1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:01,600 You're going to have to put your big brains on because we're 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:03,160 going to cover a lot of territory. 3 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:06,000 I've got a lot of story to share with you, a lot of teaching. 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,280 So you just got to take a deep breath and say I'm here for it. 5 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,000 All right, You ready? All right, we've gotten to the 6 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,240 end of the beginning, the end of Genesis. 7 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,360 Everything is answered in Genesis. 8 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,600 From week one. I've been telling you this is 9 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,200 where faith and 1st and facts come. 10 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,760 If you have a question, the answer to it originates in 11 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,120 Genesis, especially Genesis chapter one through 11. 12 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:30,600 What we learned from the very beginning is that God's 13 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:35,400 intention is made known to all of humanity right in Genesis. 14 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,560 And it's this, let me just remind you, His intention from 15 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,560 the beginning was to dwell with the people He loved in a place 16 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,320 that He created. It's his heart. 17 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,360 I just want to be with you and you with me, to dwell together 18 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,280 in the cool of the evening. But if you remember Genesis 19 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,280 chapter 3, Houston, we have a problem. 20 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:56,240 Sin enters the picture, the devil answers the picture. 21 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,040 And humanity decides like, hey, we want to go our own way. 22 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,440 Thanks for the love, thanks for the care, thanks for the Garden 23 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,160 of Eden. But we're deucing out. 24 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,680 We're piercing out. We're going to go on our own. 25 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,560 And since Genesis chapter 3 unto today, the Lord has set forth a 26 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,440 plan to redeem what has been broken in the garden. 27 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,200 It's the singular thread that weaves all throughout the 28 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,520 scriptures. It carries us into our next 29 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,720 series which begins next week called the Kingdom Unveiled. 30 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,800 I say Kingdom, you say unveiled Kingdom. 31 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,040 We're going to talk about the parables. 32 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,640 If you don't know what a parable is, show up next week. 33 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,120 But I'll tell you this, Jesus didn't just come to save us. 34 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:36,800 That's a self-centered gospel. Jesus came to reveal the Kingdom 35 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,720 of heaven on earth, and he says it's a reality that you can 36 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:42,240 experience now. We don't have to wait for it 37 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,320 like it's up in a hidey hole that we only get to go to when 38 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:47,000 you die. So if any part of your life does 39 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,400 not feel heavenly, then the parables are for you. 40 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:55,040 The parables are to inform you you can live heaven on earth. 41 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,840 Somebody say Amen. All right, so be here next week. 42 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,400 Deal. All right, let's take out our 43 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,800 Bibles. Genesis chapter 45 is going to 44 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,680 be where you want to be. If you need a Bible, raise your 45 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,040 hand. They'll bring you one. 46 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,720 As you're opening your Bibles, I want to declare a prophetic 47 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,040 word, not pathetic prophetic word over you. 48 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:14,360 Is that a hand for the prophetic word? 49 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,920 You need a Bible. How about the word to Amen, 50 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,840 sister, here's the word. Are you ready? 51 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,960 Say yes, you're going to make it. 52 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,560 That's the word. You're going to make it. 53 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:33,960 The enemy wants you to live in a place of hopelessness that says, 54 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:35,160 you know what? It's a dead end. 55 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,640 It's as good as it gets. It's broken. 56 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:39,560 It's not getting fixed. The relationship can't be 57 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,600 restored. My mental health, my body health 58 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,840 can't be restored. I'm here to say to you that 59 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,920 Genesis teaches us that God is a God who says you're going to 60 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:50,680 make it? She believes. 61 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,320 Anyone else? You're going to make it. 62 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,960 That's Genesis teaches us that There's so many stops and starts 63 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:00,880 in the book of Genesis, so many failures and missteps by 64 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,720 humanity in the book of Genesis. Yet the work of God prevails, 65 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,480 The work of God perseveres, The work of God goes forward. 66 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,160 If we learn anything in Genesis, it's this. 67 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,120 God keeps his promises. Over long stretches of time with 68 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,480 an unfaithful people, God keeps his promises. 69 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,280 From the beginning, God, I just said it, wanted to dwell with 70 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,400 people in a place that he created. 71 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,240 That's the promise, and he kept it. 72 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,560 And by the way, dot dot dot. He's still keeping it today. 73 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:32,680 God holds fast even we are faithless. 74 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,760 He is faith. Full So if you boil all that 75 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,640 down, if you know that God has been faithful from the 76 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:39,960 beginning, he keeps his promises from the beginning and the 77 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:42,200 evidence is everything that we see in scripture from the 78 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,840 beginning to now that I can declare over you in truth, 79 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,720 you're going to make it. You better believe it. 80 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,480 You're going to make it. Romans chapter 8, verse 28. 81 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,440 Pastor Kim introduced this into the series last week. 82 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,520 By the way, didn't Pastor Kim, Pastor David and Pastor 83 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,000 Christine do an incredible job last three weeks? 84 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,640 Hallelujah. We've got a stellar teaching 85 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:07,000 team here. Romans 828 familiar words If 86 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,120 you've been around the church and we know that for those who 87 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,360 love God, key point by the way, don't skip that part. 88 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,000 For those who love God, all things I would say all things 89 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,760 that means good things, bad things, mountaintops, valleys, 90 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,520 all things work together for good, say for good. 91 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,120 You didn't know you'd be talking so much this morning. 92 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,720 Neither did I, just happens. For those who are called 93 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,400 according to his purpose, today's message is called for 94 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:35,360 good. Write it down. 95 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,400 If you're not taking notes, why you here? 96 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,400 I'm just wondering now. We can't look at each other now 97 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,040 because I'm worried you're not taking notes. 98 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,520 And I don't know if I make you feel awkward if I look up, but 99 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:52,400 I'm going on God, it's for good. For good in Romans chapter 8 100 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,480 does not mean easy rainbows and unicorns, as it were. 101 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:02,920 It doesn't mean running downhill with the wind at your back at 102 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:06,600 all times. God works all things for good, 103 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,120 and for good means He makes all things right. 104 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:16,200 That's what the word Shalom means, all things rightly in 105 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:17,880 your life. As we have seen proved in 106 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,120 Genesis, God is going to make things right. 107 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,600 He's going to make them turn them for good. 108 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:29,280 That's His promise, but as we've seen all throughout our journey 109 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,680 in Genesis, and we're going to see it again today, he's also 110 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,960 ensuring that this goodness goes on for good for all time, 111 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,560 through all ages. Everything will work out for 112 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,920 good, for good, for good meaning, right? 113 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,040 And also for good meaning for all time. 114 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,560 I'm going to look together at the last part, the final week of 115 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,880 our journey through Genesis and the story of Genesis. 116 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:51,960 Pastor Kim introduced this last week. 117 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:53,440 If you missed it, go watch the service. 118 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,400 But I'll, I'm going to catch us all up super quick, Joseph. 119 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,920 One of the twelve sons of Jacob. He's despised by his brothers. 120 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,320 He sold into slavery. He goes into the pit. 121 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,320 He goes from the pit into the prison because of Potiphar's 122 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,720 wife. She catches them and she's lying 123 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:12,600 and deceptive. I'm going really fast for this. 124 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,400 And and he goes to prison. And then from prison he's 125 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:20,560 elevated to become the second in charge of all of Pharaoh's land, 126 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,720 the second in charge of Egypt. He wears the signet ring, the 127 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:30,040 authority in the signing power. Of Pharaoh, God does this for 128 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:33,520 them because God is faithful, but also Joseph is full of 129 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:37,520 integrity, never leaving his desire to please the Lord. 130 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,760 And the Lord raises them up in Potiphar's house, he raises them 131 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:44,080 up in the prison, he raises them up in the palace. 132 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,840 The way that he got to the palace, if you remember, is that 133 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:49,840 Pharaoh was having some dreams and Pharaoh couldn't understand 134 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:51,080 his own dreams. He's like, I've been dreaming 135 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,760 about 7 fat cows being eaten by 7 skinny cows. 136 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:56,680 Anyone remember this? And then he said, I've also been 137 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:00,200 dreaming about 7 grains of stock, big ones being eaten by 7 138 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,560 wimpy, wimpy, wimpy grains of stock. 139 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,000 And I don't understand them. And the cupbearer remembers that 140 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,240 this guy in prison named Joseph had interpreted his own dream. 141 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,480 He's like, hey, there's a guy in prison who can interpret your 142 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:14,920 dream. So they bring Joseph from 143 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:16,320 prison. You're remembering this. 144 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,920 This is all last week. And he tells them, hey, the 145 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:25,040 dreams are one and the same. 7 fat cows, 7 big grains of stock, 146 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,800 that's seven years of feasting. And then the seven skinny cows 147 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:34,200 and the seven weak grains of weak stocks of grain are 7 years 148 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,240 of famine. And as a bonus, based on the 149 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,560 integrity and the wisdom that's placed in Joseph, he says so 150 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,760 far, you ought to save during these seven years so that during 151 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,760 the seven years of famine, there's enough for you and the 152 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,320 land. And you can actually actually 153 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,800 sell some off to the neighboring lands, which will also be in 154 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,840 famine. That's where we ended last week. 155 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,000 Joseph elevated out of all of these terrible places. 156 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,680 And so catching up this week, it's story time with Tim. 157 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:11,920 Here we go. Joseph's brothers who are living 158 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,080 up in the north in Canaan, which will is the promised land, will 159 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:17,040 become Israel. It's Israel to this day. 160 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:20,960 They're there and they're experiencing the seven years of 161 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,280 famine. But they didn't know the seven 162 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,400 years of famine were coming. So they have not stored up. 163 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,600 And they say to themselves, we hear that Egypt has food for us 164 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:35,360 to eat. And so Jacob, the dad of 12 sons 165 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,960 who thinks one is dead, he thinks Joseph's dead, says, hey, 166 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:42,919 the 10 of you go and get grain from Egypt. 167 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,520 Leave here with me. Benjamin, the youngest, his new 168 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,360 favorite son. Joseph was his favorite son. 169 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,000 He thinks Joseph's dead. And now he has Benjamin, the 170 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,440 youngest of all of his children. Leave him here with me. 171 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:56,400 Hey, go. You remember the story? 172 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:57,920 Have you seen the story? It's incredible. 173 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,240 They go to Egypt and there is Joseph. 174 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,520 But Joseph is veiled to them. He's either too far away, he's 175 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:04,760 covered up. They don't know that it's 176 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,320 Joseph. Even if it was him standing 177 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:07,840 there grown up, they might not recognize him. 178 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:09,280 They haven't seen him in decades. 179 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,760 And Joseph recognizes his brothers but does not reveal 180 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,360 himself yet. He gives them grain. 181 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:20,200 They leave. There's some stuff that happens. 182 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:22,920 But he says to them, the next time you come back, don't come 183 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,200 back here without your younger brother. 184 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,080 So they go back to Canaan, and they're there eating the grain. 185 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:31,880 And they run out of grain. And they're like, we got to go 186 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,440 back. And the brothers say, hey, dad, 187 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,440 the man in charge, the master, they have no idea. 188 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,920 It's Joseph said we can't come back unless we bring Benjamin 189 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,280 and Jacob's like, no way. I've already lost one son. 190 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,040 I'm not losing another. And like, well, we can't go 191 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:50,640 back. We can't stand in his presence 192 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,480 unless we take your favorite son with us. 193 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,600 And so Judah, one of the brothers comes to the Jacob the 194 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:00,440 father and says if anything happens to Benjamin, I'll pay 195 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,880 the price. Like trust them to me. 196 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,400 And so Jacob relents. He sends all the eleven sons 197 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,640 back to Egypt. Are you still following with me? 198 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,920 Come on, Church. All right, They get back. 199 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:16,440 They still have no idea. It's Joseph. 200 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,040 They're like, hey, we need more. And he's like, is this Benjamin? 201 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:21,520 And like, yeah, they have a feast. 202 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,720 They throw out the pancakes. Everyone has one pancake, but 203 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,760 Benjamin has five pancakes. He gets five times the amount of 204 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,080 food. That everyone else gets like, 205 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,200 wow, that's pretty cool. And they're like, all right, 206 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:34,560 here's your grain. They sent them on our way. 207 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:37,520 But Joseph had deceived a plan. Deceived. 208 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:38,960 Is that the right word? Conceived? 209 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:45,640 Different word. He said, hey, put, put their 210 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,400 silver that they brought their gold that they brought to buy 211 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,640 the crop with, put it back in their sacks of grain. 212 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,280 And in Benjamin's sack, put my silver cup in his bag of grain. 213 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:58,600 They put it in there. And the brothers go along their 214 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,400 way. They're heading back to daddy, 215 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,960 to Canaan. And Joseph says, all right, now 216 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,920 go and say, if you find silver in anybody, the silver cup in 217 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:12,360 anybody's bag, they got to come live with me forever, become my 218 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,840 slave. So the attendant goes, he 219 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,560 catches the brothers. They're halfway back. 220 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:19,000 Are you still with me? I told you it's story time. 221 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:24,640 And the guy says like, hey, if any of you has the silver in 222 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,280 your sack, you got to come back and. 223 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:28,960 And be a slave forever. And they're like, no way. 224 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:30,240 Nobody has the silver in the sack. 225 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,440 And they all open their sacks. And of course, it's Benjamin 226 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,280 who's got the silver cup in his sack. 227 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,160 And he takes it out. And all the brothers RIP their 228 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:45,160 clothes in grief because Benjamin the one, the only one 229 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:50,920 that has to go back to Dad, is now going to become a slave to 230 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:52,760 this guy, this master they don't know. 231 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,960 Are you still with me? We're almost there. 232 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,360 So they turn their donkeys around, they go back up to Egypt 233 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,440 or down to Egypt. They get in front of this guy. 234 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:06,600 They're like, hey, you can't have him, anybody but him. 235 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,360 We have a father, Joseph's father, who's very old. 236 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,040 He already has lost one of his sons, Joseph. 237 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,000 And you will send his head down to the grave if you take also 238 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:25,560 this other young son, Benjamin. Finally, chapter 45, verse one. 239 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,880 This is better written than anything in Hollywood. 240 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,520 Then Joseph could no longer control himself. 241 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,280 Before all his attendance, he cried out. 242 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:38,800 Have everyone leave my presence. So there was no one with Joseph 243 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,560 when he made himself known to his brothers and he wept so 244 00:12:41,560 --> 00:12:43,800 loudly that the Egyptians heard him. 245 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,440 Anyone ever done one of these ugly cries? 246 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:46,800 It's so loud it shakes the house. 247 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,080 Anyone but me and her. OK. 248 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:55,400 This is participation. And Pharaoh's household heard it 249 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,480 too. Joseph said to his brothers, I 250 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,160 am Joseph is my father still living. 251 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:06,000 But his brothers were not able to answer him because they were 252 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 terrified at his presence. This is the dude we sold into 253 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,400 slavery. We try to kill him, and now he's 254 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,160 in charge. Then Joseph said to his 255 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:18,840 brothers, Come close to me. When they had done so, he said, 256 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,480 I am your brother, Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt. 257 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,000 And now? Do not be. 258 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,240 Distressed. Do not be angry with yourselves 259 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,040 for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent 260 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,200 you ahead of me. For two years now there's been a 261 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,240 famine in the land, and for the next 5 years there will be no 262 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,480 plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to 263 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,720 preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by 264 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,880 a great deliverance. So then it was not you who sent 265 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:50,800 me here, but God. He made me a father to Pharaoh, 266 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:55,440 Lord of his entire household, and ruler of all Egypt. 267 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:59,280 Glory be to God. What a moment. 268 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,160 It's like one of those moments you wish you would have seen 269 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,280 with your own eyes. But Joseph does here for his 270 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:12,280 brothers, gives us a revealing picture as to the heart of God 271 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:14,600 that we've been seeing all throughout Genesis. 272 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,840 If we've been paying attention, Joseph is a type that gives us 273 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,920 an illustration, a snapshot as to the. 274 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,040 Character and nature of God and how God has been doing what God 275 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:28,960 has been doing all along in Genesis and he's still doing, by 276 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,560 the way, in May of 2026. Three things that I want to 277 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,800 share with you real quick. Number one, God is forgiver. 278 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,960 Everyone say forgiver. Joseph says to them, don't be 279 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,200 distressed. They think they're about to be 280 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,200 destroyed and Joseph gives them mercy. 281 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,200 Don't be distressed. Don't be angry with yourselves. 282 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:46,840 I'm not holding this against you. 283 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:51,080 Don't hold this against you. It reminds us in Genesis earlier 284 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,480 when Adam and Eve's sin and God told them clearly if you eat 285 00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:00,920 from that tree, you will die. And God has mercy on them from 286 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,840 the very beginning. The first people to sin is the 287 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,200 first instance of mercy and forgiveness. 288 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,600 He sacrificed animals on their behalf and cover them with the 289 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,360 skins of the animals. Substitutionary atonement. 290 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:16,960 God is forgiver. Joseph is able to forgive here, 291 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,000 by the way, because he's made a pivot. 292 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,120 He's reoriented his perspective in light of God's purposes. 293 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,000 He doesn't think through his lens. 294 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,320 He thinks, what is God up to? He says God has actually brought 295 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:30,800 me here to save lives, so I see God's purpose. 296 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,880 That's why I can forgive you, because God sent me here ahead 297 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,320 of you. I'm wondering if there's anyone 298 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,080 in your life that you need to forgive, but you can't forgive 299 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,520 them because you're still seeing it through your perspective and 300 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:44,520 not God's purposes. Maybe that's the only reason you 301 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,080 came today is so that God can say that to you. 302 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,880 Maybe there's somebody you need to forgive, but you can't 303 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,160 because you're seeing it through your lens and not God's lens. 304 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,360 He's forgiven. Not not only that, he's got his 305 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,360 provider. Everyone say provider. 306 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:01,680 Verse 6, he says there's hey, we've already been two years of 307 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:02,960 famine. It's going to be 5 more years of 308 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:08,600 famine coming, but I've sent Joseph ahead of you to provide 309 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:10,920 this crop for you that you might live. 310 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,920 It reminds us of what Pastor Christine taught about a few 311 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,920 weeks ago. Abraham going up the mountain 312 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,200 about to sacrifice his own son Isaac. 313 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:24,360 And as the knife is ready there, the thicket is a ram and Abram 314 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:28,880 calls out your name is Jehovah Jireh provider, the one who 315 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:30,560 provides. He will provide Jesus who is the 316 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,560 way, the truth and the life. I'm wondering this morning if 317 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,240 you live in the mindset of scarcity or the mindset of 318 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,200 abundance. Because to the faithful, He 319 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:42,040 will. Provide somebody say yes, God is 320 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,280 forgiver, God is provider. He is also promised fulfiller. 321 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,280 Everyone say fulfiller at verse 7, he says I have sent Joseph 322 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:55,160 ahead to preserve a remnant on the earth like we saw God saving 323 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:59,760 Noah through the flood that we see God making his promise to 324 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,760 Abraham and to Isaac and to Israel also known as Jacob. 325 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:06,280 Which brings us back to the start of the series. 326 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,839 We talked about the word meta narrative, this overarching 327 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:15,359 singular story, from the garden to the cross to a new heaven and 328 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:17,240 a new earth. This whole story could have been 329 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:17,920 cut. Off. 330 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:21,880 So many times, but so many times, God was a preserving, 331 00:17:22,319 --> 00:17:25,520 promise, fulfilling keeper of the covenant. 332 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,119 Joseph went ahead to prepare a place for his family so that 333 00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:31,160 they can survive. Jesus has gone ahead of us so 334 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,520 that we too can survive. John, chapter 14. 335 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,800 I read this earlier in the series, but I want to read it 336 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,400 again. It won't be on the screen. 337 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,200 Just let it fall into your heart like rain. 338 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:41,480 Don't let your hearts be troubled. 339 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,640 Jesus says you believe in God, believe also in me. 340 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:46,600 And my father's house has many rooms. 341 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,880 If that were not so, what? I've told you that I'm going 342 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:50,200 there to prepare a place for you. 343 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,320 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and 344 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:57,320 take you to be with me, that you may also be where I am. 345 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:02,280 Joseph went ahead to prepare for the survival of his family. 346 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,520 Jesus has gone ahead to prepare for the survival of his people. 347 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:10,760 But both Joseph and Jesus had to suffer in order to preserve the 348 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,400 remnant. Joseph and Jesus determined that 349 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,040 the suffering was worth it because of their eternal 350 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,240 perspective. I'm wondering this morning if 351 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,840 you're suffering through something and God is saying just 352 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:25,720 hang in there. The suffering is worth it if you 353 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:30,040 can grab some eternal perspective, the preservation of 354 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,760 the promise that is coming. He's working things for good, 355 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:38,120 for good now, Joseph says to his brothers. 356 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:42,920 Now that they're revealed, go back home, get Dad and bring him 357 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,000 back here. And during the famine, we're 358 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,600 going to take care of everybody. We're going to set up land. 359 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:50,000 You're going to prosper here. Everything's going to go well. 360 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:54,120 The brothers go home. But Jacob is very unsettled by 361 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:55,880 thinking about leaving the promised land. 362 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,720 This is the land where the covenant is supposed to be kept, 363 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,680 and you're saying to leave the land. 364 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,400 He doesn't want to do it until God speaks to him. 365 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,880 Look at Genesis chapter 46, verses 3 and 4. 366 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,520 God speaks to Jacob, also known as Israel, in a vision. 367 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,320 He says I am God, the God of your father. 368 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,200 He said do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make 369 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:25,040 you into a great nation there. This is covenant language spoken 370 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,160 to Abraham, spoken to Isaac, and now spoken to Jacob. 371 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:29,920 I will make you into a great nation there. 372 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,880 I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you 373 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:37,040 back again, and Joseph's own hand will close your eyes. 374 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,040 God is letting Jacob know here that the remnant will live and 375 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,000 the covenant will live with it. It's the same covenant words 376 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,560 that he spoke to Abraham. And as proof that this has 377 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,840 actually happened, history always proves what the Bible had 378 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,200 prophetically said. Amen. 379 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:59,200 We have this tiny clan, family, clan of 70 people living in 380 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:02,400 Canaan. Jacob's the patriarch of this 381 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:08,400 group and they 70 go down to Egypt there to the they do 382 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,960 prosper there. Everything's going well by the 383 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,920 way. And 400 years later in the book 384 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,960 we have in our Bible called Exodus, led by Moses and Joshua. 385 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:24,520 This 70 clan people turned into over 2 million people, with 386 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:28,520 hundreds of thousands of fighting men and their families. 387 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,360 Abraham and Sarah, you will be a nation. 388 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,320 You will have descendants as NUM numerous as the sand on the 389 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,760 seashore and as the stars in the sky. 390 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,360 And Abraham's 90 and he's saggy and he has no kids. 391 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:57,680 And then one kid is born, Isaac. And Fast forward all these 392 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:02,000 years, and now there's over 2 million people returning to the 393 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,440 promised land. God kept his promise for good. 394 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,720 For good, you say? For good, for good, for good. 395 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,120 Amen. So the family moves down there 396 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:14,040 in Egypt. They prosper. 397 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,240 Everything's going well in Egypt. 398 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,920 And then Joseph has an announcement to make. 399 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,240 We showed it on the screen a little earlier, verse 50. 400 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,880 He gathers a family around and he has this announcement. 401 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:30,280 Genesis 50, chapter 50, verse 24. 402 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:35,360 Then Jesus, then Joseph said to his brothers, I'm about to die. 403 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,680 What a great meeting. I am about to die. 404 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,760 But God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land 405 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,080 to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 406 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,920 And Joseph made the sons of Israel his brothers take an oath 407 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:54,080 and said God will surely attend to you. 408 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:57,520 And then you must carry my bones up from this place. 409 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,080 Some read this and think that Joseph is making burial plans, 410 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:05,440 funeral plans. This is where my plot is going 411 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:06,760 to be. This is my headstone will say 412 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,640 best of all the brothers, whatever it's going to say. 413 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,680 But this isn't funeral plans. The Bible actually says that 414 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,360 this moment is the moment of faith for Joseph. 415 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,480 Hebrews 11, chapter 22 By faith, Joseph, when he was near his 416 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,640 end, spoke about the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and 417 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:27,160 gave instructions concerning the burial of his bones. 418 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,360 Joseph knows. He doesn't just think our hope. 419 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:35,040 He knows that one day, based on the promise of God, he's seen in 420 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,680 his great grandfather, his grandfather, his father, and now 421 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,680 him, that the Israelites will return to the promised land. 422 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,120 And he says, when you go, take me with you. 423 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,800 In your situation, I wonder this morning, are you planning a 424 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,240 funeral or are you standing in faith? 425 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,480 Is he going to work things for good, for good, or is it broken 426 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,920 and done? Joseph wasn't making funeral 427 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,840 plans. He was standing in his faith and 428 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,280 it's fulfilled. Exodus chapter 13400 Years 429 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,880 later, Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, because Joseph 430 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,600 had made the Israelites swear an oath. 431 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:14,960 He had said, God will surely come to your aid, and then you 432 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,080 must carry my bones up with you from this place. 433 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:21,640 Joshua chapter 24 And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites 434 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:23,600 had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the 435 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,600 plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of 436 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,640 Hamor, Shechem's father, for 100 pieces of silver. 437 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,800 So it became an inheritance for Joseph's descendants. 438 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:36,200 I believe that Joseph knew what we're trying to learn in the 439 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,320 series together, that God had made a promise. 440 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,000 And that God keeps his promises that one day a nation would 441 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,120 dwell in the promised lands. And Joseph's words and his 442 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:48,120 actions revealed his actual faith. 443 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,520 They revealed his trust. They revealed that he believed 444 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,440 in God's promise. I have to look at Joseph and 445 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,760 then look at myself in the mirror and wonder, do my words 446 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:02,640 and my actions reveal my actual faith, my actual trust and the 447 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:09,880 Lord my God? Everyone say one last note here 448 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:14,640 in Genesis before we exit the series that I think it's very 449 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,920 important for us to understand and appreciate together how God 450 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:23,000 biblically and typically made things for good, for good. 451 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,400 What was his process? How did he go about doing this 452 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,680 repeatedly, going from for good, for good over and over. 453 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,920 When the humans kept failing, what did he do to make it right? 454 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,960 It's a theme that we see in the final chapters of Genesis. 455 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,120 We've seen it all throughout Genesis, maybe even paying 456 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:40,960 attention. We've been hinting at it and we 457 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,880 see it still in our lives today. We see it all throughout the 458 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,840 Bible. The meta narrative sets a 459 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,520 foundation for us to understand God still to this day. 460 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:57,080 Genesis 48. Joseph brings us two sons, the 461 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:01,280 older son Manessa and the younger son Ephraim, to be 462 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:06,200 blessed by his dad Jacob. Now, typically this thing called 463 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,200 promogenitor, which is like the oldest son gets all the glory, 464 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,800 right? And the other sons get kind of 465 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,600 like waiting for the older son to die and then they take their 466 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:15,680 place. You know what I'm talking about? 467 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:22,360 You know what I'm talking about. So the blessing is supposed to 468 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:26,840 go on Vanessa, the covenant through Jacob now to Vanessa. 469 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,120 And so Joseph brings them forward to be blessed by Jacob. 470 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,960 And Jacob supposed to put his right hand a blessing on Manessa 471 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,560 and his left hand of lesser blessing on Ephraim. 472 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:43,880 But as they bring the two forward, Jacob does this Bible 473 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,520 says he crosses his hands. He puts his left hand of lesser 474 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,400 blessing on the older son Manessa, and the hand of 475 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,400 blessing on the younger son Ephraim. 476 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,400 You picking up what I'm putting down? 477 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,400 Just not happy about it. 4817 when Joseph saw his father 478 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,480 placing his right hand on Ephraim's head, he was 479 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,160 displeased. So he took hold of his father's 480 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,400 hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manessa's head. 481 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,880 But Joseph said, Joseph said to him, no my father, this one is 482 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,720 the first born. Put your right hand on his head. 483 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,720 But his father refused and said, I know my son. 484 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,600 I know he too will become a people and he too will become 485 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,520 great. Nevertheless, his younger 486 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,800 brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become 487 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,120 a group of nations. He blessed him that day and 488 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:30,960 said, in your name. Will Israel pronounce this 489 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,200 blessing? May God make you like Ephraim 490 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,440 and Vanessa, putting the first name of the younger son 1st and 491 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,440 Manessa. So he put Ephraim ahead of 492 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,840 Manessa. Do you see it? 493 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,240 Have you seen it all along? This is what God does to make 494 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,520 things for good, for good. He puts the lesser before the 495 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:54,040 greater. He puts the lower before the 496 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,680 higher. It's everywhere in Genesis. 497 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,400 This is how God make excuse me? God makes for good for good. 498 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,160 Cain and Abel Genesis chapter 4 The younger Cain the younger 499 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,120 Abel receives God's favor and blessing on his offering, while 500 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:11,960 Cain, the older does not. Genesis chapter 16 Ishmael and 501 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:14,240 Isaac. Ishmael is Abraham's first born, 502 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:18,040 but Isaac, born later to Sarah, inherits the covenant promises 503 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:21,360 Esau and Jacob. God declares even before their 504 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:24,400 birth that the older shall serve the younger. 505 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,800 Jacob receives both the birthright which sold to him by 506 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:32,240 Esau, and the patriarchal blessing which he received 507 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,080 through deception. That's why Jacob's name means 508 00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:36,640 deceiver. Joseph and his brothers that 509 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,200 we're looking at today. Joseph is younger than all but 510 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,000 one of his brothers, and yet he is elevated to leadership. 511 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,800 It is Joseph that saves his family. 512 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,480 It is Joseph that receives his line, a double portion, a 513 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,840 blessing. We see it here with Ephraim and 514 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,400 Vanessa when Jacob deliberately crosses his hands to bless the 515 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,800 younger Ephraim over the older Manessa, giving him the greater 516 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,120 blessing despite Joseph's objection. 517 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:03,960 Later we see it with a guy named David, King David. 518 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,800 He's the youngest of Jesse's son, the 8th born son. 519 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,840 His older brothers are already serving in Saul's army. 520 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,200 They appeared more ready for the job, more qualified. 521 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,480 They're strong, experienced warriors. 522 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,680 And when the prophet Samuel comes to anoint the next king, 523 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,720 he's initially impressed by the seven brothers. 524 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:25,280 Like, look at these lads. Big strong oxes they are. 525 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,520 I don't know why he sounds like you would all the sudden. 526 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,560 First Samuel 16 seven super famous verse in scripture. 527 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,640 God says to Samuel don't consider his appearance or his 528 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,680 height. The Lord does not look at the 529 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,600 things people look at. People look at the outward 530 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,960 appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 531 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,800 Solomon guy who builds the temple, he's 10th in the line to 532 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,200 the throne, but God chooses him to build his temple in Jerusalem 533 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,120 instead of the 1st 9. Even later we see with a lowly 534 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:04,320 carpenter's boy born to a virgin in a Manger out in the back, and 535 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,680 then some fishermen, some blue collar fishermen, and a 536 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,880 deceitful tax collector and a crippled man. 537 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,200 They're chosen above the Pharisees and the Sadducees and 538 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,280 the Sanhedrin and the scribes and the teachers of the law. 539 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,960 All the elite aren't chosen, but the least last and the lost are 540 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,120 chosen. And then one final pick. 541 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:31,160 God picks you and me. Seems like there's so many 542 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,080 better people out there for him to pick, doesn't it? 543 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,000 That's what we feel inside. Like when you look in the mirror 544 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,160 like I'm the worst of the worst, why would God ever use me? 545 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,640 And yet he does. The lesser over the greater. 546 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,800 This is the way that the Lord works, the weak over the strong. 547 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,800 It's the way that the Lord works for four reasons. 548 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,840 I'm going to run through them so fast they're going to blind you 549 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,600 #1 God is sovereign over human traditions and expectations. 550 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:00,120 This idea of primogenitor, where the first born gets everything, 551 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,480 they even made it into law in Israel. 552 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,840 It's part of Deuteronomy. But God repeatedly shows He's 553 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,600 not bound by what humans do. He chooses and blesses according 554 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,960 to His own will, His own purposes, not according to 555 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,760 cultural norms, not according to birth or or human merit. 556 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:17,880 All y'all first born kids, sorry. 557 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:25,200 Middle child, middle junk. God loves the first born and a 558 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:29,320 second born, and whatever you are #2 God chooses the unlikely 559 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,040 of the weak to display his own power. 560 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,480 By favoring the younger, by favoring the overlooked, by 561 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,640 choosing the underdog, God demonstrates that success always 562 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,360 comes from him. Somebody say yes. 563 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,400 It doesn't come from natural strength. 564 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,240 It doesn't come from status, doesn't come from seniority. 565 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,280 First Corinthians says that God has chosen the foolish things of 566 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:53,240 the weak things, the shame, the wise, the strong. 567 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:59,320 Look at Judges chapter 6, Gideon, He says my family's, my 568 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,200 tribe is the weakest, my clan is the weakest, my family's the 569 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,200 weakest, and I'm the weakest in my family. 570 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:10,280 And God says, perfect, I'm going to use you and only 300 others 571 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:16,120 to defeat an army of 30,000. Just how God does it #3 God 572 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:17,320 chooses the less over the greater. 573 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,400 Emphasize that it's heart and faith that matter more than 574 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,160 outward appearance. We see this with David. 575 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:28,000 We see this with Joseph. Number 4A forward-looking sign 576 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,160 of reversal in God's Kingdom. This is massively important. 577 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,440 The pattern that God uses to choose the lesser over the 578 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,840 greater illustrates that God's plan often inverts worldly 579 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,080 hierarchies. The last become first. 580 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,360 The humbled are exalted appoints, of course, ultimately 581 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,920 to Jesus, who embodies the ultimate reversal, taking the 582 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,600 glory of God and stuffing it into human flesh. 583 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,520 The king becoming the one who washes the feet. 584 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,920 The king becoming the one who's a servant to all. 585 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,200 The king becoming the one who dies on the cross, a criminal's 586 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,440 death. The stone the builders rejected 587 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,440 becoming the cornerstone. This is exactly how Genesis 588 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,720 ends. Genesis 5020. 589 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,480 You intended to harm me, Joseph says. 590 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,360 But God intended it. Everyone say the words with me 591 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,280 together for good. I'm going to give you a second 592 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,760 chance. I didn't prepare you. 593 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:33,520 You intended to harm me. But God intended it for good, to 594 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,680 accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. 595 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,960 Since the beginning, He's always been working for good. 596 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,680 For good. I wish I could show you the 597 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,240 expanse of this. How long he has endured, how 598 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,960 faithful he's been, how long-suffering the length and 599 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,680 the depths of his love. If only I had a large piece of 600 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:58,080 rope. This is it. 601 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:14,040 Oh, we practiced that. I want to show you the expanse 602 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,960 of God's love, and this is either going to be the most 603 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,960 cringey thing you've ever seen or the most amazing thing you've 604 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,720 ever seen. So prophetically, I'm going to 605 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,240 say it's amazing, but I need your help. 606 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,320 All along the way of our journey through this rope, you're just 607 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:29,600 going to be into it. Amen. 608 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,040 Don't you love the rope? Are you excited to see what the 609 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,960 rope's about? Yeah, I want you to see here. 610 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,240 Can you see the tape? Some of the tape is very 611 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,160 obvious. Some of it's a little bit less 612 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:42,360 obvious. You'll you will see. 613 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,400 But here is creation. This is the beginning of all 614 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,520 things right here, right now, 7 days of creation. 615 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,800 Adam and Eve get the breath of life put into them. 616 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,560 They name all the animals. Adam and Eve eat the fruit. 617 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,160 The devil enters a picture. All sorts of Vadnais is 618 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:57,400 happening here. You get to the end. 619 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,840 You got Cain and Abel and Cain's beam a murdering Abel. 620 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,840 All of this is happening here in this first little bit of time 621 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,320 and God has been faithful even in this time. 622 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:08,719 He could have said I'm done, I'm out. 623 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,920 I hate people. I made a mistake for no do 624 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,880 overs. You're done but God is faithful. 625 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:18,600 So time goes on. I'm going to run out of breath 626 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,199 at some point. I just want you to know because 627 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:22,760 it looks like it's light but it's not. 628 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:28,280 I mean this is like 4 lbs. All of this time is passing by 629 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:35,040 1000, about 1600 years between the end of the story of Cain and 630 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,639 Abel, through the tower of battle and the table of nations, 631 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,880 humanity has gone completely off the rails. 632 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,760 They're marrying aliens. If you remember Genesis chapter 633 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,360 6, the time of Noah comes along. There's no one left on the 634 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,960 earth, all evil all the time. That's all their heart thought 635 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,600 about except for Noah and his family and Noah. 636 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:55,800 All this time, God's keeping the promise. 637 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,280 All this time God is staying faithful to what he's said he's 638 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,640 going to do in Genesis. And then we get that took a 639 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,160 while. You're supposed to be into this, 640 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:08,080 right? Come on, you didn't come all the 641 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:09,320 way from the Midwest to see nothing. 642 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,720 So this is of course, Noah and the flood. 643 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,400 God is. This is only Genesis 12345 and 644 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,960 6. You know how much rope is up 645 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,640 here? A lot more. 646 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,120 Here we go. Time passes. 647 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:33,800 Oh, I almost passed Abraham. So can you see that? 648 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:37,000 You can barely see it, but it's supposed to be like sand because 649 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,360 Abraham's in the desert and he's moving from earth, the 650 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,960 Chaldeans, down and into Israel and he goes down to Egypt. 651 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,600 And then this is the time that Abraham, Abraham of course, has 652 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,760 sons. This is Isaac. 653 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:53,600 Abraham has Isaac. Y'all, we've been in Genesis for 654 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,880 like 3 months. Isaac has a son. 655 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,960 His name is Jacob. This is Jacob who has the 12, 656 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,440 the 12 sons who become the 12 tribes of Israel. 657 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,600 One of those sons is Joseph. This is Joseph in Egypt. 658 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,400 This is Joseph leading us back to the grain. 659 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,840 This whole time through all these these generations, God is 660 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:19,400 being faithful from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Amen. 661 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,920 Are you still here? But wait, there's more. 662 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,960 Woo. We get here, You know what? 663 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:33,080 This is Moses and the parting of the Red Sea, the exodus that was 664 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,440 400 years that we covered. From this time we use ChatGPT to 665 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:38,600 measure out exactly how many feet and inches. 666 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,160 OK, this is Moses. And then we get to Joshua, the 667 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,560 Joshua generation leading into the promised land, into the Holy 668 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,600 Land they conquering and yeah, well, OK, here we go. 669 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,480 Oh hey, who's coming down the line? 670 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,600 Who could it be? All this time, God's 671 00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,960 faithfulness, all this time, he's keeping his promise. 672 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,080 All this time he could have given up and said, I'm done with 673 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,240 the people because the people kept turning on him, but he was 674 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:07,600 faithful. Here is King David in royal 675 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,800 blue, beautiful. And then, of course, King David 676 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,200 is followed by Solomon, who builds the temple, the Golden 677 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,440 Temple of the Temple Mount in Israel. 678 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,760 I hope one day we can go back. I hope we can go, oh, we're all 679 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,320 going to go one day. You know what I mean? 680 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:30,360 You know what I mean? And then whoa, still going bad 681 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:36,040 news. This is the exile 586 BC because 682 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,400 of sin. God said, hey, I'm not smiting 683 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,280 people. I decided not to do that anymore 684 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:45,920 with the rainbow. If you remember rainbow, but I'm 685 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,960 kicking you out of the country. You defame my name. 686 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:53,640 You're burning your own children to foreign gods who are not gods 687 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,560 at all. Can you imagine? 688 00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:57,280 Let's go next door to the kids ministry. 689 00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:05,200 Pick one. It's kind of, I kind of smile 690 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:06,480 because I'm. This is fun. 691 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,680 But that's not fun, right? OK. 692 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,760 And then after the exile, we get a period of silence and nothing 693 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,840 is happening. And we're waiting for the 694 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,880 consolation of Israel to come. And here he comes. 695 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:28,760 Everybody is Jesus. All this time God kept his 696 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,440 promise from Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 where he said, hey 697 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,960 snake, you're going to bite the heel of the human, but one will 698 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:38,280 come, born of woman who will crush your head and he has come. 699 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:44,600 His name is his name is his name is the church is born. 700 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,880 And then time passes. This is going to take a minute. 701 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,760 Oh, my goodness. It's going to take this. 702 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,320 All this time he's faithful. All this time he's keeping his 703 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,640 promises. And here we come, people. 704 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:17,320 Let it go. Two claps for Kaden in the back. 705 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,960 Yeah. All the work he's seen me do 706 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:23,320 here, he's doing back there. So. 707 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:30,080 This Is Us. All of this God has been 708 00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,800 faithful and here we are a few things about right here right 709 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,360 now. First of all, I want you to see 710 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,040 in the course of history, we're a blip. 711 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,840 And I don't mean to speak lowly of what God has created in us, 712 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,200 but maybe we're not as important as we think we are at the same 713 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,080 time as being valued of God, that he would send a son, Jesus. 714 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,280 But we're just part of an incredible chain that has been 715 00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,200 going on all this time. Y'all, I'm out of breath. 716 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,240 What's that? Oxygen, anyone? 717 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,800 What's that? Start over. 718 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,320 Oh, yeah, OK, we're going to start over. 719 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:17,760 Whatever. Oh, here's what I want to say. 720 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:18,920 At the beginning, I said you're going to make it. 721 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,360 And the reason I know that you're going to make it. 722 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,040 Is because if you're worried about this then let me just 723 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,080 remind you that God has been faithful. 724 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:31,680 Go ahead Kaden with all of this and if he's been faithful with 725 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:36,200 all of this keep going Kaden. Don't you think that he can be 726 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,560 faithful? What's happening in your life? 727 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:45,480 Amen. OK, Kaden, I want you to know 728 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,120 that there, the great cloud of witnesses that we read about in 729 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,440 Hebrews, are all these people that have gone before us, 730 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:59,440 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, David and Solomon, and 731 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,800 millions and millions of faithful men and women, Ruth and 732 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:08,280 Esther, Obadiah, they're they're all in there, right? 733 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,680 And their story has been passed along. 734 00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:17,600 Here I go again. And passed along by faithful men 735 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:23,760 and women, shepherds, pastors, preachers, disciples, regular 736 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:29,000 old people like you and me to hear all of these faithful 737 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,240 people. And now it's resting on us. 738 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,480 And everyone that's up here is depending on us. 739 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:41,280 This is why the church exists, not just for ourselves, but for 740 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:45,680 the future glory of God. For one day he will return. 741 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,360 Yeah, His return is on the rope. Here it comes. 742 00:41:53,640 --> 00:42:00,040 Keep it going. The second return of Jesus. 743 00:42:11,130 --> 00:42:17,530 Genesis, all this long rope ago, foretells this moment. 744 00:42:20,610 --> 00:42:23,650 From the very beginning we have known that this was coming. 745 00:42:23,650 --> 00:42:25,650 Let me, let me read this to you if I can. 746 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,560 Genesis 49. Take a breath, everybody. 747 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:37,000 Judah, what's happening here is that Jacob is blessing all of 748 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,840 his sons. He's speaking a blessing over 749 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,120 all of them. And he gets to Judah, which is 750 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:45,000 the line of Jesus, and he says, Judah, your brothers will praise 751 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,040 you, your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your 752 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,600 father's sons will bow down to you. 753 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,600 You are a lions cub, Judah. You return from the prey, my 754 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,560 son, like a lion. He crouches and lies down like a 755 00:42:55,560 --> 00:43:01,000 lioness who dares to rouse him. The scepter will not depart from 756 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,320 Judah. Meaning. 757 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,400 The. Rulership, the kingship will 758 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,520 always go through Judah, nor the ruler staff from between his 759 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,400 feet until he whom to Excuse me, I need a breath. 760 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:15,960 Verse 10. The scepter will not depart from 761 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,200 Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he 762 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:23,160 to whom it belongs shall come, and the obedience of the nation 763 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,080 shall be his. He will tether his donkey to a 764 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,720 vine. He will tie his colt to the 765 00:43:28,720 --> 00:43:30,920 choicest branch. He will wash his garments and 766 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,520 wine his robes in the blood of grapes. 767 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,840 His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than 768 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,720 milk. Now, while Judah can merely 769 00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:43,760 guess at the true meaning of Jacob's blessing, Judah's 770 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,560 ultimate descendant, the one whom Jacob speaks, will both 771 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,560 know and fulfill the prophecy of the blood and the wine. 772 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,840 Isaiah chapter 63 says the prophets anticipate the coming. 773 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,480 1 the Conqueror who accomplishes victory, whose garments are 774 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:02,400 stained in Crimson. John chapter 2. 775 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,600 Jesus first miracle. He turns water to wine. 776 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,560 Matthew chapter 26 during the Last Supper. 777 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,480 The wine represents the new covenant in his blood. 778 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,760 Luke chapter 22 Jesus sweats drops of blood in the garden of 779 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,760 Gethsemane. Mark chapter 15 Before his death 780 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:22,880 Jesus is offered wine to drink. John chapter 19 Jesus side is 781 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:26,160 pierced and his garments are soaked in blood like the blood 782 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:31,600 of grapes and Revelation 19 At his return Jesus will subdue his 783 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,040 enemies while wearing a robe dipped in blood. 784 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,360 Jesus is the promised warrior king who comes to trample the 785 00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,920 winepress of the fierce anger of God. 786 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:46,200 Christ the warrior king will both strike down the enemies of 787 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,480 God and extend forgiveness to his people through his own shed 788 00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:53,760 blood. Do you see it the entire time 789 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:58,480 God has been working something good for good for good. 790 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:03,400 I'm going to ask you a question if your answer is. 791 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,240 Yes, or I'm in or whatever version. 792 00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:09,200 I just want you to stand to your feet when you're ready to answer 793 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:10,840 it. Amen. 794 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,280 Last thought, last question of God has spent this. 795 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:18,360 Whole. Time being faithful to us Might 796 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:23,120 today be the day we make a commitment to be faithful to 797 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,600 Him. If that's you, will you stand 798 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:35,400 with me? Father, in the name of Jesus, we 799 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:39,320 say thank you for the blood of Jesus, the singular thread from 800 00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:43,840 creation to his return. By his forgiveness, by his grace 801 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,080 and his mercy, He has set us free. 802 00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,720 He has kept the remnant, He has preserved us from the death that 803 00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:52,440 we deserve. And so we give honor and 804 00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,680 worship. We take in as we understand, 805 00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:57,560 appreciate. Just let us soak in our hearts. 806 00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:03,880 How faithful, how long, how good, steadfast you have been. 807 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:09,320 We honor you today, for you are the King, the worthy one of 808 00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:12,240 Israel, the worthy one of our hearts, the worthy one who is 809 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:16,920 the head of the Church. We set our hearts to you, and we 810 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,040 make a commitment here in your space, in your house, 811 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,440 understanding your faithfulness to us. 812 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,680 It is our desire as your disciples, as followers of 813 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:33,600 Jesus, to be faithful to you. We bless you, we honor you, and 814 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,800 we thank you in Jesus name, Amen. 815 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:37,400 Hallelujah.