1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:08,160 Good morning, church. We are going to be in Genesis 2 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,280 chapter 25, verses 29 through 34. 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,400 If you don't have a Bible, there's one in the seat in front 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,760 of you or under, under the chair in front of you. 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,000 My goodness. So on page 18, some of you might 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,840 have different Bibles or a slightly different version. 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,320 So it might be on a page, a different page. 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:35,240 Once when Jacob was cooking Stew, Esau came in from the 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:40,360 field and he was exhausted. And Esau said to Jacob, let me 10 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,640 eat some of that red Stew, for I am exhausted. 11 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:46,240 Therefore his name was called Edom. 12 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,080 Jacob said, Sell me your birthright. 13 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,480 Now Esau said, I am about to die. 14 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:54,640 Of what use is a birthright to me? 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,360 Jacob said, Swear to me now. So he swore to him, and sold his 16 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:03,280 birthright to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and 17 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,920 lentil Stew, and he and he ate and drank and rose and went his 18 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,320 way. Thus Esau despise his 19 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:11,920 birthright. This is the word of the Lord. 20 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,680 What's going on? Port City family and friends. 21 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:18,880 How we doing? Good. 22 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,640 My name is Tanner, the lead pastor here. 23 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,000 One of the things about Port City y'all, is we love God's 24 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,960 word. We put it under your chairs. 25 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:29,440 We read it before the service. We teach it in our prayer 26 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:30,960 groups. We have Bible studies on and 27 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:32,360 off. There's a immense 1 going on 28 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:33,600 right now. We read it with friends, 29 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,960 one-on-one. We encourage you to read it with 30 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:38,760 your kids. Y'all, if you want to thrive, 31 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:40,720 God's Word is going to play a role in that. 32 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,160 We're not trying to be Bible experts. 33 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,880 We're not trying to flex. I myself still have a lot to 34 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,040 learn, so I hope you don't ever feel intimidated by that culture 35 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,440 We're trying to build. We're just trying to invite you 36 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,800 to like we want you to thrive. You need iron, sharpening iron. 37 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,320 So you need people and you need God's word. 38 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,720 So we pray that you continue to dive in, come to equip, come get 39 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,440 the word any way you can. All week long, we hear in all 40 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,120 kinds of stuff. We hear more messaging and like 41 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,240 20 minutes in our culture right now than many did in a lifetime. 42 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,160 It seems like the amount of advertisement and what not so I 43 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:12,920 don't even notice that now they gave us all the streaming stuff 44 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:15,600 for free and now they're like tearing their things where you 45 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:17,560 only get the non commercial version of it. 46 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:19,880 If you spend like 500 they that's what they do. 47 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:21,880 They give it to you free. Then they bring the commercials 48 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,200 back. I thought they was gone now they 49 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,320 back. So all that to say, get the word 50 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,760 up in your life. OK, let me let me pray for our 51 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,520 time in God's word today and then we'll dive in. 52 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,720 Let's pray. Our Father, we love you, God, we 53 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,720 love your word. It is, it is natural and it's 54 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:38,800 supernatural. It's a book like others and it's 55 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,120 a book like no other. It was written by people and by 56 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,760 you, by you through people. So God, we need your word. 57 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,080 God, we're hungry for your word. God that it is unlike anything 58 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,720 else. And God, it helps us to thrive. 59 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,840 I want my friends under the sound of my voice to thrive. 60 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,840 So God, just get your word into us, do it through all kinds of 61 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,600 means and through people and just give us the, the courage 62 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,000 and the discipline, God and the just getting over the, the kind 63 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,080 of the, the fear factors and the the embarrassment factors and 64 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:06,920 just learning and just the process of it. 65 00:03:06,920 --> 00:03:09,480 But God, would you change us by your spirit through your word. 66 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,600 So Lord, as we come to your word right now, what we don't know, 67 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,440 would you teach us what we don't have? 68 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,120 Would you please give us and who we are not? 69 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,680 God, please make us and let the words of my mouth and the 70 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,640 meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight. 71 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,160 And everybody who agree with that said, Amen. 72 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,160 We all waiting is a part of life. 73 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,600 We used to wait in these things called lines, but then we 74 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:36,200 started using our phones to order online so you don't have 75 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,120 to wait in line. But then you get there and you 76 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,440 wait in the mobile order line. See how that works? 77 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,160 It's deep, but it's true. Now you waiting in a mobile 78 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,080 line, you use the mobile app to not be in line, and then you 79 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:51,400 waiting in line. OK, waiting, that's a line. 80 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,280 Come on. Waiting is a part of life. 81 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,600 OK, we wait in big ways. We wait in traffic, we wait in. 82 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:59,320 But then we wait for good gifts we want. 83 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,000 We wait for important phone calls. 84 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,000 We wait for good gifts like a spouse or or things that we 85 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,480 desperately crave. And waiting is hard y'all. 86 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:15,240 Here's the good news, the Bible. Waiting is good. 87 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:21,440 Waiting is not a waste. God does not waste our waiting. 88 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:26,040 That we wait with Him in. Waiting is part of God's means 89 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,320 to make you who He made you to be. 90 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,360 But this is just not natural in our culture right now. 91 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,040 One of the craziest things to me is the transfer portal. 92 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,680 And y'all, I'm not knocking it. If I was in college basketball, 93 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,400 I would you take the money, OK. But that's kind of the point is 94 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,680 why would back in the day, waiting had value to make you 95 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,320 somebody, right? The idea was ride the bench, 96 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,680 play a role, learn your thing, and eventually you're ready. 97 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:52,720 But why would I wait here if I can get paid there? 98 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,720 And it's really that simple. But we need to learn the value 99 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:58,000 of waiting. Let that not be said to the 100 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,640 church that we waste our waiting. 101 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,640 I think we live in an era that is losing and learning to waste 102 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,240 their waiting. And it's being monetized to 103 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,120 never have to wait. And in today's text, Jacob and 104 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,920 Esau are the perfect negative examples of two ways to waste 105 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,160 your waiting. OK, one of them is just 106 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,600 forsaking the moment. Apathy, throw your hands up, who 107 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,320 cares? And the other way is to scheme. 108 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,720 Jacob's going to scheme and Esau's going to forsake. 109 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,600 But the question kind of under the text that Christ ultimately 110 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,720 fulfills is the potential of like walking in God's timing. 111 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,160 And then we, the Church of those who full of the Spirit, wait on 112 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,840 the Lord, wait with the Lord. So what we're going to do here 113 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:39,600 today, my hope for is we're going to walk out eager to wait 114 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:41,520 with God because you're going to be waiting with him in small 115 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,680 ways and big ways the rest of your life, Lord willing. 116 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,400 So we're going to look at Esau. We're going to look at Jacob, 117 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,120 We're going to look at Jesus. Then we're going to talk about 118 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,400 being the church that is waiting. 119 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:51,680 If you are ready, let me hear you say I'm ready. 120 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,720 Let's start with Esau, shall we? Back at verse 29. 121 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,480 That's what the Bible said. Once when Jacob was cooking 122 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:04,760 Stew, Esau came in from the field and he was exhausted and 123 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,520 Esau said to Jacob, let me eat some of that red Stew for I am 124 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,680 exhausted. Therefore his name was called 125 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:12,680 Edom. Jacob said tell me your 126 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,760 birthright. Now Esau said I'm about to die 127 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,120 of what use is a birthright to me? 128 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:23,760 Y'all two things I want to point out about Esau here. 129 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:29,360 First, is Esau flippantly forsook God just just flippant, 130 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,200 just like, eh, what use is it to me? 131 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,920 What is happening here is Esos coming in from the field. 132 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,240 He worked hard. Just to be clear, in the Hebrew 133 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,000 and even in our English translation, He is not about to 134 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,200 die. The man is hungry, OK? 135 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,360 He's exacerbated. He is hungry. 136 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,400 He is the little kid coming in and be like, give me something, 137 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,760 I'm starving. Give me some of that red stuff. 138 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:50,720 That's literally what the Hebrew is. 139 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,560 Give me some of that red stuff. And if you really get into the 140 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,920 language, at the end, it says that it he was given bread and 141 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,240 lentil Stew. So he was so out of his mind 142 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,040 that he didn't even get what was red. 143 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,440 If you really pay attention, he didn't get some of that red 144 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,400 stuff. He got some bread and lentil 145 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:10,640 Stew. So Esau is tripping, OK, and he 146 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:14,720 comes in the question that just jumps off the page to me. 147 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,320 These 3 words OK, I want you all to read them with me in verse 32 148 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,720 of what use is a birthright to me? 149 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,400 Underline that y'all birthright. We talked about the sum last 150 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:28,840 week. It's your position in the 151 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,040 family. In ancient Near Eastern culture, 152 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,480 you were the 1 you, you are the the the chosen 1, so to speak 153 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,360 for that family. All hopes are riding on you, 154 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,800 particularly when you're a male. You, you are, you are the, you 155 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,200 are the hope of the family. OK. 156 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:46,440 And so Esau here asked the question of what use is this 157 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,440 birthright to me? That question to me is extremely 158 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,280 pragmatic. It's practical. 159 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,560 And So what we're talking about here today is the concept of 160 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:55,840 waiting. Waiting. 161 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,000 I'm going to define it more later, but it's simply to turn 162 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,600 to God. When your next moment is not 163 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:04,800 clear, you turn to him, OK? It's just pausing. 164 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,160 It could be 5 seconds, it could go on for five months, it could 165 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,840 go on for five years. It's not going to a monastery. 166 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:12,320 You don't have to go to a monastery to wait. 167 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:16,120 It's the turn of the soul to the Lord when your next step isn't 168 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,480 clear. But who he is, who his character 169 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,920 is, his law, his desires, his promises are clear. 170 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,840 Esau doesn't do that. He calculates within himself and 171 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,560 he thinks of what use is this birthright to me? 172 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,600 Y'all, There's some Esau in all of us. 173 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,960 It's it's this idea of like, what good is the God stuff? 174 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:39,600 I got to I got to live that make sense. 175 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,679 I got to make my money. I got to have a spouse. 176 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,840 I got to get what I got to get. It's the idea that God is not 177 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,640 practical right now. Have you ever felt that way? 178 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,800 It started with Esau. It's this posture in US of like, 179 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:53,960 who cares? I'll worry about that on Sunday. 180 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,760 I'll worry about that at Bible study. 181 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:59,840 But right now I got to eat, right now I got to have this, I 182 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,760 got to have that thing or I'm going to die. 183 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,920 And isn't it so interesting that your flesh always feels like 184 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:07,640 it's going to die if you don't get what you want? 185 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:12,200 That's the essence of sin is I got to have it and God is of no 186 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,320 use to me. That is the heart of sin. 187 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:19,040 Y'all is to look at the Lord. And it's not to be like I hate 188 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:20,560 you. It's almost a just, it's just a 189 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:22,320 shrug of the shoulders. You know what I mean? 190 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:27,480 Like I'm out. That starts with Esau and we 191 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,560 can't miss in the text that Esau doesn't just flippantly forsake 192 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:33,880 God, he forsakes him for food. Y'all want to be very clear 193 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,600 about where the Bible is at with the body? 194 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,520 The the the Bible teaches that the body is good. 195 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,600 We're not antibody. Christians are pro body. 196 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,320 Jesus is resurrected and you remember touch my hands like he 197 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,120 he eats fish like the body is good. 198 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,800 You will be a resurrected person one day. 199 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:53,160 You are not soul and body. You are soul and body. 200 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,000 You are a person. OK, so we're not antibody. 201 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,280 Here's how the Bible thinks about the body. 202 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,360 The body is good, but it is weak. 203 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:05,840 OK, it could be good and weak. It is very wise in light of your 204 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:08,520 weakness to be watchful. That is how the church has 205 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,400 always approached. The body is to be watchful. 206 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,160 We're not antibody. We are watchful of it. 207 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,920 It's why Jesus says to Peter, the Spirit is willing, but the 208 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,800 flesh is weak. And when Paul uses flesh, he 209 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,920 tends to refer to your whole sinful nature little different. 210 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,440 When Jesus said he meant like your body, your members, you are 211 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:28,480 weak. So here at Poor City, we like to 212 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:30,400 say you are wicked and you are weak. 213 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,840 Wickedness is lust is pride, it's anger, it's resentment, 214 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,560 it's bitterness, it's it's gossip, it's all the things that 215 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:38,520 are just overflowing over our hearts that are wicked. 216 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,280 Weakness is your your finite. You get hungry, you got to 217 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,760 sleep, you are tired. Most likely the things you most 218 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,880 regret saying to a friend or a kid happened after 8:00 PM Amen. 219 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,440 Somebody you're like, if I could just literally never speak again 220 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,800 after 8 PMA, lot of the bad things that have happened in my 221 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:57,880 life probably wouldn't have happened. 222 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:00,520 That's because you are wicked and you are weak. 223 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,960 You see how that works? So in light of our wickedness, 224 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:04,840 we need to repent. In light of our weakness, we 225 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,320 need to be watchful. There are many things in our 226 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,840 lives you have no intention of forsaking with the Lord. 227 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,040 But the truth is, given the right amount of weakness, you 228 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:16,480 might. OK, so let us like Paul said, 229 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:20,600 let us take heed lest we fall. OK, so Esau represents not 230 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:22,040 waiting. He represents just a flip. 231 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:23,760 And see who cares, it's not practical. 232 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,000 Now let's talk about Jacob. Jacob is the schemer. 233 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,760 If Esau forsook the promise, Jacob schemes for it. 234 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:34,680 Verse 31 Jacob said sell me your birthright. 235 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,760 Now Esau said I'm about to die, of what use is a birthright to 236 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:40,800 me? Jacob said swear to me now. 237 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,360 So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. 238 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,240 Yeah. We learned in last week's story 239 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:50,680 that before the twins were born, it was told to them by God that 240 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:52,320 the older will serve the younger. 241 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,600 So God's plan was for it to go Abraham, Isaac, not Esau, but 242 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:57,400 Jacob. OK. 243 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,520 He chose Jacob to be the instrument. 244 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,600 Right. But that does not mean that 245 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,720 everything Jacob does, God is cosigning. 246 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,920 Are you with me? The idea is that the the Old 247 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:10,080 Testament is describing what happened, not prescribing what 248 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,480 you should do. This is not an endorsement. 249 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,240 It's just a description. So just because this is how it 250 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,640 went and God used it, it highlights God's grace. 251 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,920 It highlights God's redemptive arc despite brokenness. 252 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,160 It makes God look good. But that doesn't mean we should 253 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,120 do what Jacob does and be polygamous and all the stuff 254 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,400 he's going to do. OK, so I just want to be clear. 255 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,480 Part of what we can imagine a little bit is like, what would 256 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,680 it have looked like if he waited on God and turned to him? 257 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:38,080 But he didn't. He schemed. 258 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:42,360 OK, so he schemes his brother. I find it interesting that Esau 259 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,800 forsook the Lord. Jacob schemed his brother. 260 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,040 Y'all see that his brother comes to him in a moment of need and 261 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,000 Jacob leverages it for what he wants. 262 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,480 Y'all see that he comes in like I'm hungry and he's like, I'll 263 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,640 give you some food if you give me the birthright. 264 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,640 You see that And the word field probably jumped off the page to 265 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,120 some of y'all. Can you think of another two 266 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,520 brothers where a scene goes down in a field in the book of 267 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,280 Genesis before this, this is Cain and Abel. 268 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,240 If you've never read Genesis 4, go read that. 269 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:11,360 What's interesting about the Cain and Abel story is that in 270 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,360 that story, Cain is the one having a conversation with the 271 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:15,600 Lord. He's so full of anger. 272 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,640 He's like, hey, be careful that anger is going to take you 273 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:18,920 somewhere you don't want it to take you. 274 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,760 He takes his brother out to a field and he kills him. 275 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,600 And here's what's interesting. God says, where is Abel? 276 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,120 What does he say back? Am I my brother's keeper? 277 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,440 Isn't it interesting that sin can make you look at your 278 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,240 brother and say what do I care? So Esau was flippant about his 279 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,400 Lord and Jacob is flippant about his brother. 280 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:41,400 Y'all? What's so interesting about sin 281 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,680 is it just makes us far from waiting on the Lord, considering 282 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:46,640 His way. We are going to self protect and 283 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:49,120 self advance at the expense of God and others. 284 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,880 You see how that works? What sin does is it makes a 285 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,280 neighbor a puppet. You are playing my game. 286 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,640 And what's so dangerous, y'all, is we can justify it. 287 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,040 We can even like spiritualize it sometimes. 288 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,640 But at the end of the day, we are using people when we do 289 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,080 that. It's manipulation, exploitation. 290 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,200 You'll get what you need once I get what I want. 291 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:12,960 But we can do it with a smile on and we can do it. 292 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,640 And y'all, this is that the heart of every, there's a lot of 293 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,080 sibling rivalry that goes on in some of the households under my 294 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:18,680 voice. Amen. 295 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,160 It's every coach that knows their players will do whatever 296 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:24,600 they ask to get that spot. It's the heart of every 297 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,240 politician leveraging fear. It's this idea of like, I'm here 298 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,160 to serve so I can get served. You'll see how that works. 299 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,760 It's like it looks like the right thing, but in reality, I 300 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:35,680 know what I want. So let me ask you this question 301 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,800 before we go on. Is there something in your life 302 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,960 you want so bad you'd be willing to forsake the Lord or scheme 303 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,120 somebody to get it? Y'all? 304 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:47,840 And it's hard. Like there are things that we 305 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:51,200 want that are good things, even gifts of God sometimes. 306 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:56,080 But when we don't consider the Lord and when he's impractical, 307 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,280 what can begin to happen is you default into a way of life you 308 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,640 would not have on the front end all because it feels like you 309 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,080 got to have it or you're going to die. 310 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,800 You got a scheme you got to exploit, you got to forsake. 311 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,320 So I just want to ask the question, like the question of 312 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,520 the sermon is, do I trust God enough to wait even on a good 313 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:21,960 gift that he might want for you? The good news is there is 314 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,320 somebody else in the Bible who's not like Esau and not like 315 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,200 Jacob, and that is Jesus. OK, so let us let us consider 316 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,120 Jesus for just a couple of minutes. 317 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,720 You know, what's so unique about Jesus is he kind of fulfills the 318 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,760 roles of both brothers here. If Esau is the older brother, 319 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,760 who is the inheritor of the family, the birthright, right? 320 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,280 So the younger brother wants what the older brother has. 321 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,920 And in this case, Jacob had to scheme Esau to get it, and Esau 322 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,000 was flippant. But Jesus is the truer and 323 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,880 greater Esau, who is the older brother, the inheritor of the 324 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:54,080 family. All things go through Jesus. 325 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,720 He made all things. He upholds them all and y'all, 326 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,960 he's the kind of older brother that you don't have to scheme to 327 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:00,960 get something from. He's the kind of older brother 328 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:05,440 that his whole life mission was to give you what is rightfully 329 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,520 his. That's the gospel. 330 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,040 He is the one who lived in such a way, had all power and all the 331 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,440 stuff, and he gave it all up to bring you in. 332 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,440 We could never earn our way into the family. 333 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:18,240 We couldn't scheme our way in. We have an older brother who 334 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:21,360 literally came to the earth, dwelt among us, full of the 335 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,800 Spirit, so he could give us what is his. 336 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,320 That's the gospel. You can't scheme for it. 337 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:28,240 You can't earn it. He just wants to give it. 338 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:30,800 He wants to give you the position in the family. 339 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,000 He's got believers. This is crazy. 340 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,400 For the next billion years you will be blessed and blessed and 341 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,320 blessed. Ephesians 27 says that in the 342 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,480 coming ages he might shower you with the riches of His grace. 343 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:44,680 And that's going to happen, not because of the bad things you 344 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,400 didn't do this week or how much you read your Bible, but because 345 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,440 Jesus lived in your place and died in your place. 346 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,680 Because He is the truer and greater Esau who gives you his 347 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,240 inheritance. You don't earn an inheritance, 348 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,200 you receive it. That's the gospel. 349 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,600 And Jesus isn't only the true or greater older brother who gives 350 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,800 us what we don't deserve. He is the younger brother who is 351 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,400 the chosen one but doesn't have to scheme to get it. 352 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,920 We, we are kind of the older brother that blew it. 353 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,680 And Jesus, the one who doesn't scheme to enter into God's 354 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,040 promises. He's the one who just serves. 355 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,960 He sees us in need and he doesn't think, well, I'll meet 356 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,880 your need and get what I want. He gives to our needs to the 357 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:26,800 point that he doesn't get his needs met. 358 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,480 He is the one who gave it all away. 359 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,840 He did not exploit us at all. He came not to be served, but to 360 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,800 serve and give his life as a ransom for many. 361 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,160 So the good news is here to day that Jesus has fulfilled 362 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,800 everything that Esau blew. Everything that Jacob blew, He 363 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:46,120 is the great one, the chosen 1, and it's because of that church 364 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:48,800 that we can learn to wait on him. 365 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,400 So let's talk about that for a few minutes. 366 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,400 Let's talk about waiting on God. Let's talk about waiting on God. 367 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,560 I want to read Psalm 130, verses 5 through 8 over you. 368 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,840 Psalm 1:30 is a good one to memorize if you never have. 369 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:06,760 That's what it says. I wait for the Lord. 370 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:13,920 My soul waits, and in His word I hope my soul waits for the Lord 371 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,040 more than Watchmen for the morning, more than Watchmen for 372 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,440 the morning. O Israel, hope in the Lord, for 373 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,200 with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with Him is plentiful 374 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,920 redemption, and he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities. 375 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,000 3 elements of waiting I want to talk about this morning. 376 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,000 First one, wait with a posture. Posture. 377 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,560 Somebody say posture. Here's here's the basic idea. 378 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,920 Waiting is a decision of your heart, not the default status of 379 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,760 your feet. Your feet can be in a position 380 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:45,960 of waiting, but your heart not be in a posture of waiting. 381 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,320 The way the Bible thinks about it, that your heart is is the 382 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:51,800 center of who you are. OK. 383 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,920 It's the Control Center, the desire factory. 384 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,080 Everything you do overflows from your heart. 385 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:01,160 OK, so the heart has to willfully, deliberately choose 386 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,600 to wait. But just because you're in a 387 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,200 waiting room doesn't mean you're waiting. 388 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,200 Are y'all with me? I remember one time I was in 389 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,640 this airport and my flights were getting delayed. 390 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,280 I'm sitting on the tarmac, you know, all all the things that 391 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:15,800 could go wrong were going wrong that day. 392 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,520 And I looked at my screen time. By the end of the day, the 393 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,920 screen time was high. But what really got me was the 394 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,760 number of phone pickups. It it counts your pickups. 395 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,800 I don't know if you knew that my pickups were at 159. 396 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,000 It's a lot of pickups, man. It's a lot. 397 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,400 That's a lot of. Yeah. 398 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,560 The idea here is we tend to, when we're in a position of 399 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,280 waiting, we turn to distraction. Distraction is just a symptom 400 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,240 that you're not depending, you're not waiting. 401 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:46,760 OK, We tend to distract ourselves and not even consider 402 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,600 what it would look like to wait, OK, and I want to be clear, 403 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,880 waiting is not some super spiritualized monastery moment. 404 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,640 It's just the turn, the posture of the heart to consider God, 405 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,160 his character, His law, His commands, His promises. 406 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,000 When your next step ain't clear, it's just turning to Him. 407 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,520 And it doesn't mean you're going to get a dream making your next 408 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,440 step clear. It's just to consider his way, 409 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,440 consider who He is. And that's what we're here to 410 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,080 talk about. There are two Hebrew words that 411 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:17,280 get used for wait a lot that just happened in our our Psalm 412 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:19,760 as well. I look back at verse five kind 413 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,720 of highlights it. I wait for the Lord, my soul 414 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,000 waits and in his word, I hope so. 415 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,520 The words wait and hope actually get used interchangeably a lot 416 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,720 in in Hebrew with the words kaval and yahal. 417 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,280 And the idea here this is, this is the idea. 418 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,840 Those words evoke the imagery of like a rope being pulled tight, 419 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,560 OK, Like a, a, a, a chord being pulled tight. 420 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,720 Like if you ever wonder how they measure lines sometimes like 421 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,600 they, they pull a rope tight like baseball, think home plate 422 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:50,440 to first base. They're going to pull a rope 423 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,320 really tight or a long string and then somebody's going to go 424 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:54,680 paint over the line. OK. 425 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,080 The biblical idea of waiting is pulling a line tight. 426 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,000 OK, what does that have to do with hoping? 427 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:02,080 Has everything to do with hoping. 428 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:07,640 The idea is to wait well is to pull hope tight is to allow the 429 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,800 moment to allow who God is to be being pulled and not go slack 430 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,080 because a slack rope is no use. Are you with me? 431 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:19,120 So to wait well is actually to build anticipation and build 432 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:20,840 hope. Let me give you an example of 433 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,320 the scripture of somebody who blew this. 434 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,280 OK. In addition to to Jacob Nesau in 435 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,960 First Samuel 13, King Saul blows it. 436 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:29,200 Some of y'all might know this story. 437 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:33,440 The prophet Samuel tells him, Hey, go wait for me for one 438 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,520 week, 7 days and I'm a show up and I'll make a sacrifice and 439 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:38,760 we'll we'll go to the next thing. 440 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,600 Well, King Saul on day 7 starts panicking. 441 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,760 OK, He he starts picking up the phone 159 times. 442 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,440 OK. I like to think sometimes like 443 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,840 my inwardly I'm like scrap from Ice Age. 444 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,520 Anybody know? The little thing was like, 445 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,600 that's me. OK, that's, that's me. 446 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,840 Inwardly, I'm just like, I love that guy. 447 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:02,240 And Saul was doing that. He was panicking. 448 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,080 The text says that he was afraid because his troops were getting 449 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:07,120 a little rowdy, starting to leave, and the enemy seemed to 450 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:08,600 be gathering. So what did he do? 451 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,760 He did not wait. He did not pull the rope tight 452 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,560 of what Samuel said. He didn't consider the moment. 453 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,520 Samuel said wait seven days. God chose me to be a king. 454 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:20,800 This is what he did in the Exodus. 455 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,400 This is who God is. This is who God is. 456 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,200 He didn't pull that tight. So you know what? 457 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,120 This is the idea, y'all. If you're not pulling who God is 458 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:28,600 tightly, something else is getting tight. 459 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,200 You see how that works? They're going to take over. 460 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:32,840 My people are going to leave. I won't be king. 461 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,600 They're going to find somebody else that felt more real. 462 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,600 So I got to alleviate that. Does that make sense? 463 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,320 If you're not building the right rope, the wrong one is getting 464 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,680 tighter. I think sometimes we think this 465 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,920 is a spiritual conversation. It's not what waiting does. 466 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,400 It reveals what story you're telling yourself that makes 467 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,000 sense. And so Saul was telling himself, 468 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,200 I'm about to lose the Kingdom. It's all going to fall apart. 469 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,480 And so he sacrificed early. And right when he did, guess who 470 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:58,920 showed up? Samuel. 471 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,560 And he's like, you blew it. And that's why the Lord already 472 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,600 raised somebody else up. And some of y'all know that 473 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,280 story, y'all. The idea of waiting is pull the 474 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,120 rope tight. And here's one way you could do 475 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:11,080 that. Wait on a promise. 476 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:17,880 Wait on a promise, a promise from God in context, hello is 477 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:22,520 pulling what you have access to. So for Jacob and Esau, all it 478 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,520 took was like, hey, God called my father. 479 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,880 Oh, and Abraham, Abraham and my father, and this is what he 480 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,080 said, this is what he said is to fill your mind with what is 481 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,080 clear and true that God has said in a moment where what you're 482 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,360 supposed to do isn't necessarily clear, right? 483 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,320 So God, God's word ain't going to tell you to take a left step 484 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,000 or a right step every single time. 485 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,800 But who he is, his character and His law is pretty clear. 486 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,280 And there's a lot of promises you can grab a hold of. 487 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:50,440 So believers in the room, do y'all have promises you just 488 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,560 pull the mess out of the rope on One of my favorites is First 489 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,920 Corinthians 15. My labor is not in vain. 490 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:03,080 I'm believing that when I change diapers I'm like Lord Jesus pull 491 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,200 it. Pull it people. 492 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,680 Because if not everybody just gets irritating to you. 493 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Everything is in your way if you're not pulling that rope 494 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,600 tight. 2:00 PM when the coffee ain't hitting and your boss 495 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,320 calls a impromptu meeting. Are you pulling the rope that 496 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,920 your labor is not in vain that how you you respond in that 497 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:21,800 meeting matters or does none of it matter? 498 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,320 Let's just get to 5:00 PM and go home. 499 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,760 You see how that works? Pull the rope tight. 500 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,040 He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion of 501 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,560 the day of Christ Jesus. Sometimes I just feel like I'm 502 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:34,680 just as simple as the day I first believe and that might be 503 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,360 the case and I'm just like, Lord, am I just like, did you 504 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:42,160 waste your time saving me? And I just need to hear He's 505 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,520 going to finish what He started in me. 506 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,280 He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for his 507 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,920 all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all 508 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,320 things? Lord, You say. 509 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:52,640 You'll give me all things. You'll give us all things that 510 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:54,680 we need. God, you say, seek first the 511 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,800 Kingdom and everything else will be added. 512 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,000 Are you pulling those tight? Because if not, guess what's 513 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,280 getting tighter? You ain't getting any younger. 514 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,760 That was a good opportunity and you blew it. 515 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,640 Ain't nobody else going to come there No nobody else going to be 516 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,360 looking for the the promises that get loud are ones that you 517 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:16,320 got to be. You got to win, you got to 518 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,200 matter. You got to have status at your 519 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,760 job. You got to get married in the 520 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:23,200 next year or is gone and those things get really loud and then 521 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,720 you make foolish decisions. You forsake or you scheme are 522 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,360 y'all with me? God feels of no use to you. 523 00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:30,800 That's how that works. But even more than we wait with 524 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,680 the posture or wait for a promise, wait with a promise, 525 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,080 y'all, we wait on a person more than you're waiting on something 526 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:38,920 from the Lord, you're waiting on the Lord. 527 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,360 We wait on a person. Isaiah 64 four. 528 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:43,640 This is a good one to memorize too. 529 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:54,680 It's what this says. Isaiah 64 four says from of old, 530 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,480 no one has heard or perceived by the ear. 531 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,800 No one has seen a God besides you who acts for those who wait 532 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,200 for him, who acts for those who wait for them. 533 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:10,360 Wait for him, y'all Sort of. The whole arrangement of you and 534 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:14,880 the Lord is not that. He was looking for people to 535 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,360 work for him. He was looking for people to 536 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:21,160 work for. If you think God saved you 537 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,000 because he needed you, you're missing it. 538 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,520 The reason, y'all, it's a rescue story. 539 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,160 He saves us because we're the needy party. 540 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,840 He's not the needy party, OK? He is looking for people he can 541 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,840 work for. One of my favorite Old Testament 542 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,720 stories, Exodus 14, OK, the people of God have been 543 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,920 delivered from Egypt. Now they're, they're on the way, 544 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,320 you know, to the promised land. And it's a fresh start. 545 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,960 And then Pharaoh gets this idea, why don't we just let our 546 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,800 workforce go? Let's go get them now. 547 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,400 Remember this. And so they're by the Red Sea 548 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:50,560 and here comes Pharaoh and his army. 549 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,960 And they just start panicking. They're, they're ready to kill 550 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,160 Moses. They're like, well, what are we 551 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,600 doing? And Moses has this line. 552 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,800 He says, look man, and sometimes he goes to the Lord. 553 00:26:58,800 --> 00:26:59,800 He's like, Lord, what are we doing? 554 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,280 This one, he didn't have to check with the Lord. 555 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,360 He said, listen man, the Lord's about to work for y'all. 556 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:06,600 Just sit there and be quiet. Literally their role was just 557 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,960 sit there and be quiet. Just watch what God's going to 558 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:10,000 do. And a little bit. 559 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,680 That's the arrangement that we're a part of in this gospel 560 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,920 thing with Jesus and the Holy Spirit with the Father. 561 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:20,200 Y'all, God is looking for people that he can do something in and 562 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,320 for. He's not like looking for people 563 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,360 who can help him out. Now we serve the Lord. 564 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,520 All those things like that's part of how He rescues you is by 565 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,280 giving you a position of service to Him. 566 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,800 Him being your King is his gift to you. 567 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,640 But y'all, he don't need you. He is working for those who wait 568 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,320 for him. He is the God who is active. 569 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,400 He is the God who is looking to give away. 570 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,760 He is the one overflowing. He is not needy. 571 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,080 The whole arrangement is that He's working for us. 572 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,160 So we wait because we know God is working. 573 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,720 You see how that works? We wait because of who we know 574 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,960 God to be. When it doesn't make sense to 575 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,560 you at the core, even when you don't have a promise. 576 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:04,000 But the reason you pull the rope tight on a promise is because of 577 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,400 who God is. He's initiator, He's sustainer, 578 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,920 He's promise keeper. This is who he is. 579 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,160 And I don't know what's going on, but I know who you are and I 580 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,640 know what you've done. You see how that works? 581 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,000 Heard this illustration this week that I just thought was so 582 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,240 dope. I was listening to, I think her 583 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,200 name's Melissa Kruger. Some of y'all might know her. 584 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,000 They were doing a podcast on waiting and she used an 585 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,480 illustration. I was like, that's incredible. 586 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,640 I'm going to use it. I'll probably butcher it a 587 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,440 little bit because I don't know exactly what she's talking 588 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:30,680 about, but you'll get the gist. Here we go. 589 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,600 She brought up composting. Anybody composting here? 590 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,640 OK, good for y'all. Praise the Lord. 591 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,480 I did not go up in the family that composted. 592 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,520 OK, And I might start, but y'all, basically the gist I get 593 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,920 is composting is saving things that are natural, you know, 594 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,600 orange peels, egg shells, stuff like that, OK. 595 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:51,560 And you put it in a bucket or whatever. 596 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,560 And then over time that stuff makes really good natural 597 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:56,560 fertilizer. OK. 598 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,800 And she was bragging in the podcast on how once you store it 599 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,840 up long enough, you're able to use it as fertilizer. 600 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,560 She's like, this is the best crop I've ever gotten is from 601 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:09,400 this this composted fertilizer plus seeds and water and all the 602 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,360 stuff became the greatest crop of all time. 603 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,120 Okay, now here was the point she made. 604 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,360 Waiting is sort of like composting because in the moment 605 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,400 it's just an eggshell. In the moment it's just a it's a 606 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,280 peel. It's a it's a thing other things 607 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,080 you compost. They meant somebody, and at the 608 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,760 moment it doesn't feel like it's anything but waste. 609 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,560 But the idea is you're not the gardener. 610 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,480 You are offering something up to the one who is right. 611 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,000 God will not waste your waiting. He's the great composter, not 612 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,800 you. OK, so you just give them the 613 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,200 egg shells. You just give them the moments. 614 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,160 You give them the five seconds, you give them your season of 615 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,400 singleness. You give them the waiting on the 616 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,720 job. You give them the things. 617 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,640 He's going to bear the fruit. He's going to do the crop. 618 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,920 He's going to be the one in it with you turning it into 619 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,640 something. And you don't even know what the 620 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,080 fruits going to be. Who knows how God is using the 621 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,000 waiting? The point is he doesn't waste 622 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,480 anything. You see how that works? 623 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,440 But then she said this. And I was like, that's a bar. 624 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:05,680 OK, That's how I know you're a teacher. 625 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,360 So here's the thing about composting, though. 626 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,360 Takes a long time. And it stinks, quite literally. 627 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,560 I was like, that's that's really good. 628 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,640 Yeah, the flies be coming up and stuff. 629 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,160 And yeah, that's just part of it. 630 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,400 The process isn't always flashy, but it is worth it. 631 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,000 And when you waste it, it's gone. 632 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,440 Wasting waiting doesn't make you like a bad person, it's just 633 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,920 wasting the potential of what God could do. 634 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,440 Does that make sense? What we're talking about here? 635 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,000 Y'all is living. We get one life to live. 636 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,640 And God wants to work for those who wait for him. 637 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:43,560 God wants you to wait for him. God wants to live with you. 638 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,800 He wants you to walk with Him. And part of our felt experience 639 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,720 of walking with him is just learning to wait on Him. 640 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,760 See all where can we just learn to wait? 641 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,200 I was just thinking of like, there's millions of ways this 642 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,000 applies, but sometimes we just do things the default way. 643 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,720 Everybody does them because it's the way you do them. 644 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,400 If every business in your industry up charges everything 645 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,520 and automates everything and does this and does this, guess 646 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,040 what? You start doing that and that 647 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,240 and that and that and you're moving so fast, you're not even 648 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,800 thinking doesn't mean that there's some verse that tells 649 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:11,960 you what you to do at that next moment in your company. 650 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,200 It just means let's just let it breathe. 651 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:15,840 Let's think about it, let's pray. 652 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,680 What does this do to our customers if we keep treating 653 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:18,920 them that way? Are we treating them like they 654 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,560 have dignity or we treat them like idiots? 655 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,560 Like what are we doing here, y'all? 656 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:23,640 There's millions of ways to wait. 657 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,680 Students, you're not a bad person if you use AI and 658 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,120 homework. Hello, you probably get it done 659 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,280 10 minutes faster. But let's, let's think the long 660 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,520 game of what kind of thinker and person you'll be in 10 years if 661 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,720 you keep doing that, OK? There's this principle called 662 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,000 wisdom, which is just 'cause you can doesn't mean you should. 663 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,760 OK. And I think some of where we 664 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,080 need to learn to wait in different sees in our lives and 665 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,800 different vocations and careers, We're going to have to let 666 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,920 others in on those things because some of you are doing 667 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,480 things day-to-day. We don't even know about it. 668 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,640 Just be like, hey, this is the situation I'm dealing with. 669 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,960 What do you think? Because a lot of what we're 670 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,680 talking about is wisdom in the waiting. 671 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,520 It's not all like absolutely clear how. 672 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,120 And that's part of why it's composting. 673 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,240 Are you with me? It's not a formula. 674 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,040 This is an art, but it starts with a posture of the heart. 675 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,600 It starts with just pausing. It just starts with considering, 676 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,800 Lord, what does your word say? What does your character say? 677 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,120 What does the gospel have to say about this season in my life, 678 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,640 y'all? And for anybody who's been in a 679 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,640 prolonged season where it feels like God has literally put you 680 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,120 in a waiting room and you stop just distracting yourself 681 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,840 through it, you stop scrap mode and you just all right, Lord, I 682 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:30,960 got the jug of water in the Bible. 683 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,840 What are you trying to do? And you just sit there, y'all, 684 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:35,920 it's always worth it. And you always look back. 685 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:38,360 And some of y'all might be in one of those prolonged seasons 686 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:39,880 right now. Some of y'all might be in a 687 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,280 really busy season. I've heard it said that Jesus 688 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,120 was always busy and never in a hurry. 689 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,920 You have time to wait. Your heart has time to wait. 690 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,520 It's a posture, not just a a calendar issue. 691 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,920 Here's the last thing I'll say, and I'm done. 692 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,480 Y'all, as we consider Jacob and Esau in their failure to wait 693 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,760 y'all for some of y'all who don't know Jesus in here, we 694 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,200 can't miss just how bad they blew it. 695 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:11,680 Because some of you have to see what Christ has done and realize 696 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,800 the ways they blew it. I don't want it to be the way 697 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,720 you blow it, OK? Think about it. 698 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,760 Esau is convinced he has to have something and he's willing to 699 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,920 get it, and he got it and he blew it. 700 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,000 Y'all see that? He was convinced he had to have 701 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,640 it. He got what he wanted, and then 702 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,960 he resented it and didn't have an opportunity. 703 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,440 You, you get what I'm saying? Like he forfeited it. 704 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,280 He forfeited for what he got. Like he gained the whole world, 705 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,080 forfeited his soul, sort of kind of right. 706 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,680 I don't want that for you. I don't want you to live your 707 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,600 whole life chasing after something that you might 708 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,240 actually get. That isn't the Lord, that isn't 709 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,840 Christ, that is the bag, that is the money, that is the 710 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,480 relationship. What if you get what you think 711 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,680 you got to have? Well, me and my friend when I 712 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,440 was in like fifth grade and we would do a sleepover or whatever 713 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,560 we would be like, if I make this shot, you go marry so and so. 714 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,200 And I remember just like every once in a while I have. 715 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,480 And of course you if you miss, you just. 716 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,520 But I got three more and you just keep shooting till you. 717 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,160 Has anybody ever done that? All of all of the the hoopers in 718 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:12,600 the room, like yeah, Nerf goal and y'all, what if that's us 719 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,239 still sometimes even as adults? What if you're still that person 720 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,199 that thinks you'll be happy if you get what you want? 721 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:19,199 What if the worst thing that can happen to you is you get what 722 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:22,000 you want? What if there is a God who's 723 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,920 waiting on you? What if he's been drawing you? 724 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,159 What if he's trying to convince you that his inheritance for you 725 00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:29,320 is better than the one that you're about to just give up? 726 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,719 Are you with me? Like what God wants for you is 727 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,360 better. Him being a king to you is 728 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,320 better. His way is better and he loves 729 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,120 you, but it starts with just recognizing and sometimes God 730 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,600 gives us the gift of a story like this to just take a step 731 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,199 back and say, is that me? Are some of y'all being Esau 732 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,560 right now? You're hearing God's word, 733 00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,880 you've heard the truth of his word, you've heard about sin, 734 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,639 you've heard about Christ, you've heard about the cross, 735 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:54,719 you've heard about how it's a gift. 736 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,480 Salvation is a gift. You just have to agree with God. 737 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,240 You just have to recognize and come to your senses that you are 738 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:04,600 your biggest problem and you getting what you want is your 739 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,640 biggest problem. Right before you come to your 740 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:08,800 senses. Sometimes you think you have the 741 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,200 whole world at your fingertips. There was nothing like 18 year 742 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,080 old Tanner who thought he was the coolest dude in the world 743 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,200 who could get whatever he wanted and was so happy. 744 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,480 And then a few months after that I was miserable and that was my 745 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,760 fault and God in his mercy helped me come to my senses that 746 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,120 I got me there. OK, some of y'all need to come 747 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:29,000 to your senses, not be in Esau and trust Jesus who died in your 748 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,400 place while you were Esau. That's the idea. 749 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:33,560 The goal is not to go from let me Esau. 750 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,880 Now let me start scheming. It's let me I realize the way 751 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,120 into the family is to repent is to believe it's not through your 752 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,680 effort cleaning yourself up going to church more and then 753 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,960 there's some Jacobs in the room. OK scheming is I can get it 754 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:51,000 scheming is I'll just tell the Lord all the good things I did. 755 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,640 It's our most of the time it comes in the form of self 756 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,480 righteousness. Well, I said no to these sins. 757 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,240 I did this. Let me just make it perfectly 758 00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:58,800 clear there's no scheme in the Lord. 759 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,560 There is no work around. There is no well I didn't say 760 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,800 these bad things or I always went to church or I grew up in 761 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,640 this family. Yo, you need grace. 762 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,040 The way in with the Lord is through what he's done, not what 763 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,840 you do. This is not about how good of a 764 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,680 person you are. You are not good enough. 765 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,960 You need Christ, you need the Son of God to die on the cross 766 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,000 for your sins. That's the reality of your 767 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,520 situation. So let the two brothers point to 768 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,560 what if you did get what you wanted and what if you can't do 769 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:28,640 this? This is not about you. 770 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,880 You ain't scheming your way in. It's grace only Christ did it. 771 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,080 It's a gift in church. Let us learn to wait on the Lord 772 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,080 in big ways and little ways all day every day. 773 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,120 David said I wait all the day long, Amen. 774 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,320 Let's pray our Father, we love you. 775 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,760 I pray first and foremost for the people under the sound of my 776 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,720 voice who don't know you, King Jesus, God. 777 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:52,120 May there be just some sobriety in the room that maybe we've 778 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,320 been chasing the wrong thing for a long time and it's time to 779 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,840 disagree with you. Stop exchanging you for for a 780 00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,000 bowl of soup. Yeah, maybe it's our career or 781 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,120 maybe it's some other thing, but it's still just a bowl of soup 782 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,080 in comparison to the riches of Christ. 783 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,000 So I pray that somebody would come to their senses even today. 784 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,240 And Father, may we not scheme, may we not put our trust in our 785 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:13,840 righteousness and our good deeds, God, but may we recognize 786 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,880 that's, that's that's not what you want. 787 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,040 God, that that the weigh in is through Christ and through the 788 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,200 gift of salvation in him. And God, I pray for your church 789 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,600 on the sound of my voice. God, would you teach us to wait? 790 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,200 Teach us to wait in mundane ways, like in our jobs and our 791 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,960 parenting, in our friendships. God, God, just teach us to wait 792 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,360 and got in the big seasons with the big gifts. 793 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,080 God, that may or may not come. God, teach us to pull the rope, 794 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,240 the story of your word really tightly, because God, there is 795 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,360 another story just tempting us all the time that we'll be happy 796 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,320 if we get what we want. So God, teach us to trust you 797 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,600 that you are better, your way is better, you're good, you love 798 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,240 us. You are looking to work for 799 00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:52,880 those who are waiting for you. Holy Spirit, do this work in us. 800 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,080 We pray in Jesus name, Amen.