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The Bible reads, then again Abraham took a wife and her name was Keturah and she barrens

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him ran and Jaxhan and Medan and Midian and Ipshah and Shua Jaxhan beget Sheba and Dadan

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and the sons of Dadan were Asurim and Lathushim and Lumium and the sons of Midian

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Effa and Effer and Hanock and Abida and Aldea. All these were the children of Keturah.

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And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

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But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had,

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Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac his son,

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while he yet lived eastward unto the east country.

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And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life,

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which he lived in 103 score and 15 years.

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Then Abraham gave up the ghosts and died in a good old age,

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an old man full of years, and was gathered to his people.

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And the son Isaac and Ishmael buried him

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in the cave of Macpele.

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you

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and the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar, the Hittite, which is before Mamre,

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the field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth. There was Abraham buried and Sarah his wife.

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And it came to pass after the death of Abraham that God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt

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by the well of Lehoroi. Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,

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whom Hagar, the Egyptian, serves handmaid, Baron Abraham.

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And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their names according to their generations.

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The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebejoth and Kader and Abdiyot and Mipsum and Mishma and Duma and Mesa,

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Hader and Tima, Jeter, Nefesh and Kedema. These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names by

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their towns and by their castles. Twelfth prince is according to their nations.

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And these are the years of the life of Ishmael in 130 and seven years.

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And he gave up the ghost and died and was gathered unto his people.

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And they dwell from Hebele on to Shur, that is before Egypt, as our ghost toward Assyria.

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And he died in the presence of all his brethren.

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And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son.

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Abraham begat Isaac.

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And Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel, the Syrian,

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of Pednerim, the sister to Laban, the Syrian.

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And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife because she was barren and the Lord was entreated of them and Rebecca his wife conceived

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The children struggled together within her and she said if it be so why am I thus?

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And she went to inquire the Lord the Lord sent on to her two nations are in thy womb

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Two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels and one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger

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And when our days to be delivered were fulfilled behold there were twins in her womb

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The first came out red, all over like in hairy garment, and they called his name Esau.

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And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel, and his name

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was called Jacob.

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And Isaac was three score years old when she bare them.

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And the boys grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field, and Jacob was

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a plain man, dwelling in tents.

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And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison, but Rebecca loved Jacob.

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Jacob sought potage and Esau came from the field and he was faint. And Esau said to Jacob, feed me

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I pray thee with the same red potage for I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom.

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And Jacob said, sell me this day thy birthright.

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And Esau said, behold I'm at the point to die and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

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And Jacob said, swear to me this day. And he swear unto him and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

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And Jacob gave Esau bread and potage of lentils. He did eat and drink and rose up and went his way

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Thus Esau despised his birthright. Let's pray by the god. We thank you lord

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Dear lord, we thank you for our church and we thank you for pastor

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I'm gonna ask that you please bless him as he preaches your word on to us in jesus name. We pray. Amen

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Amen. Okay, we're in Genesis chapter 25, and we are halfway through the book of Genesis,

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so praise God for that. And here we have the conclusion of Abraham's life. And of course,

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Abraham plays a very pivotal role in just the Bible period. He's obviously considered

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the father of faith, and he's a man of great faith, but his life is coming to an end here.

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We see in verse number one that after the death of Sarah, he takes a wife by the name

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of Katura.

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And she bears into him six children.

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Now, one thing I want to mention here is that this is actually the proper way to get married,

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right, for Abraham is that he should have married after his spouse died instead of during,

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you know, the life of his spouse, okay.

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You know, he married Hagar while Sarah was alive.

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And of course, she had a role in that.

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But this is actually the biblical manner in which a person is to get remarried.

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And that is when their spouse dies.

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This is actually a biblical concept.

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except here, that the Bible teaches us that divorce is wrong, right?

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Divorce is an abomination in the eyes of God.

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You know, God hates putting away, the Bible says, and there's never an instance in the

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Bible where divorce is actually permissible.

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Now when you mention something like that, people will often bring up the fact that Jesus

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said, except it be for the cause of fornication.

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And they'll often use that to kind of substantiate the claim and say, well,

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Well, you know, yeah, you know, divorce is wrong, but Jesus did say that if fornication

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is involved, and then that term often is a very broad term to describe anything from

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pornography to just lust to just anything whatsoever.

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But the reality is this is the Bible specifically labels fornication as being something different

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than adultery.

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Okay.

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Adultery is a sin that's committed between people who are married fornication is that

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which is committed between people who are.

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are not married. And the reason we know that these two sins are different is because the

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death penalty is placed on one and it's not placed on the other. And so if Jesus is saying

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that

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you know, a man is not to put away his wife for any reason except it be for the cause of fornication.

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Obviously the implication here is that this fornication, this sin of fornication

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is taking place during the betrothal stage of the relationship, meaning we would consider it to be

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the engagement stage prior to the relationship being consummated physically. And we actually

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have an example of that with Jesus and Mary and Joseph, right? Because Mary is with child,

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Obviously we know that.

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that it's with.

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with Jesus of the Holy Ghost and he's minded to put her away primly, meaning privately,

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being a just man. He thought that she had potentially committed fornication and therefore

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he was minded to give her a writing of divorcement and essentially call off the engagement that

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betrothed those states because he thought that she had committed fornication. Obviously we know that

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she was with child of the Holy Ghost, that it was Jesus Christ, but we have an example there of the

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fact that the Bible specifically says that he was a just man for doing this.

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Meaning he had the permission of the Bible of God to actually put her away if that was the case

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We obviously know that it wasn't point being here is the one the Bible talks about fornication in the context of divorce

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It's obviously referring to that time period when they're in that engagement

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Period okay, but other than that there is no permission for divorce, okay, and

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Keep in mind that when we get married we often say till death

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Do us part.

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It's not, you know, permission to murder or anything like that, you know, till death

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do us part, meaning, you know, once one of the spouses dies, then you have permission

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to get married.

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And as we see here with Abraham, and in fact, go to Romans chapter seven real quick, let's

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go to Romans chapter seven.

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It's always good to talk about this and to reinforce this because we live in a society

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where people are always looking for a reason to divorce and they're always looking for

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a reason to leave their spouse.

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you know.

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So we like to romanticize marriage and the vows and they are romantic, but you know what?

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It's a covenant that you make before God to say, you know, for better, for worse in sickness

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and in health, for richer, for poor, till death do us part.

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Meaning that, you know, we're to remain married in the good times, which is really easy, but

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also remain married in the bad times.

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And that is the difficult part.

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But if you made a covenant before God and before others, you need to stay true to that

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covenant and not just.

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just throw in the towel and say, well.

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this person, you know, 20 years later,

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is not the person I thought I married before.

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Yeah, but you've already made the agreement

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and the contract before the Lord

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that this is what you were gonna do.

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And, you know, the answer, the solution,

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is not to put them away,

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it's actually to try to reconcile the relationship,

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work on the relationship.

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And quite frankly, you know, even if it doesn't work out,

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it's still right for you to stay married, you know?

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And it's hard for me to say something like that

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because

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I understand that there are situations out there that are extremely difficult and you

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know there are some hard situations out there and you know marriages that are just completely

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falling apart and I get that but you know this is why it's important that we are principle

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led right?

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That we do right not because doing right yields you know the yields a solution that is in

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our favor.

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We're to do right just because it's right to do right.

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even if you come out losing in the long run, okay?

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And so our biblical convictions should lead us to make the right decisions despite if we come out winning

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in the end or not. Okay, he's like well that doesn't really work. Well, you know in the Bible it does work

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but quite frankly even if it didn't it doesn't even matter because God commanded us

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to do this. God commanded us not to do this and so we should just obey God

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and recognize that at the end of the day yes we do come out winning but it may not be this side of

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of eternity. We'll be honored by God for...

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keeping His commandments and doing that which is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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Look what it says in Romans chapter 7 in verse number 1, it says,

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No ye not, brethren, for I speak to them that know the law, how that the law hath dominion

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over a man as long as he liveth.

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For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband, and I want you

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to notice this, so long as he liveth.

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So the law, that which God has sanctioned the statute to remain married,

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is that that person is bound to that as long as the husband is alive.

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And he says here...

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as long as he liveth. But if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

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So then if while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called

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an adulteress. Okay? And that's exactly what divorce is. When you commit, when you, when

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you divorce your spouse, you're committing adultery according to the Bible, you shall

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be labeled an adulterer or an adulteress. But if her husband be dead, she is free from

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the law so that she is no more.

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adulterers, those should be married to another man.

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And of course, the context of Romans 7 is basically relating this to us that when we

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get saved, when we are married, so to speak, to Christ, we are loose from the law, right?

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We are dead to the law.

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But he's using a real life example regarding a person who is essentially, you know, if

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they are married and they divorce their spouse, well, they are an adulterer, they are an adulteress

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because God expects them to.

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remain with their spouse till death do them part.

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This is also reiterated in 1 Corinthians chapter number 7.

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Now let me also make this clear that obviously I understand that people in our church and

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people who will be coming to our church, people who have been to our church, have been divorced.

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This is not condemning you if you've already done this.

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I'm not speaking to you in this regard.

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I'm not trying to put you down or anything like that.

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Obviously, it's my job to just teach the Bible and tell you what the Bible says regardless

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if it hurts your feelings or not.

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But at the end of the day, really the reason I'm doing this is as a preventative measure

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for the generation who has not yet been married.

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And if you've been divorced, if you've done that, that's in the past.

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Do not promote it in our church, obviously, as though it's a good thing.

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But also we should endeavor to teach our children and the next generation in our church.

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that they should remain married to one person for the rest of their lives.

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Okay? And never use the D word in marriage.

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And I don't mean damnation. I'm referring to don't use the word divorce.

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Okay? And it's important for us in church as well, you know,

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to never even bring that up in a light way.

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Say, well, you know, I can understand this.

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If I was in that situation, I'd probably do the same thing.

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You know, if that's your opinion, just keep it to yourself.

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Okay, don't ever express that because you just don't know what person you will influence by your words

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It's important for us to build up a strong foundation

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The strong conviction in our church within our marriages within our families that God does not approve of divorce

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And we are to stay married to death do us part and I want to communicate them to that to my kids

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You know, I want my kids to stay married to one spouse for the rest of their life

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Okay, and I want them to go into marriage with that conviction and not have a plan B, a plan C, a plan D, or whatever may be.

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You know, Lord willing, they will remain married for the rest of their life to that one person.

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But with that being said, you know, if, you know...

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If you're married to a rotten person, well, the only way out is through death, okay?

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Yours or theirs, okay?

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And that's just what the Bible teaches.

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And so, that is the only out for this.

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And we have here Sarah dying,

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and Abraham taking a wife by the name of Keturah that bears six children unto Abraham thereafter.

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And that is the proper way to have done it.

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Now, in this particular chapter, after he marries Keturah, of course, we go over some of the...

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descendants of his children and I'm gonna skip some of this because a lot of it

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is not necessarily relatable to what we're gonna talk about in this

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particular sermon I do want to mention that obviously his sons Isaac and Ishmael

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as we've seen in the previous chapters have a deeper meaning do they not?

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Isaac pictures the New Testament Ishmael pictures the Old Testament

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Isaac pictures believers and Ishmael pictures non-believers and specifically the non-believing

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Jews of the New Testament.

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Now this isn't something that just...

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you know, designated for Isaac and Ishmael. It actually goes beyond that and even goes to

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Isaac's children, which is what we're going to look at here, Jacob and Esau. Now keep in mind that

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Ishmael and Esau, though they had their flaws, I do believe that the Lord loved them specifically,

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that He loved them particularly, and that He blessed them, right? We know that He blessed Ishmael

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with many descendants and princes and God's hand.

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upon him, but obviously, unfortunately, he was used to symbolize a very wicked people

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afterwards, right, which are the unsaved Jews.

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Well, he does the same with Jacob and Esau, and that these two sons are essentially carrying

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over that symbolic representation of the Old and New Testament.

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Now, skip down to verse number 20, if you would.

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Verse number 20, or verse 19, it says, and these are the generations of Isaac.

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Abraham's son Abraham began Isaac and Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebecca to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of

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Pandanarum the sister to Laban the Syrian and Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife

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Because she was barren and the Lord was entreated of him and Rebecca his wife conceived

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Now, this is a very beautifully stated verse here

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that we have Rebecca who is barren,

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meaning that she's not able to have children.

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And obviously in the Bible, this is a major reproach for women because of the fact that unlike today,

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children are viewed in the Bible as a blessing, right?

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They're viewed as a blessing. The more you have, the better.

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Happy is the man that hath this quiver full and so forth.

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And so this is something that was very grievous in the eyes of Isaac and Rebekah,

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especially considering the fact that Isaac is the promised child, right?

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He's the promised child. He's the one through which God...

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God is going to fulfill his promises that he gave to Abraham, but he can't have children.

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Rebecca can't have children.

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It's like, man, what in the world?

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It's just like, how in the world are we going to carry on this promise and the fulfillment

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of this promise that we can't have children?

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So what does he do?

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Well, he does what all of us should do when we're confronted with any kind of problem,

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and that is we need to entreat the Lord.

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What does that mean?

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We need to pray.

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And of course he does pray.

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And then Rebecca ends up getting pregnant.

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Now, you might read this and say,

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man, you know, we're having trouble too.

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I've prayed and we've prayed

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and it just doesn't seem to happen for us.

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You know, we have this situation here

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and, you know, Isaac is praying and boom, they have kids.

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Well, that's not fair.

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Well, keep in mind though.

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Okay?

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And you've got to understand something.

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When you read something in the Bible, you know, the stories of people, we can span decades

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in just a matter of a couple of verses.

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Okay?

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So when does Rebecca get pregnant?

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Twenty years after they get married.

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That changes a lot now, doesn't it?

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It's just like, oh man, how come God did it for Isaac and not for us?

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Well, have you waited 20 years though?

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Because Isaac did.

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And when it says that Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife,

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it doesn't really tell us how long he entreated for.

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But I'm just going to safely assume

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that he did it since the time they got,

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since, you know, after the honeymoon night.

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He's like, are you pregnant?

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He's like, no, are you pregnant?

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No, are you pregnant?

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No, and just like, and then a year passes by,

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two years, three years, four years, five years, six years,

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seven, eight, not a decade passes by and still nothing.

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Okay, now obviously I get it. Obviously there's instances where people just can't have children and the doctors have already

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You know said you know, this is not gonna happen because there's something particularly

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Wrong with your body where you can't bear children or whatever permanently indefinitely

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But there's other instances where that's not the case. It's just that God hasn't opened up the womb

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Now, let me say this, is that one of the things

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that you should do if for some reason you feel like

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you can't bear children, you have to make peace with that.

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And sometimes, you know, and this is not something that's just subject to our church.

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I feel like this happens in a lot of churches.

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I mean, prior to me even being in this church, being a part of a church plan, being a part

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of another fundamental Baptist church, this was an issue where just people couldn't bear

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children and it obviously people were bothered by that because they want to have children.

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But there are instances where we have to just make peace with reality.

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Okay.

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And I'm not saying that once you make peace, you'll have children, but sometimes that does happen.

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Because of the fact that once you just give it unto the Lord,

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you cast your care upon Him for He cares for you,

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you recognize, well, maybe it's not God's will,

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then you kind of, the pressure is released, right?

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It's just like, okay, I don't really have to worry about this anymore.

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And then people end up bearing children thereafter.

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I'm not saying that that's what's going to happen with you if you're in this situation.

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I'm just saying that is a potential situation that I've seen happen with other people.

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Okay? Because the stress...

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and the just grief of not being able to bear,

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and it's just like, oh, we've done so much,

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and we wait for this particular time,

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and we try to time it right, and we eat this,

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and I do this, and I try to do everything I possibly can,

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and it's still nothing.

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Well, the fact that you're stressing about it

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may play a factor into that.

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OK?

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you

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And I'm of the persuasion, and I teach this,

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and I tell people this, that if you can't bear children,

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maybe the focus shouldn't be on bearing children.

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Just be married.

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Do what married people do, and just enjoy each other,

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because that's God's will.

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And you know what?

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Maybe, like Isaac, you might bear later on.

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We don't know.

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And keep in mind, like, God didn't tell Isaac

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the way he told Abraham.

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Right?

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Like he gave the promise to Abraham,

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but he didn't necessarily say that to Isaac.

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And so how do you think Isaac feels?

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He's like, man, my dad's really old.

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He had kids, and I can't even.

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But what does he do?

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He entreats the Lord.

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And I do think that that's important.

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I do think we need to entreat the Lord and ask God

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to open up the womb.

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Ask God to bless us.

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Ask God, you know, please Lord, open up the womb.

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Or just demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt

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that this is not your will for us.

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Okay?

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But keep in mind, if you don't have children,

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it doesn't mean that God's not with you.

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It doesn't mean God's not blessing you.

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Okay, it doesn't mean that you are bad Christians, that you have a bad marriage,

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that somehow you're involved in sin. That's not the case. That's not a fair assessment.

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Because quite frankly, there's many people in the Bible who couldn't have children for

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many decades, and it wasn't because they were wicked. Okay?

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Sometimes that's just life.

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And obviously you're thinking to yourself,

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yeah, you say that because you have six kids already.

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And it's true, yeah.

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Guilty as charged.

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But I'm coming before you as a pastor who

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is telling you what the Bible says

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and giving you the pattern of the Word of God

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and what people dealt with here.

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Then again, Isaac and Rebecca couldn't

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have kids for 20 years.

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You know, after a while, I don't know,

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if I was like in Isaac's shoes, I would have been like, okay.

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After like five years, because I'm really impatient.

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After like five years, I'm like, okay,

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it's just not going to happen.

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After 10 years, it's like, for sure it's not going to happen.

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After 15 years, it's like, why are we

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even talking about this still?

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At the 20th year, I'd be really shocked, right?

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It would be out of my mind, this is not going to happen.

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So obviously, Isaac is a man of great faith too.

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Because when it says that he's entreating for his wife,

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I'm assuming that he's probably doing it for those 20 years

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until she bears.

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Now another thing I want to mention here,

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aside from the importance of just entreating

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for our spouses for children, and the fact

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that if you have children or not,

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doesn't mean you're a bad Christian or not.

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It's just the way life is sometimes.

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But another thing I want to mention

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is the importance of entreating for a really long time.

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just for anything.

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Okay?

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You know, the Bible tells us that men ought always to pray and not to faint.

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Okay?

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And, you know, praying is very difficult, especially if you have to do it for a really

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long time.

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Right?

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Praying for a specific request?

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is easy when you're passionate about it in the short term,

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but it becomes more difficult if God's not answering

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that prayer as soon as you would want it to be answered.

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That's hard, okay?

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And I'm telling you that's hard because there's been things

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that I've prayed for for years,

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and I will be very transparent with you.

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I stop praying for them.

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Let me give you an example.

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We're talking about entreating for a child, but there's other things that we entreat

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for.

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How about just justice?

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Vengeance upon the wicked.

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And that's something that I do regularly pray for, especially as of recent.

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Every time you hear something, it's just like, Lord, please punish these wicked, evil doers.

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Bring them to justice

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Strike them down, you know, just please do something, you know out of frustration out of anger out of just the injustices that are done

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You know you pray about that, but it's easy to do it this week though

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It's another thing to do it for like a long period of time

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right and

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Here's a clear example of this and and again

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I'm not coming before you as a prayer warrior

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who's just done this for years on end

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because my faith wanes too.

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I'm a human being, sometimes I lose faith,

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and I'll be honest with you, I have not prayed over the,

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you know, the injustices of the bombing.

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You know, I did for a couple years, I'll admit.

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Like, Lord, please bring these people to justice.

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Please bring them to justice.

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Please punish them.

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Please, and please, let me see it.

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You know, for those who bombed our church, for those who harassed me and my pregnant

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wife and my children in public, for those who, you know, stole our car and stripped it,

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for those who threatened my life, those who did all these evil things against me, please punish them.

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And you know, for a couple years I did, but then I just stopped.

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And maybe I stopped because I just had the peace of God to pass with understanding and I just left it unto the Lord

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But you know, I'll be honest with you, you know, you know, I fainted in that area

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Like I no longer pray for that

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Maybe I should again and partly is because of the fact that I felt like nothing was happening. I

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Mean, how long has it been? What was how many years is that like five? Is that five years ago? Am I right?

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Where's my math whizzes out there? Yeah, it's been like five years and you know what?

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I haven't heard about anything.

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And in fact, we met the FBI.

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The FBI came here, I don't know, what was it,

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like two years ago or a year and a half ago or something

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like that.

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And they were just like, we're opening up the case,

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and we're going to do this.

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And it's just like, oh, you don't have to open it up.

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We could tell you who it was.

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We have the evidence.

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It's all that.

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That's not them.

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That's not them.

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and we're gonna do the best that we can,

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but it might be that this might just be a cold case

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and we can't get, I'm like, you know, you guys suck.

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What are they paying you for?

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You know what I mean?

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Like, put Vanessa Hernandez in the FBI,

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she would've caught them immediately.

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She's the one who got them in the first place.

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And you know, I lose faith and I've lost faith

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in the justice system for sure.

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after that.

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And I don't want to think about it too much,

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because then I think to myself, like, man,

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they got away with that.

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You know, they shamed me.

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They reproached me.

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They did so much evil unto me.

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They mocked me.

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I remember even going to the building

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after the bombing and just being devastated,

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and people driving by, flipping me off, cussing me out,

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laughing at me and my wife, saying all manner of evil.

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And then I remember, like, moving.

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Moving.

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Like we had that U-Haul truck and we're moving stuff and people are driving by like,

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ahhhhhh, we got you out. I mean just suffering reproach and you know what?

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That pissed me off.

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In my flesh I want to be like, hold on, why don't you come out real quick

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and laugh at my face, laugh in front of my face right now.

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You know? That's my carnal desire.

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And it makes me, it made me mad because it's just like man, like these people never got

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the justice that they deserved.

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And you know, I prayed for years and years and years

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But let me just remind you about something regarding the justice of God and God's vengeance upon wicked people and

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This is not an easy truth, but but it but it is true though

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Is that God's not really obligated to update us if he does punish people?

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Because I'll be honest with the people who pride did they might be dead I don't know

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Like the Lord might have smote them a long long ago

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Or they might be suffering right now, like I don't know.

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And you know what?

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As much as I would want to know,

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God's not really obligated to tell me if that's what He's doing.

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I guess I just have to have faith that He did or He's going to.

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So let's just say he did punish them and maimed them or something like that.

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Or made them lose their mind or gave them AIDS or whatever.

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The AIDS they already had got to them already or whatever.

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Whatever disease that they have just consumed them.

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He's not really obligated to let me know about that.

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Because when the Bible says, vengeance is his mind, say it to the Lord, I will repay.

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He's basically saying the offense is against me, I'm going to punish them.

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for what they did to you, but more specifically,

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what they did to you because of me.

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So he takes it personally, so he's like the vindictive one

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who's going after them.

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Now obviously, when we hear about evil doers being punished,

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it increases our faith, does it not?

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It's like, yes!

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Like the Lord is righteous.

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And there are instances where that's gonna happen.

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We've seen that in the past.

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We've seen that even within the last couple years.

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where God just openly exposed people, openly punished people, gave them diseases,

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and killed them in a lot of ways and just did that. But we often think that that's always going to happen.

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And it might. It might.

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Because I'm not going to speak here

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as someone who's just all knowing

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and say that it's not going to happen, because it might.

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You know, by the end of the week,

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we might hear about someone being severely publicly

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punished.

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And I hope that's the case.

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I'm just saying that if it's not, if we'd never

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find out about it, it doesn't mean that God's not going to do

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it, or he hasn't done it.

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And again, I just had to make peace with that,

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because it drove me mad regarding the bombing.

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It drove me insane.

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I was bitter for a little bit.

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And I remember thinking to myself, man, I was just embarrassed.

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I was mocked.

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I'm there with my pregnant wife, and they're surrounding us, and they're saying all manner

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of evil against us.

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And then they succeeded in getting me kicked out of the city.

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And it's just like, Lord, punish these people.

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And then I'll be honest with you, I lost faith.

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And I was just like, well, I'm not going to pray about this anymore.

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Lord, just give me the peace of God, the path to understanding.

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But then the more I thought about it,

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I'm like, well, how do I know he hasn't?

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He's not obligated to send me a letter,

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you know what I mean, or let me find something.

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He's not really obligated to do that.

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I would like for him to.

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I would definitely like to find out

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that these people were just destroyed in a severe manner.

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I would do a back flip.

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I'd get injured, but I would do it, though.

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But at the end of the day, he's not obligated to tell me that.

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And here's the thing, so that's number one, but number two,

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you know, what if these people haven't been punished, right?

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Like the ones who bombed us and did all this evil against us,

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what if they haven't been punished?

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Does that mean they're never gonna be punished?

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No, it just means that God's gonna do it

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when he thinks it's time to do it.

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And he's not obligated to follow my timeline, right?

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you

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He's not obligated to say, well, Bruce wants it to be done at this time,

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so I've got to make sure I do it.

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This is the deadline.

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You know what I mean?

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He's going to do it when he sees fit.

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And you know what?

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I've just made peace with the fact that that might even happen after I'm gone.

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That might be the case.

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And I have to make peace with the fact that, at the end of the day,

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these reprobates are going to go to hell anyway.

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So they're.

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They're going to see their end.

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And even if they live out their days in peace,

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and there's no prison time, there's no this, that,

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and the other, they will be punished in the hereafter.

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And when I'm there, front row seat

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at the Great White Throne judgment,

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watching all these people, I'm going to ask, hey,

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which one's the one who?

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Can you point out the one that bombed our church?

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I got a little request.

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I see that one, that little faggity one right there.

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That one right there, he's the one who did it.

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And I'm just going to be like, that's kind of, you know.

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Obviously, it's probably not going to happen exactly like

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that, but I would like for it to happen like that.

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Who's laughing now?

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It's like, all right, sit down, sit down.

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I know that they will be punished eventually.

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And I just have to make peace with that.

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And so you know.

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I can be grieved over, you know, the injustices of even the people who hate the new IFB,

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all these wicked children, all these wicked pastors, and it does grieve me.

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Like, if I think about it too much, I'm grieved by it.

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Obviously not to the degree of my pastor friends, you know, my pastor friends,

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Pastor Anderson is going through, like, a really hard time, you know,

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and I can't imagine the amount of pain that he feels, you know.

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It's hard.

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You know, and people are mocking him, they're making fun of him, but you know, you wouldn't be able to handle that though.

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You wouldn't be able to handle what he's experiencing.

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Okay? So I'm not going to stand up here and be like, well, he needs to get over it, because at the end of the day,

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no one has really experienced, as far as I know, what he's experiencing now.

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And I can definitely understand why he, you know,

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why he feels the way he feels

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and why he wants justice immediately, I get that.

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It's a very grievous thing to feel,

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to wake up and feel that way.

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And you know what, let them mock, let them laugh, you know?

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Treasure in a wrath against a day of wrath.

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And you know what, they may not even be punished

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in my lifetime.

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It's possible they won't be punished in his lifetime.

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It's possible.

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But let me tell you something that's for sure going to happen is they will be punished.

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Eventually.

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And one thing I remember thinking about the bombing, and I remember thinking about myself like,

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man, I can't believe nothing happened to these people.

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And then I remember thinking to myself, well, how do I know that they haven't been smitten with delusions?

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Nightmare, you know, we don't know exactly what's going on in the minds of people people lose their minds

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You know and God doesn't always just take a leg

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It doesn't always cause some sort of disease. Sometimes he he gives them nightmares. Sometimes he gives them delusions

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Sometimes he gives them, you know paranoia. We don't we don't know, you know, he messes with the mind and

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So, you know, I'm just saying that we need to entreat the Lord

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And mostly it's to entreat him for the sake of our peace.

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Because we know that the judge of all the earth will do right.

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We know that he will punish the evildoers.

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We know that he will bring people to justice because he's a just God.

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He is a righteous God.

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He's gonna do right.

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Even when we feel like he may not do it immediately it doesn't mean he's not going to do it

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He is going to do it. It's the problem that we have the problem that I have is just the timing

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It's just like we kind of want to see it now

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Like they're mocking, look at them rejoicing, look at all this injustice that's being taking place,

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all the slander, all the lies, the people they're trying to destroy, the men of God they're trying

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to bring down, you know, but we tell God as if God doesn't know about these things. Like he's keeping

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track of all this, right? He's keeping track, he got the receipts, and you know the day is coming,

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the days are coming.

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You know, I think of, for example, and we brought this up multiple times, but even like

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Ryan Gallagher, how much he rejoiced over all of the grief that he caused churches and how

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much he celebrated and thought he had the upper hand and now he has this crazy skin

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disease, you know?

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He's not really laughing anymore.

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And so, and that took a couple years.

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The point that I'm making is like,

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Isaac entreated for his wife for 20 years

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before he got the answer to prayer.

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And that shows me that Isaac, man,

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he prayed and he did not faint.

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you

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He just kept praying and praying.

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We don't know if he did it on a daily, on a weekly,

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but we just know the Bible says that he entreated for his wife.

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And then 20 years later, she bore children.

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And what I'm saying is sometimes when we pray for things,

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just don't expect it right away.

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If you want it right away, ask for it right away.

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Be specific about it.

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But if it doesn't present itself right away,

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don't be disappointed in God.

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because he is going to answer the prayer, right? Eventually.

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And I wish I had the mind of God.

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to be able to know the timelines and to discern what's taking place. But obviously, you know,

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there's instances where his thoughts are not our thoughts, our ways are not his ways. He's so much

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beyond, you know, he obviously has the bird's eye view of everything. He knows the hearts of men.

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He knows how this is going to work together for good. And nothing catches God off guard, right?

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Like he knows that all these things are taking place. And so, you know, we just have to have faith in that.

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And, you know, I'm all for putting a timeline for, or a deadline, expressing a deadline to God.

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Like, I want this done by now, by this particular time.

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I'm just saying that if it doesn't happen by that time, we should still realize that it will happen one day.

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And just because it doesn't happen by a particular time, doesn't mean God's not going to do it at all.

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Because He's the just God, right?

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And so, we can learn from Isaac here

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that he's been treating for his wife,

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20 years later to bear children.

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It kind of demonstrates, and Isaac had it harder

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because he didn't have necessarily the written word

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to remind him of these things.

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So God's just silent throughout the whole time, right?

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He's just plugging away and praying, plugging away and praying, plugging away and praying.

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And you know, I do think, you know, from time to time we need to like revive our imprecatory

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prayers and things like this happen in order for us to pray these imprecatory prayers.

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I think they're very biblical to do and people are, oh it's so un-Christian of you.

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But you know, if God doesn't want to answer him, he's not going to answer him. So what,

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why are you worried? Are you worried because you think it will work?

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You can see the line that is from the side.

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And they do work. They work for us to kind of chill us out.

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But they also work because sometimes God does answer those prayers.

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Okay. And so very important there for us to, you know, be in Portunin prayer, have endurance in prayer, pray for these things.

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And if for anything, just to leave it in God's hands. Okay.

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And so, you know, the wicked, they will suffer the consequences of their actions.

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And, you know, no weapon formed against me shall prosper.

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And so, God will often turn the devices of the evil against them.

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We see it in times past. He can do it again. He will do it again.

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So look at in verse 22 it says, and the children struggled together within her.

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And she said, if it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the Lord. So obviously,

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Rebecca is a great woman of prayer. So, you know, first it was just like, oh, man, we can't bear

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children. We're praying, we're praying. So now they have children. But now, you know,

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there's like a little there's something going on in there.

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I don't know if Angela experienced this,

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but you know, it's just like, they're kind of like fighting.

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It sounds like they're struggling.

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They're fighting within her womb.

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So she's just like, what's going on here?

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You know what I mean?

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Let me ask the Lord about this.

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And this kind of demonstrates that we should just

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seek the Lord for everything.

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You know, you got a little pain right here?

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Pray about it first.

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You're struggling with a little health issue?

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Pray about it first, right?

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We talked about it on Sunday, that was Asa's problem.

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He didn't seek the Lord for his athlete's foot or whatever it is that he had.

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We should seek the Lord for all things.

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So the twins are struggling within her.

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And the first thing she does is like, I'm going to ask God about this first.

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And it says in verse number 23, and the Lord said unto her,

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two nations are in thy womb.

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I mean, man, what an answer.

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Two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels

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The one people shall be stronger than the other and the elder shall serve the younger

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So what's interesting about this answer is it doesn't really answer the question as to why they're necessarily struggling

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But he does divulge like there is a big purpose behind the children that are going to be born

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Okay, there are two nations and what are the two nations? Well on a spiritual level, it's the

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Spiritual nation versus the physical nation so to speak that are being represented here because Esau represents also

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unsaved Jews believe it or not

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Just as Jacob

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represents believers, okay

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Esau or excuse me, uh

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Jacob would eventually become Israel

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Right that physical nation, but he will also represent the spiritual israel as well

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Which is why later on in malachi chapter one it says jacob have I loved but esau have I hated

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He doesn't hate literally esau. He hates the nation of esau and then this is later reiterated in romans chapter 9 in context of

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Israel that is not saved in the israel that is

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Okay, we'll go to that in just a bit.

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So he says there's gonna be two nations,

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one people will be stronger than the other,

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and the elder shall serve the younger.

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Now this is an important statement here

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because it doesn't really follow the pattern

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of older and younger siblings in the Bible.

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Because according to the Lord, you know,

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the older brother should be the one who's in charge.

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He's the one who should receive the birthright.

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He's the one who leads the family.

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He's the one who gets the double portion.

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He's the one that everything kind of goes to.

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But he's saying here that the elder, the person who

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typically would get the birthright

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and all the blessings, the double portion,

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is actually going to be serving the younger.

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Now automatically, we see that this

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is symbolically representing both Old and New Testament.

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Why?

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Because even though the New Testament is considered younger,

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it's shorter, it came afterwards.

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It kind of came upon the heel of the Old Testament.

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The Old serves.

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The Old Testament serves the New Testament.

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And in fact, the New Testament is better than the Old.

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OK?

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you

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Look at verse 24, when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

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And the first came out all red, came out red all over like a hairy garment, and they called his name Esau.

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So, you know, bro came out of ginger and he's just hairy.

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Now, you know, I don't know how hairy he was.

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I just know like when babies first come out, there's instances where they're just super hairy.

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You know what I mean?

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We've had a couple children like that.

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They look like monkeys.

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And no, I'm not talking about a particular race

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or anything like that.

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Who are you talking about, Pat?

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No, I'm saying children in general.

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When they come out of the womb, I've seen,

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I think even some of my children,

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they had just hair all over their face.

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They're just super hairy, obviously,

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because they're smaller or whatever.

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And then it kind of goes away a little bit.

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Some of them it doesn't.

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But you have Esau.

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He's red all over.

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He's hairy.

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He's obviously distinctly different.

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He looks strong.

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I mean, he's so hairy, it looks like he just has a coat on him.

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OK?

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you

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Verse 26 says, And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel,

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and his name was called Jacob, and Isaac was three-score years old when she bare them. And

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the boys grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field, and Jacob was a plain man,

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dwelling in tents. Now I will say that, you know, though they picture both Old and New Testament

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and believers and non-believers, you know, they also have their own story as well.

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Because, you know, Jacob, though he's picturing a spiritual nation, he isn't necessarily like a really cool guy or a good guy.

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He's conniving, he's the heel catcher, he's a deceiver.

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I mean, this is why his name had to change later on, because Jacob means deceiver.

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No offense, Jacob.

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We've got a couple of Jacobs in our church. You guys are honest.

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But he was a deceiver.

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Okay?

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And, you know...

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At face value, you look at Esau, and it's just like,

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oh, this is the man's man right here.

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He's the hunter.

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He's a man of the field.

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He likes to do outside activities.

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And he's just a man who's bringing in the venison.

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He's like the way a firstborn should behave.

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And then Jacob is just playing.

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And it says that he's dwelling in tents,

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so he doesn't really like to go outside.

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He has a desk job.

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Right?

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So it's kind of painting Jacob in really bad light here.

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Which, by the way, obviously it kind of does

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play into the concept here.

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Because Jacob is essentially kind of like the underdog.

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So if you were to visibly look at both of these,

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if someone were to ask you which one's more likely to succeed,

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you would say, oh, Esau.

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He brings the venison.

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Look how hairy he is.

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Testosterone's through the roof.

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What about Jacob?

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Bro's like, he's as bald as a Filipino.

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He can't grow any hair.

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He's plain.

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No offense to our Filipinos in our church.

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He's plain.

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He's dwelling in tents.

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He's not really a man's man.

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So what does it look like?

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It means he's the underdog.

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So visibly, he doesn't look like much.

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But yet, he's the one who comes out on top.

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And I preached a sermon about this, I don't remember, like a month ago, entitled The Younger Brother.

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How in the Bible we see this pattern over and over and over again,

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that the younger brother ends up superseding the older brother.

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The underdog always comes out on top.

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Okay?

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You know, and this is true in the Bible, but even like...

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My personal life what I've seen with people in different churches is just like the younger brother ends up being the more righteous one

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Or he ends up succeeding for whatever reason

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You know it's just kind of like a pattern that we see and obviously it's because of the fact that maybe people don't believe in

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Him you know they think they oh man this guy's gonna be in jail. He's gonna be a criminal

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He's not gonna be the the one the successful one or whatever. This is the guy, but it ends up being the reverse right?

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And this pattern is obviously in the Bible is meant to demonstrate the fact that

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you know the new is the one that supersedes the Old Testament and so forth.

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Okay, even though Christians came later on and there's more history with the nation of Israel with God

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you know Gentiles end up being the younger brother that do more for God

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do more for this world than Israel has.

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Okay.

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You know, Israel had that strength, right?

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They were mighty.

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They had God.

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They saw the miracles.

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They had the Old Testament.

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They had Moses.

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But yet what happened, you have the younger brother,

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known as the Gentile, who ends up actually fulfilling God's

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Word by actually reaching the Gentiles, starting churches.

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And in fact, the Gentiles are the reason why we're here

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today, right?

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So we have this, you know, this contrast between Esau and Jacob.

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And off the bat, it's like, oh man, Esau has to be the one.

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This is the guy right here.

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The other guy came later. Look at verse 28.

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And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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So if you're to read the Bible for the first time, not knowing any of the backstory,

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you would kind of look at this and be like, oh, Esau must be the guy then, you know?

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This guy must be the one, you know, Isaac loves Esau.

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The dad loves Esau.

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He's probably the guy from which, you know,

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he's going to be the successful one or something.

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And of course, we see that Jacob is a mama's boy.

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Okay, this is Rebecca love Jacob and this actually becomes very detrimental later on, right?

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Because now because we see later on that Rebecca and Jacob they're kind of like plotting together

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In order to get the blessing from you know, uh, oh is that am I right right there?

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Yeah, it is. Yeah in order to get the blessing and they're they're kind of conspiring together

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And jacob is being conniving in that manner looking verse 29 and jacob's sod potage

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And Esau came from the field and he was faint.

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And Esau said to Jacob, feed me, I pray thee,

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with the same red potage, for I am faint.

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Therefore was his name called Edom.

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And Jacob said, sell me this day thy birthright.

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So he's rightly called Jacob.

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He is a supplanter.

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He is deceptive because he wants to take advantage

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of his brother during his vulnerability.

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You know, Esau's out there, he's putting in work,

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he's hunting, and he's like, man, I'm about to die.

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I'm so famished.

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And what does Jacob do?

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He takes advantage of that.

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He's like, oh, OK, you know, you need a little bean,

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you know, lentils?

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OK?

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You want some frijoles?

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And let's do an exchange here.

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You give me your birthright, and I'll

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give you this bowl of lentils.

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Now, this is wrong, right?

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And here's the thing, folks, is that, you know, I do believe that God meant to use Jacob from the start.

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And in fact, it specifically says that in Romans chapter 9, that before they were even born,

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God had already, like, selected who would be the one to be used in order to bring forth, you know,

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the nations, the 12 tribes of Israel, and ultimately be a part of that promise.

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But here's the thing. I believe that Jacob could have gone about it the right way.

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So, you know, God's not necessarily blessing Jacob's deception.

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He's just using it together for good.

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Okay?

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So don't misunderstand, you know, when you find something in the Bible where a righteous

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person does wrong and then they're still blessed, it doesn't mean that God is blessing the wrong

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that they did.

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It means that God often circumvents that or uses them despite the fact that they sinned.

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Okay?

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And it's also a demonstration that people just aren't perfect.

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Look at you!

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Look at me!

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We can both state the fact that God has used us even though we can be screwed up sometimes.

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We're not perfect.

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We fall short.

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You know, we're not the best Christians out there,

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and yet the Lord uses us.

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I mean, I'm the pastor of this church.

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Yeah.

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And I'm not a perfect guy.

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I fall short majorly.

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I'm not involved in sin or anything like that.

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But I do fall short.

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My assistant, my evangelist falls short.

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And yet we haven't destroyed the church.

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You know, God gets a lot of glory from this.

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You know, we're not the best duo.

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You know, I'm not the best pastor.

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But God uses us despite the fact that we fall short.

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And so Jacob, yeah, he's a deceiver,

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which is why later on he's just like,

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we're going to change your name.

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You're going to be Israel.

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You're not going to be Jacob anymore.

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And then he's still using Jacob, and then he

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has to remind him later on, like hey, Israel.

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OK, name is Israel.

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In other words, you need to behave the way I identify you.

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Kind of thing, right?

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And this demonstrates also that even though we're imperfect,

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we should walk worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called.

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Amen.

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Endeavor to live a godly life.

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Endeavor to walk in the spirit and be the type of Christians that God wants us to be.

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And try our best through the spirit to transcend the flesh.

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Not use the flesh as an excuse why we can't do things for God why we can't succeed why we can't overcome sin or whatever

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Maybe okay because we have the Bible we have church we have the Holy Spirit of God dwelling with this

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We have the new man and so forth and

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So you know Jacob I think God would have given Jacob the birthright later on

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But he took it through deceptive means you didn't have to but he did

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So he's like some of this day that birthright

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And then if you're there, you're just like, man, Jacob,

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seriously?

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You're going to do that?

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But then you read verse 32.

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And Esau said, behold, I am at this point to die.

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What profit shall this birthright do to me?

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Jacob said, swear it to me this day.

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And he sweared to him.

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And he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

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It's just like, OK, Jacob, you're bad.

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But Esau, you're an idiot, though.

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Why don't you walk a couple more miles,

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and mom would have made you some food or something?

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You know? Or, or, your brother's a plain man, just punk him for that bowl of beans.

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Like, what do you mean, sorry, my birthright, bro?

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Hoopsh!

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You tell mom, I'm going to give you another one, you know?

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And just take it from him.

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And you know what?

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Apologize afterwards.

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What is he going to do?

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He's a plain man.

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Right?

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What is he going to do?

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You're like, no, I'm not selling you anything.

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I'm just going to take it.

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Stow that.

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I'm just going to take it from you,

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and then I'll apologize later.

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I'll make up for it somehow later on.

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He's a plain man.

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If anything, Jacob would swing at him

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the way that homeless guy swung at me earlier this week.

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You know, but you know, he, Esau fell for it.

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And why did he fall for it?

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Well, it's not, you know, obviously, like Jacob's being deceptive,

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but we see in the New Testament that Esau was a profane person, though.

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And obviously, he despised his birthright, meaning that, like,

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he didn't really esteem the privilege of being given the birthright,

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which is why he's just able to just give it away.

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Okay?

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And this is wrong.

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And let's give a secondary application here.

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We as Christians, we have certain birthrights

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that comes with being a Christian.

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We are the chosen people of God.

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We are the elect.

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There's so many blessings that we get with just being a Christian.

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But a lot of people just kind of give that up.

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Obviously, I'm not talking about salvation.

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They can't give up salvation.

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But they give up certain privileges just because they want to placate the world. They want to placate their favorite political party

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They want to placate their worldly friends or whatever and they just kind of sell their birthright for a bowl of pottage

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It's not right, you know, let's get let's get more practical. You know, we have the right to preach the gospel

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Like we live in a country,

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aside from the fact that we just have the right,

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the biblical right to do so,

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we live in a country where you can just freely preach

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the gospel without any interruption whatsoever

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from the government or anything like that.

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And I just saw a video of a preacher in England.

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You know, he's preaching the gospel and some police came up to him and he's like condemning him or whatever

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It's just like bro

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If this would have happened in america where a police officer just stops you and says I don't agree with you what you're saying about homosexuals

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You know, he would have gone viral just for getting owned

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But we live in a country where we could just preach the gospel freely we could go every week

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Every day we could just preach the gospel at any given time

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No obstructions

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The law is not against you in that area.

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But yet you have Christians who just sell their birthright

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and they just go track dropping.

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Or they don't do it at all.

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Or they just give their test.

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They just go for some cheaper version of evangelism

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rather than just opening their mouth boldly

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to make known the mysteries of the gospel.

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There's countries out there where you can't do that.

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We could literally just spark up a conversation with someone

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and just win them to Christ right then and there.

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Just collect salvations like nothing

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Because we live in a country where you could do that, but obviously we already have the biblical right

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We have that birthright, but some people just sell that birthright because they don't want to offend people

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They're too scared

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They don't have the boldness to do so they just want to hand out door hangers and track drops

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And you know this that and the other you know why don't you actually use the birthright that God gave you in priest of gospel?

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and do what God commissioned you to do.

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You know, there's pastors out there

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who essentially sell their birthright,

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their spiritual birthright, to preach against sin,

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preach against perversion, preach against Jews,

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preach against just every single sin under the sun.

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God's like, do it!

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And they're just like, well, you know,

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I just don't want to offend people.

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And...

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I feel like I'm going to cause people to get away from the message and scare people away.

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It's like, bro, we have this birthright.

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I have the birthright to throw out transvestites from my church.

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To throw out homos, transvestites, and Christ-rejecting Jews if they ever make their way over here.

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There are all Muslims who are praying in front of the church.

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There are all homeless people who are trying

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to burn down the church.

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We have the birthright to do so.

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And then you have people who are like, you could have

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handled that better.

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You could have done that better.

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You want me to hip toss them?

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You're right.

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I could have handled that better.

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I could have hip tossed them.

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I could have knocked them out.

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I could have rocked them.

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Yeah, you're right.

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I could have just, you know, I could have just heard him really bad and just, you know.

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Just hurt him really bad.

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That would have been a better way for sure.

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But I chose not to because dude's homeless.

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You know what I mean?

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I got to go soul winning in a couple minutes.

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I don't feel like carrying his carcass.

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Waiting for the police and all that.

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I can't believe you call yourself a pastor

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and you do this stuff.

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You call yourself a priest?

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I'm like, first of all, no, I don't call myself a priest.

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OK, number one.

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But number two, you know, he's like, oh you're calling him names. What name did I call him?

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You're just such a bleeding heart

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compromising just weak Christian

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That anytime a pastor gets up and has the stones to actually, you know remove people from the property

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Which any business has the right to do

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But especially the house of God all of a sudden is just like I can't believe you would do something like this. What kind of

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Pussyfoot and pastor do you have?

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Like, so are you trying to tell me that you would allow a homeless guy to just keep lighting fires?

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And would you join him? Like, what would...

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It's just insane.

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And they're like, Campbell, you're just so evil and wicked.

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You're right, I should have just let him

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burn the whole place down.

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What was I thinking?

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What was I thinking?

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And look, let's just be honest.

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The homeless man caught me on a good day.

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Because I didn't think about the camera footage,

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but if I would have been conscientious,

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I would have been ore farming like crazy.

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Right?

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Like I would have been like, oh, this is about to go viral.

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I'm about to like do something to this guy or something.

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You know, I don't know.

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I'm gonna just make a big scene or something.

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But we had to go soul winning.

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You know, my wife is the one who actually told me about it.

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She texted me, she's like, she pulled up with our family.

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We're gonna go soul winning.

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And then she's like, hey, there's a homeless guy

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on our front.

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I'm just like, all right, you know.

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This is California, you know.

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What else is new?

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And then she calls me and I was just like,

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well, I'll be out there in a minute.

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And then she's like, she calls me and she's like,

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does it matter that he's burning things?

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I guess, you know.

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Fine, I'll go out there, you know.

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But these compromisers who just sell their birthright, oh,

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we can't be mean.

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You shouldn't talk to people like that.

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First of all, this is literally what

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I told this homeless bum.

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And homeless people aren't poor either.

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Let's just get that straight.

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Homeless people in America are not poor.

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Where do you think they get the money for all their drugs?

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Drugs are expensive.

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I'm sure fentanyl is expensive.

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Is that the drug of choice of today?

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Does anybody know?

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Can I get a witness?

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Does anybody know?

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Adam, is that the drug of choice?

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Yeah.

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Everyone's all embarrassed to say it.

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I know you don't do drugs.

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I'm just asking you.

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If people are doing cocaine, I'm sure cocaine is expensive.

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Drinking alcohol, doing drugs, that stuff is expensive.

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And don't tell me they don't know how to work.

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You know, a crackhead.

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When he gets up in the morning, if he doesn't have any crack, he's not like,

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well, I guess I'll just quit crack.

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He's not going to be like, I'll just quit cocaine.

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He's going to be like, I'm going to figure this out.

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We're gonna get this paper, you know what I mean?

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So it's not like these people don't have

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some form of character, they just have

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the character to do wrong.

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You know, they're very highly motivated, okay?

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And so, you know, don't let the crackhead outwork you, right?

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If the crackhead could put in work, you know,

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to get their crack, you should, you know,

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have the character of a crackhead get a job.

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Okay, have the tenacity of a crackhead

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So they're not poor. They're vagrants. You know bro is just literally burning stuff

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And it's not because it's hot. It's July

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He's burning stuff because he's a derelict.

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He has nothing better to do than to destroy property.

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And then I'm chasing him out.

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I'm like, get out of here.

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He has his stuff.

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And then he gets to the driveway,

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and he's just like, ah!

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And he throws his stuff, and the stuff is still out there.

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And he just runs down the street.

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Yeah.

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But all I did, all I literally did

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was go up to him and say, hey, put that out.

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You can't be burning stuff.

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Oh man, I can't believe you just said that.

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I can't believe he told all.

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All I said was literally, put it out.

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And you know what he does?

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He throws the fire at me instead.

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So when you see me just standing there,

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it's because I'm contemplating.

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I'm like, bro just threw this fire at me.

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Like, should I throw hands?

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You know what I mean?

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He throws that.

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Should I throw hands?

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And then he gets up and he tries to take a swing at me

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or whatever.

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And then I just told him to get out.

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It's just like, oh, I can't believe you did that.

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Yeah, of course you can't believe it, because you're

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such a spineless Christian.

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You're such a weakling of a Christian that you just sell

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your birthright for a bowl of weak.

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character, spineless character, compromising character,

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because you just don't want to offend anybody.

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Well, go ahead and send me the address to where you live,

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and I'll send that bum right over there

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so you can take care of his fentanyl,

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and you can pay for that, and he can burn your place down.

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Why don't we just do that instead?

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That was a tertiary application to this verse here.

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But it works.

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you

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It says in verse 33, Jacob said,

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swear to me this day, and he sweared to him,

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and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

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Then Jacob gave Esau bread and potage of lentils,

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and he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way.

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Thus Esau despised his birthright.

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So he just ate it, and there's no like, what have I done?

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There's no like, after he's done eating, he's just like,

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what have I done?

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He's just like, and he just takes off.

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demonstrated that he doesn't really esteem his birthright.

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He doesn't really care.

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He'll care later on once it starts really

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hitting close to home.

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He starts realizing that, you know.

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And it's funny because he's just like, oh man,

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he supplanted me this many times.

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He took my birth.

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Bro, you sold your birthright.

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What do you mean?

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You act like he stole it from you, like he just, you know,

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muscled you out of the birthright,

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you sold it to him for a bowl of beans.

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Okay?

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What's the lesson that we can learn from this?

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The lesson is this, you know, when you are vulnerable,

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if you're in a vulnerable state of mind

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where you're mentally vulnerable,

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physically, spiritually vulnerable,

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don't make any hasty decisions.

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you

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Don't make hasty decisions when your decision maker is broken.

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You know, just wait a couple more miles.

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There's venison waiting for you.

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Who wants to eat beans anyways?

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Like, it's just like, he'd even give you like meat.

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He gave you beans, the magical instrument.

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A bowl of lentils with bread?

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That's what you sold your birthright for?

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It wasn't even a good meal.

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But that's how sin is, right?

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Don't make any hasty decisions.

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Don't just hastily quit church, don't hastily quit serving God.

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You know, we understand that you're faint, you feel like you're about to fall over,

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but just walk yourself over to mom's tent and you get to keep your birthright.

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And we all have a temptation to just quit sometimes and throw on the towel. We need to make sure we just hang on

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Okay, and don't make cases the worst thing that any Christian can do is make a hasty decision about anything when they're struggling

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Okay, you know oh something's bad. I'm just gonna move or I'm just gonna do this like just just wait it out

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Just wait it out. You know I deal with hasty Christians all the time

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You know, and you know, in the immediate,

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it seems like a right to say, oh, this is what I'm going to do.

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You know, I'm going to get divorced.

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I'm going to just leave.

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I'm just going to go do this and that and the other.

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But then the clarity comes in later on, though.

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And then you'll regret it.

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You know, just push through it.

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Got to push through it.

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Go eat food.

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Go get a four by four.

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you

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Go eat a lot of food.

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Go get some ice cream in your system.

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Go eat a bowl of cereal.

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Get a good night's rest.

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Wait a while.

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And you realize, like, oh, it wasn't really that bad.

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Or maybe it's still bad, but it's not as bad

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as you thought it was going to be.

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Don't make hasty decisions.

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OK?

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Don't be like Esau who's just like, oh, what good is this going to do?

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It's just, you know, I'm about to faint right now.

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Well, then just take the bowl from Jacob, and don't sell him anything,

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and just apologize later.

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Or just go to the next tent.

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Like, don't think there's only one solution to this situation.

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And that's what the devil wants you to think.

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That's like, though, there's only one way out.

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There's only one way out.

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But when you actually think about it,

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it's just like, actually there's multiple ways

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that we can deal with this situation.

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And so very important there.

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I hope that helped.

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We'll see how this is going to affect their relationship

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later on.

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And even though Jacob is a picture of believers,

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obviously Jacob literally is starting off pretty bad.

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He's a deceiver, he's cunning, and you know, he's getting the right things the wrong way.

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Right? And so that's the sermon for another day. Let's pray.

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Father, we thank you so much for your word. Thank you for these examples, Lord.

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And pray you help us, Lord, to not be like Esau. Help us to wait upon you.

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Help us to be like Isaac, who entreated the Lord.

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I do want to pray for Pastor Anderson, Lord, that you just continue to strengthen him.

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I know that our church loves him.

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I love him, Lord.

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He's a close friend of mine.

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I just pray that you continue to give him the endurance necessary and put off making

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any decision for a long period of time, Lord.

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I do pray that you show yourself strong on his behalf.

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I do pray that you punish the enemies.

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We obviously know that you don't often work on our...

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according to our deadlines, Lord.

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But I pray that you would increase our faith and do it sooner than later.

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I would want that.

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And we would give you glory, Lord.

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We would honor you for it.

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And I just pray that you continue to protect Him, be with His church, continue to bless

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Him, Lord.

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And may you demonstrate in other ways that you're still with Him.

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and increase his faith in that manner, Lord.

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And I pray that you bless us as we go on our way. Give us a great weekend.

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We love you. We thank you. Pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Alright, we have one last song this evening, song number 37, there'll be no dark valley.

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Song number 37, there'll be no dark valley, everyone all together nice and strong.

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There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes.

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There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes.

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There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes.

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Together is loved one's home.

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To gather his loved ones home.

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To gather his loved ones home.

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There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes.

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To gather his loved ones home.

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There'll be no more sorrow when Jesus comes.

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There'll be no more sorrow when Jesus comes.

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But a glorious morrow when Jesus comes,

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To gather his loved ones home.

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To gather his loved ones home.

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To gather his loved ones home.

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There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes To gather his loved ones home

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There'll be no more weeping when Jesus comes There'll be no more weeping when Jesus comes

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But a blessed reaping when Jesus comes to gather his loved ones home.

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To gather his loved ones home.

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To gather his loved ones home.

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There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes.

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To gather his loved ones home.

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There'll be songs of greeting when Jesus comes.

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There'll be songs of greeting when Jesus comes.

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And a joyful meeting when Jesus comes.

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To gather His loved ones home.

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To gather His loved ones home.

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To gather His loved ones home.

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There'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes to gather his loved ones home.

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Amen. Great singing tonight. You are just...