WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.560 that ready in your song books if you did not get a bulletin go ahead and raise your hand 00:03.560 --> 00:06.940 one of the ushers can get one for you some important information on there as well as 00:06.940 --> 00:10.240 our prayer sheet of course we welcome you to come back to our Sunday morning service 00:10.240 --> 00:16.320 at 1030 Sunday evening at 5 p.m. and as you know our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock 00:16.320 --> 00:21.280 you see the soul winning times and teams listed there in the middle and the list of expecting 00:21.280 --> 00:27.520 mothers want to say congratulations to the Lemons family amen on the birth of their twins 00:27.520 --> 00:28.000 The first. 00:28.000 --> 00:38.560 twins born in our church Uriah Lemons 5.5 pounds 18.5 inches and Iris Lemons 4.15 00:38.560 --> 00:45.560 pounds 18.5 inches and so praise God for that. Do please pray for Uriah they did 00:45.560 --> 00:50.760 transfer him to the Chalk Hospital there and many of you already know that he was 00:50.760 --> 00:54.880 gonna have some complications when he was born but if we're to look at the 00:54.880 --> 00:55.720 silver lining. 00:56.000 --> 00:58.860 you know what he was born he didn't he was able to breathe on his own which is 00:58.860 --> 01:01.400 uh... wonderful thing and praise god for that 01:01.400 --> 01:04.800 and so as far as i know he still a bit of a bit of a does on he does have 01:04.800 --> 01:08.080 uh... a lot of complications still and so they're running some tests 01:08.080 --> 01:10.320 so please pray for the but i'll be here i am 01:10.320 --> 01:14.720 and of course for uh... iris as well as uh... angeles recovery 01:14.720 --> 01:17.560 will give more updates as we get them and so 01:17.560 --> 01:20.840 i'm sure the lemons would appreciate uh... little text message 01:20.840 --> 01:23.800 after service just letting them know that you're praying for them. 01:24.000 --> 01:26.600 You're praying for baby Uriah for a great outcome. 01:26.600 --> 01:28.040 And that's pretty much it. 01:28.040 --> 01:30.680 And so congratulations to them on that. 01:30.680 --> 01:32.760 You see the stats there for the month of May 01:32.760 --> 01:35.080 on salvations and baptisms, great month. 01:35.080 --> 01:37.680 On the right hand side is the upcoming church events. 01:37.680 --> 01:40.560 We have the TJ missions trip on Saturday, June 27th, 01:40.560 --> 01:41.880 leaving the building at 915 AM. 01:41.880 --> 01:42.880 Make sure you bring your passports, 01:42.880 --> 01:44.400 coordinate with brother Hernandez. 01:44.400 --> 01:48.240 Ice cream social will be on Sunday, June 28th. 01:48.240 --> 01:50.440 And that will be after the PM service. 01:50.440 --> 01:51.600 That is of course. 01:52.000 --> 01:55.240 during our or part of our summer calendar there. 01:55.240 --> 01:56.300 And so we're excited about that. 01:56.300 --> 01:58.880 Independence Day is also coming up on Friday, July 3rd, 01:58.880 --> 02:00.200 the picnic that is. 02:00.200 --> 02:01.540 The details are at the guest center. 02:01.540 --> 02:03.920 So please sign up for that so we can get a head count 02:03.920 --> 02:06.040 of everyone who will be attending. 02:06.040 --> 02:07.520 And then the Watermelon Fellowship 02:07.520 --> 02:11.080 is on Sunday, July 5th after the PM service. 02:11.080 --> 02:13.880 I do want to mention that the lovely little ladies 02:13.880 --> 02:14.720 met on Sunday night. 02:14.720 --> 02:16.720 It was great to see all the girls get together 02:16.720 --> 02:18.260 and have some activities. 02:18.260 --> 02:20.000 There's another club going on. 02:20.000 --> 02:23.560 And this coming Sunday night called the Young Fundamentalist, it's for all the boys. 02:23.560 --> 02:28.200 And so parents, if you want your boys to participate in that, you can sign up at the guest center. 02:28.200 --> 02:32.520 If you have any questions, you can see my son Bruce or Isaiah for more information about 02:32.520 --> 02:34.400 the club meeting there. 02:34.400 --> 02:37.140 Please make sure you silence your phones during the preaching so as to not be a distraction 02:37.140 --> 02:38.140 during your service. 02:38.140 --> 02:39.140 And that is it. 02:39.140 --> 02:41.720 Song number one, Jesus, I am my cross have taken. 02:51.500 --> 02:54.940 Song number one for our third song, 02:54.940 --> 02:57.380 Jesus I my cross have taken. 02:59.180 --> 03:01.500 Song number one, everyone all together, 03:01.500 --> 03:05.340 nice and strong on that first verse. 03:05.340 --> 03:10.340 Jesus I my cross have taken, 03:10.540 --> 03:14.900 all to leave and follow thee. 03:15.400 --> 03:25.600 Destitute, despised, forsaken, Thou from hence my all shall be. 03:25.600 --> 03:35.600 Perish every fond ambition, All life sought and hoped and known. 03:35.600 --> 03:36.600 Yeah! 03:39.300 --> 03:45.200 God and heaven are still my own. 03:50.700 --> 03:55.480 They have left my savior too 04:02.900 --> 04:05.060 like man untrue. 04:07.700 --> 04:12.100 Smile upon me God of wisdom 04:19.400 --> 04:31.280 me show thy face and all is bright man may trouble and distress me will but 04:31.280 --> 04:39.480 drive me to thy breast life with trials hard may press me 04:39.480 --> 04:44.500 heaven well bring me sweeter rest 04:45.800 --> 04:47.600 is not in green. 04:57.900 --> 05:01.260 Charming were thy joy on 05:06.100 --> 05:06.940 I'm great. 05:09.800 --> 05:13.580 by faith and winged by prayer, 05:13.580 --> 05:16.040 Heav's eternal day. 05:18.400 --> 05:22.960 God's own hand shall guide thee there. 05:22.960 --> 05:27.760 Soon shall close thy earthly mission. 05:27.760 --> 05:32.640 Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days. 05:32.640 --> 05:37.440 Hope shall change to glad fruition. 05:37.440 --> 05:43.160 Faith to sight and prayer to praise. 05:43.160 --> 05:43.420 Amen. 05:43.420 --> 05:43.880 Great singing. 05:43.880 --> 05:46.040 At this time, the ushers will collect the offering. 05:46.500 --> 05:49.500 Tonight will be in Genesis chapter 22. 07:04.200 --> 07:06.200 Good evening, we're in Genesis chapter 22. 07:10.300 --> 07:11.980 And the Bible reads, 07:11.980 --> 07:14.020 And it came to pass after these things 07:14.020 --> 07:15.700 that God did tempt Abraham, 07:15.700 --> 07:16.980 and said unto him, Abraham, 07:16.980 --> 07:19.060 and he said, behold, here I am. 07:19.060 --> 07:21.660 And he said, take now thy son, 07:21.660 --> 07:23.660 thy only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, 07:23.660 --> 07:25.500 and get thee into the land of Moriah, 07:25.500 --> 07:27.140 and offer him therefore a burnt offering 07:27.140 --> 07:28.580 upon one of the mountains, 07:28.580 --> 07:29.900 which I will tell thee of. 07:30.500 --> 07:42.500 And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and claved the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went on to the place of which God had told him. 07:42.500 --> 07:54.500 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off and Abraham said unto his young men, abide ye here with the ass and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you. 07:54.500 --> 07:56.500 And Abraham took the word of the burnt offering. 07:57.000 --> 08:00.680 and laid it upon Isaac his son, and took the fire in his hand and a knife, 08:00.680 --> 08:05.160 and they went both of them together. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said, 08:05.160 --> 08:10.440 My father, and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire in the wood, 08:10.440 --> 08:14.920 but where is the lamp for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide 08:14.920 --> 08:18.360 himself a lamp for a burnt offering. So they went both of them together. 08:18.900 --> 08:22.700 They came to the place which God had told him of, and Abraham built an altar there and 08:22.700 --> 08:27.260 laid the wooden altar in order, and bowed Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon 08:27.260 --> 08:28.260 the wood. 08:28.260 --> 08:31.740 And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 08:31.740 --> 08:37.380 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham, 08:37.380 --> 08:38.380 and he said, Here am I. 08:38.380 --> 08:38.700 Thank you. 08:39.100 --> 08:44.000 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him. 08:44.000 --> 08:47.760 For now I know that thou fearst God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thy only 08:47.760 --> 08:49.400 son from me. 08:49.400 --> 08:53.260 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket 08:53.260 --> 08:54.260 by his horns. 08:54.260 --> 08:58.660 And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his 08:58.660 --> 08:59.660 son. 08:59.660 --> 09:04.780 And Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-Jireh, as it is said to this day. 09:05.400 --> 09:11.320 the mound of the Lord it shall be seen and the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time and 09:11.320 --> 09:18.680 said by myself I swore and saith the Lord for because thou has done this thing and has not withheld thy son thine only son 09:18.840 --> 09:25.620 that in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying God will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand which is 09:25.620 --> 09:27.120 upon the seashore 09:27.120 --> 09:32.700 and thy seed shall possess the gate of thine enemies and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed 09:33.300 --> 09:38.340 because thou hast obeyed my voice. So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up 09:38.340 --> 09:44.180 and went together to Beersheba, and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. And it came to pass after these 09:44.180 --> 09:50.020 things that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milka shalt also borne children unto thy brother 09:50.020 --> 09:57.140 Nahor, who is his firstborn, then Booz his brother, and Kamuel the father of Aram, and Chesed and Hazo 09:57.140 --> 09:59.000 and PIL-DASH. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.920 and Jitlath and Bethuel and Bethuel of Beget-Rebecca. 10:02.920 --> 10:05.960 These eight milkah did bear to Nahor Abraham's brother. 10:05.960 --> 10:14.840 And this concubine whose name was Ruma, she bear also Teba and Gahem and Tehash and Mechah. 10:14.840 --> 10:18.520 Let's pray. Father God, we thank you dear Lord for the Bible you've preserved for us dear Lord. 10:18.520 --> 10:20.520 We thank you for our church. We thank you for our pastor. 10:20.520 --> 10:23.320 Please bless him as he preaches your word. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. 10:24.800 --> 10:30.480 Amen. Okay, we're in Genesis chapter 22 and tonight we're going to look at the sacrifice of 10:30.480 --> 10:37.200 Isaac. The sacrifice of Isaac, very popular story here, very familiar story where God puts Abraham 10:37.200 --> 10:41.680 to the test here. In verse number one it says, and it came to pass after these things that God 10:41.680 --> 10:48.160 did tempt Abraham and said unto him, Abraham, and he said, behold, here I am. Now the first thing I 10:48.160 --> 10:52.720 want to mention here is the fact that it says that God did tempt a 10:52.800 --> 10:56.700 It's important to define what that word tempt means, okay? 10:56.700 --> 11:01.200 Because throughout the Bible we have this word used in various instances and the two major 11:01.480 --> 11:08.920 definitions that we are familiar with is the temptation to sin in other words to be enticed to commit sin 11:08.920 --> 11:12.860 This is essentially what Satan does. This is what our flesh does, right? 11:12.860 --> 11:20.780 It entices us to transgress and to commit sin the other form of temptation is referring to testing 11:20.800 --> 11:24.340 Okay, and obviously just based upon those definitions alone 11:24.560 --> 11:31.700 We know that the tempting that's being accomplished here is the testing why because God tempts no man with evil 11:31.700 --> 11:37.180 Right. The Bible says that God is not tempted with evil neither tempted he any man 11:37.180 --> 11:43.300 In other words, he's not gonna entice you to sin if you commit some grievous transgression some iniquity 11:43.340 --> 11:48.580 You can't point the finger at God and said oh God. Why did you put me in a situation to be tempted? 11:48.800 --> 11:50.600 and be enticed to commit this sin. 11:50.600 --> 11:53.120 No, every man is tempted when he is drawn away 11:53.120 --> 11:56.240 of his own lust, the Bible says, and enticed. 11:56.240 --> 12:01.240 And so anytime we commit a sin that we were enticed to do, 12:01.240 --> 12:02.860 God has nothing to do with that. 12:02.860 --> 12:06.400 Now, the only factor that God plays in a situation like that 12:06.400 --> 12:08.800 is when he's delivering us from temptation, 12:08.800 --> 12:11.800 when he's enabling us, giving us the ability, 12:11.800 --> 12:14.540 the power, the power of the Holy Spirit 12:14.540 --> 12:16.800 to overcome temptation so that we... 12:16.800 --> 12:17.800 don't commit sin. 12:17.800 --> 12:22.580 Now obviously, you know, and I've talked about this multiple times, that, you know, we need 12:22.580 --> 12:25.660 to make sure we stay as far away as we possibly can from temptation. 12:26.100 --> 12:27.660 We obviously know we've got to stay away from sin. 12:27.660 --> 12:30.340 That's like basic Christianity 101, right? 12:30.340 --> 12:31.460 Stay away from sin. 12:31.460 --> 12:32.820 Don't commit sin. 12:32.820 --> 12:34.900 Sin is the transgression of the law. 12:34.900 --> 12:37.420 Walk in the spirit you should not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 12:37.420 --> 12:40.780 Make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust of and so forth. 12:40.780 --> 12:43.220 But if you are a wise Christian, you would actually 12:43.220 --> 12:45.200 stay away from temptation also. 12:45.300 --> 12:49.060 Because temptation is the next step before you commit the actual sin. 12:49.060 --> 12:52.580 And one thing that I've noticed just as a pastor, as a Christian, 12:52.580 --> 12:57.220 is that the reason Christians commit sin is because they have low standards 12:57.220 --> 12:59.700 when it comes to staying away from temptation. 13:00.600 --> 13:05.080 Maybe they might have like a high standard when it comes to staying away from sin, but quite frankly, 13:05.080 --> 13:10.200 if your distance between you and temptation is not very great, you're closer to committing that sin. 13:10.200 --> 13:15.240 So in a time of weakness, in a time when maybe you're not walking in the spirit, 13:15.240 --> 13:19.000 in a time of great vulnerability, you're going to end up committing that sin. 13:19.400 --> 13:23.880 So the way you can make sure that you stay away from sin 13:23.880 --> 13:30.360 is just by exercising wisdom and staying as far away as you possibly can from that temptation. 13:30.600 --> 13:36.280 So that when you are weak, when you are vulnerable, well at least you're still on this side of temptation 13:36.280 --> 13:39.800 You understand? And you're not sinning against the Lord 13:39.800 --> 13:42.600 And so obviously that's a sermon in and of itself 13:42.600 --> 13:45.400 It's an important principle for us as Christians to live by 13:45.400 --> 13:51.400 But it's not the temptation that we're looking at here is not what we're talking about when it comes to being tithes to sin 13:51.400 --> 13:54.600 This is essentially referring to testing, right? 13:55.200 --> 13:57.900 And we see here that God is testing Abraham. 13:57.900 --> 14:02.700 Now, it's important to note that he's not testing to see if Abraham has faith, 14:02.700 --> 14:05.800 because quite frankly, we've been following Abraham this entire time, 14:05.800 --> 14:07.600 and he does have a lot of faith. 14:07.600 --> 14:09.100 This man is a man of great faith. 14:09.100 --> 14:13.100 Obviously, we saw him, you know, do some really stupid stuff, 14:13.100 --> 14:16.300 and, you know, his faith relapsed, but Abraham's not perfect. 14:16.500 --> 14:23.060 Abraham is like us. He's a man of like passions. He's a man who falters, he fails, but in general, 14:23.060 --> 14:27.540 he is characterized overall as being a man of faith, and we can see that. 14:27.540 --> 14:32.420 So this testing that God is putting him through is not to see if he has faith, 14:32.420 --> 14:36.260 it's to test the faith that he already has. You understand? 14:36.260 --> 14:39.140 So you got to understand something is that in our Christian life, 14:40.100 --> 14:46.100 As we walk with God, as we serve the Lord, there's going to be times that God is testing us in order to increase our faith, 14:46.100 --> 14:51.100 but there's other times where God's going to test you just to see how strong your faith really is. 14:51.100 --> 14:56.100 He's going to allow you to go through trials, tribulations, 14:56.100 --> 15:01.100 He's going to allow you to go through testing in order to see what you're really made of. 15:01.500 --> 15:02.500 OK? 15:02.500 --> 15:05.060 It's often said that the hot water, 15:05.060 --> 15:07.060 I'm not going to say this correctly, perfectly, 15:07.060 --> 15:10.100 but the hot water really reveals what's 15:10.100 --> 15:11.540 in the side of the teabag, right? 15:11.540 --> 15:13.780 That's probably like the NIV version of it. 15:13.780 --> 15:17.300 But you don't really know what's in the context of the teabag 15:17.300 --> 15:19.980 until it's actually placed in hot water. 15:19.980 --> 15:20.700 And you know what? 15:20.700 --> 15:23.980 We all need to be put in hot water every once in a while 15:23.980 --> 15:25.220 to see what we're made of. 15:25.700 --> 15:32.820 To see how fortified our faith actually is. It's easy to talk the talk. It's easy to say what we believe 15:33.140 --> 15:35.380 It's easy to talk about our doctrine 15:35.540 --> 15:41.780 It's another thing when we're actually put to the test to see if that's what we're really made of if we're people of substance 15:42.420 --> 15:47.780 If we are not just you know, these shallow Christians that know how to speak the christianese 15:48.020 --> 15:51.320 But we actually can walk the walk in times of trial and tribulation 15:51.900 --> 15:55.600 And so, you know, he's over a hundred years of age here. 15:55.600 --> 15:57.400 He has a son, everything's going great. 15:57.400 --> 16:01.280 Then God comes and he puts him to the test. 16:01.280 --> 16:04.960 And it's important folks that we recognize that this year could be the year of testing 16:04.960 --> 16:05.960 for you. 16:05.960 --> 16:06.960 Okay? 16:06.960 --> 16:09.480 And you're like, what do I do in the year of testing? 16:09.480 --> 16:13.080 Well, number one is that you just stay put. 16:13.080 --> 16:17.240 Meaning that you're just not swayed to the left or to the right. 16:17.240 --> 16:17.300 you 16:17.400 --> 16:22.240 You know, this is why it's important for us to internalize convictions in our personal 16:22.240 --> 16:27.760 life so that when we are put to the test, we don't make just some rash decision. 16:27.760 --> 16:31.320 We don't just, you know, are carried about with every wind of doctrine. 16:31.320 --> 16:34.440 We don't just make hasty decisions in our personal life. 16:34.440 --> 16:38.080 We're able to just withstand in the evil day. 16:38.080 --> 16:41.200 And you know, let me just say this is that when you're being tested, that's often the 16:41.200 --> 16:43.560 time when you feel like God has abandoned you or something. 16:44.200 --> 16:53.480 Like God's not there. You feel like he's not blessing you but maturity says he is there because the Bible says I will never leave thee nor forsake thee 16:53.640 --> 16:54.240 You know 16:54.240 --> 17:00.960 I've not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread and we can go through just all the slew of promises 17:01.320 --> 17:05.000 that tell us and confirm to us that God is with us and 17:05.600 --> 17:11.000 So but the thing is is that when we go through temptations like this, it causes us to question a little bit 17:11.300 --> 17:13.140 So now you're being tested, right? 17:13.140 --> 17:15.380 And now it's seeing like, OK, so are you 17:15.380 --> 17:17.060 going to be emotional about this stuff? 17:17.060 --> 17:18.560 Are you going to be weak about this? 17:18.560 --> 17:20.180 Are you going to stop reading your Bible? 17:20.180 --> 17:21.520 Are you going to stop serving God? 17:21.520 --> 17:23.220 Are you going to allow circumstances 17:23.220 --> 17:26.480 to determine your decisions during this particular time? 17:26.480 --> 17:27.660 You're being tested. 17:27.660 --> 17:30.580 And the biggest thing when it comes to testing like this 17:30.580 --> 17:32.540 is that God really is testing to see 17:32.540 --> 17:36.620 if you obey him during the time of testing, 17:36.620 --> 17:37.120 OK? 17:37.120 --> 17:38.820 Because that's really what's going on here. 17:39.400 --> 17:42.400 What is God testing Abraham with? Obedience. 17:42.400 --> 17:45.960 And you know he's giving him this major test 17:45.960 --> 17:49.480 and it's kinda like, oh man, really? Like my only... 17:49.480 --> 17:52.760 You just gave me the son and now I have to give him back? 17:52.760 --> 17:56.040 Kind of thing? I have to sacrifice him? So he had to 17:56.040 --> 17:59.520 obey the Lord in faith, right? 17:59.520 --> 18:03.900 And believe that God was... what he was asking for was a righteous thing. 18:04.000 --> 18:05.620 and that God was going to come through, 18:05.620 --> 18:07.160 even though he didn't quite understand. 18:07.160 --> 18:09.580 And notice that Abraham is not asking him, like, all right, 18:09.580 --> 18:11.580 so what are you planning to do here exactly? 18:11.580 --> 18:14.280 What is this all about? 18:14.280 --> 18:17.440 Can you tell me what's going to happen at the end? 18:17.440 --> 18:19.600 What's the conclusion of the matter? 18:19.600 --> 18:21.060 Because that's really going to determine if I 18:21.060 --> 18:22.840 follow through with this, right? 18:22.840 --> 18:25.520 God never just lays out what he's 18:25.520 --> 18:27.760 planning to do in the future with you. 18:27.760 --> 18:28.760 That's part of the test. 18:29.300 --> 18:32.300 He's never just going to tell you like, hey, I'm going to put you through this trial. 18:32.300 --> 18:39.300 But this is line item of every single blessing that you're going to receive because of it in about six months. 18:39.300 --> 18:41.300 He just doesn't tell you anything. 18:41.300 --> 18:43.300 Because at the end of the day, he's not obligated. 18:43.700 --> 18:49.300 to tell you anything. He's not obligated to give you anything else. You're obligated to obey him, 18:49.300 --> 18:53.780 is what you're obligated to do. We're not necessarily, he's not obligated to us 18:53.780 --> 18:59.620 to give us all the solutions. We're just obligated to obey and in faith. And obviously we understand 18:59.620 --> 19:08.660 that, you know, regardless of what happens, God will bless in the long run. Can we specify what 19:08.660 --> 19:11.260 what that blessing is, not really, because we're not. 19:11.500 --> 19:14.620 We don't know the future, per se. 19:14.620 --> 19:17.700 We just got to cast our care upon Him, for He cares for us. 19:17.700 --> 19:19.780 We know that all things work together for good. 19:19.780 --> 19:23.300 We could only really work off of the promises of God 19:23.300 --> 19:27.300 that kind of generally explain to us what the outcome is going 19:27.300 --> 19:28.100 to be. 19:28.100 --> 19:32.140 And the outcome is this, God's glory and maybe a blessing 19:32.140 --> 19:34.380 for you or something like that. 19:34.380 --> 19:36.060 Because at the end of the day, God's glory, 19:36.060 --> 19:37.540 God getting glory from all of this 19:37.540 --> 19:38.800 is the most important thing. 19:39.000 --> 19:44.440 But we know because of God's nature that we will somehow be blessed of this in the long run. 19:44.440 --> 19:47.240 And you're like, well, you know, I'm looking at the circumstances. 19:47.240 --> 19:49.080 I'm looking at all the factors. 19:49.080 --> 19:50.040 I'm kind of adding. 19:50.040 --> 19:53.560 I'm doing the minority report thing where I'm just moving things around here. 19:53.560 --> 19:55.160 And it just doesn't seem to add up. 19:56.440 --> 19:58.200 Then you just got to obey anyways. 19:58.200 --> 19:59.400 You just got to do it. 19:59.400 --> 19:59.720 Okay. 20:00.520 --> 20:02.360 And so there's no explaining it. 20:02.360 --> 20:04.120 Sorry, you know, that doesn't mean you don't obey. 20:04.120 --> 20:05.240 You still got to do it. 20:05.600 --> 20:10.780 Even if you know all the files don't really all you know make sense or whatever God told you to do it 20:10.780 --> 20:12.360 you got to do it and 20:12.360 --> 20:16.320 so what ends up happening here is that we see a 20:16.720 --> 20:22.660 Great display of faith on Abraham's heart really it really shows us how strong in faith he actually is 20:23.160 --> 20:29.220 Okay, the substance of his faith verse 2 says and he said take now thy son thine only son Isaac 20:29.780 --> 20:31.400 whom thou lovest 20:31.700 --> 20:37.980 Get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him therefore a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell 20:38.180 --> 20:41.580 The so we have here God 20:43.000 --> 20:46.600 commanding Abraham to go into the land of Moriah 20:46.600 --> 20:48.600 and obviously we know that the land of Moriah 20:48.600 --> 20:51.800 is where we have the temple mound today, right? 20:51.800 --> 20:54.500 This is essentially where the sacrifices are going to be 20:54.500 --> 20:56.900 the temple was going to be and so forth 20:56.900 --> 20:59.700 so we obviously have a foreshadowing of this 20:59.700 --> 21:02.400 through the sacrifice of Isaac, okay? 21:02.400 --> 21:05.400 So he commands him to do this and he says 21:05.400 --> 21:07.400 you know, I want you to offer him there 21:07.400 --> 21:10.500 verse 3 says, and Abraham rose up early in the morning 21:10.700 --> 21:13.940 and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him, 21:13.940 --> 21:16.500 and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, 21:16.500 --> 21:20.020 and rose up and went unto the place of which God had told him." 21:20.020 --> 21:24.180 Now, that alone demonstrates that Abraham's a man of faith. 21:24.180 --> 21:24.680 Why? 21:24.680 --> 21:26.900 Because he's not arguing with God. 21:26.900 --> 21:29.380 He's not asking for extra details. 21:29.380 --> 21:31.780 He's not saying, come again. 21:31.780 --> 21:33.900 He's not like, did you say Isaac? 21:33.900 --> 21:36.620 Are you sure not Ishmael? 21:36.620 --> 21:38.380 He's just like, 10-4. 21:38.800 --> 21:40.180 Got up in the morning. 21:40.180 --> 21:42.020 And when it says that he got up in the morning, 21:42.020 --> 21:45.500 that shows immediate obedience. 21:45.500 --> 21:49.460 Not delayed obedience, but immediate obedience. 21:49.460 --> 21:50.940 He didn't have to pray about it. 21:50.940 --> 21:53.380 It's not something he had to fast about. 21:53.380 --> 21:54.900 God already commanded it. 21:54.900 --> 21:56.620 And so he's going to obey. 21:56.620 --> 21:58.600 So this is actually a major demonstration 21:58.600 --> 22:01.040 of how strong his faith is, where 22:01.040 --> 22:04.240 he doesn't even have to question God regarding the situation. 22:04.240 --> 22:06.000 We're going to look in a bit why that is. 22:06.700 --> 22:09.060 But look what it says in verse number four. 22:09.060 --> 22:12.500 It says, then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes 22:12.500 --> 22:16.500 and saw, actually, yeah, verse four. 22:16.500 --> 22:18.420 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes 22:18.420 --> 22:20.040 and saw the place afar off. 22:20.040 --> 22:23.500 Now, I don't know about you, but this kind of kills me right here. 22:23.500 --> 22:26.940 Because if I was in Abraham's shoes and God had commanded me 22:26.940 --> 22:30.040 to do this, and I were to obey immediately, 22:30.040 --> 22:31.340 I kind of want to get it over with. 22:31.340 --> 22:34.340 He has to journey for three days thinking about this. 22:35.000 --> 22:36.960 That's a long time. 22:36.960 --> 22:39.440 You know, just kind of journeying with your son, 22:39.440 --> 22:42.800 with the servants, having this on your mind 22:42.800 --> 22:44.800 that once you get to the location, 22:44.800 --> 22:48.360 you're going to sacrifice Isaac, the promised child. 22:48.360 --> 22:50.720 You know, that seems kind of rough, right? 22:50.720 --> 22:51.880 It's a lot. 22:51.880 --> 22:53.920 And you know, this shows us that sometimes when 22:53.920 --> 22:55.280 we're being tested, 22:55.280 --> 22:55.300 you 22:55.600 --> 22:58.240 you know, sometimes it just prolonged a little bit, right? 22:58.240 --> 23:00.160 It just seems like, man, you know? 23:00.160 --> 23:01.840 And I don't know about you, but I kind of 23:01.840 --> 23:04.280 like the microwave testing. 23:04.280 --> 23:06.240 Where it's just like, let's just get it over with. 23:06.240 --> 23:08.360 Rip the Band-Aid off, right? 23:08.360 --> 23:10.040 Just give me the bad news right now. 23:10.040 --> 23:12.920 I'm the type that if you say, I got good news 23:12.920 --> 23:15.200 and I got bad news, what should you want to hear first? 23:15.200 --> 23:16.700 I say, give me the bad news first. 23:16.900 --> 23:19.540 I want to hear the worst possible news first, right? 23:19.540 --> 23:22.540 Let's just get it over with and rip the bandaid off. 23:22.540 --> 23:26.580 I don't really like to simmer and sit through and wait 23:26.580 --> 23:29.980 for months on end to hear the results of something. 23:29.980 --> 23:32.020 It's hard, OK? 23:32.020 --> 23:33.980 But here we are three days. 23:33.980 --> 23:34.980 Abraham is journeying. 23:34.980 --> 23:38.060 He lifts up his eyes and he sees the place, verse 5. 23:38.060 --> 23:40.220 And Abraham said unto his young men, 23:40.220 --> 23:41.740 abide ye here with the ass. 23:42.300 --> 23:48.500 I and the lad will go yonder and worship and I want you to notice this here and 23:48.900 --> 23:50.900 Come again to you 23:51.460 --> 23:57.960 Now I do believe that the reason he's saying that is because of the fact that he believes that he's going to return 23:58.500 --> 24:03.100 With Isaac. Okay. Now, let's go to Hebrew chapter 11 Hebrew chapter 11 24:04.500 --> 24:06.000 Hebrew chapter 11 24:08.000 --> 24:09.800 Now, I don't think Abraham is just like, 24:09.800 --> 24:11.320 ah, this isn't going to happen. 24:11.320 --> 24:13.400 He's not really going to make me sacrifice. 24:13.400 --> 24:16.420 I believe he's fully convinced that he's 24:16.420 --> 24:19.560 going to have to kill his son Isaac, sacrifice. 24:19.560 --> 24:22.440 Because the sacrifice that's being commanded here 24:22.440 --> 24:27.920 is that he has to slay Isaac and then offer him up on the altar. 24:27.920 --> 24:31.000 Like bind him up, burn him, and so forth. 24:31.400 --> 24:35.660 So I believe he is gonna go through with it like that's that's his intention 24:35.660 --> 24:40.000 He's gonna obey the Lord, but he tells his men like hey, we're gonna go worship 24:40.000 --> 24:46.340 We're gonna go worship right and then we're gonna come back. Okay now look at Hebrews chapter 11 Hebrews 24:46.340 --> 24:51.680 Of course 11 is the faith chapter. It's one of my favorite chapters in all the Bible 24:52.500 --> 24:59.220 because it really demonstrates the hope and the faith of the men and women in the Bible, 24:59.220 --> 25:05.060 particularly in the Old Testament. And it really shows us that these men, working off of very 25:05.060 --> 25:10.900 little information, just the word of the Lord, exercised a great amount of faith and were 25:11.540 --> 25:16.580 counted as being great men and great women who did great things for God because they believed in 25:16.580 --> 25:18.740 the Lord. Okay, look what it says in verse number 25:19.400 --> 25:26.840 17 it says by faith Abraham when he was tried now that goes along with what we 25:26.840 --> 25:31.280 see right Genesis 22 that he's tempted to be tempted means to be tried it says 25:31.280 --> 25:38.200 he was tried verse 17 he was tried offered up Isaac and he that had received 25:38.200 --> 25:39.300 the promises 25:39.400 --> 25:44.520 Offered up his only begotten son of whom it was said that in Isaac shall they see be called 25:44.520 --> 25:46.520 I want you to notice this 25:46.560 --> 25:54.520 Accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure 25:54.720 --> 25:57.480 So the New Testament is giving us a little more information 25:58.600 --> 26:00.600 regarding Abraham's thought process 26:01.000 --> 26:05.400 with the Old Testament, Genesis 22 isn't necessarily divulging to us, right? 26:05.400 --> 26:10.200 It's basically explaining that the reason he was able to do this is because in his mind, 26:10.200 --> 26:14.000 like, if I kill my son and sacrifice him, God's going to resurrect him. 26:14.000 --> 26:16.000 He's going to have to resurrect him. 26:16.000 --> 26:18.000 Now, why did he believe that? 26:18.000 --> 26:19.400 Well, for two reasons. 26:19.400 --> 26:24.400 One is that God promised him that through this child, 26:24.800 --> 26:26.800 He was going to create nations, right? 26:26.800 --> 26:27.300 He was going to... 26:27.300 --> 26:30.800 This is the promise, child, from which, you know, his descendants would come from. 26:30.800 --> 26:35.800 This is the promise that God had given to him many years prior to this. 26:35.800 --> 26:38.800 So he's thinking like, well, he's not going to go back on that promise. 26:38.800 --> 26:42.500 So he has to like resurrect him. 26:43.000 --> 26:46.320 He's not going to just ask me to take my son's life, 26:46.320 --> 26:48.600 offer him, and then just leave him there. 26:48.600 --> 26:50.600 He's obviously going to resurrect him. 26:50.600 --> 26:51.640 So that's number one. 26:51.640 --> 26:53.240 He believes that God's still going 26:53.240 --> 26:55.160 to follow through on his promises. 26:55.160 --> 26:57.160 And this is what it means when it says that he's fully 26:57.160 --> 27:00.200 persuaded what God had promised he is able also to perform. 27:00.300 --> 27:03.100 He staggered not at the promises of God. 27:03.100 --> 27:08.000 The Bible says he was fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform, 27:08.000 --> 27:12.180 meaning that he's just like, it doesn't matter what the circumstances say. 27:12.180 --> 27:14.940 It doesn't matter how much the situation changes. 27:14.940 --> 27:18.720 You know, God's going to come through on this and I'm not going to understand it, but he's 27:18.720 --> 27:22.400 just going to have to perform some miracle in my life in order for this to follow through. 27:23.400 --> 27:23.900 And you know what? 27:23.900 --> 27:26.880 This is how you should live your life, my friends. 27:26.880 --> 27:31.080 Because we're all going to be met with a roadblock. 27:31.080 --> 27:35.960 We're all going to be met with the wall, where it's just like, 27:35.960 --> 27:37.920 I don't know how I'm going to make it out of this. 27:37.920 --> 27:38.320 You know what I mean? 27:38.320 --> 27:40.640 I don't know how God's going to provide for me. 27:40.640 --> 27:41.880 I don't know how I'm going to pay this. 27:41.880 --> 27:42.920 I don't know how I'm going to do this. 27:42.920 --> 27:44.120 And you're just like, well, God's 27:44.120 --> 27:45.200 just going to have to do it. 27:45.600 --> 27:47.720 I don't know how this is going to happen. 27:47.720 --> 27:49.680 God's just going to have to follow through here. 27:49.680 --> 27:51.680 Because the Bible does say, I've not 27:51.680 --> 27:55.560 seen the righteous forsaken, nor seed begging bread. 27:55.560 --> 27:57.820 So I'm just going to keep serving you. 27:57.820 --> 28:00.360 And then he's just going to have to follow through, regardless 28:00.360 --> 28:02.760 of what this brick wall says. 28:02.760 --> 28:04.080 You understand what I'm saying? 28:04.080 --> 28:06.000 This is the kind of attitude that we 28:06.000 --> 28:07.160 need to learn from Abraham. 28:07.900 --> 28:10.020 Abraham's like, yeah, I'll go sacrifice him. 28:10.020 --> 28:12.360 And then if there was another character there that'd say, 28:12.360 --> 28:13.860 hey, isn't this the promised child? 28:13.860 --> 28:15.940 I'm like, all right, no, but he's probably 28:15.940 --> 28:16.740 just going to resurrect him. 28:16.740 --> 28:17.940 I don't know what he's going to do. 28:17.940 --> 28:19.740 I think he's going to resurrect him. 28:19.740 --> 28:21.060 And he's just like, what if not? 28:21.060 --> 28:23.020 He's going to have to do something. 28:23.020 --> 28:23.380 And you know what? 28:23.380 --> 28:25.460 That's kind of how I've lived my life as a Christian, 28:25.460 --> 28:27.980 is just like, well, I mean, God's 28:27.980 --> 28:29.200 going to have to do something. 28:29.800 --> 28:32.320 He's going to have to provide, he's going to have to protect, 28:32.320 --> 28:34.240 he's going to have to do this because he promised it. 28:34.240 --> 28:35.600 I don't know how he's going to do it. 28:35.600 --> 28:37.100 Surprise me. 28:37.800 --> 28:40.600 You know, just surprise me. 28:40.600 --> 28:42.100 Show me how you're going to do it. 28:42.100 --> 28:44.400 Because obviously, if we were to take 28:44.400 --> 28:47.760 account of all the current circumstances, the situations 28:47.760 --> 28:50.920 that we're in, it seems kind of impossible. 28:50.920 --> 28:52.600 It seems like a dead end. 28:52.600 --> 28:54.200 It seems like nothing's going to happen. 28:54.200 --> 28:59.400 It doesn't seem logically, from an earthly perspective, 28:59.400 --> 29:00.760 that God will come through. 29:00.760 --> 29:00.900 you 29:01.300 --> 29:03.700 But that's when he shows himself strong on our behalf. 29:03.700 --> 29:05.400 And you know what? 29:05.400 --> 29:07.000 I don't want to sound corny here. 29:07.300 --> 29:12.100 But God is in the business of miracles. Amen. I know that's not corny, but it does kind of sounds corny to me 29:12.100 --> 29:14.100 He is in the business of miracles, you know 29:14.180 --> 29:18.460 He he does want to show himself strong on the behalf of those whose heart is perfect with him 29:18.740 --> 29:21.960 He does want to supernaturally provide for you 29:22.140 --> 29:28.420 he wants to show himself strong and obviously we know that there are principles in the Bible that we need to 29:29.020 --> 29:35.100 Institute upon our own lives make sure that we work make sure that we are, you know doing our part 29:35.300 --> 29:37.300 so that God can do his. 29:37.300 --> 29:39.300 But just know this is that God always makes up the difference. 29:39.300 --> 29:45.300 So whatever effort that you put into that situation that you're in, in faith, 29:45.300 --> 29:49.300 God ends up providing a greater percentage than the effort that you put in. 29:49.300 --> 29:51.300 Understand? 29:51.300 --> 29:53.300 And you're like, well how is he going to do that? I don't know. 29:53.300 --> 29:55.300 He's just going to have to I guess, you know? 29:56.000 --> 29:59.600 You know, it's just like, oh man, how do you guys do it in California? 29:59.600 --> 30:01.100 I don't know. 30:01.100 --> 30:02.200 We just do, I guess. 30:02.200 --> 30:04.760 You know how many messages I get from people online? 30:04.760 --> 30:06.520 Like, oh, you're in California? 30:06.520 --> 30:08.200 How are you guys afforded out there? 30:08.200 --> 30:10.160 I don't know. 30:10.160 --> 30:13.200 Apparently, I do that. 30:13.200 --> 30:15.160 I got to get on the cuck because God provides so much. 30:15.160 --> 30:17.320 You know what I mean? 30:17.320 --> 30:20.960 You're like, oh man, how do your church members do it? 30:20.960 --> 30:22.120 God just provides, I guess. 30:22.120 --> 30:22.600 You know? 30:23.100 --> 30:26.100 I guess here's the way that God provides for them. 30:26.100 --> 30:27.900 Here's the way my church members make it, 30:27.900 --> 30:31.220 is they stay offline by listening 30:31.220 --> 30:35.420 to all these political nonsense of how bad California is, 30:35.420 --> 30:37.580 how no one's going to make it or whatever, just 30:37.580 --> 30:40.620 constantly fear mongering, just constantly putting that 30:40.620 --> 30:43.580 in the minds of people, creating this boogeyman. 30:43.580 --> 30:46.700 And here's the thing is, God is the God of California, too, 30:46.700 --> 30:48.300 those who are in California as well. 30:49.000 --> 30:52.780 It's just like, oh, God can provide in Texas for sure. 30:52.780 --> 30:54.880 God can provide in Tennessee for sure. 30:54.880 --> 30:56.640 God can provide in Arizona for sure. 30:56.640 --> 30:58.120 He can provide in Georgia for sure. 30:58.120 --> 30:59.680 All in the South, God can provide. 30:59.680 --> 31:01.720 It's like, well, how about here too? 31:01.720 --> 31:03.360 You know you can do it here too, right? 31:03.360 --> 31:05.640 It's like, well, that's liberal though. 31:05.640 --> 31:06.700 God can't work there. 31:07.300 --> 31:13.300 Don't know we've seen a lot of people get blessed here. We've seen people God provide for people here 31:13.300 --> 31:18.280 And so, you know at the end of the day though, this is where we're at and God's just gonna have to do it 31:19.220 --> 31:23.520 He's just gonna have to do it. They're like, oh now one day you're gonna move out of state 31:23.520 --> 31:29.420 I don't think so. I mean unless literally the state of California somehow boots me out of California 31:30.000 --> 31:37.000 You know, to go somewhere else because I'm just not wanted here, which I don't think is going to happen, but then again I said that about LA and yet here we are. 31:37.000 --> 31:37.500 You know? 31:37.500 --> 31:40.500 I believe I'm probably going to be here for the rest of my life. 31:40.500 --> 31:46.500 And it doesn't matter if the economy changes, if famine comes, God's just going to have to provide somehow. 31:46.500 --> 31:52.000 Because of the fact that at the end of the day, we don't work according to the economy of this world. 31:52.200 --> 31:57.960 You know, we have a God who owns the cattle on the Thousand Hill, all the silver and gold, 31:57.960 --> 32:03.880 he provides for his children, and I'm not basing the provisions off of what Fox News 32:03.880 --> 32:09.540 says, what the conservatives and the republicans say, I base it off of God's promises that 32:09.540 --> 31:57.920 transcend the 32:10.900 --> 32:17.220 you know, all these economists and all these, you know, talk radio or whatever 32:17.220 --> 32:20.220 political ideologies that are being put forth out there 32:20.220 --> 32:23.100 that are constantly pushing these propagandists to fear monger people 32:23.100 --> 32:26.780 you know, at the end of the day, why don't we just put our face in the Bible 32:26.780 --> 32:32.340 listen to the promises of God and, you know, see God show himself strong on our behalf 32:33.500 --> 32:40.060 And so what we have here is Abraham, he accounted that God was able to raise him up. 32:40.060 --> 32:44.940 So he's going to kill his son, at least he's intending to, because he's intending to obey the Lord. 32:44.940 --> 32:47.340 And then he's going to offer him up. 32:47.340 --> 32:49.340 Okay? 32:49.340 --> 32:52.220 And I don't think people understand the severity of this. 32:52.220 --> 32:55.660 That means he's binding him up, and then he's going to burn him. 32:56.200 --> 33:01.160 Okay, so he's planning to bind. That's what an offering is a burnt offering is like he's gonna burn him up 33:01.480 --> 33:07.480 He's gonna burn he's like like just as god commanded and even then abraham's like he's gonna have to just raise him up 33:08.120 --> 33:13.160 Because he promised that this is the promised job. So this kind of demonstrates here that you know, abraham 33:13.880 --> 33:17.960 Is a man of great faith. His faith is just strong in the lord 33:18.840 --> 33:21.100 And I don't know about you, but I want to have that type of faith 33:21.800 --> 33:24.200 And I believe we can have this type of faith. 33:24.200 --> 33:27.760 I believe that we can be strong in our faith in the Lord, 33:27.760 --> 33:31.240 but it requires for us to be put to the test. 33:31.240 --> 33:34.480 The only way our faith can become strong and it can grow 33:34.480 --> 33:37.360 is by being put to the test and not quitting 33:37.360 --> 33:40.320 when it is put to the test. 33:40.320 --> 33:44.080 But also, just staying away from things that cause doubt 33:44.080 --> 33:46.320 also reinforces our faith, does it not? 33:46.700 --> 33:52.780 making sure that we avoid people places and things that cause us to 33:53.460 --> 33:58.600 Minimize our faith or question God's Word or question his promises 33:58.600 --> 34:00.920 We need to make sure we stay away from things like that, right? 34:01.260 --> 34:04.460 You know the reason your faith might be a little small 34:04.940 --> 34:08.660 It's not strong in the Lord's because you just constantly listen to your family members 34:09.400 --> 34:13.880 that are constantly giving you the reality check, which is obviously not a reality check. 34:13.880 --> 34:19.000 It's constantly causing you to doubt God's word. Is he really going to provide? 34:19.000 --> 34:25.320 I don't think you should have that many children. What another one? That's a major thing. 34:26.680 --> 34:31.240 You know, it's just like, okay, you guys are done, right? 34:32.100 --> 34:36.100 I can't tell you how many times people have asked me that, not just family members, but just people in general. 34:36.100 --> 34:38.100 Like, you're done, right? 34:38.100 --> 34:41.100 I'm like, I don't know. 34:41.100 --> 34:43.100 I'm the wrong person to ask here. 34:43.100 --> 34:45.100 You know, you've got to ask the Lord here. 34:45.100 --> 34:50.100 I don't know. I just behave like a husband to my wife and vice versa, and we just see what happens. 34:50.100 --> 34:54.100 You know, I hope we're not done. I hope we keep having more kids. 34:54.100 --> 34:57.100 And you're like, oh man, but how are you going to make with so many kids? 34:57.100 --> 34:59.100 Well, I mean, we've made it with six, so I guess... 35:00.100 --> 35:04.100 God's just going to keep providing the more we have. 35:04.100 --> 35:06.100 And so it's just like, oh man, how are you 35:06.100 --> 35:08.500 going to be able to pay for all these things? 35:08.500 --> 35:09.300 Beans and rye? 35:09.300 --> 35:09.820 I don't know. 35:09.820 --> 35:12.660 Just figure it out somehow. 35:12.660 --> 35:15.940 God's just going to have to come through somehow. 35:15.940 --> 35:20.700 But at the end of the day, that's not my concern. 35:20.700 --> 35:22.700 Obviously, I want to provide for my family, 35:22.700 --> 35:25.220 but my concern is just obey the Lord, 35:25.220 --> 35:27.860 and I know that God will provide through me for my family. 35:28.300 --> 35:33.500 And obviously we're going to go through times of strain and famines and times where we struggle. 35:34.140 --> 35:38.220 But at the end of the day, I'm just going to keep saying that I've not seen the righteous 35:38.220 --> 35:39.820 forsaken nor seedbegging bread. 35:40.300 --> 35:44.360 Okay, and you know, I'm not the only guy here who has a lot of kids 35:44.380 --> 35:51.920 There's plenty of people who have six seven kids and they're making it God's providing for them. He's blessing them, you know 35:52.580 --> 35:57.300 Mori, you know brother Mori the lemons they're at sick they cheated and now they 35:57.980 --> 36:02.600 Went from four to six. I'm just kidding guys, you know sort of you know 36:02.600 --> 36:06.260 They got they got twins now and you know, God's gonna provide for them 36:06.700 --> 36:10.680 As he has been with the previous children, you know, he's just gonna continue to provide for them 36:10.680 --> 36:13.780 I just don't think that's gonna work. That's because you don't read the Bible 36:14.640 --> 36:15.900 That's why 36:16.900 --> 36:23.540 So don't come at me with your no kids or one kid telling me, how are you going to provide for six? 36:23.540 --> 36:25.040 It's just like, what do you mean? 36:25.040 --> 36:29.680 If God has provided for me through one, two, three, four, five, six, 36:29.680 --> 36:34.780 I'm assuming he's just going to keep providing through seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve. 36:36.520 --> 36:39.240 It just doesn't seem like that would happen. 36:39.240 --> 36:41.540 Well, because you're not seeing the Bible. 36:42.220 --> 36:43.900 You know, and we need to keep... 36:44.200 --> 36:47.940 the faith and recognize that like, you know, 36:47.940 --> 36:50.800 the world and what happens in the world 36:50.800 --> 36:54.680 and gas prices and groceries and all this stuff that's taking place, 36:54.680 --> 36:56.680 that doesn't really affect us as Christians. 36:56.680 --> 36:58.180 We're in Goshen. 36:58.180 --> 37:01.040 You guys remember Goshen, right? 37:01.040 --> 37:04.360 Remember when Egypt was just being completely destroyed, 37:04.360 --> 37:06.920 but yet Goshen was just well taken care of? 37:07.600 --> 37:09.920 Like, how are you Israelites going to make? 37:09.920 --> 37:11.280 You know there's no light, right? 37:11.280 --> 37:12.800 It's just like, well, we have light. 37:12.800 --> 37:14.360 I don't know about you guys. 37:14.360 --> 37:16.480 How are you guys going to do with all this disease going 37:16.480 --> 37:16.680 around? 37:16.680 --> 37:18.040 Well, we're not diseased. 37:18.040 --> 37:20.160 I know you guys are, but we're not. 37:20.160 --> 37:21.960 How are you going to, you know, don't you 37:21.960 --> 37:25.120 see all these fireballs coming down and all this pestilence? 37:25.120 --> 37:26.680 Not on us. 37:26.680 --> 37:27.960 Because we're in Goshen. 37:27.960 --> 37:29.000 I don't know about you guys. 37:29.000 --> 37:29.920 If you guys don't want that, maybe you 37:29.920 --> 37:33.440 should come to Goshen and start believing the Lord, right? 37:34.700 --> 37:41.180 Point being here is that we need to exercise faith and have a strong faith in the Lord. 37:41.180 --> 37:47.980 And so this obviously demonstrates that Abraham on his way to Mount Moriah understood like 37:49.340 --> 37:53.340 he's going to bring him back. He has to. He's accounting of that. 37:53.980 --> 37:57.820 Now another thing that we see here is that Abraham believed in the resurrection 37:57.820 --> 37:59.820 because he 38:00.800 --> 38:07.600 accounts that God was able to raise him up even from the dead, the Bible says. 38:07.600 --> 38:09.100 Now why is that important? 38:09.100 --> 38:15.100 Well, because of the fact that you have this really retarded doctrine out there called dispensationalism. 38:15.100 --> 38:16.100 Okay? 38:16.100 --> 38:20.300 There's a lot of retarded doctrines out there and many that I'm going to cover in the coming weeks, 38:20.300 --> 38:22.500 but dispensationalism is one of them. 38:23.100 --> 38:24.820 And you say, why is it retarded? 38:24.820 --> 38:26.220 Well, for a variety of reasons. 38:26.220 --> 38:28.820 But one of which is that they propose 38:28.820 --> 38:30.900 that Old Testament saints didn't know anything 38:30.900 --> 38:32.820 about the resurrection. 38:32.820 --> 38:34.940 They even say that the disciples didn't really 38:34.940 --> 38:36.380 know about the resurrection. 38:36.380 --> 38:39.260 But when you actually read the Bible, when you actually 38:39.260 --> 38:40.900 rightly divide the word of truth, 38:40.900 --> 38:44.520 you see that a variety of people knew the resurrection. 38:44.520 --> 38:46.400 They believed in the resurrection. 38:46.700 --> 38:48.460 Why? Because the Bible always talks about it. 38:48.460 --> 38:51.020 And in fact, in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, 38:51.020 --> 38:53.020 it talks about the gospel. 38:53.020 --> 38:55.180 It gives us the summary of the gospel, 38:55.180 --> 38:56.940 that Jesus Christ died for our sins 38:56.940 --> 38:59.460 according to the scriptures, and that he was raised again. 38:59.460 --> 39:02.740 Listen to this, according to the scriptures. 39:02.740 --> 39:04.660 So if it says according to the scriptures, 39:04.660 --> 39:06.820 it's not referring to the New Testament scriptures, 39:06.820 --> 39:08.700 because that's not necessarily yet completed. 39:08.700 --> 39:11.340 It's referring to the Old Testament scriptures. 39:11.340 --> 39:12.300 The death of Christ. 39:12.900 --> 39:16.900 was constantly talked about in the Old Testament, but so was the resurrection. 39:18.100 --> 39:23.540 Now obviously they saw through a glass darkly. They didn't necessarily know the timeline of 39:23.540 --> 39:29.060 everything, but they had all the pieces. It was just kind of out of order. Okay. 39:29.800 --> 39:37.240 And obviously we have an example here of Abraham believing that his son would be raised from the 39:37.240 --> 39:43.240 dead and there's a variety of other people that also believe this in the Bible. You know you think 39:43.240 --> 39:49.480 of Mary and Martha and obviously you're like well that's New Testament but they're still 39:49.480 --> 39:51.960 under the Old Testament when these stories are taking place right? 39:52.500 --> 39:58.900 And, you know, their brother dies, Lazarus dies, he's in the tomb for four days, and 39:58.900 --> 40:06.100 you know, Jesus comes, and then he, one of the sisters, I think, Mary says, you know, 40:06.100 --> 40:11.060 I know that he will rise in the resurrection. 40:11.060 --> 40:13.060 And you know, Jesus said, hey, how do you know about that? 40:13.060 --> 40:16.340 Whoa, whoa, whoa, you're not supposed to know about that yet. 40:16.340 --> 40:18.740 Until after I resurrect, then you know about those things, right? 40:19.300 --> 40:23.460 But she even knew about the resurrection of the last days. 40:23.460 --> 40:25.900 That's pretty specific. 40:25.900 --> 40:28.220 So don't give me this dispensational jargon that 40:28.220 --> 40:30.700 says, oh, no one knew about the resurrection. 40:30.700 --> 40:34.660 Now what they're referring to is the fact that the disciples 40:34.660 --> 40:37.340 in the Book of Mark, I believe, didn't quite 40:37.340 --> 40:40.220 understand the resurrection. 40:40.220 --> 40:41.820 And what they confuse this with is 40:41.820 --> 40:44.300 that they think that that means that they didn't understand 40:44.300 --> 40:45.740 the concept of the resurrection. 40:46.400 --> 40:50.080 But obviously that's false because we see plenty of examples of people understanding the concept, 40:50.080 --> 40:52.080 the disciples included. 40:52.080 --> 40:57.120 What that's referring to is the fact that they didn't really know the chronology of when these things would take place. 40:57.120 --> 40:58.480 Now how do we know that? 40:58.480 --> 41:02.800 Well because of the fact that you remember after the resurrection of Christ, 41:02.800 --> 41:04.480 in Acts chapter 1, 41:04.480 --> 41:07.840 you have Christ coming in His resurrected form, 41:07.840 --> 41:12.480 and what do the disciples say? Like, oh, are you going to restore the kingdom at this time? 41:12.480 --> 41:13.900 And he's like... 41:14.200 --> 41:15.920 That's not for you to know 41:15.920 --> 41:20.900 You know the times of the season is not for you to know but you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon 41:20.900 --> 41:23.760 You and you shall be witnesses unto me and so forth 41:23.800 --> 41:27.460 He's basically saying like that's not for you to know right now because in their minds are like 41:27.460 --> 41:31.860 Oh, so does the millennial reign take place now and the Lord is like 41:32.800 --> 41:35.400 You need to go preach the kingdom of God. 41:35.400 --> 41:36.740 You need to take care of business. 41:36.740 --> 41:38.540 That's what you need to do. 41:38.540 --> 41:40.260 So it's not that they didn't believe in the resurrection. 41:40.260 --> 41:42.740 It's just that they kind of had everything out of place. 41:42.740 --> 41:44.200 And when you read the Old Testament, 41:44.200 --> 41:46.740 you can kind of see why they didn't really 41:46.740 --> 41:48.460 know the chronology of everything. 41:48.460 --> 41:51.060 Because for example, when you read the Book of Isaiah, 41:51.060 --> 41:54.580 everything's kind of out of order. 41:54.580 --> 41:56.500 When you read the Book of Isaiah, for example, 41:56.500 --> 41:59.620 you have passages that will be like, new heaven, new earth. 41:59.900 --> 42:04.380 and then millennial reign of Jesus Christ, and then the day of the Lord, and then new heaven and new earth, 42:04.380 --> 42:09.020 and then the millennial reign, like everything's just out of order. So it's not in chronological order 42:09.020 --> 42:13.340 because it's just they're just seen through a glass darkly. Everything is in chronological order 42:13.340 --> 42:17.580 in the New Testament. The majority of passages dealing with these things are in chronological order, 42:17.580 --> 42:19.100 but in the Old Testament it wasn't. 42:19.300 --> 42:21.220 because they're still seeing through a glass darkly. 42:21.220 --> 42:23.300 They're just kind of putting forth those concepts. 42:23.300 --> 42:24.760 They're telling about things that 42:24.760 --> 42:26.260 are going to take place immediately, 42:26.260 --> 42:28.100 but also a future fulfillment and so forth. 42:28.100 --> 42:29.820 And so it's not that the disciples didn't 42:29.820 --> 42:31.100 know about the resurrection. 42:31.100 --> 42:32.620 They just didn't know the chronology 42:32.620 --> 42:34.180 of when these things would take place. 42:34.180 --> 42:35.340 But let me tell you something. 42:35.340 --> 42:37.140 They know now, though. 42:37.140 --> 42:40.380 Everyone knows now, because it's obviously written in the Bible. 42:40.380 --> 42:41.860 The point that I'm making here is 42:41.860 --> 42:44.900 that this demonstrates, first and foremost, 42:44.900 --> 42:46.500 that Abraham had great faith. 42:46.500 --> 42:46.800 Thanks for watching! 42:47.000 --> 42:50.600 As noted by the fact that he believed that God will raise up Isaac from the dead. 42:51.300 --> 42:54.200 But then it also proves that he believed in the resurrection period. 42:54.800 --> 42:59.500 And look folks, the resurrection is an essential doctrine of the Christian faith. 43:00.200 --> 43:00.600 Okay. 43:01.100 --> 43:03.300 You don't believe in the resurrection, you're not saved. 43:04.000 --> 43:09.000 This is why we say just all across the board, Jehovah's Witnesses, not saved. 43:09.400 --> 43:12.400 Not a single one of them is saved. 43:12.600 --> 43:16.200 Why? Because they don't believe in a physical bodily resurrection. 43:17.800 --> 43:23.080 They believe like in a spiritual resurrection, whereas just like his spirit came out of the grave 43:23.720 --> 43:27.800 and you know that was it. But no, the Bible talks about a bodily resurrection. 43:28.680 --> 43:31.560 You know, as noted by the fact that he specifically says, 43:31.560 --> 43:34.760 you know, a spirit hath not flesh and bone as ye see me to have. 43:35.700 --> 43:39.140 I remember out-sowning, and I ran into this Jehovah's Witness, 43:39.140 --> 43:40.320 and he was just like, this is one thing 43:40.320 --> 43:41.980 that I don't agree with you guys about. 43:41.980 --> 43:45.160 This is the bodily resurrection. 43:45.160 --> 43:47.060 Because he was raised in spirit. 43:47.060 --> 43:51.140 And I showed him that verse, and he's like, huh. 43:51.140 --> 43:53.580 Why don't I think about that? 43:53.580 --> 43:54.340 Yeah, think about it. 43:57.220 --> 43:58.140 Read it first. 43:58.140 --> 43:59.940 How about that? 43:59.940 --> 44:01.200 Why do you need to think about it? 44:02.200 --> 44:03.040 Let me take that back. 44:03.040 --> 44:05.500 I should have just been like, what do you mean think about it? 44:05.500 --> 44:07.200 Just believe it. 44:07.200 --> 44:10.560 Look, folks, we need to get back to just believing what the Bible says. 44:10.560 --> 44:13.640 If it just says it there, just believe it. 44:13.640 --> 44:16.960 It's just like, don't look at passages like that and like, well, 44:16.960 --> 44:19.920 let me see how I can explain it away. 44:19.920 --> 44:22.320 Just believe it. 44:22.320 --> 44:25.760 And if it's right there, if it's laid out plainly, it's not like, well, 44:25.760 --> 44:28.800 let me just go ahead and take it out of context as much as I possibly can. 44:29.200 --> 44:31.940 Before I actually give credence to it. No just believe what it says 44:32.600 --> 44:34.600 and look if you want to be a 44:34.600 --> 44:40.800 Stupid Christian then take things out of context and try to try to dissect it and and and try to disprove it or whatever 44:40.800 --> 44:43.880 Maybe and God will just continue to take knowledge from you 44:44.520 --> 44:47.800 Because look folks there's things in the Bible that are just plainly stated 44:48.600 --> 44:51.840 And they're plainly stated because God just wants us to read him like oh, I got it 44:53.500 --> 44:55.540 Well, when it says believe on Jesus Christ, 44:55.540 --> 44:56.660 it doesn't mean like believe. 44:56.660 --> 45:00.180 Believe, what that means is that you're giving your life to God. 45:00.180 --> 45:03.060 You're sacrificing yourself daily. 45:03.060 --> 45:04.540 You're keeping the commandments. 45:04.540 --> 45:05.540 What? 45:05.540 --> 45:08.500 Bro, it just says believe. 45:08.500 --> 45:11.900 And you know what happens to the person who does that to the Bible? 45:11.900 --> 45:13.500 God's just like, all right, let me just go ahead and take 45:13.500 --> 45:15.740 that truth from you real quick. 45:15.740 --> 45:17.540 Grab that too real quick. 45:17.540 --> 45:18.740 It just takes more from them. 45:20.000 --> 45:24.700 You know, God gives them like the word of God and they're just like, well, and God's like, all right, nevermind. 45:26.300 --> 45:28.500 You're just gonna be stupid like that and I'm just gonna take it away from you. 45:29.200 --> 45:30.100 That's how it works. 45:31.200 --> 45:32.500 Don't be a stupid Christian. 45:33.900 --> 45:35.700 If the Bible clearly says something, just believe it. 45:37.000 --> 45:43.300 You know, you don't want to become some sort of like, you know, a critic of the Bible. 45:44.700 --> 45:46.820 where you're just putting it to the test. 45:46.820 --> 45:48.380 Well, does it really say? 45:48.380 --> 45:50.140 Yeah, it really says that. 45:50.140 --> 45:51.740 That's what it says. 45:51.740 --> 45:55.500 And look, I don't want knowledge to be taken from me. 45:55.500 --> 45:56.140 And you know what? 45:56.140 --> 45:57.700 I've noticed people on the internet 45:57.700 --> 46:00.180 are just really stupid. 46:00.180 --> 46:01.940 Not everyone. 46:01.940 --> 46:03.260 You know what I mean? 46:03.260 --> 46:07.500 I know you're on the internet, so you guys aren't stupid. 46:07.500 --> 46:10.220 There's a lot of stupid people on the internet, though. 46:10.220 --> 46:10.940 That's a fact. 46:10.940 --> 46:11.000 you 46:11.400 --> 46:13.700 You know, I literally posted about the rapture today, 46:13.700 --> 46:15.420 like, there is no rapture. 46:19.560 --> 46:22.800 Did you say that with drool coming out of your mouth? 46:22.800 --> 46:25.540 Was saliva just pouring out of your mouth as you said that? 46:25.540 --> 46:27.680 Because you sound like that. 46:27.680 --> 46:32.360 You know, it's just like, oh, who's going to tell him? 46:32.360 --> 46:35.040 Who's going to tell him there is no rapture? 46:35.040 --> 46:37.880 I promise you, I promise you that you're just stupid. 46:39.300 --> 46:42.480 That's all it is. 46:42.480 --> 46:45.300 Where's Rapture in the Bible, though? 46:45.300 --> 46:47.820 Find the word Rapture in the Bible. 46:47.820 --> 46:49.000 Find Bible in the Bible. 46:52.100 --> 46:54.100 The word Bible is not in the Bible. 46:54.100 --> 46:56.100 It's in the original languages, of course, 46:56.100 --> 46:58.100 but the English word Bible is not in the Bible, 46:58.100 --> 47:00.100 so somehow it doesn't mean it exists. 47:00.100 --> 47:02.100 It's not a real thing. It's nonsensical. 47:02.100 --> 47:07.100 And we've gotten to a point where literally people are just denying 47:07.100 --> 47:10.100 the visible return of Jesus Christ. 47:12.600 --> 47:14.360 Oh man, I can't believe this guy. 47:14.360 --> 47:16.160 Oh, so you're dispensational? 47:16.160 --> 47:17.840 Oh, because I believe in the rapture? 47:17.840 --> 47:21.280 That just shows you how ignorant people are, 47:21.280 --> 47:25.360 even of what false doctrine is teaching. 47:25.360 --> 47:26.600 Like, oh, you believe in the rapture? 47:26.600 --> 47:28.480 Oh, you must be a dispensationalist. 47:28.480 --> 47:30.640 Wrong, wrong. 47:30.640 --> 47:33.520 You're just an idiot. 47:33.520 --> 47:35.360 That's, I got a better answer. 47:35.360 --> 47:36.720 You're just stupid. 47:36.720 --> 47:38.520 And make no mistake about it, people on the internet 47:38.520 --> 47:39.800 are very stupid. 47:41.200 --> 47:44.400 You know, because they want to act like they're experts in the Bible, 47:44.400 --> 47:47.520 and they know exactly what they're talking about, when they've never even read the Bible! 47:48.720 --> 47:50.480 They just watch videos about the Bible! 47:51.600 --> 47:58.080 They just get their stuff from false prophets and heretics who use cunningly devised fables. 47:58.960 --> 48:03.280 Keep in mind, false prophets are not going to always come to you sounding stupid. 48:04.300 --> 48:09.300 The Bible says they use cunningly devised fables, meaning they're crafty. 48:09.300 --> 48:13.300 Why? Because they have to be able to deceive the simple. 48:13.300 --> 48:20.300 They have to craft their statements and their doctrine in such a way that it will cause you to just buy into it. 48:20.300 --> 48:24.300 And all of a sudden that makes you an expert? Nonsensical, folks. 48:24.300 --> 48:27.300 At the end of the day, we just need to take the Bible for what it says. 48:27.300 --> 48:32.300 You know, you talk about the rapture. Yeah, it's called being caught up. 48:33.400 --> 48:37.000 And look, if you read 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 48:37.000 --> 48:38.800 and you don't see the rapture there, 48:38.800 --> 48:42.280 I can't help you because you're just stupid. 48:42.280 --> 48:43.800 Oh, why don't you debate some? 48:43.800 --> 48:46.000 Why would I debate a stupid person, though? 48:46.000 --> 48:47.400 First of all, I'm not into debates. 48:47.400 --> 48:49.040 But secondly, even if I was, why would 48:49.040 --> 48:52.520 I want to debate someone who's already denied the Bible? 48:52.520 --> 48:55.640 If when you look at 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 48:55.640 --> 48:57.240 we which are alive and remain shall 48:57.240 --> 48:59.320 be caught up together with him in the clouds, 48:59.320 --> 48:59.500 you 48:59.800 --> 49:03.500 We're the clouds, folks, in the sky. 49:03.500 --> 49:06.560 And if the Bible says that we're going to be caught up, 49:06.560 --> 49:10.240 and when we compare that to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, 49:10.240 --> 49:13.960 when we compare it to Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21, 49:13.960 --> 49:17.200 and all these different passages that talk about the rapture, 49:17.200 --> 49:19.400 that teach that, and you don't see that, I'm sorry. 49:19.400 --> 49:20.320 Why would I debate you? 49:20.320 --> 49:21.000 You're just dumb. 49:23.500 --> 49:26.460 You know, I know you think it's cool to deny the rapture. 49:26.460 --> 49:27.340 It's not cool. 49:27.340 --> 49:30.220 It's super stupid. 49:30.220 --> 49:33.180 It's retarded. 49:33.180 --> 49:36.020 And so I know I got off on that in just a bit. 49:36.020 --> 49:36.860 And you know what? 49:36.860 --> 49:38.820 I'm going to get on other doctrines in the coming weeks, 49:38.820 --> 49:39.300 too. 49:39.500 --> 49:44.180 Okay, you know I am gonna preach against the Flat Earth soon because it is a retarded doctrine 49:44.300 --> 49:48.220 It's not a Flat Earth Church by the way can I get an amen? 49:48.460 --> 49:53.160 You know this is this is the kind of nonsensical stuff that's being poured out on the internet 49:53.160 --> 49:55.260 And you know what Christians are being deceived by it 49:55.340 --> 50:01.140 They're being duped by it and not a single person that I've ever talked to who believes in the Flat Earth can never articulate their points 50:01.140 --> 50:02.600 Why cuz not in the Bible? 50:03.600 --> 50:05.560 And let me just remind you real quick, 50:05.560 --> 50:08.320 I don't want to steal my thunder for the sermon, 50:08.320 --> 50:11.880 but I've got a lot of thunder to distribute. 50:11.880 --> 50:14.880 Let me just tell you right now, let me just break this down. 50:14.880 --> 50:18.400 Guess what the Flat Earth first was talked about? 50:18.400 --> 50:21.160 The Book of Enoch. 50:21.160 --> 50:24.440 Just to let you know that. 50:24.440 --> 50:26.840 Yeah. 50:26.840 --> 50:27.640 Yeah, yeah. 50:27.640 --> 50:29.040 Think about that for a second. 50:29.040 --> 50:29.200 Thanks for watching! 50:30.100 --> 50:36.900 Okay? The flat earth was first articulated in scriptural form, not in the Bible. 50:37.860 --> 50:41.460 In the book of Enoch. Because it's a heretical teaching. 50:43.460 --> 50:44.980 Only heretics taught that stuff. 50:48.300 --> 50:52.700 I'm going to withdraw some thunder because we're talking about Genesis 22 here. 50:55.400 --> 50:57.800 You know, I'm not a respecter of people. 50:57.800 --> 51:00.000 I'm not going to stand up here and just put up 51:00.000 --> 51:02.280 with heresy and false doctrine. 51:02.280 --> 51:03.440 You're going to get it. 51:03.440 --> 51:04.840 You're just going to get it. 51:04.840 --> 51:08.840 Because my job as a shepherd is to protect sound doctrine 51:08.840 --> 51:11.680 and make sure that false doctrine is not being spread, 51:11.680 --> 51:13.640 is not being, you know, and obviously I 51:13.640 --> 51:15.440 can control what you believe, right? 51:15.440 --> 51:17.200 Like, this is not a place where I'm just 51:17.200 --> 51:19.700 going to go into your mind and try to change what you believe. 51:19.900 --> 51:21.300 I've got to preach the word of God. 51:21.300 --> 51:23.620 But I'll surely make it so that you 51:23.620 --> 51:27.180 wouldn't be embarrassed to talk about it if you do believe in it. 51:27.180 --> 51:29.580 And I have no issue with that. 51:29.580 --> 51:32.700 I have no issue with shaming false doctrine in our church, 51:32.700 --> 51:33.940 for sure. 51:33.940 --> 51:34.540 And you know what? 51:34.540 --> 51:38.780 I have no issue with making it the culture 51:38.780 --> 51:42.060 and the atmosphere in our church to shame 51:42.060 --> 51:44.980 false doctrine in our church. 51:44.980 --> 51:45.480 So. 51:47.100 --> 51:49.900 Let's move on here. Go back to Genesis 22. 51:52.700 --> 51:56.300 So he's obviously putting forth the resurrection. 51:56.300 --> 51:57.980 It's a biblical doctrine. 51:57.980 --> 52:00.060 He believed it in the Old Testament. 52:00.060 --> 52:02.900 He believed that God is able to raise him up from the dead. 52:02.900 --> 52:07.460 So this is why he's so willing to just offer up Isaac. 52:07.460 --> 52:11.900 And if we could apply this in a very applicable way, 52:11.900 --> 52:14.460 sometimes to a certain degree, God gives us something. 52:14.460 --> 52:17.260 And we kind of have to be willing to give it back. 52:17.260 --> 52:19.340 Just kind of lay it on the altar, so to speak. 52:20.200 --> 52:25.000 You know, you think of an ambition that you have, a dream that you have, a certain goal that you have. 52:25.000 --> 52:28.200 And you know, my father-in-law used to call it the death of a vision. 52:28.200 --> 52:31.800 Where it's just like, you have this plan, but it seems to be falling apart. 52:31.800 --> 52:35.400 And sometimes, you just gotta put it on the altar and just say, you know what Lord? 52:36.100 --> 52:38.860 Whatever you want, not my will, but thine be done. 52:38.860 --> 52:42.220 If I want to do this, I have a desire for this. 52:42.220 --> 52:43.220 I have a desire. 52:43.220 --> 52:44.500 You could fill in the blank. 52:44.500 --> 52:46.500 Children, I have a desire for this job. 52:46.500 --> 52:47.820 I have a desire for this career. 52:47.820 --> 52:50.580 I have a desire for whatever this may be. 52:50.580 --> 52:53.220 And it just doesn't seem to be working out. 52:53.220 --> 52:55.140 Put it on the altar. 52:55.140 --> 52:56.580 And just say, you know what? 52:56.580 --> 53:01.700 That's what I want, but not my will, but thine be done. 53:02.600 --> 53:07.940 That's exactly what Abraham is doing here. He's just kind of leaving it up to the Lord and allowing God to do 53:07.940 --> 53:11.920 You know whatever he wills it says in verse number seven 53:14.200 --> 53:17.880 Verse number six, And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son, 53:17.880 --> 53:21.640 and he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and they went both of them together. 53:21.640 --> 53:27.640 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father, and he said, Here am I, my son. 53:27.640 --> 53:31.560 And he said, Behold the fire in the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 53:32.280 --> 53:37.080 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. 53:37.080 --> 53:39.960 So they went both of them together. So a couple of things here. 53:40.600 --> 53:44.120 We see that Abraham is not the only one with great faith. 53:44.120 --> 53:49.080 Isaac is too, because he's the one about to be offered, right? 53:49.080 --> 53:55.480 Isaac is just like, where's the lamb? 53:55.480 --> 53:59.720 And Abraham is just like, God's going to provide himself. 53:59.720 --> 54:02.800 And so we don't see, there's no indication of Isaac 54:02.800 --> 54:05.320 fighting his father on this. 54:05.320 --> 54:06.640 He was willing to comply. 54:06.640 --> 54:06.900 Thank you. 54:07.100 --> 54:12.300 And obviously in this sense, Isaac pictures the Lord Jesus Christ beautifully. 54:12.300 --> 54:18.400 Right? Because of the fact that, you know, we see Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane 54:18.400 --> 54:22.900 saying, if this cup can pass from me, nevertheless not my will, but thine be done. 54:22.900 --> 54:28.800 You know, the Lord was very heavy in the Garden of Gethsemane because he's bearing the sins of the whole world. 54:29.300 --> 54:35.060 He is about to die, you know, unrighteously because he's taken the sins upon himself. 54:35.060 --> 54:40.100 He didn't he didn't commit any transgressions. He's not worthy of death. He's the Lord. 54:41.060 --> 54:48.420 But yet he submitted to the will of his father though, as we see Isaac submitting to the will of Abraham. 54:49.500 --> 54:53.420 But another thing I want you to notice here is the famous statement in verse 8 that says, 54:53.420 --> 54:59.900 my son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they went both of them together. 54:59.900 --> 55:05.180 And obviously what Abraham is saying here is that, you know, God will provide a lamb, 55:05.180 --> 55:11.180 like a physical lamb, as far as like an animal's concern. But this is also a future fulfillment 55:11.180 --> 55:16.540 because it's almost saying like God will provide himself, right? A lamb. Why? Because Jesus Christ 55:16.540 --> 55:17.500 is God. 55:18.000 --> 55:21.240 And he is going to be sacrificed for the sins of the world. 55:21.240 --> 55:24.240 And he is going to offer up himself, right? 55:24.240 --> 55:29.600 Now, the doctrine that we can learn there is dual fulfillment. 55:29.600 --> 55:32.240 Going back to the deniers of the rapture, 55:32.240 --> 55:35.000 that's something they don't quite understand. 55:35.000 --> 55:36.800 And if someone denies the rapture, 55:36.800 --> 55:39.400 just automatically understand that this person believes 55:39.400 --> 55:40.600 in what's called preterism. 55:41.900 --> 55:45.900 where they think that these statements that are made in the Bible, specifically in the Old Testament, 55:45.900 --> 55:49.400 some of them new, depending on the spectrum of preterism that we're talking about, 55:49.400 --> 55:53.400 they think that those things have already been fulfilled and that there is no future fulfillment. 55:53.400 --> 55:57.400 So in other words, the book of Revelation has already been done. It's over. 55:57.400 --> 56:00.400 There is no future resurrection. There is no future rapture. 56:00.400 --> 56:03.900 You know, 70 AD, that's when it all took place or whatever. 56:03.900 --> 56:06.400 And this is essentially their answer. 56:06.800 --> 56:12.240 for the premillennial pre-tribulation crowd. 56:12.240 --> 56:15.800 Because they reject the pre-tribulation rapture so much 56:15.800 --> 56:18.920 and Zionism so much that it pushes them 56:18.920 --> 56:21.960 to the opposite extreme to accept preterism that says, 56:21.960 --> 56:23.880 well, these things have already happened. 56:23.880 --> 56:25.760 We don't need to look for a future fulfillment 56:25.760 --> 56:26.760 in these things. 56:26.760 --> 56:28.360 It's already taking place. 56:28.360 --> 56:29.880 But here's the problem, though. 56:29.880 --> 56:31.480 There's a lot of problems with this. 56:31.480 --> 56:32.800 Number one, how about this? 56:32.800 --> 56:33.640 70 AD. 56:34.400 --> 56:39.480 is before the Book of Revelation being written in 95 AD. 56:39.480 --> 56:41.280 Number one. 56:41.280 --> 56:42.920 So it's just like, oh, the Book of Revelation 56:42.920 --> 56:43.760 is already taking place. 56:43.760 --> 56:46.460 Yeah, but it was written in 95 AD, though. 56:46.460 --> 56:48.400 And if the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple 56:48.400 --> 56:51.360 took place in 70 AD, how do you reconcile those things? 56:51.360 --> 56:53.760 You don't. 56:53.760 --> 56:57.960 Secondly, when there are statements made in the Bible 56:57.960 --> 56:59.960 regarding prophetic events, 56:59.960 --> 57:00.000 you 57:00.100 --> 57:02.340 And it seems as though something is out of place. 57:02.340 --> 57:05.620 That's because of the fact that there's a dual fulfillment, 57:05.620 --> 57:07.740 meaning that God is going to fulfill 57:07.740 --> 57:11.500 that particular declaration in the immediate future. 57:11.500 --> 57:15.740 But then there's also a future fulfillment of that as well. 57:15.740 --> 57:18.140 And again, you see this throughout the Old Testament 57:18.140 --> 57:21.140 specifically within the major and minor prophets, 57:21.140 --> 57:23.800 because they'll talk about the restoration of Israel. 57:23.900 --> 57:26.260 And they'll talk about the restoration of Israel 57:26.260 --> 57:27.740 coming back from Babylon. 57:27.740 --> 57:29.380 But then it talks about kids living 57:29.380 --> 57:30.340 to be 100 years old. 57:30.340 --> 57:31.380 They're like, hold on. 57:31.380 --> 57:32.380 When did that happen? 57:32.380 --> 57:34.180 Well, that's obviously a future event 57:34.180 --> 57:35.380 that's going to take place. 57:35.380 --> 57:37.520 So he mixes in the immediate fulfillment 57:37.520 --> 57:39.300 along with future fulfillments. 57:39.300 --> 57:42.060 And he puts it into these prophetic statements, 57:42.060 --> 57:43.980 showing us that there are dual fulfillments. 57:43.980 --> 57:45.100 And here's an example. 57:45.100 --> 57:46.100 He shall provide himself. 57:46.700 --> 57:49.420 Because he is going to provide himself shortly thereafter. 57:49.420 --> 57:51.920 But he's also going to provide the Lord Jesus Christ 57:51.920 --> 57:54.260 as a sacrifice as well. 57:54.260 --> 57:56.460 So it's important when you read the Old Testament, 57:56.460 --> 57:58.500 you recognize that. 57:58.500 --> 58:00.300 When you run into certain passages 58:00.300 --> 58:02.020 and it seems to not fit the narrative 58:02.020 --> 58:04.540 of the immediate future, it's because there's 58:04.540 --> 58:07.980 a future fulfillment of that later on. 58:07.980 --> 58:08.800 Very important. 58:09.400 --> 58:12.740 So, he tells them that God's going to provide himself. 58:12.740 --> 58:17.780 They both went together, verse 9, and they came to the place which God had told him of, 58:17.780 --> 58:22.820 and Abraham built an altar there, laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and 58:22.820 --> 58:24.820 laid him on the altar upon the wood. 58:24.820 --> 58:29.340 And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 58:29.340 --> 58:33.780 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham. 58:33.780 --> 58:34.780 And he said, Here am I. 58:34.780 --> 58:34.800 you 58:35.000 --> 58:42.920 He said lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do thou anything unto him for now I know that thou fears God 58:43.480 --> 58:48.580 Seeing thou has not withheld thy son thine only son from me 58:48.580 --> 58:52.080 So what we see here is that Abraham was not messing around 58:53.320 --> 59:01.000 He was just like he's I mean to the very end right and this kind of demonstrates to us that we need to follow through 59:01.900 --> 59:04.060 all the way to the end. 59:04.060 --> 59:06.940 You've got to follow through all the way to the end. 59:06.940 --> 59:10.060 And in its most literal application 59:10.060 --> 59:13.940 is that we need to obey the Lord till the end of time, 59:13.940 --> 59:16.300 till the end of our time. 59:16.300 --> 59:19.300 And you're like, well, what if I don't see these promises 59:19.300 --> 59:20.980 fulfilled? 59:20.980 --> 59:24.380 Still follow through. 59:24.380 --> 59:26.260 Obviously, we're motivated to serve God 59:26.260 --> 59:28.460 because we know that we will be blessed of God. 59:28.800 --> 59:33.640 But we also need to be just motivated by obedience. 59:33.640 --> 59:36.400 Meaning we should do this because it's just right to do, 59:36.400 --> 59:40.040 even if I don't come out winning on the other end. 59:40.040 --> 59:42.000 And the reason we always want to come out winning 59:42.000 --> 59:44.800 is because we think we're like the main character. 59:44.800 --> 59:47.120 We think, oh man, this is all about me. 59:47.120 --> 59:51.040 It's all about my success, my prosperity, my happiness, 59:51.040 --> 59:52.480 my joy. 59:52.480 --> 59:54.320 I want to have a happy ending. 59:54.320 --> 59:55.080 And you know what? 59:55.080 --> 59:56.240 I get it. 59:56.500 --> 01:00:00.340 I get what you're saying about that, but you know, it's not all about you though. 01:00:00.980 --> 01:00:06.420 It's just not. And we hate to hear that because all of us are just the main character in our story. 01:00:06.780 --> 01:00:09.180 But you know what? The main character is actually Jesus Christ. 01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:12.640 And so we need to follow through. 01:00:12.640 --> 01:00:14.680 And you know Abraham had been waiting for this promise 01:00:14.680 --> 01:00:15.920 for so long. 01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:17.680 He had been waiting for this child. 01:00:17.680 --> 01:00:19.280 And all of a sudden, God tells him, 01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:20.640 you've got to sacrifice him. 01:00:20.640 --> 01:00:22.440 You know Abraham's like, all right, here we go. 01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:24.040 And then like at the, I mean, he's 01:00:24.040 --> 01:00:25.080 willing to follow it through. 01:00:25.080 --> 01:00:27.040 And then the angel came and was like, whoa, whoa, whoa! 01:00:27.040 --> 01:00:27.480 It's a prank! 01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:27.760 It's a prank! 01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:28.440 No, I'm just kidding. 01:00:28.440 --> 01:00:30.000 He's just like, stop, stop, stop! 01:00:33.100 --> 01:00:35.100 You know, here mine. 01:00:35.100 --> 01:00:38.220 And this kind of overshadows a lot 01:00:38.220 --> 01:00:42.500 of Abraham's previous failures. 01:00:42.500 --> 01:00:45.580 Because now it shows us that he stands on business. 01:00:45.580 --> 01:00:48.700 He's not messing around. 01:00:48.700 --> 01:00:51.300 And so this demonstrates that as 01:00:51.300 --> 01:00:51.500 you 01:00:51.600 --> 01:00:55.360 You know, weak as he is, maybe he's a little cowardly, 01:00:55.360 --> 01:00:56.520 you know, in times past. 01:00:56.520 --> 01:00:57.920 Talk about his wife being his sister 01:00:57.920 --> 01:00:59.600 because he didn't want, and wanted to kill him 01:00:59.600 --> 01:01:00.480 and all this stuff. 01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:04.640 You know, at the end of the day, when the rubber meets the road, 01:01:04.640 --> 01:01:08.720 when the stuff hits the fan, he will follow through. 01:01:08.720 --> 01:01:10.600 And you know what that should say of you and me? 01:01:10.600 --> 01:01:12.560 That though we have weaknesses, 01:01:12.560 --> 01:01:12.700 you 01:01:12.900 --> 01:01:17.700 Though we're not perfect, we have flaws within us. 01:01:17.700 --> 01:01:21.460 Maybe he said that we stand on business when it comes down to it though. 01:01:21.460 --> 01:01:26.340 And that we follow through despite our weaknesses. 01:01:26.340 --> 01:01:32.540 Okay, because he's, I mean, I don't know how close that knife was, but. 01:01:32.540 --> 01:01:35.900 You know, and then Isaac is just like, who knows? 01:01:35.900 --> 01:01:37.980 I don't know. 01:01:37.980 --> 01:01:39.900 And he's like, you didn't withhold your only son. 01:01:40.200 --> 01:01:45.560 Verse 13 says, Abraham looked it up his eyes and looked and behold, behind him a ram caught in the 01:01:45.560 --> 01:01:51.480 thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering 01:01:51.480 --> 01:01:57.160 in the stead of his son. And so we see a fulfillment of Abraham's faith because he said, 01:01:57.160 --> 01:02:01.400 you know, God will provide himself a lamb, albeit it was a ram, but still, still an offering. 01:02:02.100 --> 01:02:04.140 And so, you know, God did provide that. 01:02:04.140 --> 01:02:05.400 He was able to offer that. 01:02:05.400 --> 01:02:08.140 Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah Jireh. 01:02:08.300 --> 01:02:13.900 As it is said to this day in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen and the angel the Lord called 01:02:13.900 --> 01:02:18.860 unto Abraham out of heaven the second time and said by myself have I sworn sayeth the Lord for 01:02:18.860 --> 01:02:24.540 because thou has done this thing and has not withheld thy son thine only son then in blessing I will 01:02:24.540 --> 01:02:29.420 bless thee and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand 01:02:29.420 --> 01:02:35.420 which is upon the seashore and I want you to notice this and thy seed shall possess the gate 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:40.680 of his enemies. So he reiterates the promise to Abraham again and says, hey 01:02:41.400 --> 01:02:48.760 I'm gonna bless your seed. He's reinforcing that promise and he says that his seed will possess the gate of his enemies 01:02:48.760 --> 01:02:54.600 and I do believe that aside from the immediate fulfillment of this regarding his actual 01:02:55.080 --> 01:02:58.000 physical descendants that came forth from him in the coming generations 01:02:58.380 --> 01:03:02.120 The future fulfillment of this would be Gentile believers, right? 01:03:02.700 --> 01:03:05.980 Because the Bible tells us in the New Testament in Matthew chapter 16, 01:03:05.980 --> 01:03:06.980 19. 01:03:06.980 --> 01:03:08.980 Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, 01:03:08.980 --> 01:03:09.980 20. 01:03:09.980 --> 01:03:11.300 And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:15.280 Okay, so when it says that I see shall possess the gate of his enemies 01:03:15.520 --> 01:03:19.840 I believe this is referring to the fact that in the future the believers these Gentile believers 01:03:20.560 --> 01:03:23.760 You know are going to possess the gates of the enemies. They're going to be able to storm through 01:03:24.380 --> 01:03:30.080 Spiritually speaking through hell and you know, you know save people out of the fire pull people out of the fire 01:03:30.160 --> 01:03:34.240 Get people save and extend the promises of god unto them as well 01:03:34.720 --> 01:03:39.920 This is essentially showing us because the only way really this promise could be fulfilled regarding the multiplicity of 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:42.400 seed is by including the Gentiles. 01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:46.760 You know, obviously there's a lot of Israelites throughout the Old Testament, but there's 01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:48.640 way more Gentile believers. 01:03:49.500 --> 01:03:54.620 Thereafter than just the physical descendants of Abraham in the nation of Israel 01:03:54.620 --> 01:03:59.380 This is now extended into the whole world and now they're the ones who are possessed in the gate of their enemies 01:03:59.420 --> 01:04:06.560 By preaching the gospel says in verse 18 and I see each all nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast 01:04:06.840 --> 01:04:11.060 Obeyed my voice. So, you know, that's huge right there 01:04:11.220 --> 01:04:16.640 He's like now the promise is you know for sure gonna be fulfilled because you obeyed me you did what was told 01:04:17.200 --> 01:04:24.640 And this demonstrates that when we follow through on the other side, God's going to be able to use us in a greater way because of it. 01:04:25.600 --> 01:04:36.000 And what's sad to me is throughout the years as a Christian and as a pastor, I've seen people with great potential, the potential to do great works for God. 01:04:36.160 --> 01:04:42.200 But because they quit, because their their their faith was tested, they never really reached their full potential. 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:47.440 Like, you know, God probably had some big works planned for this person to do great 01:04:47.440 --> 01:04:50.180 works for God, you know, but then what happened? 01:04:50.180 --> 01:04:53.260 They went through a test, they got out of church. 01:04:53.260 --> 01:04:55.900 They dabbled in sin. 01:04:55.900 --> 01:05:03.080 You know, they did X, Y, and Z, and now they don't necessarily get to see great works, 01:05:03.080 --> 01:05:06.060 you know, because they were tested and they failed. 01:05:06.060 --> 01:05:10.500 You know, and you know, probably the one that comes to mind the most is Roger Jimenez. 01:05:11.800 --> 01:05:13.840 You know, who knows how God could have used him 01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:15.960 in the next 10 years? 01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:18.000 Who knows what could have happened if he hadn't gotten 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:19.840 involved in that sin? 01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:23.000 Who knows what Verity Baptist Church could have been 01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:26.280 had he not done what he did, right? 01:05:26.280 --> 01:05:28.000 A lot of great works could have been done. 01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:29.560 But he was tested. 01:05:29.560 --> 01:05:30.520 He was tried. 01:05:30.520 --> 01:05:32.280 And what happened? 01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:35.440 Went down the drain, went down the toilet. 01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:38.000 And unfortunately, you know. 01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:38.200 Thanks for watching! 01:05:38.400 --> 01:05:40.400 I guess we'll never know. 01:05:40.400 --> 01:05:41.400 Right? 01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:43.400 We're just never going to know. 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:47.560 And this kind of shows you and me that we need to make sure that like we're in the thick 01:05:47.560 --> 01:05:50.320 of the test, that we don't quit. 01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:51.640 You need to think about the future. 01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:57.040 You realize like I need to pass this because on the other side is the fulfillment of the blessing 01:05:57.040 --> 01:06:00.640 and I don't know what's going to happen but I just need to push through this. I need to get through 01:06:00.640 --> 01:06:05.840 this. I need to push. I need to have faith. I need to not quit. You know I need to make sure I don't 01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:12.400 move. I'm stable. I shall not be moved and as hard as it gets because once it's over then you're like 01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:16.240 Job and God gives you more in your latter end than you had in the beginning. 01:06:17.500 --> 01:06:20.860 And obviously Job was not looking at his life like while he's sitting there like thinking 01:06:20.860 --> 01:06:25.020 like yeah once I get through this then you know I'm gonna have more kids and you know 01:06:25.020 --> 01:06:26.500 I'm gonna be restoring all these things. 01:06:26.500 --> 01:06:30.100 He just knew I shall come forth as gold. 01:06:30.100 --> 01:06:32.180 But he didn't really know the details of all that, did he? 01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:35.020 But, you know, he didn't quit. 01:06:35.020 --> 01:06:36.960 He still believed in the Lord. 01:06:36.960 --> 01:06:40.800 He knew that God still had his best interest in mind and he came forth as gold. 01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:46.880 The point being here is that we need to obey the voice of the Lord in order to find that 01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:47.880 blessing on the other end. 01:06:47.880 --> 01:06:49.060 We'll stop there. 01:06:49.060 --> 01:06:50.640 What is the sermon for tonight? 01:06:50.640 --> 01:06:55.540 The sermon is this, you know, every once in a while in our life, we are going to have 01:06:55.540 --> 01:06:58.540 to give up Isaac. 01:06:58.540 --> 01:06:59.300 Put them on the altar. 01:07:00.300 --> 01:07:06.260 And you may think to yourself, yeah, I think I could do that. 01:07:06.260 --> 01:07:07.940 Yeah, you say that now, but wait till you're 01:07:07.940 --> 01:07:09.820 in a situation where there's no solution that 01:07:09.820 --> 01:07:15.700 comes at the end of the tunnel where it's benefiting you, 01:07:15.700 --> 01:07:17.060 though. 01:07:17.060 --> 01:07:18.980 And you're just like, actually, there's 01:07:18.980 --> 01:07:22.660 no solution that seems to favor me at the end of this. 01:07:22.660 --> 01:07:24.900 Well, at that point, that's when your faith is really 01:07:24.900 --> 01:07:26.060 put to the test. 01:07:26.060 --> 01:07:27.900 Because if you're going to do what you're told, 01:07:28.200 --> 01:07:34.640 You're gonna obey the Lord. Are you gonna do that? Which is right or you're gonna make a decision based off of what benefits you 01:07:35.020 --> 01:07:36.780 We're selfish people 01:07:36.780 --> 01:07:38.780 We want to do what benefits us 01:07:39.140 --> 01:07:43.420 But we have to realize that there's gonna be instances where we just have to do that, which is right 01:07:44.200 --> 01:07:46.640 regardless of how the outcome is. 01:07:46.640 --> 01:07:49.340 You know, as long as we know we obey the Lord, 01:07:49.340 --> 01:07:51.200 that's the right thing to do. Amen? 01:07:51.200 --> 01:07:53.200 Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your Word, 01:07:53.200 --> 01:07:56.540 and thank you for the example of Abraham, 01:07:56.540 --> 01:07:59.540 and for the example of Isaac, Lord, two men of great faith. 01:08:00.500 --> 01:08:05.620 placed her faith in you and they had strong faith Lord and I'm challenged by this as a Christian 01:08:05.620 --> 01:08:10.020 because I want to make sure that I pass with flying colors and I know that I'm going to 01:08:10.020 --> 01:08:15.380 experience many many trials to come in the future Lord. There's people in our church who are facing 01:08:15.380 --> 01:08:20.260 major trials right now. They're going through a hard time Lord they're being tested right now 01:08:20.260 --> 01:08:23.780 and you're preparing them for great works. I pray that you'd help them to stay the course. 01:08:24.500 --> 01:08:29.620 May we as a church be a blessing to them and reinforce them and strengthen them in their 01:08:29.620 --> 01:08:31.380 time of need. 01:08:31.380 --> 01:08:34.580 And I just pray that Lord we would all do the same for each other. 01:08:34.580 --> 01:08:38.140 That we would strengthen each other, exhort one another. 01:08:38.140 --> 01:08:39.740 Lest we fall by the wayside, Lord. 01:08:40.100 --> 01:08:45.700 And I just pray that you would bless us as we go on our way. Please be with the lemon babies, Lord. 01:08:45.700 --> 01:08:51.940 And may you be with Uriah, Lord, as there's many complications in his body, as you know. 01:08:51.940 --> 01:08:55.940 But I pray that you touch his body. We're so thankful for the news that he can breathe on his own. 01:08:55.940 --> 01:09:00.980 Please provide a miracle. May you show yourself strong on Maury and Angela's behalf. 01:09:01.200 --> 01:09:03.640 And what a blessing to have these babies in our church. 01:09:03.640 --> 01:09:07.320 I pray, Father God, that your hand be upon them and strengthen them as a family through 01:09:07.320 --> 01:09:08.320 this trial. 01:09:08.320 --> 01:09:08.840 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.