1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:06,360 This Bible story that I am about to read is, is one that I don't 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,520 think gets enough attention. It's one of my favorite stories 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:16,920 and, and I, I, I have to confess if if that I I first heard about 4 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,800 this story not from a careful study of the Scripture. 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,120 It goes. It's an easy story to miss when 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,480 you're just reading through the Bible, but I heard about this 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,200 story through a country and western song from the gentleman 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,119 by the name of Paul Overstreet, who was one of my favorite 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,760 musical artists. I'm not sure if he's written any 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,440 stuff recently or not, but if you're a fan of country from the 11 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,160 80s and 90s, you have you've heard a number of his songs that 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,600 either he performed or he wrote for others. 13 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,880 We'll get to that song in a minute because I think it's a 14 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:50,480 great interpretation of this passage, but I love this 15 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:53,480 passage. I, I think it is such a 16 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:58,200 wonderful one for Thanksgiving weekend, but also for any, any 17 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,960 week in any day of our lives. Let's jump into it here, Genesis 18 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,360 chapter 6. Going to just read verses 12 19 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,120 through 22 now and then we'll talk about some other verses a 20 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,720 little bit later here. Isaac planted crops in that 21 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:16,160 land, and the same year reaped A hundredfold because the Lord 22 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,200 blessed him. The man became rich, and his 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,000 wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. 24 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,320 He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the 25 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:30,120 Philistines envied him. So all the wells that his 26 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,880 father's servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the 27 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,600 Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth. 28 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,640 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, Move away from us. 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,360 You have become too powerful for us. 30 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,000 So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the valley of 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,120 Girar, where he settled. Isaac reopened the wells that 32 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,720 had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the 33 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,200 Philistines had stopped up after Abraham had died, and he gave 34 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,400 them the same names that father had given them. 35 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,000 Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of 36 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,880 fresh water there. But the herders of Girar 37 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,840 quarrelled with those of Isaac and said, This water is ours. 38 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:14,000 So he named the well Esic, because they disputed with him. 39 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,440 Then they dug another well, but they quarrelled over that one 40 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,800 also. So he named it Sitna. 41 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,640 He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one 42 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:27,880 quarrelled over it. He named it Rehaboth, saying, 43 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:32,360 Now the Lord has given us room, and we will flourish in the 44 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,040 land. May the Lord add His blessing to 45 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,680 the reading and the hearing of His word. 46 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,760 Dig another well. That I think is maybe the 47 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,560 simplest way to summarize these verses. 48 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,800 Dig another well. Isaac, there were a lot of 49 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,120 wells. Wells. 50 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,280 His father's had dug well. His father's servants had dug, 51 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,520 and they got filled up. And Isaac dug some more wells. 52 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,400 And then those wells were taken and Isaac dug some more well, 53 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,800 and he dug another well, and he dug another well. 54 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,560 So what does this have to do with Thanksgiving? 55 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,960 What does this have to do with with our lives here today? 56 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,200 This these water disputes that that Isaac had to go through 57 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:15,000 during his lifetime thousands of years ago? 58 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,960 Well, let's see this story in context, because the context 59 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:25,360 here is important to to, to see just how powerful Isaac's 60 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,680 actions were spiritually powerful in this setting. 61 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,200 So Isaac, let's remember Isaac's both of his parents have died 62 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,360 now Abraham and Sarah both have died. 63 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,800 Isaac is now the patriarch of the clan. 64 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,960 His entire household depends on him. 65 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,520 He's responsible for providing them with food, with shelter, 66 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:48,880 with water, with everything that they need to have a meaningful 67 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,720 good life. It's on Isaac's shoulders to 68 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,200 provide that. And yet Isaac, like his father, 69 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,480 is a stranger in a strange land. He's a foreigner. 70 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:04,280 He's an alien in this land that that has been promised to him 71 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:09,120 and to his descendants, but he's still just a visitor, a guest 72 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:12,600 depending upon the hospitality and the goodwill of others. 73 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:17,000 The only real estate his family owns is a small graveyard where 74 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,279 his mom and dad are buried. And that's it. 75 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,040 That's it. Everywhere else he lives, he's a 76 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:25,120 stranger, He's an alien, he's a foreigner. 77 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,680 He's the out of towner. He's the newcomer. 78 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,120 And to make matters worse, there's a famine in the land 79 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,480 now. Famines are bad now for farmers. 80 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:37,640 Everybody knows that Famines are bad now. 81 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:42,760 Famines were worse back then because, you know, tougher 82 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,400 pipes, no pipes. You know, irrigation. 83 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,760 Very, very difficult, very, very challenging. 84 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,080 Not even sure that they had irrigation in any meaningful way 85 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,160 in this part of the world at that time. 86 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,680 What's even worse is if you're in the midst of a famine and you 87 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:03,040 don't have a well, because if there's a famine, if there's 88 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,040 drought, if there's no food, that's, you know, no way to grow 89 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,400 them. If you don't have a well, all of 90 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,000 your crops are going to die. All of your animals are going to 91 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,800 die, and your family is in trouble, in danger of dying as 92 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:21,800 well. And here's Isaac, a stranger in 93 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,640 a strange land, a foreigner, an alien not owning a square foot 94 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,400 of real estate. And now his neighbors are 95 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,560 filling up his wells with dirt because they don't want him 96 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,160 there. And Isaac has to decide what is 97 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,240 he going to do? That's the context that we're 98 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,480 in. How do you respond in that kind 99 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,160 of situation when the very thing this is not, this is not a 100 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,800 message in internally for certain. 101 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,320 My brain keeps wanting to make this a message about wants 102 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:59,200 versus needs because but this is not about wants versus needs. 103 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:03,680 You need water to live. You need what if you're, if 104 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:08,560 you're, if your life, livelihood is, is agriculture, you have to 105 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,920 have water. It's not a want, it's an 106 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:15,520 absolute need. And he's a stranger in a strange 107 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:16,880 land. He doesn't own any land. 108 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:21,160 He doesn't own any water rights. And the wells that he has dug 109 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,880 and his father's dug, his enemies are now filling with 110 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:28,600 dirt or stealing from him. So what's he going to do? 111 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,160 What do we do when the thing that we need the most is being 112 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:39,640 taken away from us? Now, I am a public speaker. 113 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,560 I am a preacher. I am not a poet. 114 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,480 If you want short sermons, hire a poet to preach to you. 115 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,160 They can, they can compress ideas very succinctly. 116 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,080 Paul Overstreet, I think is a wonderful lyricist, a great 117 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,000 poet. And, and he's written a song, I 118 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,800 don't know, decades ago now that I'm going to play. 119 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,360 Now I put a made a cheesy little video to go behind it and put 120 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,840 the lyrics on the screen. So if that'll help you follow 121 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:06,200 the words, we're going to listen to it. 122 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,960 And, and he tells in 3 minutes what it's going to take me 123 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:10,600 another 20 minutes to finish saying. 124 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:13,480 So like I say, if you want short sermons, hire a poet. 125 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,480 I am not a poet, but let's listen to Paul Overstreet here. 126 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,440 Well I had a blessing from the Lord up above. 127 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,920 He gave him a beautiful woman to love, a place to live and some 128 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,400 land farm. 2 good legs and two good arms. 129 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,600 Well the devil came sneaking around one night decided he 130 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,440 would do a little evil do I figured he would hit a life 131 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,440 where it hurts. So we filled up all of ox whales 132 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:56,480 with dirt. Then I went out for his morning 133 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,600 drink. He got a dipper full of dirt and 134 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,120 his heart didn't sink, but he knew it was a devil. 135 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:06,720 So he said with a grin, God bless me once and he can do it 136 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,360 again. He bless me once and he can do 137 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:13,720 it again. So when the rays don't fall and 138 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:17,240 the crops all fail, and the cows ain't putting any milk in the 139 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,920 pail, don't sit around waiting for a check in the mail. 140 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,160 Just pick up the shovel and dig another well. 141 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,840 Pick up the shovel and dig another well. 142 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:35,760 Now me and old I got a lot in common. 143 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,039 Lord bless me with a beautiful woman. 144 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:43,000 He gave me a job, He gave me a home, He gave me a well to call 145 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:48,240 my own. When I go out for my morning 146 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,040 drink and get a dipper full of dirt. 147 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,600 And my heart does same, but I think of old. 148 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:58,360 I can, I have to grin because God bless me once and he can do 149 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,080 it again. He bless me once and he can do 150 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,360 it again. So when the rays don't fall and 151 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:08,920 the crops all fail, the cows ain't putting any milk in the 152 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,000 pail. Don't sit around waiting for a 153 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,040 check in the mail. Just pick up the show, dig 154 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,480 another well, pick up the shovel, dig another well. 155 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:39,820 Well, the good book says I finally won. 156 00:09:39,820 --> 00:09:41,340 Pick up the shovel and dig another well. 157 00:09:41,980 --> 00:09:45,380 The devil got tired and he left him alone. 158 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:51,160 Pick up the shovel and I know someday I'm going to win too. 159 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,920 Pick up the shovel. The good book tells me what to 160 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:55,760 do. Pick up the shovel and take 161 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:01,200 another well. Pick up the shovel and take 162 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,960 another well. Pick up the shovel and take 163 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:06,120 another well. Pick up the shovel. 164 00:10:14,590 --> 00:10:18,190 I, I think that's as as good a sermon on, on that passage as 165 00:10:18,190 --> 00:10:21,400 there is. So mine will be at best second 166 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,480 best to, to pullover streets here, probably a lot further 167 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,520 down the list than that. But what do you do in this 168 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:30,560 situation? Pick up the shovel and dig 169 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:35,080 another well, It's not as easy as it sounds sometimes, many 170 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:38,880 times, maybe most of the times. We're going to talk through this 171 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,480 a little bit more. And the first question I want to 172 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,120 ask is what is your well for Isaac? 173 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,240 His well was a literal well of water. 174 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,160 They needed water to survive. They were in a famine. 175 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:58,040 They needed water to survive. And his enemies were filling up 176 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,920 his wells with dirt or stealing his wells from them. 177 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,560 But what's your will? What's your will? 178 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,760 Is it a job? Is it a relationship? 179 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:11,120 Is it a talent OR an ability? A dream or a plan or something 180 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,760 else? What is it that you need to 181 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,400 survive? What is that thing or those 182 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:18,680 things where you think, you know what? 183 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,400 I can lose everything else, but I can't lose that. 184 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,760 I can have everything else taken away from me. 185 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,880 But don't take, don't take my job. 186 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,320 Don't don't take my dreams. Don't take this relationship. 187 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:32,920 Don't don't take my plans for the future. 188 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,120 Don't take this talent OR ability that or, or something 189 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,040 else. God, I need this. 190 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,200 I need this. Not a question of wants versus 191 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,000 needs here. There's not a question of you 192 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,960 know, you know, what do you really, really, really want? 193 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,440 But what do you need? What do you need? 194 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:55,800 What's your well, that if that's gone, you're saying myself, it's 195 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,280 over. There's nothing else I can do 196 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:02,320 here. I'm, I'm, I'm done, I'm done. 197 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:06,800 I need that. Whatever that is in your life, 198 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:12,760 what can you do if that well gets filled with dirt, if that 199 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:17,120 thing is taken away from you? We have a lot of options when 200 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:21,680 that happens, and Isaac had a lot of options when it happens. 201 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:23,400 One of the things we can do is just quit. 202 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,840 I'm done. Quit and run away. 203 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:29,200 I'm done. I'm out of here. 204 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,520 Isaac could have done that. The beginning of this passage, 205 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,320 God is telling Isaac, stay in the land. 206 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,200 There's a famine coming. Stay in the land. 207 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,680 Don't run away to Egypt. Egypt would have been the 208 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:46,800 natural place to go during a famine. 209 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,440 If there's a famine in that region, Egypt with the Nile 210 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,840 River Valley, there is ample water. 211 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,480 The flooding that happens there means that there's always going 212 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,760 to be good fertile soil and ample water. 213 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,000 Going to Egypt would have been the thing that made the most 214 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,800 sense. God said to Isaac, do not leave 215 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,760 during this famine. Isaac could have quit. 216 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:10,800 So God, this is great. It's very nice of you to say 217 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,960 that you're a spirit and and I'll worship you in spirit and 218 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:15,600 truth. But me and my family, my 219 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,320 animals, we need water to drink for my crops to grow. 220 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:23,640 We need water to to water them. I'm done with this. 221 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:25,480 I'm going to Egypt. Let me know when the famine's 222 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,400 over, then we'll come back. He could have quit. 223 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:29,960 He could have run away. He could play the blame game, 224 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:32,840 complaining and blaming. I my confession is this, this is 225 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,120 my favorite one. I love to complain. 226 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,280 I really, really, it's just it's it's one of my favorite pastimes 227 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,400 is complaining. I've been doing it since I was a 228 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:47,320 little and I'm good at it. So, and it's so easy to blame 229 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:51,040 other folks or other situations near or far. 230 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:55,080 It's those politicians, it's those you know, rich people, 231 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,200 it's those you know, those people are that it's always easy 232 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,000 to find someone to blame, complain and blame when things 233 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:04,680 go wrong. It's all their fault. 234 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:10,680 Woe is me, woe is me fight. This is another thing Isaac 235 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:15,000 could have fought. Abraham went to war at least 236 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,720 once when his nephew Lott and Lott's family were taken as 237 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:21,920 political prisoners. Abraham raised his own private 238 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:26,440 army, went to war, defeated an alliance of 5 kings, and brought 239 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:30,680 his people back. When Abimelech came to Isaac, he 240 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,320 said hey, you guys are too powerful of for us, go away, go 241 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,040 away. Isaac could have just said no, 242 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,680 make us. I'm going to fill up my wells 243 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,960 with dirt, I'll come and kill your people. 244 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,760 He could have gone to war with Abimelech, with the other 245 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:51,120 Philistines in the area, to claim his rights for that land 246 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,560 and for that water. He could have said enough of 247 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,600 this waiting. We're taking it now. 248 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,000 This is ours and we will fight for it. 249 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,160 We will fight for it. We can fight. 250 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:03,720 Isaac didn't do any of those things. 251 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,560 He didn't quit, didn't run away, didn't complain or blame, and he 252 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,280 didn't fight. What did Isaac do? 253 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,480 He dug another well. He dug another well. 254 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,560 What an extraordinary act of faith it was for Isaac to do 255 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,600 that. And I want to be careful here 256 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,160 because any good thing in Scripture can get twisted. 257 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,680 And, and one of the ways to twist this business of digging 258 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,200 another well is to turn this into some sort of bootstrap 259 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,640 theology that that Isaac saved himself. 260 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:38,880 He just went out and he dug another well. 261 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,400 He pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. 262 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,520 He did what he needed to do. He took care of business all by 263 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,080 himself. Or, or another way to get this 264 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:51,040 twisted up is, is to see it as sort of a suck it up and walk it 265 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,640 off kind of theology. I know life's hard. 266 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,280 Just grin and bear it. You got to work through the 267 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,280 pain. Suck it up, walk it off and move 268 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,360 on with life. It's not that either. 269 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:08,920 This is an extraordinary act of faith, and in one sense it's an 270 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:16,880 extraordinary act of generosity. After Abraham died and Isaac 271 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,160 became the patriarch, and God said there's a famine coming, 272 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,800 but don't go to Egypt. Stay right here in this land, 273 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,840 and I will provide for you. And he renewed his promise. 274 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:30,360 Your descendants will become a great nation. 275 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,880 All nations of the world will be blessed through you. 276 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:35,760 All of this land will one day belong to your descendants. 277 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:38,600 Stay here. Stay here. 278 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:47,680 And Isaac reopens his father's wells, digs new wells of his 279 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:49,440 own. They get filled up or stolen 280 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,760 from him. And Isaac's response is, you 281 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,960 know what? There's plenty of water here. 282 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,040 God has promised to take care of me and my family. 283 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,720 There's a famine going on. You all keep that well. 284 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,560 I'll go dig another one. I'll go dig another one. 285 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,880 God will take care of me. God will take care of my. 286 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,520 God has promised to provide everything we need. 287 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,800 God made Isaac wealthy during a fan. 288 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:22,760 He was a farmer and there was a famine going on and God blessed 289 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,480 him and made him so wealthy that the locals became envious of him 290 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,400 and he didn't own an acre of real estate. 291 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,440 And Isaac's there's plenty. Let him keep the water. 292 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,440 Let him keep that well. We'll, we'll, we'll go dig 293 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,160 another one. It'll all be good. 294 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:44,960 God's got us covered. A tremendous act of faith, a 295 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:51,240 tremendous act of generosity to say to his enemies, you can keep 296 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,000 that. We'll, we'll, we'll be all 297 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,280 right. God's got us. 298 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,560 God's got our back. That's the attitude. 299 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,120 It's not pulling himself up by his bootstraps. 300 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:03,800 He's not grinning and bearing it. 301 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,680 He's not working through the pain. 302 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:10,160 He's just trusting that God will do what God said he was going to 303 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:13,000 do. And so we dug another. 304 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:19,480 Well, I think one of the ways that we can do that is and to 305 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,840 live with that same kind of faith that Isaac had is, is to 306 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,320 make the interpretive leap that Paul Overstreet made. 307 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,560 Now, I'd already confessed once that I first heard this story 308 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,760 through listening to the song. And then I, I thought, and I 309 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,560 heard I was like, that sounds like I bet that's Isaac. 310 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:37,880 I wonder if that's your because I've been with, I'd heard a lot 311 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,320 of Paul Overstreet before. I was like, I wonder if he's if 312 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,720 he's gotten that from the Bible. So I went and I found the story 313 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:43,880 in the Bible and I read through it. 314 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:45,240 It's like, well, that sounds right. 315 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:46,800 But there's no devil in this story. 316 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:49,520 You know, the song says the devil did all of this. 317 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,200 The Bible says the Philistines did all of this. 318 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,600 And one simplistic twist would be to say, well, it's, you know, 319 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,760 the Philistines are the devil. The Philistines are the devil. 320 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,400 Let's think about what Paul said. 321 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,040 Anytime we're in a conflict, anytime people are coming at us, 322 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,640 Paul said. Remember this, our battle is not 323 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:13,600 against flesh and blood. It's against the principalities 324 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:18,720 and powers that are ever present in this Dark World. 325 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,480 Our enemy is a spiritual enemy, not flesh and blood. 326 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,640 And Isaac was able to look at the Philistines, these flesh and 327 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:33,360 blood folks facing famine and potential starvation themselves, 328 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,440 and see them not as an enemy, even though they were stealing 329 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:41,840 what he needed to live and what his family needed to live. 330 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:44,880 They were stealing it, but he was able to see them not as an 331 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,320 enemy. But it's a group of people in 332 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,160 need of God's blessing. And so we let them have the 333 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,520 wells. He let him have the wells. 334 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:57,280 So where's the devil in this story? 335 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:01,920 The devil is there. We can see it, his presence in 336 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,960 one little word. He, that is Isaac, had so many 337 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:10,080 flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. 338 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,320 So all the wells that his father's servant to Doug in the 339 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:16,720 time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling 340 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,040 them with dirt. The devil was in the envy. 341 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:26,680 Envy is one of the most pernicious spiritual forces out 342 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:28,360 there. It's a spiritual cancer. 343 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:34,720 It's so tempting to look up the ladder and see the folks that 344 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,160 have more. More of what? 345 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,200 Whatever it is more. More fame, more top money, more 346 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:44,440 talent, more opportunity, more, more education, more land, more 347 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:45,880 what? More this, more that, whatever. 348 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,920 They've got more. And it's not fair. 349 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,200 That ought to be mine. I should have that. 350 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,080 Why should they have that much and I have so little? 351 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,080 Why it's not? I want it. 352 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,240 I'm entitled to it. In fact, I think I'll just take 353 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,240 it. Envy is such a pernicious thing. 354 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,760 Envy. Envy is death to gratitude. 355 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,640 It is impossible to be both envious and grateful at the same 356 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:16,840 time. You can't hold both of those 357 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,760 things spiritually at the same time. 358 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,720 The flip side of that is gratitude is the death of envy 359 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:34,800 when we can be Isaac. Isaac, he could have joined in 360 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,960 the envy. It's not fair. 361 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:41,360 These Philistines, these dirty, rotten folks that don't even 362 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:43,920 follow the one true God. It's not fair. 363 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,160 They've got all of this land and we don't have any land. 364 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,480 All we want, we've already moved as far away from them as we can 365 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,160 get. All we want is enough water to 366 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,000 feed the crop, you know, to water the crops and feed the and 367 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,520 water our animals and water ourselves. 368 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,800 And they keep coming and taking that too. 369 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:05,400 God's promised this land is ours. 370 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,400 It's not fair that they have it. It's not right that they have 371 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,480 it. We'll take it, We'll fight. 372 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,000 We'll fight. He could have played the envy 373 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:20,240 game and instead of being a blessing to his neighbors, have 374 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,400 brought death and destruction upon his neighbors. 375 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:26,880 Because that's what envy does. Envy tears communities apart. 376 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,640 It tears relationships apart. It tears people apart. 377 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,240 It tears us apart from the inside out and wrecks 378 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,640 relationships and hope and joy and opportunity. 379 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,120 When we're envious, we cannot be grateful. 380 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:44,000 But when we're grateful and we're grateful, we cannot be 381 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,160 envious. Isaac chose gratitude. 382 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,680 God has blessed me. God has made me wealthy. 383 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,720 God has provided for the needs of my family. 384 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:02,160 We're going to be grateful for that and just dig another well. 385 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,640 We can dig another well. We can do that. 386 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:06,600 Yeah. One way. 387 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:13,400 Say, well, you know, we, we can, we can trust that the God who 388 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,280 brought us water, this thing that we needed in this place 389 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,920 will give us that same thing in another place. 390 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:22,640 Because what's God going to do? God has promised this all is 391 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,640 that this is all going to be ours, that, that I mean, my 392 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,080 descendants are going to be a great nation. 393 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,160 Is God really going to let us die of thirst here? 394 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:35,040 He told us to stay here. God's not going to abandon us 395 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,840 now. God's going to take care of us. 396 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,280 He dug another well. He dug another well. 397 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:49,880 In the end, Isaac understood what we can understand that the 398 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,520 devil's attacks always bow to God's sovereignty. 399 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,840 When the devil whispers envy in someone else's ear and they come 400 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,800 at us or jealousy and they come at us or or hatred or or greed 401 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,640 or lust, whatever it is, and they're, they're coming at us 402 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,720 because because the demons got and I'm not. 403 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,160 You got to understand, I believe in the devil. 404 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,120 I believe in demons. I believe all of those things 405 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,280 are real. I'm not also not convinced 406 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,640 there's a devil hiding behind every Bush, but I am convinced 407 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,440 that our battle is not against people. 408 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:25,080 Then when people are coming at us and attacking us because we 409 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,160 are faithfully following God, and if we're faithfully 410 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,360 following God, we will be attacked. 411 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,520 That you know, happen to Jesus, happen to Paul, happen to Peter, 412 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:35,000 you know it's going to happen to us. 413 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,840 When we're faithfully following God, we'll be attacked that the 414 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,680 people aren't our enemies, that the devil is stirring them up. 415 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,280 And we can remember that. And we can also remember that 416 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:52,320 the devil has already been defeated and that the devil's 417 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,320 attacks always have to bow to God's sovereignty. 418 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,120 The devil was trying to drive Isaac out of the promised land, 419 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:02,360 to rob Isaac of the blessing that God had promised him to get 420 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,720 Isaac to quit, to get Isaac to leave, to get Isaac to choose to 421 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,840 be a curse rather than a blessing to his neighbors. 422 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,960 The devil was driving it all of that. 423 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,360 And Isaac said, no, God has promised. 424 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,040 God has promised. I do not need to fear the 425 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,960 attacks of the devil because God has promised. 426 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,240 And for us, we know even more than Isaac knew because we not 427 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,120 only have Abraham's story and Isaac's story, but all of the 428 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:33,200 other stories, including Jesus story, that even if they kill 429 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,960 us, that still can't for God's sovereignty, God will just give 430 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:44,440 us our life back. The devil's plans, the devil's 431 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,520 attacks always have to bow to God's sovereignty. 432 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:54,840 God promised Isaac at the beginning of the chapter, right 433 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,640 after Abraham has died. God promised Isaac, I'm going to 434 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,240 bless you in the same way I blessed Abraham. 435 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,560 He was faithful to me, did everything I commanded him to 436 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,280 do. He was faithful to me and I 437 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,080 blessed him. I'm going to bless you the same 438 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,960 way your descendants will be a great nation. 439 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:10,480 All the nations of the world will be blessed through you. 440 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,560 Isaac did all of these things. He was there. 441 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,800 He needed the water. The wells were filled up with 442 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,160 dirt. He dug new wells. 443 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,560 They got filled up with dirt. He dug new wells. 444 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:21,240 They got stolen, and he dug new wells. 445 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,680 They got stolen and he dug new wells. 446 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,160 And at the end of all of that, God came back to him and 447 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,120 reminded him of the promise. He reminded of them a promise. 448 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:33,560 That night, that very night, after Isaac had dug that well 449 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,360 over which there was no quarreling, God came to him and 450 00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:38,640 said, I am the God of your father, Abraham. 451 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:40,960 Do not be afraid, for I am with you. 452 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,200 I will bless you and will increase the number of your 453 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,880 descendants for the sake of my servant, Abraham. 454 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,040 He reminded, this is it. You're getting it, Isaac. 455 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,760 This is it. You don't have to be afraid of 456 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,040 the Philistines. You don't have to be afraid of 457 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,600 dying of starvation. You don't have to be afraid of 458 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,920 dying of thirst. I have you. 459 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,960 I've got you covered. I will come fill my I will 460 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:07,040 fulfill my promises. God's sovereignty always wins 461 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,480 over the devil's attacks. And what did Isaac do? 462 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,920 The final act. I love the way I love the way 463 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,680 the story closes. Isaac built an altar. 464 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,560 Isaac worshiped in response to God's faithfulness. 465 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:24,280 Isaac worshiped God, He gave thanks to God, He gave honor to 466 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,320 God, he gave glory to God. He bowed him down, mild himself 467 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,960 down, and resubmitted himself to God. 468 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,440 I am yours, God. I will follow you. 469 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:37,000 I will be faithful to you. And then he dug another well. 470 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,440 I think you probably can't have too many wells sometimes. 471 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:46,040 I don't know. Isaac built an altar there, and 472 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,760 he called on the name of the Lord, and there he pitched his 473 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,440 tent. And there his servants dug a 474 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,200 well. They dug a well. 475 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,160 There's work for us to do. The water didn't fall from the 476 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,600 sky. There wasn't a great miracle 477 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,440 that was clearly miraculous in the sense of, you know, water 478 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,760 from Iraq. Like when the Israelites were in 479 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,640 the wilderness following Moses, there was work they had to do. 480 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,200 They had to dig. They dug another well. 481 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:23,240 And God provided. God provided Isaac worshipped 482 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:29,560 Isaac worshipped the Lord and he dug another well in in in our 483 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,720 time. One of the folks that that this 484 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,720 brings to my mind is is gentleman by the name of Dave 485 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,400 Durvecki. Anyone remember that name? 486 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,800 Remember Dave Durvecki, Rick, baseball player back in the 80s, 487 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:46,440 nineties, somewhere in there? Yeah, Yeah, he was pitcher. 488 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,440 Started with the Padres, I believe, and then later moved to 489 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,400 the Giants. I might be flipping that, but I 490 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,520 think he started with the Padres and later moved to the Giants. 491 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,280 Good pitcher, not the best of all time, but a good pitcher. 492 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,400 Pitched a lot of innings, had a lot of success, made it to the 493 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,600 All Star game one year. Very, very good pitcher. 494 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:08,040 And then at one point late in his career, he got cancer in his 495 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:12,840 throwing arm and the doctors told him we got it. 496 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:14,880 It's going to take surgery to get that out. 497 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,240 You will, based on what we have to remove and where that tumor 498 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:22,120 is, you will almost certainly never pitch again, certainly not 499 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,960 at Major League level. And Dave said, I'm not having 500 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,240 any of that. He went through the surgery, 501 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,160 went through rehab, he trained and he came back. 502 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,040 He came back, you know, he dug another well. 503 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,280 That well got filled. He dug. 504 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,160 He dug another well. I'm coming back. 505 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,720 You're saying I can't, you know, this, this cancer is taken away. 506 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:43,640 Took him out. I can. 507 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,000 I don't remember how long he was out. 508 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,440 It was at least one year, maybe maybe 2 before he got back. 509 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,320 But he came back and in his first game back, this is almost 510 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,760 unheard of these days. He pitched 8 innings, gave up 511 00:29:55,760 --> 00:30:01,280 one run and got the win. And his second game back he was 512 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,840 in the 6th inning and he rare bags of lefty, he reared back to 513 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,960 throw a pitch and that torque on his arm and his arm snapped 514 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,160 right there in the game. Right there on national 515 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,160 television if you can probably I haven't. 516 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,920 I remember seeing, I didn't, I wasn't watching the game, but I 517 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:23,360 remember seeing the replays on the news and his arm snapped and 518 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:28,200 the doctor said it's back and it's worse and they had to take 519 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:37,080 off his whole arm. Dave could have quit. 520 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:42,160 He could have run away. He could have blamed and 521 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,320 complained. He could have fought, got angry 522 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,360 and mad and vicious toward the people around him. 523 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:50,960 But he didn't do any of those things. 524 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:56,600 He dug another well and he shared his experience and his 525 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,640 faith. He was deeply, I think, I'm not 526 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:04,400 sure if he's still alive or not, but he was a man of deep faith 527 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,760 and he used his experience to share faith and hope with 528 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,280 others. He dug another well. 529 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,720 I want to read to you a couple of things. 530 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,880 He said he's he's written a few books, but these are just some 531 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,840 excerpts, short excerpts from some interviews he did. 532 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,960 Trebeki said this I used and this was after his arm was 533 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,640 taken. I used to depend on myself. 534 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,200 Now I depend more on more on God. 535 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:33,560 Through my own suffering I have become more aware of His and I 536 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:38,240 love him more as a result. I realized my life wasn't in my 537 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,960 hands anymore. My life was in God's hands. 538 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:50,360 It was in His hands all along. Our life is in God's hands and 539 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:56,120 when our well is filled up, when what we need is taken away from 540 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:02,080 us, we can complain, we can fight, we can blame, we can 541 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,560 quit, we can run away, or we can do what Isaac did. 542 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:10,880 We can do what Dave did. We can dig another well, we can 543 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,400 worship God and dig another well. 544 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,680 In Jesus name. Amen. 545 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:16,480 Amen.