(329) “The Goodness Side of God”

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All of these people that we're talking about

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are ordinary people that made mistakes. But they

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walked with God. Yeah. And while they're walking

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with him, at least, he is giving them his good

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side. Yeah. So we can look at our own lives and

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we can say, okay, let me just walk with God.

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I want to walk with God because I love him. And

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I want to love him more all the time. God promises

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in 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 promised 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. The last episode

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that we did was about the dark side of the glory,

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which you don't think the glory could possibly

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have a dark side, but it was really about the

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severity side of our Father, you know, like a

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good parent. And so this time we're going to

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talk about his goodness side or his blessing

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side or his kindness side. Thanks so much for

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.net. So today, We want to go a little further.

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Romans 11 .22 says, Therefore consider the goodness

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and severity of God on those who fell severity,

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but toward you goodness. If you continue in his

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goodness, otherwise you also will be cut off.

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And the context of this is where Paul is talking

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about the olive branches that were cut off from

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the, or broken off from the domestic olive tree

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and wild olive branches were grafted in, in the

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place of the ones that had grown there to begin

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with. And that was a picture of the people of

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Israel that had not followed through with obeying

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God. So they've been broken off and the Gentiles

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have been being grafted in. And so Philip and

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I are probably among those Gentiles. And we're

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really grateful, but this is... Hopefully you

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are too. Yeah, absolutely. So the point here

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is that Paul is talking to this mixed group in

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Rome. where you've got some Gentiles and you've

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got some Jews that are believers, and they're

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kind of trying to work out, where do I belong?

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How do I belong here? Paul is showing how in

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the history that, you know, time after time after

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time, and we talked about it in the last episode,

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time after time, the people of Israel disobeyed.

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And so whack, you know, it's kind of like getting

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a good licking, a good spanking. You know, I

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think, Philip, you experienced the belt when

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you were a kid, you know, your dad. Had the belt.

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I would use the belt. And that was severity.

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That was severity. But it was discipline, and

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you probably didn't repeat that. Yeah, you know,

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it worked, too. It works. You know, the book

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of Proverbs talks about if you love your child,

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you're going to spank him or her. Spare the rod,

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spoil the child. I don't think that's exactly

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from Proverbs. But there's something similar

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in Proverbs about. And we would hear that in

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school, I think. You know, there's a point to

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the severity. And what Paul is saying, particularly

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to the Gentiles in Rome, he's saying, look. There's

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goodness and there's severity. And if you're

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not careful, you'll also be broken off. You got

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to stick with the goodness side. You got to stick

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with the kindness side. Different translations

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will translate that word goodness and others

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will translate it kindness. And, you know, think

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of a kind father. An obedient child doesn't usually

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get the severity. You know, if you've got a broken

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father. that was broken as a child, there might

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be some severity when it's not called for. And

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it's happened a lot of times. And please let

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your heavenly father heal those things that came

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across from a father that wasn't a good father,

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particularly if he was under the influence of

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alcohol or drugs or something like that and didn't

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have the compassion and didn't have the patience.

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Especially under the influence of some substance.

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You know, there's all kinds of bad behavior that

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comes out of that. So our Father isn't like that.

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He's absolutely 100 % just. And He's righteous.

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And He's not going to do anything that's uncalled

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for. So we talked about that in our last episode.

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But Psalm 100. Philip, would you just read Psalm

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100 for us? A psalm for giving thanks. Make a

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joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. Serve

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the Lord with gladness. Come into his presence

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with singing. Know that the Lord, he is God.

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It is he who made us and we are his. We are his

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people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his

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gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.

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Give thanks to him. Bless his name. For the Lord

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is good, his steadfast love endures forever,

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and his faithfulness to all generations. He's

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good. You know, I'd like to add a little something

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to that. Please do. Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

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his courts with praise, but enter his holy place

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with worship. There you go. That's very good.

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I've started a song on that a few years ago.

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I've not finished it yet. Let's get that fixed.

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Need to do that. Yeah. He is good, the Lord Yehovah,

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our Father, is good. He's a good Father. And

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he introduced himself to Moses as this loving,

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mother -like Father, and a Father that cares

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about every little detail of your life, like

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a mother cares for her baby. So he really is

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good, but he gave us like a plumb line. He gave

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us a rule book. And as I was meditating on this

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recently, I thought, you know, he gave us a rule

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book to teach us how to rule. That's good. So,

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you know, there's a royalty that comes when you

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learn to walk with your father, who is the king

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of the universe and beyond what we call the universe.

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He's the king of everything. He's the king. It's

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a kingdom because he's the king. When we get

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into alignment with him, when we get into symmetry

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with him, when we get into harmony with him,

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when we get into where we're designed to be to

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work with him, everything that comes is going

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to have a good side. And sometimes bad stuff

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happens. But our Father knows how to turn everything

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to good for them that love him and are called

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according to his purpose. Personally, I think

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we're all called according to his purpose. And

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we're all called to conform to the image of his

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son. I just believe that he made us with that

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possibility. And so this idea of him being good,

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I want to look into this a little more deeply.

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The first one that we really see having a relationship

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with God is Abraham. Yeah. Adam and Eve had a

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relationship, but they didn't do very well with

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it. They kind of really lost that one. So we

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really see Abraham. And we see Noah, too, that

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Noah walked with God. We see Enoch that walked

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with God and was translated to heaven. So there

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are some perks that come with staying on his

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good side. You want to be on his good side. And

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just obedience to him and loving him is what

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keeps you on his good side. So Abraham, I just

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want to make some points about what it looks

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like to be on his good side. When you're in covenant

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with him, when you're obeying him, what does

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it say in Genesis 13 too? Now Abraham was very

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rich in livestock, in silver and in gold. Okay.

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So he had a relationship with God, and he was

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prosperous as a result. Back then, the picture

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of prosperity was how big are your flocks or

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your herds. Exactly. How many cattle, how many

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sheep, how many you have. That would determine

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your wealth. Right. Absolutely. But here he had

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gold and silver. Yeah. Where did that come from?

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You know, he was probably a good businessman

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with his flocks and herds. You know, sell some

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here and do some business there. We got a deal

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for you. Yeah. So then what does Genesis 18,

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17 to 19 say? The Lord said, shall I hide from

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Abraham what I'm about to do? seeing that Abraham

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shall surely become a great and mighty nation,

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and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed

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in him. For I have chosen him that he may command

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his children and his household after him to keep

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the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and

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justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham

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what he has promised him. See, our God keeps

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his promises. But he keeps his promises to those

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who keep his promises. And who is the Lord talking

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to? Shall I hide from Abraham what I'm about

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to do? Yeah, well, he was in the context here.

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He and two angels had come for a visit. They

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were on their way to Sodom and Gomorrah. And

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so here's the thing about being in relationship

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with God. He will let you in on his secrets.

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And that's awesome. He'll let you in on his secrets.

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He wants you to know what he's doing. He wants

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you to be working with him. So he engages Abraham

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in this discussion, and he tells him, there's

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trouble in Sodom, and I'm fixing to bring down

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the hammer. Wow. Fixing to. That was the severity

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side of God. That was the severity side of God.

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But now Abraham knows that his nephew Lot is

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living there. And so he gets into this deal.

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How many righteous are in that city? Would you

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destroy the righteous with the sinners? He works

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him down to 10. Because here's my take on it.

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I think that Abraham was considering the fact

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that there's Lot and his wife. He has two unmarried

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daughters. That's four. And the way the scripture

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describes it, that when the angels go to Lot,

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they say sons and sons -in -law. So there must

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have been two sons at least. And there must have

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been at least two sons -in -law. So we had four.

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You add two sons, that's eight. You add two sons

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-in -law. That's 10. And so there must have been

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daughters for the sons -in -law to have been

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married from. So I got us to 10, didn't I? Yeah,

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that was all his sons. So his family. And his

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heirs. And his heirs, yeah. His sons, yeah. That

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would have been 10. Yeah. If they had been righteous.

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But they weren't his sons. That was the problem.

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Wife was not right. Yeah. His sons and his sons

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-in -law, obviously, you know, they thought he

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was very foolish for coming to them and saying,

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what do you mean God's going to destroy this

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place? I don't believe that. Wow. And so they

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didn't make it. No. And neither did Lot's wife

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because she turned back and looked. She turned

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back and looked. Because she's thinking about

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her sons and her daughters. That's her mama's

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heart. Her mama's heart, you know, is just. She

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was torn. She was torn. But the point here is

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the goodness of God lets Abraham begin to reason

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with him and kind of go to court here. Let's

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come, let's reason together. So God let him because

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they had relationship. Abraham was on the good

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side of God. He was on the goodness side of God.

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And that's how he got all his wealth. And this

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isn't about getting on the good side of God so

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you'll get wealth. This is about getting on the

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good side of God for relationship's sake. And

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the benefit that follows with the benefit of

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the relationship is the wealth. It's not the

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wealth of the wicked. It's the wealth of the

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righteous, right? Remember Job. Job was a righteous,

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righteous, righteous, righteous man. And he had

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a lot of wealth. And then all of a sudden, boom,

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boom, boom, boom. And one day it's all gone.

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But when the whole trial was over, he wound up

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with twice as much stuff. So being in right relationship

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with God. God is a rewarder to those who diligently

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seek him. Precisely. Precisely. So now you have

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Abraham's son, Isaac. And what does it say in

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Genesis 26, 12 to 14? And Isaac sowed in that

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land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold.

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Wow. The Lord blessed him. And the man became

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rich and gained more and more until he became

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very wealthy. He had possessions of flocks and

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herds and many servants, so that the Philistines

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envied him. Yeah. And it's interesting that that

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one verse, verse 13, in the King James it says,

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And the man waxed great. Waxing means getting

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bigger. The man waxed great and went forward

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and grew until he became very great. Now, the

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cool thing here is in the Hebrew, the word great.

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is gadol. So the man was great, gadol. And he

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went going on and was great. And that word is

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gadol. And gadol is the root word. And then it

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goes on, it says, and he was exceeding great.

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So it's great, great, great. Great is a third

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power. That's great. I remember with this kind

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of picture, what Dean Braxton says about God

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and about how he looked at him, and he would

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just get overwhelmed with how great he was and

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how wonderful he was, and he'd look again, and

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he was more so. And this is what it's like when

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you're walking with God, that it continues to

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get greater. Your walk continues to grow, unless

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you get sidetracked, and the enemy of God is

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busy trying to keep us sidetracked. Or you get

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stuck. You get stuck, you get offended, you get

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fearful, you get doubting. All of those things

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will cause a decrease instead of an increase.

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But as we are continuing to increase in our walk

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with him, increase in our submission to him out

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of love, not submission to him out of, I better

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do this or God won't like it, but out of love

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for him. It's like the more we experience his

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love, the more... how undoing it is, for me,

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anyway. It's like, you know, these little kisses

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from the Lord. Like, we wake up in the morning,

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and if we didn't manage to get up before sunup,

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our windows face east, and in the windowsill

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is a beautiful piece of, I don't know, I don't

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even know what to call it. It's a thing. And

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it's covered with beautiful Shaped glass. Yeah,

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shaped glass like, what do they call that? Not

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crystal like as in crystals of quartz. Not stained

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glass at all. But it's like cut glass. Yeah.

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And cut glass prisms like leaded crystal. And

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so the whole room gets painted with all these

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little rainbows. And for me, waking up to that

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in the morning, that's the first thing I see

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when I open my eyes. It's like, oh. He's putting

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these kisses on us, you know. It's his presence.

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His presence is like a rainbow, right? And that's

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what was seen in heaven around his throne is

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like a rainbow. So all these little rainbows,

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they're like kisses from the Lord. I'll tell

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you one more that I had just this morning. As

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I was waking up, I was waking up from a dream

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where I was working on a letter and trying to

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get the wording just right for the letter. And

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I got down to the bottom of the letter. And you

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know how on a professional letter, the person

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who dictated the letter, that person's initials

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are put at the bottom in all caps. And then there's

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a colon. And then there's the initials of the

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person who typed it, right? Who took the dictation,

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whatever. So at the bottom of this letter. are

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these letters, in capital letters, I -M, colon,

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and then M -G. And as I'm waking up, I'm pondering,

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who's I -M and who's M -G? And you just said

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it. I am the great, I am, God's the great, I

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am. Okay, God, yeah. No, M -G is. The M -G is

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mighty God. Mighty God, I am. So, you know, I'm

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asking the question, who's I am? And then it

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was like there was a chuckle in his voice, I

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am. And then I said, well, who's MG? And then

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I heard mighty God. So it's like a kiss in the

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morning when you first wake up. It's wonderful.

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The more you put your face towards him, you're

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looking towards him, and he's interacting with

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you, the more you just love him. He just loves

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you. And the more you become aware of his love,

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he's all around us. His presence is like oxygen.

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You can't live without it and you can't live

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without him. And the oxygen is like his love.

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So as long as you've got oxygen to breathe, he's

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really wanting you to live, you know, and he's

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wanting to have this. intimate relationship with

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you like he did with Abraham. So then there's

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Isaac, and he became very great and became very

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wealthy. I mean, obviously, he inherited what

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his father left him, which was a lot. Yeah. And

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the man waxed great, this is Isaac, and went

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forward and grew until he became very great.

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And then in the ESV version, that was King James

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Version, in the ESV, and the man became rich

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and gained more and more until he became very

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wealthy. And the man waxed great. Yeah. So that's

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the remarks that I just read earlier that this

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Dr. Adam Clark remarks about this strange and

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observable occurrence of the same term in the

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original, which is literally, and the man was

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great. And he went on. And he went going on and

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was great until he was exceeding great. Exceeding

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great, yeah. The greater greatest. But the thing

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is, he just keeps getting greater and greater

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and greater and greater. And his goodness and

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his kindness for us continues to get great as

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we continue to flow with him. So then you have

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Isaac's son, Jacob. Genesis 32, 9 to 12. And

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Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God

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of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, Return

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to your country and to your kindred, that I may

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do you good. That I may do you good. I am not

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worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast

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love and all the faithfulness that you have shown

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to your servant. For with only my staff I crossed

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this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

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Please deliver me from the hand of my brother,

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from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, that he

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may come and attack me, the mothers with the

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children. But you said, I will surely do you

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good and make your offspring as the sand of the

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sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

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So here's Jacob. Yeah. He goes across the river

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with his staff. And he had only just made this

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little agreement with God when he slept on the

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stone at Bethel. He said, okay, I'll let you

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be my God. And if you get me out of here, if

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you get me out of this pickle that I'm in, I'll

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give you 10 % of everything that I have. And

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at that point, he had nothing but his staff.

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But he's going to find his Uncle Laban to go

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work for him. And find him a wife. And so he

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gets there. And he gets two wives. He gets two

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wives out of it. Two wives and their handmaidens.

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Comes back with 12 sons. Well, actually, the

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12th hadn't been born yet. Anyway, he comes back

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with 11 kids and all these flocks and herds.

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And he started out with no flocks and herds.

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And he made this agreement with his uncle. You

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let me go and take the ring -straked ones, the

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ones that have spots and stripes and all those

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kind of things, markings on them that are not

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your typical plain white sheep and goats. And

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that'll be my flock, and I'll separate from you

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those, and I'll leave them with my kids to raise.

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And he had a way that the Lord showed him, apparently,

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to start getting more flocks out of Laban's flocks.

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And healthier ones. And healthier ones, yeah.

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He made sure that he just encouraged the healthy

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ones to come on his flocks. But the point is

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that he's working for his uncle who keeps changing

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his wages. Yeah, seven times. Yeah, and he still

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comes out with this great wealth because God

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had made a covenant. with his grandfather and

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with his father, he's saying, I'm going to do

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you good and make your offspring as the sand

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of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude,

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which is exactly what he had promised to Abraham.

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So it's three generations out of the mouth of

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two or three witnesses, let everything be established.

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God is showing that he will be good to those

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who are in covenant with him, Abraham, Isaac,

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and Jacob. So then when the children of Israel,

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And they've come out of Egypt now and they've

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got the promised land. Then after Joshua dies,

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you've got the whole book of Judges. And in the

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book of Judges, you see this pattern over and

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over again. And of course, we saw it in the wilderness

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with the generation that came out of Egypt that

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they got the severity side because they were.

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You know, they were slaves in their minds. They

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were complainers, too. They'd been complaining

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about the slavery. Then they started complaining

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about the food and the lack of water and fussing

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and fighting. And God just had to take his severity

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side to them. So in Judges, they have this pattern

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where They start to sin. They go down into sin.

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And then God releases his severity on them and

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sends enemies to fuss at them and do them bad.

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Then they cry out to the Lord. And he sends them

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a deliverer. He sends them a judge who fixes

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the problem, deals with the enemy. And then as

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long as that judge is living. They're behaving

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themselves. And there's peace in the land. And

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there's peace in the land. So they've got the

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good side of God because they're being obedient.

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And we had some very interesting judges, too.

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Oh, yes. You had Samson. Oh, yeah. And, you know,

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you always picture Samson. Picture Bible. When

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I was young, you had a picture Bible. And so

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Samson is this man of renown. Muslim man. Muslim

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man and all that. But different ones that have

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seen him. In heaven. In heaven. Said, you know,

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he's just an ordinary size. It was a supernatural

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strength. Yes. The Lord gave him. That's what

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made the Philistines. How is this guy that's

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just a normal looking guy take the gates? What

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city was he? He pulled the city gates. Gaza,

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I think. Yeah, the city gates of Gaza. He pulled

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them up. I mean, you know how many of those swinging

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doors? I mean, that's. Like a thousand pounds.

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Thousands of pounds. And he lifted him up and

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carried him somewhere. Carried him up the hill

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and planted him. Carried him up the hill. But

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it was a long trip. Yeah, it was a long trip.

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And all these supernatural things happened to

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this ordinary -looking man. And he judged Israel

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in a different way than a lot of the others.

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But he was a deliverer. He was a deliverer. And

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he made them mad, too. Oh, yeah. He made the

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Philistines so mad. And, of course, Lust got

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the most of Samson, and he unlost his eyes. And

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in his death, though, you know, he brought down

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the whole Temple of Baal and all those that were

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in with it because of the big pillars he was

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chained to. So, you know, he was one of the most

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unusual of the judges. Yeah. You know, then you

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had Gideon, you know, with the 300, down to 300.

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Yeah. And then it was down in the valley was

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all the... And so with 300 men, 300 shofars,

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and 300 lamps, it put them in panic. Because

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each one of them represented a whole thousand.

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A whole legion. Thousands. They thought there

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were thousands of people coming down on them,

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and they scattered. So it's like God had a different

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battle plan for each judge. They were all different.

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And so there would be peace, and then there'd

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be peace no more. Until finally they cried out,

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give us a king. Give us a king like all the other

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nations. That's another whole story. Samuel,

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yeah, he said, you don't want a king. So anyway,

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the first king went sour. That was Saul. And

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then so David is on the scene. God promised to

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build David a house. Yeah, because David wanted

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to build him a house. He says, no, you've got

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too much blood on your hands from being a man

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of war. So I'm going to give you a peaceful son,

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and he'll build the house, but I'm going to build

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you a dynasty. So in 1 Kings 15, 4 -5, Nevertheless,

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for David's sake did the Lord his God give him

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a lamp in Jerusalem to set up his son after him

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and to establish Jerusalem. Because David did

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that which was right in the eyes of the Lord,

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and turned not aside from anything that he commanded

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him all the days of his life, save only in the

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manner of Uriah the Hittite. Right. And I think

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:51.819
that was a, well, I think we covered, kind of

00:29:51.819 --> 00:29:54.579
covered that on the last episode. Yes, yes. One

00:29:54.579 --> 00:29:57.000
of David's big boo -boos, you know. Yeah. But

00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:01.759
the point is that God loved David. Yeah. The

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name David means beloved. Hmm, okay. And God

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loved David, and David loved God. That's the

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thing. He loved God. He declared that God was

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his shepherd. As a man after my own heart. Exactly.

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And that's why God wanted to build him a house.

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He wanted to build him a dynasty to put David

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up here and say, look, kings, this is the kind

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of king I want you to be. I want you to follow

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his example of loving me. and obeying me. And

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except for that one thing, he was faithful. And

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think of the Psalms that he wrote. I mean, he

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was so expressive. He was so creative. I'm sure

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there's a lot of them that were lost and not

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even because he wrote so many. Yeah, probably.

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So then God gave him the son, Solomon, which

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is another whole story that we've covered before

00:30:58.190 --> 00:31:04.859
of you know, here is the son that comes from

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the wife that he shouldn't have had to begin

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with. But God worked it all together for good

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because David loved him. So he gets the kindness.

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And God called Solomon Yedidia. God sent the

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prophet to David and said, God said, the Lord,

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Yehovah, said, I love this baby. And I'm calling

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him Yedidia, which means beloved of Yehovah.

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And Shlomo or Solomon means peaceful. So here's

00:31:43.059 --> 00:31:46.859
this peaceful man that is loved by God. And 1

00:31:46.859 --> 00:31:50.519
Kings 3 .3, you want to read that one, Philip,

00:31:50.619 --> 00:31:55.269
about Solomon? Solomon loved the Lord by walking

00:31:55.269 --> 00:31:59.650
in the statutes of his father David, but he also

00:31:59.650 --> 00:32:02.789
sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

00:32:03.289 --> 00:32:06.369
That's because he hadn't built the temple yet.

00:32:06.509 --> 00:32:10.009
Yeah. Unless he, maybe he was doing that after

00:32:10.009 --> 00:32:11.910
he built the temple. I don't know. Yeah, we don't

00:32:11.910 --> 00:32:14.529
know. But all we know in the end for Solomon

00:32:14.529 --> 00:32:17.210
is, and he had a thousand, what was it, a thousand

00:32:17.210 --> 00:32:21.450
wives or concubines. Yeah. That his wives stole

00:32:21.450 --> 00:32:24.680
his heart. Yeah, it's true. It's true. But to

00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:27.359
begin with, remember, we're talking about the

00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:29.400
goodness of God. Goodness of God. The kindness,

00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:32.200
the kind side of him. And he had peace all his

00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:37.359
days. Solomon had no wars. It's true. He built

00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:41.259
the kingdom that his father had handed him by

00:32:41.259 --> 00:32:45.079
war and maintained it by peace. Yeah, that's

00:32:45.079 --> 00:32:47.799
very good. And he also maintained it by making

00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.569
marriages with the daughters of the kings. So

00:32:52.569 --> 00:32:58.930
there was some kind of diplomacy going on, marriage

00:32:58.930 --> 00:33:02.849
diplomacy, that enabled him to have a peaceful

00:33:02.849 --> 00:33:07.690
kingdom. Now, he did wind up making mistakes.

00:33:08.349 --> 00:33:12.109
And, you know, as you pointed out, that his wives,

00:33:12.250 --> 00:33:15.369
because he'd married these foreign wives, they

00:33:15.369 --> 00:33:18.690
wanted him to build them temples for their gods.

00:33:20.970 --> 00:33:23.650
him getting them to worship the one true God.

00:33:23.789 --> 00:33:27.089
That was his mistake. If he was going to make

00:33:27.089 --> 00:33:30.349
these marriages, he would have been wise to get

00:33:30.349 --> 00:33:34.630
them to actually learn about the God of Israel

00:33:34.630 --> 00:33:37.569
and come to love the God of Israel and serve

00:33:37.569 --> 00:33:39.349
the God of Israel, and that would have made a

00:33:39.349 --> 00:33:41.170
big difference in his kingdom. Yeah, the end

00:33:41.170 --> 00:33:43.190
of his life and the kingdom would add a whole

00:33:43.190 --> 00:33:46.519
difference. Yeah, it would have. So then there

00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:49.539
were all kinds of kings, and some of them did

00:33:49.539 --> 00:33:52.460
well and some of them didn't. Some of them loved

00:33:52.460 --> 00:33:56.200
God, and there was trouble in their times when

00:33:56.200 --> 00:33:58.779
they didn't behave right and when they didn't

00:33:58.779 --> 00:34:02.079
obey God. Now, one of the kings that did well,

00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:06.859
at least until he made a wrong marriage, was

00:34:06.859 --> 00:34:11.139
Jehoshaphat. So 2 Chronicles 17, 3 -5, what does

00:34:11.139 --> 00:34:14.380
that say? The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because

00:34:14.380 --> 00:34:17.400
he walked in the earlier ways of his father David.

00:34:17.619 --> 00:34:20.980
There it is again. He did not seek the Baals,

00:34:20.980 --> 00:34:24.179
but sought the God of his father and walked in

00:34:24.179 --> 00:34:27.260
his commandments, and not according to the practices

00:34:27.260 --> 00:34:30.699
of Israel. Therefore the Lord established the

00:34:30.699 --> 00:34:33.920
kingdom in his hand, and all Judah brought tribute

00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:38.239
to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.

00:34:38.639 --> 00:34:42.420
So he walked in the ways of David his father.

00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:46.300
Now this is generations after David, but the

00:34:46.300 --> 00:34:49.760
house of David wasn't named for David. And so

00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:53.960
he was obedient to the God of Israel. And so

00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:57.320
what happened as a result of his obedience? He

00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.059
walked in the ways of his father, David. He did

00:35:00.059 --> 00:35:04.019
not go after Baals. He sought the God of his

00:35:04.019 --> 00:35:07.980
father, walked in his commandments. Therefore,

00:35:08.219 --> 00:35:12.840
God established the kingdom in his hand. So what

00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:16.679
happens as we walk with God, he begins to establish

00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:19.840
things around us. He begins to establish our

00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:23.159
authority as we learn how to use it correctly.

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:29.559
the idea of authority without realizing that

00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:33.199
they really need to let the Holy Spirit lead

00:35:33.199 --> 00:35:36.300
them in this authority thing. We do have authority.

00:35:36.500 --> 00:35:39.480
We absolutely have authority. Dean Braxton preached

00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:41.420
a message about it at the convention. If you

00:35:41.420 --> 00:35:43.760
haven't heard that, you need to go listen to

00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:48.280
it. So you have heavenly authority, use it. But

00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:54.030
the idea is that your authority comes. As you

00:35:54.030 --> 00:35:58.110
walk with him and you learn his ways. And it

00:35:58.110 --> 00:36:00.409
says, all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat.

00:36:00.409 --> 00:36:04.750
He had great riches and honor. So honor and riches.

00:36:04.769 --> 00:36:07.570
And again, I'm not saying that we're looking

00:36:07.570 --> 00:36:11.690
for prosperity. So we'll obey God in order to

00:36:11.690 --> 00:36:14.389
get prosperous. That's not the point. The point

00:36:14.389 --> 00:36:17.489
is that as you walk with him. as you have right

00:36:17.489 --> 00:36:20.769
relationship with him, he will establish good

00:36:20.769 --> 00:36:23.210
things in your life, and he will take care of

00:36:23.210 --> 00:36:26.050
you, and you're going to get the good side of

00:36:26.050 --> 00:36:29.949
him. You're going to get the goodness side. So

00:36:29.949 --> 00:36:32.690
then there's Hezekiah. He was another one. 2

00:36:32.690 --> 00:36:38.929
Chronicles 32, 22 -23. So the Lord saved Hezekiah

00:36:38.929 --> 00:36:41.610
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand

00:36:41.610 --> 00:36:45.130
of Sennacherib, king of Assyria. and from the

00:36:45.130 --> 00:36:48.050
hand of all his enemies, and he provided for

00:36:48.050 --> 00:36:52.010
them on every side. Wow. And many brought gifts

00:36:52.010 --> 00:36:54.690
to the Lord to Jerusalem and precious things

00:36:54.690 --> 00:36:58.849
to Hezekiah, king of Judah, so that he was exalted

00:36:58.849 --> 00:37:02.670
in the sight of all nations from that time onward.

00:37:03.090 --> 00:37:06.150
Wow. Well, that's favor to be honored in the

00:37:06.150 --> 00:37:08.630
nations around you. But remember what Hezekiah

00:37:08.630 --> 00:37:12.199
did when Sennacherib was threatening? And he

00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:15.139
laid that letter out before the Lord. Yeah. And

00:37:15.139 --> 00:37:17.719
he cried. We covered that in the last podcast.

00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:20.360
Right. Yeah, he laid it out before the Lord and

00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:23.800
just cried before the Lord. And Isaiah sent the

00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:25.519
word to him. This is what's going to happen.

00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:29.800
Yep. And it did happen. Yeah. And God prospered

00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:34.840
him in great ways. Now, his big mistake was that

00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:37.199
when— The king of Babylon sent visitors. Yes,

00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:41.590
go ahead. And he showed them everything. He showed

00:37:41.590 --> 00:37:45.309
them the treasures of the house of God. And that

00:37:45.309 --> 00:37:49.369
was a big boogaloo. You never show some foreign

00:37:49.369 --> 00:37:52.650
people what you have because you know why? They

00:37:52.650 --> 00:37:55.030
may just want to come and steal it. And they

00:37:55.030 --> 00:37:59.230
did. And they did. Not in his lifetime, but in

00:37:59.230 --> 00:38:05.449
his son's. Wow. So I think it's amazing to see

00:38:05.449 --> 00:38:07.989
that all of these people that we're talking about,

00:38:09.579 --> 00:38:17.039
are ordinary people that made mistakes. But they

00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:20.719
walked with God. And while they're walking with

00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:24.820
him, at least, he is giving them his good side.

00:38:25.860 --> 00:38:30.579
So we can look at our own lives and we can say,

00:38:30.780 --> 00:38:35.139
okay, let me just walk with God. I want to walk

00:38:35.139 --> 00:38:38.000
with God because I love him. And I want to love

00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.900
him more all the time. And I'm reminded of that

00:38:40.900 --> 00:38:43.159
little song, that little chorus that we used

00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:46.079
to sing. I want more of Jesus, more and more

00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:49.000
and more. I want more of Jesus than I've ever

00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:52.119
had before. Yes. I want more of his great love,

00:38:52.219 --> 00:38:55.960
so rich, so full and free. I want more of Jesus,

00:38:56.059 --> 00:39:00.519
so I'll give him more of me. And that is the

00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:04.780
secret here. If you want more of him, you give

00:39:04.780 --> 00:39:08.199
him more of you. And you don't save things for

00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:10.360
yourself, because that's where the severity will

00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:13.320
show up eventually. If you don't give it up,

00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:17.719
eventually it's going to call the severity of

00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:21.969
God to come and deal with it. So I love the promises

00:39:21.969 --> 00:39:27.070
to the godly. Psalm 112, verses 1 through 10.

00:39:27.230 --> 00:39:30.150
Would you read that, please? Praise the Lord!

00:39:30.670 --> 00:39:34.489
Explanation mark. Blessed is the man who fears

00:39:34.489 --> 00:39:37.570
the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments.

00:39:38.070 --> 00:39:41.250
His offspring will be mighty in the land. The

00:39:41.250 --> 00:39:44.710
generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth

00:39:44.710 --> 00:39:47.429
and riches are in his house, and his righteousness

00:39:47.429 --> 00:39:51.150
endures forever. Light dawns in the darkness

00:39:51.150 --> 00:39:55.269
for the upright. He is gracious, merciful, and

00:39:55.269 --> 00:39:58.409
righteous. It is well with the man who deals

00:39:58.409 --> 00:40:01.929
generously and lends, who conducts his affairs

00:40:01.929 --> 00:40:05.030
with justice. For the righteous will never be

00:40:05.030 --> 00:40:09.070
moved. He will be remembered forever. He is not

00:40:09.070 --> 00:40:12.829
afraid of bad news. His heart is firm, trusting

00:40:12.829 --> 00:40:16.659
in the Lord. His heart is steady. He will not

00:40:16.659 --> 00:40:20.619
be afraid until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.

00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:24.400
He has distributed freely. He has given to the

00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:28.320
poor. His righteousness endures forever. His

00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:31.860
horn is exalted in honor. The wicked man sees

00:40:31.860 --> 00:40:35.260
it and is angry. He gnashes his teeth and melts

00:40:35.260 --> 00:40:40.920
away. The desire of the wicked will perish. So

00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:43.980
you can see all the good stuff. All the good

00:40:43.980 --> 00:40:48.510
side of God stuff. that is there for those who

00:40:48.510 --> 00:40:52.469
fear the Lord, who greatly delight in his commandments.

00:40:52.730 --> 00:40:57.650
You know, just read Psalm 119 and get a heart

00:40:57.650 --> 00:41:01.969
for loving his word, loving the things that come

00:41:01.969 --> 00:41:05.150
from his word, loving his expressions, loving

00:41:05.150 --> 00:41:09.690
his ways. And the next thing is that your offspring

00:41:09.690 --> 00:41:12.630
will be blessed. They'll become mighty. And the

00:41:12.630 --> 00:41:14.809
generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth

00:41:14.809 --> 00:41:16.510
and riches are in his house. That's what we've

00:41:16.510 --> 00:41:19.329
been talking about. Wealth and riches show up

00:41:19.329 --> 00:41:23.590
for those that are showing up for God. And his

00:41:23.590 --> 00:41:26.969
righteousness endures forever. Light dawns in

00:41:26.969 --> 00:41:29.670
the darkness for the upright. He's gracious,

00:41:29.949 --> 00:41:34.389
merciful, and righteous. It is well with the

00:41:34.389 --> 00:41:37.210
man who deals generously and lends. See, all

00:41:37.210 --> 00:41:40.690
of these things are the characteristics of God.

00:41:41.469 --> 00:41:44.670
that are coming out through our lives as we walk

00:41:44.670 --> 00:41:47.190
with him. It's about getting filled with the

00:41:47.190 --> 00:41:50.949
Holy Spirit. And he'll begin to work his fruit

00:41:50.949 --> 00:41:56.590
in us. And as his fruit is working in us, you

00:41:56.590 --> 00:42:00.289
know, you bring forth good fruit. And there's

00:42:00.289 --> 00:42:03.710
prosperity of all kinds in that. And I'm not

00:42:03.710 --> 00:42:06.630
just talking about money. I'm talking about...

00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:11.300
a wealth that has to do with living well, living

00:42:11.300 --> 00:42:14.400
happily. It's not about what kind of a house

00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.980
you live in, and it's not how much you've gained.

00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:20.400
There's a scripture that I think is Paul writes

00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:23.699
that godliness with contentment is great gain,

00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:27.139
because some people are supposing that gain is

00:42:27.139 --> 00:42:29.719
godliness. In other words, some people are looking

00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:33.139
at the people who have gotten lots of wealth

00:42:33.139 --> 00:42:36.860
as though They've gotten it because they're godly.

00:42:37.260 --> 00:42:39.719
But that's not necessarily the reason why they've

00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:44.440
gotten it. But godliness with contentment is

00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:47.820
great gain. So it's the contentment of your life.

00:42:48.260 --> 00:42:49.880
And there's nothing wrong with being wealthy.

00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:52.659
I'm not trying to say that it's bad to be rich.

00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:54.380
No, it's not. But there's a whole lot of rich

00:42:54.380 --> 00:42:57.099
people that are really unhappy. Yeah. And they're

00:42:57.099 --> 00:43:03.039
really poor. Poor in spirit. They have all these

00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:05.809
things, but it's not. bought happiness. Yeah,

00:43:05.929 --> 00:43:09.230
it doesn't. It doesn't buy happiness. But walking

00:43:09.230 --> 00:43:13.630
with God buys happiness. Yeah. It's a wealth

00:43:13.630 --> 00:43:19.210
that money can't buy. Yeah. Money comes and you'll

00:43:19.210 --> 00:43:21.650
have it to use because you're trusting in the

00:43:21.650 --> 00:43:26.590
Lord. So even with a meager amount, if you are

00:43:26.590 --> 00:43:30.500
happy, and content in the Lord, it's greater

00:43:30.500 --> 00:43:32.659
riches than somebody who's living in a mansion

00:43:32.659 --> 00:43:36.219
and has six cars to choose from and can buy anything

00:43:36.219 --> 00:43:41.860
he wants. He's wealthy and unhappy. Nah, I don't

00:43:41.860 --> 00:43:44.780
want that kind of life. I want the kind of life

00:43:44.780 --> 00:43:51.019
that is just consumed with him and him consuming

00:43:51.019 --> 00:43:56.900
me. So one of the things that we see in our day,

00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:04.260
That is a beautiful illustration of the goodness

00:44:04.260 --> 00:44:08.719
of God and his goodness in keeping his promises.

00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:14.920
We see that in Deuteronomy 30. And Deuteronomy

00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:20.920
is basically Moses retelling the story of what

00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:24.739
has gone on in... their time in the wilderness,

00:44:25.019 --> 00:44:28.360
and it's just before they're going to go into

00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:31.340
the promised land. And so he's reiterating all

00:44:31.340 --> 00:44:33.579
of these things and encouraging people to do

00:44:33.579 --> 00:44:36.820
right, because now the majority of the people

00:44:36.820 --> 00:44:39.139
that came out of Egypt that were adults when

00:44:39.139 --> 00:44:41.920
they came out of Egypt have all died. And so

00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:44.619
now he's exhorting the young people, and he's

00:44:44.619 --> 00:44:47.860
saying in chapter 30, it shall come to pass when

00:44:47.860 --> 00:44:50.179
all these things are come upon you, the blessing

00:44:50.179 --> 00:44:53.389
and the curse. So you have your choice. You're

00:44:53.389 --> 00:44:55.630
going to get blessings if you obey, and you're

00:44:55.630 --> 00:44:58.110
going to get curses if you disobey. You serve

00:44:58.110 --> 00:44:59.949
the Lord with gladness or you're going to have

00:44:59.949 --> 00:45:03.289
trouble, right? All of these things, the blessing

00:45:03.289 --> 00:45:05.750
and the curse, which I've set before you. And

00:45:05.750 --> 00:45:08.090
you shall call them to mind among the nation,

00:45:08.230 --> 00:45:10.690
among all the nations, whether the Lord your

00:45:10.690 --> 00:45:13.369
God has driven you. In other words, in leading

00:45:13.369 --> 00:45:16.789
up to this, he's saying, if you don't follow

00:45:16.789 --> 00:45:19.389
me, I'm going to drive you out of this promised

00:45:19.389 --> 00:45:21.849
land that you're getting to go into now. Which

00:45:21.849 --> 00:45:26.329
he did. He did it twice. But he prophesied that

00:45:26.329 --> 00:45:30.789
they would come back a second time. And so here

00:45:30.789 --> 00:45:33.449
he's promising what's going to happen in Deuteronomy

00:45:33.449 --> 00:45:37.320
30. Bring these things to mind when you're in

00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:40.119
the nations where I've driven you. And you shall

00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:43.739
return to Yehovah your God and shall obey his

00:45:43.739 --> 00:45:46.159
voice according to all that I command you today.

00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:50.699
You and your children with all your heart and

00:45:50.699 --> 00:45:53.039
with all your soul. And one of the big complaints

00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:56.099
that God had with Israel and that Jesus had with

00:45:56.099 --> 00:45:59.679
the Pharisees and Sadducees is that they honor

00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:01.719
me with their lips, but their hearts are far

00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:05.659
from me. So it's our hearts that count. It's

00:46:05.659 --> 00:46:07.659
about serving him with your heart that keeps

00:46:07.659 --> 00:46:10.239
you on his good side, on his kindness side. That's

00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:13.860
good. So here's his promise. You start thinking

00:46:13.860 --> 00:46:16.719
about me. You start loving me. You start serving

00:46:16.719 --> 00:46:20.239
me with all your heart. Then Yehovah, your God,

00:46:20.340 --> 00:46:23.320
will turn your captivity and have compassion

00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:27.860
on you and will return and gather you from all

00:46:27.860 --> 00:46:29.940
the nations where the Lord your God has scattered

00:46:29.940 --> 00:46:32.670
you. And verse 5, the Lord your God will bring

00:46:32.670 --> 00:46:35.550
you into the land which your fathers possessed,

00:46:35.849 --> 00:46:39.550
and you shall possess it, and he will do you

00:46:39.550 --> 00:46:45.489
good and multiply you above your fathers. And

00:46:45.489 --> 00:46:47.869
the Lord your God will circumcise your heart

00:46:47.869 --> 00:46:53.230
and the heart of your seed to love Yehovah your

00:46:53.230 --> 00:46:55.949
God with all your heart and with all your soul

00:46:55.949 --> 00:47:03.170
that you may live. good. He will do you good.

00:47:03.250 --> 00:47:08.449
So as we follow him, as we walk with him with

00:47:08.449 --> 00:47:10.570
all of our hearts, as we love him with all of

00:47:10.570 --> 00:47:14.969
our hearts, he's going to do us good. We'll stay

00:47:14.969 --> 00:47:17.530
on the goodness side of God. We'll stay on the

00:47:17.530 --> 00:47:21.289
kindness side of God. So our God, we can't see

00:47:21.289 --> 00:47:24.530
with our physical eyes, but all the idols of

00:47:24.530 --> 00:47:26.829
the land, you know, like India and all that,

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well, they got... 30 million gods or however

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many. And most everything is something carved

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out of wood, hay, or stone or something like

00:47:36.150 --> 00:47:39.670
that. And it's just like when they came out of

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Egypt, the gods that the Egyptians, many of them,

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they're gods they could see. But here now they're

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serving a god they can't see. You can't see him,

00:47:49.389 --> 00:47:52.369
but you experience his goodness. Right. But all

00:47:52.369 --> 00:47:55.800
those other idols. don't give you any experience

00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:00.159
of goodness. Nothing. And even as God judged

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Egypt, each one according to one of their gods.

00:48:04.500 --> 00:48:08.239
They did. You know, the flies, the frogs. Yeah,

00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:10.239
that was the severity side. The severity side

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of God on Egypt. So, you know, we serve a God

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that we don't see in the natural, but we connect

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in the spirit to him. That's right. And even

00:48:19.619 --> 00:48:22.199
through Jesus, he's visited many people. And

00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:25.760
you can always expect he may just do that to

00:48:25.760 --> 00:48:28.539
you someday. Exactly. Just pay you a visit in

00:48:28.539 --> 00:48:34.119
the natural or in a vision. Yeah. And in the

00:48:34.119 --> 00:48:36.820
meantime, he's probably going to shower you with

00:48:36.820 --> 00:48:39.659
kisses if you're paying attention. All these

00:48:39.659 --> 00:48:44.199
little things. It happens to me frequently that

00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:46.960
something that I thought I liked or I loved or

00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:50.519
my favorite thing, all of a sudden it shows up.

00:48:51.340 --> 00:48:55.219
And it's like, wow. Yeah. And even when we went

00:48:55.219 --> 00:49:00.599
to the fireworks for 4th of July. Yeah. It was

00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:03.380
like with everything that popped off, every...

00:49:03.380 --> 00:49:05.980
Mortar. I don't know, what do you call them?

00:49:06.099 --> 00:49:09.699
Every firework? Everything that blasted into

00:49:09.699 --> 00:49:12.679
the sky. And all of these different shapes and

00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:16.760
sizes and colors and noises. And it was like

00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:19.579
at one point where it was coming so strong and

00:49:19.579 --> 00:49:22.119
so hard, I felt like the Lord was saying, this

00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.679
is how I love you. Bam. This is how I love you.

00:49:25.699 --> 00:49:29.000
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.

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And I started to cry because he's trying to get

00:49:34.460 --> 00:49:39.300
through to us how much he loves us. And as we

00:49:39.300 --> 00:49:42.880
love him. The more we put our attention on Him,

00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:46.340
the more we're going to see those ways that He

00:49:46.340 --> 00:49:48.960
loves us. And He loved us so much that He gave

00:49:48.960 --> 00:49:55.960
His only Son to die for us. He was shredded for

00:49:55.960 --> 00:50:01.860
us. He was crucified for us. He shed His lifeblood,

00:50:01.980 --> 00:50:05.539
His sinless blood, so that we could be set free

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from our sins and be restored in our relationship

00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:12.860
with our Father. Yes. Wow. Hallelujah. Jesus,

00:50:12.900 --> 00:50:15.280
thank you. Thank you, Father. Hallelujah. Thank

00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:17.920
you, Father. Thank you. Thank you. We enter your

00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:20.360
gates with thanksgiving. We enter your courts

00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:23.219
with praise today to thank you for your goodness.

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Yes. To thank you for your loving kindness because

00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:31.159
you are good. Yes. And you are kind. Thank you.

00:50:31.179 --> 00:50:34.159
And we just say thank you. And we give you all

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the praise. Yes. In Jesus' name. Yes, Lord. And

00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:40.340
teach us, Lord, entering into your holy place,

00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:43.639
holy holies, through worship. Yes, Lord. Thank

00:50:43.639 --> 00:51:00.389
you, Father. Amen. Amen. Your review helps the

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