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#10135 - Don’t Feed Your Flesh - Genesis 25 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the study of God's word with pastor and author.
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Now, here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Amen.
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Would you take your Bibles? Open them to Genesis chapter 25
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Genesis chapter 25 and I've entitled our Bible study.
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Don't feed your flesh. Don't feed your flesh and I'm
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sure you've heard the phrases. Like the Apple doesn't fall far
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from the tree or she's a chip off the old block or like father
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like son and they're all trying to describe when he heard a
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phrase like that the Molarities that often exists between a
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parent and their child. A father to son a mother to
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daughter, a father to daughter mother to son and many times.
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It's a good thing trying to describe the great qualities
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that have been passed on generationally in a home raised
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by your parents. You know, in a Christian Home in
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a home that we've dedicated to following God submitted to him,
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wanting to raise, not just good kids although that's great.
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But Godly kids kids, that love the Lord, you know, in a
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Christian home, we want our kids to pick up our Godly habits, we
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want them to watch us and see our spiritual Tendencies, and
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our spiritual decisions. And and I know I in raising my
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children at, this was a high priority for me as I didn't want
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them to repeat all of the sinful decisions and all the pain I
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experienced because of the many, many bad decisions that I made
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apart from Christ. I wanted them to know there's a
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better way. I wanted them to know that they
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didn't have to pay. There was life would still be
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hard, but it didn't have to take the route of sinful hard.
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It could be a route of trusting in the Lord, and at the same
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time, you know, unfortunately, our kids do pick up our bad
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habits, you know, the things in our lives, the tendency of our
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fallen nature, they learn by example, the wrong things
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through our lives. And it is true.
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The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree so if your spiritual
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listen, if your spiritual if you have a real relationship with
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God, then you'll find that your kids will follow that.
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But if you're not taking the things of Jesus Christ,
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seriously, then your kids will follow and so will those that
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are close to you, those that look up to you, your
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friendships, those, are you work with your following the Lord?
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That's going to be noticeable. If you choose not to follow
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close to it'll be noticeable. And I remember you can just jot
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it down and First Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 1.
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The Paul the Apostle would say imitate me as I imitate Christ,
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we're in the second section with that.
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In mind of Genesis we're in the second section of Genesis that
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deals with the families in particular, the family of
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Abraham father Abraham We're following along Abraham, his
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son, Isaac and his son, Jacob. And finally Joseph.
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And we are yet another transition.
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And we since we studied Through the Bible, verse by verse
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chapter by chapter, we've had studies that have covered all 24
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website as well. You can catch up and dive in
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from the very beginning we're picking up tonight because
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that's where we are. But it's a transition we come to
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the death now of Abraham, this man of Faith, this man of
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failure and then our attention will be on Isaac and God's
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dealings with him. And one thing we'll find out
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very quickly with Isaac is like father, like son, It's lived out
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and that statement verse 1 of chapter 25, no Abraham.
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Again, took a wife and her name was Keturah and she bore him
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Zim. Ron Jackson Meade on million-ish
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Bach and schewe jokshan begat Sheba and dedan and the sons of
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d-dan were ashram, let to shim, and let him.
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And the sons of Midian, worry, foggy for hanok abadieh Elda,
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and all these were the children of Keturah.
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Now, some of you That are new to the Bible.
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You're like, why did the names matter?
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Let me tell you why. The names matter if your name
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was in the list, it would matter to you.
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Why? Because families are important
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and, you know, the names are a little different there, Hebrew
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and origin. There were Distance by time and
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space but not so much people and families were important, 6000
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5000 years ago. Families are important today.
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So, each time you face, one of these hard words to read or one
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of these families and you're just wondering all these names.
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Well, these To store, attach two sons and daughters.
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They're attached to moms and dads and families are important.
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This was a decision of Abraham. Now taking on another wife or
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perhaps a concubine, he marries has more children, the list of
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the sons of Keturah here, produced more Nations.
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And I believe that's listed here on purpose to introduce us to
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another family and nation. That will be very difficult for
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the nation of Israel. It's there in verse For and
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that's the sons of Midian the midianites, they're going to be
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a great challenge as they come up later with Moses and all
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throughout the life of Israel. Now it's important that we pause
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here as you notice in verse 5 it says Abraham gave all that he
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had to Isaac and Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the
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concubines, which Abraham had while he was still living, He
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sent them Eastward away from Isaac, his son to the country of
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the We have to pause here and briefly discuss this issue of
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polygamy. Because critics of the Bible, or
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those with questions that seem to go unanswered about the
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Bible, will use these episodes in the lives of the men that God
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used. As some way to discredit the
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Bible and say see here look at the Christian morality and look
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at what you're doing in the church.
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And you don't even follow your own Bible in the people.
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Don't and all the critics come here because they say, look,
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here's somebody that you say, God used greatly And he had many
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wives, and the answer to that question is, yes God did use him
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vary greatly and yes, he had many wives, but something else
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needs to be said, and that is he had many wives sinfully, this
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wasn't approved by God. It actually turns the critic, it
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turns the criticism, back on someone's head to say, hey look
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like the Bible is divine in origin.
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The man that man didn't write the Bible because you know, as
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well as I do that. If we Men wrote the Bible.
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They wouldn't include all the bad stuff.
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They wouldn't include how bad we were and say, look at Abraham.
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Look how much in look what a knucklehead.
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He was selling out, his wife and look, what a knucklehead.
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He was having concubines and disobeying the direct command of
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God and we study this in previous studies in Genesis.
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So I'm not going to develop it now.
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But remember God's order and design is one man.
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One woman, one flesh and One Lie.
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Lifetime. That is the highest of course,
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because we've fallen in nature and we sin.
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So many have been touched by divorce that God's ideal has not
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been accomplished because of our sin, but even so, even through
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failure, God can bring about something beautiful and
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wonderful but God's design is not polygamy even though
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culturally it was acceptable and that is one of the challenges
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that you and I face here. There are many things,
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culturally that are edible that many people are into but are not
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acceptable to God. And you need to choose an I need
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to choose to follow the lord, no matter what's happening in the
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culture it doesn't matter what's popular?
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Doesn't matter what's everybody's doing?
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We have to always come back to. What is God's ideal?
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What's the goal that God has for us?
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What is his desire for my life, for your life?
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What is his moral standard? We have really two choices when
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you're making moral decisions, you know, that two choices, when
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you're developing the direction of your life, when you You are
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faced with crisis and what do I do next?
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There's only two choices you can begin with the foundation of
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man's way and man's ideal, or you can begin with the
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foundation of God's word, where he's establishes.
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You don't have a third option. There's no mixture can be a
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little bit man's way. And it's, what does God say
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about the matter? And that's what I want to do.
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That's the direction I want. How, what does God say about
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raising my kids? That's what I want.
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What does God say about marriage?
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That's what I want. What does God say about?
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Premarital sex? That's what I want.
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What does God say about stealing?
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That's what I want but you don't understand.
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Edward what about what everything you know.
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What does God say? About drugs and alcohol?
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Well you know, everything is legal now.
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Yeah. But does that would God's desire
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is for you to be out of your mind all the time for you to be
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high and, you know, going around, not knowing what's going
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on and be out of your mind, you know, it's not God's will for
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you. But it's legal, it's culturally
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acceptable, but it's not God's way.
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God's way is very clear. Many times, the Bible commands
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us to be sober but also how God's ways, very clear be not
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drunk with wine, which is an emptiness and dissipation, but
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be filled with the Holy Spirit, couldn't be clearer and ask any
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of us that alcohol wrecked our lives.
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And you, we would tell you that's true.
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That's true. That's true.
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And I think of, when the Proverbs even in the mouth of
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Solomon Solomon, said, wine, is a mocker and it is, it promises
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so much and ends up destroying your life.
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And if If not destroying your life, destroying your brain
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cells one cup at a time, things stand, I don't know about you,
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but I need as many brain cells as I can possibly get, I need as
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much in my life to serve the Lord as possible polygamy.
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Is not approved by God even though you see it many times
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because there was a choice made to be culturally appropriate and
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that's what they did. It's too bad.
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Because even though it was culturally appropriate, it
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wasn't God's design. It got Abraham into trouble, it
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wrecked a family. Does he see that in verse 5 as
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you see in says Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.
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He gave all they had to Isaac, which in one sense makes sense.
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Isaac, is the promised child, but you'll recall, Isaac wasn't
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the first child born to Abraham, Abraham had other kids.
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He was first, had he first. His first son was named Ishmael,
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and we know that he loved his smile, wasn't the promised
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child, but he loved his son. But yet, here he gave all, I
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haven't marked in my Bible, I circled the word.
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All he gave it all to Isaac, which would create sibling
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rivalry and frustrations. Just like, we're going to see
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what Joseph later on toward the end of of Genesis.
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He gives all that his father had, he's the child of Promise.
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He's the heir of all things and yes it was necessary because
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remember in the Book of Genesis there's a bunch of pictures and
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types pointing forward to the New Testament.
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So Here, Isaac, the sun is a type of Jesus Abraham, here is a
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type of the father and the son receives.
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All that is the Father's. Just like we read you note
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takers and John chapter 17 Colossians chapter 1.
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But you know what causes all kinds of difficulties among the
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kids? Abraham gave gifts.
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He gave everything, Isaac, but he gave gifts, and there's
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already favoritism there, it's forced upon him because of his
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decisions. Why?
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Because you got to understand this, it happens in the positive
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but it happens in the negative 2.
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If you sow to the spirit, you're going to reap everlasting life.
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That's the positive. But if you sow to the flesh,
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you're going to reap corruption. The picture is used of sowing
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seeds. That's the picture sewing
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sewing. Sees what you sow is.
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What's going to grow. What you're sewing out?
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You're going to go, I want you to think about this the seed
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that you plant today. You're not going to see it grow
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for some time. There's going to be time before
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you plant today and then you harvest later and it's the same
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with anything. You're making decisions today.
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And then you may just say let's just say maybe perhaps this is
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from the Lord right now. Maybe let's just say some really
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bad decisions this morning. I mean you knew you knew they
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were bad maybe even outright sinful.
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If not simple just compromising you you made some really bad
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decisions today and around noon or 1:00.
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Nobody found out. You think you got away with it?
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And you just going to move on with the rest of the day.
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Okay. Alright, alright no problem.
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But you know you planted a seed that's going to going to give
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you harvest soon enough. It's not just going to go away.
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There's no repentance you just kind of hold good I got away
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with it but you didn't get away with it because what you sow is
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what you're going to reap. And even if you think you got
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away with it or it's no big deal or it's a new pattern in your
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life or you just kind of adds compromise.
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It's not that big a deal. The reality is is it will catch
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up to you and it does catch up with the family.
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It's something that kept going on through the generations
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continual sinful decisions will notice in verse 7.
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Now, This is the sum of Abraham's years, the life that
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he lived a hundred and seventy-five years old just teen
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you imagine living to 175 and then Abraham breathed his last
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and died in a good old age and old man, full of years and
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gathered to his people. I'm sure at 175, he was ready to
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go on to the city whose Builder and maker is God.
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I mean, he was ready and that would make his son. 675.
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Jacob would be 15 around this time.
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Which tells us from Genesis chapter 12, again, Bible study
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to get to dig into different comparing passages.
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And from Genesis chapter 12, it tells us that Abraham had 100
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years living in the promises of God.
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We're in the promised land, a good bulk of his time was lived
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in the promised land and I like this phrase, it stuck out to me
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and I was reading it where it says a Good old age, Abraham was
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full of years and I think sometimes we despise getting
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older. We despise getting older, our
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society differently? Does not only is our society,
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you know, minimize getting older but they've made a business of
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trying to hide it because that's all it really is.
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You just trying to, you just trying to hide it and they make
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billions of dollars hiding age, but God values age, and God
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values, wisdom and to live through a good old age is
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fantastic and this is the reality.
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Single one of us, no matter how old you are today, whether
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you're feeling it or not, I'm certainly feeling my own age,
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whether you feel it or not, you're all getting older.
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That's nothing you can do about it.
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You just Rejoice that God has given you days to live and weeks
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to live and months to live. You don't know, you don't know
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how long you're going to live. You don't know when your life is
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going to be held account, you're going to be called home.
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You don't know. That's why God, he teaches us to
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live every day. To the Bible says, teach us to
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number our days. Let our days matter in the
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Kingdom, but we're all aging. To a good old age 175, which
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reminded me of our own Fellowship, who are
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multi-generational church. That's what people that study
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churches would call us. We have no intentional, we have
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no intention to be any kind of church, but a real church that
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God is doing is going to be multi-generational.
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It's not like we have a plan. Let's have a multi-generational
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church but that's what we have from a baby that day.
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You know. I think I dedicated a year
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year-and-a-half this Sunday to those that are in their 80s,
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maybe even their 90's. You know, you got a baby that's
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up here. Crying and screaming and yelling
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and can hear every little noise then we got an 80 year old
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messing with their hearing aid. You know, turning it down for
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worship and turning it up for the preacher or there was a guy
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back in the day when we were meeting in the school that I
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always see him messing, because we were so close.
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You could see everybody so close in the school and I always see
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him mess with his hearing aids. And I'd go up to him and go.
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Hey, I bet you're turning it up for the worship and turning it
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down for the preacher, aren't you?
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And we always have a nice little Chuckle with them but that's the
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generation from babies. You know, we've got pregnant,
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ladies to people right on the edge of Eternity and God
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intended it to be that. And those of you that are older,
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even though you live in a society that says there's no
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need for you that we don't want you.
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Let's just put you away and forget about.
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You not. So in the church and I'll tell
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you right now, I'm not. So in this church, you are
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valuable and important and desired to use your gifts and
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talents in this church. And all the Our people, they
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need you. They need your wisdom.
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They need your understanding. They need you in their life, so
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they can serve you and learn what it's like to serve South
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sacrificially. We need every generation, but
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especially, especially those of you that would say, well, I'm
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pretty close Pastor to the good old age.
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Well, we're glad you've lived so many years now, serve the Lord
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with joy and gladness or like our own Pastor.
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Bob would say that. God spoke to him that in the
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latter years, he would be more fruitful than all of the
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earlier. Years of his life and you're
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wanted and needed in this church.
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I think of so many times how the Bible speaks?
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First Timothy Chapter 5, you want to jot it down Titus, I
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want you to turn over to Titus, Chapter 2, that's going to be
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all the way in to the end of the New Testament and just see the
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Bible speaks of age. And in our culture doesn't have
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the same middle eastern culture that kept families together and
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family, served each other, and didn't give up on each other,
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even especially when they were the most vulnerable.
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We aren't culture just as lost it.
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Why? Because they've turned their
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back on the Lord. And in Titus in chapter two, You
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know, you see that in verse one, speak the things that are proper
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for sound doctrine that the older men.
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Here's the direction for you. Older men, you be sober and stay
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reverent and temperate sound in faith and love and impatience
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and you older women and that's the word of the Bible.
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Not Ed that you older ladies, you be reverent in Behavior.
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The Bible says don't be Jurors or given to much wine or
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teachers and be and be teachers of good things.
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Admonished the young women to love their husbands, to love
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their children to be discreet and chased and homemakers good
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obedient to their own husband's. That the word of God may not be
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blasphemed remind them and teach them you're needed in the
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church. So so important Abraham is old
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as God intended, he breathed his last note This verse 9 back in
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Genesis now. And his sons Isaac and Ishmael
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were buried him in a cave of machpelah, which is before mamre
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in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the hittite.
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The feel with a which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth,
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their Abraham was buried and Sarah, his wife and it came to
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pass after the death of Abraham that God blessed, his son,
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Isaac, and Isaac, dwelt at Bay birla.
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Hi Roy. So Abraham is buried alongside
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his Sarah. His wife the cave, he bought
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remember Or earlier for about four hundred shekels.
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And here again, I want you to notice this.
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This is especially important for those of you that have estranged
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families. Or family members that are
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separate from you and you need reconciliation many times
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reconciliation occurs or begins after a traumatic event in the
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family where people are forced to come back together.
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Doesn't have to be but that's what we see here.
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Isaac, and Ishmael are together again.
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And why are they together again? Because their dad died.
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There's something about that softness that comes in families,
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not always but many times that reconciliation can take place,
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reconciliation is the heart of God.
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It's his desire and Reconciliation is accomplished
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one way and one way alone. All the problems that exist
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between husbands and wives between brothers and sisters,
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bosses and employees, you know, employees and employees,
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neighbors and friends, all the separation and families
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reconciliation happens. One Way, somebody's got to die.
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Not physically. But spiritually, a dying to
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yourself. A dying too.
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Your rights. What you've established and the
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argument that you've made and how you've Justified that's the
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pathway reconciliation involves forgiveness, it involves
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repentance, right? Reconciliation comes when the
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offending party repents. It's not going to happen without
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that, you don't control that, you can't make it happen.
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But what you can do is you can forgive the person that hurt
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you. You can release them from the
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debt that they've put upon you. The ongoing send that's come
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against you that could very well, be the Catalyst of the
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separation. And then maybe responded
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incorrectly and now now the farther and farther and farther
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away. But when God brings it to a
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place where you learn to die to yourself and you extend, true
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forgiveness, why would you forgive well?
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The Bible says that we forgive because of all that we've been
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forgiven, he who loves much, who is Forgiven much loves much and
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it really comes from a work of the Holy Spirit, but
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reconciliation is going to happen.
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Keep fighting reconciliation is going to happen to keep arguing,
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keep proving your point. He's got to take it to the Lord
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and ask him to work in the situation and it could happen.
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You can be looking for those situations where God uses a
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situation to bring you back together.
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So I ask you who will humble themselves to give the situation
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over to God on either side of me to my left and to my right there
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are baskets up here after every service we invite you up.
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If you need prayer and encouragement, the Bible study
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minister to you or something went through the pastures or
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usually up here, men, and women on our prayer team.
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We pray with you, and encourage you.
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And on either side, we have a basket filled with information.
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In that basket is a packet. Entitled forgiveness and
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Reconciliation. It is small, but very thorough
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and I invite you whether it's tonight or any other time.
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If this is an issue in your life, no matter how bad it is,
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no matter whose fault it is. And none of that.
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Any of those, you can bring whatever the situation is.
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I encourage you to pick up the packet and take it.
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It's free. It's always free.
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It will always be free. If you're listening on the radio
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right now or watching this online, you can email me Ed at
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Ed Taylor dot org, and I can email you.
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The PDF, I can send it to you by email every single person that
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emails me, I'll send you a whole list of resources on this topic,
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but you guys that are in front of me right now, you can get one
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before you leave. I think we did not get them
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feel. So there's not up there, you're
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going to all have to email me. It's unfortunate because I asked
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for it to be filled. So you'll have to email me and I
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will send you the PDF, you can print it out on your own printer
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and maybe they're not standing up.
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They Not standing up but if you don't see them email me and I'll
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send it to you along with a packet that a lot of different
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information on this topic including including no they're
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not there, thanks for checking. So this is very very important
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that the Holy Spirit would use you to step into forgiveness, to
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walk in forgiveness and to learn to walk in humility, come back
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to the text. Now, let's pick up in verse 12.
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It says, now this is the genealogy of Ishmael, Abraham's
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son, whom Hagar the Egyptian Sarah's maidservant Board of
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Abraham. And these were the names of the
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sons of Ishmael by their names. According to their Generations,
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the firstborn of Ishmael niba jaws, and Kate are and abdiel
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and mid Sam and mich Mon Dieu. Mamasa.
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Hate RT, magette. Turn a fish.
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Qetema perfect biblical names for your kids.
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These are the sons of Ishmael. Male, these are the names by
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their towns, their settlements twelve Prince's, according to
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their Nations, these were the years of their life of Ishmael
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137 years, and he breathed his last and died and was gathered
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to his people. And they dwell from have a law
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as far as sure, which is east of Egypt.
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As you go toward Assyria and he died in the presence of all his
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Brethren. Now, back in chapter 16 and
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again, in chapter 21, God said he would bless Ishmael and Make
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a great nation of him. Fulfilled, we got some here.
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So now we're here they just appeared all the packets so
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they're available. So remember with Ishmael, God
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promised that he would bless him and here we have a list of the
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family line that came through Ishmael.
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So although Ishmael is not the promised child.
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God still said I'll bless you. And here he is experiencing the
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blessings and this is all from Ishmael.
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Notice verse 19 now is the genealogy of Isaac which
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remember don't forget this remember as we move forward
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through Genesis and all the different everything is pointing
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to Messiah. So there are are there areas
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that like the genealogy of Ishmael that would then show
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God's keeping of his promise? But the real promise that we're
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looking to see fulfilled continually is of Messiah.
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So now we're hitting on that lineage through Isaac Abraham's
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son, it says verse 19. Abraham begat.
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Isaac, Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebecca, his wife
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daughter of bethuel, the Syrian of paddan-aram, the sister of
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Laban, the Syrian verse 21, Isaac pleaded, Mark, that word,
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Isaac, pleaded with the Lord, for his wife, because she was
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Barren, and the Lord, granted his plea, and Rebecca, his wife
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conceived. So, Isaac's, 40 years old when
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he's married and notice Mark these words husband's Isaac
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pleaded with the Lord for his wife.
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Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife and in this case, it
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was a very specific prayer that she might conceive.
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A child. Rebecca waited, 20 years for
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this prayer to be answered. It was a very difficult
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difficult position to be in this culture and Society for women to
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be barren. And I just like, what Isaac does
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here menu can bless your wife so much, if you just pray for them
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and pray with them. I know it's on repeat, isn't it?
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There's a few things on repeat here in this church.
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Read your Bible and pray every day.
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It's on repeat. It's on.
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Repeat you want to see spiritual growth in your life?
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Then read your Bible and pray everyday.
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The are experiencing difficulty in your marriage right now.
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This will turn to the husband and say are you reading the
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Bible with your wife? And are you praying with your
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wife? Sometimes?
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The answer is flat-out. No, sometimes it's she doesn't
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want to then the next question will be.
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Are you reading your Bible for your wife?
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And are you praying for your wife?
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Well, you know, I thought it was only together.
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No. You need to plead with the Lord
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for your wife or vice versa went lot.
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Wives plead with the Lord for your husband's The victory, as
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we learned with Moses recently, is in that place of prayer.
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It's not in the place of battle or argumentation or discussed.
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The Bible tells us in Ephesians that husbands were responsible
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to what, to wash our wise, with what the water of the word to
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pray. The Bible over them into pray,
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the Bible to them and to pray the Bible into them, to make the
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language of the Bible. The language that I speak to my
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wife with now, doesn't mean I walk around saying, okay, Marie.
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The John 3:16 stand there right now.
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Ed told me to pray like God, so, loved the world.
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I means you, I don't, I didn't say preach messages, but like,
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you know, you're frustrated, you have an argument with your wife,
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you're on the way to work, you're mad at your husband and
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you're on your way to work. Instead of rehearsing how
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horrible person they are. You start praying for them, he's
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go you Lord, you know, my heart. You know how much I love her?
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You know how much I love him and I can't do anything God, you
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gotta change him. And the Lord says, you want me
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to change them and you say, yes, you want to change them now?
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Yes. Well, what about, you know,
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asking about me, because what happens in prayer, you present
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yourself to God, you're open and vulnerable before God.
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And guess what you find out? It's really not about your
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spouse as much as it about you. You wrestling in your singleness
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right now. You take the principles of the
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scriptures, you begin to apply them to yourself or make me
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content in this season of my life.
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Help me to live a life that pleases you, you know what my
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desire is. And you know what direction, I
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want to take my life, but that's where I'm at right now.
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I want to live pleasing you where I'm at right now.
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I mean we can do that in any area, right with where we work
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for unemployed, where we live got just make me the man, the
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woman you want me to be where I am right now.
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And here we see a beautiful picture.
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He's begging God to bless his wife.
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Please God. And what an often awesome
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privilege. We have to pray for our spouses
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to pray for one another. So many times, I'll be speaking
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primarily this happens with more with men and with women, and the
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ministry that God has called me to over the years.
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And I'm speaking with a husband that's complaining about his
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wife and complaining about this, and she's this, and she's that
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And we're reminded the scriptures.
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The Bible tells us that wives are the glory of their husbands.
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and you know, we don't use that kind of language anymore, but
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the best way to think of that is why he's being the glory of
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their husbands is that there are a reflection of their husbands
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And many times, my counsel will be to pray for them.
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I mean that's on repeat. Pray for your wife.
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Pray read the Bible and pray. Talk about the Bible study.
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When you leave talk about what God has been speaking to your
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heart. Don't let it just go away, don't
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let it be lost. Make sure that the your
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spiritual life is first that together, you're seeking first,
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the kingdom of God. And and then I also give this
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Council from time in times like, well, be the kind of spouse you
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want your wife to be, Pray that into your life, be the kind of
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spouse that you're desperate for her to be or for him to be live
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like that. You're the only one you control
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anyway. And so you want your spouse to
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be strong? In the Lord.
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You be strong in the Lord. You want your spouse to be
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encouraging. You be encouraging.
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But you know, how it is in an environment of discouragement,
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you know, you wake up and maybe there's some bickering or some
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arguing. What's your response little bit
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more bickering, a little bit more arguing?
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And can it be said of you can we write a scripture of you that?
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You and your difficult situation pleaded with the Lord for your
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spouse because God will bless that, take your spouse.
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Take your kids, take your situation to the throne room of
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God where you'll find Grace and help in your time of need.
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And here he is praying for for his wife.
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And look what God does. He gives him a gives her a
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double blessing. It says in verse 22.
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It says that at the end of verse 21, Rebecca can see, but the
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children struggled together within her.
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And you know what, this speaks to me.
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It was a difficult pregnancy. It wasn't easy, she's got a war
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going on in her womb and whatever that.
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You know, sticking the hand up under the rib cage and kicking
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and like it was a difficult pregnancy.
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It happens a lot of different ways today but they're
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struggling together. And she says, in verse 22 of all
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is well why I am this way? Why am I this way?
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And she went to inquire of the Lord and the Lord said to her
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two nations are in your womb to people shall be separated from
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your 81 people will be stronger than the other and the older
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Shall Serve the younger. And so, when our days were
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fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed, there were twins in her
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womb. So not only did.
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She can see she had twins. Rough pregnancy, so hard and so
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challenging. She went from one challenge to
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the next. She was challenged by being
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Barren and then when she conceived she's challenged by
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being pregnant, which tells me that the condition of your life,
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whatever the isshin of your life doesn't mean you're not going to
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struggle and suffer. Like today you come into, If I
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Only Had, I would be better perhaps in some ways you would,
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but, in other ways, it might be more difficult and it drives you
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to the Lord deeper relationship. And she says, if it's all well,
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why do I feel like this? And his answer was prophetic.
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It's a prophecy. God two nations are in your
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womb, not just two kids, but two Nations and one's going to be
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stronger than the other and the older will serve the younger.
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Now these verses the truth here, we can't just pass over without
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acknowledging. The tragedy of abortion in our
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country and in our world. God knew.
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Their personalities in the womb. Wasn't after they were born.
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Life begins at conception. The words are used here in
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Rebecca's life. And already God knew them and
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knew their future. He knew their personalities, he
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knew Esau, which is one of the kids.
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He knew his Tendencies. Knew Jacob was as conniver
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already. God, loves and cares and concern
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with unborn children. In the womb, the baby is a whole
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precious person. They were, you know, we see
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already that these babies in the womb were fighting one another
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in their own developed personalities.
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And it's, it's important for you to understand that abortion is a
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sin. And if you're considering
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abortion tonight, please don't do it.
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Ask for help. I know you're scared.
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Perhaps, I know. Maybe you're looking at your
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life and thinking all I think my life is ruined because of this
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pregnancy and you're kind of caught up in the cultures were
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culture wars over you, but I'm not saying this in culture War
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right now. I'm not trying to win a fight
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with the world. I'm trying to plead with you for
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the baby in your womb. I know it's scary and it has
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altered your life. You can undo that your pregnancy
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is already altered your life. No matter what decision you
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make. And so I just asked you knowing
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this goes out on the radio and really all over the country.
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Just please consider call the local Crisis, Pregnancy Center.
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Call your call. The church.
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Let us help you get connected with someone.
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There are other options. Before you make any decisions,
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go get an ultrasound. There's a, there's an
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organization that might be in your location called.
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Sate. Save.
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What is it? Save the storks right?
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Is that it is. Save the storks.
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Does that sound right? Okay good.
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Look them up in Google them. Even if they're not in your
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location, they can connect you with someone else that isn't
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your location but your life is already altered.
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Those opportunity for you to give birth to life.
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You might end up raising that child or in some cases like my
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life. I was adopted And another family
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took me into their lives and raised me as my birth mother
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decided to carry me to term. Haven't met her.
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Don't know if I ever will, but I am appreciative that she made
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that choice, and who knows how it's all going to sort out in
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the king. You know, it maybe she's a
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Believer and, and she's like, men, I made something out of
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that, punky gave birth to, you know, and God is good and so I'm
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not. I again, I want to be careful.
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I'm not speaking in the culture wars, not saying you're a bad
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person or like, you're a horrible person.
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That you're even thinking about it.
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When we were, when we were desperate Marie and I she was
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only 15. I was 17 and we were, I was so
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cheap and such a horrible person that I went through the Yellow
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Pages. If you guys remember that, if
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you don't Google Yellow Pages, it'll show you what it is.
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It'll probably say this is what Google used to be, and we'd open
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it up and there was an ad there and, you know, it's a free
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pregnancy test. I'm like, well, that's where I'm
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going if it's free. But it was actually an abortion
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clinic. I didn't know any better.
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It's like free was free to me. And then once we got there,
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there was all kinds of other other options.
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And fortunately, you know the choice was made in our lives as
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well to keep our son and raise him until he's 26.
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So it's really good. The other thing about it,
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Abortion without going on as if you have abortion in your
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background. I know it's hard to talk about
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and I know you've been pushing it away.
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Maybe stuffing it down. God, doesn't despise you because
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of that decision. And I know if you think rethink
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it and you've been thinking about it for a while that you
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may have made a different decision.
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And so you to ask for help, so God can begin to heal that part
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of your life. That he doesn't just throw you
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away. He just doesn't see you.
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As you know, what are the horrific decision you made?
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I don't want anything to do with you but rather God is attracted
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to that weakness in your life and they didn't tell you that in
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the clinic did they? They didn't tell you what we
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jack with your head, the rest of your life, they didn't tell you
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that it would be a give a cloud of guilt and shame the rest of
40:34
your life. They didn't tell you about the
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dreams and the nightmare is you would have.
40:37
They didn't tell you what God can heal you and he can cleanse
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you and he can help you. But don't mistake God's
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intention and what God has revealed to us.
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There those are babies in the womb without question.
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And we have a wonderful opportunity to step into
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people's life, to help them and to serve them, don't need to get
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involved in all the culture wars.
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Those are never ending. Jesus is Victorious over all the
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culture wars, the real power is when you connect with someone
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eye-to-eye and you serve them and you love them in Jesus name.
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Well, notice in verse 24 when her days were fulfilled for her
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to give birth. Indeed, there were twins in her
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womb and first came out red, he was like a hairy garment all
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over and so they called his name Harry that's what he saw means
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afterward. His brother came out and his
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hand. Took a whole to Esau's heel, so
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his name was Jacob, not wear. His name means supplanter, or
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sometimes you hear refer him referred to as he'll catch her
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and Isaac was 60 years old when she bore them.
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So the boys grew up, he saw was a skillful Hunter a man of the
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field. But Jacob was a mild man
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dwelling in the tents. Which again, tells me, they had
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two different personalities. God uses all our personalities,
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and we're here we have an example of men.
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They're not every man is like a manly manly men or whatever,
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like Esau was a hunter but you know, Jacob was more, he was
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mild, he had a different personality which just tells me,
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God, like your personality is just what God wants you to be.
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You don't have to be like anyone else and we learned not even in
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our creative conference. There's so many creatives like,
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oh, it's so wonderful to have them.
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But, you know, not everybody's creative, and that's okay.
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Because God has made you as you are.
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So here, they are in their personalities, Isaac.
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It says, As loved Esau verse 28, because he ate of his game but
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Rebecca loved Jacob. And so you can see the attached
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to their parents based on their personality and Jacob Cook the
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stew and Esau came in from the field.
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So now we have an episode. Some time has passed from birth.
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Of course, they've grown up. That's why are you reading the
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Bible? You like, what has happened
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years have taken place in that little Gap and so they could, he
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could Jacob Cooks us to Esau came in.
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He wasn't like a little baby. In diapers coming in, like, what
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are you doing? I went hunting dad, but he's a
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full-grown. They're fully grown now and Esau
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comes to Jacob. Please feed me that same red
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stew from weary. Therefore, his name was called
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Edom or another word for red. Jacob said, sell me your
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Birthright as it is of this day and he saw said, look, I'm about
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to die. So what profit shall this?
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Birthright be to me and Jacob said swear to me as of this day,
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so he swore to him, Sold his Birthright that Jacob, and Jacob
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gave Esau bread and stew of lentils, and he ate, and drank
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and arose, and went on his way. Thus, Esau despised his
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Birthright. So these you, these few verses
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represent a lot of years in these young men's lives Esau's,
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a hunter. Jacob has more close to his mom,
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probably around the house. Learning how to cook and verse
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28 is a warning to all of us. It highlights how often how
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homes often are divided. And that is by parents showing
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favoritism. Families are divided, kiddos are
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divided. Marriages are divided and you
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have to be very, very careful of this.
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Esau was a man's man and Outdoorsman a hunter, really a
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rough and rugged, Man. Jacob love to cook.
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Hang around the house with his mom.
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He wasn't as rough as he saw. But the characteristics he he
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had were just as valuable one commentator, put it this way and
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I quote, they became the personification of two different
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way. These two boys becomes the A
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personification of two different ways of life which would have
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been typical and the Palestinian that area.
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Palestine of this period one would be of a hunter and a
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nomad, Esau. And the other would be of a
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shepherd and a semi Nomad. Jacob.
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That's how the sub Vsauce described.
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A skillful Hunter, a man of the outdoors.
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Jacob on the other hand is portrayed, as a simple man.
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Or someone remaining in his tents, a man of a stable life in
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contrast to The ruthless life of a nomad and the family of
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Abraham involved. A lot of child favoritism.
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He got carried down over and over again.
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Isaac, he loves rough and rugged, he saw Rebecca loves,
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Jacob and parents, don't do that, it just messes.
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The kids up, value them all for, who they are.
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Don't compare them to one another and, you know, the, why
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do you don't get grades like you're, you know, you know, all
45:35
the things that can be very easily, compare your kids, just
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love them as they are nurture them and how God made them.
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And And be careful. These two nations in Rebecca's
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womb, worry, Israel and Edom. The edomites, which are present
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day, Jordan, you'll be able to see that when we go to Israel,
45:54
those of you coming with us, you'll be able to see Beyond the
45:56
Sea of Galilee, the hills of Jordan right behind there.
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Edom, and edomites, you know, they fought against Israel for
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years. It's a matter of fact, when
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Moses takes the children of Israel through Edom and ask for
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safe, passage they attack them. So biblically and historically
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the last known Edomite was Herod the Great now.
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Its present-day Jordan and then he saw sells his Birthright in a
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momentary. A momentary lapse of his faith.
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What we would call today, he's in the flush, he's hungry.
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He doesn't care about spiritual things.
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So, he sells what is his for a bowl of Stew.
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He sells, what is his for a bowl of Stew.
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He's not interested in spiritual things in the moment, and, you
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know, things can change in a moment.
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The whole course of your life can change in a moment for the
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positive but also for the - he's not interested in feeding or
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nourishing, it nurturing his Spirit or the role that God, the
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god-given role that he has been handed down to him through his
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Birthright. and, As a the appetites of his flesh and he
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sells, what was his god-given right?
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And, you know, the Bible speaks of two types of people, the
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spiritual and the natural or the spiritual, and you might hear
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the word carnal the human. The natural man, or the carnal
47:18
man lives, according to his own desires and we you use the
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phrase, you'll hear it. According to the appetites, the
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spiritual appetites what he wants.
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He wants it, he gets it. The woman that lives, according
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to the flesh whatever they want, they there's no restraint that
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just do whatever they want. Even though they know.
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It's not from God, they feed themselves.
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That's why the title of our studies, don't feed your flesh
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because it's never satisfied. Never satisfied.
47:47
And the spiritual man. Although he lives in a natural
47:49
body and has physical appetites keeps his spiritual life.
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As the primary focus. Esau was a carnal man.
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And this episode in his life, he sells his Birthright for some
48:00
food. the Bertha light Birthright was the privilege was
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the god-given privilege of being the chief of the tribe or what
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we would say today, the head of the family It's given to the
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firstborn and it's no small thing and Isaac's family and
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entitled the bearer to all of the blessings of God's, all of
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the blessings of God's promises. And you know, sometimes we as
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Christians, we sell our rights, you've been given the birthright
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of being a son, or a daughter of the king, all of the benefits
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and Privileges and promises that are in.
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Jesus Christ are yes. And amen for you and for me and
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yet it, we watch it over and over again, believer selling
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their birth rights out for what For nothing.
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I think of how many lies have been wrecked by pornography.
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What have you got in return for that?
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I mean what have you gained? I see birthrights destroyed
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destroyed because of lying. Would you get out of that?
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What what was the? What was the bonus?
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Drugs and alcohol, and people that said, they were your
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friends, what did you get out of that because you were hungry in
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the moment. And we need to learn that
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there's no negotiation. This has been a theme.
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I in our church last few weeks and all this Studies have been
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woven together. There's no negotiation with the
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flush like like we learn with with the amalekites that
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attacked in Exodus 17. We recently, you got to wipe
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them out, there's no peace treaty with the flush.
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There's no signing a, I'll give you this much in my life.
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The Bible says, in Romans here to reckon the old man dead.
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Make no provision for the Flesh and you can just pray through
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that walk in the spirit as Galatians says, and you won't
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fulfill the desires of the Flesh.
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And that's what we leave off in this chapter and you can read
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ahead because we will see in chapter 26, some sin in Isaac's
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life that looks a lot like his dad because that's where he
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picked it up from. So father, I pray as we learn in
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this Bible study God. And just thinking God, we just
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thinking of the weight that comes when we talk about hard
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things, Like abortion or like forgiveness reconciliation or
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divorce or polygamy? I mean, these are hard things.
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And we need help. And how to communicate?
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Your heart in a world that so need desperately needs, you
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Lord. And would you just forgive us or
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help us? I don't know, quite what we
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need. God to maybe, we just plead with
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you that we don't want to get involved in the court culture
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wars. Like we don't want to be the
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activists and the ones that are screaming and yelling that never
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really make any progress. God, we want to be down where
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you are. The, you mean, you were, you
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stoop so low that you were writing in the dirt?
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We want to be down in the place of service.
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And help. And compassion.
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And truth. But God would you teach us how
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to deliver truth in a way that would be received by those that
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are close in our lives? Would you give us the language?
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Would you give us like Insight on how to deliver it?
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and I just think of That woman tonight maybe even feeling
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pressure from her boyfriend, to get an abortion, God, that you
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would just give her the courage and protect her from any kind of
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abuse or any kind of fear. She might be having right now,
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and just give her the confidence in the courage.
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Maybe she even feels all alone. I pray for that fear. maybe it's
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all couch with confidence and courage and she's a strong woman
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or a strong teenager and just kind of Hiding that broken.
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Little girl Under the Sea Under the surface.
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God, we don't we don't know how you would use us, but we want to
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take note of How God I pray for the marriages that are broken.
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The maybe the husband tonight, they go, you don't have him and
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pleading for my wife. or the wife is I haven't been pleading
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or you know, Wife that her husband bailed on her, just
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abandon her. The kids that are caught in the
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middle or just so much Brokenness in this chapter and
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I'm reminded that God there's wholeness and healing in you.
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even if we haven't fully realized that we haven't fully
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felt it yet, The through the Forgiveness of sins.
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The Healing Begins, and I just want to invite you today.
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If you're here and you've never given your life to Jesus Christ.
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When I invite you to do that, that's where the Healing Begins.
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It doesn't begin in a Bible study and it doesn't begin with
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being in a church. And it doesn't begin with buying
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a Bible and it doesn't begin with having a Christian friend.
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It doesn't begin. And all of the things that we
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think it does, the beginning of healing starts when you confess
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your sins and you receive the forgiveness.
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Forgiveness that God has for you and I want to invite you if
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you're here today and you've never accepted Jesus as your
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savior and you'd like to do that, would you just stand to
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your feet? I want to pray with you.
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I want to pray for you. I want to help you turn away,
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turn your life away from your sinful past.
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It was on a Wednesday night when I responded to this same
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invitation. Just sharing my testimony
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yesterday with someone that never heard didn't know anything
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about me or sharing it and I'm like, man made me cry thinking
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of it. Well good God is how he's been
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pursuing you all this time. You don't even have to be in the
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room, you know. God, sees you wherever you are,
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you don't have to stand either. It's like standing doesn't
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doesn't do anything, but what it does.
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Is it marks a time? It's kind of, like a A picture.
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Where you can remember. Even mentally and verbally
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visually. Like I remember the day, I gave
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my life to Christ, not going to live for myself anymore.
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It's about that guy that sold his life for a bowl of Stew.
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I don't want to do that with my life.
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One of the for something greater So you can ask God to forgive,
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you could say, God forgive me of my sins because he have to ask.
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Like the Bible says you have to confess with your mouth, the
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Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart, that God raised him from
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the dead. So you can tell God, would you
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forgive me? God for my sins.
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I believe you sent Jesus to live for me and die for me.
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And I believe he rose again from the dead to save my soul.
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God hears you when you pray and you can come up and we'll
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explain things, we have Little Packet to give you because, you
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know, what do I do next? Well, there's a lot of life to
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be lived. Next, that's what you need to
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bring your marriage, to the altar.
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Come up and pray with someone need to bring your singleness.
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You need to bring your dad, your mom, to the altar.
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Let us pray for you and stand with you and believe.
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God, you don't believe God, right now.
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Let us that have some faith. That were not going through his
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stuff as bad as you are. Let us have some Faith with you
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and believe for you. You can leave encouraged because
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we all go through Seasons like that.
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And let the Lord use you mightily in these last days, the
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days in which we live. So that no matter what our age
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is, you know, we live to a good old H.
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So could be so faithful to us. He loves you so much guy.
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Like me can't even describe how much God loves you.
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You just got to feel it and experience it.
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Then you'll know it and it will change you forever.
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