1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,320 Morning, everybody. All right, so this morning, 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,600 Tanner will be preaching out of Genesis 24. 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,240 If you don't have a copy of Scripture, you can find one 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:15,680 under your seat, and if you're using, the one on your seat will 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:22,040 be on page 16. All right, so we'll read Genesis 6 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:27,400 24. So I will be skipping around 7 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:32,080 through a few verses so they'll be on the screen so you can 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,640 follow along. All right, Genesis 24. 9 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,800 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord 10 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:41,720 had blessed Abraham in all things. 11 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,800 And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who 12 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,480 had charge of all that he had. Put your hand under my thigh, 13 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:52,880 that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the 14 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,840 God of earth, that you will not take away from my son, from the 15 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,480 daughters of the Canaanites among whom I dwell, but will go 16 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,319 to my country and to my kindred, and take away from my son Isaac. 17 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,320 Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, 18 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:13,760 taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master. 19 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:17,200 And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of 20 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:22,840 Nahor, and he made the camels kneel down outside the city by 21 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,200 the well of water at the time of the evening, the time when the 22 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,320 women go out to draw water. And he said, O Lord God of my 23 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:34,320 master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast 24 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:37,760 love to my Master Abraham. Behold, I'm standing by the 25 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,640 spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city 26 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,840 are coming out to draw water. Let the young woman to whom I 27 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,360 say Please let down your jar that I may drink, and who shall 28 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,840 say drink, and I will water your camels. 29 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,440 Let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant, 30 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,240 Isaac. By this I shall know that you 31 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,880 have shown steadfast love to my master. 32 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:03,000 Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebecca, who was born to 33 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,680 Bethule, the son of Milka, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's 34 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,920 brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder. 35 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,520 So he quickly emptied her jar. So she quickly, Sir, quickly 36 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,520 emptied her jar into the through and ran again to the well to 37 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,600 draw water, and she drew for all the camels. 38 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,440 The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the Lord has 39 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,200 had prospered his journey or not. 40 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,600 Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household 41 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:43,560 about these things. He said, Come in, O blessed of 42 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:45,840 the Lord, why do you stand outside? 43 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,000 For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels. 44 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,480 So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave 45 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,880 straw and fodder to the camels, and there was water to wash his 46 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,080 feet and the feet of the men who were with him. 47 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,680 Then food, Food was set before him to eat, but he said, I will 48 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,160 not eat until I have said what I have to say. 49 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:15,520 He said, Speak on. Then Laban and Bethule answered 50 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:17,840 and said, The thing has come from the Lord. 51 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,160 We cannot speak to you bad or good. 52 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,880 Behold, Rebecca is before you. Take her and go. 53 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,240 Let her be the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has 54 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,160 spoken. When Abraham's servant heard 55 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:39,160 their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the Lord, and 56 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,680 they called Rebecca and said to her, Will you go with this man? 57 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:48,080 She said, I will go. Then Rebecca and her young women 58 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,440 arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. 59 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,840 Thus the servant took Rebecca and went on his way. 60 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,920 Now Isaac had to return from Beerla High, Beerla High, Roy, 61 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:06,840 and was dwelling in the Nagab. And Isaac went out to meditate 62 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,880 in the fields toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and 63 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,080 saw, and behold, there were camels coming. 64 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,600 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 65 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,720 Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah, his mother, and 66 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,920 took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her. 67 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,320 So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. 68 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:36,200 This is the word of the Lord. What's going on? 69 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,720 Port City family and friends, how are we doing? 70 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,680 Good. Well, my name is Tanner and I am 71 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:48,480 a huge Sinner and that's OK and so are you. 72 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,200 The good news y'all, is that God is good. 73 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,880 He is so gracious. He is in the business of taking 74 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:59,240 sinners, making them sons and daughters, and then teach them 75 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,120 how to live. And you were created to live in 76 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,360 relationship with him as his child, in relationship with his 77 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,560 church and a family, a stumbling, fumbling group of 78 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,920 recovering sinners who know that they are saved by grace. 79 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,560 Then you were created to be a part of a great adventure in the 80 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,840 mission of God, making disciples to the ends of the earth in 81 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:21,760 mundane ways and in big ways. So we believe that's what God 82 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,320 has for you. We'd love for you to jump in 83 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,160 here with us at Port City. That's what we're all about 84 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,280 living up in and out together with God, one another and for 85 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,360 our neighbor. Your next step, if you are like, 86 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,280 hey, I'm ready to hear more is starting point and you'll be 87 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,000 hearing more about that later. So I want to pray one more time 88 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,240 just for our hearts and our minds as we dive into God's 89 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:41,240 word. Then we'll get going. 90 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,880 Our Father, we love you. Thank you so much for your word. 91 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,720 Thank you God, that though we are great sinners, you are a 92 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:49,760 greater Savior. God, you love us. 93 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,240 You made us in your image. You are so kind and gracious. 94 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,760 Would you once again breathe upon your word, which is alive 95 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,280 and just help us to understand it. 96 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:01,040 We pray in Christ's name, Amen. I don't know about y'all man. 97 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:05,080 I know I'm getting older. When I like like plays, I'm 98 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,760 getting into plays, you know, like anytime that and what's 99 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,400 crazy is when they make a new version of it, like a movie 100 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,920 version of a play, you've already seen it, right? 101 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,400 Like I mean like it's kind of like a remake of a movie. 102 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,840 You've already seen it. One of my favorites is the Les 103 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:23,400 Mis kind of every time they make one, I watch it. 104 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,480 I've gone to I've seen the the Broadway crew came to my town 105 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,760 one time and I watched it. And here's what's so funny. 106 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:32,840 When you leave, you know, if they did a good job because 107 00:06:32,840 --> 00:06:35,120 you'll be like, Oh, that was a good so and so character, right? 108 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,480 That was a good Valjean. But like, if they mess it up, 109 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,680 you're mad because you know what it should be, but if they do it 110 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,480 good, they did it good and put their spin on it. 111 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,000 That makes sense. Like it's already there, but you 112 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,360 can mess it up and it's already there and you can make it your 113 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:50,520 own. Does that make sense? 114 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,680 Yo, what I love about that concept, I want to just give you 115 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,240 that concept of a play y'all in in. 116 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,480 To be made in God's image and then be a fallen image bearer is 117 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:04,720 to think you are directing your own play. 118 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,600 That's what we are born into. Sin means we think we write in 119 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,960 an original. But the good news of the gospel 120 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:15,320 is that you can become a character in God's play and the 121 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,000 role is already there, is there in your parenting, is there when 122 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,360 you work, is there when you're married, is there when you're 123 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,320 it's already been written and you get to put your spin on it. 124 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,640 As one artist once said, I copy what he did and I'm still 125 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:27,680 authentic. OK? 126 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,400 The idea is I'm an original as I copy him. 127 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,880 You're not an original if you don't copy him. 128 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,200 Isn't that the great irony of the gospel? 129 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,400 If you want to be an original, you follow Jesus. 130 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:40,560 That's the good news of the Bible. 131 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,600 So the title of today's sermon is The Joy of Participation. 132 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,880 And what we're going to see in this really long story that 133 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:51,120 we're kind of chopping up so we can get handlebars around it is 134 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,680 a bunch of people who are participants in something bigger 135 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,640 than themselves. They're just, in a lot of ways, 136 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:02,040 enjoying the ride of this God who is guiding things without 137 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:06,600 forcing it and just is there. And we get the joy, as so many 138 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:11,320 have read this for thousands of years, of taking our trust in 139 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,800 that God into our lives and living it out. 140 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,280 That's what we get to do. So we're going to look at being 141 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,880 a participant through five different little angles. 142 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:22,800 The neediness of God's participants, the resolve of 143 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:27,480 God's participants, the guiding hand of God, how that produces 144 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,120 the praise of God's participants. 145 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:32,039 And then lastly, the pictures of God's participants. 146 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:34,320 If you're ready, let me hear you say I'm ready. 147 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:39,320 OK, point #1 the neediness of God's participants. 148 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,600 What you'll notice in this story, which is mainly the main 149 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:47,040 characters are the servant, Abraham, Rebecca, and Isaac. 150 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:48,280 And then you've got the trickster. 151 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:50,920 Laban and the family are involved as well. 152 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,640 What you'll notice is they all need God. 153 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:02,160 Somebody say I need God. Facts and what's amazing y'all 154 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:06,200 is God brings you in relationship to himself to need 155 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,280 him. I think many people think if you 156 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,440 know God your needs go down. No, no, no. 157 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,880 Your needs go up as you know God, not down, and the joy 158 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,160 increases the more you depend on Him. 159 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,400 The goal of God in your life is not for you to need Him less, 160 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:23,800 but more. OK. 161 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,160 And that's what we see in the story starting with Abraham. 162 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:30,160 We learn in verses one through 4 that Abraham is about to die. 163 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,920 We actually read the story of his death last week. 164 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,240 We're getting into Isaacs story more and this is a a big story 165 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,440 of of some even think by the end of the story Abrahams dead 166 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,600 because the servant comes back and presents everything that 167 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,520 happened not to Abraham but to Isaac. 168 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,320 We can't know for sure, but he is on his deathbed and he's in 169 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,200 the needy position of fulfilling God's covenant to his family to 170 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,480 bless all nations on earth through him. 171 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,960 Well, his son don't have a wife. So on his deathbed, he's not 172 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,440 thinking about himself and his legacy. 173 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,480 He's thinking about God and his faithfulness. 174 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,600 And he's like, how can I participate in God's 175 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,800 faithfulness? I need to get a son, a daughter 176 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,960 from my son. And scholars agree that Isaac 177 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,040 needs to stay in the land as a trust in God's promise that the 178 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,400 land will be where you'll stay. So he can't go, so he sends his 179 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,240 servant. So Abraham needs his servant, 180 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,080 and he needs him to follow his instructions. 181 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,040 You can't go to the women of this land. 182 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,920 And this is not an ethnic prescription he's giving him. 183 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,560 It's a worship one. It's like this is about who God 184 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:38,320 is, and you go to my family to find somebody for him to marry. 185 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,040 Don't go to the people of this land because they got other gods 186 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:44,960 and y'all. The reality that Paul picks up 187 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,480 on in this concept of being equally yoked in the New 188 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,800 Testament is just that union and marriage is a highly intimate 189 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,800 thing. And what the Bible teaches is 190 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,600 you don't want to enter a union where your devotion is not 191 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:00,760 equal. We're like, first place is not 192 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:02,800 God. You're just asking for God to be 193 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,680 supplanted as the, the, the king of your heart. 194 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:07,760 And so just the most natural thing ever. 195 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,920 Don't, don't, don't go there. So he asked his servant to go on 196 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,240 his behalf because he's about to die. 197 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,560 Isaac can't leave, which leads us to the servants need. 198 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:19,000 The servant is like you want me to do what? 199 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,760 I mean, we've shown you all the map before, but he is traveling 200 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,760 hundreds of miles back with some people with them and 10 camels. 201 00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:28,960 So he's going basically they are in the Negeb. 202 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:31,720 You heard that term. The Negeb is kind of the the gap 203 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:33,440 between Egypt and the promised land. 204 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,880 So that red bottom left where there it's like orangish in 205 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:39,400 there. That's kind of like in between 206 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,880 Egypt and the red is Negeb and he's traveling back to Haran. 207 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,120 OK, we're talking hundreds of miles here that he's going to 208 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:48,840 travel with some camels and some people. 209 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,480 He's like, what do I do? Like he wants specifics when 210 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,720 we're we're we're afraid. We want specifics, don't we? 211 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,680 What do I do if I make a left turn and I should have made a 212 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,720 left quarter turn, you know, like that's kind of like, what 213 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,000 do I do then, huh. Abraham. 214 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:07,680 And Abraham is basically like you'll be I OK, But we see his 215 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:10,760 neediness later in the story when he prays, right? 216 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:15,920 He prays to he prays to the Lord and says, I need some help here. 217 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,000 We'll talk about his prayer more in a little bit. 218 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,880 So prayer represents his need. Then there's Rebecca who's just 219 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,920 going to a well in the middle of the day and meets this stranger 220 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:30,160 who asked her for water. And then she commences to say, 221 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,240 not only will I water for you, but I'll get some for your 222 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,400 camels. One scholar said that basically 223 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,080 the way an old school well worked, as it was lower than the 224 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:41,400 rest of the the ground, it was down some. 225 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,840 So imagine like 4 little steps per trip. 226 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:48,240 You got a three gallon like drum that you're filling up and then 227 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,520 dumping for the camels. A camel can drink 25 gallons of 228 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:55,160 water in one of these sittings. Says that she probably made 80 229 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,400 to 100 trips that took her up to two hours of watering. 230 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,600 So it's not just like, let me get you camels real quick. 231 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,120 Turns on a hose. It was like a lot of work. 232 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,760 OK. This is she's physically 233 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,440 spending herself. She is vulnerable out here at 234 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:10,960 this. Well, with this man, she is in 235 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,800 need. And then there's Isaac. 236 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:16,480 Isaac is needy here. She he's lost his mother. 237 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,480 He needs a wife. He's not being lazy by staying, 238 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,240 He's being dependent by staying. He is depending on God to 239 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,360 provide for him. He he needs to stay in the land. 240 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,120 And so he's in the position of hopefully this servant that my 241 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:35,480 father sending does what God wants him to do. 242 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,560 He's in a very dependent position. 243 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:42,200 Y'all, being needy is so hard, isn't it? 244 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:49,280 It is so hard, but it's so good. The best example I can think of 245 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,080 is think of the last time you were really hungry and you had 246 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:57,960 something good to eat. Notice you tend to think of 247 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,000 something good you ate when you were hungry. 248 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,640 Sometimes even subpar food, if you were really hungry, becomes 249 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:09,280 the greatest meal you ever had, because the enjoyment of food is 250 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,000 linked to hunger. No hunger, no craving, no 251 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,000 craving, no quenching. Right? 252 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,800 That's kind of the idea. Imagine how silly it would be if 253 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,960 somebody had a satchel full of goldfish and every time they 254 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,200 felt an ounce of hunger at all, they're like, and they threw the 255 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,480 goldfish in and they systematically tried to remove 256 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:31,760 hunger from their life. I would pity that person. 257 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,520 You would pity that fool. I pity the fool who eats so many 258 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:36,680 goldfish. They're never hungry. 259 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,160 Why? Because hunger is a gift. 260 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:42,600 Hunger tells me I need my hunger quenched. 261 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,840 To remove hunger is to remove feasting. 262 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,160 To remove hunger is to remove quenching. 263 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:50,680 Y'all. So it is with need. 264 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,680 Y'all. Need is hard, but it's good. 265 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:58,440 Need is so hard, but it's so good. 266 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,520 And left to ourselves, even those of us who have followed 267 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,880 Jesus for a long time, you would build a world where you did not 268 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,080 need God. Actual facts. 269 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,720 Every time That's what we do, we pray, listen to. 270 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,720 This is why I want you to be considering if you consider 271 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,560 yourself a Christ follower here, where are you going to God to 272 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:21,040 satisfy hunger versus where you're going to God to remove 273 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,000 hunger as a category from your life? 274 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,560 There's a difference between relying on God and wanting God 275 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,040 to remove your reliance on God. Y'all track it with me? 276 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,760 We learn to relate to God to remove need. 277 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,400 He ain't going to do that. He wants to satisfy need. 278 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:46,000 Refuge. That's what God wants to be to 279 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,400 your soul. So what does that look like in 280 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,360 your life? If you do a prayer audit, how do 281 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:53,800 I go to God to remove my need of him versus how do I go to God in 282 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,080 my need of him? Amen. 283 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,920 OK #2 the resolve of God's participants. 284 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,400 Abraham has a lot of resolve in the story says put your hand on 285 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,840 my thigh, which we don't really know exactly what that means, 286 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,480 but it says put some bread on it, put some skin on it. 287 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,640 Put your hand on my thigh. I'm put my hand on your thigh. 288 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:14,560 Like let's, if you touch my thigh, like that's just not a 289 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:16,640 place any of y'all going to touch. 290 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,560 You know what I'm saying? Like it's just not going to 291 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,600 happen. It's it's not going to happen. 292 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:27,360 But y'all notice that Abraham's resolve, he's not confident in 293 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,960 the servant. He's confident in who he's 294 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:33,920 trusting the servant to. That make sense? 295 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,360 He's basically like, hey, I don't know what's going to 296 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,120 happen, but God's got you. God's got you. 297 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,160 He says perhaps in verse 5, the service, like perhaps you won't 298 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:45,920 be willing to come with me and da da, da, da da. 299 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,480 And Abraham says in verse 6, see to it that you do not take my 300 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:52,320 son back there. The Lord, the God of heaven, who 301 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,480 took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, 302 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,120 and who spoke to me and swore to me, to your offspring, I'll give 303 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,880 this land. He will send his Angel before 304 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,400 you and you shall take a wife from my son from there. 305 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:09,200 He is confident of who he's entrusting the servant to. 306 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:13,200 So resolve is not about you getting more confident in 307 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,119 yourself. You know the source is what 308 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:18,680 creates the resolve. So I just want to say to our 309 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,640 older Saints in the room, we need people like who Abraham was 310 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,359 in this text telling a younger generation, I don't know, but 311 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,320 you could trust God. We don't need skills from you. 312 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,080 We need resolve from you. Resolve sources from you. 313 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,120 We need you to look at us in our parenting and say God's got it. 314 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,360 We need you to look at us in our marriages. 315 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:40,720 We need you to look at us in the way we're living out the mission 316 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,280 of God or the way we're spending our money and say, hey, you can 317 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,160 trust God. We need some older Saints and 318 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,720 y'all, we need to be praying for older Saints to jump in with us 319 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,560 because we need people on their deathbed saying you can trust 320 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,920 the God of Abraham, you can trust Jesus Christ, you can 321 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:00,360 trust Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Then there's the servant's 322 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:03,360 resolve, right? So the servant, I want to point 323 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:06,160 this out to you because some people don't know the difference 324 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,720 of these two things. I'm about to say if you look 325 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,960 with me in where does it come? Where's he start praying verse 326 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,400 12. OK, look at verse 12. 327 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,000 And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, please grant me 328 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,680 success today and show Steph fast love to my master Abraham. 329 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,800 Behold, I'm standing by the spring of water, and the 330 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,920 daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. 331 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,720 Let the young woman to whom I shall say, please let down her 332 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,960 jar that I may drink. And who shall say, drink and 333 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,480 I'll water your camels. Camels. 334 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:35,960 Let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant 335 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:37,960 Isaac. Y'all. 336 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,080 There's a difference between a prayer for guidance and like a 337 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,320 test prayer. OK, test prayer is do something 338 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:45,760 crazy and I'll know you're in it. 339 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,680 Test prayer is knock this thing down right now and I'll know 340 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,160 you're listening to me. OK, Guidance prayer is within 341 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,720 the confines of obeying you and trusting you that you've already 342 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,280 given me. I am looking for your activity. 343 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,440 Does that make sense? I'm watching you. 344 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,120 My eyes are on you in the midst of the faithfulness you've 345 00:19:05,120 --> 00:19:06,800 called me to. It's not. 346 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:08,800 Well, if you do blank, then I'll faith. 347 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,480 I'll be faithful. That is a prayer of unbelief, 348 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:15,960 OK, Prayer of trust and guidance honors the Lord. 349 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:19,360 And sometimes they might even sound the same to somebody 350 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:21,040 listening. And a lot of that comes down to 351 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,480 your heart. This servant wanted to honor his 352 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:27,880 master Abraham, and he sought the Lord for guidance in doing 353 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,200 that. And then notice he didn't see 354 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:32,800 one action. And then just defiantly say this 355 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:34,760 is from the Lord. And my test prayer work. 356 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:40,160 Look with me at verse 21. So remember 80 to 100 trips 357 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:42,640 Rebecca took right fill up all the water. 358 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,640 The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the Lord had 359 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:53,320 prospered his journey or not. I love that, that word gaze, 360 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,960 where he's just staring and just just prayerfully meditating on 361 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,440 what he's watching and remembering what he prayed and 362 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,120 said. If this happens, Lord, I'll know 363 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:03,000 you're in it. And then he watches. 364 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:07,360 I love that image, this resolve that he's building inwardly to 365 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:10,720 watch what he asked God to do and then meditate on it while 366 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,480 he's watching his prayer get answered. 367 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,920 And you notice that the storyteller. 368 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,840 As they were telling us this story said in verse 15, before 369 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:23,240 he had finished speaking his prayer, behold, Rebecca, who was 370 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,920 born to Bethuel the son of Milka, the wife of Nabour and 371 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,600 Abraham's brother, came out with her water on her shoulder. 372 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,160 He was already answering the prayer before he had finished 373 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:37,600 praying it. But that's not the only resolve 374 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,760 the servant has. Later in the story, what happens 375 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,400 is, is he? He meets with Rebecca and she's 376 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:45,560 convinced right away. She sprints back to the house to 377 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:47,280 tell him. And now remember, caravan 378 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:52,440 camels, people, they show up. It says in verses 32 and 33 that 379 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,400 the man came to the house unharnessed. 380 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,600 The camels gave straw and fodder to the camels. 381 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,760 There was water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were 382 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,840 with him. The food was set before him to 383 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,800 eat. But he said I will not eat until 384 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,680 I have said what I have to say. And they said speak on brother. 385 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:11,600 Say what you got to say man y'all I love that image. 386 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,400 We have a foot washing survey. Who says I'm not going to speak 387 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,200 after I just met this woman at a well let me talk to you right 388 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,760 quick. And he says I'm not going to 389 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:20,320 eat. I don't know if you noticed food 390 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,200 breaks your resolve. Did you know that we might 391 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,800 return to this text one day to talk about it as it pertains to 392 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,080 the spiritual discipline of fasting? 393 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,120 But the basic idea is I'm not going to break my resolve by 394 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:32,960 eating this smoothie with you right now. 395 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,640 I need you to hear what I got to say. 396 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:37,280 And I'm like, speak, oh, man. And then he tells the story of 397 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,760 God's faithfulness, and he's so resolved that Laban basically 398 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,680 says at the end of it, we know later in Genesis, Laban is a 399 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,800 trickster, and if you give him an inch, he'll take a mile. 400 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,560 Laban says well this is from God, Laban ain't even got 401 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,080 nothing to say because the servant had so much resolve. 402 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:58,080 And notice y'all, the servant's resolve is not for his game but 403 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,520 for Abraham's gain, it's for Isaac. 404 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,720 Isn't it amazing how much resolve you can have when you 405 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:08,640 know the triune God in your resolve isn't for your dreams to 406 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:12,520 come true is for God's covenant faithfulness to go forward. 407 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,800 It's for God to be seen as the good God that he is and for 408 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:20,120 what? His Kingdom and his agenda has 409 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,520 in mind, and sometimes that means your dreams are coming 410 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,920 true, Sure, but we tend to only listen to resolve type podcast 411 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,840 in the name of building your Kingdom. 412 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:34,520 But in the Kingdom, your resolve goes up for the sake of others. 413 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,720 Then there's the resolve of Rebecca. 414 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,480 This key moment at the end that we read where basically Laban 415 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,120 tries one more trick. He's like, I can't, I can't mess 416 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,200 with the servant. He's got some resolve. 417 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,480 Hey Rebecca, you really want to go with them? 418 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,840 You can just hear this question after saying this is definitely 419 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,320 from God. Layman says you really want to 420 00:22:55,320 --> 00:23:01,120 go and Rebecca says I will go. Now let me tell you all 421 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:03,400 something. If you don't have resolve, other 422 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,000 people offer you another narrative than God's. 423 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,800 Do you know that if you are not convinced in your own mind of 424 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,720 what God is doing in something, somebody else will reinterpret 425 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,240 the situation for you. There's usually a layman 426 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,080 standing by. Does that make sense? 427 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,240 Ready to reinterpret the same events? 428 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,800 You should wait 10 days. That's what he said. 429 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,680 She says I will go. I don't know who needs to hear 430 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,880 that when you know the Lord is in it. 431 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,560 I want to be clear. When you know God has sent 432 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,840 something, community is confirming it. 433 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,600 The wisdom, the counsel, the Spirit of God, the Word of God 434 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:39,000 is within commands of what Scripture has for you and people 435 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,320 around you are confirming that. Get you some resolve and let's 436 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,520 rock'n'roll. Otherwise somebody else will 437 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,680 reinterpret the events for you and y'all. 438 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,040 I want to say this too about Rebecca. 439 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,120 What if she need Laban's? What if she was the type of 440 00:23:54,120 --> 00:23:56,000 woman who needed Laban's blessing? 441 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,000 What if she was the type of woman who needed his? 442 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,720 Kind of like assurance. You got this sis. 443 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,480 After knowing the Lord was in it, She didn't need Laban's 444 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:07,920 blessing. Does that make sense? 445 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,360 She made her own decision because God was in it. 446 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,000 Y'all Christ's father, you need to hear this. 447 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:18,280 You are enough in Jesus and only in Jesus. 448 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,360 You are enough and many of us live a lot of our lives to hear 449 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:23,800 you are enough from other people. 450 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:30,200 I do that and I understand it. And if I could hear your story I 451 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,440 would know why you want to hear you are enough from another 452 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,600 human being. But I want you to hear that you 453 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,840 are enough in Christ if your daddy never told you that, if a 454 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,480 coach ain't never told you that, if your boss never tells you 455 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:48,680 that, you are enough in Christ. And that builds a resolve in you 456 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,200 that you don't. It's not that at Christmas I 457 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:52,640 don't care what nobody think about me. 458 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,280 That ain't what I said. Humans need to hear love and 459 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,280 approval blessed over them. And when you don't get it, 460 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,600 that's called neglect. OK, but the point is, there is 461 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,040 an anchor deeper than the assurance others can give. 462 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,800 There's an assurance only God can give you. 463 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,160 Are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works? 464 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,720 So church, where is our resolve today? 465 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:18,320 You've got some. You get hype for your workout 466 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,160 plans. You've got some resolve. 467 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,360 We all do. The question is, in what 468 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:25,600 direction is it aiming and what is its source? 469 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,760 Because what the Bible does is it doesn't do away with resolve. 470 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,000 It re engineers. It re engineers what it's for 471 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,720 and how it's powered. And it's powered by God and for 472 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,960 his glory and our good, for our joy, the good of others. 473 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,800 We go from living for assurance. Bless me, tell me I'm good 474 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,280 enough, to living from assurance. 475 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:50,080 That's what the gospel does. Point #3 the guiding hand of 476 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,080 God, y'all, the hero of this story is God. 477 00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:00,880 The hero is God. The God who provided a son at 478 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:05,720 100 years old to Abraham is also just as powerful in a mundane 479 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,800 story with a servant searching for a wife and at A at a well in 480 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,360 the camels and shut and laban up. 481 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:13,920 And just all these different angles of the story are just as 482 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,120 miraculous, though mundane as when he provides a baby for 483 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:21,760 somebody who is 100 years old. That's the God of Genesis, 484 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,960 y'all, I love the image of Isaac in the story. 485 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,800 Y'all know Isaac don't even speak Y'all. 486 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,360 What I love about that image because we we named the series 487 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:33,120 Saints and scoundrels. And every year we're going to 488 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:35,400 revisit a different scoundrel in the Genesis story. 489 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,000 We started with Abraham and Abraham's that was last year. 490 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,840 His scoundrel is he takes matters into his own hands. 491 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,240 I'm kind of like that, but some scoundrels are very passive. 492 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,200 Y'all, The amazing thing about Isaac's past scoundrel Ness, he 493 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,640 doesn't do a lot directly, obviously wrong. 494 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,040 He just fails to lead in so many ways. 495 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:55,440 As we'll see in the coming weeks. 496 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,040 He's a very silent participant. He's really faithful in chapter 497 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,600 22 with the, the kind of like sacrifice stories going on, he 498 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:07,360 says, Lord, he sits there silent, ready to be, uh, y'all, 499 00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:09,320 y'all who are with me know what Abraham was about to do. 500 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:14,840 He does not speak again until chapter 26, but the stories are 501 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,680 all about him. He is a silent participant in 502 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,160 what God is doing. That's amazing because this 503 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:25,200 story isn't primarily about Abraham or Isaac, it's about 504 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:29,680 God. God is doing something, y'all. 505 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,920 To be a good participant in God's story, you have to believe 506 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,720 you're in good hands. Somebody say you're in good 507 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:40,320 hands, y'all. About 8 years ago I got hurt 508 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,680 playing basketball. I got a lot of stories like that 509 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,200 so let me be specific. I got hurt playing basketball 510 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,720 with a group of high schoolers during school, during class on 7 511 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,920 foot goals, wearing Sperrys, trying to show off for some 14 512 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,400 year old boys. Threw it off the backboard, 513 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,920 tried to windmill it landed and dislocated my toe. 514 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:00,440 This thing was all kinds of crooked. 515 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,120 I knew it right away. I just walked off the court. 516 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:03,560 I was like y'all be fine, get home. 517 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,520 I don't I don't even know what's going to happen. 518 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:06,920 I walked to the trainer's office. 519 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:09,000 I'm talking to the trainer. I explained to him, he looks at 520 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:12,280 it, he's like, oh, and he's like, I'll tell you what, man, I 521 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:13,880 can fix that, but you might lose the toe. 522 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,960 I was like, whoa, don't look at me, don't breathe on me. 523 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,080 Step back, kindly step back. Show me your thumbs, OK? 524 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:26,520 Don't get them near my foot. But then he's like, oh, good 525 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,760 news, man. In about 45 minutes, this guy 526 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,680 will be here. And he, this is what he does. 527 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:32,240 He does like foot surgeries and stuff. 528 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,760 He knows what he's doing. I was like, well, praise the 529 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,600 Lord, I'll see him when he gets here. 530 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,200 You go on and get you a Twizzlers or something. 531 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:40,520 I don't know. Just get out of here. 532 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:42,960 I love this guy, but he can't touch my foot. 533 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,840 The guy shows up and he's like, hey, man, I mean, he's in 534 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,200 scrubs. I'm immediate, just like I was 535 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,400 in good hands. You're in good hands, OK? 536 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,360 You're in good hands, yo. You're in good hands. 537 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,560 Put your mind at ease, yo. You can trust God. 538 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,960 You can trust the God of Genesis. 539 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,320 You can trust the God who sent his Son to die in your place. 540 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,720 You can trust Him. God is doing so many things in 541 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,880 this story that nobody in the story knows about. 542 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,520 He's doing so much. I want to show you just one. 543 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,880 I want to show you one cool thing that the Bible was trying 544 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,360 to give us a hint about back at the end of chapter 22. 545 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,840 Flip back to the end of 22. So we just read this long story 546 00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,320 of 24 of Isaac getting a wife, all the lairs, the servant 547 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,120 praying, coming back, telling the story, all that. 548 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,200 OK, Chapter 23, if you look at the headers in your Bible says 549 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,880 Sarah's death and burial. OK, Chapter 22 was the almost 550 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,720 sacrifice of Isaac. And look what happens at the end 551 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,600 of that story in verse 20. So Abraham just almost 552 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,120 sacrificed his preteen son. And if you're like, what is that 553 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,240 story? We taught on it last year, Go 554 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,960 check it out on our podcast, OK, Amazing story. 555 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,560 And in verse 20 this is what it says now after these things it 556 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,120 was told to Abraham. Behold Milka also has born 557 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,040 children to your brother Nahor us his first born Buzz his 558 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:13,680 brother Kamul the father of Arum Kassad, Hazel pill Dash Jidlef 559 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:18,440 and Bethul verse 23 parentheses. Look at the swag of whoever 560 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,000 translated this version. Bethul fathered Rebecca. 561 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:30,720 Yo what's cool is Abraham didn't know know exactly how I was 562 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,000 going to go and he didn't explain it all to his brother, 563 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,240 but he had heard enough to know God is doing something. 564 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,920 Here's what's crazy. Abraham had one kid by promise 565 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,800 that's that's Isaac. He had 1E force that's Ishmael 566 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:46,360 His brother had way more kids than him so he could woe is me. 567 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,360 God wasn't in my life. No, no, no, no, God has been 568 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,240 faithful to him and he knows now it's time to trust the Lord and 569 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,480 send his servant back to get a wife or his son. 570 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,920 And the Bible had already told us who they had God had in mind 571 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,280 for him before we even knew it. That makes sense. 572 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,960 Rebecca was already waiting. God had set that up. 573 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:11,800 Y'all, you are in good hands in the, the 12 steps community, 574 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,280 the, the, a, a community which arrived out of the church, by 575 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,440 the way, in the, in a lot of ways, I think the church needs 576 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,720 to relearn some things from the, a, a community. 577 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,880 One of the things that they say they start every meeting with, 578 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,960 they say their name and say I'm a Sinner or they say I'm a, I'm 579 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,640 an alcoholic or whatever it is. There's different renditions of 580 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,640 this. But one of the things that's 581 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,800 really important, one of their next steps, they say a lot is I 582 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,880 trust that there is a higher power that can handle life 583 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,640 basically that I can entrust myself to. 584 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:45,440 We know that what the a community needs from the church 585 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,520 that they once knew is that that that higher power is the Triune 586 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,480 God and not some obscure deity that you can't know. 587 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,640 But the point is, we are in good hands when we can trust 588 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,040 ourselves to somebody who can manage our life better than us. 589 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,880 Much of our coping, much of our addiction, much of our control, 590 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:08,720 much of our anxiety is the result of we do not trust Him to 591 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,840 run it. So we manage our lives and take 592 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,440 control. That's what coping. 593 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:13,760 That's what addiction tends to be. 594 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,520 It's high control. I just want you to hear that 595 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,680 when we say terms like God is sovereign, what we mean by that 596 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:26,640 is He is good and He's taking it somewhere even when we don't get 597 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,000 it. We get lost in those 598 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,440 discussions. We're like, well, how does this 599 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:31,640 work? What does that term mean over 600 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,080 here and this? That's not the point of the 601 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,680 term. The term is He is good and 602 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,280 directionally taking things somewhere and we can trust Him 603 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,640 even when we don't get it. We are in good hands. 604 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,800 The cross of Jesus Christ tells us that we are in good hands. 605 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:51,240 God cares about us and loves us. God's purposes will ripen fast, 606 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,080 unfolding every hour. The bud may have a bitter taste, 607 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,600 but sweet will be the flower. Blind unbelief is sure to air 608 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,760 and scan his work in vain. God is his own interpreter, and 609 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:03,200 He will make it plain. You can trust God. 610 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,920 Let's talk about the praise of God's participants, y'all. 611 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,240 The servant is the dopest character in this story other 612 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,000 than the Lord. He's so dope. 613 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,760 I mean, he's incredible. We all know his name. 614 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,920 Isn't it amazing you can have more joy as an unnamed character 615 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,560 in God's story than being a Laban who tries to control his 616 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,560 story in verses 50 through 52. I love it. 617 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,480 He gets to the end of he basically just retails the whole 618 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,400 thing. Camels, this water. 619 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,760 I knew it was her. She said she was your family. 620 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,240 I gave her some gold, she came back. 621 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:34,200 Now I'm telling you this. Verse 50. 622 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,920 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said this thing has come 623 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:38,960 from the Lord. We cannot speak to you bad or 624 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:41,240 good. Behold Rebecca's before you take 625 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,920 her and go and let her be the wife of your master's son, as 626 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,600 the Lord has spoken. Verse 52 hit me like a ton of 627 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:47,960 bricks this week. Y'all read it with me? 628 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,280 Check it out. When Abraham's servant heard 629 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,760 their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the Lord. 630 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,040 This dude hears that they're in and that God's purposes are 631 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,840 coming to pass, and he just falls down on the ground and 632 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,600 praises God. He ain't falling. 633 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,600 He ain't praising them. He's praising God in front of 634 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,760 them. Yo, we would think that's weird, 635 00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:15,400 right? We would be like if somebody 636 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,440 just bowed in the middle of the day because they thought 637 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,120 something just happened from the Lord and bowed down and be like, 638 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:21,600 that's a little weird. Y'all. 639 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,320 This is not like Sunday. Some of y'all get uncomfortable 640 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,560 when we worship like that in here, which I hope we do more 641 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,440 and more. Amen. 642 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:30,360 But this is not Sunday 10 AM kind of bowing. 643 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,960 This is Monday 2:00 PM by the water cooler. 644 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,239 Like bow like just on the floor. God is good. 645 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,719 Praise them, y'all. It's not weird when people 646 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,400 praise God, it's weird when people don't. 647 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,440 OK y'all. We have had a secular blanket 648 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,320 pulled over our eyes. Which means the goal of which is 649 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:54,520 to relegate religion to a hobby of preference that you practice 650 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,840 in a time and place which we cosign. 651 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,520 And at that time and place you can do whatever you want to do, 652 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:02,280 like any other hobby. You play basketball there and 653 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,400 you do your worship over there, y'all. 654 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:08,640 What praise does is it pokes a hole in that blanket. 655 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,080 That makes sense. We know that God controls the 656 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,480 cosmos. We know that every animal knows 657 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,440 its master. We know the truth of how the 658 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,240 oceans were made. We know that all is God's 659 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:24,400 territory, not just this room, not just where there's steeples. 660 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,640 We know that He is always God, no matter where you are. 661 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:32,520 We know that praise is the thing that pokes a hole in that 662 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:34,760 blanket that says stay over there and worship at that place 663 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,760 at that time into. To neglect to praise in public 664 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,840 is to cosign that it only belongs in private. 665 00:35:42,720 --> 00:35:44,880 That makes sense. One of the things secularism 666 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,960 wants to do is make you feel like an idiot. 667 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:54,080 Just stupid, dumb praise don't matter here. 668 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,920 That was weird. You can do that. 669 00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,000 That whatever helps you be a good person, right? 670 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,240 The goal of all that is to say this doesn't actually have 671 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:06,040 anything to do with reality. It's just for you. 672 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:08,880 But the opposite is actually true. 673 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,200 We worship because it's true, not because it's helpful. 674 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,520 It's helpful because it's true. Amen. 675 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,440 And So what praise does is it pokes a hole in that and 676 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,600 actually flips it and makes it seem weird when you're not 677 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:22,760 praising. Does that make sense? 678 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,120 So one of your applications this week is don't be weird. 679 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,280 Praise God, don't be weird and start praising God. 680 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,200 But this is the serious question, where have we accepted 681 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:37,160 that God does not belong? Where in your life, in your job, 682 00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,400 in the things you do? Where have you subconsciously 683 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:43,200 agreed with a lie that God does not belong? 684 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:47,440 There, He's not in charge there, He does not care there. 685 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,320 Is it your street? Is it your workplace? 686 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,040 Is it your job? Is it with your friends? 687 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,280 With your family? Who thinks you're annoying and 688 00:36:54,280 --> 00:37:00,120 in a weird Jesus phase? Does not matter what they I. 689 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,640 I empathize with all those and do all of those. 690 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,040 OK, but the point is, praise ain't weird. 691 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:10,160 Not praising is weird. Lastly, the pictures of God's 692 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:11,640 servants. Y'all, there are three just 693 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,760 amazing pictures in the story that again point to something 694 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,280 bigger than the characters in it, right? 695 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,720 The first one is marriage. Y'all, marriage in the story is 696 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:24,720 beautiful. It's a different time where 697 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:27,680 prearranged marriages were normal is different than what 698 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,720 we're used to, y'all. But marriage between a man and a 699 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:36,200 woman, as Ephesians 5 tells us, points to Christ and the church. 700 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:41,880 That's why it exists. Marriage exists to glorify God 701 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:46,480 by exemplifying the way Christ the husband relates to the 702 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,040 bride. That is the church, the 703 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,280 collective people of God that have been purchased from every 704 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,360 tribe, tongue, and nation on the earth. 705 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,720 So in a lot of ways, we live in a love story and we are the lost 706 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,160 Princess who needs to be rescued and Jesus Christ is that hero. 707 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,200 He is the king that comes and gets the damsel in distress. 708 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:08,920 He is Shrek. We are Fiona kids. 709 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:15,120 OK, The difference is the way He rescues us and makes us His 710 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:19,440 bride and purchases US is not by slaying but being slain. 711 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:23,080 Are you with me? There's a picture here of a 712 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,920 beautiful marriage ceremony that points to the ultimate purpose 713 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:30,280 and the ultimate marriage feast that is coming one day where 714 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,400 Christ the King gets the honor he is due because he is the 715 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,280 victorious one who was slain and then rose three days later. 716 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,480 He came to make us beautiful. He didn't choose you because you 717 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,600 are beautiful. In Christ y'all we have a king, 718 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,880 we have a rescuer who came to make us lovely. 719 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,520 He loves us. We are lovely because he loves 720 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,600 us. That's the good news of the 721 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,480 Gospel. The second picture here is one 722 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,200 of service. Y'all alluded to it earlier, but 723 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,800 again, can you think of another servant who is a foot washer? 724 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,080 Can you think of another servant who meets a woman at a well and 725 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,000 changes her life? Can you think of another servant 726 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,880 who puts the needs of others above his own? 727 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,920 Can you think of a servant who does something that other people 728 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:22,920 get to reap the benefits of? Isaac gets a wife not because he 729 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,840 went and got one, but because the servant did. 730 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,800 Can you think of a servant who does for others what they can't 731 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,440 do for themselves? Can you think of a servant who 732 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,960 goes in the place of somebody who could not go? 733 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,320 Y'all, who are you in this story? 734 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,960 You are Laban, I am Laban. We are the bums that think we 735 00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,480 control God. We are the ones. 736 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,560 We are not the hero of this text. 737 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,040 We are the ones just waiting for a foothold to become the 738 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:53,080 director of the moment. But the hero of the story comes 739 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,480 to turn Labans into Isaac's, to turn Labans into Rebecca's, to 740 00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,560 turn us into participants with joy that we no longer run the 741 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,640 show. We are a part of it, y'all. 742 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,680 The good news of the gospel is not that he will recruit you if 743 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:11,240 you will get it together, Is that though you are you, though 744 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:15,360 you are a great Sinner, though you can't get it together, 745 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,200 Christ died for you. He came to die in your place, 746 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,920 and then present His purchase life, His perfect life, to the 747 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,240 Father, and say, though they didn't do it, treat them as if 748 00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:30,480 they did. Let what they did do be unto me, 749 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,360 and let what I did be counted unto them. 750 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:38,280 That is the gospel. It's an amazing picture of our 751 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,240 king in this servant. And then lastly, y'all the 3rd 752 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,200 just great picture. Here's one of adventure. 753 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,800 Y'all, we have a servant just trust in the Lord and getting 754 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,040 miraculously provided for and mundane circumstances that are 755 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:53,960 happening all the time in that culture and you might be here 756 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,960 today. And when I say things like be a 757 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,200 participant in God's story, you're like, I don't feel like 758 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,120 I'm ready to be in God's story. I'm not good at blank or I don't 759 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,200 have a job that I'm not a missionary, I'm not a pastor. 760 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,920 I don't sing well, Amen. Neither do I OK? 761 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,760 I can't serve the Lord if I don't have those skills. 762 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,880 And the point is participants in God's story aren't those with 763 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,400 high skill. They're just ones who are 764 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,160 saying, Lord guide me, help me. I got 5 loaves and two fish. 765 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,520 That's what I got. Help do something with this. 766 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,800 Can you do something with this? The Lord can do something with 767 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,840 whatever we bring to him. OK. 768 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,640 I remember one time I heard the story of a of a woman who was 769 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,480 living in the largest population of a certain people group in the 770 00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,120 United States in one city where a lot of them had just been 771 00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:41,200 relocating to. That's that tends to be how how 772 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,080 immigration works is a lot of them end up in the same area. 773 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,360 And I remember she was like, I love these people so much. 774 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:50,000 She lived in an apartment complex that was 99% that people 775 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,200 group and she was just a stay at home mom with two kids. 776 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,000 She was like this is the craziest chaotic life ever, but 777 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,920 these are my 5 loaves and two fish and I love it. 778 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,400 I just was so challenged by that. 779 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,040 She didn't have some crazy success stories of what all God 780 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,640 was doing yet or anything like that. 781 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:08,080 She just was like, I love this. What that pointed out to me was 782 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,800 the joy of participation. I'm not promising you what will 783 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,400 happen in your life if you trust the Lord and get in His story. 784 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:17,480 I don't know, you might glorify Him a lot with a really hard 785 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,320 life. I don't want that for you. 786 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,800 I want it to go great. I want the church to blow up 787 00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:25,320 within 5 seconds. I want the things to happen. 788 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,400 Are you tracking with me? I want things to, I want things 789 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:32,200 to to go really well. But what we do is we bring our 790 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,720 five loaves and two fish. We offer it to the Lord and we 791 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:38,240 say he do something with this and we get the joy of 792 00:42:38,240 --> 00:42:41,480 participating in his story. You know, I'm going to end with 793 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,160 a simple poem this week. This is it. 794 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:48,560 It's 2 lines. Only one life will soon be 795 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,120 passed. Only was done with Christ will 796 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,840 last. Only one life will soon be 797 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,320 passed. Only what's done with Christ 798 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,640 will last. Let's pray. 799 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:02,280 Our Father, we love you. Thank you so much that you want 800 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,400 to turn us from from from Laden's into to Isaac's where we 801 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,880 just reap the joy of being in your story. 802 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,480 God, may we trust you, May we trust you. 803 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:16,200 God, you are so worthy of trust. We love you, we declare that we 804 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,000 need you. God, teach us to be OK with 805 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,360 being needy, Teach us to depend on you, delight in you, abide in 806 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:27,520 you and just offer you our five loaves and two fish and watch 807 00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,320 what you do. We love you and pray these 808 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:31,800 things in Jesus name, Amen.