1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:06,400 So we're going to start Exodus chapter 1 now. 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,080 These are the names of the children of Israel who came to 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,480 Egypt. Each man in his household came 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:16,760 with Jacob, Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:23,920 Benjamin, Dan, Nathalie, Asher. All those who were descendants 6 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:28,400 of Jacob were 70 and Joseph was in Egypt already and Joseph died 7 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,440 and his brothers and all that generation. 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,480 So Lord, I just lift up this time and the study. 9 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:39,440 Lord, just Lord, just introduce yourself to us. 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:41,880 I know that I know that we know you. 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,640 I know that there are there are many in this room that spend 12 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,440 time with you that are filled with your spirit Lord, that just 13 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,960 hang out with you every day. But Lord, there's so much more 14 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,440 to you than we can know on this earth. 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,560 And Lord, that you would just continue to grow our knowledge 16 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,920 of you and continue to to just shine light and Lord, that you 17 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:04,319 would continue to correct our thinking and our our ways of 18 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,680 doing things. Lord, as as we as we submit our 19 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,760 control, the controls of our lives over to you. 20 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,040 I just pray all this in Jesus name, Amen. 21 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:19,840 So my corny title once again, but I think this one actually is 22 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:28,960 pretty good is trust the driver. And Faye has a hard time with 23 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:31,560 that one. Not really, but she loves it 24 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,600 when I'm driving. She's not up here. 25 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:39,960 So I can say that no. So in he. 26 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:41,960 So we're going to get into a little bit of the introduction 27 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:45,600 of Hebrew or of of Exodus. Exodus just in the, in the 28 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,080 Hebrews, because they didn't have, you know, we added 29 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,680 chapters and verses to make it easier to find things in the 30 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,320 Bible. And how the Hebrews kept track 31 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,640 of things in the Bible is they would just memorize them as they 32 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:06,680 were memorizing the, the chapter or, or the the book or the Psalm 33 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,000 or the Proverb, they would just remember the beginning of it. 34 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:15,000 So what they would call Exodus is now these are the names and 35 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,840 that's their way. That was their way of keeping 36 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,960 track of it. But the, the Hebrews, because 37 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:24,760 we're, we're spoiled, we all walk around with, with Bibles of 38 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,240 some kind, right? And we have in America 39 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,760 especially, there's probably more than one Bible in your 40 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,520 house, right? Well, they didn't, they didn't 41 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,720 have that luxury. You know, they're on scrolls. 42 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,600 They were at the synagogue. So they memorized whole chunks 43 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,840 of the Bible and one of those places that we can look back on 44 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,960 and, and, and just dwell on the, the idea of it. 45 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:56,680 So imagine 2000 years ago on a hill in, in just outside of 46 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:03,520 Jerusalem, hearing a guy that you're mocking say, my God, my 47 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:09,800 God, why have you forsaken me? And that's, that's Jesus's words 48 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,560 on the cross right now. If you're, if you're a Jew and, 49 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,080 and you knew your Bible and you'd memorized it and you're 50 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,960 standing there and you listen to a guy that you're, that you're 51 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:29,880 mocking and he, he cries out these words that King David 52 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:35,120 wrote 1000 years earlier. Well, you know that Psalm 53 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,360 because you're, you've memorized it. 54 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,160 And you get to verse 16 of that song. 55 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:52,520 And it says in Psalm 22, verse 16, it says for the dogs 56 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,760 surround me, the congregation of the wicked has enclosed me. 57 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:01,920 They Pierce my hands and my feet, I count all my bones, they 58 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,280 look and stare at me. They divide my garments among 59 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,880 them. And for my clothes they cast 60 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,760 lots. And So what does that have to do 61 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:15,800 with the introduction to Exodus? So I tell you that the reason 62 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,279 that we believe the Bible is numerous reasons, but one of the 63 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:24,360 reasons that we can share with the doubters of the world is, is 64 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,360 things like that. So that was written. 65 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:30,920 And if you read Psalm 22 and you go from the beginning to the 66 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,520 end, it is a it is a straightforward prophecy of 67 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:40,560 Jesus dying on the cross. And it is it is prophetic in 68 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,320 ways Jesus had no control over how he died. 69 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,200 I shouldn't the the man Jesus God obviously did. 70 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,680 But those are hard things to, you know, to get guys to, Hey, 71 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,320 could you cast lots for my clothes? 72 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,920 So this lines up, you know, can you Pierce my hands and feet? 73 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:02,440 Don't break any of my bones, right. 74 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,720 This isn't something that this this was something that we can 75 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,640 look back on. I mean, if I read, if I read 76 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:12,920 Psalm 22 to the general public that that was raised in in 77 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:15,680 America and knows Jesus died on the cross and I read it to him, 78 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,360 90% of them are going to tell you that it's written in the New 79 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,880 Testament, right? Nobody. 80 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:23,800 Nobody thinks that. Because it is that. 81 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:29,720 Clear and so something that as we're going through Exodus just 82 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,720 know that that this is proven right. 83 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:38,240 This is this is solid because anytime we look at the Old 84 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:42,880 Testament, all those smart people show up and they start 85 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,240 they start coming up with, yeah, it couldn't mean that it didn't 86 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,480 say that. That isn't what they meant. 87 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:54,200 And I love God's sense of humor because over the years, 88 00:05:54,200 --> 00:06:00,040 Margaret, modern archaeology have come at the Bible and known 89 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,640 that that it was wrong and they went about to prove it. 90 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:10,440 And they have been made to look like fools over and over and 91 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,760 over again. And, and I say that not not 92 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,000 because I'm mocking them, but it's because if it's how we, how 93 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,560 we as believers need to approach the Bible, we are not over it. 94 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,960 It is over us. And the when they come at the 95 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:30,720 Bible, they think they're the smart one in the room, right. 96 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,040 And over the years, some places that they knew that they knew 97 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,760 the Bible was wrong. So once they thought the Hittite 98 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:42,320 Empire didn't exist and they, they mocked the Bible. 99 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,200 It was made-up place, made-up, made-up people. 100 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,440 And then they, then they found an entire, an entire, they, they 101 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,840 dug up an entire empire that was the Hittite empire and proved 102 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:56,480 it. The Tildan stone that mentions 103 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:01,600 the House of David. David proved that David existed. 104 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,120 And before that they just thought he was a myth. 105 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,400 He never existed. A stone that proves Pontius 106 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,760 Pilate was a real Roman leader once again, something they said 107 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:15,320 was just made-up in the Bible. And then Belshazzar was the 108 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,480 ruler of Babylon. And they, they stood, they stood 109 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,600 opposed to that for years. And then they found a, a stone 110 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:26,600 that that listed him as the, the Regent in that air in, in over 111 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,880 Babylon during that time. And they're like, oh, I guess it 112 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,320 worked. You know, I would say we were 113 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,200 talking about it before the service today. 114 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,080 When I look back at the Bible and it says something happened, 115 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,320 it's easy for me to go and this is how that happened, right? 116 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,040 You know, I look at you know what I've talked about it before 117 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:52,720 about Jesus and pre Jesus coming, you know, the Messiah, 118 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,600 the Messiah. There was some prophecies about 119 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,040 him that are pretty straightforward. 120 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,000 He was going to be born in Bethlehem. 121 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,120 He was going to be a Nazarene and he was going to come out of 122 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:11,160 Egypt. And anybody pre Jesus would have 123 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,080 looked, looked at those and went, well, those contradict 124 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,040 each other. Which one is it? 125 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,400 Well, it's all three, right? And from this side I can look 126 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:24,680 back and tell you that. So all that to say, as we go 127 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:29,280 through Exodus, it is not a course. 128 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:34,480 It will not be a course of us going well, did he really mean 129 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,960 that? Did he really say that it's 130 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,919 going to be a course of that's what happened. 131 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:45,040 How do I apply it? You know, the the smart people 132 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,160 of the world, if they would come at the Bible with the attitude 133 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:53,880 of how did God make that happen or how did God do that? 134 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,040 They would they would have much better luck than how they come 135 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,720 at it all the time is how can I prove it didn't? 136 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,600 How can I prove that I am smarter than the people that 137 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,040 wrote that down? And anytime we come at the Bible 138 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,720 like I'm the smart one in the room, we are then we're trying 139 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,440 to bend the words of the Bible to what I think it should say. 140 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:16,600 And we don't want to do that right. 141 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:22,240 That is, that is never our goal. Our goal is to submit to what it 142 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,680 says now within within our our understanding of it, obviously. 143 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:31,560 And and when I say that, I mean there is there is cultural 144 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:33,760 stuff. There are different styles 145 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:38,440 written, you know, I mean, one of those is that he gathers us 146 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:40,880 like hen, like a hen gathers her chicks. 147 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,000 Well, he's not a hen, right? That's a picture, right. 148 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,520 So we you got to use metaphors were metaphors, allegories were 149 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:52,800 allegories, but history for history, you know, something I 150 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,560 use in. Talking about that is. 151 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:10,920 Noah and the flood, if you, if you watch archaeology or people 152 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:15,480 that are trying to disprove the Bible or whatever, every, every 153 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,240 ancient culture has a flood legend. 154 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,440 And the funny with that is that that just automatically says so 155 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:26,320 the Bible's true, but they they can't seem to. 156 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,400 Put that together. But if you and if you listen to 157 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:35,680 the flood legends, they have something about a boat, a 158 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:45,000 family, and some animals. When you read the history of 159 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,680 Noah and the Ark, you have a specific family with names. 160 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:54,280 You have specific animals with with amounts, you have a 161 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:58,280 specific boat with a size, you have specific dates it started 162 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,440 raining, you have specific times it stopped you. 163 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:08,560 You have history in reference, not some some legend that has 164 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:10,520 some mystical things in it, right. 165 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,760 And that's what I'll tell you when you go through the word 166 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:19,480 with an attitude of the historical books being history. 167 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:24,920 That's what they are. If you if you dig into Daniel 168 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:29,840 and and you take all of his prophecies, you will see how 169 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:35,680 they line up with what went on up until modern time, right? 170 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:40,760 His his prophecies were they nailed it. 171 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,040 Unless I think I'm smarter. And I don't. 172 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:50,560 And it comes down to who do I think's driving this thing, 173 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,440 right? You know who's? 174 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:57,200 Who's in charge? The smart thinkers in the world 175 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,600 will tell you they and, and this is I say this, this is truly 176 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,840 been disproven. But one of the theories that was 177 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:08,920 out there for years in the in the 50s and the 60s is that 178 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:12,000 Moses didn't write the first five books of the Bible, that it 179 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,400 was a commentary written centuries after, right? 180 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:20,680 And the problem with that is Jesus says Moses wrote it. 181 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:34,640 Right, which is? Mark 144 says, see that you say 182 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:39,320 nothing to anyone, but go your way, show yourself to the 183 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,440 priests and offer for yourself cleansing those things which 184 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,560 Moses commanded you as a testimony. 185 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,880 And if it was just that somebody had a commentary on it, then 186 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,120 Jesus would have said God commanded and somebody else 187 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,920 wrote it down, right? But Moses commanded it. 188 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,480 And then Moses also says he wrote it down specifically in 189 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:12,240 Exodus 24, three. And it says, So Moses came and 190 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:15,840 told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments, 191 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,040 and all the people answered with one voice and said, all the 192 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,960 world, all the words which the Lord has said we will do. 193 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,920 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and he rose early in 194 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,840 the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and 195 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,920 12 pillars according to the 12 tribes of Israel. 196 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:41,520 So it always comes down to when we're studying the book, do we 197 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,480 believe that these are the words of God or do we believe these 198 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:48,080 are some guy's opinion and I get to have an opinion about his 199 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:52,080 opinion, right? Because God, this is important, 200 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,720 especially as we get into Exodus and God telling us who he is. 201 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,920 Because, because there are things in Exodus that are going 202 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:03,400 to make a squirm. There are there are things that 203 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:06,520 are going to make us question, is that possible? 204 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,080 Some places will even make us ask, is that OK? 205 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:16,360 Can God really do that? And our anchor will be the word. 206 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,760 And this is, this is something I will beat up. 207 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:21,480 And I, I was looking at all my notes again and I, I figured out 208 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,280 you guys hear particular verses on a pretty regular basis. 209 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:30,480 And the reason for that is I want you to be able to, to just, 210 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,480 these are verses that we should all just have memorized and, and 211 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:35,680 be able to share them with people. 212 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:41,280 And what's our what's our anchor verse on why we trust the Word? 213 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:45,240 And that is Second Timothy 316. All Scripture is given by 214 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:49,720 inspiration of God and it's profitable for reproof, for 215 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,760 correction, for instruction in righteousness. 216 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,320 And I do beat that verse up. But all Scripture is given by 217 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,480 inspiration of God. All Scripture isn't given by 218 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,920 Peter. Peter wrote it like this. 219 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:08,320 So Peter had a plan. No, it's given by inspiration of 220 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,040 God, right? Moses wrote this down by 221 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,240 inspiration to God. When you think about how much 222 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:19,360 Moses wrote down, there's a supernatural effect to that as 223 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:24,000 you go through the Bible and even even the Gospels, that if 224 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,440 you put the four Gospels together, everybody will, you 225 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,440 know that back to those fuzzy thinkers in the world, and 226 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:31,720 they'll say, well, they contradict each other and they 227 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,120 don't. And if you have questions on any 228 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:36,400 of that, I can walk you through why they don't. 229 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:42,080 But what they do is they all tell the story from individuals 230 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,960 points of view. And if you've ever tried to 231 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:51,040 write three years of your life down it, it would take, for me, 232 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,400 it would take a, a supernatural amount of memory to write it 233 00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:00,040 down, right. And so there is just some proof 234 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:01,840 in that. And they, and that's when you 235 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:05,400 look at the gospels, it's something that they, they do 236 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:10,200 line, they do align. But when we run into hard verses 237 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,160 or whole passages, we'll remember that line. 238 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,480 That one of my friends in Uganda and I've, you guys have heard 239 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:21,640 this story numerous times and you kind of Plumb the depths of 240 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:26,360 of my stories. But you know, a pastor that was 241 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,520 with a bunch of pastors and said, I have a problem with that 242 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,480 verse. And another pastor said, no, you 243 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:31,840 don't. That verse has a problem with 244 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,240 you. And do you understand that when 245 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,120 you're reading your word, when we when we go over something, if 246 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:41,080 it doesn't align with your thinking, your thinking needs to 247 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,480 change. My thinking needs to change 248 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,680 right now. We need to know. 249 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:48,360 We need that. We need to understand the 250 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,240 context and we need to understand what's being what, 251 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:55,160 what the meaning, the person that they're talking to at the 252 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,920 time, right? How that culture understood that 253 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,920 specific thing, right? It you know, when we, we talked 254 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,480 about in Corinthians, there's there's head coverings and non 255 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,880 head coverings and there's, there's all kinds of places in 256 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,800 the Bible we can get hung up with, with things that were said 257 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:20,040 to a culture on purpose, right? And we need to we need to study 258 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,240 that out now. But you also have to understand 259 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:27,079 that God, God knew who he was talking to and he knew those 260 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:29,400 were going to be used throughout time at the same time. 261 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,640 So there's, there's always a connection to us. 262 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,240 It's why when we're reading through Exodus, we can, we can 263 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:38,400 look at it and apply it to our lives, right? 264 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:44,160 He was 100% speaking to Israel. But there are, there are still 265 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,720 things in all of it that we can apply to us. 266 00:17:53,180 --> 00:17:56,180 And the key. Is guys, if you go to Acts 17 267 00:17:57,620 --> 00:18:04,880 and and look at the Bereans, which is who we want to be at 268 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,920 all times and that this is for us forever, not us on a Sunday 269 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,560 morning. This Is Us on Monday morning, 270 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:14,160 This Is Us on Monday evening. This is anytime we're in the 271 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:15,560 world. This is when you're listening to 272 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,000 radio programs. This is when you're when you're 273 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:24,720 watching movies, whatever it is. Acts 1711. 274 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:29,680 These were more fair minded than those in Thessalonica in that 275 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,920 they received the word with ready with all readiness and 276 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,400 search the scriptures daily to find out whether these things 277 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:41,440 were so so they were listening to understand. 278 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:45,480 And then if they were, if, if there were doubts, if they 279 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,680 didn't understand, they were digging into their own Bible 280 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,800 that were their their scrolls, their, their Wiz, their 281 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:56,400 scriptures, right, and finding out what the word said. 282 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,840 And so as as believers, we need to cut and, and even as non 283 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,400 believers, if they have any sense, they need to come to the 284 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,680 word from a position of submitting to what it says. 285 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,480 Our thinking will be change as we see hard truth, right? 286 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:19,840 We will submit to the law of life that we that we believe and 287 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,200 trust in him who put it all down in writing. 288 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,040 I mean, guys, that's I beat that up on a regular basis too. 289 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,600 You know how impressive. It is that we have a book. 290 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:33,480 We don't have some theories the book and we can read it right. 291 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,440 So when when people say I mean that it's that that flood story 292 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,440 thing, right. We have history, others have 293 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:45,040 legend, right. And what what you will get from 294 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:49,520 non believers who haven't read it is that well, it's a bunch of 295 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,120 fables and a bunch of this. Have you read it? 296 00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:54,240 Because it's not it's specific fables. 297 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:59,720 Fables are, you know, the Hansel and Gretel, right? 298 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:01,080 It's a story. It's neat. 299 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,560 This has dates and times schedules this happen. 300 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:16,280 And so Second Peter is another one that lines up with with 301 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,320 Second Timothy, Second Peter 120. 302 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:27,800 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any 303 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:31,160 private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will 304 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,480 of man. That holy men of God spoke as 305 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:39,720 they were moved by the Holy Spirit, as the things in this 306 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:47,120 book didn't come from men. And do we believe that or do we 307 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:52,600 believe that men got together and made us a rule book for 308 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,720 life? Or do we believe that God wrote 309 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:01,880 it down so we would know Him? And it comes down to will we 310 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:07,320 fear God and trust His truth, or will we fear our fear, our 311 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,280 understanding and our experience in this world? 312 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Will we trust Jesus and submit to Him in His Word? 313 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:26,640 God doesn't change, right? He is, he is the same. 314 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,480 And like I said earlier, we've been to him. 315 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:34,400 He doesn't been to us, right? It's it's that, you know, well, 316 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,240 I think there are people out there that that, and I shouldn't 317 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:40,920 say I think there are we know there are people out there that 318 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,680 says, well, that isn't my truth. That isn't my reality. 319 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:50,000 You know, my truth is this. If you're in an airplane and 320 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,720 your truth is that you can fly when you jump out of the 321 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,760 airplane, does gravity care what your truth is not? 322 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:04,520 Not even a little bit, right? Or maybe your truth is that you 323 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:10,360 need a parachute, but you need a parachute made out of irons. 324 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,400 Does gravity care that you think irons will float you down? 325 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,560 No, right? It truth doesn't bend to my 326 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,920 desire. Truth is truth. 327 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:31,520 Hebrew, Hebrews 13/8 says Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, 328 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:36,520 today and forever, right? He is the Alphaean Lamega. 329 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:44,160 He is the beginning and the end. And this gets us into why I 330 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,520 love. I love this. 331 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:51,560 I love Exodus and I love Exodus for many reasons, but I love 332 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:56,080 that God came down to his chosen people and reintroduced himself, 333 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,520 right? He had introduced himself to 334 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,920 Abraham in Genesis. He had introduced himself. 335 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,960 He had had, he had had some time with Isaac. 336 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,880 They don't go into that, but obviously there was a time on a 337 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,360 mountain where Isaac was being sacrificed that I'm sure that 338 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:16,120 Isaac and him had a conversation and and Jacob had his time with 339 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:20,080 him. That was all 400 plus years 340 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:26,600 before it, before Exodus. And we once again in America and 341 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,120 in the, in the West, in the modern world, we see the Bible 342 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:35,480 as so Genesis, the end of Genesis and the beginning Exodus 343 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:38,080 are 400 years apart. And for us they're a page turn. 344 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,280 So we think, well, of course they knew who God was. 345 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,400 I mean, they, they, he was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 346 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:47,960 and they served him and they knew all the things. 347 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:52,120 He had not written it down. It was not on paper anywhere, 348 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,440 right? So they didn't, if you think 349 00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:03,040 about the things and, and we here in here in America, we have 350 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,160 printing presses and we've had them for a long time. 351 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:11,400 We have the printed word, we have history, but we are very 352 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,400 good at wanting to rewrite it even when it's written down 353 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:20,480 right in the US. Some things that that I would 354 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:27,400 imagine that most of us think we know Plymouth Rock when the when 355 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,880 the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock and the first colony was, 356 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,400 was established at Jamestown. Now there are probably some some 357 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:40,240 students in here and some, some people that know this, but how 358 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,400 many would put Plymouth Rock before Jamestown? 359 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,440 Well, Jamestown was first. Plymouth Rock was second 100 360 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,240 years ago. 400 plus years ago that was 16 O 7 was Jamestown 361 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,400 and 16/20 was Plymouth Rock. The Declaration of Independence 362 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,440 was 250 years ago. Which is when we call, you know 363 00:24:58,440 --> 00:24:59,920 that's. The founding of America. 364 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,080 But when was our first election? When did we actually have a 365 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:08,680 president and a Congress? That'd be 1789. 366 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,480 And that's that's so. So that would be when George. 367 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,760 Washington was elected and the Congress. 368 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,880 So it took time, right? You had the war and then you had 369 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,320 the then you had the, all the process of building the 370 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,680 Constitution and then you had the Civil War. 371 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,240 Anybody remember how long it was? 372 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:34,720 It's 160 years ago. It was from 1861 to 1864. 373 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:40,240 And right now I am reading a book, kind of my my nerdy fun 374 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,960 book. It's a the a biography of 375 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:51,200 Abraham Lincoln written in 19, I think it's 1912 by an 376 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,600 Englishman. It's great biography. 377 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,560 Do you know why? Because. 378 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,440 It was written within the time that people would remember who 379 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,040 Abraham was that had been alive at that time. 380 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,640 And it's written by somebody outside that didn't have an axe 381 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,680 to grind, whether he was a Republican or a Democrat. 382 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,920 Now I will ask you all, what was, what was Lincoln? 383 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,160 What was he? Was he a when he, when he got 384 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,160 into politics, was he a Democrat, a Republican or 385 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,040 something else? Anybody. 386 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:29,360 He was a Whig, then Republican. Party, then the. 387 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:32,320 Whigs went away and the Republican Party and he was a a 388 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,800 founder of the Republican Party. I was going to get a picture 389 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,360 I've got on my phone. Me and Faye were. 390 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:42,960 In. Oregon, almost California and 391 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:47,400 one of the small towns and the Democrats and I'm I'm picking on 392 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,040 them, but it it this isn't this is revisionist history. 393 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,280 They're they were downtown like we have a downtown. 394 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,640 We were in one of those and their windows, and the 395 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:02,920 Democrats, whatever their. Headquarters was there. 396 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,600 And in the window, they had some, they had some cardboard 397 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:11,800 cutouts of famous Democrats. Can't remember the other one. 398 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:17,080 But one of the famous Democrats was Abraham Lincoln, so that 399 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,520 they don't know their own history, right? 400 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,040 But how many people walk by that window? 401 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,440 And think well, obviously. Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat. 402 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,880 Right, he's for human. Rights, right. 403 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,720 So that's. Guys, that is in. 404 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,560 A small span. Since our country was founded. 405 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,880 How about how about we can we can even do better? 406 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:50,280 How? How much has changed in our view 407 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,800 of communism and socialism since 1991? 408 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:02,240 Anything right? I was going to say that in 1991, 409 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,960 communism was the evil in the world. 410 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,760 And and it had. There was fruit to that. 411 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,560 You could see it. You know the the joke is the 412 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,480 Berlin Wall came down in 89 and something you can ask the young 413 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,080 people today, which way were people running? 414 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,040 Were they running into? East Berlin or out of East 415 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:30,480 Berlin, right? So the Iron Curtain. 416 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:38,080 Ended in 91 and since then it has become popular to be a 417 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,960 socialist and a communist because, well, they have it, 418 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,200 they have it figured out. It's it's a good system. 419 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,120 And I will tell you communism, communism on paper. 420 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,560 Oh, it's beautiful that you add humans, right? 421 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:56,400 Because we are we are wicked and sinful, and we are not to be 422 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,560 trusted. So all that. 423 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,160 To say when Exodus, when when we start exodus. 424 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,560 They didn't know who he was. They they were. 425 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,240 They had been in Egypt for 400 years. 426 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:13,960 They've been separated. They've been in Goshen. 427 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,400 But they were still. Interacting with Egypt, the 428 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,040 world and Egypt is, is definitely for for us. 429 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,360 It is a real place. It still exists today, but at 430 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,280 that time it was a real place with real rulers and real 431 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,320 people. But it's also something that we 432 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:34,480 can look at as this is God taking them out of the world and 433 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:41,080 Egypt is a picture of the world and they were affected. 434 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,840 By that culture and it's. Something God's going to go 435 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:47,560 through and he's going to knock down every one of that culture 436 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,240 strongholds that Israel thinks is better than he is. 437 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:56,560 That they they are lost in their in their not understanding how 438 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,880 big their God is. Do you understand how big your 439 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,040 God is? Do I understand how big he is? 440 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,120 We were once again talking about it before servicing. 441 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:09,760 We put God in a box, the box of my understanding he's bigger 442 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,560 than that. I guarantee when I get, when I 443 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:19,280 get there, we if, if, if we get there, when we get there, we're 444 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,880 going to get there and we are going to fall on our face 445 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,160 because we don't get it. We. 446 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:26,920 We don't get how big. This, this God we serve is. 447 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:32,320 We don't understand what he. Did on the cross we can, we can 448 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,080 grasp what we can grasp. But he is so much bigger than 449 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,760 that. And and Israel. 450 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:44,680 Had no clue who their father served the God of Abraham, Isaac 451 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,480 and Jacob. And he'll go over that and over 452 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,880 that. The I am who I am, the ever 453 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,760 eternal 1. This was. 454 00:30:55,440 --> 00:31:00,000 Jacob's family and that's that that first part of it Jacob's 455 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,200 family is there are probably more dysfunctional families that 456 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:09,320 have been since then, but it's it it breaks right up there 457 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,720 right. I mean, this is this is we we 458 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:18,680 they are he he made a mess. And the cool thing with. 459 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,080 That is, is. I'm going to pick on him 460 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,880 tremendously, real quick. But know this, Jacob. 461 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,280 Made a mess and God still used him, right? 462 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:36,320 So Jacob's Jacob's mess didn't affect how much God used him. 463 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,200 Jacob's Holiness. Didn't affect how much God used 464 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,680 him, right? His twelve sons who? 465 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,400 Became the tribe of Israel. His name was Jacob. 466 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,000 When he was born, his name was Jacob, which was heel catcher, 467 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:59,240 and that suited him because he was in a constant how to 468 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:06,000 manipulate the situation. Now in in fairness to Jacob, he 469 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,960 learned a lot from his mother and his mother. 470 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,360 Her side of the family was definitely, you know, Will. 471 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,360 If you. Read in Genesis, you'll, you'll 472 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,720 hear about Laban and there there's a whole bunch of just 473 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,000 the way she was raised and the way she came up. 474 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,760 But they both spend a tremendous amount of time in that 4 letter 475 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,680 word that that that I pick on, which is feels right. 476 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:38,360 They they feel, I feel like. I need to help God's plan along. 477 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,480 I feel like I should control. This situation I should 478 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,520 manipulate. This situation I should 479 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,480 influence, I should sway, I should manipulate, right? 480 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,760 Do we do that? Right, we or can. 481 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,560 We do we. Rest in what he's doing in 482 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,800 Uganda. America's corrupt but. 483 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,280 Uganda is corrupt out loud, right? 484 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,800 America's corruption. Is quiet behind closed doors. 485 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,280 Uganda's corruption is obnoxious. 486 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,280 Just straightforward, right? It's, it is, but it, but it 487 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,920 creates both sides of it. I tell the guys all the time, I 488 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,760 said the reason that you have to bribe people is because you are 489 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,440 trying to break the law or you are breaking the law and you 490 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:34,160 need to bribe them to keep out from breaking the law. 491 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:36,160 So they're just, you're just as bad as they are. 492 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:41,520 And we have this back and forth, but I'm I'm teaching a Bible 493 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,720 study at A at a pastor's conference in Jinja and these 494 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,560 are head pastors in a room about about the center of the of here 495 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,280 full. And these are head pastors that 496 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,400 know their Bible. And in America? 497 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:05,920 Bribery is dishonest in Uganda. I have to show you where it says 498 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,520 don't bribe because it's part of their culture. 499 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,000 It isn't it they, it's not a dishonest thing. 500 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,040 It's just part of doing business. 501 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:19,199 And so as I'm up there teaching about standing in right places 502 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,920 and letting God be in control of it. 503 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:26,280 And just by my general, you know, do everything as unto the 504 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,159 Lord and not to men. And I had a pastor after I was 505 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:33,400 done teaching question, answer time, head pastor raises his 506 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:34,960 hand, said if you're not going to bribe anybody. 507 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:37,840 How are you plan? How do you think? 508 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,000 You're ever going to get anything accomplished in Uganda. 509 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:44,159 And everybody laughed. And this is what I will tell. 510 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:49,480 You is and what I told him I said, Simply put, I believe God 511 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:51,280 is bigger than the government of Uganda. 512 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,719 If he wants to move it forward, it will move forward without my 513 00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,520 without my manipulation, control, push, bribery, any of 514 00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,520 that. I just get to do what he said. 515 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,240 I get to where do I get to sit in the passenger seat, right? 516 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,920 Probably not even there. I probably have to ride in the 517 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,440 trunk. Because in the passenger seat I. 518 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:22,000 Still might reach over and grab the wheel and Jacob spends most 519 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,200 of his younger years coming up with ways to move God's plan 520 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:34,600 forward and the wreckage that that caused was unnecessary. 521 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,000 Now it doesn't say that in the Bible in the in in those moments 522 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,040 where God's like and if he hadn't done that, I'd have done 523 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:47,320 this. But I know God and what God 524 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,680 wants in all of my plans in everything. 525 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:56,080 This place my work at A at a nuclear power plant working. 526 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,960 If I if I am the. Missionary in Uganda. 527 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:07,560 What God wants is all the blame. He wants the only thing that 528 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:11,000 explains my life to be him and what he's done in it. 529 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,400 He doesn't want that. Well, I, I made the right 530 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,480 decision. I moved up the corporate ladder. 531 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,560 You know, I did a good fundraising campaign. 532 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:25,480 That isn't what he wants, is all the blame. 533 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:33,200 He wants to be blamed. For our entire life and what? 534 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,080 I how that how? That looks in Jacob's life is if 535 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:40,920 you think about when he lied to his dad, put on the costume to 536 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,680 act like Esau, and stole Esau's blessing. 537 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,960 And ran off. To his mom's family, because 538 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:49,880 you. Understand that it looks. 539 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,920 Like so his mom loved him. And it looks like he never saw. 540 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,200 Her again. There's nothing in the word that 541 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:02,240 says he ever saw his mom again. And God's plan will never. 542 00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:05,320 Be to break relationship by lies and manipulation. 543 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,680 That doesn't mean that relationships won't be broken as 544 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,040 you walk through life with Jesus. 545 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,600 It just means that it. Won't be because. 546 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,640 Of lies and manipulation. It'll be because you're standing 547 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:24,480 in right places, so James, 317 says. 548 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,080 But the wisdom, that is. From above is first pure, then 549 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:48,080 peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good 550 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,680 fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy. 551 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,120 And that is, that is. God's heart in all moments. 552 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,720 Now relationships, like I said, will get broken. 553 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,600 But because they won't. Submit to God's plan and what 554 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:15,320 God is doing what we want is when someone when when a 555 00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,160 relationship in your life in my life is broken. 556 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:23,960 We want them to be looking. At God, not you, right? 557 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,960 Because if you look at the Esau Jacob moment, guys. 558 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:36,080 The Lord told. Rebecca, the younger, the older 559 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:40,880 will serve the younger in in Genesis 25 it says, and the Lord 560 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,160 said to her, two nations are in your womb. 2 people shall be 561 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:48,040 separated from your body, 11 people shall be stronger than 562 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,720 the other, and the older shall serve the younger. 563 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,800 And do you know what? You know what Rebecca went about 564 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:58,320 doing. Get Matt to go. 565 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,400 She grabbed that wheel and went to work. 566 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:06,240 And that's what. That was her her drive and and 567 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,400 she put that on Jacob. It doesn't say that, but that is 568 00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,880 she she was A and I and I'm picking on her, but this is her 569 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,480 really trying to to move that forward. 570 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,920 Now. Had Jacob just waited on the 571 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:29,600 Lord, and the Lord gave Esau, or Goat gave Jacob Esau's blessing, 572 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:33,000 Esau very well could have been just as angry. 573 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:35,240 But he would have been angry at the. 574 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:38,960 Lord and not on, not at Jacob, right? 575 00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:42,400 And it doesn't mean that that in reality they're not mad at you 576 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,080 because that's what happens, right? 577 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,080 We don't. Somebody gets mad at me. 578 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,560 But if I know I'm standing where I'm supposed to be standing, 579 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,920 doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then they're problems 580 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:57,440 with him, not with me. Now if I give them. 581 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,520 If I give them reason, right, corporate ladder climbing is a 582 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,760 great example of I'm just going to I'm just going to make myself 583 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,120 look good, make them look bad, right? 584 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:16,120 That is, that is opportunity for your witness to be blown, but 585 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,200 God's desire for everybody you touch. 586 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,880 Is for them to come. Into a saving relationship with 587 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,280 Jesus if you don't know him, that is his desire for you is 588 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:29,920 that you come into that relationship and. 589 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,520 When we get involved. When we when we think that I'm 590 00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:38,040 just going to help this long little things, little comments, 591 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,160 little false humility here little little little. 592 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,320 Snide back talking right? Anybody have lane assist in 593 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:49,640 their car and had it on on a windy Rd. 594 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,280 So lane assist isn't? Isn't. 595 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:57,080 Isn't automatically isn't automatic driving like a a smart 596 00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:01,280 car that just takes the corners lane assist kind of watches the 597 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,840 the the stripes on the side of the road and guides right if you 598 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,200 and it are going on a windy. Road you are going to fight it 599 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,360 all the. Way around the road because it's 600 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,400 trying to hold one line and you're trying to hold another 601 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:14,920 because you're not. Lane Assist. 602 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,120 Right. Or have you? 603 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,560 Ever ridden on a? Motorcycle and had the passenger 604 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:21,800 try to take you around the corner. 605 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,800 You want to see a bike go down real fast, right. 606 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,680 But the one that the one that because we were talking about a 607 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,040 couple weeks ago being a pilot, I'm going to mangle it because I 608 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,400 I'm definitely not a pilot. But I have. 609 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:45,080 I got lucky years back and got to fly with a guy who is a was a 610 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:54,000 crop duster and he was, we were in a much nicer plane than a 611 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,360 crop dust and plane, but he was very talented, good pilot. 612 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,920 And so I'm in the passenger's seat and he's flying and we're 613 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:07,280 going over next to Mount Hood and we'd went over to the. 614 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,920 Coast and we were flying us. Back and so you don't fly for a 615 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,400 while. When you fly a plane, it is. 616 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,320 Not driving a car right? It's not I mean, when, when I 617 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:19,520 took over, it wasn't like we were taken off. 618 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,520 We weren't doing anything. All I was doing was holding it 619 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:28,560 on a heading at a height. Well, everything's kind of 620 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,240 fuzzy, right? I mean, it's not like you, you 621 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:35,160 know, in a car, if I do this, the car turns in an airplane 622 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,800 when you do this, then it goes and, and so you can get yourself 623 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,480 out, right. Well, the thing with our the 624 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:47,120 reason he could do that is. We have the. 625 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:51,080 Same controls, right? My, I have, I have controls in 626 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,440 the passenger's seat and he has controls in the driver's seat. 627 00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,000 And they're the same. When I turn this, his turned. 628 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,040 When I turn this, his turned, right. 629 00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:05,960 They do the same exact thing. Well, now imagine that we're in 630 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:10,160 a cloud bank and I don't know what the what the instruments 631 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,640 mean because I'm not a pilot and I'm in. 632 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,400 A cloud bank and. If you guys have ever, I don't, 633 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,000 I don't know this, I've just heard it. 634 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,160 Is it as a when you go into a cloud bank in an airplane, you 635 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,440 can you can lose your way. You don't know whether you're up 636 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,320 or down, whether planes upside down, right side up. 637 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:35,120 It's it's confusing, but the pilot has all his instruments. 638 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,800 So he just, he just looks at his instruments and knows that angle 639 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,520 of the plane, knows all the things. 640 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,360 As. As humans, we're in a cloud 641 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,480 bank. I can see the, I can see the end 642 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:51,320 of today. Can't even really see the end of 643 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,360 today. I can see the horizon. 644 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:58,920 God can see the whole story. And Can you imagine while we're 645 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,520 while we're in that cloud bank that I grabbed the wheel and I 646 00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,040 decide I'm going to take us where I think I need to go? 647 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:09,960 The driver has the plan. Right. 648 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:16,440 And that's that's our job is to trust and rely on him, submit 649 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:22,360 our lives to him. And Jacob, we'll get into his, 650 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,000 we'll get into his family real quick. 651 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:29,440 Not good at that. And the train wreck that follows 652 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:34,680 Israel for their for their duration to this day. 653 00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,240 So. Jacob's family who? 654 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:41,920 Turns into Israel is Reuben, Simeon and Lee. 655 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:48,400 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, and then Issachar and Zebulon are 656 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,640 all Leah's, which is Jacob's first wife. 657 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:56,040 And then just. Not to be outdone, Rachel, who 658 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,720 couldn't have children, said sleep with my servant, then I 659 00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:03,640 can have some children with her. So then, then he gets Dan and 660 00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:09,320 Nathalie from Rachel's servant and Leah's thinking, well I want 661 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:15,480 to give you more and so have my servant and she gets Gad and ash 662 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,800 Astor. And then finally there's. 663 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,880 Joseph and Benjamin, which are Rachel's too. 664 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:31,400 So you literally have in in one moment, Judah or Jacob has 12 665 00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:33,720 kids. He has 13 listed because there's 666 00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:40,080 a daughter, but twelve sons and six of them he gets from his 667 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,360 first wife. That he was conned. 668 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:47,920 Into having four of them are from servants. 669 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:54,640 And then two of them are. From from Rachel the the woman 670 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,840 whom he loved. Now like I said. 671 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,600 There are more dysfunctional families out there, but this 672 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:10,000 one's pretty good. And like I said, God wants the 673 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,920 blame. Now you got to know that Abraham 674 00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:22,120 was much smarter than Isaac, was smarter than Rachel, was smarter 675 00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:25,000 than Jacob. He told. 676 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:29,720 His servant go and get my son, go, go and get my son a wife. 677 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:36,800 And he said, go back to my home country and get my son a wife. 678 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:38,880 And his servants said, well let me take him with you. 679 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,760 Never take my son to that country. 680 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:49,000 I forbid it. And so then he went and got him 681 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,040 a wife. And that would be Rebecca. 682 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:57,960 And Rebecca had two children and that was their life. 683 00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,680 Now, I'm not saying she was perfect. 684 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,560 As I said, she was trying really hard to to make God's plan come, 685 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:08,760 but they didn't have a dysfunctional train wreck of 12 686 00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:16,560 boys that were that So Isaac could have if if Rebecca would 687 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:22,000 have just been trusting and and Jacob would have just sit still. 688 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:27,760 Isaac first of all, the Lord would have given Jacob the 689 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:31,480 blessing over Esau because that's what he said and he would 690 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:37,440 have he could have I'm I'm this is this is definite things that 691 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,120 could have happened. It isn't how it happened. 692 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:42,800 I'm just telling you that God is big enough to make his plans 693 00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,600 work. Doesn't require my input. 694 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:52,400 He's going to fly the plane. Where it needs to go and he 695 00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:57,320 could have sent a servant to go get a bride and then he could 696 00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:01,040 have had Jacob could have had twelve sons with one wife. 697 00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:06,600 Believe it or not, that happens. I don't I, I all the ladies out 698 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:08,480 there that have children. I had 12 of them. 699 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,320 Wow. But no. 700 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:19,480 But it's we need to trust in the fact that the Lord can do what 701 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:25,960 he says he's going to do. And this is and and. 702 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:30,200 This is something that. God doesn't lie, right? 703 00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,400 God, God moves forward as God sees fit. 704 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,400 He doesn't manipulate, He doesn't come up with different 705 00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,120 plans. He has a standard He has put in 706 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,640 place. Numbers 2319. 707 00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:45,120 God is not a man that he should lie, nor son of man that he 708 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:49,720 should repent. Has he said and will he not do 709 00:48:49,720 --> 00:48:54,440 or has he spoken and will he not make it good if the Lord said 710 00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,840 it? That's it. 711 00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,240 I don't have to come up with ways to make that come true. 712 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:05,440 My, my time in Uganda and, and I don't believe it's over. 713 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:11,760 I don't know at what, at what capacity I will ever, ever be 714 00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,120 able to live there again. I think that might be over. 715 00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:20,400 But my, my time of, of loving on the, on the people there that 716 00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,760 that's still something I get to do that I'm blessed to do. 717 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:28,560 But God told me in 2009, 2008, 2009 that I was going to build a 718 00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:35,480 water line across Africa and I got asked all the time, well, 719 00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:37,440 what's? That look like. 720 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:38,880 I have no idea. I mean. 721 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,360 When I first heard it, I. Thought that meant I was going 722 00:49:42,360 --> 00:49:44,240 to dig a water line across Africa. 723 00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:48,480 They need water in Africa. That that's not. 724 00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,360 The if he'd have told me what he meant by it at the time, I 725 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,880 probably would have ran somewhere else because there's I 726 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,560 definitely wasn't, didn't think I could do this at that time. 727 00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,680 So all that to be said is that I don't. 728 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:09,240 I don't put, I don't. Attempt to put words in God's 729 00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:14,760 mouth when if he says something like that, you're going to build 730 00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:18,200 a water line across Africa. I have no problem with that. 731 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:21,960 I don't then say and he said I should do this and I should move 732 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,000 here and I should go there unless that's what he said. 733 00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:33,160 I am standing up here because I asked and was told that I was to 734 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,240 stand up here. You guys have heard that story? 735 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,320 That's that's not because. I think so, right? 736 00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,160 I don't. I don't want to put words in his 737 00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:49,240 mouth, and I also don't want to grow this church in my power, 738 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:51,800 right? You don't want to do that, 739 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,640 right? We want to be where He wants us 740 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,240 to be, period. And growing. 741 00:50:58,240 --> 00:51:01,040 At the rate he wants us to grow, speaking to the speak people he 742 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,600 wants us to speak to and that's it. 743 00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:08,320 Because if not, we just, it basically means we have to get 744 00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:11,000 back on track, right? If we're manipulating, if we're 745 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,520 controlling, if we're doing any of that stuff, it's just a 746 00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,720 constant state of us getting back in line with where he wants 747 00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:19,320 us to go. Jacob ended up where he wanted 748 00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,680 him to go, but he ended up there after a whole lot of deviation, 749 00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,600 right? He was in a he was in a foreign 750 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:31,080 country for 20 years. Had had 12. 751 00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,000 Children with four different ladies, two of them that weren't 752 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:39,920 even his wife right now. At the end of the day, God named 753 00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:44,200 Israel got him into Egypt. You know, we know the end of the 754 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,640 book. There was a plan. 755 00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:49,920 Jacob just made a wreck out of it. 756 00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:52,360 My. Goal. 757 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,640 And I don't do this perfectly, and I don't think anybody in 758 00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,880 here does. My goal is not to make a wreck, 759 00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,120 right? Is to just do everything as 760 00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,520 under the Lord and not to men, which means don't worry. 761 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,160 I mean, I used to tell my old boss Lauren, I don't work for 762 00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:07,200 you. I work for. 763 00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:08,640 Jesus if I work. For you, you'd fire me. 764 00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,880 And the reason for that was because if I work for Lauren 765 00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:14,400 Watts, what I'd be trying to do is make Lauren Watts happy. 766 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,640 And the only time I had to make him happy was when he was 767 00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:21,000 around. Guess when Jesus is around. 768 00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,480 All the time. So if I'm working for Jesus, I 769 00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,520 got to make him happy all the time. 770 00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:32,320 And how I do that is by giving 100%, standing in right places, 771 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:34,960 not well, I'm just going to manipulate this situation, 772 00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:46,400 Ephesians 417 through 24 says. This I say therefore. 773 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,720 And testify in the Lord that you should no longer walk as the 774 00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:53,400 rest of the Gentiles walk. In the futility of their. 775 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,760 Mind having their understanding darkened, being alienated from 776 00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,480 the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, 777 00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,960 because of the blindness of their heart, who being past 778 00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:09,480 feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work, to 779 00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,000 the work, all uncleanness with greediness. 780 00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:16,600 But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard 781 00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:22,480 Him and have been taught by Him, As the truth is in Jesus, that 782 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:26,120 you should put off concerning your former contact, conduct the 783 00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:30,120 old man which grows corrupt according to deceitful lust, and 784 00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:35,160 be renewed in the spirit of your mind, that you put the new man 785 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:38,880 which was created according to God in true righteousness and 786 00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:41,640 holiness. Or the verse. 787 00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,280 I use all. The time, therefore, if anyone 788 00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,200 is in Christ, he is a new creation. 789 00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,560 Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become 790 00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:53,040 new, right? Don't apply the world's thinking 791 00:53:54,120 --> 00:54:04,360 to your walk with the Lord. So verse 5 of Exodus says all 792 00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:06,960 those who were descendants of Jacob were 70 persons, for 793 00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:11,560 Joseph was already in the land. And Joseph died and all. 794 00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,360 His brothers and all that generation. 795 00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:21,080 But before that, in Genesis, you can read where Jacob died and 796 00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:24,760 his brothers and Joseph's brothers all freak out because, 797 00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,280 well, Joseph is going to now condemn us because they didn't 798 00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:32,480 understand. That Joseph was submitted. 799 00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,760 To the to God's plan. Joseph wasn't submitted to 800 00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:43,280 Jacob's plan. All of Jacob's sons had are all 801 00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:47,800 those Jacob's sons had this idea that Joseph wasn't hurting them 802 00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,800 because because he had submitted to their moral center, which was 803 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,560 their father. Who's your moral center? 804 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:57,840 My moral center when I was 19 years old was my mother, and I 805 00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:00,000 moved to Alaska, which was 2500 miles away. 806 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,200 Do you know how much your moral center has on you at that point? 807 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,000 None. You knew anything because your 808 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:10,600 moral center is 2500 miles away. Well, lose your moral center, 809 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:16,000 right? If it's Jesus, then he's with 810 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,840 you all the time. You're filled with the Spirit. 811 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:21,920 So we're not going to get to the end of this. 812 00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:26,840 So we'll pick it up again next week. 813 00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,200 Lord, I just thank you for everybody here. 814 00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,360 I thank you for this time. I thank you for all you do for 815 00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,680 us, Lord. Lord that. 816 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:43,040 Lord, you do have the controls, and if we would just let go and 817 00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:48,040 let you, Lord, that we would be blessed beyond our ability to 818 00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,040 understand. Lord, as struggles come, Lord, 819 00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,560 let them come from the outside, Lord, not come from what we've 820 00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,920 done that we're paying for. Lord, that, or that you would 821 00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,760 just give us wisdom ahead of time to be still. 822 00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,400 Or that we would just trust you, rely on you. 823 00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,560 Guide and direct us, Lord. Pray all this in Jesus name, 824 00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:10,280 Amen.