his life and atonement for sin and open the life gate that all may go in praise
the Lord praise the Lord let the earth hear his voice praise the Lord praise
the Lord let the people rejoice oh come to the father through Jesus the
son and give him the glory great things he hath done Oh perfect redemption the
purchase of blood to every believer the promise of God the vilest offender who
truly believes that moment from Jesus a pardon receives praise the Lord praise
the Lord let the earth hear his voice praise the Lord praise the Lord let the
people rejoice oh come to the father through Jesus the son and give him the
glory great things he hath done great things he has taught us great things he
hath done and great are rejoicing through Jesus the son but purer and
higher and greater will be our wonder our transport when Jesus we see praise
the Lord praise the Lord let the earth hear his voice praise the Lord praise
the Lord let the people rejoice oh come to the father through Jesus the son and
give him the glory great things he hath done amen good see brother Evan could
you open my water prayer
amen so for seconds we're gonna be doing favorites so if you have a favorite song
raise your hand and now is the time to choose it brother Jack 100 yeah let's
check it out day by day let's sing it out on the first
day by day and with each passing moment strength I find to meet my trials here
trusting in my father's wise be snowmen I've no cause for worry or for fear he
whose heart is kind beyond all measure gives unto each day what he deems best
lovingly it's part of pain and pleasure mingling toll with peace and rest miss
Kayla 455 I don't know that one you got another one no thank on it I'll come
back to you next who else go miss Bobby 257 look and live
song 257 let's sing it out I've a message from the Lord hallelujah the
message unto you I'll give this recorded in his word hallelujah it is
only that you look and live look and live my brother live look to Jesus now
and live test recorded in his word hallelujah it is only that you look and
live another one Kayla 24 I don't know it now you got to come play on the piano
well we got an easy one alright and can it be that I should gain number 24 let's
sing it out and can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior's blood
died he for me who caused his pain for me who him to death pursued amazing love
how can it be that my god should die for me amazing love how can it be that
my god should die for me my known brother 353 song number 353 from every
stormy wind singing on the first from every sore me when that blows from every
swelling tide of woes there is a calm ashore retreat tears found beneath the
mercy see
Leilani 364
standing on the promises song number 364 let's sing it out standing on the
promises of Christ my king through eternal ages let his praises ring glory
in the highest I will shout and sing standing on the promises of God standing
standing standing on the promises of God my Savior standing standing I'm
standing on the promises of God
song number 294 step in the light 294 let's sing it on the first trying to
walk in the steps of the Savior trying to follow our Savior and King shaping
our lives by his blessed example happy how happy the songs that we bring how
beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior stepping in the lie stepping in
the lie how beautiful to walk in the steps of the Savior
let in paths of life last one mom 293 huh what is that he just preached
against altar calls I don't know this one you got a different one no which
one Kathleen oh yeah I got it right let's go 335
Jesus goes with me song 335 let's sing it out on the first it may be in the
valley where countless dangers hide it may be in the sunshine that I in peace
abide but this one thing I know if it be dark or fair if Jesus us goes with me
I'll go anywhere good night if Jesus goes with me I'll go
any way this heaven to me where I may be if he is there I counted a privilege
here his cross to bear if Jesus goes with me I'll go
any way all right good job for everybody except the song leader all right good
evening welcome to your foundation Baptist Church let's take our bulletins
and go through if you need a bolt don't you raise up your hand and one of our
ushers will bring you a bulletin good job brother Ryan he's all over it the
good Ryan all right thank you on our front cover we have our first week it
says therefore I say unto you what things so ever you desire when you pray
believe them or believe that you receive them and he shall have them mark chapter
11 verse 24 it's a great verse there on our inside first page we have our
service times our Sunday morning service is 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening service 3
30 p.m. will be in Genesis chapter 28 tonight Thursday Bible study is at 6 30
p.m. will be in 1st Corinthians chapter 13 our so many times are listed below and
we had so many today did anybody have a salvation one salvation there's anybody
else all right well at least we got one I heard it was pretty rough out there
today but praise God for the one and you can see all the rest of the numbers down
below there and of course take note of the Yakima the new Yakima regional
leader is Cody Chandler out in Yakima Washington we still got brother Daniel
out there going soul winning and some other people so praise God for that or
we have a new three-part preaching series I'm going through and it's the
right kind of preaching I preach the first sermon this morning and I'll again
preach two more each on the next two Sundays and so got off to a good start
there in that series and then October 16th we have the busy farms pumpkin patch
trip for all all church family is welcome to come to that it's not just a
homeschooling event today at the end of the service is your last chance to sign
up for that so if you haven't signed up for it by the end of the service I'm
gonna grab that sheet and I'm gonna call and order all the tickets all right is
there anybody on the fence anybody need to cross her name off all right so well
if you change your mind you know go ahead and sign up but so that'll be this
coming Saturday at 11 o'clock so 11 a.m. all right and let's see we got the
Yakima soul winning trip the 18th through the 20th and that'll be so
Monday through Wednesday and I'm actually gonna have a service on
Wednesday night so if you need to spend that last night there we're gonna what
my plan is is Monday morning get up and leave and if anybody wants to go so
wanting early want to just get up there early and get something done we'll have
maps and we might have brother Corbin there with us not sure about that he's
gonna let me know tomorrow but he's regardless we're gonna have maps for
anybody wants to go up early we're definitely having an afternoon soul
winning time on Monday and then stay the night and then Tuesday we're gonna hit
it hard and try to go at least five hours you know do a big chunk of soul
winning on Tuesday and we're probably gonna clean up some of the maps that we
left we let we let go but we also are gonna try to hit Yakima proper and to
see just how receptive this place really is so it's been very receptive so
I'm sure anybody wants to you know just preach the gospel all day long hey this
is the trip for you if you you have a chance to go this is the time to go so
and then the like I said Wednesday I'm gonna have a service at the hotel room
like we did before I'll be preaching then we're gonna come back Thursday so
if anybody needs to stay the night I just need it when we do the sign up we
need to make sure that you tell me how many people are coming how many nights
you're staying what days you're coming what days you're staying how many family
members and we're gonna stay at the same hotel we're not gonna change anything as
far as breakfast eat breakfast in the morning and then we'll get something for
lunch and then we'll have dinner in the evening so but the last night is
Wednesday you're able to stay if you want a soul winning juice any soul
any Thursday you're more welcome to do so and then we're gonna have service
here Thursday night so apparently brother Corbin loved Thai time so he
might even consider coming back here he's like tight I was like hey you know
it's a well-known it's a it's a well-known thing for us but he loved it
so he's like I want to try everything on the menu so I was like easy tiger not so
anyway but it was great to have him preach here I still have got a chance
listen to sermons I heard they're really good so I haven't downloaded and
ready to roll so anyway so we got that but then on let's see the 23rd so the
23rd there's another thing to add on here so we're gonna be have a busy
October here the 23rd we're having a Seattle soul winning marathon and that's
gonna be it's actually Lakewood so it's not necessarily Seattle proper to be
it's 30 exits south of Seattle so it's not too far up for us it's probably a
little ways past so it's right by Tacoma so probably two-hour drive or
something like that it's a Lakewood and it's been pretty receptive there and
then so anybody they can't make it to the Yakima trip well maybe you can just
make it to the the Saturday trip up in Lakewood what's called the Seattle
soul-winding marathon but it's not really Seattle it's just the Seattle
area but I want to give people a chance up north to be able to come down and and
preach a gospel with us so all the details are online we put a video up
about it just a little while ago so probably make a video for the Yakima one
brother Robert let's make a video for the Yakima one all right anyway I'm gonna
get through this quicker than I did this morning so October 27th we have a men's
leadership class that's Wednesday at 6 p.m. October 31st we have the potluck
after the morning service and a men's preaching night that's Halloween so
we're gonna do our own thing here stay away from all that wickedness that's out
there and no we're not giving candy away to the trick-or-treaters okay we'll give
them we'll give them a trick we're not gonna know I'm just kidding all right so
and then November 6 we have the men's safety team training that more details
will be coming up about that and then November 14th we have pastor Roger
Jimenez coming up here to preach for us for the PM service and so it's gonna be
great to have pastor minutes here he hasn't been to the new building yet so
and then November 21st we have the Thanksgiving potluck the main course
will be provided by the church and then just bring your best goodies and pies
and all that good stuff whatever goes with turkey and enchiladas whatever you
want to do you know it's just like making an international Thanksgiving
meal or something my wife so I probably go no international okay but anyway
men's preaching night will be that evening also and then November 24th
we'll have a Wednesday service so there's no Thursday service that week
December 19th is gonna be our Christmas service we'll have a children's choir
and a prime rib dinner after the morning service and then December 23rd we'll
have a candlelight service on Thursday night for a family integrated church
that means the children infants are welcome during the church services
please utilize them other baby rooms and dead baby rooms for your convenience
let's make sure we're not locking that door over there we had a little mishap
this morning where someone locked the door we don't want that to happen so
please don't lock that door at any time and the mother baby rooms and Debbie
rooms are not for just chatting and talking and all that stuff you're like
you're you're being or in a church service so supposed to be trying to pay
attention to preaching so and when people are in there trying to listen and
everybody's talking then it's just it's distracting I realize we only have one
main mother mother baby room now but just be respectful to the other people
that want to listen okay and then reserve the back rows for families with
young children rockers are for pregnant and nursing mothers and elders only
please no men in the mother baby rooms or dads of the mom baby rooms no
unattended children at any time in the building please no food in the assembly
area and silence your cell phones if you would at this time please or place them
on airplane mode escorts the vehicles are available by the ushers upon
request and online donations are available on our website and the text
giving numbers on the page and the ties and offerings for September is on the
bottom of the page and I made a little note of this but there's a couple people
that weren't here this morning I just want to let you know that the ties and
offerings don't get updated for like a week or so usually at the end of the
month I have to go through and total up all the online donations and so usually
we're running like a week or two behind on there so at least a week so but
that's this is the total here for September at the bottom of the page and
we already sing happy birthday to Jacob alcorda and to Anthony and I think
that's it anybody else have a birthday that's not in the bulletin all right
Ryland's off the hook all right let's sing another song and then we'll receive
the offering
all right our next song is number 175 it's just like his great love song
number 175 it's just like his great love let's sing it out on the first a friend
I have called Jesus whose love is strong and true and never fails how rare
Tis tried no matter what I do I sinned against this love of his but when I now
to pray confessing all my guilt to him the sin clouds rolled away it's just
like Jesus to roll the clouds away it's just like Jesus to keep me day by day
it's just like Jesus all along the way it's just like his grave love sometimes
the clouds of trouble begin the sty above I cannot see my Savior's face I
doubt his wondrous love but he from heaven's mercy see beholding my despair
in pity burst the clouds between and shows me is there it's just like Jesus
to roll the clouds away it's just like Jesus to keep me day by day it's just
like Jesus all along the way it's just like his grave love when sorrow clouds
or take me break upon my head when life seems worse than useless and I were
better dead I take my grief to Jesus then nor do I go in vain for heavenly
hope he gives that cheers like sunshine after rain it's just like Jesus to roll
the clouds away it's just like Jesus to keep me day by day it's just like Jesus
all along the way it's just like his grave love oh I could sing forever of
Jesus loved Yvonne of all his care and tenderness for this poor life of mine
his love is in and over all and winds and waves obey when Jesus whispers peace
be still and rolls the clouds away it's just like Jesus to roll the clouds away
it's just like Jesus to keep me day by day it's just like Jesus all along the
way it's just like his grave love amen good
same brother Sean Harrington could you bless the offering
you
right for me in your Bible to Genesis 28
Genesis 28 if you don't have a Bible raise your hand one of the ushers will
bring you one Genesis 28 Genesis 28 the Bible reads and Isaac called Jacob and
blessed him and charged him and said unto him thou shalt not take a wife of
the daughters of Canaan arise go to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel thy
mother's father and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy
mother's brother and God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply
thee that thou mayest be a multitude of people and give thee the blessing of
Abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee that thou mayest inherit the land
wherein thou art a stranger which God gave unto Abraham and Isaac sent away
Jacob and he went to Padan Aram unto Laban son of Bethuel the Syrian the
brother of Rebecca Jacobs and Esau's mother when Esau saw that Isaac had
blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take him a wife from thence
and that he and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying thou shall
not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan and that Jacob obeyed his father
and his mother and was gone to Padan Aram and Esau seen that the daughters of
Canaan please not Isaac his father then went Esau unto Ishmael and took unto
the wives which he had Mahalatha the daughter of Ishmael Abraham son the
sister of Nebuchadnezzar to be his wife and Jacob went out from Beersheba and
went towards Haran and he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all
night because the Sun was set and he took of the stones of that place and put
them for his pillows and laid down in that place to sleep and he dreamed and
behold a ladder set upon set up on the earth and the top of it reached to
heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it and
behold the Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father
and the God of Isaac the land where on thou liest to thee will I give it and to
thy seed and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shall spread
abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in
thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed and
behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whether thou goest and
will bring thee again into this land for I will not leave thee until I have
done that which I have spoken to thee of and Jacob awake awake out of his sleep
and he said surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not and he was
afraid and said how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house
of God and this is the gate of heaven and Jacob rose up early in the morning
and took the stone that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar
and poured oil upon the top of it and he called the name of that place Bethel
but the name of that city was called Luz at the first and Jacob vowed a vow
saying if God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will
give me bread to eat and raiment to put on so that I come again to my father's
house in peace then shall the Lord be my God and this stone which I have set for
a pillar shall be God's house and of all that thou shalt give me I will
surely give the tenth unto thee brother Owen we pray for us
amen all right we're in Genesis chapter 28 and it's been a couple weeks since
we've been here we're here and remember last time in Genesis chapter 27 how
Jacob tricked his brother out of the blessing by putting a hairy garment on
them goats goats fur and all that stuff and tricked his dad into giving him the
blessing and Esau was pretty upset about that I got a ringing coming on through
here Ryland correct thyself all right still doing it okay we're good okay so
so anyway so like I said and Rebecca helped Jacob out and she kind of favored
Jacob and then of course Isaac favored Esau and wanted his tasty venison his
savory meat and I kind of made some application how this pictures Christ
how Rebecca pictured Christ and he Isaac pictured God the Father and so anyway
you can watch that sermon but I just want to kind of remind you where we're
at just basically where Esau ends up angry and wanting to kill his own
brother and it kind of pictures the Old Testament the New Testament and also
pictures how the Jews were replaced by you know the spiritual Christians so
Jacob kind of pictured the spiritual Christians and Esau pictured Israel
after the flesh so we're here in Genesis 28 verse number one the Bible says and
Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him and said unto him thou
shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan so point number one tonight
and the title of the sermon is Jacob's ladder I guess I couldn't think of
anything better than that but Jacob's ladder so it kind of applies but Jacob
obeys his father and is blessed for his point number one and so Isaac this is
Isaac called Jacob and blessed him so he's already blessed him before but now
he's blessing him again and says and charged him so he's commanding him
isn't he it says and said unto him thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters
of Canaan this is a big deal because Noah's flood was for the purpose of you
know the sons of men the son the sons of the sons of God going into the
daughters of men and basically pictures that save people were marrying unsaved
people and that that can cause things to go really bad it can cause things to go
bad in your family we're not supposed to be unequally yoked together with
non-believers we're not supposed to marry outside of the faith so if you're
saved you should be marrying someone else that's saved or it's just gonna
cause havoc in your life and I always kind of make this point because I've
seen people just say well they're Catholics so I mean they they are
Christians technically no they're not it's Catholic people aren't saved and
they're basically worshiping their pagan gods that were mixed together with
Christianity a long time ago so he's charging him and he's saying Jacob don't
marry a wife of the daughters of Canaan and later on we know that that the
children of Israel were told to go and conquer Canaan because they became such
wicked people so they're obviously non-believers he's saying don't don't
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan because they're wicked people and so
look at verse 2 it says arise go to Padanarim to the house of Bethuel thy
mother's father and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy
mother's brother so basically you know and this is a picture of us keeping you
know keeping our marriages within the family of God okay and so they're
obviously family and he's saying hey go to people that believe go to people that
are saved and it says in God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and
multiply thee and that thou mayest be a multitude of people and give thee the
blessing of Abraham to thee and to thy seed with thee and that thou mayest
inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger which God gave unto Abraham so
they're saying hey if you're gonna look if you're gonna here's the blessing that
God will bless you that God will make you fruitful that God will multiply you
and that thou mayest be a multitude of people that's a blessing when you're
when your family multiplies when the family line ends that's not a blessing
right when your posterity is cut off that's not a good thing it's not a
blessing it says it give the blessing of Abraham to thee and the blessing of
Abraham was the blessing of faith wasn't it Abraham was the father of the faithful
Abraham believed God and was counted to him for righteousness and so that
blessing of Abraham he's transferring upon his son who also had the you know
Isaac also had that blessing of Abraham it says to thee and to thy seed with thee
now we know when the Bible's talking about thy seed it's talking about the
Lord Jesus Christ see we got to remember that there's a that there is a bloodline
that Christ came from and these people are the people that the line of Christ
came from so there is a blessing in that fact but it's also the blessing is
that you know they're faithful and then God's gonna bless their seed and this
the seed of Christ is going to come through that family line it says that
thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger with which God gave
unto Abraham and Isaac sent away Jacob and he went to Patanarim unto Laban the
son of Bethuel the Syrian the brother of Rebecca Jacob's and Esau's mother so
Jacob obeys his father doesn't he and see that's a far cry from what Esau was
doing Esau was marrying daughters of the land it was upsetting his parents
remember we have talked about that before I'm not gonna spend too much time
because I've kind of talked about this a lot but this theme keeps coming up it's
very important to God that we marry within our own family the family of God
saved believers I'm not talking about your sister okay all right that's not
allowed that's against the law so and it's just weird but anyway we need to
pick a saved person to marry and Esau did not do that but look at what so
number two tonight look what Esau learns from Jacob's example so I know I
picked on Esau you know several weeks ago and I kind of showed where he wasn't
really considered to be a good guy and even in the New Testament though the
Bible doesn't say really anything good about Esau but here Esau does do some
things that I think are good examples and he learns from the example of Jacob
his brother so look at verse number six it says when Esau saw that Isaac had
blessed Jacob and sent him away to Patanarim to take him a wife from thence
and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge so Esau is observing this he's
seeing this happen saying thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of
Canaan and that and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and was gone
to Patanarim so what's Esau watching he's watching his brother do the right
thing remember Esau was born first and then Jacob was born second latching on
to his heel as he came out all right he wanted to be first he wanted you know he
was close behind him but he wasn't the firstborn son he was the very quickly
born second son right but Jacob always wanted to supplant his older brother you
know and he wanted to be the one with the blessing he wanted to be the one
that received the inheritance but Esau you know he kind of he despised his
birthright the Bible says and he was a profane man and the Bible says he sought
repentance with tears and was not able to get that so but here's one thing that
Esau does right says Esau seen the daughters of Canaan please not his
Isaac his father then when Esau on to Ishmael and took on to the wives which
he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son the sister of Nebuchad to
be his wife so why did he do that well he was already married he shouldn't have
got married again all right so we're supposed to just have one spouse and
obviously if your spouse passes on then you could get remarried you're not
supposed to have more than one spouse at a time you're not supposed to men are
not supposed to have more than one wife that was never the plan God's very clear
about that in the New Testament you know people will try to justify these people
having multiple wives and that it's okay in the culture it doesn't matter if it's
okay in the culture God's not okay with it it's supposed to be one man one woman
right but Esau seeks to please his father and mother after messing
everything up didn't he so I mean that is one redeeming quality that I could
see about him also the fact that he forgives his brother later on so Esau
did do a lot of things but in the new tech like I said the New Testament
doesn't really speak favorably about Esau but he does do a couple things in
the Old Testament that I would say kind of have a little bit of redeeming
quality for the character of Esau and one thing you know obviously it wasn't
good to multiply wives but at least he went and tried to get one that was
considered part of the family you know if you're looking at it in a spiritual
way he's trying to marry someone within the family of God so and this also shows
that Esau does understand that he upset his parents and is seeking to do
something to please them see and he's seen the example of Jacob who is
pleasing his parents who is following after their commandments it says that
Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and so that's you know that's retelling
this story for a reason so that we can see that hey you can be a person that
fails your parents but there is you can get redemption and make things right
with them and I think that that's a picture here because a lot of people
maybe even people that grew up in this room maybe rebelled against your parents
when you were younger but you know you can you can win their favor back later
on you can make things right with them later on I think that that's what Esau
was trying to do he understood that his parents were upset with him because of
the wives he chose and then he tried to do something about it to fix the problem
so at least if he's gonna multiply wives at least marry someone within the family
or whatever so it does show that Esau does understand that he upset his
parents and he's trying to do something to fix it now Jacob's obedience is a
good example on the Esau see it doesn't matter you know obviously the firstborn
had these special privileges in the Bible and and they were supposed to get
a multiple their inheritance was supposed to be a double portion and so
also they got the blessing the spiritual you know there's a lot of a lot of
blessings that you got for being the firstborn son in the family but you know
you can be a younger sibling and still be a good example to your others your
other siblings you can be the younger sibling and be a shining beacon of light
within the home because sometimes the older the older brother goes bad you
know or the older daughter goes bad and then they're a bad example to the
younger ones but you know you don't have to follow the lead of a bad example of a
sibling that you have a sibling that's not doing right or not pleasing your
parents you know you can you don't have to follow them off the cliff you know to
where you're being bad too you know you have an individual choice children and
teenagers in here that you can follow what the Bible says you can be pleasing
to your parents you don't have to just follow you know I look up to my older
brother or I look up to my older sister you know you can be an example to your
older siblings and say hey I'm gonna be a good child I'm gonna be a goodly child
I want to be you know pleasing to my parents because you know what rebellion
is as the sin of witchcraft the Bible says so and witchcraft is not something
that we should be dabbling around with and so the Bible says it's as the sin of
witchcraft God hates rebellion he hates rebellion in the home he hates rebellion
in children he hates rebellious wives he hates rebellious husbands you know God
just hates rebellion and he says it says the sin of witchcraft was what does the
Bible say is supposed to happen to a witch suffer not a witch to live that's
what the Bible says and so God is not pleased with rebellion at all but I
just want to say this that kids and sit you know siblings you can influence each
other to do right by being a good example in the home maybe you know maybe
your older brother's a jerk or whatever just mouse off to the parent to the
parents all the time makes bad decisions that upset them you know you can be a
redeeming person in the home and so maybe your older brother might look at
you and say hey you know so-and-so is doing better than me maybe I could take
a lesson from that and do what's right that's what that's what happens here
right Esau's looking at his brother and he's saying hey this is what pleased our
parents well I'm gonna go and do likewise and so you know the Bible says
in Ephesians chapter go ahead and turn Ephesians chapter 6 Ephesians chapter 6
verse 1 and I've read this verse multiple times in this church look what
it says Ephesians 6 1 it says children obey your parents in the Lord for this
is right it's the right thing to do why should you obey your parents because
it's right well my parents are dumb no they're not you're dumb your parents are
smarter than you because you know what they've lived longer than you and they
know more and they've had more life experience than you and it seems like
when kids turn to be like 13 like they know everything they think they know
everything I was 13 once and I thought I knew everything too but you know I
didn't know everything and as I grew up I realized that my parents were right my
grandparents were right that I just kind of had like this I thought I was smarter
than everybody else but really my life experience made that not true and when
you start thinking you're smarter than everybody else it makes you puffed up
makes you have not think you have knowledge you don't really have and it's
not right and so you know as I've gotten older I realized a lot of things about
me when I was younger was messed up so but you know it's not too late to change
that aspect of your life if you realize that you failed in other areas in your
life you can make up for those things later on you know but don't wait till
it's too late don't be proud be humble say you took maybe you've given your
parents a hard time why don't you apologize to them why don't you say I'm
sorry I was such a pain in the neck to you I'm sorry I didn't listen to you
about this you were right about this you know people like to hear that they're
right sometimes you know parents like to hear that they're right every once in
a while whenever my wife says you know you were right I was I always say will
you repeat that one more time well hold on a second he said one more time as
usually she doesn't you know oh yeah you were right so but there's nothing wrong
with telling your parents you were wrong and apologizing for something
something wrong with telling your brother or sister that you treated them
badly and that you wish that you would have done things differently you know
you can you can redeem relationships with simple humbleness and apologies
says honor thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise
that it may be well with thee and that thou mayest live long on the earth hey
kids you want to live long on the earth or do you want to have it cut short
because the choice really is up to you you can live a long life but hey respect
your parents maybe you don't agree with their decisions so you're not the boss
the parents are the boss mom and dad's the boss I don't care what the people at
school tell you you know if your parents spank you at home don't go to your
teacher and go who my parents spanked me my kids came home one time and said hey
you know you go to jail for that right I was like well where are you gonna live
get out pack your bags right now let's go I'm not I'm not joking I did do that
you know what they were they never said that to me again they might have thought
it they might have wished something in their hearts later on but they never
said that to me again because I was dead serious I was like get out you want to
sit there and threaten me in my own home where I paid all the bills here I pay
the rent it must have been tell the kids to rebel against your parents day at
school because it wasn't just one of them I think it was a couple of I'm not
sure which ones it was I always get the stories wrong Josh is always like it
wasn't me it was do whatever but it was a couple of them I'm not sure which ones
it was it's been it's about parts of blur but I do remember specifically when
it happened I remember where I lived when it happened and you know the thing
about parents have more experience is I did the same thing when I was a kid too
I said the same thing but I got a little dose of reality also and got told the
same thing so you know you know the teachers can say whatever they want but
they're not the ones I have to go home with you they're not the one your
teachers aren't the ones paying the bills the teachers aren't the ones
taking you the doctor when you're sick or taking care of you at night or buying
your clothes or buying your food or taking you to Disneyland or whatever
they're doing your parents sacrifice a lot for you and you know what the least
you could do is honor them like the Bible says if you name the name of
Christ depart from iniquity just to get yourself right you're not as smart as
you think you are you know what you're gonna you're gonna wake up later on go
man I wish I would have listened and a lot of people rebel and they leave home
you know a lot sometimes Christian kids they leave home and they do things that
they wish they hadn't done and at that point it's too late to fix the mistake
you made but you can still make it right so and the Bible says it'll be
well with you if you keep the commandments of your father and mother
just like Jacob kept the commandment of his father and mother and it went well
with him didn't it he lived to be along an old age he respected his parents even
though he just lied to Isaac but that's another situation so but he got the
blessing so I don't know I mean he it was wrong of him to do that you know it
was wrong to do that but like at least he listened in this instance so he did
it about face to didn't he he's like hey well now that I got the blessing haha no
I'm just kidding but he got the blessing he's obeying isn't he so I got first
Timothy chapter 4 verse 12 first Timothy chapter 4 verse 12 you want to keep a
finger in Genesis 28 because we're gonna come back there but it's good to obey
your parents or this is right kids you can be an example to your other brothers
and sisters and you're like well I don't really care about that well once you
start caring about something why don't you could start caring about something
beside yourself because a lot of times we you know kids can feel entitled to
mom and dad are just gonna take care of me they're gonna do whatever I you know
they're gonna buy me stuff because I'm their kid it's like you know that might
not be the case your parents might have to buck up on you you know and tell you
what's what and parents you should do that if your kids start treating you
like garbage you know what you do just spank them spank them take away their
privileges whatever you got to do but you got to correct them while there's
hope correct them while there's hope because you don't want to turn out to be
little monsters and you want them to turn out to be saved you know well guess
what if you just give them everything that they want and let them talk to you
any way they want and let them hit you or whatever you can't let that happen
you have to correct them and get it and get a handle on that while there's hope
amen first Timothy chapter 4 verse 12 says let no man despise thy youth but be
thou an example of the believers in word and conversation and charity in spirit
and faith and purity so the Bible you know obviously this is talking to a
young preacher the Apostle Paul but as a child don't let anybody despise your
youth you can still be an example of the believers just because you're young
doesn't mean that you mean nothing until you turn 18 that's not the truth the
truth is you know what you can be an example in your home you can be an
example even to your parents sometimes you know your parents can see the way
you're acting and say hey maybe I need to take a page out of my own kids book
and do what's right and get my heart right you can be an example of the
believers in word in conversation which which that means your lifestyle the way
you live your life in charity the way you love in spirit you know the the
spirit that you have in your in yourself the the spirit of Lord that dwells in
you in faith they can see people can see your faith you can be an example of
purity there's a lot of kids out there ruining their lives today in
fornication the world doesn't care about Christian beliefs you know the Chris the
Bible teaches you to be a virgin until you go to the wedding altar the Bible
teaches you that you should stay a virgin until you get married have your
first kiss at the wedding altar hold your first hand on the day that you get
married that's the what that's really should be the standard ever every
single person that's a young person that's not married in this room obviously
some people have messed up in here everybody you know has their own road
that they've walked but if you haven't made that mistake keep yourself pure you
can be an example to other people and say hey I want my first kiss to be at
the wedding altar I want my first hand I hold you know that's not your mom or dad
okay at the wedding altar I want you know to be a virgin when I get married I
think that's a good thing to be an example in the Bible says let no man
despise thy youth you know you can be a youth and have other people look up to
you even adults because God is not a respecter of persons God doesn't respect
me more because I'm older than you you know there's no fool like an old fool
right just because someone's older doesn't mean they're they're wiser they
can be wiser in some areas but I'm saying wise as far as the Bible goes and
what the Bible says and about morality now as a younger person or a sibling you
can be a great example to others in your family and as the older sibling be that
example to turn to Daniel chapter 1 verse 8 Daniel chapter 1 verse 8 there's
many examples in the Bible of younger people that inspired other people and
Daniel was one of those people that you know he was taken from his homeland he
was taken from Jerusalem and brought to another nation he was made a eunuch
which probably wasn't the best day of his life and he was taken into a castle
and taken under the tutelage of of people that he had to do what they said
he didn't have his mom and dad anymore it's just Nebuchadnezzar was his master
but even so Daniel still tried to keep the commandments of the Lord and do that
which is right look at Daniel 1 it says but Daniel purposed in his heart that he
would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat so whatever
that meat was it wasn't something Daniel was supposed to be eating nor with the
wine which he drank obviously that wine was a type of wine that he was not able
to drink probably alcoholic wine therefore he requested the prince of the
eunuchs that he might not defile himself and so God seemed that he didn't want to
defile himself like that and that he cared about the commandments of the Lord
you know he allowed Daniel to thrive in that in that setting Daniel ended up
becoming basically like the second in command of all of Babylon because he was
faithful because and as a youth he purposed in his heart that he wasn't
gonna do something that would defile him and then in the eyes of the Lord and
even Shadrach Meshach and Abednego stood up to the king and said I'm not gonna
bow down to your statue that was an example I mean could they have bowed down
and not really been worshiping that that idol they could have been but you're
still bowing down you're not you know they stood up while everybody else bow
down didn't they they were an example and even though they were threatened
with being thrown into a fiery furnace you know they still said you know
whatever happens happens but we're not we're not gonna bow down and so
Nebuchadnezzar got really angry what'd he do threw him in the fiery furnace but
they Nebuchadnezzar didn't realize that Jesus Christ was gonna be in the furnace
of fire helping them and protecting them and so as a youth you still can be an
example and you can be an inspiration to other people to follow even all these
years later these thousands of years later we read about Daniel Shadrach
Meshach and Abednego young young kids that stood up to tyranny they stood up
and said we're gonna do what's right in the eyes of God no matter what happens
to us so let's look at Jacob's dream let's go back to Genesis chapter 28
verse 10 Genesis chapter 28 verse 10 the Bible says and Jacob went out from
Beersheba and went toward Haran and he lighted upon a certain place and
tarried there all night because the sun was set and he took the stones of that
place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep so this
is a curious story here Jacob's just you know he's going and doing what his
parents told him to do he lights into a certain place now remember I preached
about the body of Christ and how that place is a certain place that you would
go to it's not just some universal church well I think that this this
picture here obviously is talking to it's a picture of the church it's a
picture of who we're supposed to rest our our salvation in and and it talks
about these stones the place of them for his pillows he lay in that place to
sleep so I think this is a picture of you resting upon Jesus Christ and his
works for your foundation for your salvation he rested on those stones
those stones represent Christ and because and I can prove that to you
here in just a couple verses but you know we we don't rest in our own works
we rest in the works of Christ and so you know ultimately you can't you can't
put a little bit of your percentage on the on the feathery pillow you got to
put it all on the rock you got to put everything a hundred percent of your
salvation is in your faith in Christ and rested in the finished works that he did
so do you think that those rocks were created on the on the first day do you
think when he created the heaven and the earth those rocks were created that day
probably look at Genesis chapter 2 verse 3 Genesis chapter 2 verse 3 because God
created the heaven and the earth didn't he and and how long did it take him to
finish created in heaven the earth six days what did he do he rested on the
seventh day didn't he look at Genesis chapter 2 verse 3 it says and God blessed
the seventh day and sanctified it because that in he had rested from all
his work so the whole creation was done in six days which God and it says which
God created and made so God finished created the whole heaven and the earth
in six days so these stones that he laid his head upon were already finished in
the first week of creation weren't they probably the first day of creation so
turn to Hebrews chapter 4 verse number 1 Hebrews chapter 4 verse number 1 it's
all the way in the New Testament Hebrews chapter 4 verse number 1 it says let us
here there are excuse me let us therefore fear lest a promise being left
us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it for unto
us was the gospel preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not
profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it so he's talking
about the people you know during the time of the Exodus these people that
were in the wilderness and you know that the gods it says the gospel is preached
unto them but it was not mixed with faith so a lot of those people didn't
believe but it says for we which have believed do enter into rest as he said
as I have sworn in my wrath if they shall enter into my rest although the
works were what finished from the foundation of the world see that so the
works were finished from the foundation of the world Jesus Christ was the lamb
slain from the foundation of the world you gotta understand God's outside of
time he knows the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning he knows
all things and he knew you know just as sure as he created the earth and the
heavens that one day he was gonna that Jesus Christ was gonna be the Lamb of
God that was slain for our sins and so it's as if it was already done just like
the Bible says we're seated in heavenly places so even though we're at the same
time seated in church right now we're also at some point and you know we live
inside of time God lives outside of time so somehow we're already seated in these
heavenly places because it's already done all the works are already done
from the foundation of the earth we were already God already looked down the
annals of time and saw that we were gonna believe in and accept Christ as
our Savior and so that means that we're gonna live on for all eternity that
means we already are seated in heavenly places so you know it says that God did
rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the earth look at
verse 4 it says for he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this
wise and God did rest the seventh day from all his works so it says and this
place again if they shall enter into my resting therefore remaineth that some
must enter therein and they to whom it was first preached entered not because
in it because of unbelief again he limited the certain day saying to David
today after so long a time as it is said today if you will hear my voice harden
not your hearts for if Jesus had given them rest they would then would he not
have afterward have spoken of another day there remaineth therefore a rest to
the people of God so we are going to rest but so and what I'm showing you all
this is because Jacob you know that picture of him laying those stones for
his pillows is a picture of him resting on the finished works of Christ on the
finished works that God had already done from the foundation of the earth says in
verse 10 for he that is entered into his rest he also has ceased from his own
works as God did from his so we have to understand this this is very important
that you know he entered if for he that is entered into his rest he had also
ceased from his own works the picture of the Sabbath the picture of the day of
rest you know when Jesus Christ died that was a high Sabbath day they were
supposed to be on they were not supposed to be doing any servile work for those
days that he was in the tomb you know what did he die at that particular time
for a reason yes he did so he could show that we don't do any works for our
salvation that Jesus did all the works for our salvation including going to
hell for three days and three nights and rising from the dead on the third
day and we have to put away from us anything that we think would get us into
heaven we have to completely rest in the works of Christ so just like God entered
just like God you know rested for you know after he did his works we also have
to cease from our own works as God did from his so Jesus died for the church
gave himself for us that we can rest in our own works and rest our hope in that
rock so this rock I mean it's just it's kind of a strange story if you're just
reading it you know it was like Jacob just comes to this place all sudden he's
you know using some stones for his pillows like I don't know if you ever
used rocks for pillows before but it's not exactly the most comfortable thing
in the world but when you're talking about Christ it is comfortable it's
comfortable because he did all the works for us and we rest on that rock
that foundation that chief cornerstone and then you know of course the prophets
and the Apostles are built upon that chief cornerstone because because a
chief a chief cornerstone you know is has a purpose doesn't it it's not you
know one building is not just one rock that was a chief cornerstone things get
built upon a cornerstone don't they it's a very important piece is the most
important piece of the whole building and then so you got the prophets and
the Apostles being built upon it and then us as lively stones being built
upon that and so this is the church that Jesus died for Jesus died for this
church for everybody in here and the church is not again some universal
church it's a body of believers in the local New Testament Church everybody in
this room today gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ this is
the church this is a church here in Vancouver there's multiple churches and
I'm not gonna re-preach my sermon from the from a couple weeks ago but you
should listen to that if you weren't here on that Thursday night and and get
an understanding of what this church believes about the local church Genesis
chapter 28 verse 12 says and he dreamed to behold a ladder set up on the earth
and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and
descending on it so Jacob's dreaming so just the fact that Jacob is having a
dream what does that make him he's having a dream of these things what does
that make him makes him a prophet he's dreaming of things in the future he's
dreaming and God is revealing things to him through dreams and the Bible says
that when someone God does that and those things come to pass that person's
a prophet it says and so he dreams of this ladder this ladder it's set upon
the earth and the top of it reaches the heaven and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending upon it they're going up they're going down now what is
this a picture of well this is a picture of Christ this ladder is Christ let me
prove it to you turn to John chapter 1 verse 51 keep your finger in Genesis 28
but look at John chapter 1 verse 51 this is specifically speaking about Christ
see the whole Bible is gonna be ultimately the whole subject encapsulated
is about Christ and you're gonna find things about Christ in Genesis Exodus
Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1st and 2nd Samuel 1st and
2nd Kings 1st and 2nd Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel
Esther Job Psalms whatever book of the Bible you want to talk about I could
probably do the whole thing but it's been a while but anyway I learned it
from a books of the Bible song we got to learn that song but anyway John 1 51
look the bot the old the New Testament is going to reveal what the Old Testament
means for us so when you see a New Testament passage reflecting its light
upon an Old Testament passage this is the interpretation of it John 1 51 says
and he saith unto him verily verily I say unto you hereafter you shall see
heaven open in the angels of God ascending and descending upon what the
Son of Man the only way to get to heaven is that ladder that was Jacob saw
in his dream and what did the latter represent the Son of Man Jesus Christ so
when Jacob's dreaming this dream the ladder set up upon the earth he's
dreaming about Jesus Christ that's the interpretation of it because the New
Testament tells us Jesus is telling us here he's it's he's specifically talking
about the ladder because he's talking about you'll see you shall see the
angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man in the Bible a great
book just helps us and reveals to us the secret things of God so Jesus is that
ladder that allows man to enter into heaven so I've ever seen those pictures
where there's a cross going over this like chasm this you know and it's like
the bridge is like this big cross that cross is Jesus I mean the way for us to
get to heaven the only way for us to get to heaven is through Jesus Christ
through that ladder through that bridge that leads to heaven and he is that
bridge he is that ladder turn to Exodus chapter 3 verse 14 now Jesus Christ is
God and he revealed himself as God in the Old Testament when he when he
appeared to Moses he appeared to him in a bush didn't he the Lord appeared to
him in a bush in a in a fire and the bush didn't burn you know we call it the
burning bush but it really wasn't burning because the fire didn't burn the
bush up but he revealed himself to Moses look what he said in verse 14 and God
said unto Moses I am that I am and he said thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel I am hath sent me on to you so from from Exodus you know
Jesus you know and Jesus Christ you know reveals to the Apostles and to he
reveals us to the Pharisees in John chapter 8 go ahead and turn to John
chapter 8 he talked about how Abraham was rejoicing to see his day you can't
mistake that Jesus Christ is saying that he is the I am but what it says in John
58 56 your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day and he saw it and was glad
whose day Christ day and and listen what the Jews say to him then said the Jews
unto him thou art not yet 50 years old and hast thou seen Abraham Jesus said
unto them verily verily I say unto you before Abraham was I am is that him
calling himself I am yes it is then they took up stones to cast at him but Jesus
hid himself and went out of the temple going through the midst of them and so
passed by why did they take up stones to cast at him because they're saying that
he blasphemed by calling himself God he said before Abraham was I am they're
specifically addressing that he's specifically addressing the fact they
said you're not even 50 years old you're saying that that Abraham you know you
know Abraham yeah because Jesus was before from before from everlasting
Jesus always has been and always will be and he said that he was I am in the book
of John he makes a lot of statements calling himself the I am look at John
chapter 10 verse 9 so John Jesus makes all these statements saying who he is
and I want to go through this because I feel like it's important for us to
understand who Jesus is always continuously claiming who he was he
makes these perfectly he makes these statements and it makes the Jews very
angry but he's he's telling them exactly who he is he's God manifest in the
flesh he is the Son of God look at verse number 9 in John chapter 10 it
says I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go
in and out and find pasture so what's Jesus saying he's the door you know that
same door that Judas kissed and went straight to hell he is that door he's
the only way to get in he this is what he's trying to say he's the he's he's it
he's the only way he's the ladder he's the only way for men to get up and down
between the earth and heaven and he's the only door that you can walk through
to get saved it says the thief cometh not but the
steel and to kill and to destroy I am come that they may have life and that
they might have it more abundantly then he says I am the Good Shepherd the Good
Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep so he's the door he's the Good Shepherd
turn to John chapter 14 verse number 6 John chapter 14 verse number 6 Jesus
said unto them I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the
Father but by me you know remember in the in the vision of the ladder God is
standing up on the top of the ladder isn't he and then you have the ladder
then you have the earth so God is at the top of that ladder the only way to get
to the Father is through the Son the Son is the ladder in the picture Jesus says
right here flat out I am the way there's only one way to get to heaven my friends
and that's through the Lord Jesus Christ and he is the truth that means he you
know the is the definite article th e the definite article he's the way he's
not a way he's not some way a lot of people we go to their door they're like
well I think that you could just I think that you know there's multiple ways you
know God just reveals himself as different persons you mean you believe
in God a oneness that's not the guy that I believe in there's only one God and he
only in Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven he's the Son of God he is God it
says I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me
John chapter 6 verse 35 John chapter 6 verse 35 the Bible says that Jesus said
unto him unto them excuse me I am the bread of life he that cometh to me shall
never hunger and he that believeth on me shall never thirst so he's the bread of
life he's also you know that living water he's the water that if you drink
it you'll have everlasting life bubbling up in your belly
John chapter 6 verse 51 says I am the living bread which came down from heaven
if any man eat of this bread he shall live for how long forever and the bread
that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world he's
that living bread that came down from heaven so the manna that appeared in the
wilderness represented the Lord Jesus Christ that manna came down from heaven
and every morning they went and picked it and made it up but then what happened
they ended up not wanting that man anymore right they wanted to go back and
have the leaks and the garlic and all that other stuff but Jesus Christ is
that living bread that came down from heaven look at John 11 25 there's
another I am statement John chapter 11 verse 25 Jesus said unto her unto her I
am the resurrection and the life he that believeth me though he were dead
yet shall he live he is the resurrection who's the firstborn from the dead the
firstborn of creation it's the Lord Jesus Christ he's the first one to have
a glorified body and he was risen from the dead he's the only one right now
that has a glorified body to this day now there's gonna be coming day when he
comes and he's and he's gonna speak in the dead or in Christ are gonna rise and
they that are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air
so shall they ever be with the Lord now turn to John chapter 8 verse 12 John
chapter 8 verse 12 so he's the resurrection he's the Good Shepherd he's
the way he's the truth he's alive he's the bread of life he's the door and also
he's the light of the world look what it says in John chapter 8 verse 12 it says
then spake Jesus again unto them saying I am the light of the world he that
followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life now in
heaven there's not gonna be any need for the Sun because the Lord is the light of
that place I remember when in creation and God said let there be light who's
that light you know that's the Word of God speaking he's saying I am that light
it wasn't the Sun the Sun was made on day four so there was a light that
existed before the Sun that light is Christ John chapter 15 verse number one
John chapter 15 verse number one this is my last one of the I am statements in
John John chapter 15 verse number one the Bible says I am the true vine and my
father is the husband then so these things you can all just put these in
places along with that ladder right Jesus Christ is that ladder the only way
to heaven Jesus Christ is the only way he's the only truth he's the only life
he's the bread of life he's that water that living water he's that resurrection
he's that lie to the world everything revolves around Christ for us the only
way you're gonna get to heaven is through Christ alone and nothing else
and this is what Jacob was dreaming about look at Genesis chapter 28 verse
13 Genesis chapter 28 verse 13 it says and behold the Lord stood above it and
said I am the Lord God of Abraham my father and the God of Isaac and the land
whereon thou liest to thee will I give it and to thy seed so of course again
the seed is talking about is Christ Christ is going to come from this line
of people and he's saying I'm the Lord your God of Abraham see it says and
behold the Lord stood above it what do you stand above the ladder okay and look
at verse 14 it says and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou
shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the
south and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed
so this is the blessing of Abraham this is what he's talking about he's like I'm
gonna bless your family and I see which is Christ is going to be he's gonna it's
gonna be as the dust of the earth there's many multitudes of saved people
because of the Lord Jesus Christ so it's gonna spread from the West to the East
you know we're in the West they call us the this is the Western world you have
the East you have the North I mean there's people all over this this is
what you'd call the four corners of the earth right the north or the west the
east the north the south and these shall all the families of the earth be blessed
and see anybody that's saved is part of that family anybody that's in Christ is
blessed with faithful Abraham anybody that's in Christ is blessed with all the
other families of the earth that believe so it's not just being a Jew it's not
just being a son of Abraham it's being a son of Christ thy seed is the seed is
Christ look at Genesis chapter 28 verse 15 it says behold I'm with thee and will
keep thee in all places whether thou goest and will bring thee again into the
land for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to
the of and Jacob awake that of his sleep and he said surely the Lord is in this
place and I knew it not so Jacob you know he realizes God was in this place
what's that place that he was at well look at verse 17 it says and he was
afraid and said how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house
of God and this is the gate of heaven and so he's saying he's water in the
house of God he's at the gate of heaven now here's where the New Testament is
going to shine light on this scripture turn it first just keep your finger here
turn to 1st Timothy chapter 3 verse 15 1st Timothy chapter 3 verse 15 it says
in 1st Timothy chapter 3 verse 15 it says but if I tarry long that thou mayest
know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in what the house of God which is the
church of the living God the pillar and ground of the truth so this New
Testament scriptures putting light on this scripture that we're reading in
Genesis chapter 28 verse 17 Jacob saying this is the house of God this is the
gate of heaven you know what the New Testament local New Testament Church is
the house of God today and it's also the pillar and ground of the truth the same
pillows that Jacob put his head upon spiritually we put our head on the pillow
of the Lord Jesus Christ the stones of the pillow and we are you know this is
where the truth is launched out of this place the truth the truth of the Bible
salvation this is the gate of heaven this building right here is the gate of
heaven why because our people are going out almost every single day and trying
to preach that truth into people's hearts and this is the ground and put
the pillar and ground of the truth just like Jesus Christ is the truth he is the
life he's the way he's what we put our rest upon and you know it's in a
specific notice how it says the Lord is in this place you know what the Lord is
in this place right now his spirit is walking amongst us the Lord Jesus Christ
is amongst us even right now and this is the house of God it's not you know you
know this is a picture in Genesis chapter 28 of the local New Testament
Church in the New Testament how do I know that well cuz first Timothy 3 15
sheds that light on us so it's the pillar this place is the pillar and
ground you're like well you know it doesn't seem like anything special but
it is because it's the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ you know and we're a
bunch of imperfect people that come here and we meet to hear the God's Word
preached and to go out and preach the gospel like he told us to do and so this
is the pillar and ground this is where the truth is gonna come out this is
where the truth should come out but you got a lot of churches around here that
aren't preaching the truth there they say that they're the pillar and ground
of the truth but they're really not because they're not even preaching the
truth at all this place over here with a woman's a preacher over here do you
think you're getting the truth over there no do you think at this Russian
Church on the corner over here they're getting the truth every week they're not
you know the they're using our parking lot and and and walking over there their
place is more filled than our place is but you know what this place is getting
more truth than that place is getting they don't even have salvation right
over there they're like well how do you know that because I know cuz they're
Russian I'm just kidding but because look they don't believe the truth now
there's a lot of places that say they're the pillar and ground the truth but they
really aren't it has to qualify as a place of as a true New Testament Church
in order for it to be one it has to proclaim the truth this place is the
pillar and ground of the truth and don't you forget it and don't take it for
granted because there's not a lot of places that are like this place just
like Jacob he he was there he's like I didn't even know it this this is the
house of God I didn't even know well you're in the house of God and you do
know don't take it for granted look at verse number 18 it back in our
text it says and Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone they had
put for his pillows and he set it up for a pillar see we have the pillar here and
what he do he poured oil upon the top of it what does that represent that
represents the pouring of the Holy Spirit so Jesus Christ is that stone and
he was filled with the Spirit without measure he poured and so he poured this
oil upon the top of it this is a picture of the Holy Spirit being poor poured
upon the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit was poured out to the to the
believers at Pentecost to write the power of the Holy Spirit was given upon
the church look if you're in the pillar and ground of the truth you're at this
church today the Holy Spirit has poured his spirit upon us too and we should
take advantage of that fact don't forget that we have the God of heaven and earth
on our side at this church and he will go and do great mighty works and he'll
vanquish our enemies they can do they can breathe fire on us they can do all
this other stuff they can come against us they can protest against us they can
malign our names and drag us through the mud but you know what God is on our
side that's the difference between them and us and so it says and he called the
name of the place of Bethel but the name of the city was called Luz at the first
so what does Bethel mean it means the house of God
Beth is house El is God Beth El I didn't even have to go back to the Hebrew for
that just that's what it means but the name of that city was called Luz at the
first and Jacob vowed a vow saying of if God will be with me and will keep me in
the way that I go and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on so
that I come again to my father's house of peace then shall the Lord be my God
so here's Jacob here proclaiming that the Lord is his God here and I think
this is a good picture of the fact that Jacobs alone here isn't he he's all by
himself you know what he has this dream that this ladder is on the earth and the
angels of God ascending and descending upon it he realizes hey I'm in the house
of God I'm in a special place and he pours he lays it before that he lays his
head on a pillow and rests upon this this stone which represents Christ of
course being the rock he vows a vow that he you know God's gonna be his God and
so just like Jacob making this decision by himself we have to make a decision by
ourselves salvation is a decision that you have to make on your own salvation
isn't your mommy and daddy making sure you know saying hey my kids saved no no
no you children have to make a decision yourself of whether you're gonna put
your faith in Jesus Christ or not and you can pretend all you want but
ultimately there's gonna come a day when you know that you you either know you're
saved or you know or you don't know and if you don't think if you don't know
you're saved you better make sure you know and your parents are there to help
you but you know don't just pretend that you're saved just so you can please
your parents you know we should please our parents but hey you know what's
gonna please your parents more than you pretending to be saved is that you
actually are saved because you can say all the prayers you want you can
whatever but if you're not really if you don't truly believe in your heart then
you're not saved period and I'm not trying to do some altar call type sermon
here I'm just saying that like a lot of people a lot of kids want to please
their parents and a lot of siblings want to please their parents and they
want they want to you know hey I want to be in the club too I don't want to feel
like a freak on the outside or whatever but hey don't don't just sin away you
know and just sit there and pretend like you're saved when you're really not just
get saved that's gonna make your parents more happy than anything if you don't
understand ask them to help you anybody in this church pretty much can help you
understand how to be saved so but Jacob had to make this decision on his own
didn't he I think it's a perfect picture of that you know at some point
you have to make the decision in your heart whether you're gonna be saved or
not and so Jacob had to make a decision to make the Lord his personal Savior and
Ruth had to do the same thing you know she's married into this family and you
know they're they believe in the Lord God and Ruth is a Moabitess and she's
got her own gods that she was raised with but at some point she was like hey
I want I want my God to be the Lord in Ruth 1 16 she said it says and Ruth said
and treat me not to leave thee or to return from falling after thee for
whether thou goest I will go where thou lodest I will lodge thy people shall be
my people and thy God my God see she made a personal decision to have the
Lord be her God also and every single person on the face of the planet has to
do that you're not just saved because you come to this church you have to make
that personal decision so Genesis chapter 28 verse 22 says and the stone
which I have set for a pillar shall be God's house and of all that thou shalt
give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee and this is the one that
people this is a verse where people say well you know that's a scribal error I
don't have to go those just put there for the church to control people so
they'll give them their money that's stupid folks tithing has been around
before the law tithing has always been around and God just wants you to trust
him with 10% of what you make you know what God's gonna bless you for it he
said I'm not gonna go on to a whole sermon about it cuz it's 5 o'clock and I
gotta end but you know he realized he's at God's house and what's he said I'm
gonna give a tenth of what whatever you give me I'm gonna give it back to you
and look at how Jacob was blessed after this what we'll see in the in the coming
chapters just how much God blessed him and just think back to this verse and
say you know he really put God to the test God tells us to put him to the test
and says hey you know prove me down here with saith the Lord whether he's gonna
open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing so and once you give
that money you're giving it to the Lord that's something that God told you do
it and look where he does it he does it at church doesn't he you know and
obviously he's not in the traditional church there's not a pastor there but
this is a spiritual picture for us to get that this stone which he set for a
pillar shall be God's house and he's gonna give the tenth or he's supposed to
give the tithe in the Lord's house or they give it the Old Testament in the
Lord's house you know and obviously things were a little bit different back
then they brought all their cumin and their anise and you know they brought
all the vegetables and stuff like that if that's something you want to do you
know I'll take your pickled peppers okay but hey they're good but you know
obviously things have changed a little bit you know there's no Levitical
priesthood anymore and things like that so things have changed but you know
giving the tithe has not changed the Bible still talks about in the New
Testament just like it talked about in Genesis you know Isaac said the same
thing Abraham said the same thing you know so the Bible is very clear and
consistent throughout so if it was already being done in the Old Testament
before the law then why would you think it's just like disappeared now it's not
and some people try to do that because they're just cheap they're just
cheapskates don't be a cheapskate with God the Bible says if you don't if you
hold back the tithe then you're robbing God you're not robbing me you're robbing
God so don't rob God you know that should scare you because when you're
when you're robbing God it's like you know robbery is like when you hold
somebody up right like if you like the definition of robbery in America it's
not just stealing something from somebody it's like it's a stick up
taking all your money and robbery is a more it's a bigger offense than just
stealing something you just you know someone drops her wallet and you take it
that's not robbing them that's just I mean I guess it is but it's not armed
robbery funny way Genesis chapter 28 you know great great spiritual messages
in this chapter and as we will see in the coming weeks how much Jacob is
blessed because you know he just puts it right here he makes a decision I'm gonna
follow God I'm gonna you know I acknowledge his house I'm gonna tithe
I'm gonna make you my God if you take care of me Lord then I want you to be my
God and so God's always gonna take care of us amen you might not give us the
Lamborghini or whatever else that you're asking for but he's gonna make
sure you're taking care of he's gonna make sure you have food and raiment you
know and everything after that's a cherry on top amen let's pray Lord Lord
we thank you so much just for your many blessings Lord we thank you for the
spiritual lessons in Genesis chapter 28 pray Lord you just bless our church
continue to bless it Lord as you have throughout these years and let's pray
you'd help us to trust you Lord help us to pray for each other this week in all
of our afflictions and Lord pray that you'd help us to get as many people save
as we can this week in Jesus name we pray amen
all right our last song song number 184 I love thee my Jesus
Jesus song number 184 I love thee my Jesus
song 184 let's sing it out in the first what words can I find to tell Jesus I
love him because he first loved me because of my ransom he paid with such
suffering upon the cursed tree in the morning at the noontime and when come
evening shadows I love thee my Jesus I love thee my king in rejoicing and in
sorrow today and tomorrow I love thee my Savior and Lord oh come let us magnify
Jesus together for praise be cometh thee and blessings about me I owe to my
Savior who all things bought for me in the morning at the noontime and when
come evening shadows I love thee my Jesus I love thee my king in rejoicing
and in sorrow today and tomorrow I love thee my Savior and Lord may never my
praises be slow or be silent nor air my love grow dumb this center is saved and
my sins all forgiven the Savior's work is done in the morning at the noontime
and when come evening shadows I love thee my Jesus I love thee my king in
rejoicing and in sorrow today and tomorrow I love thee my Savior and Lord
oh how can I love the enough dear Redeemer how air repay my friend I'll
spread the glad sound of my praise and my heart love on every joyful win in the
morning at the noontime and when come evening shadows I love thee my Jesus I
love thee my king in rejoicing and in sorrow today and tomorrow I love thee
my Savior and Lord amen good scene brother Ramon gives you closer what a
prayer