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Alright, you had one?
Oh Josh, okay, yeah, okay.
And then CJ got one, right?
We had three salvations today so that zero can go away.
We have three salvations, so praise God for that.
And I got a guy named Christian saved.
He was a Catholic Christian.
Hahaha.
When I got to his door he was wearing a punisher, like a big skull.
You know, he had like a, I don't know, like some kind of a face.
Did he have like a, was it an earring that was weird?
I don't know, anyway.
He was cool though, he got saved.
So, praise God for that.
His name was Chris, at first he said my name is actually Christian.
I was like, that was said well.
So, but anyway, it was great to get him saved.
Then I think, I think brother CJ got Jesus saved today.
So, Jesus became a son of God.
So, that's great.
And so, it's great.
Great day of soul winning.
It was a nice day out there.
So, lots of people, a buzz and all that.
So, it was a good time.
Alright, so let's move over to the upcoming events.
And just wanted to announce once again, we had 80 salvations in Detroit at the soul winning trip.
So, praise the Lord for that.
And five baptisms.
We just want to thank everybody for going.
And all the t-shirts and all the hard work that went into, you know,
the soul winning and all that.
Apparently it was easy work at the soul winning.
You didn't have to walk around too much, I don't think.
As people were just jumping in the boat, apparently.
It was a very receptive area.
So, that's great.
And I'm guessing that we want to go back there again sometime.
Brother Chum was like, when's next Saturday?
Next Saturday we go back.
Alright.
Anyway, the next things we have coming up are the ladies' tea.
Now, I was instructed to let people know that there's a couple competitions at the ladies.
Is it competitions?
It's prizes.
Okay, I'm not saying it right.
She's going to correct me.
So, prizes for the best dressed.
Is that what it is?
Best dressed.
I don't know.
Yeah, right?
So, for adult ladies, there's a prize.
There's two prizes.
I'm going to lip read for a second.
And then for the teenagers, there's two prizes.
And for the younger girls, is that 12 and under?
There will be prizes also.
So, it's a friendly competition.
It's nothing to get too crazy about.
No haters.
I don't know how women can be haters.
No, I'm just joking.
It's supposed to be a good time.
So, let's just keep it that way.
And it's going to be a good time.
So, it will be at 10 o'clock here at the church building.
There will be food and refreshments
and all that good stuff.
And hopefully you all have a great time.
And then that's where all ladies
are able to go to that.
And then May 8th, we have the Mother's Day
services here.
We'll preach a sermon for mothers.
And then we'll have an afternoon meal.
And you still can get in your...
I heard Indian food was shot down in flames.
So, I guess we'll have to wait for Father's Day
for that or something? I don't know.
But anyway, we'll figure something out good.
Something will be good.
A little Caesar's Pizza.
I know that always hits home, right?
Just kidding.
Okay, moving on.
So, we'll have some meal provided
for afterwards. Anyway, and then
the 17th, we have a field trip.
Now, it says please give final
numbers by May 7th, but you actually have
till Friday the 13th. That's what
Rachel said.
Friday the 13th is your last day
to declare whether you're going
or not, and then we have to purchase the tickets.
So, if you're not 100% sure,
just wait until the 13th
and you can just give Mr. Rachel
your final numbers so we can purchase
all the tickets. And hopefully
you all have a good time there. It's on a Tuesday
at 9.30 in the morning.
And then the 27th of May,
the very end of the month, is our
Sewing Marathon in Bellingham, Washington.
Brother Robert is leading that, and
that'll be an all-day
sewing marathon. If you can only go
to one part of it, that's fine. If you can only
come to the second half, that's fine.
Just let Brother Robert know
when you're planning on coming.
And if you're planning on
coming, we kind of need to get a count for that
as the month
moves on here, but then
we have the next day after that, we're going to have
a preaching services
with our church family in
Canada, and they're going to come to the border
and we're all going to fellowship together
and hang out, and there'll be some
preaching. And so if you're
coming to that, we'd like to have some musicians
come to that last time we did, so
it was nice. But the music
was kind of different because Miss
Queenie does things in a different
key.
I thought the key was right away. Anyway,
she does things in a different key, so it kind of
makes it difficult for the other people to
follow, but maybe we can get
the music converted in time this time.
I think Brother Matt's coming with his trumpet.
He said this time he'll bring his trumpet, so
I said bring your trumpet.
I said bring your trumpet, and he doesn't bring it, so
see how people are.
Anyway, he's coming, and so
it's going to be a great time. Anyway,
the church camp's coming up June
1st through 4th, and then all the other
stuff is kind of a distance off, so I'll just skip past
that. But the
church camp,
I was told to say this also,
that if you sign up for the kitchen
duty, they do have the sprayers
and the nice industrial dishwasher,
so it's not like you're just scrubbing pots
and pans, so
if you want to volunteer to do stuff, we'd really
appreciate anybody who would help
do the cleanup crew, or
the serving crew for
dinner, and lunch, and
breakfast. So we do lunch, dinner, and breakfast,
not the first day. First day, I think it's
just dinner, and the last day
it's just breakfast. But there's
usually a lot of leftover food, so you can always
take that home with you. But we definitely
will make a schedule, and we'll get people signed
up for that here in the next
week or two. So,
anyhow, if we're a family-integrated
church, that means the children and infants are welcome during the church services.
Please take them promptly to the mother-baby room
or dad-baby room. If they
need any services
they need changed, or if
they're just crying too loud, please take them
to the mother-baby room, and then bring them back out
when they're done
crying, and please
utilize those for your convenience.
We do have comfortable
seating, and also monitors
and speakers so you can still
hear the sermons in those rooms.
And please, no men allowed in those
mother-baby rooms during the services,
and vice versa.
The rockers are for pregnant and nursing mothers
and elders only. Please
no food in the assembly area, and silence
your cell phones if you would at this time, please.
Escorts are available
to people by the ushers.
They're the men that have the
usher badge on their, pen on their
coat. Online
donations are available at our website,
and, let's see,
birthdays was Crystal's birthday
is the fourth, we'll have to sing to her when she comes
back, she's sick.
So I think the Porter family is sick,
so please pray for them, and also
special prayer for Zoe Lambert.
She's actually in the hospital right
now, and she's been
really sick, and she's been thrown up all night, and
they're very worried about her, so
if you'd pray for her, they would
very much appreciate it.
And also for Kylie,
she got the news after church that her
father just passed away.
So he died in a car accident,
and so,
please pray for Miss Kylie.
It's not Adam, it's
her biological father.
So,
but still, nonetheless, she's very upset.
So, please pray for her,
and
that's all I got for announcements.
On the side,
oh yeah, if you're a first time
visitor,
we appreciate you being here, and we do have a
bag that we like to give out, it's a gift bag,
it has some items in there.
Please take one of these on your way out,
as our appreciation for being a first time
visitor, the bags are over on the
table as you walk out the door
there, we just want to thank you for being,
visiting our church,
and we appreciate you coming, and please
take that as a token of our appreciation for you being a first
time visitor.
That being said, let's sing another song and we'll
receive the offering.
Sing it out loud, on the first.
Sing it out loud.
Oh,
Sing it out loud.
Into theway.
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employ us to take care of you.
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All right go ahead and turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 46
Genesis 46 we don't have a Bible raise your hand one of the ushers will bring you on Genesis 46
You
Genesis 46 the Bible reads and Israel took his journey with all that he had then came to Beersheba
And offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night and said Jacob
Jacob and he said here am I
He said I am God the God of thy father
Fear not to go down into Egypt for I will there make of thee a great nation
I will go down with thee into Egypt
and I will also surely bring thee up again and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes and
Jacob rose up from Beersheba and the sons of Israel
Carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives and the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him
And
They took their cattle and their goods
Which they had gotten in the land of Canaan and came into Egypt Jacob and all his seed with him
his sons and his son's sons with him his daughters and his son's daughters and all his seed brought he with him into
Egypt and these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt Jacob and his sons
Ruben Jacob's firstborn and the sons of Ruben
Hanuk and Phalu and
Hezron and Camry or Carmi and the sons of Simeon
Jemuel and Jamun and Ohad and Jacob and Zohar and Shaul the son of a
Canaanitish woman and the sons of Levi Gershon co-ath and Marari and
the sons of Judah
Ur and Onan and Sheila and Pherez and Zerah
But Ur and Onan died in the land of Canaan and the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamu
and the sons of Isaacar Tawla and Puva and Job and
Shimron and the sons of Zebulun
Sarod and Elon and Jaleel
These be the sons of Leah which she bare unto Jacob and Padanaram
With his daughter Dinah all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three
and the sons of Gad, Xiphion and Haggai, Shuni and Ezbond, Eire,
Harodi and Ariel and
the sons of Asher, Jimna and Usha and Isua and
Beria and Sarah their sister and the sons of Beriah, Heber and
Malkiel these are the sons of Zilpah whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter and these she bare unto Jacob even sixteen souls
The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife Joseph and Benjamin and under Joseph in the land of Egypt were born
Manasseh and Ephraim which
Asnath the daughter of Potipharah a priest of On bare unto him and the sons of Benjamin were
Bilah and Becker and Ashebel, Gura and
Naaman
Ehi and Rosh, Mupim and Hupim and Ard
These are the sons of Rachel which were born unto Jacob all the souls were fourteen and the sons of Dan
Hushim and the sons of Naphtali
Jeziel and Guni and Jezer and Shilam
These are the sons of Bilhah which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter and she bare these unto Jacob all the souls were seven
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt which came out of his loins besides Jacob's sons wives
all the souls were threescore and six and
The sons of Joseph which were born in him in Egypt were two souls and the souls of the house of Jacob which came into
Egypt were threescore and ten and he sent Judah before him unto Joseph to direct his face unto Goshen
And they came into land of Goshen and Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen
and presented himself unto him and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while and
Israel said unto Joseph now
let me die since I have seen thy face because thou art yet alive and
Joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house
I will go up and show Pharaoh and say unto him my brethren and my father's house
which were in the land of Canaan are come unto me and
the men are shepherds for their trade has been to feed cattle and
They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have
And it shall come to pass when Pharaoh shall call you and shall say what is your occupation then?
That you shall say thy servants trade at men about cattle from our youth even until now both we and
Also our fathers that you may dwell in the land of Goshen for every shepherd is an abomination under the Egyptians brother bill
We pray for us
And
Then we're back in Genesis and so we're in chapter number 46
We're drawing nigh to the end of our studies in the book of Genesis, but it's been a great study
I've had a great time preaching out of this
book so
God's really showed me a lot of interesting things and things that I never saw before
So remember last chapter Joseph revealed himself to his brothers after he kind of toyed with them a little bit
you know they did sell him into slavery and
they hated his guts for the visions that he saw and for the things that he told his parents and
he was always tattling on them and telling all the bad stuff that they were doing and
So they hated him and they hated the dreams that he dreamed
He dreamed that they would all make obeisance to him and bow down to him
and all those things came to pass and basically Joseph went from rags to riches and
became the most powerful man in all of Egypt besides Pharaoh himself and
So he they're kind of at his mercy now remember the
Simeon had been captured basically and
Jacob said he wasn't gonna send Benjamin
They said you know because Joseph told him if they don't send Benjamin back with them then don't don't bother coming back and so Jacob finally
Relents and allows them to go back after Judah said that he would bear the blame
Forever and so that's kind of where we're at now
they sat down together kind of and where Joseph was at his own separate table and the
Egyptians were at their own separate table and the children of Israel at their own separate table. They all ate and then
then they
Joseph sent them out and he sent his silver cup with Benjamin's it was in Benjamin's bag
They spoke foolishly and said that they would you know whoever opens the bag, and it's in there. He should die
and of course it was in Benjamin's bag, but
Joseph was just trying to
See what they're made of basically
He was just trying to see how they would react and maybe if they've changed their ways a little bit
and I think that they have and
Whereas you know Judah sold him and wanted to make a profit off of him now
He's willing to bear the blame forever, and so I think he saw some change in them, and he loves his brothers
He loved Benjamin. He loved the rest of his brothers in the last chapter. We saw how that was a picture
also of
You know when Joseph revealed himself they had thought that he'd possibly was dead Jacob definitely thought he was dead
So it pictures the resurrection in a way that they thought Jesus was dead
And then he appears to them in front of the twelve kind of went through that on Easter Sunday
we looked at that and now he has sent his brothers back to go get Jacob because Jacob is still alive and
you know they had to read the
reunion where they they hugged it out and everything was all good right and
Sometimes that has to happen with brothers brothers fight sometimes and family members fight
So obviously this this fight went pretty deep this fight was
Was had some pretty weird aspects to it and some pretty hard things to forgive but Joseph
He pictured Christ also and that he was very forgiving
He forgave all of his brothers for all the things that they did and a lot of families in this world
Even Christian families probably would not forgive the things that were done unto Joseph where he went to prison
He was falsely accused and all that stuff, so let's look at verse number one
So it says and Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered
Sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac now the last time we saw Jacob
Actually make a sacrifice on the God was in chapter 35. It was before Joseph was even it was barely after
you know was when he was in Bethel actually and
they were supposed to give up all the their earrings and all the false gods and
so Jacob made that was the last time he made in in
recorded in Genesis was
Eleven chapters ago
But here in verse number two it says and God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night and said Jacob
Jacob and he said here am I and
So you have the visions in the night and we know that when God's
Shows somebody visions in the night that person's a prophet of God so Jacob was obviously a prophet
he was one of the patriarchs and
He's there to serve he says here am I and remember Jacob spirit revived when he finally realized
when he saw the when he saw the
Things that they had sent down to carry the children of Israel back into your into Egypt
That his spirit revived within him, and so you know when you have revival
You know you're gonna be closer to God and so you see this
Picture of Jacob getting back close to God whereas he was kind of pretty in a depressed state of mind thinking
You know he's lost Rachel. He's lost his son
You know he's now he's lost Simeon and then now he
Realizes that Joseph is alive so and it says
Verse three and he said I am the I am God the God of thy father fear not to go down into Egypt
Where I will make the I will there make of thee a great nation
This is something that was promised to Abraham
so something was promised to Isaac and now that promise is going to Israel Jacob and
And
He's saying hey, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna make of thee in Egypt a great nation
I will go down with thee into Egypt, and I'll also surely bring thee up again and
Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes
but God's making him some great promises here and
Reiterating the promises that he's already made to him, and he says
It's very specific. I will go down with thee now
You've heard me preaching about this lately the fact that Egypt represents the world okay in the scriptures
It always seems to represent the unsaved world
For the most part and so God's saying I'm gonna go with thee into Egypt which if that represents the world
He says I will surely bring thee up again, and obviously he's making this promise to Joseph or to Jacob and
Jacob you know did not want to be buried in Egypt later on we'll see that it makes Joseph promise not to bury him there
Permanently and it says and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes
And this made me picture the father sending the son in the world of course
We've seen this picture before in the book of Genesis
But also the resurrection after his death, so he says I'll bring thee up again
And we know that the father was in Jesus Christ when he was on this world
And we also know that the Spirit was upon Jesus Christ and filled him to the
Upmost if we turn to John chapter 829. There's a great verse of scripture. We were already we're in this chapter today
Let's look at John 8 29
says
In John 8 29 just keep your hand in Genesis or a ribbon or something in Genesis chapter 46. We'll go back there
John chapter 8 verse 29 says and he that sent me is with me
This is Jesus talking of course the father hath not left me alone, or I do always those things
that please him so
John in the book of John it says that Jesus is saying that God is with him
The father is with him and has not left him alone
Just like you know God told Jacob that he was going to go down with him into Egypt
So God the father sent Jesus Christ the son into the world to be the Savior of the world
But his father was with him and it actually says his father was doing the works his father
Was speaking through him his father was speaking to him and
Telling him what to do and he was speaking those things which the father wanted him to speak
Look at John 14 chapter number 10 John 14 chapter number or chapter 14 verse number 10 excuse me
John chapter 14 verse number 10 the Bible says
Believest thou not that I am in the father and the father in me the words that I speak unto you I
Speak not of myself, but the father that dwelleth in me
He doeth the works so of course I
Definitely believe that this is a picture of God saying he's gonna go down and and be with the son
Jacob is obviously one of his sons
as far as
Being a believer in him and of course there's only one only begotten Son of God
That's the Lord Jesus Christ and God was with him. God was with him when he came into the world
He came to his own his own received him not
And so on and so forth now
To go ahead and turn back to Genesis chapter 46
so now in these verses coming up, it's
it's gonna chronicle the exact amount of children of
Israel the whole group that went into Egypt now genealogies were important before the New Testament because of
Christ and also, you know, it helps us to understand who is who in the Bible if it just rambled off
Names all of a sudden like and Amalek did this. It's like well who's Amalek?
Well, if you if you read the Bible, it's gonna tell you where Amalek came from
It's gonna tell you where all these different nations came from who started these nations and so on so forth
So it's important to get genealogies like it gives us the whole genealogy of Edom
It gives us the whole genealogy of several different nations
But a lot of it just pertains to how it how they interact
With biblical, you know with the biblical stories
Because you know
It's not really important to know the whole genealogy of China when they have no interaction with children of Israel at all
So, I mean we know that people obviously beget people in China
But it's not important to the story of the Bible is what I'm trying to say. So the
Genealogies were important when it came to who is the line of Christ?
Because if it didn't explain, you know, it says the seed of a woman would one day, you know wound the super wound the serpent and
you know, so God is very careful to chronicle chronicle who the Messiah came from and
Then so, of course we have the children of Israel being talked about here and they're different children that they had
What wife they had them with it even
chronicles Joseph and his wife that he married and the two children that he had and
It makes a real strong point to tell us that you know
It's 70 people that went down into Egypt
But that so you got to think that Onan and his brother that were wicked that were killed in Canaan before that makes 68
right, but then
the two children that Joseph has
Equals back that 70
So when it's talking about the three score and ten it's talking about how many of the children of Israel were in
Egypt that made up that set that first 70 and I'll get into that here in just a little bit
but it is
Important the genealogies for whatever reason, you know, it's in the Bible. So if it's in the Bible it is important
So don't just skip over the genealogies and sell all the genealogies are boring and you know learn something
Cross-reference the names, you know, they got really powerful search engines for the Bible these days
And sometimes you can get on to something when you're you know
Have you ever like just been reading the Bible and something just sticks out at you for one reason or another?
And then you're like well, I'm gonna do a study on this
Well, the Bible says to study to show thyself approved unto God
So we should study the Bible now
You also should read the Bible cover to cover
But you also should study the Bible so that you know what it's talking about
So if you just skim over the genealogies and go in and so and so get be it so and so and
Muppet began muffin and you know, whatever there's some weird names in here, but
but
Anyway, if you're looking for names for babies, you can always go through the Bible and find some interesting ones
hogla tears, uh, and all them but anyway
So the genealogies are important. It's gonna it's gonna come in here and just tell us who all was begotten of who?
and
It's important because it's history. It is actual history
So these nations actually existed they dig up their bones
They dig up the art of the archaeological finds all over the world these different nations
They'll even say well like in history. They've said well this we don't even think this this place existed
I think err is a place that they said well
We can't find the the remains of err
But then they found him and like I think the night the early 1900s or maybe the late
1800s and they dug it all up and sure enough there was a place really called err
of the Chaldees where Abraham was from but
Also, you know all these nations that God has destroyed from off the face of the earth
They're chronicled in the Bible
You wouldn't even know who they were unless God had told you who they were like who are the Philistines of today?
Well, God wiped them out. God wiped out the Edomites pretty much. There's probably a remnant around the world somewhere
But you know
He basically there's some nations that God just took out the
Amalekites is a one is one of the ones that he took out completely and you know, God just had you know
something stuck in his craw concerning the Amalekites and remember when
Saul was told to kill all the Amalekites men women and children
Everything that breathed including all the animals. He didn't do that
but eventually they did get taken out whether Saul was gonna do it or whether David was gonna do it it was gonna get
done and
so but it's important for us to know because
In this world today people will say well the Bible isn't true, but if you really study
Archaeology and things like that, you know that those places existed the Canaanites existed
It's a fact. It's a fact of history and the Bible and history are an alignment
so
When you know and if they haven't discovered something that the Bible actually says it's true. Just take it to the bank that it's true
Yeah, we don't know, you know the Apostle Paul talking about the snakes the snake that bit him and the island of Malta or whatever
Melidia is what it's called in the Bible in that in that passage
You know, it's talking about this poisonous snake
well people will say the Bible is not true because the Apostle Paul on that island snakes have never existed and
So well, so what does that mean does that mean that science is right and the Bible is wrong
How about maybe that's not the right island? Did you ever think of that?
Because there is another island named after the same name that's in the Aegean Sea
That's up past where Malta is a lot of people say that Malta is where Paul landed
But maybe it was the other island that actually did have snakes on it and they had to bring
Mongoose in to try to kill all these snakes and they they actually killed every snake
Living on the island and how they don't have any more snakes
But anyway, there's two different islands named the same thing
But if you study where Paul was sailing, he was in that sea. He wasn't at that part of the sea yet
So my personal belief is that Paul did not land on Malta the one that's traditionally known as Malta
He landed on a different island because and even if he did land on Malta and he got bit by a snake
Maybe that snake just was carried over from some other place, but I'll tell you what the Apostle Paul was bit by a snake
Wherever where you know, whatever Island it was and so what I'm trying to say is that the Bible's history is true now
You can't just take you know, some people maybe history would help them to be believers. A lot of people are history geeks
I like history and I happen to think that
You know, there's a lot of great history in the Bible
You know why it's great because it's true most of the history we get a lot of it a lot of the battles
And things you know
About different wars and why they started they call it his story because it's his story whoever you know
So the victors go the spoils and a lot of real history gets whitewashed by whoever wins the wars
I'm not saying we can't know real history
We can know real history, but you know, you got if it's not found in the Bible
How do you know for sure that it's a hundred percent true? You really don't
You really don't and so let's look back at Genesis chapter 46
Look at verse 5 and here and here's the thing like you I'm sorry
I got to just say this one more thing with Joseph Smith. He came he said that Jesus came to the Americas and
They they came upon these Native Americans and they're called the Lamanites and something else right they're really lame
Man, you know, it's but anyway, you know, he just made up names as he went the hill Kamora Gomorrah or whatever
It's like I wonder where he got that from. He just like plagiarized the Bible. But anyway
It's not a fact of history that there was a people called the Lamanites as a matter of fact
Through the DNA testing that the actual
College Brigham Young University and the University of Utah they did like DNA studies and what they found wasn't favorable to
Mormonism and they try to sweep this under the rug
But they say that those Lamanites and those Indians were actually the loss a lost tribe of Israel that sailed over
To the Americas and that they were actually a lost tribe of Jews
But when they test the DNA of natives in South America or North America, guess what you don't find
Jewish DNA
So their whole religion is a flat-out lie just and science does disprove that so they'll just say well
You know, you just have to have faith. Well
Sorry, but you know science does disprove the Lamanites science disproves that there was a tribe of Israelites over here
And so you when you look at the Book of Mormon, it's full of garbage. It's full of untruth. It's full of lies
Even their history is fake
So what I like about the Bible is that you can count on what it says
You know where these nations came from and the table of nations in Genesis chapter number 10
It tells us who went where it tells us the names of these nations
It tells us where the Gentiles went it tells us, you know
It tells us a lot of things tells us who went into Africa who went into the Middle East
All these things and that's important to know because it's true
You know, they say that civilization
Started in Africa, you know, and I think that that's a slight
Against black people because you're saying what what do they what do evolutionists believe that we came from monkeys, right?
And so what are they saying? Well, the first
Primates came out, you know, the first primates that turn into mankind came from Africa
So what are they saying black people are closer to monkeys? That's what they're saying. That's what evolution teaches
Well, where's the Bible say civilization started again off of Noah's Ark in Turkey
In the mountains of Ararat and they came down into what Samir
Mesopotamia, where was Abraham from
Mesopotamia
You know and Abraham is not too far out from the flood right the generations just trickled out
You could see like where populations were in those times and where the main places were built and guess what it wasn't in Africa
it was well, I mean obviously Egypt is in Africa, but
Northern Africa, so you would see what do you see when you see in history?
Well, you see all these nations that are around that area where Noah and his three sons got off the ark, right?
anyway enough about that so
Genesis chapter 46 verse 5 says Jacob arose
arose up from Beersheba and the sons of Israel carried Jacob and their father and their little ones and their wives and the
Wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him and they took their cattle and their goods and they had gotten in the what that they
Had gotten in the land of Canaan and came into Egypt
Jacob and a whole all his seed with him his sons and his
Sons sons with him his daughters and his son's daughters and all his seed
Brought he with him into Egypt. So God he took all the seed. Why did he do that? Well,
God told him that he would be with him and he would make a great nation out of those people
And so he took everybody with him
And it says and these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt Jacob and his sons
That's the twelve sons, right?
Reuben Jacob's firstborn and the sons of Reuben Hanaq and follow and
Hezron and Carmi and I'm gonna get myself into trouble here brother CJ. I should have been paying attention
All right, and the sons of Simeon
Jemuel Jamin Ohad and Jacob and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman
so it it also just
Throws that in right that it's the son of a Canaanitish woman and the sons of Levi
Gershon and Kohath and Marari and
the sons of Judah err and Onan and Sheila and Phares and Zira
But err and Onan died in the land of Canaan and the sons of Phares were has Ron and Hamel
So it does tell us then of course that see not all of them went two of them died
Right in the land of Canaan, so they didn't go into Egypt. So like basically like I was saying that
Joseph's two sons made up
The set to the 70 does that make sense because people will say that's a contradiction in the Bible
But it's not a contradiction. Why we just have to actually read it and it'll explain to you the truth
So it says and the sons of Issachar Tola and Fuva and Job and Shimron and the sons of Zebulun
Stared and Elon and Elon Musk was named after him and Jaelil
These be the sons of Leah, which she bear unto Jacob and Pat and Aram
With his daughter Dinah and all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three and the sons of Gad
Ziphion and Haggi and Shuni and Esbon
Eri and
Erodai and Eri
Lila the real eye the real eye. Okay, and the sons of Asher Jimna, Ishaa
Isua, Isui and
Piriah and Sarah, let's see you do it and their sister and the sons of Biriah
Heber and Malkiel, I thought I did okay. All right, I messed up a couple of them
So give me a break
These are the sons of Zilpah whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter and these she bear unto Jacob even sixteen souls
See how much detail the Bible goes into it just tells you
Everything you need to know and why is it so important for us to know this?
Well, it's important to God because he put a whole chunk of it in this chapter
Says in the sons of Rachel Jacob's wife Joseph and Benjamin now in the last sermon I preached
I kind of hinted to the fact that I felt like, you know, Benjamin was kind of a type like pictures
Saul because if you if you think about it, you know in the Old Testament, you know
They were built upon the 12, you know, the the nation of Israel was built upon the sons of Jacob
Right, you had 12 sons of Jacob and that's what built the nation
That's what God said at the beginning of this chapter, right? He they built that nation. So they were like the pillars basically of
The nation of Israel and that's why it's so careful to name who they are and everything and in the New Testament
you have the twelve apostles the twelve that Jesus called himself and he
You know, he makes sure to tell us the list of their names multiple times in the New Testament
So we know the names
You know of the patriarchs who the nation of Israel the physical nation of Israel is built on and then you got the names
of the
Spiritual nation of Israel that the prophets so the the the
The Bible the you know, the church is built on the prophets and the Apostles, right?
and so
You have this this
Calling out of their names, but then I kind of I pointed out that
Joseph Joseph pictured Jesus Christ and
Then he revealed himself to the 11 Judas
killed himself and on
You know, he killed himself and he became not one of the Apostles so they had to pick somebody else because of him
but
Jesus picks somebody else see they picked, you know, somebody by lots they picked Matthias
But then Jesus picked the one that he wanted to pick and who was that pick it was
Saul it was Paul and he was as one born out of due time
Benjamin's the last one of the children of Israel in the Old Testament
So it's and it's funny that Paul is from the tribe of Benjamin
So, I mean, I think there's some symbolism there pretty pretty interesting
But it is important the names of these these children these children of Israel these sons of Israel
Because you got one group being built upon and another group being built upon this starts with 12
Starts with 12 and then it becomes 70 right in the Old Testament
70 of his children went into Egypt and that was built a great nation out of them in the New Testament you have 12
Apostles and
Then Judas dies the 12th is replaced and then Saul is that replacement and then you have what?
70 other elders that were ordained, right?
So just interesting. It's a it's a cool parallel
but so that's why it's important, you know, and so
Let's look at verse number 20. It says and unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim
which a seeneth the daughter of Potiphar a
priest of own bear unto him and the sons of Benjamin were Beelah and Beaker and
Ashbel and Gira and Naaman Ehi and Rosh and
the baby name of the year Mupim and
the second baby name of the year Hupem and
Aard the third baby name of the year. There you go. If you're looking for something unique in the Bible, you're welcome
All right, and verse number 22
These are the sons of Rachel which were born to Jacob and all the souls were 14 and the sons of Dan
Husham and the sons of Naphtali
Jazel Jazel, excuse me and
Gooney and
Jezer and
Shelom, these are the sons of Bilhah which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter and she bared these unto Jacob
All the souls were seven all the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt pay attention to this
Which came out of his loins besides Jacob's sons wives all the souls were three score and six
So that's what 66 and the sons of Joseph which were born to him in Egypt were two souls and the souls
Of the house of Jacob which came into Egypt was how much?
Three score and ten so seventy souls, right?
so three score and ten this is the first time that this is mentioned in the Bible and
I've been wrecking my brain all week trying to understand what the mystery of this three score and
Ten is it's mentioned all throughout the Bible, but like I just told you a few minutes ago
It does to me. It does represent the beginning and it represents the end of something
So the beginning of the twelve tribes are of the nation of Israel you have the twelve plus
The the you know, so then you got the twelve and then you have the three score and ten
same thing with the New Testament, right so
But you know, there's some other verses in the Bible. They're very interesting
About the three score and ten then you have the number seventy which is what three score and ten is three score and ten
Is sixty plus ten and seventy, right?
So you have the number seventy appears a lot in the Bible you have the number three score and ten
Which is seventy appear a lot in the Bible
There's lots of numbers in the Bible and a lot of times they they represent something
But I'm not up here trying to teach
Numerology in the way that like I'm gonna figure out somehow with the three score and ten how Donald Trump's gonna become the next president
Next year. Okay, that's not a part of what I believe
I just think that thank God shows us pictures of things and it helps us to see you know
What the scriptures mean or it symbolizes something important in the scriptures
So I was trying to you know
I was rocking my brain about this and I think that that is a good picture to show the three score and ten
It shows the twelve tribes of Israel. I think that's very interesting
So this is the first time it appears in Scripture now, let's turn to Genesis chapter 50 verse 3
I'm just gonna go through some verses
I don't have a lot time to do all of them, but I do want to show you some of them
I just think they're interesting, you know, if you have some other
alternative theory to that
Then I'm all ears. I don't really have a full-fledged theory on it
But I do see the symbolism in Genesis and I see the symbolism with the twelve apostles and the seventy elders
You got well, you got the seventy elders of Israel that were you know, when Moses said this is too much
Just kill me God and then God takes his spirit and puts it upon what seventy elders, right? So
Let's look at Genesis 50 verse 3 and forty days were fulfilled for him
for so are
Fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed and the Egyptians mourned for him three score and ten days
So that's talking about Jacob. They mourned for him for you know, that's seventy days that they mourned for him
So now so that's the end of Jacob though, right? So
Talking about the beginning three score and ten now the ending of Jacob three score and ten days that they mourn for him
Exodus chapter 15 go ahead and turn to Exodus chapter 15 verse 27
If you just want to take notes, I'm gonna try to go through these fast
Okay, Exodus 15 verse 27 and they came to Elam where were what does it say?
12 wells of water and
What three score and ten palm trees and they encamped there by the waters
And I wonder what that represents twelve wells of water three score and ten palm trees
So obviously, you know, I believe that you know
This is kind of controversial where I I said that I believe that when Jesus is talking to Peter
That he is that he says upon this rock. I will build my church. I
Get criticism about that, but I never said that I didn't believe Jesus was the rock that's the thing
I've never said that I don't believe that Jesus is the rock. I absolutely do believe that Jesus was the rock
But Peter is the next part of that foundation that builds up into a lively house
Lively stones building up that house
So if you take it like that
you have in the New Testament you have the
You know Peter
After the resurrection gives that that great sermon in Acts chapter number two
and so that's the kickoff of the church where basically they get 3,000 people saved in one day and
Then everybody's getting baptized. The church is growing and thriving
Peter starts that off and then the other apostles that Jesus picked, you know
They're built, you know, so Bible says that that were built upon
You know, we're built upon Christ and the a pot of the prophets and the apostles so
You know, I don't know why that's so controversial, but it's it's kind of dumb
Because you see Jesus
You know, you see God starting the nation of Israel with 12 people
right
and he starts it with 12 people and then
There's 70 other, you know, there's 70 altogether
I guess in the Old Testament then in the New Testament. It's the same thing. Am I making sense to you?
I hope I'm making sense because
That's how Jesus started. He started a great movement
Where he started with 12 men, but then he ordained 70 other
Apostles also and they went out and preached
So it started with just a few people and now Christianity is one of the biggest religions worldwide
you know, obviously not all those people believe the right things but it is
Something that's that's gone on through the ages. It's gone on for 2,000 years and it's not quit and
You know, the church is built, you know faith to faith
another thing to think about with this is that you're they're mentioning the
The twelve tribes of Israel, but then they're mentioning the sons that they had. So we we you know, this is a
Physical genealogy, but if you think about it faith is a spiritual genealogy
Because it goes from faith to faith
So you beget sons and daughters if you get people saved, they're your spiritual son and daughter. So that's how the
spiritual nation moves on and how we develop and get more people into the church is
That we get other people saved so in the Old Testament you had a physical genealogy in the New Testament
You have a spiritual genealogy. Does that make sense?
Okay, so I was back on the three score and ten. Okay. I got sidetracked there for a second, but
Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 22 says
Thy fathers went down to Egypt with threescore and ten persons
And now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude
Of course fulfilling the promise turn to Judges chapter 1 verse 7
Judges chapter 1 verse 7
It says and Adonai Bezek said three score and ten kings have having their thumbs and their great toes cut off
Gathered their meat under my table as I have done
So God hath requited me and they brought him to Jerusalem and there he died
So again, you know the starting and the ending of something you see that he ended threescore kings
And his life was ended, you know for what he'd done to other people
Judges chapter 8 verse number 30 and Gideon had
how many
Three score and ten sons of his body begotten for he had many wives
So you see the starting of Gideon and his household?
Well, I mean Gideon was already, you know, he's part of his father's house, but out of him sprang forth
threescore and ten sons
Now remember that he had a brother that was
Evil named Abimelech look at Judges 9 verse number 2
Judges 9 verse number 2 it says speak I pray you into the ears of all the men of Shechem whether it is better for you
Either that all the sons of Jerubel which is Gideon
Which are three score and ten persons reign over you or that one reign over you remember also that I am your bone and your
Flesh so
Basically, you have this man Abimelech and what's he do to the sons of Gideon?
Remember Gideon was a great ruler, but he said I'm not gonna reign over you
God's gonna reign over you, but they're still just they just want a king so bad and then they want
Jerubel's sons, you know, which is Gideon
He said you would you rather have all them rule over you just one guy remember? I'm I'm your family member, right?
so
it says
Well in verse 4 it says and they gave him three score and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Beareth
Wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons
So, you know you have the beginning of Jerubel's family and then Abimelech trying to end the three score and ten
you know they give him three score and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Beareth and
He used that to get people to do what to kill all the sons
So you got the beginning of it and the ending he kills all the sons except for one of them, right?
so anyway, you fall along it's like
three score and ten is kind of a
Big theme in the Bible and I don't have time to go into all of it
but if you want to write these scriptures down you can look at verse number five or if he
Killed that's where he killed all the sons. It's just keep mentioning it over and over again
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Judges 924
Abimelech is destroyed for what he does to the three score and ten sons
Judges 12 14 it says and
He had 40 sons and 30 nephews and rode on three score and ten ascolts and he judged Israel eight years
1st Samuel 6 19
You write that down if you just want to study it later
I'm just gonna give you the scriptures because I'm not gonna have time to read all this 1st Kings 15 5
Solomon had three score and 10,000 and bear bear burdens 1st Chronicles 21 5 2nd Chronicles 2 2
2nd Chronicles 2 18
2 Chronicles 29 32
All I did is searched on a sword and found all this 2nd Chronicles 36 21
Zechariah 1 12
So there's a prophet so I do want to say this though that there's a prophecy of
Of
70 years of weeks where Jeremiah says that the land must lay dormant
It must lay in its Sabbath years before Israel can come back from Babylon
So there's the you know beginning of the Sabbath's and then there's an ending of the Sabbath's now
Daniel's 70th week, you know is the beginning of the end also
for
mankind's you know the basically for what we know as
Human history on this earth
So whenever that 70th year begins there begins the seven final years of human history
So I mean that's kind of what I think the theme is when it when it comes to the 70 the three score and 10
I think it's really interesting and
Again, if you have any insight on that, I think it's really a cool topic. I've the last couple times
I read through the Bible. I was just like what is this?
Trying to say but that's kind of what I've come up with
I don't know if I have it definitively all the way laid out
But you know, I mentioned that the 70 elders turtle Luke chapter 10 verse 1
I mentioned the 70 elders the Moses of Moses the 70 apostles
the 70 year prophecy the 70th week of Daniel and
Then of course the 70 heads of Ahab sons that laid in two equal piles
That's that's interesting. That was the end of his house, right?
So to me that's kind of what it probably represents is the beginning of something and also the ending
The beginning of Christ is the beginning and the end
So Luke chapter 10 verse 1 it says after these things the Lord appointed other
70 also and sent them to and to before the face
excuse me before his face into every city and place whether he himself would come and
The 70 returned again with joy saying Lord even the devils are subject unto us through thy name
So he sends these 70 out and it's very interesting how it says this he appointed them 70 other
Okay
Also to go before his face to every city and place whether he would himself he would where he would come
So isn't that kind of how he sends us out. He sends us out to where the Lord would come and
Get people and people would get saved, you know
and and that's the way I believe that we should do it going out by two by two and
It says the 70 returned again with joy
Saying Lord, even the devil's are subject unto us through thine name
So when God sends us out in pairs to go soul winning people are gonna get saved
And great things are gonna happen and great miracles are gonna happen and we might not be able to walk on water or call
Down fire or heal people out on the streets or whatever
But it's faith that we're presenting to people because God wants people to be saved by faith
Not through the great miracles that we do
Not through all I mean the miracle of salvation is the greatest miracle that there is
The fact that people that are dead and trespasses and sin will actually turn
From what they believe and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
That's the best miracle in the whole world to me and you know, you can't really you can see
Something changing people when they actually
Repent this guy that I got saved today. He you know, I I asked him at the end
I I asked them I said, so what do you believe it takes to be saved?
And he says well that you got to be a good person
That's what I used to believe
and I was like because I was like
Because you can't preach the gospel and you ask them that question they'll say well, yeah, you gotta be a good person
this is like
But he said I used to didn't he say that brother Gary he said I used to believe that
But now I believe it's by faith now, you know, then so he believed
That it was eternal. And so that's that's a miracle to me. That's us going out and doing miracles when people get saved. Amen
so
Where am I at here?
verse number 40
chapter 46 verse 28 says
And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph to direct his face into Goshen and they came into the land of Goshen and
Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father to Gosha and presented himself unto him
And he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while
And this is probably just a glorious, you know reuniting between
Father and son that hadn't seen each other so long ago when he sent him out to go check on his brothers and never
came back
years and years later when he was 17 years old now, he's you know, basically the second-in-command of all of Egypt and
He obviously loved his dad a lot and his dad loved him. I mean it really
made a huge effect on their
relationship on the relationships with him and his brothers and
But everything ended up working out
For the better or all involved
All of his family was saved and then the line of Israel is preserved in the land of Goshen
And I guess you know Goshen could represent, you know a place where you know
Evil is not going to touch the children of Israel because when you go into the book of Exodus
You know when all the plagues are being poured out upon the Egyptians the Israelites where they live they lived in Goshen
And when it said all the frogs came they came all all over the land of Egypt they're in their cupboards
They're all over the place
But not in the land of Goshen when the thick darkness came upon them
All that thick dark darkness came upon all the land of Egypt. They couldn't even see their hand in front of their face
But not in Goshen. In Goshen there was still light so
Goshen does represent, you know a place where the evils of this world and God's wrath
Does not touch them because God's wrath is not going to touch on his people
Not when he's judging the world when he's judging the world. He's not going to judge Christians with them
That's why we don't believe we believe in a post trip pre-wrath
Rapture because God's wrath we're not appointed under God's wrath
We're appointed unto salvation. So, you know when those plagues are being poured out
It's a picture, you know
Anybody I believe that anybody that is saved during the wrath of God none of those plagues are going to touch them
As you think about the people that have the seal in their foreheads the ones that God has sealed their foreheads the scorpion
Women or whatever they are
Come out of hell or wherever they come from
those they don't they only bite the people and
Sting the people that have the mark of the beast and the other people that don't have the mark of the beast do not
Get stung by them. So
It's kind of a picture of Goshen in my mind when you're talking about the end times there. So
anyway, Joseph, you know, he gets to see his son again, and they
Have a great reunion. And so it's a it's really cool when you get to see loved ones
you haven't seen in a long time and
And you kind of pick up right where you left off with them and
It's great to see family members that you haven't seen in a long time
But you know, I was kind of thinking about this and have this will be the same way
It'll be in heaven. There's people in heaven that have gone on to be with the Lord and
One day we're gonna be able to be with that person again
And we'll be able to fall on their necks and weep with them for a long time because it'll be a great reunion
With family members that are saved. Amen
So that's why it's so important that we try to get our loved ones saved because don't you want to see them again?
someday in heaven and or
No more problems no more beef
it's just you know you having great fellowship with another saved relative or friend or
Christian brother so look at verse 30. It says in Israel said unto Joseph now, let me die
since I have seen thy face because thou art yet alive and
Joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house
I will go up and show Pharaoh and say unto him my brethren and my father's house
which are in the land of Canaan are come unto me and
the men are
Shepherds for their trade hath been to feed cattle and they have brought their flocks and their herds and
All they have so very interesting. It says and the men are shepherds
this isn't that way in the New Testament the men are the ones that are shepherds and
They're the ones that are supposed to feed the sheep
They're supposed to be the ones that feed the cattle and a shepherd just means pastor a pastor means shepherd the
those two things are used interchangeably and
so
Jacob's sons were all
Shepherds and you know God uses
Shepherds that he calls to feed his people look at Genesis chapter 46 33
It says and it came to pass when Pharaoh shall call you and shall say what is your occupation?
That you shall say thy servant's trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now
Both we and our fathers and that you may dwell in the land of Goshen for every shepherd
Is an abomination unto the Egyptian?
So just to kind of close this thing off
Go ahead and turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 12. So
Every it says every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians
And I don't think that this is put in here for no reason
It's like everything in the Bible is in there for a reason. So why is he just saying this kind of weird dialogue at the end?
that every
Man is a shepherd and the shepherds are the ones that feed the cattle
it's like so it's symbolic of pastors, I believe in and in spiritual leadership and
You see that all of his sons were pastors
What were all the twelve tribes or excuse me all the twelve tribes all the men in the twelve tribes were pastors and
All the men in the New Testament the Apostles were what pastors or maybe not pastors, but spiritual leaders their apostles
So and their job was to do what what did he say to Peter feed my sheep feed my lambs
Feed my sheep and I kind of went into that last week
When I was in Boise, but you know, we're supposed to as pastors feed the sheep
And it says in every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians. So again if the Egyptians represent the world
That is also true of this world
Pastors in this world are an abomination to the world
You know a lot of there's a lot of stigma involved with being a pastor, you know
Have you noticed that people just have just an ill?
Feeling about pastors in this world and you know some of it's because there's a lot of bad pastors in this world
but
True pastors that are actually preaching the Word of God teaching the Word of God
Preaching what they're supposed to be preaching
Shepherding how they're supposed to be shepherding. They are an abomination to the world and
The last couple weeks I've been getting a lot of phone calls a lot of emails about you know
And I'm being persecuted for something. I didn't even say
That's that's the funny thing, but I'll take it
You know if I got it if I'm taking Jason's rewards from them then by all means I'll take them
But because all the numbers for our satellite churches go to me and so every time I get an email
It's our church email address every time I get a phone call, you know
Whatever time of the day it is whatever time of the night it is if it says
Unavailable number just rest assured. I'm not answering the phone
Okay, so but I get all kinds of crazy calls
So I just you know, I'm not gonna answer the phone every once in a while I do and I always regret doing that
but
You know Jason's been preaching some pretty heavy-duty stuff lately and
He basically said that teacher. I kind of mentioned this on Thursday night, but teachers that are
You know sitting there teaching little children
About the filth of sodomy. They should be taken out back and shot in the back of the head by the government by the way
Not by us
So I'm trying to make it so the clip can't just like
You know because they always want to clip out that part of it when we say something like that
They're like well, and then they'll just say well
They they say it like that so that they're really given a secret code to go ahead and tell them to go kill people look
I'm not telling anybody to kill anybody
Well, let me make that clear. I'm not saying Christian should do it if a Christian does it I didn't tell him to do that
They didn't get that idea for me. I
Believe that if someone's worthy of death that the government should carry out that sentence Romans 13 end of story
Okay, they bear not the sword in vain that's what the Bible says
But a lot of them are vain and won't bear the sword so that's their problem
But doesn't mean that that's not what the Bible says to do
you know so
Anyway, when preachers get up and preach the Word of God and and it could just be anything it could be any doctrine
That's right doctrine. You know the the world will not like that it could be something simple
Like women not wearing pants that could be one of the things and it's like
You know you're saying that they're an abomination for wearing pants
But they think you're an abomination for saying that they shouldn't be wearing pants, so that's the world
that's what the war how the world treats pastors and
It used to be that people would respect when a pastor come to the door
But a lot of times people go this is my pastor. I'm just like what are they gonna do?
How are they gonna respond to that you're that one pastor, I know
anyway, but true shepherds
True pastors are an abomination to the world and we see that every time just something
That's not controversial to us it goes out, and it gets kind of viral
It's just like why are they so mad about that like why are they mad that we said Muhammad is a pedophile?
it's like he is like if one of our one of the pastors or
One of the members of our church is married a six-year-old girl
They would say what what's going on in this Christian Church of course we would think the same thing
But once some you know redneck
Middle Eastern Mary's a six-year-old then you know it's not oh hey
That's you know that was that was okay for that time. No. It's never been okay for that time
It's never been okay for any time to marry a six-year-old girl. That's disgusting so
Anyway
Ecclesiastes 12 9 where I had you turn see a true shepherd and a true pastor is going to tell the truth
whether people like it or not and
At some point if you're coming to this church, you're gonna get your toes stepped on in one way shape or form
I'm not
Looking for the little piggies, but every once in a while
I'm gonna step on them, and I don't know what you're doing in your daily life necessarily
So I don't know whether something's hitting you and you're just like you know you're just triggered inside like
He knows somebody told him. It's like no. I did nobody told me. I don't know so if you get triggered
That's your problem
You're triggered by the world word of God
And that's not how it should be but see the the people of the world when we try to explain doctrines to them
It's you might as well be speaking Greek to them at the door especially now
It's like people used to have a knowledge of the biblical even if they weren't saved back in the older days
They knew the scriptures
They actually probably had a lot of scripture memorized and weren't even saved so they could probably carry a conversation
Biblically with somebody that came to their door
But nowadays, it's not like that. It's like you're supposed to just laugh
It's all love I
Hate you because you don't love me
Like what do you not see how that's a contradiction in your belief anyway, what is that called?
cognitive dissonance
right where you
Simultaneously hold the two different opposite positions like it's bad to hate, but I hate you that's cognitive dissonance anyway
Moving on please yes, he's 12 9 says and moreover because the preacher was wise he still taught the people knowledge
So it says a preacher's wise when they teach the people knowledge
Yay, he have good heed and sought out and set in order many proverbs
So you you know a good preacher is gonna gonna seek out
You know the the great knowledge and teach it to the people and set in order many proverbs are gonna set
The scriptures in order so that you can be fed by the Word of God verse number 10
the preacher
sought to find out
Acceptable words and that which was written was upright even words of truth
And what would this remind you of the Bible of course?
Everything in the Bible is acceptable words right and it was written and that which was written was
upright everything in the Bible is right and
Even words of truth every word in the Bible is truth
So when a preacher gets up and preaches the sermon they should be
things from the Bible now look at verse 11 the words of the wise are as goads and
As nails fastened by the masters of assemblies which are given from one Shepherd
so the job of that Shepherd is to what to take the words of the wise the words of the
prophets and the men of God that wrote the Bible and words of the Holy Ghost and they're gonna take those words and
Use those as goads and what is a goat? It's like a cattle prod
It's like a little stick that has a point on it, and here's in you know when you're a shepherd
You know you're supposed to poke the cattle and and get them to move right and so it's a pastor's job to motivate people
To get up and do something to get out and do the work to stop doing what you're doing here
And you know go do something right over there
So you know we're supposed to use the Word of God as a goat as something to motivate you to do something and as nails
Fastened by the masters of assemblies, and so what is this? It's an assembly
it's a church and so the pastor is like that master of assembly that's supposed to assemble everybody together and
goad them into doing the right thing with the Word of God and use those things as nails fastened and
Which are given from one Shepherd and the one Shepherd that we serve is the Lord Jesus Christ, right?
So we are supposed to get up, but see
It's an abomination under the Egyptians what we say the words that we preach the things that we preach about
it's an abomination unto the
The Egyptians the world and they don't like it, but like God always uses
Great men of God in the Bible that came from this shepherding type
Job Moses was a you know a prince of Egypt so to speak he was raised in in
the home of you know the Pharaoh's a
daughter and
He also became a shepherd at 40 years old and was a shepherd for 40 years before he came back
And God called him to go to the children of Israel Abraham was a shepherd Isaac was a shepherd Jacob was a shepherd
You know there's many shepherds in the Bible
There's many you know God uses people that work hard and back then people had to work for their food now today
We just go well the hardest work
we have to do is get into our car drive to the store and pick out a pack of meat or go to some rancher and
Some cow that he slaughtered and get that and we can go to the grocery store and get all kinds of things
And it's kind of made us to where we're dependent upon this grocery system
I mean when the COVID thing came out it was like you know everybody was running for toilet paper
Because you know who's ever had to make their own toilet paper before I mean in times of dire need we've had to do
Right and I want to you know you're you're already you know I don't want to get too graphic here, but
You look over and slide where's the toilet paper
What am I gonna do?
You got to make a plan, but anyway. Sorry. I don't want to put you down that road too far
Well, I'm just saying that we live in a world where we are depending on somebody else, but these people they
They actually raise their own
Food and they went out and garden and made their own food and and we're just far away from that
But God uses people that work hard. There's still people that work hard. We're just not necessarily. I don't think anybody in here is a rancher
I think anybody in here
You know is a major gardener of some sort. Maybe you are I don't know
But we don't necessarily have even even the people that garden and are really good at it
They usually don't have to depend on that for their full source of food
You still go to the store you still buy stuff
but the point is is that God used these people that were actually the ones that were raising that beef or
Raising that sheep or raising that goat, and he used those people to become great pastors of people later on
so
now
David was a great Shepherd you know and he learned how to lead people by leading sheep
And so if you want to be a good leader
You know you have to start small
You know and you have to be able to be led now David's dad told him to go out and keep the sheep
That's what he did
And he became very good at it and when a bear came
He grabbed it by the beard and smote it and when a lion came he grabbed
He smoked that line and took the lamb out of its mouth
See how you know and as a pastor you're supposed to keep the wicked people away from you the bears and the wolves and
Those types of people away from the sheep, so you know it's just a fact of life though that
Every Shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians. You know there's a lot of pastors that people love don't get me wrong Billy Graham
They loved him. You know why because it says in Luke 6 26 woe unto you when all men shall speak evil of you
or
What in the world?
Sorry about that
If you're you know he said woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false
prophets
okay, so
That's always been a thing people always have loved Billy Graham because he was a false prophet
People love Joel Osteen because he's a false prophet people love all these fake pastors the world loves the fake pastors
But they hate the real pastors. That's my point
so
If you're a pastor that's loved by the world
You know he is of the world, and you know he's not of God period
So you know if you're just loved by everybody
Then you're not a man of God period and a lot of people hate me
And I don't care because I want to do what God wants me to do so you know and I'm definitely not perfect
I know that but
I want to be a true man of God, and if I'm a true man of God
Then people are gonna hate me guess what people hate me
People hate me and people hate you just because you're associated with me
But there's a lot of people out there that they love that pastor
And why because that pastor doesn't tell the truth that pastor doesn't keep the sheep that pastor doesn't feed the sheep
And so it's our job as a pastor to feed the sheep
And if you do that you're going to be hated by the world
And you're gonna be hated by false Christians
And you're gonna be hated by other religions because you have to keep it real and tell the truth
Let's pray Heavenly Father
We thank you Lord so much for a great day in church and for the people that got saved
Lord we pray for Miss Kylie as she goes through her loss Lord
I pray that you just bless that family and help them and comfort them and Lord we also ask for prayer for Miss Zoe Lambert
Pray that she would be feeling better and on the mending Lord
You'd reach down and make her feel better Lord as you can do that. You're the great physician. We pray that you comfort
All those who are suffering loss right now and Lord
there's some other people in our church are just going through a hard time and they're
Going through sickness and they're going through pain and they're going through heartache
I pray the Lord that you lift them up
Lord that you would take care of them Lord and that you would comfort their hearts in Jesus name. We pray. Amen
Let's sing the last song page 57 in your green hymn books
page 57
When they ring the golden bells page 57
page 57
when they ring the golden bells, let's all sing it out loud on the verse
There's a land beyond the river that we call the sweet forever
And we only reach that shore by face decree
One by one we'll gain the portals there to dwell with the immortals
When they ring the golden bells for you and me
Don't you hear the bells now ringing?
Don't you hear the angels singing?
Tis the glory, hallelujah, jubilee
In the far, all sweet forever, just beyond the shining river
When they ring the golden bells for you and me
We shall know no sin nor sorrow in that haven of tomorrow
When our bark is shall...
We shall only know the blessing of our Father's sweet caressing
When they ring the golden bells for you and me
Don't you hear the bells now ringing?
Don't you hear the angels singing?
Tis the glory, hallelujah, jubilee
In the far, all sweet forever, just beyond the shining river
When they ring the golden bells for you and me
When our day shall know their number
When in death soon sweetly slumber
When the King commands the Spirit to be free
Nevermore with anguish laden
We shall reach that lovely Eden
When they ring the golden bells for you and me
Don't you hear the bells now ringing?
Don't you hear the angels singing?
Tis the glory, hallelujah, jubilee
In the far, all sweet forever, just beyond the shining river
When they ring the golden bells for you and me