,500 --> 00:21:32,400 trusted God enough to give him everything that's when God, 369 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,600 truly was his reward and his inheritance. 370 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:40,800 Now, the beauty is our God is so good that even when we sacrifice 371 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,400 everything when we surrender everything and said, God, I 372 00:21:43,408 --> 00:21:45,600 don't know what all you're going to require me, but I'm going to 373 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,000 give it all to you. Whatever you ask, whenever we do 374 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,400 that, we glorify God. And we put him first in our 375 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:56,100 lives, and when we do that, the beauty is God provides Better. 376 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,600 It's like when a parent has something for their child that 377 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,300 they want them to hand over. Maybe it's something that 378 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:05,300 shouldn't be eating. Maybe it's a piece of glass that 379 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:07,900 they don't want them to throw in their mouth and they said, him 380 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:09,700 me that I've got something else for you. 381 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:13,300 Just trust me give it to me when they really they have a piece of 382 00:22:13,308 --> 00:22:16,700 candy to give back. I don't know if that that 383 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:22,700 analogy lands with you, but the idea is God will always ask us 384 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:25,200 to do something. He will ask great measures of 385 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,100 faith. Some times where we have to 386 00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:30,700 submit and just trust him but we can be assured. 387 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,300 God's way will always be better and even if we Handover 388 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:37,200 something we think is what we want. 389 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,200 God will provide better and God ends up. 390 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,500 Providing a sacrifice in place of Isaac. 391 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:48,200 And a lineage that is innumerable as the Sand by the 392 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,900 seashore, in the stars, in the sky comes after through this 393 00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:55,200 process. Our God will always provide 394 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:56,500 better. And if you're wondering today, 395 00:22:56,700 --> 00:22:59,300 you know what? I'm starting to see that. 396 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:03,900 God is calling me up. God is asking things of me and 397 00:23:03,900 --> 00:23:05,500 some people might lead you to believe that. 398 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:07,400 That's an easy thing. That's a simple thing, just 399 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,700 believe, God. But that's not the god that of 400 00:23:10,708 --> 00:23:14,300 the Bible. The god of the Bible says, I 401 00:23:14,308 --> 00:23:17,000 want everything you have. If I'm not first in your life, 402 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,100 I'm nothing. I'm not really God until you 403 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:22,600 trust me with everything and until you're willing to 404 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,200 surrender. To me belief, the Bible says, 405 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,100 even the demons believe in God demons, understand God, but 406 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:33,400 they're opposed to him or they don't follow him. 407 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,700 So even if the demons believe, that doesn't mean there, there 408 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:42,200 are Servants of him. But when we fully surrender to 409 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:48,900 God, That is when our faith becomes real, that is where God 410 00:23:48,900 --> 00:23:53,800 becomes the first, our life. And for you today, it will be 411 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,400 worth it. You may give things up But I 412 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,700 believe with all my heart, you will get back better really in 413 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:03,400 this life. And the next, I believe, God 414 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:08,900 will replace the challenges with nobody challenges, but victory's 415 00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:13,500 challenges with no hope to challenges with a victory so you 416 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:17,000 can have faith. You can surrender to a God who 417 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,300 will bless you beyond what you could ever imagine giving 418 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:22,600 yourself if you were to keep and hold back for him. 419 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:27,300 So how did he do this? Well, one of the few things we 420 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:30,100 know is that God told him it was going to happen. 421 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,800 So he must have just been grounded in the promises of God. 422 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:37,900 He was grounded to the point that, you know, maybe he could 423 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:41,800 have feared, he could have feared thinking I'm gonna have 424 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,400 to sacrifice my son because of sins that I committed and we 425 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,800 learned in the Old Testament. This was a problem and the Old 426 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,900 Law people saw as like, if you messed up, God, punished you. 427 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:51,400 And if you did good, God bless you. 428 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:55,500 So he could have seen this as God's way of punishing him by 429 00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,400 sacrificing his son, but he didn't. 430 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,300 He had Faith so strong and God's promises. 431 00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:06,800 That he knew God was going to do what he said. 432 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:09,600 Do you believe in God's promises? 433 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,100 He believed in the Lord and it was accounted to him for 434 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,600 righteousness. Okay, so that was Abraham. 435 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:20,400 We don't have a ton more time so we're going to step into Isaac 436 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,700 is the next verse and chapter and verse 20 of chapter 11 437 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:28,400 Hebrews. So Isaac is his son by faith. 438 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:31,900 Isaac blessed. Jacob, and Esau concerning 439 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:35,700 things to come. So Isaac has two sons, Jacob, 440 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:39,000 and Esau in the Old Testament, they are twins. 441 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,300 They come out of the womb together, but Esau is the 442 00:25:42,300 --> 00:25:48,800 firstborn on Esau's way out. He grabs on Jacob grabs onto the 443 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,200 foot of his brother to where they both come out basically 444 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,100 together. But Jacob is the heel snatcher. 445 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,900 And that is now an idiom and Judaism to describe someone 446 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:02,600 who's deceitful, someone who trip someone else up. 447 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,600 Jacob his whole life turns out to be this guy, who's always 448 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,200 deceitful to get ahead. He makes these moves. 449 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:15,600 These sly pieces of trickery to get his way to get his 450 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:22,400 Birthright and so In there, when they are going to get their 451 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,100 blessing these are the two guys. It's coming to Jacob. 452 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:32,800 And Esau now, we learn that. We learned that Jacob is a guy 453 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,400 who's a little more delicate. He's a little more of a mama's 454 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:40,600 boy, but Esau is a man's man. He's hairy, he comes out red, 455 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,400 he's a hunter, he likes all those things. 456 00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:45,200 And so his father, Isaac, like, seesaw better. 457 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:49,500 It's just it's carnal and might not be like a very admirable 458 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:51,600 thing for him to have a preference. 459 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:57,900 But the Bible tells us, I think like you saw better but his mom 460 00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:00,900 likes Jacob better. Okay, so we're just Setting the 461 00:27:00,908 --> 00:27:04,800 scene here, we are told here that the faith before I get into 462 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,600 some of the Weeds on about these guys, I want to be clear that we 463 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,800 are told that by faith. He blesses them concerning 464 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,400 things to come. So when Isaac is about to die, 465 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,500 he pronounces a blessing on his children. 466 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,100 Okay? And so we know that he has faith 467 00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:22,300 in God's trustworthiness and a heart that would look to the 468 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:24,500 future of his descendants in God's sight. 469 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:28,400 So that's kind of the first layer of this we know Isaac had 470 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,500 Faith to bless his children. In God's sight cave. 471 00:27:32,500 --> 00:27:34,900 Let's give a little more into the story with Jacob and Esau 472 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:40,400 because It's an interesting time to say that Isaac had Faith 473 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,000 because of all the issues surrounding this family, they 474 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:48,200 had a lot of issues. So we talked about how he was 475 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,800 the one who snatched the heel, the difference in the two 476 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,700 children, and there's an event, where they're both old enough to 477 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:59,900 be taken care of themselves. Where Jacob is making some stew. 478 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,500 His brother comes in from the field. 479 00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:03,300 He didn't get her anything on his hunt. 480 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,000 And so, he basically says, Esau says, hey man, give me some of 481 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,500 that stew. And Jacob says, we'll give me 482 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:10,300 your Birthright. Give me your inheritance. 483 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,000 And he says, like if I'm gonna die from Hunger, who cares about 484 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,000 my inheritance and so he gives him this. 485 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:17,400 You in exchange for his Birthright. 486 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:21,900 We learned later that that was just a foolish Mistake by Esau. 487 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,500 He was always concerned about what do you got now. 488 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:27,500 Now now and that learn it led him to trade in his inheritance. 489 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,100 Okay. This is a fast version of a lot 490 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:34,100 of events in the Old Testament so when it comes time after the 491 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:40,500 birthright to get the blessing, what happens is his mom says I 492 00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:43,800 want you to get the blessing Jacob, instead of your older 493 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,200 brother, the older brother is Posed to get this special 494 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,200 blessing but I want you to get it instead and he was like, how 495 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,000 is this going to work? When my father? 496 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,100 My father has bad eyesight. He's getting old and so he's 497 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:57,200 gonna but he'll still be able to feel me. 498 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,000 You can tell that I'm a maybe Jacob was a scrawny man. 499 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,400 He wasn't quite so hairy as his brother and manly and so she 500 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,900 said he said how am I going to make this work? 501 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:08,900 How can I convince him to give me the blessing? 502 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,600 And so his mom says we're going to do this when it killed goat. 503 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,000 We're gonna put his fur around your arms. 504 00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:17,000 So that your father thinks it's your brother. 505 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,500 He must have been hairy. Dude. 506 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:22,300 To think that was that was his brother, so that's what happens. 507 00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:25,800 He goes gets the goat, kills it. They provide a meal out of that 508 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,300 goat and she wraps him up in his fur. 509 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:34,100 And so he comes in with this costume of fur, to speak to his 510 00:29:34,100 --> 00:29:36,100 father. His father is in bed. 511 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,200 He is near death, he's old, and he's dead. 512 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,400 Is not old enough to see that, it's not his, the Sonny thinks 513 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,600 it is. And so, he gives him the meal of 514 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,500 the goat that he cooked and he says, come here, let me feel 515 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:52,300 your skin. He's like, sure enough, it's as 516 00:29:52,308 --> 00:29:55,200 hairy as Esau and zillions up blessing. 517 00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:00,100 Jacob. So He blesses Jacob, then Jacob 518 00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:01,600 leaves with this blessing. He's all happy. 519 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,300 Now he got this blessing. Now I'm going to be the one who 520 00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:07,600 has Authority in the family, Esau comes in, and he's like, 521 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,200 father, I'm ready to get my blessing. 522 00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:11,800 See. He's like, what are you talking 523 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,600 about? I just gave you your blessing, 524 00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:17,500 and eventually Esau realizes and Jo and Isaac. 525 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:20,000 Realizes, he blessed the wrong guy. 526 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:23,300 Esau, was supposed to get the first blessing, the older 527 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:27,200 sibling but Jacob was the tricks your though, he was he was the 528 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,100 heel snatcher from the beginning and he pulled ahead and he took 529 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:36,000 the blessing from him. Okay, so in all of this, we're 530 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,600 told that Isaac had faith and blessed his children to come. 531 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:46,800 It's a weird time to me to pronounce a blessing. 532 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:52,000 But there's a couple things in here that we already said, he 533 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,600 had Faith to bless his descendants and once he realizes 534 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000 God, either wanted to bless him or God. 535 00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:04,200 However, it happened. Jacob got the blessing and and 536 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,100 Isaac is trembling. And he says, you know, that's 537 00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:09,600 going to be it. If it's God's will that's going 538 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,900 to be what happens. And I cannot change that, but I 539 00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:16,700 have faith and God's promises. So he had faith in blessing his 540 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:21,000 children. But what's a little bit? 541 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:22,800 Not clear. As we don't know, all the 542 00:31:22,808 --> 00:31:24,700 details. Now one commentator I was 543 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:28,100 reading after I will explain to you what he thinks on this and 544 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,400 you can decide for yourself. I think I'm willing to go into 545 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,800 it because I think the application regardless is true 546 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:39,300 that we're going to draw. We know that he wanted, Isaac 547 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:40,900 wanted to give the blessing to Esau. 548 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:46,100 And it was contrary to, you might call it the promise or the 549 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:50,000 prophecy, or both that the older Shall Serve the younger. 550 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:54,000 There was a prophecy made that the older sibling is going to 551 00:31:54,008 --> 00:31:56,500 serve the younger one. So, Jason Jacob was all along. 552 00:31:56,500 --> 00:31:59,800 Got to be the one who got this. So, This commentator is reading 553 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,600 after said that was God's promise, and Isaac should have 554 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,400 taken heed to that, or paid attention to that and not try to 555 00:32:08,408 --> 00:32:10,400 give the blessing to Esau instead. 556 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:15,800 We don't know for sure if he was contrary to God in this, but we 557 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,400 do know that he liked, you saw better and that's what he was 558 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,600 wanting to do for his own reasons. 559 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:26,600 And we learned that afterward, he comes, he's trembling when he 560 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,300 realizes what happened. Now, some people think that he 561 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:33,000 was trembling, because he realized he was in opposition to 562 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,700 God's will. I don't know if that's the case 563 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,300 but I'm going to draw some application. 564 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:45,800 Sometimes our faith is in its greatest moment, even kind of 565 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,500 surrounded by a lot of mistakes. Sometimes in war against God, 566 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,700 when we have a change of heart and turn around and go the other 567 00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:57,300 way, we have our one of our greatest most admirable moments 568 00:32:57,300 --> 00:33:00,800 of Faith so that you might be in a bad situation, you might have 569 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:06,500 a pattern of Disobedience, but that moment where you take where 570 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:11,400 you are going and you shift direction that takes That takes 571 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,700 faith and it takes. It takes faith in submission to 572 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:19,300 God's word. So even though you might not be 573 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:22,600 in a spot that you're proud of right now or even at times in 574 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,600 your life where you weren't proud of where you're at. 575 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,300 Any time, you submit to God and you turn from your way to his 576 00:33:28,300 --> 00:33:33,200 way that is Faith, and that is commendable by God. 577 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:36,300 Now, I don't know if that's the point of why Isaac was commended 578 00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:40,700 here was for his turning to God and Faith to say, you know what, 579 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:42,600 this is God's will. It's going to happen, I don't 580 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,600 know, but the point stands. Maybe you're a place where you 581 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,500 don't feel like you're living out God's will. 582 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,900 You can show Faith to b day that is commendable to God by turning 583 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,600 your life, to live for him. The way he wants you to live. 584 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:05,700 The last one we'll talk about and we'll close by faith. 585 00:34:05,700 --> 00:34:08,600 Jacob. So it's tracing down the lineage 586 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,000 Now by faith Jacob, when he was dying. 587 00:34:12,199 --> 00:34:15,400 So he's kind of in the same situation as father was in when 588 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,600 he was dying. Blessed each of the sons of 589 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,400 Joseph and worshipped leaning on the top of his staff. 590 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,800 So he had very little strength. He was old enough to where he 591 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,400 was probably bedridden. And he leaned on the top of his 592 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,900 staff to worship God. Now, I see two main things, I 593 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:36,600 see number one, someone who's so old, and an example of faith, 594 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:40,800 and we have people in this building who were old and you 595 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,699 were a week and physically, but they will still continue to 596 00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:47,000 worship and praise God. And I get that picture. 597 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,100 Sometimes in my head, when I see some of our older folks here 598 00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:55,800 worshipping or doing what they can Services, I see Isaac, Jacob 599 00:34:55,800 --> 00:35:00,000 leaning on the top of his staff. But his admirable as this is. 600 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:04,200 I think the second point is to remember maybe why he's leaning 601 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,300 so heavily on his staff. We lead about, we read about all 602 00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:13,000 these deceit that Jacob had the difficult life he had and how he 603 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,500 was often in opposition. And we learn about a situation 604 00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:21,400 in Genesis 32, where he wrestled with God or a wrestled with the 605 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:24,800 man that says there, whatever. That necessarily means I don't 606 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:29,200 have it all figured out but we know that he wrestled with 607 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,700 either an angel or something or something with God. 608 00:35:32,700 --> 00:35:38,600 And in that fight, that being touched his hip and knocked it 609 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:43,900 out of socket. Kind of a strange situation, but 610 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:46,100 maybe that's why he was leaning so heavily when he was 611 00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:51,800 worshipping. that he's leaning on hip from his life of 612 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,900 opposition to God opposition to people and the problems that he 613 00:35:55,900 --> 00:36:02,000 created in his family and with God, And he worshipped leaning 614 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:09,500 over that hip Maybe. Sometimes our past isn't always 615 00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:11,700 what we want it to be but wherever you're at you can 616 00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:15,700 worship God. You can praise God and we know 617 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:19,700 regardless that his worship was a demonstration of faith in 618 00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:22,600 God's goodness. And he blessed the sons of 619 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,400 Joseph because he had faith in the security of his descendants 620 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,000 that God was going to bless his descendants and that they would 621 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,200 be. All right, going forward. 622 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:41,100 So we're going to stop there for today, and a couple just 623 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:43,900 conclusions to summarize so far. We've talked about people who 624 00:36:43,900 --> 00:36:48,300 have who have fought the long fight for God and Noah and so 625 00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:50,800 sometimes you just need to hold on through whatever you're going 626 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,300 through and hold on to your faith. 627 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,100 We learn about people who have not always been faithful but who 628 00:36:56,100 --> 00:37:00,000 had moments of faith and today wherever you're at you can start 629 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,900 your walk, you can reaffirm your walk, you can get back on the 630 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:07,200 right track in faith to our God. If you Started that walk you can 631 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,100 come believing in him. We cannot have faith in God 632 00:37:10,100 --> 00:37:14,100 without Understanding God's word and believing him changing our 633 00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:17,200 life. Living a practically submissive 634 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,800 life to God. 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