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#10137 - Deceit Destroys Families - Genesis 27:1-23 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Now, here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Amen, open your Bibles, Genesis
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chapter 27. We're going to look at the first
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20 or so verses in our study today.
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And I've entitled it, deceit, destroys families, deceit.
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Or you could say deception, destroys families.
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Chapter 27 is another one of those unfortunate chapters in
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The Bible. A true story of manipulation
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deceit and lies within a family and the long-term consequences
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that are created. It's a lot like the sad chapters
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that come and go in our lives. Here's a sad chapter in the
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Bible. It's also like a lot of the sad
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chapters that come and go in our lives.
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We simply wish they weren't there.
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If we were writing our biography or autobiography it would be a
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chapter we just would skip you be reading in.
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It's a chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 6 and you go, wait a
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minute, what happened? Two three, four and five.
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All we're not including that because they're not chapters in
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our lives that were proud of their not.
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Actors in our lives that we if we could go back and redo the
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chapter, we rewrite it, we would definitely go in a New Direction
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but life's not like that. It's The Good, the Bad and the
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Ugly, God uses it. All the Bible never holds back.
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This is a chapter remind us that the Bible never holds back on
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describing. The people that God uses the
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Bible, is abundantly honest about the men and women that he
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has chosen to use. It's always a painful Truthful
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realization when God, describes and details the lives of the
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people. He's chosen to use so much so
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that it the only response can be amazing grace.
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Why would god look what he did and why would God use him?
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Grace, look what she did. I can't believe how would God
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bless her grace? And this is one of those
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chapters. It's the grace of God because if
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you back off any you know, dramatic chapter and just look
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at life. Thing is Grace.
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Exactly. Where do you?
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And I really deserve any kind of right standing with God except
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by the blood of Jesus Christ, and the blood of Jesus is come
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by Grace. But these more difficult
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chapters, we shake our head at times.
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But also, we can look in the mirror and say we have our own
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faults and failures. And as God describes the
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difficulties in people's lives, it's another reason, although
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not theological, but more pragmatic, but I think valid.
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Nonetheless, it's another reason why I believe that the Bible is
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divine in origin and not human in origin.
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What I mean by that is that the Bible is exactly what it says.
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God written or God breathe. Because, if you and I were
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sitting down to write a story about deity and our interaction
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with them, we would not include the kind of stuff that God
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includes. We would clean it up.
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Even as we tell our story sometimes, I know for a fact,
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there are times from the pulpit when I'll share episodes of My
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Testimony that I do not give you the whole story.
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Not because I'm trying to make myself look better.
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It's just not suitable for a mixed audience.
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The kind of stuff I was into and the kind of send that wrapped
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its tentacles around my life and some choose not to tell the
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whole story to try to sugarcoat, you have nothing to sugarcoat
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about your past. You don't have to tell the whole
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story, but you can tell enough to go, man, we're so glad you
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got saved. And I'm glad that I got saved.
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What we have before us in chapter 27 is a true story of
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incredible deceit and favoritism in the family of Isaac.
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Isaac, the patriarch tries to circumvent the will of God by
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attempting to bless Esau, when God has already declared the
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Jacob would be blessed next. There's Rebecca, his wife, she's
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a keen manipulator and sets out to deceive her husband.
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She knows God's heart. And instead of praying for her
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husband, she Decides to help God out which we've seen many times
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already in our study in Genesis. And by the way, it reminds me of
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the proverb Rebecca does that the woman tears down her house
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with their own hands and you get a good example of that progress
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in her life. Then we have, Esau, he sells his
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Birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew and now wants it back
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desperately. And then finally, in this true
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story in this family, there's Jacob.
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He's a liar and a conniver and also a Later, a convincing con
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artist who does anything to receive the blessing from his
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father. I don't use any heavy words, but
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I think this family is a family filled with bloopers and
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blunders and I'm not in any way trying to minimize sin, but
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there are just bumbling along in life, making really bad
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decisions that are going to pay for the rest of their life.
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But God still uses them and you need to know that in your own
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life. Because you could say well, look
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at my family and look where I came from and look at the
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dysfunction, you know, that's a real popular words a day to
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describe difficult family situations.
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They're just dysfunctional their dysfunctional.
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But let me let you in on a secret.
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We all have come from a dysfunctional family.
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The only difference between your family and mine is the level of
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dysfunction. You could say it from a Biblical
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perspective, we've all come from a sinfully broken homes because
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sin is broken. Every home.
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Every home is not What God desires.
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It's not as good as it could be as it was in the garden because
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sin has broken us all. But God's grace is repairing us
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and God still uses them and he still uses us.
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Take home with you today. The incredible encouragement
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that God is work at work, even in your home, and in your
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family, in your marriage, he hasn't given up on you.
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There are Works according to Ephesians, 2:10 that God
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prepared beforehand so that you could walk in them.
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Why? Because of his grace in
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Ephesians chapter 2, it says in verse 8, will for by Grace you
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have been saved through faith. Will let me show you turn over
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to Ephesians, hold your place in Genesis will get there because
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you need to see this on your phone on you.
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Tablet on your Bible, in your paper Bible.
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I want you to see it. You might need to meditate on
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it. If they're, you know, I started
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at the end of verse 10, that there are works that God has
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prepared beforehand for you and I to walk in them as Believers.
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But the real question is, why why are their works and how are
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their works and even what are their works?
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But here is the why in verse 8 for by Grace is Ephesians
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chapter 2 and verse 8. For by Grace, you have been
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saved through faith and that not of yourselves.
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It is the gift of God, not of your good works, lest anyone
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should boast for. We are his workmanship created
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in Christ Jesus. For good works which God
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prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
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God has a gracious life ahead for you.
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It's all in preparation. What God is doing today even?
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Ooh, your failures and your dysfunction is preparing you
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for. What's up ahead?
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Please don't misunderstand me. There's not permission from God
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for you to live. And sinful dysfunction, when
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there is a sin revealed or a direction, revealed or a
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correction or instruction, we would do well to obey God and
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repenting or changing or submitting or growing and
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cooperating with God obeying him, with what we learn in the
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word. But even through all of our
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obedience and our cooperation and are listening and learning,
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we are still in great need of God's grace.
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We're still going to be walking by Gray's living by grace and
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you know as in Christ you're going to make it to heaven and
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you know how you're going to make it to Heaven by Grace
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Grace, wasn't just for your salvation.
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It was for the next steps and it wasn't just for the next steps
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but it was for your life now and it's not just for your life now
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but Grace is going to cover you. All of Heaven is going to be a
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glorious celebration of the grace of God.
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And then we ask the question, well, why Grace?
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Because God loves you. You.
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Because of his great love. That might be a barrier for you,
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he's like but I'm so unlovable. Well, God knows that.
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And he loves the parts of you that are lovable created in His
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image. And there's something about God,
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that always encourages me, is that he sees beyond what we see
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for ourselves. If you just limit yourself to
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what you see, and what you foresee, and what you think can
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happen and where you came from and your education and how much
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money you have and where you live and you'll never amount to.
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Then you're missing out on the great potential that God has for
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you in Christ. He sees far beyond your
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limitations, he is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above
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all that you think our ass. So go ahead and think big and
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ask big from God. He's able to do beyond that.
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Take the step of Faith. Be used greatly by him present
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yourself as a living side, presenting your body as a Living
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Sacrifice, even though some of you will go home to a home like
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this tonight. So we can be all encouraged in
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the pulpit and we can smile and clap and have fun in church.
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And that's great. We need it.
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Don't you ever despise that we need to laugh and hug and enjoy
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because you know what? You're going home too.
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And you know what's at work tomorrow?
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And you're hoping God miraculously put miraculously
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puts gas in your car because you drive you drove here on fumes
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and you're like I hope I can get home tonight and you know what
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happened? God's man get you home, he's
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going to take care of you but you might come home to a home
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like this tonight where it's just so jacked up and it's so
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hard and there's really nothing you can do except trust in the
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Lord, he's brought you to the end of yourself so that you
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might cry out to him and watch him sustain you in Strengthening
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of you. Even in the worst of situations,
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they can be Redeemed by Jesus, don't give up and don't quit,
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and don't throw in the towel. Your story is not over yet.
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Remember that word yet? Your story is not over.
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Yet you go at. How can you say that?
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Because you're breathing. You're listening to my voice.
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God is not done this chapter today back in Genesis, 27 serves
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as a warning that if we're not careful to cultivate our own
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personal spiritual lives, everything can fall apart Nobody
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in this story is Walking with the Lord really in a real way.
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Otherwise chapter 27 wouldn't be here.
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Notice verse 1. Now it came to pass when Isaac
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was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see that he
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called. He saw his older son and said to
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him my son and he answered him. Here I am and he said, behold
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now I'm old. I do not know the day of my
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death now. Therefore please take your
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weapons, your quiver, your bow, and go out to the field and Hunt
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game for me. Make me some Savory food such as
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I love and bring it to me that I may eat that my soul may bless
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you before I die. It's true.
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Isaac indeed is a very old man. If you do the math, he's 137
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years old, as he lay there is eyesight's, going bad is body's
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breaking down, he begins to think about life and death, and
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he realizes that death will soon be upon him.
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Back in chapter 25, we learned that Ishmael he died about the
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same age. So there's some reality there.
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So these things are swirling in his head as they often do in our
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own head and he believes that it's time to bless his son.
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But as we read ahead and I hope you do that as we study through
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together, Isaac is not as close that close to death as he thinks
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he's going to live another 43 years.
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So he's not as close as he thinks, but doesn't that sound
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like us at? Times when we see something, we
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feel something. We think it's so real, but its
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not real at all. It's just a feeling and we're
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creating some false reality on our feelings.
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Oh, that's our Isaac is But beginning to look ahead, it's
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not it's not unwise to consider your own mortality because we
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don't know when the Lord is going to call us home.
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We don't know that day. This is wise to think about it,
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and I appreciate that as he's thinking about life and death
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that he's getting his house in order, he's getting his house in
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order reminding me, jot it down and Amos chapter 4 and verse 12
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says therefore thus I will do To You O Israel because I'll do
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this to you, prepare to meet your God o Israel and that is
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the word of the Lord to Prepare to meet your God.
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Are you ready in this concurrent condition that you're in to meet
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your God? Now, of course you can take that
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a couple of different ways. First of all, you can, I can ask
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you that question. Have you have, you had your sins
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forgiven by the blood of Jesus Christ?
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That's the only way you'll ever meet God.
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You will not be able to stand in the presence of God, on any
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other condition. It won't be on your good works.
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It won't be on your family name, it won't be on.
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You were more moral than your Mother, or your sister, or
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better than some bad character. That was in history.
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The only way you will be able to stand before God or bow.
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The knee and worship is that you have been Blood Bought cleansed
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by the blood of Jesus Christ. Are you prepared to meet your
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maker in that way? But knowing most of my audience
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today already has a relationship with Jesus.
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The next question is are you ready to meet God with the life
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that you've lived? Are you ready?
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Are you ready to say? God, here is my life.
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I stand Here by your grace. There's nothing hidden in my
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life. I'm not playing any games, I'm
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not in any car. You ready to prepare and prepare
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to meet your God? because whether it's in
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eternity, or it's in your prayer closet tonight, I wonder Among
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Us. How many of your prayer lives
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were hindered today because of anger.
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How many of our prayers today were hindered because of
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bitterness. How many of our prayers, in the
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ten minutes, we focused in prayer were hindered because
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there are unresolved issues in the marriage. or that you
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haven't done as much as possible to live at peace with all men,
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or Thousand different little things that we take for granted
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because God doesn't judge us right away, we don't feel the
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consequences right away. I like that, he's considering
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this in one of his thought is you know I need to prepare.
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I need to prepare for the future.
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I need to give out the blessing, so he tells Esau, it says there
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in verse 3 to go get some food. I understand that Isaac is a dad
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loves his son. He loves he saw.
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He saw was the man's man, remember in their personalities.
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He was his favorite, Rebecca of favored, Jacob, because Jacob
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hung hung out in the house more often.
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And these two favorite, these two spouses, a husband and wife,
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mom and dad that played favorites with their kid ruin
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their house. It's hard to believe that we're
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reading about the same Isaac here in this chapter.
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You remember, Isaac with his father back in chapter 22, was
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that submissive, loyal obedient son?
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Who was looking around, following his dad up the
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mountain saying, where's the sacrifice dad?
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Where's the sacrifice? He had a strong faith in God,
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and because of that, strong faith in God.
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He willingly climbed up on that Altar.
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And now years later he's changed unwilling to obey Prophecy in
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the word of the Lord. What we would call that today's
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he's in the flesh, he's in Disobedience, and I thought it
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was important. It's why we're not going to
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cover the whole chapter today, just to pause for a second.
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And as a pastor and as a friend, remind you that, it's very easy
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to backslide. It's very easy to backslide, a
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little compromise here, a little decision, they're a little
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shortcut, they're avoiding the word of God over this day.
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Avoiding Fellowship, avoiding spiritual nourishment, and my
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word to you is be careful. Backsliding is no nothing to
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overlook. Remember, I'm training you and I
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want you to pay attention to this if you ever hear it, the
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things that Christians love to argue about the most often are
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the most important things to understand and many times, very
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simple to understand. So there's a big debate in the
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church today. Oh, you can backside.
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No, you can't backslide. And yes, you know, you can't
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backslide. I I just don't have any time for
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that nonsense. I'm telling you right now, you
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can backslide. You can be a believer who wants
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love Jesus and serve him with all your heart.
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You can walk away from the Lord and live a life of misery.
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I can make a Biblical point for you, and I can also make a
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practical point for you. I could in this room invite
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people up here to share a testimony to prove it to you.
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And so, I'm asking you don't argue about it, avoid it.
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And some of you are still like somebody's yelling at their car
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radio right now, prove it prove it.
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I'm glad you will turn over to Hebrews chapter 2 and let me
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show you. This is just one place, but
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while you're turning over there, how do you explain, how do you
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explain so many that were once walking with the Lord, or at
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least in Fellowship that are now living in the world?
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What do you call it? Well, maybe they weren't saved
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to begin with, maybe that's possible.
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But all of them. Every single one of them.
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Every single person that's living in the world right now
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that was wants and worship once sharing the gospel wants of
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every single one of them weren't saved again.
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I don't believe that. Some of them.
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Sure, absolutely. But, you know, the thing about
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that is I have no idea. I don't know if they were saved
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or not, they said they were. So I'm going to treat him that
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way. I'ma hold him accountable to
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what the word says. You say, you're a Believer,
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you're going to be treated like a Believer, you say, you're a
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Believer and you act like an unbeliever, I'll treat you like
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a Believer that's acting. Like an unbeliever and we have a
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word for that. You're backslidden.
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And I will call you to repentance and beg you to come
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home, beg you to come back to the Lord, because that's where
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you belong. Ang and so, what did he tell the
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Hebrews chapter to your party? There before me?
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Because I got sidetracked Hebrews chapter 2, we studied
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this. I did a whole series on this.
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You can go to the website Calvary Co dot church or
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download our app and that's the best way to stay in contact with
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us. Download the app, turn on
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notifications. If you have the app and you
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don't get any notifications, delete the app and redownload
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it. And when it says, can I you want
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notifications, say yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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Because there's a good. That you said, no, and so you
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don't get any of them. So delete it, and redownload it
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and answer. Yes.
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When it says, do you want notification?
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So I did a whole series on this. Just go on there.
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Go to our website, go to the app and put the word backslide in
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the search bar. I think we did for studies on
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this topic in Hebrews, but here's what it says verse 1.
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Therefore we must give the more Earnest heed to the things we
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have heard. What does your Bible say?
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Lest we drift away? So is it possible for believers
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to drift away? Yes or no.
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Just say it out loud with me it's a simple Bible quiz a plus
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plus it go ahead it doesn't say backslide.
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Okay then say this stop drifting away.
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Stay strong and follow the Lord. It is possible to drift away.
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If you want to use that language it's possible to backslide.
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If you don't take more Earnest heed and here's the thing.
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Even some listening to me right now, nobody ever really thinks
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they're going to backslide. Nobody thinks that first
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decision that first compromise is going to lead them down a
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path. So far away from God.
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I think that among us even now IQ could feel and sense the
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excitement and the joy to follow Jesus.
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We all want to grow. We all want to learn, we all
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want to change, almost always there's this attitude.
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Let's grow and let's go for the things of the Lord.
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But we know real life is not like that.
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We don't always live at that high level.
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We're not always. Yes.
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Let's go, let's go let's go we're not always that way.
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Life is hard and challenging. And difficult. and unfortunately
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some under the pressures of life, Combined with really bad
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decisions, backslide. And currently or living in
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misery and part of the misery is their self deceived, they won't
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even admit it. Is it possible for a Christian
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to backslide? Absolutely 100%.
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It's clearly taught in the Bible.
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We have Jesus spent, you know, Jesus did not waste his words
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and he spent time teaching us about the Prodigal Son.
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And I know we call it the parable of the prodigal son
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because he gets all the attention, but it's actually not
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about the Sun. And you know, not only the
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prodigal son, but you got that other son at home and how he
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copped an attitude. So he was prodigal, even staying
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at home. It's not actually about that
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son. it's a parable of the god of the father who loves And
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who's willing to receive the? Prodigal that leaves or the
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prodigal that stays. It's all about the father and
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his great love for his kids. That's a natural.
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Love that we have. It's a supernatural love from
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God. Backsliding, always equals
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misery and yes, Believers can have temporary lapses in their
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Christian faith that can last year's.
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But the good news is that every True Believer?
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When they repent and come home, they're welcomed home
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immediately. You know, you don't need to try
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to fix all the years you've been gone.
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That just pick up where you left off and let's serve the Lord.
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Let God do what he wants to do in your life, okay?
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With that, in mind, 27:5 now come back with me.
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This will be Preparatory for our next study as we finish the
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chapter as well. So this treat today's study,
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like an introduction, verse 5. Now, Rebecca was listening when
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Isaac spoke to Esau his son and he saw went to the field to hunt
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game and bring it. And remember, I told you that
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one of the greatest skills, I told Chachi this in the servants
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class, one of the greatest skills you have in ministry as
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observation. And one of the observations you
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can have is not only what you see but what you hear So now we
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have an example with Rebecca who has inside information and how
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she chooses to use it, what can be used for good.
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Or for evil. It's the same in the church so
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much pain and suffering happens in the church because there is
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precious information that you have that you've misused, you
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would have never done that. Perhaps that's true.
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But if you've ever gossiped about someone you have if you've
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ever lied about someone, you have if you've ever taken one
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little thing and made it into something that it wasn't, you
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have, of course we have, There's trust in a church family,
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there's trust among Believers and part of that.
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Trust means we're going to have information about each other.
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Like Rebecca, she hears this going on.
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She hears, what's happening? And as you read the rest of the
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chapter, you're going to see, she miss uses that information.
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So let me just say, don't misuse information to hurt other
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people. Okay.
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Pray about the information, you see and you here and then pray
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for wisdom on how to use it because you can really hurt
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people. You can really do deep damage.
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If we don't use the information God's allows us to have
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carefully. So he says in verse 6, Rebecca
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spoke to Jacob her son. She heard what was happening
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with Esau. She went right to her favorite
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son. Jacob, Saying indeed, I heard
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your father, speak to Esau your brother saying, bring me game
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and make savory food for me that I may eat it and bless you in
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the presence of the Lord, before my death.
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Now, therefore, my son obey, my voice, according to what I
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command you, Go now to the flock and bring for me there to
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Choice. Kids of the goats, and I will
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make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves.
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Then, you shall take it to your father that he may eat it that,
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he may bless you before his death, Sarah is a good
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eavesdropper. So is Rebecca.
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You can see things get passed down.
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She quickly calls. Jacob shares what he heard, what
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she heard, and then the plan. Hatched to fool, Isaac.
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And you have to ask what happened in this marriage that
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she would have no problem, deceiving her husband.
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What has happened? Don't keep secrets you.
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Marry couples. Don't keep secrets don't hide
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things from your spouse. Don't have C.
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Let your life be an open book. The Bible says that a married
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couple is to leave their mother and father and the clean to one
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another and become one. And there must have been things
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that happening in this home in a very human way, that would bring
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her to the place where she's going to manipulate her own
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husband for the sake of her favorite son against her.
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Other son, it's a pretty bad mess.
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You can't sugarcoat this. If you're challenged in your
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marriage right now and you're looking for some suggestions on
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how to rekindle romance and kindness and love in your
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marriage, I posted article on my blog not too long ago, it's
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right on the homepage, I pinned it to the homepage, I think I
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titled it. Something like 10 things to stir
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up, love and romance in your marriage, 10, or 12 things.
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Something like that, but it's right on the homepage at Taylor
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dot-org. I suggest you go look at it and
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even if you're doing exceptionally well, Well, even
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if you guys are the best you've ever been, it could be better.
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As you start paying attention to one another.
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And those of you that are single, you can start praying
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this into your life and praying it into your future spouses
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life. You don't need to wait, you can
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start asking God, make me this man make me this woman so I can
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honor the relationships that he is allows into my life, but this
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is a messed-up marriage and it didn't happen overnight verse
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11. Then Jacob said to Rebecca, his
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mom, look you saw. My brother is a hairy man and
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I'm a smooth skin man. And you remember when he was
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born, he came out all Harry. Perhaps my father will feel me
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and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him.
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So come on Mom, let's make sure he doesn't find out that we're
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deceiving. Him is basically what he's
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saying and I shall be a bring a curse on myself and not a
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blessing and listen what his mom says, let your curse.
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Be on me, my son. Only obey my voice and go get
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them from me. And let me just say your mom.
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And dad's voice is not louder than the voice of God when
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they're telling you to sin. So it's site truth here, you
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always listen to God. You don't let a pastor tell you
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to sin. You don't let a mom tell you to
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sin or a dad. Tell you to sin or a wife or a
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husband tell you God's voice when you were brought to that
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place even if you know let her let the curse be on me.
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I don't want a curse on you. I want to obey And it takes a
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lot of integrity and strength to do the right thing, even with
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those that you love and are closest to you, verse 14, and he
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went and got them and brought them to his mother and his
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mother made Savory food just as his father.
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Loved and Rebecca took the choice clothes of her Elder son,
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Esau, which were in with her in the house and put them on Jacob,
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her younger son and she put the skins of the kids on the goats
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on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
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And she gave the Savory food in the bread, which he had prepared
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into the hand of her. Son, Jacob.
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So Jacobs a smart man. He's given a little bit of
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resistance but you know, Mom has has influence over him even
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though he's fully responsible and these words that have cursed
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would come back to haunt Rebecca.
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When she sends him away, she'll never see him again.
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And I get your mind and just how, you know, not only I use
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blunders and bloopers earlier. I just want you to get your mind
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on how goofy Jacob looks right now.
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Wearing his brothers clothing and putting the skins of the
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kids on his hands and the smooth part of his neck and he just,
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it's just ridiculous. And we go.
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Oh yeah. So ridiculous.
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But can't you think of some ridiculous situations?
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You got yourself in through sin. That's how you look.
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Just look so weird. It doesn't fit you daughter of
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the king. It doesn't fit you son of the
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king. It's not God's will for you.
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To be caught up in some scheme, some deception, just trying to
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get what you want instead of trusting in the Lord, to the
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links that we will take. The things that we will do that.
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Make us look so dumb. To lie and deceive and descend.
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One commentator. Put it again.
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He Jacob. Looks like he's coming to his
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dad in an ape suit. She didn't exist back then but
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just pretending to be something that he's not Verse 18.
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So he went to his father and said, my father, and he said,
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here, I am, who are you my son? And Jacob said, I am Esau your
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firstborn. I've done.
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Just as you told me, please arise and City to my game that
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my soul may bless me and Isaac said, how is that?
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You found it so quickly, my son and isn't the Lord.
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So gracious chance, after chance after chance after chance, like,
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when the whole bottom falls out? I'm telling you this again, as a
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pastor today, strong word. Don't you go blaming for God,
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don't you go blaming God for that.
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He gave you chance after chance. After chance.
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And just plowing through the disc, the deception, with the
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deception, in the, The Grieving of the Holy Spirit.
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Well, Isaac said to Jacob, please come near.
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Well really the lion verse 20. He said because the Lord had
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brought it to me, really, really I've been around long enough,
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I'm sure you have as well. That Christians will blame God
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for all sorts of sin. It's like it just if you get
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good at making excuses, that's all you be good for And it's
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just better to live a life that's pleasing to the Lord.
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Isaac senses, something's not right?
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But his faculties are not all there and you know in our later
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years or in those times of weakness, we really do.
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Trust the people around us to make up the difference for our
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weaknesses. You don't really expect to be
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taken advantage of. One of the greatest pains I ever
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experienced in my life is after my son passed away to see.
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How many people tried to take advantage of the death of my son
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to do me more harm, I would have never predicted that.
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You talk about trying to kick a man when he's down or kick a
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family when they're done. I would have never predicted
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that, but God is so gracious. He got us through it, be able to
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stand strong by the grace of God, but man, it's like it's
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vicious. It's Hard Out There.
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But, you know, as hard as it gets, the Lord is gracious, who
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he's going to overrule, its how you just the safest place.
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You are on the planet Earth is not to take things into your own
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hands, but to abide in Christ, let him be your Defender and it
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might be hurtful and hard and challenging at times, but you
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just let the Lord defend you. He'll take good care of you.
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So he answers, oh, it's me your son and I'm dressed up like a
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hairy liar, but he doesn't say that.
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You know, and all this conversation Isaac is sensing
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something, but he still taking advantage of because the wife
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that he trusts lied to him, the son that he trusts lied to him.
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He's not able to depend on his faculties or anything and he's
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just in such a vulnerable place. And again, I think today the
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Lord would have us to remind them out of how bad our families
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are, every family has issues, Whenever I hear descriptions as
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I had many times in the Church of difficult family situations.
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I always respond. Well, we all have family.
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We all have stories. We all have siblings or Uncle's
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or we all have family. Can I get an amen on that as out
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to you? Do you all have family?
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I have my own family and it's just the way it is.
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And you might be the generation, Everything Changes.
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You're the generation of change your the world changer in your
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family and in your home. So a lot of things are outside
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of your control but a lot of it is under your control.
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Is you choose to follow the lord.
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Well notice what happens? Then Isaac said to Jacob verse
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21, please come near that I might feel you my son whether
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you really my son Esau or not. Well you know Mom took care of
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that, didn't she? So he Jacob went near Isaac his
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father felt him said the voice is Jacobs.
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But the hands are of, Esau. He didn't recognize him because
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his hands were hairy. Like his brother Esau's, so he
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blessed him and then he said, are you really my son?
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Esau. And he said, I am will bring it
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near me so I can eat my son's game.
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So my soul may bless you and he brought it near him and he ate.
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And he brought him wine and he drank and his father.
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Isaac said to him come near now, and kiss me my son, and he came
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near and kissed him and smelled the smell of his clothing.
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And blessed him. And and I want you to see his
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wife knew this. His wife knew he would do this.
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Why? Because they live life together,
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she knew him. She covered all the bases but in
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a deceitful way. And so notice he says, surely
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the smell of my son is like the smell of a field, which the Lord
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has blessed. Therefore, may God give you of
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the Dew of Heaven, in the fatness of the earth, plenty of
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grain and wine that people serve you and Nations bow down to you.
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Be Masters over your brethren and let your mothers sons bow
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down to you cursed, be everyone who curse It's you and blessed.
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Be everyone that bless you and then we're not going to get into
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this. We'll get into it next study.
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But can't you feel the tension? And if this was a movie, the
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lights are dimmed, the angle of the camera changes and then the
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music changes. Then it happened the whole scene
36:25
changes as Isaac finished blessing.
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Jacob, that Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of
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Isaac that Esau came and from hunting. is, you can be sure of
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this The Bible says your sin will find you out.
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It's be sure of it. Isaac isn't able to discern
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this, who this person was exactly.
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But he did send something. It was wrong.
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Something that wasn't quite right?
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Listening to The Voice, touching the neck, and the arms, smelling
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the room, the touch fooled him, his nose, led him astray, his
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eyes weren't working for him, but one thing was certain, he
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heard the voice. He knew the word from Jacob.
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Didn't sound like, Esau. And this is key with the failure
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of Isaac, here of all that's happening here.
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And even some theological issues that come about with the
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blessing of God, in the lineage for messiah, and we get to that
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in our next study. But setting that aside, I want
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to leave you with this thought. The key for Isaac here, was that
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instead of going by the word, that he heard, he relied on his
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senses, his feelings and he was deceived And the same thing can
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happen to you and me, and a practical way.
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If we leave the sure word of God, and Rely Upon Our senses,
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Rely Upon Our feelings rely upon our opinions or the opinions of
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others you and I will be deceived at one point or
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another. If we Rely Upon Our feelings and
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not the sure word of God. We're living in such a day.
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where, Believers. At least in our small circle of
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church by the dozens are leaving adopting popular opinions of the
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day, or some new popular, YouTube guy or some Tick-Tock
38:23
guy, or whatever about. It doesn't even matter.
38:26
Some false prophet is with pink hair or whatever, it doesn't
38:29
even matter that they're leaving the word of God and following
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some person. And that's going to be a painful
38:37
end. It is not going to end well.
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The Bible says to test all things and to hold fast to what
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is good. It doesn't say to go, listen to
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all things, it doesn't say to go watch.
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All things, it doesn't say to go after all things, it says to
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test all things. And what the Bible is saying is
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anything that comes to you your, to tested, by the word of God,
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it's not saying to go look at everything.
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And I've got a little bit of flak and some, even some friends
39:07
of mine, get off says, I can't believe you told people not to
39:09
send you YouTube videos. What kind of pasta are you?
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This is the kind of Pastor. I am.
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Don't send me any YouTube videos.
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I don't want to watch him. I don't have time for it was the
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Bible. Say, yeah.
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But what about this guy? Why are you listening to this
39:23
guy? I've taught you the whole Bible,
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all the whole new testament Ghent from Matthew to
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Revelation. Go listen to that.
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If this is your church and you trust me, I've taught you the
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Bible, you got plenty of time to listen to Bible studies.
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If you trust me then go listen to Bible studies.
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I've got a whole discipleship reading list that I prepared for
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you. We've had almost from the
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beginning of the church, you have free time on your hands.
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I've got a lot of recommended resources that will bless you of
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trustworthy people. Email me.
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I'll send you the list. No charge printed out, your own
39:54
sub, print it out yourself and go downstairs and pick up the
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books in our bookstore. Why?
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Because all the proceeds, even from the bookstore go to
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missionaries. You have spare time on your
40:04
hands. I don't have spare time on my
40:06
hands, but if I did, I'd be in the word of God.
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And if I did, I'll be reading some book that I did encourages
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me on leadership, or loving, God, or serving God or dealing
40:15
with depression or whatever issue.
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It is, in my life that I want to seek the Lord.
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I don't need to hear some fanciful.
40:21
Weird doctrine. That tickles my ears.
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And so you're right. I'm not a, you know, one guys.
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I can't believe you're so upset. I'm not upset about it the way
40:30
you think. I'm like, I'm not mad at you.
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I'm mad at the Devil. I'm not mad at you.
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That's a natural. The Bible said that there will
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be the time when people in the church went on endure sound
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Doctrine. The Bible said it's if you want
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to look it up, its second Timothy chapter 4, this is
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prophesied there. Be men and women in the church
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that will not have not endure sound Doctrine, and because of
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their own desires. What got Isaac and trouble.
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His senses, his emotions. He didn't take the hey, this is,
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let's just pause for a second. The Voice doesn't sound right.
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The word doesn't sound right? And this just pause.
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But no, it's not according to their own desires because they
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have what pitching ears. So, you got to deal with your
41:17
itching ears. Just admit it.
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And why? Because they'll Heap up for
41:22
themselves. Teachers turn their ears away
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from the truth and be turned aside to fables false teachings.
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And so, I'm not, I'm not personally upset with you at all
41:32
my heart breaks for you because all this time you're wasting,
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you'll never get back. And it doesn't have to be my
41:38
teachings. There's like I have a lot of
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great, you know, could be Chuck Swindoll.
41:41
It could be Tony Evans, it could be my friend, Tony Clark.
41:44
It could be Pastor Chuck Smith. I got dozens of people, I got so
41:48
much MP3s that, you'll never be able to hear anything else
41:51
again, but solid Bible teaching the rest of your life.
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But we're living in really challenging times and we're
41:59
looking at this family and we're super concerned about it.
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Maybe perhaps some listening might be a little judgmental of
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this family because your family is in a better place, and you
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might think, well, I'm not like that.
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And just kind of but don't miss the point.
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If you leave the word of God, you're in danger.
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And I don't just mean the interpretation of a particular
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denomination. Or I mean, just let just read
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the word and let the Holy Spirit.
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Burn it into your heart. And you can test all things,
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you're reading it, test all things, you here, a Bible study
42:29
tested. I know some of their website.
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I can't believe you said back, Selena backside.
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Well, what do you call it? When you drift away, what do you
42:35
call that? Call it.
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Whatever you want, Believers drift away, go ahead and test.
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What I say? It's fine.
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Doesn't doesn't bother me in a hole, but if I get one more
42:45
YouTube video, no, I really don't have the time for it.
42:55
If you have a Bible question this is the neat thing about
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Bible study. When you're in a church that
43:00
teaches Through the Bible. If you have a Bible question
43:04
attach it to a verse and there's a very good chance.
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I taught that verse. So you want to know where the
43:09
answer is in that Bible study that you come to this chapter, I
43:13
can't believe it. What is God do with all these
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families in chapter 27? In Genesis, I can't believe it.
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How could God bless this family? Well, we're going to spend two
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nights teaching on two whole weeks.
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Teaching this study that We will answer most likely those
43:26
questions because the real theological question in this
43:30
chapter is no, wait a minute. Wasn't the will of God for Jacob
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to receive the blessing. Whoa, that's the lineage.
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But then this is where the mistake.
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You be? Making the answers.
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Yes. But don't back in your
43:47
hypotheticals to the Bible. All we know is, this is how it
43:50
happened. But what if and what it don't,
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what if anything God says, this is how it happened.
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And one of the reasons I believe, he said it this way,
43:57
and it happened this way. So, you would know that in your
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dysfunctional family, God can still redeem all the Brokenness
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and you too. By his grace.
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And so it's just so neat. The older I get, the more
44:08
simple. I want to be in my walk with the
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Lord. The more filled with the love
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and grace of God, the more laser focus and more singular focused
44:16
with my time and my attention. So that perhaps my life can
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bring more glory of God and not less.
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And I invite you to join me on the journey.
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That's really what the church is.
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All about. Let's do it together and then we
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Rejoice together. We cry together, We Fight
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Together. We Will We don't fight each
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other. Other like we fight the real
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enemy and we handle things biblically and just let the Holy
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Spirit. Sort it out.
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Amen. Well Lord, thank you for this
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section of scripture and all that you're trying to teach us
44:47
and How how you want us to be prepared for what you're wanting
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to do in our lives? And I know I look back God, I
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see my own mistakes, my own prayerlessness.
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My own weakness, my own. even as a pastor, just Bad decisions,
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Lord and I'm grateful for your grace and your mercy.
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I'm grateful for your sustaining Grace and your sustaining mercy
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and I'm grateful Lord. That Even for those that might
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wander away, they can always come back.
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You receive them just like that. Prodigal Son.
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And even throw a party for them. It's unbelievable.
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You're so good to us. So bless us tonight as we head
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into a heavy weekend and for those of us that will be here
45:40
all weekend, give us the supernatural strength that we
45:43
need to be fresh. Not to complain about it, not to
45:47
be upset about it, but just to serve you with the with the
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knowledge, that it's such a privilege to do.
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So, Jesus name, amen. We pray that you've been
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