(292) “We Were Like Them that Dream—God Keeps His Promises”

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Whatever the promise is from God that's in your

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life, there's a promise that God is going to

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bring to pass. But do your contending and do

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your equipping so that when the fullness of time

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comes, then you'll be ready. God promises in

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Joel 2 .28 to pour out His Spirit. on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend

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for that promise outpouring, we equip for that

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outpouring, so that we may engage in that very

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outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss.

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Welcome to the podcast today. We're going to

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have a wonderful time talking about things that

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God has done in our lives that have to do with

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God keeping His promises, like we've just come

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back from Israel. And I tell you, we were like

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them, the dream. Thanks so much for joining us

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today. We're just delighted that we can be together

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again. And we want to encourage you, if you haven't

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already done so, to go to our website, globaloutpouring

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to. get a hold of things that are available,

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good content that we have on our website, content

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that we have on our Facebook page and our YouTube

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channel, and also our app. We have a global outpouring

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app store, Google Play or Apple App Store. We

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want to just let you know that that's available

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and also that you should be putting it on your

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calendar, if you haven't already done so, to

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plan to be with us for our convention, 2026,

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May 21st through 24th. in St. Louis at the Hilton

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Hotel by the airport. So get it on your calendar

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so that you will be ready to sign up for it as

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soon as we get the registration page up there

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and get the details on our website soon. That

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will be coming soon. So we just came back from

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Israel. And I tell you what, this has been an

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experience like we've never had before. I started

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going to Israel as the tour coordinator in training

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the first time in 1978, kind of a long time ago.

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Yeah, that is a long time ago. And so, you know,

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we were going every year for many years. We missed

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a few years, but not very many, and sometimes

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more than one time a year. And in recent years,

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we were going twice a year. And then we were

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planning a trip For March of 2020. And seven

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people signed up. And when it was time to give

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$300 per seat that we were holding to the airlines,

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it was like, you know, I don't think this is

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going to work. And that was an indication that

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something may happen. Well, but we weren't thinking

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that. Yeah. But we've never canceled a tour before.

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We've never canceled a tour. It was just unheard

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of. And I was just so taken aback. I'd never

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seen such a thing. And then when March 2020 rolled

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around, we understood. God was kind to us. But

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we thought there was something terribly wrong

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that we should have to cancel. Well, it was terribly

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wrong. We didn't have the foresight to know what

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it was. So then we tried to reschedule for that

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fall. And of course, that didn't work either.

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And then the next November, we thought, well,

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surely we can do it. Surely this will be over

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by then? Yeah, and it wasn't. No. And then, well,

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let's skip a year. And then we're looking at

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2023. And it was our 25th anniversary of our

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House of Peace in Jerusalem. And we were going

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to have a wonderful tour to celebrate that. And

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two people signed up for that one. So we knew

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something was going to happen. Well, I still

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wasn't that smart. Maybe you knew, but I hadn't

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put it together. The word bumfuzzled comes to

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me. I'm not sure exactly if that's the right

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word, but I was just, what is this that we have

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to cancel again? We've never canceled tours before.

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And so we decided. Well, just you and I will

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go. And our friends Don and Catherine and James

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and just the four of us will go to celebrate

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this wonderful 25th anniversary. And we bought

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our tickets on October 4th, 2023. Yeah. And,

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you know, three days later, we know what happened

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October 7th. And I thought, oh, Israel deals

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with things really fast. Their wars are usually

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over in a week or two, and I thought, surely

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we'll still get to go. No. No. So we were planning,

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and I finally said, I'm just not going to do

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anything. And by that time, we had gotten to

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know Dean Braxton. And Dean was with us on our

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last episode talking about his experience with

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us in Jerusalem. And we recorded that in Jerusalem.

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Yes, we did. In the House of Peace. It was wonderful.

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If you've listened to last week's podcast, then

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you know what was going on with Dean. But even

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leading up to this time, it was like, are we

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really going to get to go? Yeah. Are we really

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getting to go? Is this really for real this time?

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And when we took off. I kept having that scripture

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from the Psalms. We were like them that dream.

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And that's the remembrance of when the children

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of Israel began coming back after 70 years in

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captivity. That's Psalms 126. It's one of the

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songs of degrees. Oh, yeah. They would speak

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when they're going up the temple steps. Yes.

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Yeah, when the Lord turned again the captivity

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of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was

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our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue

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was singing. Then said they among the heathen,

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The Lord hath done great things for them. The

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Lord hath done great things for us, wherein we

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are glad. And we were glad. That's not the end

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of the psalm, but that's as far. But we were

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glad. It was just amazing to land on the ground.

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Now, when you've been going to someplace year

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after year, and then there's, you know, it's

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kind of like God kind of took our passport for

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six years. Yeah, six and a half. Like took our

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flying passport. We never flew in the States

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until, you know, just not long ago. So, you know,

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so some things, you know, when God does things,

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there's a reason behind it. Yeah. It was like

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he pushed the pause button. Yeah. Like sometimes,

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and you have to wait things out. Yeah. Some things

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don't, you know, you get a prophetic word and

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you want it to happen right away. Yes. Don't

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we all? You remember the... A day is with the

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Lord a thousand years. Yes, exactly. So, you

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know, so he takes a few minutes to answer you,

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you know, on his time clock. Yes. See, God runs

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on Kairos time, the opportune, you know, that's

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a set time. But we run on Kronos time, by the

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clock, by the calendar. Work starts at 8, get

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off at 5, and you get into this thing. And so

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we run, most of the clock runs on Kronos, but

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God runs on Kairos time. And we have to learn

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to get into Kairos time so we can function in

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Kronos time. Yeah, it's true. It's the difference

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between walking in the spirit and walking in

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the flesh. Very well put. And that's the continual

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challenge in the Scripture, is that we learn

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to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh. Because

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the world will teach us to walk in the flesh.

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That's just the way it is. The world's doing

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a good job of it, too. Oh, my, my, my, my. Yeah.

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And you see the whole list of the works of the

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flesh in Galatians 5. We won't go there this

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time, but Galatians 5 is one of the places where

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it really challenges us. Are you going to walk

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in the flesh? Are you going to walk in the spirit?

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So we have to stop looking so much at our circumstances

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and look at the promises of God, because God

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keeps his promises. earlier about what's a story

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that you can remember of our experiences that

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has to do with promises coming and sometimes

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taking a while. Yeah, and we needed to get another

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car. Our road is kind of, we live on a kind of

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a rough road. It's a steep road and it needs

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a good four -wheel drive. And we have some very

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good friends, you know, Rod and Ellie Hine down

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in Africa. They're in Zimbabwe. They were raising

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funds for a new car. It was a mid -1980s Land

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Cruiser. So we sowed some seed into getting that.

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And we still didn't get our new car, didn't get

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our new car, didn't get a new car or a newer

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car even. Any kind of car. And so that was in

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the late 80s, probably like 1987, something like

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that. So that car they're getting is only like

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three years old. Right. So it was in 1997. We

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got a car. We got a four -wheel drive. I just

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picked Sharon up from, no, you flew in from China.

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I think so, yeah. Yeah, you were in China, and

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we're coming back, and I saw this four -wheel

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drive sitting up there, and I thought, I'm going

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to go look at that tomorrow. It's just about

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five miles down our road. I came back, and it's

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this beautiful 1984 Toyota Land Cruiser, and

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my jaw just kind of dropped. I thought, a Land

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Cruiser, wow. You know, that's one of the ultimate.

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off -road cars they use in Africa and everywhere

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else in the world. Yeah. You know, and we were

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able to purchase this. And then some years later,

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and we've had it, it'll be going on 29 years

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now. We've had the same car, you know, and it

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still runs great. And I found pictures of the

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car that the folks in Africa that we helped to

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buy, and it was the same exact one as ours, the

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same color. And everything. Everything. You know,

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and this is like 20 years later, 25. So I took

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pictures of our car and I sent it to him, you

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know, and I said, you know, though the vision,

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Terry, you know, wait a long time for that seed

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to come to fruit, you know. We weren't really

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even, I mean, maybe you were, maybe you were

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thinking that you were sowing seed that eventually

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was going to give us a car. I was just. sowing

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seed. It didn't dawn on me to name the seed.

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Maybe we did. We probably did at the time, I'm

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guessing, because we knew to. But it wasn't until

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later that we realized, oh, looky here. There's

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a promise. There's a promise fulfilled. It's

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so good. It's so good. Yeah. So, you know, we've

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been so blessed through these years, you know,

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being down here. And I remember the first time

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I went to Israel was 1981. Yeah. We were married

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in July, and so this is October. And we got to

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go. The money was there, worked out to get the

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trip. And so next year rolls around. I thought,

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you know, I really want to go again, you know.

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Plus, Sharon was going, you know. You know, when

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your spouse goes away, you like to be together,

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you know. But it didn't work out for me to go.

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So the next year, so the tour was like 10, 11

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days. So I fasted 10 days, you know, kind of

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twist God's arm to go on this tour. And that

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was in 1983. Didn't go. Didn't go in 84. Didn't

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go in 85, I don't think. But then I thought,

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okay, I'm not going to fast. Because I did this

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every year. I fasted to go to Israel. And it

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didn't happen. But you were sowing seeds. But

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I was sowing seeds. So then after we started

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going like in 85 or 86 it was, and we'd been

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going almost every year after that. So I've been

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to Israel probably over 30 times myself. So I

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just had to keep sowing some more seed. It just

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took it a while to germinate. There you go. There

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you go. So, you know, sometimes you have a promise

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from God. that you wonder when it's going to

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happen. You know, the one thing that I'm reminded

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of the most in that kind of a story is in 1976,

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I came for the first world convention of the

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end time handmaidens. That was the name of this

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ministry early on. And I was listening to our

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founder, Gwen Shaw, speaking. And I was so hungry

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for God. I was just front and center. I was on

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the front row right in the center like a little

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bird with its mouth open, feed me, feed me. And

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I heard the Holy Spirit say, you will take her

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place when she's gone. And I dropped to my knees

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and I wept and I thought I understood what that

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meant. So I volunteered to come and Sister Gwen

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said, I don't think this is your time. And then

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it wasn't quite a year. later, maybe nine months

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later or so, I volunteered again. And I wanted

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to come after convention and serve for the summer.

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And I was told, no, I think we're going to have

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so many people here after convention that I don't

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think it'll be possible for you to come. And

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so I thought, oh, well, I thought I was hearing

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from God. Well, I got there to the convention,

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the second convention. I was immediately put

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to work, which was okay with me. You know, it's

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all about serving. And I was told by the same

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person, I guess it was Sister Gwen said to me

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in between meetings, she said, the girls are

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expecting you to come after convention. Are you

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coming? I said, well, I wasn't planning to because,

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you know, I'd been told that I couldn't months

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earlier. And then the same person who told me

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I couldn't come said to me, I really think you

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should come. Out of the mouth of two or three

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witnesses, let it be established. So I came.

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Anyway, long story short, I came for the summer

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and I've been here ever since. And that was 1977.

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That's a long time. And the word, you will take

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her place when she's gone, came to pass 37 years

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later. How many people would wait that long?

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Well, you know, eventually I put it on the shelf

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because. Yeah. I didn't want Sister Gwen to leave

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us anytime soon. And if it wasn't God, I wasn't

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interested in having it happen anyway. You only

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want God's will. Yeah. So when you get a prophetic

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word that just seems way out of your box, that

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the circumstances don't look right, it's just

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you don't reject the word. You put it on the

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shelf and you wait for confirmation. Right, right.

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And then when it comes, you'll have that knowing.

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You really have that knowing. It'll like lighten

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up in you. Yeah, it's true. And it could be at

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a time that would just totally upset your apple

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cart. Yeah. So there's lots of promises that

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we tend to look at circumstances and say it's

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impossible. Like look at Abram and Sarai, okay?

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Abraham and Sarah before their names were changed.

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He was 75 years old and Sarah was barren. When

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God told them to get up and go and do what I

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told you to do in the first place, you know,

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he went with his father for a while and they

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went a little ways and then they stopped. And

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when his father died, then God told him to go

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on and do what I told you to do. So go from your

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country and your kindred and your father's house

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to the land that I will show you. And I will

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make of you a great nation. There's the promise.

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I will make of you a great nation. And I will

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bless you and make your name great so that you

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will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless

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you. And him who dishonors you, I will curse.

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Notice that the first part is plural and the

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second one is singular. Okay. Okay. Him who dishonors

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you will I curse. Not them. Him. Okay. It's singular.

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and in you all the families of the earth shall

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be blessed. So Abram went. God told him to go,

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and he went. As the Lord had told him, and Lot

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went with him, Abram was 75 years old when he

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departed from Haran. That's Genesis 12, 1 through

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4 from the ESV. Then eight years later, eight

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years later, Genesis 15, Abram says, what about

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this son? You know, you promised me that... It's

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been eight years. Yeah. So why don't you read

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Genesis 15, 1 through 6. After these things,

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the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision.

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Fear not, Abram. I am your shield. Your reward

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shall be very great. But Abram said, O Lord God,

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what will you give me? For I continue childless,

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and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.

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And Abram said, behold, you have given me no

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offspring and a member of my household will be

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my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came

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to him. This man shall not be your heir. Your

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very own son shall be your heir. And he brought

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him outside and said, look toward heaven and

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number the stars. If you are able to number them,

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then he said to him, so shall your offspring

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be. And he believed the Lord and he counted it

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to him as righteousness. Key, right there. Believe

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the Lord and accounted it to him as righteousness.

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Exactly. It's the believing the promise. Even

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if it's going to take a while, it's the believing

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that helps you get there. It's the believing

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that gives you the faith. It's the believing

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that gives you the patience. And just put it

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on the shelf. and let God do it. You might say

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put it on the back burner and let it simmer.

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Let it simmer, yeah. That's better. And then

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in verse 13 it says, And he said unto Abram,

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Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger

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in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve

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them, and they shall afflict them four hundred

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years. But in the fourth generation, they shall

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come out here again. For the iniquity of the

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Amorites is not yet full. So the Amorites were

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a people group that were in Canaan. They were

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one of the descendants of some of the descendants

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of Canaan. And their iniquity was iniquity, but

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it wasn't complete. It hadn't gotten to that

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point where it's kind of like filling up the

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cup. You know, God gives, and I've seen this

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over and over in the scripture, God gives about

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400 years for people to either get it together

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or they don't get it together and they don't.

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So God doesn't take a deep breath and count to

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10. Right. He counts to 400 years. And people

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who read the Old Testament don't tend to think

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in terms of how many years have gone by before

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God brings judgment. They just see him bringing

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judgment over and over again. But there's these

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400 -year spans, 400 and something, 430, 416,

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whatever, 400 and something that that kind of

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a span happens. So here's a promise that God

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gives. to Abram, that his seed is going to inherit

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this land, right? And it's over 400 years. Now,

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Isaac hadn't even been born yet, okay? So there's

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Isaac, and then there's Jacob, and Joseph goes

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into Egypt. So I'm not sure how many years that

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is, but Isaac was 40 years old when he even married

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Rebecca, and she was barren for a while. I think

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he was 60 when Jacob and Esau were born, the

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twins. So there's another 60 years plus. Yeah.

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Okay. And then Joseph has to grow up somewhat.

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You know, it's probably another, at least another

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20 something years. So, you know, we're looking

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at 80 years before they even go into Egypt. And

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they're there for 400, 430 years, something like

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that. And then there are another 40 years in

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the wilderness. That's a lot of years. But the

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promise of God is still sure. It doesn't matter

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how long it takes, but there's a certain time.

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There's a certain time when it comes to that

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moment. It is the time for it to happen, and

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boom, it happens. Right? So, you know, you've

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got this. We kind of skipped over it. Sarah was

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90 years old. Abraham was 100 years old. When

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they finally had Isaac. Yeah. So, you know, that's

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already 25 years from the time Abram gets told

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you're going to be a great nation before he has

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his first child. Well, actually, he had Hagar

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as a temporary wife. Concubine. A concubine.

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And Ishmael came out of that, you know, when

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they tried to help God out. Yeah. Let's help

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God keep his promise. Oops. Yeah, because that

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has bitter consequences to this day. Yeah, to

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this day. Absolutely. You know, it's interesting

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to me, looking at the women in the Bible that

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were barren and the sons that came out of those

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barren women, because God gave them the promised

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child, but they were special children. Like,

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so you got Isaac. And I love that the name Isaac

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came because his name means laughter. Laughter,

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yeah. Okay? Sarah laughed when she heard God

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say that she's going to have a baby. And she's

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like, you've got to be kidding. But then when

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it takes place, you know, I kind of feel like

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that was sort of how we were when we got to Israel.

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It was like I couldn't keep from laughing because

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it's like, oh, we're here. We're here. We're

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really here. It really hit. It finally happened.

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And there's a laughter. There's a joy. There's

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a happiness that comes when the promise comes.

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And it does come. So, listener, if you have a

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promise from God and you're wondering, is it

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ever going to get here? Yes, it is going to get

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there. But you've got to wait for it. And in

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the meantime, be doing something to get yourself

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ready for it. Yeah, it's like you get a prophetic

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word, you pray into it. Yeah, you pray into it.

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Sit around and wait for it to happen. And maybe

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if you've gotten a promise that you're going

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to preach. Maybe during that time you should

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be studying the Bible. Yeah. Yeah. Like, you

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might go to Bible school, you might do a course

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online, or just get in your Bible and read and

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read and read, and read and read and read and

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read and study and compare Scripture with Scripture.

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So you'll be ready. So you'll be ready. You'll

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be equipped. Equipped. And you also contend for

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it. Like you said, you pray. You pray into your

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promise. Pray into your promise. Okay, so the

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next one after Sarah was Rebecca. Rebecca was

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also barren. And what was the difference for

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her? What made the difference in her situation

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that changed her barrenness? Genesis 25, 20 to

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24. Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebecca.

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the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, or the Syrian,

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of Paddan Aran, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

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Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because

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she was unable to conceive children. There you

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go. Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife. She

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was unable to conceive children. And the Lord

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granted his prayer, and Rebekah, his wife, conceived.

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But the children struggled together with her,

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kicking and shoving one another. And she said,

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If it is so that the Lord has heard our prayer,

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then why am I this way? So she went to inquire

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of the Lord. The Lord said to her, The founders

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of two nations are in your womb, and the separation

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of two nations has begun in your body. The one

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people shall be stronger than the other, and

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the older shall serve the younger. When her days

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to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there

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were twins in her womb. Okay, so... Double portion.

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Double portion. Isaac prayed and God gave twins.

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And did you notice there was a moment in time

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that the days were fulfilled and she gave birth?

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Days fulfilled. Yeah. So every pregnancy lasts

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approximately nine months. Sometimes it goes

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longer, sometimes it goes shorter, but there's

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a length of time. And that baby is going to be

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born in the right time. You know, I'm reminded

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of when our daughter was on the way. And, you

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know, we knew that the signs were there, that

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it's time to go to the hospital, right? And we

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got there, and the doctor checked me and said,

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I'll come back at lunchtime and break your water

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and you can have this baby today. And he left.

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No, I guess he did that by phone call. And the

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contractions had stopped by that point. And I

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said to the nurse, I don't want him to break

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my water. And she said, well, why not? I said,

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because I know that if he breaks my water and

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I don't go into labor, then he's going to give

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me Pitocin. And if that doesn't work, then...

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He's got me set up for a C -section, and I don't

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want that. She says, well, I guess you know the

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ropes. And so he came back at his lunch. So any

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of you people listening, if you're pregnant,

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your wife is pregnant. Yeah, pay attention to

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that. So he came back at his lunchtime, and he

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said. Not happy. No, he was not happy. He said,

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I thought you wanted to have this baby today.

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I said, I want to have this baby when it's time

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for the baby to come. And he said, well, you

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might as well go home now because you're not

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in labor. I said, I'm not? I mean, I was having

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a few contractions, but what had been pretty

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regular when we came had dropped off because

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they put me to bed with a monitor instead of

00:27:42.849 --> 00:27:46.369
letting me move around. So I didn't think that

00:27:46.369 --> 00:27:50.250
was, well, I mean, who am I? What am I? Anyway,

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so he wasn't happy. He sent me home. I think

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we were only about not even halfway home and

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the contractions started again. And I was tired

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and I was hungry. So I just had lunch and I went

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to bed and I slept until the contractions woke

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me up. And meanwhile, you went to... I went to

00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:18.059
the print shop. Yeah, you were printing a book

00:28:18.059 --> 00:28:21.259
cover or something. And so my sister was with

00:28:21.259 --> 00:28:25.660
me, thankfully. I guess it was about 11 o 'clock

00:28:25.660 --> 00:28:28.839
you came home, and I'm thinking, okay. And Sister

00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:31.500
Gwen had said, why did you bring her home? You

00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:34.420
should have stayed in Harrison and gotten a hotel

00:28:34.420 --> 00:28:38.059
room. I was just too tired to go there immediately.

00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:43.279
So by the time you came in, I was having very

00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:46.119
regular contractions. Yeah, I took one look at

00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:48.349
you, and I thought, oh. Boy, I think we need

00:28:48.349 --> 00:28:51.450
to get you in quick. So I said, well, let's just

00:28:51.450 --> 00:28:53.849
go to the hospital and check and see how far

00:28:53.849 --> 00:28:56.630
along I am, and then we'll check into a hotel.

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Yeah, I had to stop three times going up the

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hill while you're having your contraction on

00:29:01.589 --> 00:29:05.430
this rough road until I got to the highway. And

00:29:05.430 --> 00:29:09.539
then we got to Dogpatch. which is... Still about

00:29:09.539 --> 00:29:12.599
10... It's about 15 minutes from town, from the

00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:16.680
hospital. And I said, I can't keep from pushing.

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And, you know, it was my first baby, so I didn't

00:29:21.819 --> 00:29:24.609
know what... They always said... It'll feel good

00:29:24.609 --> 00:29:28.309
to push. But I didn't know that my body was going

00:29:28.309 --> 00:29:32.009
to start pushing without me. So anyway, we got...

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So we flew there, ran some lights and... Well,

00:29:35.109 --> 00:29:39.109
don't confess that. Okay. But it was after midnight

00:29:39.109 --> 00:29:43.009
by this time. And we got to the hospital and

00:29:43.009 --> 00:29:46.990
the nurse checked me and said, you're 10 centimeters

00:29:46.990 --> 00:29:50.329
and bulging. So, you know, it was time. But the

00:29:50.329 --> 00:29:54.669
point is that we waited for the time. Instead

00:29:54.669 --> 00:29:57.589
of pushing the time like the doctor wanted to,

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she would have been born on a different day.

00:30:00.789 --> 00:30:04.029
Because it was after midnight when she was born.

00:30:04.190 --> 00:30:07.170
So there's something about the timing of the

00:30:07.170 --> 00:30:11.529
Lord, that he knows what he's doing in setting

00:30:11.529 --> 00:30:17.529
our time clock. So it's worth waiting to get

00:30:17.529 --> 00:30:20.650
the right result. Because I didn't want to have

00:30:20.650 --> 00:30:24.140
a C -section. That wasn't a good way to start,

00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:28.859
in my opinion. So here we have Isaac, whose wife,

00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:32.039
in the fullness of times, when her days to be

00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:35.339
delivered were fulfilled, she had twins in her

00:30:35.339 --> 00:30:39.220
womb. And so she had this promise from God that

00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:41.359
the elder is going to serve the younger. So when

00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:46.500
it came time for Isaac to say, Esau, go get me

00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:49.099
some venison and fix it the way I like it, and

00:30:49.099 --> 00:30:51.480
I'm going to bless you. Because I don't know

00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:53.480
how long I'm going to live. And by this time

00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:55.200
he was blind, so he's thinking he's going to

00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:58.440
go pretty soon. And he lived a lot of years after

00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:01.759
that. But, you know, sometimes you push the time,

00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:06.359
right? So she's thinking, okay, the elder is

00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:08.420
supposed to serve the younger, so I'm going to

00:31:08.420 --> 00:31:12.160
help God. And I'm going to help Jacob deceive

00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:15.079
his dad so that he can get the double portion.

00:31:15.940 --> 00:31:17.960
Because the firstborn gets a double portion.

00:31:18.779 --> 00:31:21.880
Right? That's the way that it works. So that

00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:24.799
the firstborn takes care of mom and dad because

00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:26.619
he's got the double portion. He's going to take

00:31:26.619 --> 00:31:30.359
care of mom and dad until their end and inherit

00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.779
twice as much. So he becomes the patriarch of

00:31:32.779 --> 00:31:36.140
the family. You know, she helped him out. She

00:31:36.140 --> 00:31:38.640
helped God out. And well, you know, ultimately,

00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:41.440
I don't know that the Bible doesn't say, but

00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:44.920
it looks like maybe Jacob never got to see his

00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:49.529
mom again. Okay. Because don't help God out.

00:31:49.609 --> 00:31:52.930
God probably had another plan to make that come

00:31:52.930 --> 00:31:56.289
to pass. But, you know, Rebecca had the promise,

00:31:56.329 --> 00:31:58.569
so she's going to push through. She's going to

00:31:58.569 --> 00:32:01.230
help God out. Well, we don't have to help God

00:32:01.230 --> 00:32:05.450
out. Let's just let God be God, and he will do

00:32:05.450 --> 00:32:08.490
the thing that he promises. Like, you know, you

00:32:08.490 --> 00:32:12.650
get Hagar, and you get Ishmael, and then you

00:32:12.650 --> 00:32:16.349
get... let's help God. No, we don't have to help

00:32:16.349 --> 00:32:20.750
God. Let God be God, right? So then Jacob goes

00:32:20.750 --> 00:32:25.670
off and he finds his uncle and he falls in love

00:32:25.670 --> 00:32:30.670
with the younger daughter, Rachel, and gets deceived.

00:32:30.869 --> 00:32:33.529
So, you know, there's this deception in the family,

00:32:33.670 --> 00:32:38.750
right? It's just the way it is in the family.

00:32:39.769 --> 00:32:42.109
There's family traditions you didn't know. Yeah,

00:32:42.130 --> 00:32:45.769
that wasn't a good one. So then, you know, Jacob

00:32:45.769 --> 00:32:49.210
falls in love with Rachel, but the dad is saying,

00:32:49.309 --> 00:32:52.349
you know, you can't marry off the younger one

00:32:52.349 --> 00:32:54.529
without marrying the older one first. And the

00:32:54.529 --> 00:32:57.130
older one was, the King James calls it tender

00:32:57.130 --> 00:33:00.549
-eyed. She was probably, Leah was probably nearsighted.

00:33:01.069 --> 00:33:04.670
And, you know, so she was kind of like not the

00:33:04.670 --> 00:33:09.250
most, I don't know, attractive or... you know,

00:33:09.269 --> 00:33:14.230
Jacob fell for Rachel, but he got Leah. And so

00:33:14.230 --> 00:33:17.269
God saw that Leah was hated and he opened her

00:33:17.269 --> 00:33:20.430
womb and he gave her children. And she keeps

00:33:20.430 --> 00:33:22.529
thinking the more children she's going to have,

00:33:22.589 --> 00:33:25.250
she's going to earn Jacob's love, but he still

00:33:25.250 --> 00:33:27.210
just loves Rachel. He loved Rachel even though

00:33:27.210 --> 00:33:29.910
she never had the children. Yeah. And then there

00:33:29.910 --> 00:33:34.029
comes this point where Rachel says, give me children

00:33:34.029 --> 00:33:37.339
or I... die because she's desperate to have children.

00:33:37.660 --> 00:33:41.819
Well, Jacob didn't do what his dad did. His dad

00:33:41.819 --> 00:33:45.579
had prayed for Rebecca and she conceived. But

00:33:45.579 --> 00:33:47.799
Jacob got angry and said, am I in God's place?

00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:50.859
I'm not, you know, I can't make this happen.

00:33:51.789 --> 00:33:54.430
Let me just read it from the Amplified. It says,

00:33:54.650 --> 00:33:57.390
Give me children or I'll die. Jacob became furious

00:33:57.390 --> 00:33:59.309
with Rachel and he said, Am I in the place of

00:33:59.309 --> 00:34:01.710
God who's denied you children? She said, Here,

00:34:01.809 --> 00:34:04.130
take my maid Bilhah and go into her. And when

00:34:04.130 --> 00:34:06.069
the baby comes, she shall deliver it while sitting

00:34:06.069 --> 00:34:09.449
on my knees, so that by her I may also have children

00:34:09.449 --> 00:34:12.570
to count as my own. So she gave him Bilhah, her

00:34:12.570 --> 00:34:15.710
maid, as a secondary wife. And Jacob went into

00:34:15.710 --> 00:34:17.989
her. Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son

00:34:17.989 --> 00:34:21.369
for Jacob. Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again,

00:34:21.469 --> 00:34:24.090
gave birth to a second son for Jacob. And when

00:34:24.090 --> 00:34:26.630
Leah saw that she had stopped bearing children,

00:34:26.769 --> 00:34:29.250
she took Zilpah, her maid, and gave her to Jacob

00:34:29.250 --> 00:34:32.349
as a secondary wife. Zilpah, Leah's maid, gave

00:34:32.349 --> 00:34:35.409
birth to a son for Jacob and then gave a second

00:34:35.409 --> 00:34:37.750
son. And God listened and answered the prayer

00:34:37.750 --> 00:34:40.909
of Leah, and she conceived. I'm leaving out some

00:34:40.909 --> 00:34:45.280
verses in between just to make the point. Leah

00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:47.980
conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob,

00:34:48.139 --> 00:34:50.840
and then a sixth son, and then a daughter named

00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.739
Dinah. And God remembered the prayers of Rachel,

00:34:53.860 --> 00:34:56.920
and God thought of her and opened her womb so

00:34:56.920 --> 00:35:00.920
that she would conceive. So after all this time.

00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:05.619
This is some years here now. Years. Rachel finally

00:35:05.619 --> 00:35:10.400
conceives. and God gave her a child. She conceived

00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.179
and gave birth to a son, and she said, God has

00:35:13.179 --> 00:35:16.239
taken away my disgrace and humiliation. So she

00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:20.400
named him Joseph, which means may he add, and

00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.760
said, may the Lord add to me another son. So

00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:27.260
she was speaking faith that she wasn't only just

00:35:27.260 --> 00:35:28.800
going to have one child, she was going to have

00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:32.960
two. And she did. And of course, she died in

00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:35.059
childbirth in the second. with the second son.

00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:38.619
But, you know, the point is here that God grew

00:35:38.619 --> 00:35:43.260
a family for Jacob so that these were the patriarchs

00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:47.119
of the 12 tribes. And so here's this promise

00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:50.800
of, I will make you a great nation, God said

00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:54.699
to Abraham. And then all he gets is one son that

00:35:54.699 --> 00:35:59.179
has the promise, Isaac. Isaac has two sons. Jacob

00:35:59.179 --> 00:36:04.369
has 12 sons. Boom! Yeah. A population explosion,

00:36:04.469 --> 00:36:07.690
so to speak. You see, you have these special

00:36:07.690 --> 00:36:11.329
children. So what was special about Joseph? Well,

00:36:11.349 --> 00:36:13.809
he was the one that had the dreams. Right. He

00:36:13.809 --> 00:36:16.130
would have the dreams, which was the future for

00:36:16.130 --> 00:36:19.409
the, which would be the nation of Israel. Right.

00:36:19.510 --> 00:36:21.849
And he was the one that, you know, the jealous

00:36:21.849 --> 00:36:24.389
brothers sold him into Egypt because, you know,

00:36:24.389 --> 00:36:28.800
here is this special son. The special son of

00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:31.179
Jacob. Has that coat, the youngest. Right. Not

00:36:31.179 --> 00:36:33.639
the youngest yet, because you still had, Benjamin

00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:37.000
was the youngest, but Joseph, well, he just had

00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:39.440
something that the others didn't. And I think

00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.960
his dad realized that. Well, yeah, but he didn't

00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:44.599
realize the jealousy that would, what the outcome

00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:46.679
would be because of what he did. That's true.

00:36:46.820 --> 00:36:50.300
That's true. But he was the son of his beloved

00:36:50.300 --> 00:36:56.239
wife. Yeah. And the fact that he was born of

00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:59.340
a woman that was barren. So he's got this something

00:36:59.340 --> 00:37:03.539
special about him. And he wound up becoming a

00:37:03.539 --> 00:37:06.900
savior. He saved not only all of Jacob's sons,

00:37:07.019 --> 00:37:09.539
but he saved all of Egypt and the whole region

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:13.280
because God gave him the wisdom to do that. And

00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:16.820
then when the next son came along and Rachel

00:37:16.820 --> 00:37:20.920
died in childbirth, Jacob named him. the son

00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:25.139
of my right hand. In other words, he saw Rachel

00:37:25.139 --> 00:37:30.239
as his right hand. Rachel was his beloved. And

00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:33.699
so this is a special child too, right? He was

00:37:33.699 --> 00:37:37.639
the spoiled boy of the family, right? So there's

00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.480
something special about these children that come

00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:44.619
from a barren mother. Okay, so here's another

00:37:44.619 --> 00:37:47.880
one. In the book of Judges, there's a man named

00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:51.780
Manoah. And his wife, we don't learn his wife's

00:37:51.780 --> 00:37:55.719
name, but she has a visit from an angel. And

00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:59.420
this angel says, you're going to have a child.

00:37:59.739 --> 00:38:05.880
And you need to not have anything from the vine.

00:38:06.300 --> 00:38:09.920
This child is going to be a Nazarite. This child

00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:12.719
is going to be dedicated to God. She was a barren

00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:15.780
mother, a barren woman. She had no children.

00:38:16.179 --> 00:38:18.889
So she's, you know. Especially in that culture.

00:38:19.170 --> 00:38:22.070
Yeah, it was important to have a son. Yeah, it's

00:38:22.070 --> 00:38:25.190
important to have children. It's important. And

00:38:25.190 --> 00:38:29.809
so the child that was born was Samson. And God

00:38:29.809 --> 00:38:32.630
used him. And he was a judge over Israel. Right.

00:38:32.789 --> 00:38:36.869
And it wasn't the kind of judge you think. God

00:38:36.869 --> 00:38:42.829
used him to kind of mess their minds up and other

00:38:42.829 --> 00:38:46.710
things too. Yes. And people who have had a visit

00:38:46.710 --> 00:38:51.030
to heaven, and have seen Samson have said that

00:38:51.030 --> 00:38:53.510
he wasn't this big muscle builder looking guy.

00:38:53.690 --> 00:38:57.269
Yeah, we think of Samson as this seven foot tall

00:38:57.269 --> 00:39:00.590
with these rippling muscles. Right, but he wasn't.

00:39:00.590 --> 00:39:03.349
He was just an ordinary guy. Probably kind of

00:39:03.349 --> 00:39:07.059
like me, you know. 135 pounds or something. Right,

00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:11.280
right. Just not your big he -man kind of a guy.

00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:15.599
But when the Spirit of God came on him, he would

00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:18.480
have supernatural strength and be able to do

00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:20.260
things. Boy, that'll preach, won't it? Yeah,

00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:22.699
it will. And that happens in the anointing. Yes.

00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.139
Things happen. Exactly, exactly. And so another

00:39:27.139 --> 00:39:30.420
one that you have that was a barren woman, remember

00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:35.349
the story of Hannah and Elkanah? Hannah was another

00:39:35.349 --> 00:39:39.210
barren woman, and Elkanah took a second wife

00:39:39.210 --> 00:39:41.269
because he needed to have children. Yeah, and

00:39:41.269 --> 00:39:43.670
that was up on Shiloh, which we got to go on

00:39:43.670 --> 00:39:46.849
this last trip. Yes, we did. Yeah. We sure did.

00:39:47.150 --> 00:39:51.170
And out of her womb came Samuel, the seer and

00:39:51.170 --> 00:39:54.809
the prophet. Exactly. So if you're out there,

00:39:55.030 --> 00:39:59.030
somebody listening out there, you want to have

00:39:59.030 --> 00:40:01.809
a baby, and you haven't been able to have a baby.

00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:07.539
Look for God's purposes and God's time. Okay?

00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:11.039
The same thing happened with Elizabeth and Zacharias

00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:15.519
in the beginning of... of Luke, the book of Luke.

00:40:15.780 --> 00:40:19.039
You know, Zacharias was this godly man. He's

00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.260
in the high priest's line and he's doing the

00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:26.139
incense before the Lord. And Gabriel appears

00:40:26.139 --> 00:40:28.340
to him and tells him, you know, your prayers

00:40:28.340 --> 00:40:29.780
have been heard. You're going to have a son.

00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:33.440
And he says, come on, you got to be kidding.

00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:37.300
And so, you know, he gets struck dumb because

00:40:37.300 --> 00:40:39.840
life and death are in the power of the tongue.

00:40:39.980 --> 00:40:42.320
So, you know, you're going to be silent because

00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.280
you weren't, paying attention. You weren't listening.

00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:49.820
You just need to be quiet on this. And so John

00:40:49.820 --> 00:40:53.300
the Baptist came from that barren woman. Okay.

00:40:53.340 --> 00:40:57.760
So if you are looking for a promise from God

00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:01.840
to come to pass, trust that it's going to come

00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:05.619
to pass, but do your part in the meantime. You

00:41:05.619 --> 00:41:08.199
know, Elizabeth and Zacharias were godly people

00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:11.710
and they were doing the godly thing. They were

00:41:11.710 --> 00:41:14.389
doing what they were supposed to do. But sometimes

00:41:14.389 --> 00:41:18.570
God puts these things off so that something can

00:41:18.570 --> 00:41:23.090
be accomplished in your life that wouldn't have

00:41:23.090 --> 00:41:25.510
been accomplished if you didn't get to that place

00:41:25.510 --> 00:41:29.690
of desperation. And you need to get to that place

00:41:29.690 --> 00:41:34.030
of contending. Contending. We're contending for

00:41:34.030 --> 00:41:37.130
the outpouring. We're contending. We're equipping

00:41:37.130 --> 00:41:40.010
so that we can engage in the outpouring, right?

00:41:40.250 --> 00:41:43.690
So whatever the promise is from God that's in

00:41:43.690 --> 00:41:47.510
your life, there's a promise that God is going

00:41:47.510 --> 00:41:51.510
to bring to pass. But do your contending and

00:41:51.510 --> 00:41:55.170
do your equipping so that when the fullness of

00:41:55.170 --> 00:42:00.070
time comes, then you'll be ready. And that baby

00:42:00.070 --> 00:42:02.250
or whatever it is that you're expecting is going

00:42:02.250 --> 00:42:05.369
to come. I'm thinking of a brother that we know

00:42:05.369 --> 00:42:13.130
in Nigeria. After 27 years of marriage, 27 years,

00:42:13.369 --> 00:42:17.269
they did use in vitro fertilization, but they

00:42:17.269 --> 00:42:21.590
were able to have a child. And they wound up

00:42:21.590 --> 00:42:23.989
having three by the time they'd been married

00:42:23.989 --> 00:42:28.699
for 30 years. Isn't that remarkable? It's remarkable.

00:42:29.099 --> 00:42:32.219
And so whatever it is that you're holding out

00:42:32.219 --> 00:42:35.719
for, whether it's a baby or whether it's a car

00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:39.300
or whether it's a spouse, maybe you've been waiting

00:42:39.300 --> 00:42:41.219
and waiting and waiting. Where is that spouse?

00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:44.800
Where is that spouse? Where is that one? God

00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:49.159
has, don't help him. Don't help God by making

00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:53.619
your own choices to help him out. Help God out

00:42:53.619 --> 00:42:57.659
by equipping. Help God out by preparing. Help

00:42:57.659 --> 00:43:00.960
God out by contending in the Spirit, by praying,

00:43:01.099 --> 00:43:05.179
by helping your own faith in God, by looking

00:43:05.179 --> 00:43:09.500
to Him, by building your relationship with Him.

00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:12.420
Because He keeps His promises at the proper time.

00:43:12.780 --> 00:43:17.219
Like where it says in Galatians 4, 4 and 5, when

00:43:17.219 --> 00:43:21.250
the fullness of the time was come. God sent forth

00:43:21.250 --> 00:43:24.170
his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

00:43:24.269 --> 00:43:26.530
to redeem them that were under the law, that

00:43:26.530 --> 00:43:30.329
we might receive the adoption of sons. And I

00:43:30.329 --> 00:43:32.610
like what the NIV says, but when the set time

00:43:32.610 --> 00:43:36.750
had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman,

00:43:36.789 --> 00:43:41.190
born under the law. God keeps his promises. But

00:43:41.190 --> 00:43:44.949
there's a time for it. There's a time for it.

00:43:45.550 --> 00:43:48.039
And, you know, the same thing for Israel. Okay?

00:43:48.139 --> 00:43:50.800
We've just come back from Israel, so Israel is

00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:55.960
on our mind. And if we had lived 200 years ago,

00:43:56.139 --> 00:43:58.920
we wouldn't have the perspective that we have

00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:03.360
now, where we're seeing now the things that God

00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:08.900
promised come to pass in Israel. God has brought

00:44:08.900 --> 00:44:12.059
his people back to their land. And he promised,

00:44:12.340 --> 00:44:18.730
saying, Amos 9, 14, and 15, says, also, I shall

00:44:18.730 --> 00:44:21.409
bring back the exiles of my people Israel, and

00:44:21.409 --> 00:44:24.210
they will rebuild the deserted and ruined cities

00:44:24.210 --> 00:44:25.789
and inhabit them. They've done that. They've

00:44:25.789 --> 00:44:29.190
done that. Yeah. All of these many cities around

00:44:29.190 --> 00:44:33.409
the land are built in the places where the ancient

00:44:33.409 --> 00:44:36.250
cities were, many of them. And they're called

00:44:36.250 --> 00:44:38.929
by that name. They will also plant vineyards

00:44:38.929 --> 00:44:41.309
and drink their wine and make gardens and eat

00:44:41.309 --> 00:44:45.679
their fruit. I will also. Plant them on their

00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:48.699
land, and they shall never again be uprooted

00:44:48.699 --> 00:44:50.519
from their land which I have given them, says

00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:53.179
the Lord your God. Yeah, and we've seen that

00:44:53.179 --> 00:44:57.400
firsthand. Yeah. Wow. Firsthand. And then Isaiah

00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:02.380
11 and 12. What does that say? Then it will happen

00:45:02.380 --> 00:45:04.699
on that day that the Lord will again acquire

00:45:04.699 --> 00:45:07.860
with his hand a second time the remnant of his

00:45:07.860 --> 00:45:12.079
people, who will remain from Assyria. from Egypt,

00:45:12.219 --> 00:45:16.260
from Patros, from Cush, or Ethiopia, from Elam,

00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.559
from Shinar, Babylon, and Hamath, and from the

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coastlands bordering the Mediterranean Sea. And

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he will lift up a signal for the nations and

00:45:26.940 --> 00:45:30.500
assemble the outcasts of Israel. And he will

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gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners

00:45:33.039 --> 00:45:35.199
of the earth. That's exactly what he's done.

00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:36.699
And that's just what he did. Yeah. And they're

00:45:36.699 --> 00:45:39.630
still coming in. They're still coming. And more

00:45:39.630 --> 00:45:43.289
will come in as politics change. Oh, yeah. Oh,

00:45:43.309 --> 00:45:46.449
yeah. It's time for a massive. Mass is Aliyah.

00:45:46.750 --> 00:45:49.889
Aliyah. Aliyah. They call it Aliyah, which means

00:45:49.889 --> 00:45:54.289
going up. Going up. You're ascending to go to

00:45:54.289 --> 00:45:57.829
the land that God promised. He promised it to

00:45:57.829 --> 00:46:01.969
Abram something like 4 ,000 years ago. Or maybe

00:46:01.969 --> 00:46:05.670
it's 3 ,500 years ago. 3 ,500 years ago, 3 ,600

00:46:05.670 --> 00:46:08.860
years ago, something like that. You know, the

00:46:08.860 --> 00:46:12.579
point is God keeps his promises. And I love what

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Hosea 6, 1 through 3 says in the Amplified, Come

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and let us return in repentance to the Lord,

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for he has torn us, but he will heal us. He's

00:46:23.539 --> 00:46:27.360
wounded us, but he will bandage us. After two

00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:31.380
days, he will revive us. On the third day, he

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will raise us up that we may live before him.

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So let us know and become personally acquainted

00:46:37.250 --> 00:46:40.590
with him. Let us press on to know and to understand

00:46:40.590 --> 00:46:43.449
fully the greatness of the Lord, to honor, heed,

00:46:43.570 --> 00:46:46.610
and deeply cherish him. His appearing is prepared

00:46:46.610 --> 00:46:51.630
and is as certain as the dawn. Happens every

00:46:51.630 --> 00:46:56.909
day. It's certain. And he will come to us in

00:46:56.909 --> 00:46:59.769
salvation like the heavy rain, like the spring

00:46:59.769 --> 00:47:03.309
rain watering the earth. And I love the fact

00:47:03.309 --> 00:47:06.010
that it says, after two days he will revive us.

00:47:06.150 --> 00:47:08.510
On the third day he will raise us up that we

00:47:08.510 --> 00:47:12.070
may live before him. Because Psalm 90 verse 4

00:47:12.070 --> 00:47:15.469
says, for a thousand years in your sight are

00:47:15.469 --> 00:47:18.230
like yesterday when it has passed, or as a watch

00:47:18.230 --> 00:47:22.010
in the night. And Peter gives us a better clue

00:47:22.010 --> 00:47:25.510
as to what that means. In 2 Peter 3 .8, what

00:47:25.510 --> 00:47:28.519
does that say? Nevertheless, do not let this

00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:31.739
one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with

00:47:31.739 --> 00:47:34.900
the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and

00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:38.659
a thousand years is like one day. So Hosea prophesied

00:47:38.659 --> 00:47:44.159
that after 2 ,000 years, God would raise up Israel

00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:48.179
again. And it has happened. It has happened.

00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:52.400
It is happening. It is amazing. And no matter

00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:55.280
what the angry neighbors round about try to do,

00:47:55.869 --> 00:47:58.389
They won't succeed. That's right. Because the

00:47:58.389 --> 00:48:02.409
scripture says, and that's as good as done. Yep.

00:48:02.429 --> 00:48:05.289
Because God keeps his promises. Yeah. Even if

00:48:05.289 --> 00:48:08.409
it takes two millennia. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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So let's pray for our listeners, shall we? Father,

00:48:12.449 --> 00:48:16.329
we thank you that you are good for your promises.

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You will keep your promises. You're a promise

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-keeping God. Help us to have the patience and

00:48:25.780 --> 00:48:30.530
the endurance to persevere. and believe you and

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let it be counted to us for righteousness that

00:48:33.050 --> 00:48:36.090
we believe you, that we believe what you said

00:48:36.090 --> 00:48:39.030
in your word. We believe that these things that

00:48:39.030 --> 00:48:41.809
you've promised us are coming to pass. We believe

00:48:41.809 --> 00:48:45.510
that Jesus is returning. We believe that you

00:48:45.510 --> 00:48:50.250
are sending your outpouring on all flesh, that

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you're going to pour out your spirit in a way

00:48:52.869 --> 00:48:56.690
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