WEBVTT 00:00.700 --> 00:05.100 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 00:05.100 --> 00:11.100 For Sarah conceived and bare Abraham's son in his old age, at the time of which God hath spoken to him. 00:11.100 --> 00:16.600 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 00:16.600 --> 00:21.600 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 00:21.600 --> 00:25.100 And Abraham was an hundred years old when his son Isaac was born unto him. 00:25.100 --> 00:27.600 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh. 00:27.700 --> 00:30.180 so that all that here will laugh with me." 00:30.180 --> 00:31.220 And she said, 00:31.220 --> 00:35.220 "'Who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah should have given children suck? 00:35.220 --> 00:38.180 For I have borne him a son in his old age.' 00:38.180 --> 00:40.180 And the child grew and was weaned, 00:40.180 --> 00:43.780 and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. 00:43.780 --> 00:46.020 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, 00:46.020 --> 00:49.700 Bashad born unto Abraham, mocking. 00:50.000 --> 00:57.500 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this bondwoman shall not be here with my son, even with Isaac. 00:57.500 --> 01:01.000 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. 01:01.000 --> 01:07.000 And God said unto Abraham, Let her not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy bondwoman. 01:07.000 --> 01:12.000 And all that Sarah hath said unto thee hearken unto her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 01:12.000 --> 01:16.000 And also the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation because he is thy seed. 01:16.700 --> 01:21.500 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it on to Hagar, 01:21.500 --> 01:24.380 putting it on her shoulder and the child, and sent her away. 01:24.380 --> 01:27.580 And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. 01:27.580 --> 01:32.140 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 01:32.140 --> 01:37.980 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot. 01:37.980 --> 01:40.700 For she said, Let me not see the death of the child. 01:41.100 --> 01:45.500 She sat over against him and lift up her voice and wept. 01:45.500 --> 01:48.980 And God heard the voice of the lad and the angel of God called the Hagar out of heaven 01:48.980 --> 01:51.780 and said unto her, What aileth thee Hagar? 01:51.780 --> 01:54.940 Fear not for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. 01:54.940 --> 02:01.180 Arise, lift up the lad and hold him in thine hand for I will make him a great nation. 02:01.180 --> 02:04.380 And God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water and she went and filled a bottle 02:04.380 --> 02:06.860 with water and gave the lad drink. 02:06.860 --> 02:08.860 And God was with the ladder, he grew. 02:09.300 --> 02:15.300 Dwelled in the wilderness and became an archer and he dwelled in the wilderness of Peran and his mother took him a wife 02:15.300 --> 02:16.700 out of the land of Egypt 02:16.700 --> 02:22.920 It came to pass at that time that a Bamelech and Fikal the chief captain of his hosts spake on Abraham saying 02:23.100 --> 02:25.100 God is with thee and all that thou doest 02:25.320 --> 02:31.820 Now therefore swore unto me here by God that thou will not deal falsely with me nor with my son nor with my son's son 02:31.940 --> 02:35.300 But according to the kindness that I've done unto thee thou shall do unto me 02:36.000 --> 02:38.080 into the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 02:38.080 --> 02:40.280 And Abraham said, I will swear. 02:40.280 --> 02:43.160 And Abraham reproved Abimelek because of a well of water 02:43.160 --> 02:46.200 which Abimelek's servants had violently taken away. 02:46.200 --> 02:49.800 And Abimelek said, I want not who had done this thing, 02:49.800 --> 02:51.160 neither didst thou tell me, 02:51.160 --> 02:54.200 neither yet heard I of it, but today. 02:54.200 --> 02:55.640 And Abraham took sheep and oxen 02:55.640 --> 02:57.640 and gave them unto Abimelek, 02:57.640 --> 02:59.440 and both of them made a covenant. 02:59.440 --> 03:02.520 And Abraham said, seven ye lambs of the flock by themselves. 03:03.200 --> 03:08.200 Abimelek said unto Abraham, What mean these seven new lamps which thou hast set by themselves? 03:08.200 --> 03:15.200 And he said, For these seven new lamps shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me that I have digged this well. 03:15.200 --> 03:22.200 Wherefore he called to place Beersheba, because there they swore both of them. 03:22.200 --> 03:24.200 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. 03:24.200 --> 03:28.200 Then Abimelek rose up and picked off the chief captain of the host. 03:28.500 --> 03:32.900 and they returned into the land of the philistines and abraham planted a groven birsheba and called there 03:33.780 --> 03:40.180 On the name of the lord the everlasting god and abraham sojourned in the philistines land many days. Let's pray father god 03:40.180 --> 03:44.980 We thank you lord the king james bible. Thank you for our church to your lord and we thank you for our pastor 03:45.220 --> 03:48.340 And we ask that you please bless him as he preaches your word in jesus name. We pray amen 03:49.860 --> 03:50.700 Amen 03:51.000 --> 03:55.320 Okay, we're in Genesis chapter 21 this evening. We're continuing with our Bible study on the book of Genesis 03:55.640 --> 04:02.040 And of course this particular story is important because it is the fulfillment of god's promise to abraham and sarah 04:02.280 --> 04:07.720 Regarding the promised child known as isaac and one of the significant aspects of this chapter 04:08.200 --> 04:13.800 Is the fact that it really illustrates or it essentially operates as an allegory of what we see 04:14.440 --> 04:16.680 Clearly stated in the new testament regarding 04:17.300 --> 04:19.000 unbelievers and believers in specific 04:19.000 --> 04:24.440 specifically Jews and those who are believers in Christ, whether Jew or Gentile. 04:24.440 --> 04:29.760 And this is actually used as an illustration, as a powerful illustration in Galatians chapter 04:29.760 --> 04:30.760 four. 04:30.760 --> 04:32.760 We'll go to that in just a bit, but let's go to get started here. 04:32.760 --> 04:37.120 It says the first number one, and the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord 04:37.120 --> 04:38.960 did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 04:38.960 --> 04:43.040 Of course, he's addressing the promises that he made back in Genesis 18. 04:43.040 --> 04:47.000 This is for Sarah conceived and bear Abraham a son in his old age. 04:47.000 --> 04:52.320 the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son that 04:52.320 --> 04:57.720 was born unto him, whom Sarah bared to him, Isaac. And Abraham circumcised him, or his 04:57.720 --> 05:02.840 son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him. And Abraham was a hundred years 05:02.840 --> 05:09.400 old when his son Isaac was born unto him. So, you know, Abraham is pretty old here. He's 05:09.400 --> 05:15.000 a hundred years old. But yet we see here that God still fulfilled the promises. 05:15.000 --> 05:18.400 that he had given to him and obviously the principle that we can learn there is 05:18.400 --> 05:22.360 that if God promises us things through the Word of God you know it doesn't 05:22.360 --> 05:26.920 really matter how long it takes it's obviously worth the wait right if God 05:26.920 --> 05:30.520 says he's gonna do something in his word he's gonna provide for us he's gonna 05:30.520 --> 05:34.840 protect us he is going to show himself strong on our behalf he doesn't 05:34.840 --> 05:39.200 necessarily provide a particular date when he's gonna accomplish it right and 05:39.200 --> 05:43.000 what we need to learn from this is that we as Abraham 05:43.000 --> 05:47.700 need to be fully persuaded the way he had promised he's able also to perform, even if 05:47.700 --> 05:49.300 it takes a hundred years. 05:49.300 --> 05:50.300 Okay. 05:50.300 --> 05:52.600 So we see here that he's at the age of a hundred. 05:52.600 --> 05:53.600 Isaac is born. 05:53.600 --> 05:57.940 And of course we know that, you know, thirteen years prior to this, you have the birth of 05:57.940 --> 05:58.940 Ishmael. 05:58.940 --> 06:03.520 It goes on to say in verse number six, and Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh. 06:04.100 --> 06:11.540 so that all that hear will laugh with me." And she said, who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah 06:11.540 --> 06:18.660 should have given children suck, for I have borne him a son in his old age. So beautiful thing here, 06:18.660 --> 06:25.220 the fulfillment of the promise Isaac. But now we get into the conflict between Isaac and his 06:25.220 --> 06:31.940 half-brother Ishmael. It says in verse eight, and the child grew and was weaned and Abraham made a great 06:32.100 --> 06:34.500 feast in the same day that Isaac was weaned. 06:34.500 --> 06:38.740 Now, weaned is referring to the fact that he's no longer 06:38.740 --> 06:40.020 feeding from his mother. 06:40.020 --> 06:43.700 And obviously, there's various interpretations of this as far 06:43.700 --> 06:45.620 as how old he was. 06:45.620 --> 06:47.820 One of the most exaggerated ages that I heard 06:47.820 --> 06:49.500 was like age 12 or 15. 06:49.500 --> 06:51.660 It's just like, I don't know about that. 06:51.660 --> 06:56.380 Isaac sucking of his mother's breast at the age of 12. 06:56.380 --> 06:58.780 I just don't really see that. 06:58.780 --> 07:00.100 Others would say and I would agree. 07:00.100 --> 07:04.600 that it's probably maybe at the age of two possibly three I would say it's more 07:04.600 --> 07:07.600 likely that he was like about two years old or so I'm not saying that we should 07:07.600 --> 07:13.800 use that as a and as an example of how we should do it but obviously the Bible 07:13.800 --> 07:17.800 doesn't give us an age here because it's not necessarily important but Abraham 07:17.800 --> 07:21.360 is throwing a feast he's throwing a party I guess because he's being weaned 07:21.360 --> 07:25.900 this is a new stage of life and it says in verse 9 and Sarah saw 07:26.000 --> 07:32.000 the son of Hagar, the Egyptian, which he had born unto Abraham, mocking. 07:32.000 --> 07:33.000 Okay? 07:33.000 --> 07:37.640 So what this is referring to here is that Ishmael, who's at this age, at this point 07:37.640 --> 07:43.520 he's about 13 years of age, he is mocking this child who's about two years old. 07:43.520 --> 07:45.000 And what does it mean to mock? 07:45.000 --> 07:51.160 Meaning he is either making fun of him, he is scoffing at him, and we could even say 07:51.160 --> 07:54.000 that he is persecuting Isaac, right? 07:54.000 --> 07:59.000 We don't know exactly why he's doing this, but it plays into the story here. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 Ishmael is obviously a teenager in a practical sense. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 He's a teenager for whatever reason. 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 He decides to mock his half brother. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 And Sarah sees this. 08:09.000 --> 08:16.000 She sees that essentially Ishmael is persecuting her son who is a lot younger than him. 08:16.000 --> 08:21.000 And what we have here is a picture of believers and nonbelievers, right? 08:22.000 --> 08:26.800 Not only that, it's a picture of Old Testament and New Testament, because as we're going to see, 08:27.440 --> 08:33.760 Isaac represents the New Covenant, he represents that New Testament, whereas Ishmael represents 08:33.760 --> 08:40.560 unsaved Jews and he represents the Old Covenant. And just as Ishmael mocked Isaac, well in like 08:40.560 --> 08:44.080 manner, that's actually what we see in the New Testament. Unbelieving Jews... 08:44.700 --> 08:50.700 persecuting the righteous, unbelieving Jews persecuting believers whether Jew or Gentile. 08:51.200 --> 08:57.000 And this is essentially the pattern of what we see, not just in the New Testament, but just as Christians in general. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.000 Okay? 08:58.000 --> 09:00.500 And this is something that we should expect as Christians. 09:00.500 --> 09:03.000 We will be mocked of the world, right? 09:03.000 --> 09:10.000 We will be mocked of, you know, unbelievers and those who don't believe what we believe, 09:10.000 --> 09:12.400 those who don't agree with us. 09:12.400 --> 09:13.900 We will be mocked of them. 09:13.900 --> 09:15.100 They will scoff at us. 09:15.100 --> 09:16.600 They will persecute us. 09:16.600 --> 09:17.000 Why? 09:17.000 --> 09:19.160 because they are the son of the 09:19.200 --> 09:26.960 Egyptian and what is Egypt Egypt is a picture of the world okay the world systems the world's philosophies the world's 09:27.400 --> 09:34.160 Ideologies and so what the world produces is people who mock the things of God, okay? 09:35.240 --> 09:42.080 That is definitely the application there and obviously we could even apply this even further and say you know just as Isaac's half-brother 09:42.880 --> 09:44.600 his relative 09:44.700 --> 09:50.380 Persecuted him one like manner. We're gonna receive the same thing. Okay, our relatives are gonna fight against us 09:50.380 --> 09:55.280 All right, and I preached this, you know two weeks ago or whatever that we're gonna receive some sort of pushback 09:55.820 --> 10:01.220 From our relatives from those who are related to us, you know because we exist 10:01.900 --> 10:04.180 It's not like Isaac did anything. 10:04.180 --> 10:06.660 All he did was be born. 10:06.660 --> 10:07.700 He's born. 10:07.700 --> 10:09.420 He's a son of Abraham. 10:09.420 --> 10:11.420 And all of a sudden, the first thing 10:11.420 --> 10:14.660 he's introduced to at the age of two at his feast, 10:14.660 --> 10:17.980 because he's weaned, he's no longer being 10:17.980 --> 10:20.420 fed by his mother's breast, all of a sudden, 10:20.420 --> 10:23.020 Ishmael is mocking him for no good reason. 10:24.800 --> 10:27.440 And make no mistake about it, this is how it is in the Christian life as well. 10:27.440 --> 10:28.440 Right? 10:28.440 --> 10:34.440 You know, because we're born again, because we are children of God, all of a sudden you'll 10:34.440 --> 10:40.480 have Ishmael, which is the world, the son of the Egyptian woman, mocking, scoffing, 10:40.480 --> 10:44.240 and ridiculing, persecuting the children of the promise. 10:44.240 --> 10:45.240 Look at verse 10. 10:45.240 --> 10:49.960 It says, wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son. 10:50.800 --> 10:55.080 For the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac." 10:55.080 --> 10:58.440 So man, Sarah was just like, kick her out, you know? 10:58.440 --> 11:00.000 Which is pretty wild if you think about it. 11:00.000 --> 11:04.320 You know, it's just like, oh, you know, your son is mocking my son, we're evicting you, 11:04.320 --> 11:04.820 okay? 11:05.400 --> 11:11.560 throwing you out. We are throwing you out of the tent and she's telling Abraham he's not allowed, 11:11.560 --> 11:17.320 she's not allowed to be here, you know, and it seems pretty grievous immediately. You think to 11:17.320 --> 11:19.240 yourself, man, this is kind of harsh. 11:19.500 --> 11:21.380 You know, why don't you just spank the child? 11:21.380 --> 11:23.060 Why don't you just spank Ishmael? 11:23.060 --> 11:24.620 You know, and he just chastise him, 11:24.620 --> 11:27.660 teach him to be a good older brother. 11:27.660 --> 11:30.820 But as we're going to see, it's necessary 11:30.820 --> 11:34.900 that Sarah would require this of Abraham, 11:34.900 --> 11:36.840 because it's going to play beautifully 11:36.840 --> 11:40.260 as an illustration of what we see in the New Testament. 11:40.260 --> 11:44.020 Verse 11 says, and the thing was very grievous in Abraham's 11:44.020 --> 11:45.300 sight because of his son. 11:45.800 --> 11:52.040 So Abraham is a man of compassion, and obviously he has a lot more compassion now than he did before, right? 11:52.040 --> 11:58.120 But here he's grieved and he's just like, man, cast out my son, because Ishmael is still his son, okay? 11:58.120 --> 12:04.840 Ishmael is still his blood son, that is his firstborn son, and so it grieves him at his heart. 12:04.840 --> 12:13.720 It is heartbreaking to him that he would have to kick out Hagar and Ishmael because of this conflict that they're experiencing. 12:13.800 --> 12:19.420 Verse 12 says, and God said unto Abraham, let it not be grievous in thy sight because 12:19.420 --> 12:22.720 of the lad and because of thy bondwoman. 12:22.720 --> 12:27.720 And all that Sarah had said unto thee, hearken unto her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed 12:27.720 --> 12:28.960 be called. 12:28.960 --> 12:36.640 So the Lord is kind of helping Abraham follow through on what Sarah is demanding of him. 12:36.640 --> 12:38.440 And it's not because he doesn't love Ishmael. 12:38.800 --> 12:40.680 Because God loves Ishmael, right? 12:40.680 --> 12:42.680 The man Ishmael who he's going to become, 12:42.680 --> 12:45.360 he's going to be blessed with the Lord. 12:45.360 --> 12:47.600 Five kings are going to come from Ishmael. 12:47.600 --> 12:49.880 You're going to have different regions that are going to, 12:49.880 --> 12:52.600 you know, sprout out because of Ishmael. 12:52.600 --> 12:53.960 God's going to be with Ishmael. 12:53.960 --> 12:55.600 He's going to deliver Ishmael. 12:55.600 --> 13:00.640 But the underlying reason why God wants Abraham to listen 13:00.640 --> 13:03.600 to Sarah is because it's going to, again, 13:03.600 --> 13:06.760 illustrate a very important doctrine in the New Testament. 13:06.800 --> 13:30.760 Testament. So he's like, listen to her cast out this bond woman because Ishmael is not going to be an heir with Isaac. So you need to listen to her do as you're told and it's going to be okay. He's going to take the Lord's going to take care of Ishmael immediately but it's going to picture something in the future. So let's look at that picture there in Galatians chapter four. Let's go to Galatians chapter four if you would. Galatians chapter four. 13:33.700 --> 13:35.700 There's a doctrine called replacement theology. 13:35.700 --> 13:37.540 I'm not sure if you've ever heard of it. 13:37.540 --> 13:39.100 I'm not sure if you're familiar with it. 13:39.100 --> 13:41.300 But people are like, why do you talk about it? 13:41.300 --> 13:43.300 Well, how can you read the New Testament 13:43.300 --> 13:45.460 without it coming across replacement theology first 13:45.460 --> 13:47.340 and foremost? 13:47.340 --> 13:51.820 And quite frankly, pastors preaching on the New Testament 13:51.820 --> 13:54.980 is very shallow if you don't address replacement theology. 13:54.980 --> 13:58.400 Because it's so saturated with this doctrine. 13:58.400 --> 13:59.620 And much of it. 13:59.620 --> 13:59.800 Thanks for watching! 13:59.900 --> 14:03.500 Deals with a lot of the pictures that we see in the Old Testament as we're gonna look at here 14:03.500 --> 14:07.260 I mean quite frankly, I don't understand how pastors get up in pre-digalations for 14:08.180 --> 14:10.940 Without addressing replacement theology, you know 14:10.940 --> 14:17.620 Oh, actually, I do know how by twisting it and by teaching false doctrine and saying that Ishmael is are the Muslims, okay? 14:19.000 --> 14:21.560 And so let's look at what's being addressed here. 14:21.560 --> 14:25.480 Of course, the apostle Paul is single handedly just destroying Zionism. 14:25.480 --> 14:28.200 What we would consider today to be Zionism. 14:28.200 --> 14:33.800 This is essentially the the the rudiments of Zionism infiltrating churches. 14:33.800 --> 14:35.480 You have these false brethren. 14:35.900 --> 14:37.900 We would probably say there were Pharisees, 14:37.900 --> 14:39.500 but there are obviously Jews. 14:39.500 --> 14:41.500 We don't know for a fact if there are Pharisees, 14:41.500 --> 14:45.460 but there are obviously adherents to what we would consider 14:45.460 --> 14:46.780 today to be Judaism. 14:46.780 --> 14:51.100 They've infiltrated the churches of Galatia. 14:51.100 --> 14:54.140 The book of Galatians is not one church. 14:54.140 --> 14:56.660 The churches of Galatia, there are various churches 14:56.660 --> 14:58.100 that were started in this region. 14:58.500 --> 15:02.900 And in Paul's absence, you have these wolves 15:02.900 --> 15:05.100 who are coming into these churches 15:05.100 --> 15:08.060 to these Gentile believers. 15:08.060 --> 15:09.180 And what are they doing? 15:09.180 --> 15:11.780 They're Judaizing the congregations. 15:11.780 --> 15:16.460 And we don't know how much of this doctrine was permeated. 15:16.460 --> 15:18.700 It must have been a huge problem, though. 15:18.700 --> 15:20.500 And we don't even know if many of them 15:20.500 --> 15:22.180 even recovered from this. 15:22.500 --> 15:27.620 Obviously, as we read the book of Galatians, we see that, you know, Paul did a fantastic 15:27.620 --> 15:34.920 job defending the new covenant and exposing these false brethren who have crept in unawares. 15:34.920 --> 15:38.360 But through this letter, we see what are some of the things that they were teaching. 15:38.360 --> 15:45.160 They were telling the believers in Galatia, hey, you need to observe days, months, years. 15:45.160 --> 15:48.500 You need to make sure that you observe the law, be circumcised. 15:48.800 --> 15:51.840 which is probably one of the worst ones that they taught, 15:51.840 --> 15:54.320 right, because it seems to imply that maybe some of them 15:54.320 --> 15:56.120 followed through with that. 15:56.120 --> 15:59.920 And it's got to suck to be deceived and think, oh, man, 15:59.920 --> 16:00.840 we've got to be circumcised. 16:00.840 --> 16:02.080 And then Paul comes and is like. 16:02.080 --> 16:02.200 you 16:03.000 --> 16:03.960 You didn't have to do that. 16:03.960 --> 16:04.960 Why are you walking like that? 16:04.960 --> 16:07.720 I got circumcised like, oh, man, you didn't need to do that. 16:07.720 --> 16:09.560 It was just like, I didn't know. 16:09.560 --> 16:12.240 Christ shall profit you nothing, right? 16:12.240 --> 16:15.840 It's just like circumcision avails for nothing. 16:15.840 --> 16:17.400 It doesn't help you. 16:17.400 --> 16:19.480 And so obviously, these false prophets 16:19.480 --> 16:25.400 were very effective in spreading this doctrine because of the fact 16:25.400 --> 16:27.720 that we see it in Paul's tone. 16:27.720 --> 16:27.900 Thanks for watching! 16:28.200 --> 16:34.840 We see it in his sense of urgency, how angry he is, the fact that he's even saying, I'm afraid of you. 16:35.640 --> 16:41.080 Right? Why is he saying that? He's not saying that because he's literally afraid of them. He's saying I'm afraid that you're not even saved. 16:41.880 --> 16:47.160 Because if you have people in these churches claiming that they have to keep the law in order to be saved, 16:47.560 --> 16:49.560 you can mark that as you're probably not saved. 16:51.100 --> 16:54.900 Now a lot of times people ask me, what if someone says that? 16:54.900 --> 16:57.500 And I thought they got saved before. 16:57.500 --> 17:00.180 I thought they believed on Jesus Christ. 17:00.180 --> 17:02.740 What do I do now if this person is claiming these things? 17:02.740 --> 17:04.860 Well, this is my answer 100% of the time, 17:04.860 --> 17:07.780 is you have to corner that person. 17:07.780 --> 17:10.780 Meaning that you have to literally have 17:10.780 --> 17:12.280 a one-on-one conversation with them. 17:12.280 --> 17:13.780 And this happens a lot. 17:13.780 --> 17:14.000 Thanks for watching! 17:14.200 --> 17:16.680 You know, have a one-on-one conversation with them, 17:16.680 --> 17:19.960 and literally just strip away every single part 17:19.960 --> 17:23.880 of the fact of the argument, and just get down 17:23.880 --> 17:26.800 to the nitty and gritty and ask them about salvation. 17:26.800 --> 17:32.120 And I would say 80% of the time, they are saved. 17:32.120 --> 17:35.880 Because 80% of the time, in my anecdotal experience, 17:35.880 --> 17:38.720 they've said, like, no, if you don't do the law and all 17:38.720 --> 17:39.960 that stuff, you're still saved. 17:39.960 --> 17:40.200 when I'm done. 17:40.500 --> 17:42.460 Or, no, it's not by works. 17:42.460 --> 17:44.660 If I don't do works, I'm still saved. 17:44.660 --> 17:46.380 I can't lose my salvation. 17:46.380 --> 17:49.300 Well, at that point, I would say that that person is saved. 17:49.300 --> 17:51.540 Because you've got to keep in mind that heresy 17:51.540 --> 17:53.660 is a work of the flesh. 17:53.660 --> 17:54.860 That's just it. 17:54.860 --> 17:57.740 And quite frankly, a babe in Christ 17:57.740 --> 18:02.020 or someone who is not well versed in the scriptures, 18:02.020 --> 18:03.620 they can be tossed to and fro. 18:04.100 --> 18:06.380 They can be carried about with every wind of doctrine. 18:06.380 --> 18:10.020 And it's not necessarily that they believe that doctrine 100%, 18:10.020 --> 18:15.300 but they start using that type of terminology a lot, 18:15.300 --> 18:17.260 without really questioning it. 18:17.260 --> 18:18.580 And that's called being deceived. 18:18.580 --> 18:20.200 That's called being tossed to and fro. 18:20.400 --> 18:27.900 And so, you know, often when this happens, it's because of the fact that they're not in a church where doctrine is being reinforced. 18:27.900 --> 18:29.900 It's not being talked about. 18:29.900 --> 18:35.900 The pastor is not teaching systematic doctrine on justification, on salvation. 18:35.900 --> 18:39.400 You know, the right salvation is not being reinforced. 18:39.400 --> 18:48.400 And so what happens is, you know, because the pastor is some theatric speaker, he's only interested in, you know, getting an emotion. 18:48.400 --> 18:53.760 reaction, an emotional response, he just says Christian-ese type things that are just very 18:53.760 --> 18:54.760 cringe, right? 18:54.760 --> 18:56.160 Give your life to God or whatever. 18:56.160 --> 18:59.640 And obviously it could be that he's a false prophet as well. 18:59.640 --> 19:04.840 But there are people even in the old IFB who are not false prophets and they use that terminology. 19:04.840 --> 19:09.120 They use this really dumb language when it comes to salvation. 19:09.120 --> 19:13.900 And so what happens, the congregation begins to adopt that terminology, adopt that way 19:13.900 --> 19:14.620 of talking. 19:15.100 --> 19:16.700 And they can get deceived. 19:16.700 --> 19:18.700 So that when you talk to them, they're like, well, 19:18.700 --> 19:20.580 you've got to give your life to God. 19:20.580 --> 19:26.140 Or true faith produces works. 19:26.140 --> 19:28.500 A real faith, a genuine faith, will 19:28.500 --> 19:30.060 produce the fruits of the spirit. 19:30.060 --> 19:32.580 But then when you strip all that away 19:32.580 --> 19:34.540 and you show them what the Bible says, 19:34.540 --> 19:36.420 I've experienced that many of them say, 19:36.420 --> 19:37.620 no, you're right about that. 19:37.620 --> 19:39.100 That's true. 19:39.100 --> 19:40.100 That's what I meant. 19:40.900 --> 19:42.320 How many of you have ever heard that before? 19:42.320 --> 19:43.560 It's just like, well, that's kind of what I meant. 19:43.560 --> 19:45.480 I just didn't know how to articulate that. 19:45.480 --> 19:45.900 And it's true. 19:45.900 --> 19:48.040 They don't know how to articulate that stuff. 19:48.040 --> 19:50.200 And they need to learn how to articulate it. 19:50.200 --> 19:53.440 Because we need to grow in utterance. 19:53.440 --> 19:55.640 And so people don't realize how important 19:55.640 --> 19:58.200 it is to grow in the virtue of utterance. 19:58.200 --> 20:01.240 Part of utterance is learning how to communicate your faith 20:01.240 --> 20:02.760 in a proper biblical manner. 20:02.760 --> 20:03.000 Thanks for watching! 20:03.400 --> 20:07.080 And not just use these Ted Talk phrases, 20:07.080 --> 20:11.720 these non-denom type statements that sounds all mushy or whatever. 20:11.720 --> 20:16.360 And you know, well, I think if you just give your life to God, 20:16.360 --> 20:19.680 that's like an indication that you're saved or something like that. 20:19.680 --> 20:21.480 You know, that's a stupid thing to say. 20:21.480 --> 20:26.160 We obviously, and I'm not against giving your life to God, OK? 20:26.160 --> 20:29.200 But I give my life to God every single day, not for salvation. 20:29.800 --> 20:31.340 But because that's what we're supposed to do. 20:31.340 --> 20:35.020 But we have to do it like every single day, though. 20:35.020 --> 20:36.580 And I'll be honest with you, there's 20:36.580 --> 20:40.820 some days that I probably don't give my life to God. 20:40.820 --> 20:42.220 Can I get a witness? 20:42.220 --> 20:44.380 There's some days that probably I just forget, 20:44.380 --> 20:48.140 or I'm just too carnal, or I just love my life too much 20:48.140 --> 20:49.600 or something, and I don't give it. 20:50.000 --> 20:52.700 We have to be like a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, 20:52.700 --> 20:54.700 and to God, which is our reasonable service. 20:54.700 --> 20:55.820 But let me just say this. 20:55.820 --> 20:58.860 It doesn't come naturally, which is why the commandment is there 20:58.860 --> 20:59.500 to do it. 20:59.500 --> 21:00.980 If all this stuff came naturally, 21:00.980 --> 21:02.980 we wouldn't be commanded to do it. 21:02.980 --> 21:05.460 If walking in the spirit was just a natural thing 21:05.460 --> 21:08.580 that we do after salvation, then why is he commanding us to do it? 21:08.580 --> 21:09.540 Right? 21:09.540 --> 21:11.380 The Bible would just be a blank page. 21:12.500 --> 21:14.500 Because we just know everything already. 21:14.500 --> 21:18.500 Batteries come included, it comes with a subscription, 21:18.500 --> 21:21.500 it's already there, you know what I mean? 21:21.500 --> 21:23.500 It's like the matrix, it would have been like the matrix. 21:23.500 --> 21:27.500 You just get unplugged and then the thing gets put there, 21:27.500 --> 21:31.500 and then the Bible's memorized, you know how to avoid sin, 21:31.500 --> 21:33.500 and you're just obedient to God all the time. 21:33.500 --> 21:36.500 I know Kung Fu, it's just like everything's just there. 21:36.500 --> 21:39.500 But that's why the Bible tells us to grow though. 21:40.900 --> 21:42.240 Why is the commandment to grow there? 21:42.240 --> 21:44.600 Because we don't know some of these things. 21:44.600 --> 21:48.200 I mean, I came into the Christian life not knowing a lot of things. 21:48.200 --> 21:51.160 A lot of things, like many of you, right? 21:51.160 --> 21:52.840 We just didn't know these things. 21:52.840 --> 21:56.200 There are certain sins that I didn't know were sins. 21:56.200 --> 21:59.240 I came into the Christian life thinking, man, 21:59.240 --> 22:04.800 I'm about to get my entire body tattooed with scripture. 22:04.900 --> 22:08.420 I'm like, it is on, because I'm a believer now. 22:08.420 --> 22:10.500 I'm going to get Psalms on me. 22:10.500 --> 22:13.780 I'm going to put the four horsemen of the apocalypse 22:13.780 --> 22:15.620 on my back. 22:15.620 --> 22:18.500 You know, I found Psalms, and I was just like, oh, man, 22:18.500 --> 22:19.140 I am for peace. 22:19.140 --> 22:24.740 When I speak the art for war, that'll go good on my chest. 22:24.740 --> 22:25.940 I legit thought that. 22:26.300 --> 22:27.740 And I was like saving up. 22:27.740 --> 22:30.020 And I didn't know. 22:30.020 --> 22:33.420 And then I remember going to my pastor and saying, 22:33.420 --> 22:34.940 oh, I'm going to get this artwork done. 22:34.940 --> 22:37.220 And he's just like, well, actually getting tattoos 22:37.220 --> 22:39.260 is sinful according to the Bible. 22:39.260 --> 22:40.260 And he explained it to me. 22:40.260 --> 22:41.660 And I was like, what? 22:41.660 --> 22:44.020 And he told me, he's just like, well, don't get me wrong. 22:44.020 --> 22:45.540 He's like, I think tattoos are cool. 22:45.540 --> 22:47.260 I'll just be honest with you. 22:47.260 --> 22:48.200 That's what he told me. 22:48.300 --> 22:50.700 And I'm thankful for his transparency. 22:50.700 --> 22:53.420 That he wasn't just like, oh yeah, I just can't believe it. 22:53.420 --> 22:54.700 Because he had tattoos. 22:54.700 --> 22:55.860 And he's like, I think they're pretty cool. 22:55.860 --> 22:57.500 But the Bible says we should not get them. 22:57.500 --> 22:59.380 Therefore, don't get them. 22:59.380 --> 23:02.220 I don't get them anymore, he said. 23:02.220 --> 23:03.860 And it's wrong too. 23:03.860 --> 23:05.500 And so we need to obey the Bible. 23:05.500 --> 23:06.820 And I was just like, oh, dang. 23:06.820 --> 23:07.340 That sucks. 23:07.340 --> 23:08.500 I'm like, all right. 23:08.500 --> 23:09.900 But I didn't know. 23:09.900 --> 23:10.380 OK? 23:11.600 --> 23:19.320 And so, you know, the point that I'm making here is that you can see how these people in Galatia are being deceived if you if you bring in 23:20.000 --> 23:22.120 this squadron of false prophets 23:22.820 --> 23:26.100 who know how to misconstrue the law of Moses and 23:26.700 --> 23:31.720 They're coming to these babes in Christ who are not necessarily grounded in the word of and let me just say this 23:31.720 --> 23:33.720 This is why it's important to just stay away from 23:34.120 --> 23:35.400 non-denominational preaching 23:35.600 --> 23:40.960 Not only does it suck, not only is it effeminate, not only is it just super gay, but it's just 23:40.960 --> 23:44.560 super false doctrine. 23:44.560 --> 23:46.440 And you know, that's why people get mixed up a lot. 23:46.700 --> 23:48.620 And they think they could lose their salvation. 23:48.620 --> 23:51.060 Or they're like, you can't lose your salvation, 23:51.060 --> 23:54.580 but you have to persevere in your works. 23:54.580 --> 23:57.380 And they just start learning all this nonsense 23:57.380 --> 23:58.980 because of this lame preaching. 23:58.980 --> 24:02.100 And so they fit in all this heresy within 15, 20 minutes 24:02.100 --> 24:04.300 of teaching or preaching. 24:04.300 --> 24:07.500 But it's enough to affect people because the little leaven 24:07.500 --> 24:08.600 leavened up the whole lump. 24:11.000 --> 24:13.340 And you get a couple years of that, 24:13.340 --> 24:15.600 oh, you'll have someone who's just way off doctrine. 24:18.000 --> 24:20.960 And I'm a firm believer that these non-denominational 24:20.960 --> 24:25.360 churches in general could have like half and half, 24:25.360 --> 24:27.960 maybe less than that, more than that, I don't know. 24:27.960 --> 24:31.120 But I do think safe people are in non-denominational churches. 24:31.120 --> 24:35.040 The only reason I believe that is because I go soul winning. 24:35.040 --> 24:38.440 And I have taken a poll, so to speak. 24:39.300 --> 24:42.540 You know, where I'm like asking people where they go to church, 24:42.540 --> 24:43.340 and say non-denominational. 24:43.340 --> 24:45.820 And I've run into a ton of people that are saved. 24:45.820 --> 24:47.620 Now, I will say this, though. 24:47.620 --> 24:51.300 The majority of people who are saved that I've met, 24:51.300 --> 24:54.300 out-soul-winning, who go to a non-denominational church, 24:54.300 --> 24:57.540 will often tell me, I got saved at a Baptist church, though. 24:57.540 --> 24:59.820 Just throwing that out there. 24:59.820 --> 25:00.900 OK? 25:00.900 --> 25:02.780 You know, if they ever give me the right answer, 25:02.780 --> 25:05.020 they'll like, well, when I was a kid, 25:05.020 --> 25:05.300 here. 25:06.000 --> 25:10.160 I went to a Baptist church during the bus ministry. 25:10.160 --> 25:13.440 Or my grandma was a Baptist. 25:13.440 --> 25:15.360 My parents were Baptists, and they took us 25:15.360 --> 25:16.680 to this Baptist church. 25:16.680 --> 25:18.360 I'm like, well, there you go. 25:18.360 --> 25:20.720 It's just like every single time. 25:20.720 --> 25:22.680 It's like they got saved at a Baptist church. 25:22.680 --> 25:24.840 They're like, why do they go to a non-denom church? 25:24.840 --> 25:26.880 Because they're liberal and compromisers, 25:26.880 --> 25:29.320 and they don't want accountability. 25:29.320 --> 25:31.920 And the church hurt them. 25:33.500 --> 25:38.700 You know, the church hurt them and that limit translation, they called out their sin or something like that. 25:39.420 --> 25:48.900 Right. They said that they're effeminate. They need to obey their husbands, you know, or they need to get a job or, you know, alcohol sinful, tattoos are simple. 25:49.020 --> 25:50.420 And they're just like, you hurt me. 25:51.220 --> 25:55.900 So they want to go to this mega church where the pastor is not going to do that. 25:56.780 --> 25:58.460 They'll quote a verse here and there. 25:59.300 --> 26:02.900 They'll say all the lovey-dovey stuff or whatever, 26:02.900 --> 26:06.200 and it clears their conscience so that they can still call themselves Christians, 26:06.200 --> 26:09.700 that they go to church, and you know, all that or whatever. 26:09.700 --> 26:10.800 So that's why I believe people do. 26:10.800 --> 26:12.900 But I've knocked on doors as well though, 26:12.900 --> 26:15.700 where they go to non-denom churches and they're not saved. 26:17.500 --> 26:18.500 For a fact. 26:18.900 --> 26:20.300 They just give really bad ass. 26:20.300 --> 26:23.000 And these are some of the most self-righteous... 26:24.000 --> 26:29.000 just like holier than now people you'll ever meet. 26:29.000 --> 26:31.000 Like, you know, these are the kind of people 26:31.000 --> 26:35.000 that get offended when you ask them if they're saved or not. 26:35.000 --> 26:38.000 How are you gonna, you're really gonna ask me that? 26:38.000 --> 26:40.000 I don't know who, I think I was with Brother Hernandez one time 26:40.000 --> 26:42.000 where we were knocking on this door, 26:42.000 --> 26:44.000 and this lady answers the door, 26:44.000 --> 26:47.000 and, you know, five minutes into the conversation 26:47.000 --> 26:49.000 it's just like this lady's not saved. 26:49.300 --> 26:52.700 She's like, I don't know why you're telling me this you need to go be preaching to someone else 26:52.700 --> 26:59.540 I'm already saved and I'm just like trying to be kind and gracious and I'm just like well according to the biblical standard 26:59.540 --> 27:04.940 You're not saved. Can I explain to you? Why let me show you what the Bible says and she's like, well, I believe that 27:04.940 --> 27:08.580 I'm like, well, you said you have to repent of your sins though. She's like you do have to repent your sins 27:08.580 --> 27:12.060 I'm like for salvation. She's like, yes. I'm like, well, see, that's what I mean 27:12.380 --> 27:16.840 You're not safe if you believe you have to repent of your sins to be saved because at that point you're trusting 27:17.300 --> 27:21.580 and your ability to keep God's commands, which is exactly what you do to not sin. 27:21.580 --> 27:23.140 Because sin is the transgression of the law. 27:23.800 --> 27:27.240 And she's like, you need to be preaching this to someone else. 27:27.240 --> 27:30.520 So I ended up getting in a heated discussion, 27:30.520 --> 27:32.760 because I'm just trying to show her you're not saved, 27:32.760 --> 27:35.080 even though she thinks that she is, 27:35.080 --> 27:37.280 and she's talking about all the works that she does, 27:37.280 --> 27:39.200 everything that she does at her church, 27:39.200 --> 27:40.800 and all this nonsense. 27:40.800 --> 27:42.920 And then she just ends up getting really upset at me. 27:42.920 --> 27:44.200 She starts yelling at me. 27:44.200 --> 27:47.120 And I'm like, well, you're not saved. 27:47.120 --> 27:48.480 And that's all I can say there. 27:48.480 --> 27:49.480 You have to believe in the Lord. 27:49.480 --> 27:50.120 She's like, 27:50.120 --> 27:50.200 you 27:50.300 --> 27:52.060 You're saying I'm not saved? 27:52.060 --> 27:53.640 I'm like, yeah, that's what I said. 27:53.640 --> 27:55.980 She's like, I can't believe you said that to me. 27:55.980 --> 27:59.260 And I'm like, well, at least you know a prophet was among you. 27:59.260 --> 28:00.460 And this is what she said. 28:00.460 --> 28:02.980 What does that mean? 28:02.980 --> 28:05.700 Because obviously, they wouldn't know a verse like that. 28:05.700 --> 28:08.140 They don't know that comes from the Bible. 28:08.140 --> 28:10.900 The Bible's offensive to them because they don't know it. 28:10.900 --> 28:12.360 But the point that I'm making here 28:12.360 --> 28:14.980 is that you will have people in both camps, right? 28:14.980 --> 28:15.700 And. 28:15.700 --> 28:18.060 The major point that I'm trying to get across here 28:18.060 --> 28:22.060 is the fact that babes in Christ can be deceived. 28:22.060 --> 28:27.060 If they're not intaking a consistent amount of doctrine 28:27.060 --> 28:30.700 on a daily, weekly basis, yeah, they can become deceived. 28:30.700 --> 28:36.500 They can get involved in heresy, even if they're saved. 28:36.500 --> 28:38.700 And here's a prime example, Galatians 4. 28:38.900 --> 28:41.740 Because a lot of these people were deceived. 28:41.740 --> 28:43.900 But yet at the end of the epistle, 28:43.900 --> 28:45.740 the apostle Paul is just like, I'm 28:45.740 --> 28:48.540 confident that you'll recover from this. 28:48.540 --> 28:51.220 I'm confident that you understand these things. 28:51.220 --> 28:54.300 And so in the beginning, he's like, I'm afraid of you. 28:54.300 --> 28:56.780 But then he finishes off with, I'm sure you're safe kind 28:56.780 --> 28:57.860 of thing. 28:58.500 --> 29:00.740 So one of the things that we see here 29:00.740 --> 29:03.240 is the fact that they think they have to keep the law in order 29:03.240 --> 29:04.240 to be saved. 29:04.240 --> 29:07.500 And here is the argument that he proposes 29:07.500 --> 29:09.820 that absolutely destroys that. 29:09.820 --> 29:13.020 Look at Galatians 4 and verse 21. 29:13.020 --> 29:16.700 It says here, tell me ye that desire to be under the law, 29:16.700 --> 29:18.780 do you not hear the law? 29:18.780 --> 29:21.100 That is a great question. 29:21.100 --> 29:22.860 It's like, those of you who think 29:22.860 --> 29:25.100 you have to be saved by keeping the law, 29:25.300 --> 29:28.660 Have you even read it? 29:28.660 --> 29:33.300 And I love that question, because I've asked that question. 29:33.300 --> 29:35.860 And on that podcast that I did a couple weeks ago, 29:35.860 --> 29:38.020 it's like the guy's trying to tell me what the Bible says. 29:38.020 --> 29:39.060 I'm like, have you read the Bible? 29:39.060 --> 29:39.600 And they're like, no. 29:39.600 --> 29:42.180 I'm like, why am I talking to you then? 29:42.180 --> 29:43.440 You're trying to teach me what the Bible says. 29:43.440 --> 29:45.180 You never even read the Bible. 29:45.180 --> 29:46.900 You're not here with the law says. 29:46.900 --> 29:48.780 You have to keep the law in order to be safe. 29:48.780 --> 29:50.100 Well, have you not read the law? 29:50.500 --> 29:52.420 But he gets into the specifics, verse 22, 29:52.420 --> 29:57.660 for it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one 29:57.660 --> 30:00.300 by a bondmaid and the other by a free woman. 30:00.300 --> 30:02.800 Now, the bondmaid, of course, as we're going to see, is Hagar. 30:02.800 --> 30:04.420 The free woman is referring to Sarah. 30:04.420 --> 30:08.260 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, 30:08.260 --> 30:11.380 but he of the free woman was by promise. 30:11.380 --> 30:12.980 Which things are an allegory? 30:13.400 --> 30:20.520 For these are the two covenants, the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, 30:20.520 --> 30:22.120 which is Agar. 30:22.120 --> 30:28.600 For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is and is 30:28.600 --> 30:29.600 in bondage with their children." 30:29.600 --> 30:30.680 Now, this is important here. 30:30.680 --> 30:34.680 This is an awesome passage here, okay? 30:34.680 --> 30:35.680 And what is he saying? 30:35.680 --> 30:41.200 He's saying, you know, when you look at Abraham's physical sons, both Isaac and Ishmael, 30:41.700 --> 30:43.700 You have to understand that these demonstrate 30:43.700 --> 30:45.900 both old and new covenant. 30:45.900 --> 30:49.700 The old covenant, which was received in Mount Sinai, 30:49.700 --> 30:54.180 given to Moses on two tables of stone, which is given 30:54.180 --> 30:56.540 to the covenant people. 30:56.540 --> 31:01.100 And he says that that actually represents the bondwoman. 31:01.100 --> 31:03.860 He says this is Agar in Mount Sinai. 31:03.860 --> 31:07.940 And this is the part that old IFB pastors hone in on right 31:07.940 --> 31:08.400 here. 31:08.500 --> 31:11.500 in Arabia. 31:11.500 --> 31:14.500 But see, brother, that's what I'm talking about. 31:14.500 --> 31:19.260 This is those dang Muslims, those Arabs. 31:22.500 --> 31:28.220 Now, here's the thing is that that's partly true, 31:28.220 --> 31:30.980 but it's not completely true. 31:30.980 --> 31:34.780 Because Ishmael is essentially the father 31:34.780 --> 31:35.000 you 31:35.300 --> 31:43.860 of these Arabs because of the fact that his descendants would eventually occupy that region 31:43.860 --> 31:50.180 known as Arabia, okay, which would include Muslims and Christians and even just pagans in general. 31:50.740 --> 31:58.900 Okay, so he definitely is the father of those who would eventually, you know, dwell in that region, 31:58.900 --> 32:02.340 occupy that region that would eventually have Muslims. 32:02.900 --> 32:04.740 But let me explain something to you. 32:04.740 --> 32:07.160 This is not referring to Islam, because Islam didn't 32:07.160 --> 32:10.580 exist at this point. 32:10.580 --> 32:14.660 Islam is referring to Muslims. 32:14.660 --> 32:17.620 This is what we see. 32:17.620 --> 32:19.420 And it's just like, Islam didn't even 32:19.420 --> 32:23.300 exist until like 600 years later. 32:23.300 --> 32:26.100 Like 610 AD or something like that, right? 32:26.100 --> 32:27.700 Does anybody know? 32:27.700 --> 32:30.580 610, 600 AD or so, 700 AD? 32:31.000 --> 32:38.200 is when Islam came to flourishing, you have it really just like abounding and growing like 32:38.200 --> 32:43.320 30 years after that or something like that. And so to say that this is referring to that is 32:43.320 --> 32:49.320 absolute nonsense because it says, which gender is to bondage. And it says an answer to Jerusalem, 32:49.320 --> 32:57.240 which now is. So he's saying that Ishmael represents the people that currently exist. 32:58.000 --> 33:01.520 During Paul's day no Muslims existed at that point 33:04.500 --> 33:07.860 No, brother. Let me just tell you something right now. 33:07.860 --> 33:09.860 These diaper heads! 33:13.500 --> 33:15.340 And this is in no way, shape, or form 33:15.340 --> 33:18.700 defending Islam or Muslims, because it's 33:18.700 --> 33:21.380 a godless religion. 33:21.380 --> 33:23.460 It's a wicked religion. 33:23.460 --> 33:25.980 And they are spiritually still of Ishmael. 33:29.620 --> 33:32.140 And so that's why I mean they're partly right, because yeah, 33:32.140 --> 33:34.500 Muslims would fall into that category, 33:34.500 --> 33:38.060 just like every unsafe person would fall into this category 33:38.060 --> 33:38.980 of being of Ishmael. 33:38.980 --> 33:39.100 you 33:40.100 --> 33:42.900 a so-called Christian who calls himself a Christian 33:42.900 --> 33:46.340 but is not saved is Ishmael. 33:46.340 --> 33:48.820 But specifically, the apostle Paul 33:48.820 --> 33:53.620 is addressing the fact that if you desire to be under the law, 33:53.620 --> 33:57.660 you're basically asserting that you're not of Isaac. 33:57.660 --> 34:03.220 You are of Ishmael because Ishmael represents the law. 34:03.220 --> 34:05.020 So if you're like, oh, I'm saved by the law, 34:05.020 --> 34:07.260 OK, you go to this category then. 34:07.700 --> 34:11.180 Which means that you're a descendant of Abraham, 34:11.180 --> 34:13.860 but you're actually the wrong descendant. 34:13.860 --> 34:15.420 You are Ishmael. 34:15.420 --> 34:17.420 You're someone who genders to bondage. 34:17.420 --> 34:17.920 Why? 34:17.920 --> 34:20.700 Because the law produces bondage. 34:20.700 --> 34:24.420 So he says here in verse 25, for this agar is Mount Sinai 34:24.420 --> 34:26.140 in Arabia. 34:26.140 --> 34:27.260 And here's the key. 34:27.260 --> 34:29.660 And answer it, that word answer simply means reflects. 34:30.600 --> 34:34.320 Like in the book of Proverbs, it says, as water face answereth 34:34.320 --> 34:37.400 to face, it's like it reflects, your face reflects off 34:37.400 --> 34:38.520 the water. 34:38.520 --> 34:41.440 Answereth means to reflect, and reflects or answereth 34:41.440 --> 34:44.720 to Jerusalem, which now is and is 34:44.720 --> 34:46.640 in bondage with their children. 34:46.640 --> 34:48.200 So the apostle Paul is saying, let 34:48.200 --> 34:52.840 me tell you who represents the Ishmaelites 34:52.840 --> 34:56.960 in the New Testament, everybody who's in Jerusalem. 34:56.960 --> 34:58.500 And who are the people in Jerusalem? 34:58.800 --> 35:00.640 unsafe Jews? 35:00.640 --> 35:02.880 People who are adherents to Judaism? 35:02.880 --> 35:05.560 That's what he's referring to. 35:05.560 --> 35:10.320 He says in verse 26, but Jerusalem, which is above, 35:10.320 --> 35:13.920 is free, which is the mother of us all. 35:13.920 --> 35:17.520 So now we have the explanation of who Isaac represents. 35:17.520 --> 35:20.240 And Sarah, Jerusalem, which is above, 35:20.240 --> 35:23.120 we would consider today the new Jerusalem. 35:23.120 --> 35:23.620 OK? 35:25.500 --> 35:30.540 He says verse 27, for it is written, rejoice thou barren that bearers not break forth and cry 35:30.540 --> 35:36.060 thou that travailest not for the desolate hath many more children than she that hath and husband. 35:36.060 --> 35:42.220 Now we brethren as Isaac was are the children of promise. Now there's a really stupid interpretation 35:42.220 --> 35:50.060 out there regarding Jews and believers that's often put forth by pastors and they'll say, 35:50.060 --> 35:51.500 Well, here's the thing is that... 35:52.100 --> 35:56.100 The Jews are still God's chosen people, just not in a salvific manner. 35:59.900 --> 36:00.900 Salvific! 36:04.000 --> 36:05.240 It's just not salvific. 36:08.000 --> 36:10.120 And this is a really fancy way of saying, 36:10.120 --> 36:14.280 they're God's chosen people, but it's not because they're saved. 36:14.280 --> 36:17.440 Salvific is what they're saying. 36:17.440 --> 36:19.920 But what they're asserting is that there's 36:19.920 --> 36:22.700 two people of God in the New Testament. 36:25.100 --> 36:28.140 But the thing is, that's non-existent in the New Testament. 36:28.140 --> 36:29.060 There is no two people. 36:29.060 --> 36:30.300 What do you mean two people? 36:30.300 --> 36:33.620 So do God's people go to hell? 36:33.620 --> 36:36.060 But they're obviously interpreting scripture 36:36.060 --> 36:38.300 through the lens of dispensationalism. 36:38.300 --> 36:40.180 They have this dispensational bias 36:40.180 --> 36:42.540 that breathes that into the text. 36:42.540 --> 36:43.940 Understand? 36:43.940 --> 36:47.700 It's not in the Bible, because there is no two people of God. 36:47.700 --> 36:50.540 There are God's people, just not in a salvific manner. 36:50.540 --> 36:52.860 Well, you book chapter and verse on that. 36:55.300 --> 37:02.100 Because Hebrews 8, 10 specifically says that God will make a covenant with the house of Israel, 37:03.060 --> 37:09.700 okay, say it the Lord, and he says, I will write my law in their minds, write them in their hearts, 37:09.700 --> 37:15.780 and I shall be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people, implying that he's not their God, 37:15.780 --> 37:19.700 and they're not his people. And that is an explicit verse in the New Testament. 37:20.600 --> 37:23.800 That is stating that he's currently not their God and they're not his people. 37:23.800 --> 37:29.800 Until they believe in that new covenant which the condition there is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. 37:29.800 --> 37:31.800 So there is no two people of God. 37:31.800 --> 37:36.200 That's a stupid doctrine. It's non-existent in the New Testament. 37:36.200 --> 37:41.300 It's something that they infer into the text because they have this dispensational bias. 37:41.300 --> 37:45.500 They want them to still be the people of God, just not in a salvific manner. 37:46.600 --> 37:48.600 The salvistic man is the only man of the couch! 37:52.900 --> 37:59.540 You know, and Zionism is such a retarded doctrine, and you're like, 37:59.540 --> 38:03.460 yeah, but it's not that dangerous. Well, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, though. 38:04.500 --> 38:08.580 And at the end of the day, it is a dangerous doctrine because it causes people to just be 38:08.580 --> 38:13.620 blind to spiritual truths. It causes people to just reject the clear teachings of scripture 38:14.340 --> 38:20.020 and become a respecter of people. And it really undermines what the New Covenant is all about. 38:21.100 --> 38:22.700 And being stupid is a sin. 38:25.180 --> 38:27.900 Stupidity is a sin. 38:27.900 --> 38:31.340 So what is stupidity is like, you're just an idiot. 38:31.340 --> 38:33.740 Because despite the fact that you have clear evidence 38:33.740 --> 38:35.060 demonstrating that you're wrong, you're 38:35.060 --> 38:37.020 still choosing to believe that which is false. 38:37.020 --> 38:39.380 Therefore, you're an idiot. 38:39.380 --> 38:40.580 You're stupid. 38:40.580 --> 38:41.080 And it's sin. 38:41.080 --> 38:43.980 You need to repent of the sin of stupidity. 38:43.980 --> 38:46.580 Zionists need to repent of the sin of stupidity. 38:47.400 --> 38:49.760 Now look, obviously those members in these churches 38:49.760 --> 38:53.240 that believe in this stuff, and I wouldn't necessarily 38:53.240 --> 38:54.360 call them stupid. 38:54.360 --> 38:58.440 They're just simple, which is almost basically the same thing. 38:58.440 --> 39:00.560 The stupid ones are the pastors. 39:03.480 --> 39:05.280 And they need to get called out. 39:05.280 --> 39:06.400 And you know what? 39:06.400 --> 39:08.440 I'm going to keep preaching against Zionism 39:08.440 --> 39:10.800 until it just dies out. 39:10.800 --> 39:12.600 And dispensationalism is dying out. 39:13.900 --> 39:17.900 As everyone saw from the video that we uploaded with all our Gen Zers, 39:17.900 --> 39:20.900 you know, as many of them said, it's retarded, okay? 39:20.900 --> 39:22.900 And praise God for that. 39:22.900 --> 39:26.900 It needs to be buried. It's a Hick doctrine. 39:26.900 --> 39:29.900 Okay? It's a Hick doctrine. 39:29.900 --> 39:32.900 I don't care. It is a Hick doctrine. 39:32.900 --> 39:35.500 It only sounds good when it's being proclaimed by a Hick. 39:40.400 --> 39:44.160 Pre-tribulation rapture, brother! We're outta here! 39:50.600 --> 39:55.160 I'm not gonna fight against Israel because I'm fighting against God! 39:58.800 --> 40:03.800 And that's why Jen's ears are just like, what is this? 40:03.800 --> 40:04.680 Look, what is this? 40:04.680 --> 40:07.040 This sounds retarded. 40:07.040 --> 40:12.040 All these fat, overweight southern preachers, 40:12.040 --> 40:18.920 these Republican, overweight, grotesque, gluttonous wine 40:18.920 --> 40:21.600 bibbers promoting Zionism. 40:21.600 --> 40:23.000 And it's just like, first of all, 40:23.000 --> 40:23.300 see you here. 40:24.000 --> 40:29.120 You know, how do you expect me for me to even believe what you're saying when you can't even control your weight? 40:30.200 --> 40:33.300 First and foremost, let us lay aside every weight first 40:34.400 --> 40:42.040 Okay, and then we'll talk but you know just because you say something very loudly or with passion and I'm all for 40:42.520 --> 40:45.920 Preaching loudly with passion, but just because you do that doesn't make what you're saying, right? 40:47.080 --> 40:49.080 Let's hear some Bible. Okay 40:49.680 --> 40:50.600 Sophisticate 40:53.000 --> 40:57.080 The Bible is telling us here that the Apostle Paul is saying, 40:57.080 --> 40:59.480 we brethren. 40:59.480 --> 41:01.720 And it's funny, it's just like, well, the Apostle Paul, 41:01.720 --> 41:04.440 it's funny he says, you know, they say that, you know, 41:04.440 --> 41:06.200 the Jews are no longer God's chosen people. 41:06.200 --> 41:11.800 The Apostle Paul said that he's a Benjamin and Israelite 41:11.800 --> 41:13.720 of the seed of Abraham. 41:13.720 --> 41:14.920 Amen, amen, amen. 41:17.900 --> 41:21.340 And he's just like, yeah, he also said we brethren when he's talking to Gentiles. 41:22.700 --> 41:24.860 Well, that's because there are salvific people. 41:25.900 --> 41:28.220 And then there's another people who are not salvific. 41:29.660 --> 41:30.860 Oh, how convenient. 41:32.220 --> 41:34.860 You know, you want to use that when it comes to the apostle Paul. 41:34.860 --> 41:38.540 But what about when the apostle Paul includes Gentile believers 41:38.540 --> 41:41.980 as being of the seed of Abraham, the seed of the seed of Isaac? 41:41.980 --> 41:45.180 Bro, you gotta understand. 41:46.400 --> 41:49.260 Salvific. 41:49.260 --> 41:52.260 No, you ain't got no salvific. 41:52.260 --> 41:55.180 That's the problem with you is that you 41:55.180 --> 41:58.020 are a hyper-dispensationalist who 41:58.020 --> 42:02.300 perverts salvific doctrine. 42:02.300 --> 42:03.860 And I hate that word, honestly. 42:03.860 --> 42:04.900 It sounds stupid. 42:05.100 --> 42:10.100 It's just a word that they try to use in order to make themselves sound like they're theologians. 42:10.100 --> 42:12.100 They're just these Bible scholars. 42:12.100 --> 42:17.100 You know, they try to use words of man's wisdom in order to take away from the power of God. 42:17.100 --> 42:22.100 And it's funny, you know, they always come up with these great illustrations, all these illustrations, 42:22.100 --> 42:26.100 all of these stories in order to reinforce dispensationalism, 42:26.100 --> 42:32.100 but they want to avoid the illustrations of the allegories of the Bible that God has already provided. 42:35.000 --> 42:37.080 And then when you point them to these illustrations, 42:37.080 --> 42:38.580 you point them to these allegories, 42:38.580 --> 42:42.120 like, oh, you gotta understand, bro, that's an allegory. 42:42.120 --> 42:44.360 Well, thank you for telling me exactly what it says there, 42:44.360 --> 42:46.960 that it's an allegory. 42:46.960 --> 42:50.760 Thank you for being such a walking lexicon 42:50.760 --> 42:52.600 and for interpreting the Bible for me like that, 42:52.600 --> 42:54.000 that it says it's an allegory. 42:57.400 --> 43:02.360 So he says here, but Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. Verse 28, 43:02.360 --> 43:08.440 now we brethren as Isaac was are the children of promise, but as then he that was born after 43:08.440 --> 43:13.240 the flesh, who's the one born after the flesh? Ishmael, right? I want you to notice this, 43:13.240 --> 43:20.280 persecuted him that was born after the spirit, even so it is now. So we're reading through 43:20.280 --> 43:24.900 Genesis 21 and what do we see? Ishmael mocking Isaac. 43:25.100 --> 43:34.600 The New Testament interprets that as, you know, Ishmael persecuting Isaac, and he's saying just as Ishmael persecuted Isaac, even so it is now. 43:34.600 --> 43:40.100 Well, how is it that that's what it is now if it's supposed to be Muslims and Muslims didn't exist at this point? 43:40.100 --> 43:48.100 Even so it is now, you know, these these hick preachers are gonna say, even so it is now, brother! 43:48.100 --> 43:50.900 Yeah, maybe now. 43:51.900 --> 43:57.300 But when now in Galatians 4 is in the first century AD 43:57.300 --> 43:58.380 when Muslims didn't exist. 44:00.980 --> 44:01.480 Salvific. 44:04.300 --> 44:08.240 He's saying even so it is now saying the Jews in Jerusalem 44:08.240 --> 44:09.820 are persecuting believers now. 44:09.820 --> 44:09.900 you 44:12.300 --> 44:15.180 And there's no denying that whatsoever 44:15.180 --> 44:17.420 when you read the New Testament. 44:17.420 --> 44:21.060 The Jews are the main enemies of the gospel in the New 44:21.060 --> 44:22.940 Testament. 44:22.940 --> 44:24.580 There's no denying that. 44:24.580 --> 44:28.540 If you deny that, you are a retard. 44:28.540 --> 44:29.540 Because it's there. 44:29.540 --> 44:32.220 You don't read the Book of Acts then. 44:32.220 --> 44:35.660 And look, I said that online somewhere. 44:35.660 --> 44:37.500 And someone said, I can't believe you. 44:39.900 --> 44:42.740 I can't believe you would say that. 44:42.740 --> 44:48.040 Satan is the main enemy of the New Testament. 44:48.040 --> 44:50.800 And I'm like, wow, you're like Sherlock Holmes, bro. 44:52.900 --> 44:55.100 I was going to say something else right away, 44:55.100 --> 44:58.180 for those 90s kids. 44:58.180 --> 45:01.660 No stink, Sherlock. 45:01.660 --> 45:05.620 Yeah, we know that Satan has agents. 45:05.620 --> 45:07.980 And in fact, in 1 Thessalonians chapter 2, 45:07.980 --> 45:09.980 when the apostle Paul is preaching against Jews, 45:09.980 --> 45:12.580 saying that they persecuted us, they persecuted the prophets, 45:12.580 --> 45:17.620 they killed Jesus, he says later on, Satan hindered us. 45:17.620 --> 45:20.140 He didn't come out with a pitchfork and was like, argh. 45:21.700 --> 45:22.200 Ha! 45:22.200 --> 45:24.700 Ha! 45:24.700 --> 45:26.820 When he says Satan hindered us, he's referring to who? 45:26.820 --> 45:27.320 The Jews. 45:29.800 --> 45:32.880 I can't believe you would say something like that. 45:32.880 --> 45:35.620 That's why he calls them the synagogue of Satan, 45:35.620 --> 45:39.060 children of the devil, because they're agents of Satan. 45:39.060 --> 45:40.600 That's not a controversial thing to say. 45:40.600 --> 45:42.600 That's a biblical thing to say. 45:42.600 --> 45:45.120 That's literally like comparing scripture with scripture. 45:48.200 --> 45:52.760 And so Ishmael is persecuting Isaac just as the Jews were 45:52.760 --> 45:54.360 persecuting believers. 45:54.360 --> 45:55.920 And let me just clarify, obviously 45:55.920 --> 45:57.440 when we say believers, we're referring 45:57.440 --> 46:00.440 to both Jew and Gentile. 46:00.440 --> 46:04.160 And initially, we see that Jews, according 46:04.160 --> 46:06.560 to the flesh who are believers, they're 46:06.560 --> 46:09.440 the ones who are receiving the bulk of the persecution. 46:09.440 --> 46:12.600 Because Paul's being persecuted a lot by his own countrymen. 46:13.700 --> 46:14.700 Peter's being persecuted. 46:14.700 --> 46:16.140 They're getting beaten. 46:16.140 --> 46:17.660 They're getting persecuted. 46:17.660 --> 46:21.140 They're following them around, trying to stop the work of God. 46:21.140 --> 46:25.100 But then later, once churches have been established, 46:25.100 --> 46:26.820 once they're preaching the word of God, 46:26.820 --> 46:28.460 now the Jews turn their attention 46:28.460 --> 46:31.260 and start persecuting Gentiles. 46:31.260 --> 46:32.580 The point that I'm making is they 46:32.580 --> 46:33.780 are the enemies of the gospel according 46:33.780 --> 46:34.860 to the New Testament. 46:34.860 --> 46:37.860 And they're still the enemies of the gospel today. 46:37.860 --> 46:39.260 They just do it by proxy. 46:41.000 --> 46:42.360 So we have the picture here. 46:42.360 --> 46:46.840 Now we know why God is saying in Genesis 21 to Abraham, 46:46.840 --> 46:49.160 like, oh no, let that happen. 46:49.160 --> 46:52.520 Cast out the bondwoman and her son. 46:52.520 --> 46:54.960 Obviously, he's going to take care of them in the immediate, 46:54.960 --> 46:57.040 but it's also going to picture something extremely 46:57.040 --> 47:00.240 important in the New Testament because of the fact that, 47:00.240 --> 47:01.900 look what it says in verse 30. 47:02.000 --> 47:09.880 Nevertheless, what say the scripture cast out the bondwoman referring to Hagar and her son for the son of the bondwoman 47:10.400 --> 47:13.880 Shall not be heir with the son of the free woman 47:14.440 --> 47:16.440 So why did God allow? 47:16.680 --> 47:22.700 Abraham to cast out Hagar in Ishmael because of the fact that Jews don't get to inherit with us 47:23.920 --> 47:25.920 That's why 47:26.120 --> 47:28.120 Unless they believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 47:30.100 --> 47:38.100 But they cannot be grandfathered into the New Testament if they're still holding on to Old Testament beliefs and religious rights. 47:40.500 --> 47:42.500 This is why he allowed them to be cast out. 47:42.500 --> 47:44.500 Okay. 47:44.500 --> 47:46.500 He's casting them out because he's saying Jews are not going to inherit with 47:46.500 --> 47:48.500 believers 47:48.500 --> 47:50.500 through the old covenant. 47:50.500 --> 47:52.500 They have to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. 47:52.500 --> 47:54.500 But let's get a little deeper 47:54.500 --> 47:56.500 in this regard. Okay. Go to John chapter 8. 47:56.500 --> 47:58.500 Let's go to John chapter 8. 47:58.500 --> 48:00.500 This is good stuff. Amen. 48:00.500 --> 48:02.500 The Bible is very deep. 48:08.200 --> 48:13.000 Look at John chapter 8 in verse, we'll start in verse 33. 48:14.520 --> 48:18.840 And they answered him, we be Abraham's seed and we're never in bondage to any man. How sayest thou, 48:18.840 --> 48:23.720 ye shall be made free? Jesus answereth them, barely, barely a saint to you, 48:23.720 --> 48:28.120 whosoever committed sin is the servant of sin. And I want you to notice this in verse 35. 48:29.000 --> 48:35.800 And the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the son abideth forever. 48:36.600 --> 48:38.140 So that's kind of an interesting statement. 48:38.140 --> 48:41.160 He's preaching to Jews, and he's saying, 48:41.160 --> 48:45.200 you can be made free through believing on Jesus Christ. 48:45.200 --> 48:47.600 But then he throws in the statement here 48:47.600 --> 48:49.840 that the servant abideth not in the house forever, 48:49.840 --> 48:50.920 but the Son abideth forever. 48:50.920 --> 48:52.840 And it's just like, what is he talking about? 48:52.840 --> 48:56.160 Well, when you compare this to Galatians chapter 4, 48:56.160 --> 48:59.920 you compare it to Genesis 21, it's all in reference 48:59.920 --> 49:01.040 to Ishmael and Isaac. 49:02.400 --> 49:04.720 And what he's saying here is that the servant, which 49:04.720 --> 49:08.760 refers to Hagar, which refers to Ishmael, 49:08.760 --> 49:10.120 will not abide in the house. 49:10.120 --> 49:10.620 Why? 49:10.620 --> 49:13.200 Because she's cast out. 49:13.200 --> 49:16.080 But the son, which is referring to Isaac, 49:16.080 --> 49:17.720 but ultimately refers to Jesus Christ, 49:17.720 --> 49:21.360 because it's capital S, he does abide forever. 49:21.360 --> 49:24.000 So if you try to receive salvation through the law, 49:24.000 --> 49:25.080 you're cast out. 49:25.080 --> 49:27.160 You can't abide in the house. 49:27.160 --> 49:28.860 But if you believe through Jesus Christ, 49:28.860 --> 49:29.900 you'll abide forever. 49:30.200 --> 49:33.200 Why? Because the sun abides forever. Amen? 49:33.200 --> 49:39.200 If the sun therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free in deed. 49:39.200 --> 49:44.200 Now what's interesting here is that, you know, I don't remember what chapter it was. 49:44.200 --> 49:47.200 You scholars out there, if you can remind me, maybe it's in chapter 12 of Matthew, 49:47.200 --> 49:51.200 regarding the centurion. Does anybody know where that is at? 49:51.200 --> 49:55.200 The Roman centurion. Where is that? 49:55.200 --> 49:57.200 If we don't find it, I can just quote it. 49:58.000 --> 49:59.760 But I like to just read it. 50:04.300 --> 50:04.800 Found it. 50:04.800 --> 50:06.300 All right. 50:06.300 --> 50:07.540 Go to Matthew chapter 8. 50:07.540 --> 50:08.160 Matthew chapter 8. 50:08.160 --> 50:11.160 I thought it was chapter 12, but it's chapter 8. 50:11.160 --> 50:12.000 Beat you to it. 50:14.800 --> 50:18.480 So, you know, he says cast out the bond woman and her son. 50:18.480 --> 50:25.280 We see that Jesus Christ reinforced this years before Paul wrote it by saying that the servant 50:25.280 --> 50:26.640 abideth not in the house forever. 50:26.640 --> 50:29.440 And obviously, because he's telling this to the Jews, he's expecting the Jews to know 50:29.440 --> 50:33.560 what he's saying because of what we have in Genesis 21. 50:33.560 --> 50:35.840 He's like, hey, the servant doesn't abide forever in the house, now does he? 50:35.840 --> 50:38.360 But the son does abide forever because Isaac abides forever. 50:38.360 --> 50:41.560 And then they're just like, we be Abraham's seed and never into bondage to any man. 50:42.000 --> 50:44.880 And then he says, I know that you'd be Abraham's seed. 50:44.880 --> 50:46.600 But why is he saying, I know that you'd be Abraham's seed? 50:46.600 --> 50:49.720 Because technically they are, because spiritually they're 50:49.720 --> 50:53.600 of Ishmael, who's of Abraham's seed. 50:53.600 --> 50:56.400 But then he says, but you're the father of the devil, 50:56.400 --> 50:57.080 and so forth. 50:57.080 --> 50:59.760 Look at Matthew chapter 8, and we'll 50:59.760 --> 51:00.840 start in verse number 8. 51:01.400 --> 51:05.640 This is the Centurion answered and said Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof 51:05.640 --> 51:10.600 But speak the word only and my servant shall be healed for I am a man under authority having soldiers under me 51:10.600 --> 51:15.000 And I say to this man go and he goeth and so another come and he cometh into my servant do this and he 51:15.000 --> 51:19.880 Do with it when Jesus heard it he marveled and said to them that followed barely I say to you 51:20.040 --> 51:22.360 I have not found so great faith. No not in Israel 51:22.600 --> 51:27.580 So this roman centurion is just like has a ton of faith. He has more faith than many of the jews 51:28.100 --> 51:30.500 And in fact, he has more faith than all the Jews, 51:30.500 --> 51:33.340 because he says, I haven't even found this type of faith 51:33.340 --> 51:35.400 amongst those of Israel. 51:35.400 --> 51:38.360 And keep in mind, this is a Roman centurion. 51:38.360 --> 51:41.740 He is, by definition, a Gentile. 51:41.740 --> 51:44.020 He's of a different nation. 51:44.020 --> 51:47.300 So he's like, I have not found so great faith, 51:47.300 --> 51:48.900 no, not in Israel, verse 11. 51:48.900 --> 51:52.620 And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east 51:52.620 --> 51:53.380 and west. 51:53.380 --> 51:53.500 you 51:53.800 --> 51:58.600 shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven." What is 51:58.600 --> 52:03.900 he saying? He's saying in light of the Romans and Turian having this faith he's 52:03.900 --> 52:07.420 gonna be like the don't be so surprised because many from the east and west 52:07.420 --> 52:11.860 that don't belong to Israel are gonna be the ones rubbing shoulders with Abraham 52:11.860 --> 52:17.200 Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God. Why? Because they're saved right? So even 52:17.200 --> 52:21.600 though they are not physically descended from Abraham so to speak 52:22.300 --> 52:25.740 because they're spiritually are, they're going to be the ones actually 52:25.740 --> 52:29.500 fellowshipping with, eating meals with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob 52:29.500 --> 52:33.740 in the kingdom of God. And I want you to notice verse 12, but the children of the kingdom 52:34.860 --> 52:43.260 shall be what? Cast out. Just as Abraham cast out the bond woman and her son, 52:44.780 --> 52:48.940 he says shall be cast out into where? Outer darkness. 52:49.800 --> 52:52.840 There shall be weeping and will in a nation of teeth." 52:52.840 --> 52:57.520 So it's not just a matter of Abraham casting out 52:57.520 --> 53:01.200 Hagar and Ishmael into the wilderness. 53:01.200 --> 53:04.920 It's a picture of the fact that if you remain under the law, 53:04.920 --> 53:08.680 if you think works can save you, you, like every other Jew, 53:08.680 --> 53:11.240 is going to split hell wide open. 53:11.240 --> 53:12.920 Because outer darkness is referring to hell. 53:14.600 --> 53:18.840 He's like, man, this Roman centurion, who's not physically 53:18.840 --> 53:20.360 descended from Abraham, he's going 53:20.360 --> 53:22.480 to be in the kingdom of God because he placed his faith 53:22.480 --> 53:24.200 in the Lord Jesus Christ. 53:24.200 --> 53:27.760 But then the children of the kingdom, right? 53:27.760 --> 53:28.360 What kingdom? 53:28.360 --> 53:31.440 The kingdom that shall be taken from them? 53:31.440 --> 53:32.780 The children of the kingdom shall 53:32.780 --> 53:35.400 be cast out into outer darkness, meaning they're 53:35.400 --> 53:38.280 going to be thrown into hell. 53:38.280 --> 53:40.280 Because they're not of Isaac. 53:42.400 --> 53:44.160 I think it's awesome. 53:44.160 --> 53:46.280 I don't think it's awesome that they're going to hell. 53:46.280 --> 53:50.040 I'm just saying, don't misunderstand what I just said. 53:50.040 --> 53:51.560 Clip that. 53:51.560 --> 53:53.280 Clip this. 53:53.280 --> 53:57.760 I'm saying that the connections here are awesome. 53:57.760 --> 54:00.080 The story that we have in Genesis 21, 54:00.080 --> 54:03.960 and now you understand why God's like, no, no, no, listen to Sarah. 54:03.960 --> 54:07.880 Because I'm going to use this as a great illustration 54:07.880 --> 54:09.520 in the future. 54:10.000 --> 54:12.400 And surely he did. Go back to Genesis 21. 54:15.400 --> 54:18.900 Genesis 21. 54:18.900 --> 54:24.700 Now again, Ishmael did become the father of five kings 54:24.700 --> 54:30.640 that would eventually inhabit, occupy the region that 54:30.640 --> 54:35.980 is commonly associated with the Arabic people physically. 54:35.980 --> 54:39.620 But spiritually is what matters the most, though. 54:39.620 --> 54:42.380 What happens physically matters nothing. 54:42.380 --> 54:42.880 Right? 54:43.300 --> 54:45.300 It doesn't matter anything to God. 54:45.300 --> 54:47.300 Because the Bible says, 54:47.300 --> 54:51.300 But as many as receive them, to them give you power to become the sons of God, even as they believe in His name, 54:51.300 --> 54:56.300 which were born not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 54:56.300 --> 55:05.300 So it's just like your flesh, your ethnic identity, does not provide salvation for you. 55:05.300 --> 55:06.300 It's your faith in Christ. 55:06.300 --> 55:08.300 And so, you know... 55:09.100 --> 55:15.100 They can say they're not a vishmel and unfortunately you do have Muslims who are like, oh yeah, yeah, we are vishmel or whatever 55:15.100 --> 55:17.100 And it's just like yeah, physically and spiritually 55:17.100 --> 55:25.100 But if a Muslim comes to Christ, then obviously they transfer and become a child, a spiritual child of Isaac, okay 55:25.100 --> 55:28.100 And so very important there 55:28.100 --> 55:32.100 What do we leave off on? Look what it says in verse 12 55:33.400 --> 55:35.120 This is in verse 12, and God said unto Abraham, 55:35.120 --> 55:37.620 let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, 55:37.620 --> 55:39.720 and because of thy bondwoman. 55:39.720 --> 55:41.840 And all that Sarah had said unto thee 55:41.840 --> 55:44.960 hearken unto her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. 55:44.960 --> 55:46.480 And also of the son of the bondwoman 55:46.480 --> 55:49.320 will I make a nation, because he is thy seed. 55:49.320 --> 55:51.120 And Abraham rose up early in the morning 55:51.120 --> 55:52.580 and took bread and a bottle of water 55:52.580 --> 55:56.320 and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder and the child 55:56.320 --> 55:57.280 and sent her away. 55:57.900 --> 56:02.460 And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Persheba, and the water was spent in the 56:02.460 --> 56:03.460 bottle. 56:03.460 --> 56:08.740 And she cast the child under one of the shrubs, and she went and sat her down over against 56:08.740 --> 56:12.100 him in a good way off, as it were a bow shot. 56:12.100 --> 56:15.020 For she said, Let me not see the death of the child. 56:15.020 --> 56:18.140 she sat over against him and lift up her voice and wept. 56:18.400 --> 56:21.260 And God heard the voice of the lad. 56:21.260 --> 56:25.600 And the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven and said unto her, What aileth thee, 56:25.600 --> 56:26.600 Hagar? 56:26.600 --> 56:29.600 Fear not, for God hath heard thy voice, the voice of the lad where he is. 56:29.600 --> 56:35.860 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand, for I will make him a great nation." 56:35.860 --> 56:38.160 So of course he ends up showing her the well of water. 56:38.160 --> 56:39.160 They get saved physically. 56:39.160 --> 56:40.800 They're delivered. 56:40.800 --> 56:44.960 And the principle we can learn there, you know, obviously Ishmael essentially unfortunately 56:44.960 --> 56:46.400 pictures you know. 56:46.400 --> 56:48.320 unsafe people. 56:48.320 --> 56:52.840 But Israel in and of himself, he's not inherently bad. 56:52.840 --> 56:54.600 Because God still blesses him. 56:54.600 --> 56:55.960 Just like Esau. 56:55.960 --> 57:00.120 Esau, unfortunately, also pictures unsafe Jews. 57:00.120 --> 57:04.200 And it kind of sucks to be Esau, because you literally 57:04.200 --> 57:06.440 have, throughout both the Old and New Testament, 57:06.440 --> 57:07.720 Jacob I have I love. 57:07.720 --> 57:10.000 Esau have I hated. 57:10.000 --> 57:12.680 And what he's saying there is that he hates unsafe Jews. 57:12.680 --> 57:12.800 you 57:13.000 --> 57:16.240 specifically of this time, because Esau represents 57:16.240 --> 57:18.920 unsaved Jews who hate Christ. 57:18.920 --> 57:22.240 But Esau himself isn't necessarily wicked. 57:22.240 --> 57:24.800 He reconciled with his brother. 57:24.800 --> 57:26.320 Same thing when we have with Ishmael. 57:26.320 --> 57:29.080 So if we were to just apply this in a practical manner, 57:29.080 --> 57:32.560 this demonstrates that maybe you're not the favored child 57:32.560 --> 57:34.920 of your parents. 57:34.920 --> 57:36.880 You're like Ishmael. 57:36.880 --> 57:38.760 And you're kind of cast under the shrub. 57:40.100 --> 57:45.780 where your parents maybe esteem your siblings more than you. 57:45.780 --> 57:48.540 And you're just like, man, I feel like I'm just kind of 57:48.540 --> 57:51.180 cast aside or something like that. 57:51.180 --> 57:56.260 I feel like Ishmael, where mom and dad or dad or whatever 57:56.260 --> 58:00.660 doesn't really care for me like he cares for others. 58:00.660 --> 58:04.420 I'm just kind of cast in the shrub. 58:04.420 --> 58:05.180 And you know what? 58:05.180 --> 58:07.300 I hate to break it to you, but maybe that's true. 58:08.800 --> 58:12.000 But it's OK, though, because the Lord still loves you 58:12.000 --> 58:14.600 like the Lord loves Ishmael. 58:14.600 --> 58:19.640 And sometimes we need to be cast under the shrub 58:19.640 --> 58:22.120 in order to seek after the Lord. 58:22.120 --> 58:24.480 Because notice that it says, like the angel comes and says, 58:24.480 --> 58:27.720 I heard the lad cry. 58:27.720 --> 58:29.280 He's like, I heard him. 58:29.280 --> 58:32.400 Like poor Ishmael, given he's mocking and stuff, 58:32.400 --> 58:34.000 but what teenager doesn't mock? 58:34.000 --> 58:35.240 Like all teenagers do that. 58:35.700 --> 58:37.700 He's mocking, but you know, he's about to die. 58:38.660 --> 58:40.500 Like he has no water. 58:40.500 --> 58:44.900 He has no like his dad's not there and he doesn't have that. 58:44.900 --> 58:45.780 And so what does he do? 58:45.780 --> 58:47.220 He cries out unto the Lord. 58:48.900 --> 58:49.220 Okay. 58:50.020 --> 58:50.820 And you know what? 58:50.820 --> 58:54.660 Sometimes we need to be put in a situation where we're forsaken of all. 58:56.100 --> 58:57.780 With the intent that we would seek the Lord. 59:00.000 --> 59:02.760 So think about the times that you just felt forsaken. You're just like man 59:02.760 --> 59:08.120 I'm feeling forsaken by my family by my parents by those I love and it's just like God 59:08.120 --> 59:11.860 Why why is this why are you allowing this is hurting me so much? 59:11.860 --> 59:15.260 And it's just like well, it's because you'll cry out to the Lord 59:16.080 --> 59:18.080 to seek after God 59:18.240 --> 59:23.620 Right, and I'm sure many of us have felt that way. I know I have throughout my life where I felt that way 59:24.200 --> 59:25.100 Okay 59:25.200 --> 59:26.480 I felt forsaken. 59:26.480 --> 59:27.240 And you know what? 59:27.240 --> 59:31.080 In the moment, you're just kind of wondering, like, this sucks. 59:31.080 --> 59:34.320 But then you look back, and you're just like, oh. 59:34.320 --> 59:36.200 It's so I can seek after the Lord. 59:36.200 --> 59:38.280 Because now I have to rely upon the Lord. 59:38.280 --> 59:41.240 Now I'm thinking, but what if I wasn't cast aside? 59:41.240 --> 59:45.040 Maybe I wouldn't have sought after the Lord as much as I do now. 59:45.040 --> 59:45.440 You know? 59:45.440 --> 59:47.320 What if you weren't cast under the shrub? 59:47.320 --> 59:49.600 Maybe you wouldn't be as zealous for the things of God. 59:50.000 --> 59:52.460 Now, if you're the favorite parent, 59:52.460 --> 59:55.520 if you're the favorite child of the parent, 59:55.520 --> 59:58.560 you better still seek after the Lord. 59:58.560 --> 01:00:02.880 I'm not talking crap on you or anything like that. 01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:06.800 And I'm not talking to the only children in our church either, 01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:10.120 because you will always be the favorite. 01:00:10.120 --> 01:00:12.240 But you also better seek after the Lord as well. 01:00:14.100 --> 01:00:17.540 And reference my sermon on, what was it called? 01:00:17.540 --> 01:00:19.100 The younger brother. 01:00:19.100 --> 01:00:21.020 That's probably one of my favorite sermons I've ever 01:00:21.020 --> 01:00:22.020 preached. 01:00:22.020 --> 01:00:24.940 And it addresses this situation here, right? 01:00:24.940 --> 01:00:28.660 Where Ishmael is just cast aside, he's cast out, but then 01:00:28.660 --> 01:00:30.260 the Lord hears him and he ends up doing 01:00:30.260 --> 01:00:31.660 something great with him. 01:00:31.660 --> 01:00:35.460 Yeah, obviously he had plans for Isaac, but it doesn't mean 01:00:35.460 --> 01:00:37.460 he didn't love Ishmael. 01:00:37.460 --> 01:00:39.780 And maybe you have been like Ishmael. 01:00:40.900 --> 01:00:47.580 Or like, people around you don't think you had as much potential as your other siblings 01:00:47.580 --> 01:00:48.580 or whatever. 01:00:48.580 --> 01:00:54.780 And maybe you're the younger brother, the younger sister, where you're kind of coming 01:00:54.780 --> 01:00:58.220 in second place or whatever, right? 01:00:58.220 --> 01:01:00.220 You're just kind of like the afterthought. 01:01:00.220 --> 01:01:01.780 Well, you know what? 01:01:01.780 --> 01:01:04.580 That means you have that much more potential to do something great. 01:01:04.580 --> 01:01:07.580 Because now you have to only rely upon the Lord, not upon mommy and daddy. 01:01:09.800 --> 01:01:14.000 So, you know, if you're under that shrub, you're just like, man, I do feel alone. 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:15.000 Well, guess what? 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:18.480 The Lord said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you. 01:01:18.480 --> 01:01:24.480 Like you, you have more potential to love the Lord your God more than other people can. 01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:30.240 You think of the woman who was watering the feet of Jesus with their tears. 01:01:30.240 --> 01:01:33.360 And he's like, she loved much because she was forgiven of much. 01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:36.320 So you have the potential to love God more. 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:39.280 than others do. 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:40.440 So I like Ishmael. 01:01:40.440 --> 01:01:43.520 Obviously, I don't like what he represents. 01:01:43.520 --> 01:01:44.800 OK? 01:01:44.800 --> 01:01:46.760 I'm talking about Ishmael himself. 01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:49.280 Because it's not Ishmael's fault. He was 01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:51.720 birthed out of Abraham's doubt. 01:01:53.100 --> 01:01:56.140 It's not his fault that he came into this world. 01:01:56.140 --> 01:01:58.820 It's not like he asked for it or anything like that. 01:01:58.820 --> 01:02:01.380 How would you feel if it was just like, yeah, 01:02:01.380 --> 01:02:04.020 the way you came about was like, I 01:02:04.020 --> 01:02:05.500 don't want to say you're an accident, 01:02:05.500 --> 01:02:08.660 but we thought you were going to be the problem, 01:02:08.660 --> 01:02:12.060 but your younger brother is actually going to supersede you. 01:02:12.060 --> 01:02:13.660 You're like, all right. 01:02:13.660 --> 01:02:15.820 You're like, your mom's an Egyptian. 01:02:17.300 --> 01:02:21.620 You know, and then, you know, he's in the, he, and we don't know how the word of God is in heaven, 01:02:21.620 --> 01:02:26.980 but if it is in heaven, he's probably reading it like, oh man, seriously, this is whatever, 01:02:26.980 --> 01:02:32.820 whatever, you know, but Hey, God still blessed him. The Lord was still with him. And so if you 01:02:32.820 --> 01:02:40.820 are an Ishmael cast into the shrub, call out into the Lord, cry it onto God. We often misinterpret 01:02:42.740 --> 01:02:43.540 being forsaken. 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:51.680 People misinterpret being forsaken as God is he doesn't love me or he's against me when really what it is 01:02:51.680 --> 01:02:56.580 He's like he's allowing that so in light of you being forsaken you would seek after the Lord 01:02:57.920 --> 01:03:03.480 So he you can you know rely upon him to be your comfort your strength and then you know you turn off for God 01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:08.780 And so I think that's a beautiful picture there, and I'm glad the Lord put that story in the Bible here 01:03:09.240 --> 01:03:12.380 So it says in verse 20 and God was with the lad 01:03:13.200 --> 01:03:17.420 He grew and dwelt in the wilderness and became an archer 01:03:17.560 --> 01:03:23.200 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Peran and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt and so forth 01:03:23.200 --> 01:03:25.040 And so we're gonna stop there. What's the point? 01:03:25.040 --> 01:03:30.900 The point is is that Ishmael and Isaac are a representation of both old and new covenant 01:03:31.200 --> 01:03:34.880 The new covenant represents Isaac because he's the younger one, right? 01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:38.600 Whereas the old covenant had been around for thousands of years 01:03:40.600 --> 01:03:44.280 just as Ishmael was around for 13 years prior to Isaac. 01:03:45.080 --> 01:03:48.680 Ishmael persecuted Isaac just like the Jews persecuted believers, 01:03:48.680 --> 01:03:52.280 just like unsaved people today persecute us and so forth. 01:03:52.280 --> 01:03:53.960 Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word. 01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:59.240 Thank you for the story here. Help us as your people to appreciate. 01:03:59.700 --> 01:04:05.780 the great deep truths of the word of God that expand the understanding regarding these doctrines, 01:04:05.780 --> 01:04:06.780 Lord. 01:04:06.780 --> 01:04:12.620 And I pray that you would help us to continue to dig for gold and for silver within your 01:04:12.620 --> 01:04:15.400 word, Lord, and give us wisdom to do so. 01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:19.900 And I pray also that you would help us, Lord, if we feel like Ishmael cast under the shrub, 01:04:19.900 --> 01:04:24.680 that we recognize that as we call upon you, Lord, you'll never leave us nor forsake us. 01:04:24.680 --> 01:04:26.820 You are our heavenly Father. 01:04:26.820 --> 01:04:27.700 Lord 01:04:27.700 --> 01:04:31.440 May it cause us to be that much more zealous for the things of God, to love you that much 01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:37.100 more and to have more potential to do greater things because of that. 01:04:37.100 --> 01:04:38.540 And I pray that you bless us as we go on our way. 01:04:38.540 --> 01:04:39.540 We love you, we thank you. 01:04:39.540 --> 01:04:40.540 We pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen. 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:51.280 All right, we have one last song this evening. 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:52.885 Song number 160.