2019-09-29 – Sunday PM Sermon – Eric Richardson – How Do I Show I Believe In God

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Good afternoon, several months back. I don’t know if everybody remembers. We did a lesson on why should I believe in God. We looked at Psalm 100 we saw that God, we for one he is our God. He is our creator and he is our shepherd. This lesson kind of follows up with that topic of why should I believe in God?

We’re going to look at today. How do I show that I believe in God? The word belief means a persuasion of truth on the ground of evidence and Hebrews chapter 11 verse one the state’s faith is the substance of things hoped for. The evidence of things not seen. Faith is the foundation of hope and the proof of being convicted of things not seen.

There are tons, tons of evidence in the Bible and outside of the Bible. There is a God. If you look at the world around us and creation, you look at, we were talking the other day about the eye, the everything that’s involved with the eye and the creation. I, it just didn’t happen. There had to be a designer.

If you look at the our creation, you look at the stars in the sky, you know that there is a God. If you look at internal evidence, if you look at the Bible and you understand the prophecies, if you go to Daniel chapter two Juul chapter seven through 11 and all the prophecies of the, of the Kings that were going to come,

a Babylon of Alexander the great, the Grecian empire and how if you look through history, it happened. There had to be, there has to be a God. That evidence is what we use to as our bounds of our faith. We know that there is a God. We know there’s a God, but today we’re going to look at how do we show our faith.

We’re not looking at the evidence. We’re going to look at how do we show our faith. The word show means to be visible, to make known, to cost, to understand, to teach or in form. Think about our life. And first Timothy chapter four verse 12 Paul told Timothy, look man, no man, no man. Despise I youth,

but be thou. In example of the believers, Paul told Timothy charged him, you be an example. Show your faith and Matthew chapter five verse 14 through 60 we are the light of the world. Aren’t we a light that sits upon a Hill? It cannot be hid. We are to shine our lights. We are going to an example. We’re going to examine one of my favorite examples in the Bible.

This man was young when he, when he was young, but when he came became King. His grandfather, Manasseh was extremely evil. He brought wickedness to the land of Israel. He was a man, brought in idols into the temple of the Lord. He brought about practices that were extremely evil in the in in Israel, and not only Manasseh but Ammon.

His son was one that is stated to be even more wicked them and NASA, but yet there was the, the son Josiah was one that at an early age chose to follow God in the midst of the wicked world. Think about the wicked world around him and Josiah and Josiah, his life growing up there was wickedness everywhere. There’s evil practices going on.

There’s idol worship. God was taken out of the picture yet. Josiah chose a different path. We’re going to examine, uh, Josiah this afternoon and we’re going to notice how first he chose the right direction at a young age. Go to second Chronicles with me. There’s two different accounts we could go to. Second Kings chapter 22 or we can go to second Chronicles,

but I want to go to second Chronicles first and verse and chapter 34 and we’re going to read one through three. Second Chronicles chapter 34 verse one through three says, Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem one and 30 years. And he did that which was right in the side of the Lord, in walked in the ways of David his father,

and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. Four in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David, his father. And in the 12th year he began to purge you to an Andrew slum from the high places in the groves, in the carved images. And the molten images.

He became King at eight years old and it says in the eighth year of his reign, which would make him 16 years old, he chose the right path. He chose a path of following God. A lot of people would say, well, your environment can make a big difference in your life. Josiah, he was eight years old here. He had,

his father was wicked. His grandfather has wicked. The place, the city, the country around him was wicked. Yeah, it’s still, he chose the right choice. Why is that? Well, it could have been some of the influences, maybe his mother Jetta diet. It could be like Timothy and first and second Timothy chapter one verse five. The faith that Timothy had was seen in first in his grandmother,

low grandmother and mother Lewis and Yunus. It could have been those that he spent time with. Go to second current second Kings. Now chapter 22 we see some good influences that he surrounded himself with or the influence he surround himself with. And second Kings chapter 22 and verse 10 says, it came to pass when the King had heard the words of the book of the law,

that he ran his clothes in the King commanded Hilkiah the priests and how you come. The son of chiffon, an echo and the son of McCaya and chiffon the scribe, and as a higher a servant of the King saying he had surrounded himself with two good examples. One was Hilkiah, the high priest, another was chiffon, the scribe. These two men serve God.

He surrounded himself with them. Notice the influence that had on his life. They influenced him to choose the right direction that Marines us. The question we always think, can those around us influence our belief in God and the direction we will take it? Can Josiah chose to seek God? Matthew chapter 26 or Matthew six and verse 33 but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.

Josiah chose God. He chose to follow the direction of God. Notice he did not go to the right hand nor to the left. Where did he go? Straight towards God. Many times you would. You would imagine the people around him were pulling him both directions. The confusion of the world around him. You should serve this God. You should serve this guy.

No, you should do this, but he chose not to follow the right of the left, but to go towards the true and living God. This expression means an unwavering adherence to the law of the Lord. He didn’t waiver in his adherence to God what path that he followed. What path should we follow? We have a great example. Don’t we go to first Peter?

We have a path to follow also. First Peter chapter one or chapter two in verse 21 for he even here into where you call, because Christ also suffered for us. Leaving us an example that you should follow in his steps. Who is the perfect example? Christ, it says that we are to follow in his steps. Notice Psalm one 19 one to five thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

We have a path to follow. That path is following Christ. You know the, the idea of, you know, when we were back at home and all the snow that we would get, we’d get, you know, six to 10 inches of snow and I’d go out to do chores and Matthew would follow me and I would be walking through the snow and I turned around and was Matthew doing,

he’s fallen right in my steps cause it’s easier, right? That’s the idea there. He’s, we’ve, Matthew was following in my steps. We were to follow in the steps of our Lord. He’s shining a path for us. That perfect example. It is critical to start that at a young age, but it’s also critical to start that now choosing the path that we are going to take,

the foundation, the foundation needed to show or make visible our belief in God starts with the right direction. Notice Luke chapter two in verse 40 this is a stated about Jesus and the child grew in wax, strong and spirit filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon him. Jesus chose a path at a young age to follow God. Jesus grew in strength.

That’s physically in knowledge, spiritually and physically in wisdom, putting the knowledge into practice and in favor with God. Notice the right direction. He chose the right direction. Just like Josiah. We need to choose the right direction. Not right, not left but towards God, But once Josiah picked the right direction, notice what he does next. He gained his zeal with that new knowledge he obtained.

Josiah picked a direction to go back to second Kings. Notice what happens next. Second Kings chapter 22 start with me in verse eight<inaudible> And Hilkiah, the high priest said in chiffon the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord and Hilkiah gave the book to chiffon and he read it. Notice this is the high priest and a scribe finding the book of the law.

They were soupy ones that had it with him, read it and had it in a scribe would rewrite this. The law certainly could be preserved. Yet they found it in the temple while they were doing work to the, to the building. Interesting. That shows you how far the city was or the nation was getting from God. Verse nine and chiffon,

the scribe came to the King and brought the King word again and said, thy servants had gathered the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord and chiffon. The scribe showed the King st Hilkiah. The priest have delivered me a book and should follow and read it before the King and it came to pass when the King had heard the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes.

Josiah. No, no. He, he must have read the things that they were not doing. We’ll see that he makes changes in the, in the, in the nation, but not only that, he was a read of what was going to happen to the nation of Israel because of their wickedness. Nate stated a couple chapters back. It brought him to his knees.

He rent his clothes. He had, he mourned for what was going to happen. Go down to verse 19 second Kings 22 verse 19 this is because nine heart was tender and now is humbled by self before the Lord. When now heard us, what I speak against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse and half rent thy clothes and before me,

I also have heard these set the Lord, behold therefore I will gather the into thy fathers and now shall be gathered into thy grave in peace and I shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the King ward again because Josiah, when he heard of the w what was going to happen to Israel and heard the what they were not doing was right.

He fell to his knees and had an honest heart because he had a tender softened heart because he was humble. He was not going to see that evil in his day. His mind was not hard into what he heard, but it changed his mind and wanting to fix the country. Many times we can have our hearts hardened, Not at one accepted, but Josiah was humble.

When we think about the evidences of God, what does it do to our hearts? Our hearts should be tender to the message and bring a desire to renew our minds, not going left or right, but towards God. Romans chapter 12 verse one and two I love that passage talks about having our minds transformed. Be not conformed this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.

Josiah had a mind that was transformed. We see that in his actions. When we understand what a life without God brings, think about a life without God. Josiah saw it. He saw the tear that was coming because of a life without God and it brought him to his knees and we think about a life without God. It should push us to serve him with all of our minds.

Go to Matthew or Mark chapter 12 Mark chapter 12 in verse 29 And Jesus answered the first of all, the commands his hero, Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord and that shall love the Lord thy God. With all thy heart, with all his soul, with all my mind, and with all his strength. This is the first commandment.

When we notice, when we know what a life without God is like, it pushes us to go towards God with all of our minds. The love there is a concern coupled with interest for God. The heart is putting our feeling and desire into our love. True love, our ma, the mind. There is the intellect, submitting our mind, who is learning in the strength is putting all of our energy in our devotion to God.

That is what true love for God is. We show, we display our belief in God. We have a disease, a zeal or devotion for God. Notice what Josiah did again in second Kings chapter 23 now second Kings chapter 23 his next move Starting in verse one And the King sent and then gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem and the King went up into the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him and the priests and the prophets and all the people,

both small and great, and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord. He took that book, not only read it himself, but he had the whole of Israel to hear it. He had them, had it read before them. Look at verse three and the King stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord,

to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and with all their soul to perform the words of this covenant that were written in the book and all the people stood to that covenant. Josiah made an agreement. He made a covenant between God in the front and the eyes of the people that he was determined to follow the Lord. We can make that same covenant today when we become a Christian.

When we say, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, we are stating that we know that he is deity, but we are also stating he is the Lord of my life. I am following him. He has the authority of my life. Now, that’s exactly what Josiah did. His devotion was shown in his life. Art of ocean should also be determined to do all of God’s commands by his word as we’d stayed in Psalms one 19 one Oh five,

but not only did Josiah gain a great zeal with the new knowledge he obtained, but it changed the world around him. He put his, he put his dude, his desire to action. He that internal decision that he had to, uh, to do the out, to do and follow our Lord was shown in his actions. He did not hide his belief,

but took the opportunity to make the changes he saw within himself first. And then in the nation. Notice chapter 23 again in verse four the King commanded Hilkiah, the PRI priests and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the DOR to bring forth out of the temple. All the, all of the Lord, a temple of the Lord, all the vessels that were made for bale and for the Grove and for all the hosts of heaven.

And he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of kid drawn and carry the ashes of them to Bethel. He may, he put his words into action. He told him to drag all those idols out of the temple and they burn them in the Valley of kid drawn and carry them away to Bethel. He put his words into action. He started with the house of God then and look at verse five then,

and he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the King of Kings of Judah had ordained to burn incidents in the high places in the city as of Judah and in the places roundabout Jerusalem, them also that burn incense and to bale to the sun and to the moon, to the planets. And to all the hosts of heaven. Then he moved to the groves,

their places of worship and tore them down. Look at verse six and he brought out of the grow from the house of the Lord without Jerusalem until the book kid drawn and burned it at the book. Brooke kid drawn and stamped at smaller power powder and cast the powder thereof upon the grays of the children of the people. Then he got rid of their wicked,

wicked sin sexual practices. Look at verse seven and he break down a house of the sodomites that were by the house of the Lord where the women were hanging for the Grove. Then look at verse 10 it just keeps going. Verse 10 and he defiled til fifth which is in the Valley of the children of Hinnom that no man may make his son or daughter to pass through the fire to Molek.

He ended This practice of sacrificing children to the false gods. Verse 24 continuing on, he got rid of the wizards, the wicked, the witches, and the idols. Verse 21 he instituted the Passover. Again. If you notice in second Chronicles chapter 35 in verse 18 it was stated that this Passover that he read instituted was one of the greatest Passovers since the day of Samuel.

That was hundreds of years before they had not had a Passover like this. Since the days of Samuel Josiah put his belief of God into practice. Our world is so confused. There is a need for Christians to be that shining light, the one that is sanctified, set apart from the world that can give direction. We can make a difference in our homes.

We can make a difference in our circle of friends for our young people, our schools, and our nation, but it starts with us. What can we do to make the world around us better? How can we change it? We look at our nation and how far away it’s getting from God. It seems impossible. It seems to possible how we can change things around,

but think about Josiah. He lived in a world that forgot about God. It was gone. They were far away from practice serving God. Yeah, he made a difference. Yes, he was a King. He had a position of authority, but his example Change that nation with a world that is turning from God and has no belief in him. Do you do we need to do just like what Josiah did and saying no to sin?

That’s what he did. He said no to sin. If someone offers us a drink, we say no. If someone is pushing us to listen to some gossip, to spread some gossip, we say no. When someone’s pushing abortion, we say no. We stand up against false doctrine. We stand it up against homosexuality. We do not support evil.

When we back and we pray and we protect the word of God, when we stand up for the truth, we can help to change our nation by being an example, by teaching just one person about Christ. Josiah made a big difference in his community and his nation because of his determination to show that he believed in God. If we want to make changes in our nation and our communities and our homes,

it starts with us. I pray that we have a conviction towards God and I pray that we strive to show our belief in God by first showing that we’re going to follow in the steps of Christ. We’re not going to veer right or left, but we’re going to go towards God. I pray that we have a zeal, a devotion to God that will push us to give it our all.

We will serve God with all of our might. Then with that zeal, we desire to change the world that is around us by saying no to sin and making changes in our small communities. First, notice what he says in second Kings chapter 23 in verse 25 this is close to the end of Josiah’s life. Verse 25 says, unlike unto him, was no King before him that turns to the Lord with all of his heart,

with all of his soul, with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, neither after him or Rose there any like him wouldn’t have. Be great to hear that be said of us, That we serve God with all of our minds, with all of our soul, and with all of our heart. Let us strive to always serve our God.

Where are you at today? You know, today is we do not want to give a, we do not want to miss the chance to be able to put Christ on in baptism before we can show that we have a belief in God. We first have to be a Christian. If we’re not a Christian, we’re not showing that we believe in God.

We’re following the world. Today is the day for us for salvation. Tomorrow be too late. Don’t put it off. Be baptized. Put me. Put Christ on in baptism. Or maybe you’ve fallen away. Maybe you’re not been showing your belief in God. Don’t wait. Do it today. She make that change to follow him with all of your mind.

Just like Josiah did. Whatever your need might be. Do it now as we stand, as we sing.

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Blind Leaders – Admonition 224

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:14 – “Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

Transcript:

And now, Admonition.

Have you ever been on a trip and gotten directions from someone who you learned later, didn’t know where they were going? I’ve done that. I’ve been that person. I’ve been the one giving the directions before. It’s not a great place to be. It’s not very comfortable.

Jesus accused the Pharisees in Matthew chapter 15 of being blind leaders of the blind, but there’s a difference. Interestingly, as you look into that context between the blind who are following the blind and the leaders, you see the Pharisees were blind because they were intentionally refusing the word of God and the people following them were blind to the truth that the Pharisees were unrighteous. Jesus will tell those who would listen, don’t follow the acts of the pharisees. The scribes follow the law that they teach, but not their lives. We have to be careful who we follow today.

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Have High Expectations

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Matthew 15:15-16

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:15-16 Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.” So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding?

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You Offended Them – Admonition 223

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:12 – Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

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And now, Admonition.

Sometimes there are some very interesting questions in scripture, and I find Matthew chapter 15 to hold one of the most interesting ones that I’ve looked at. It’s a question that comes to Jesus from his disciples. Notice what we read in Matthew chapter 15 verse 12, Then his disciples came and said, do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?

Jesus has just made a statement in opposition of the Pharisees, He’s called them hypocrites, and the disciples come to him privately and say, Do you know they were offended when you said that? And Jesus didn’t walk it back. Say, Oh, Jesus needed to apologize! You shouldn’t offend people. That’s wrong! Jesus didn’t say that.

Jesus said, Every plant, which my heavenly father is not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone. When you offend a sheep, you need to repent. When you offend a Wolf, you’re protecting the flock.

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Blind Leaders

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:14

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:14 – “Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

Transcript:

And now, Admonition.

Have you ever been on a trip and gotten directions from someone who you learned later, didn’t know where they were going? I’ve done that. I’ve been that person. I’ve been the one giving the directions before. It’s not a great place to be. It’s not very comfortable.

Jesus accused the Pharisees in Matthew chapter 15 of being blind leaders of the blind, but there’s a difference. Interestingly, as you look into that context between the blind who are following the blind and the leaders, you see the Pharisees were blind because they were intentionally refusing the word of God and the people following them were blind to the truth that the Pharisees were unrighteous. Jesus will tell those who would listen, don’t follow the acts of the pharisees. The scribes follow the law that they teach, but not their lives. We have to be careful who we follow today.

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Aaron Cozort is the preacher for the Collierville church of Christ.

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Hear and Understand – Admonition 222

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Matthew 15:10 – When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand…

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And now, Admonition.

Can a person who’s not a Christian–not obedient to God–understand the word of God? There are some in the religious world that say, no, that’s not possible. There are some in the religious world that say, until the Holy Spirit acts on someone’s heart, they can’t understand the word of God. Jesus believes differently than that, and I know that because in Matthew chapter 15 verse 10 when he called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, Hear and understand. Jesus calls upon people, everyday people, normal people in a crowd of people who are listening to him to hear and understand. Do you know what that means? Jesus isn’t calling upon them to do something they were incapable of doing. Jesus isn’t calling upon them to do something that the Holy Spirit had to act on them before they could do. Jesus is calling upon them to do what God has given us the ability to do, and that is to hear his word, understand it and obey it.

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You Offended Them

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:12

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:12 – Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

Transcript:

And now, Admonition.

Sometimes there are some very interesting questions in scripture, and I find Matthew chapter 15 to hold one of the most interesting ones that I’ve looked at. It’s a question that comes to Jesus from his disciples. Notice what we read in Matthew chapter 15 verse 12, Then his disciples came and said, do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?

Jesus has just made a statement in opposition of the Pharisees, He’s called them hypocrites, and the disciples come to him privately and say, Do you know they were offended when you said that? And Jesus didn’t walk it back. Say, Oh, Jesus needed to apologize! You shouldn’t offend people. That’s wrong! Jesus didn’t say that.

Jesus said, every plant, which my heavenly father is not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone. When you offend a sheep, you need to repent. When you offend a Wolf, you’re protecting the flock.

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Aaron Cozort is the preacher for the Collierville church of Christ.

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The Life of a Hypocrite – Admonition 221

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Matthew 15:7-8 – Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me.

Transcript:

And now, Admonition.

In Matthew chapter 15 and in verse seven Jesus says of the Pharisees, Well, did Isaiah prophesy of you saying, these people draw near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Isaiah said about those in his day that they were willing to speak words that sounded like they honored God. They were willing to say things and do things that looked like they honored God. But in actuality, their heart was something entirely different. Jesus calls this type of person a hypocrite. We don’t want to be considered, by God, as hypocrites. And here’s something that we need to remember: God knows our hearts. Are you living the life of a hypocrite today? I hope not. But if you are, I hope you’ll change today.

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Hear and Understand

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:10

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:10 – When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand…

Transcript:

And now, Admonition.

Can a person who’s not a Christian–not obedient to God–understand the word of God? There are some in the religious world that say, no, that’s not possible. There are some in the religious world that say, until the Holy spirit acts on someone’s heart, they can’t understand the word of God. Jesus believes differently than that, and I know that because in Matthew chapter 15 verse 10 when he called the multitude to himself, He said to them, Hear and understand. Jesus calls upon people, everyday people, normal people in a crowd of people who are listening to him to hear and understand. Do you know what that means? The Jesus isn’t calling upon them to do something they were incapable of doing. Jesus isn’t calling upon them to do something that the Holy spirit had to act on them before they could do. Jesus is calling upon them to do what God has given us the ability to do, and that is to hear his word, understand it and obey it.

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2019-09-25 – Wednesday PM – Aaron Cozort – Genesis 26 – Isaac

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Genesis Chapter 26 We have the only record. The only chapter I should say we have the Onley chapter dedicated to the promised son of Abraham. We’ve spent 13 chapters hearing God promised to Abraham, You’re going to have a son and we get one chapter dedicated to the sun. Because in those 13 chapters, the focus wasn’t the son. The focus was the promise, not just the promise of a son, but the promise of a seed. And ultimately, the seed that was promised is the seed that would bless all nations of the Earth.

And ultimately, the seed promise wasn’t about Isaac. But Christ, it was about the savior. It was about the one who would come through the seed of Isaac through the seat of Jacob ultimately through the seed of Judah through the seat of David. But the seed was Christ. And as we get to Genesis Chapter 26 we see a glimpse into the life of the son of Abraham. Now, before we get into Chapter 26 go to Genesis Chapter 18 Genesis, Chapter 18 verse 10. And he said, I will certainly return to you according to the time of life and behold,

Sara, your wife shall have a son. Sir was listening in the 10 door, which was behind him. Now. Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Therefore, Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord, Being old also. And the Lord said that Abraham, Why did Sarah laughed, saying, Shall I surely bear a child since I am old? Is anything too hard for the Lord?

So who made the promise? As he was standing there, who made the promise to Abraham that within a year Sarah would have a son, The Lord did God in the previous verses. Up until the point where this statement is made, there’s no identification with clarity on Abraham’s part that the person who’s in front of him, the person who’s there with the two companions, the person that he’s just fed dinner, too, is God. But now this individual speaks and we’re told clearly by Moses that the Lord,

when you see in the in the English versions, Lord and you see the capital l with the capital. But that small capital org or in some translations or some versions. You see just all caps. L O R D. What? They’re indicating to you what the translators were indicating to you is that is a use of the Hebrew term. Yeah, Way Jehovah. Jehovah Says to Abraham, You will have a son. You’ll have a son by Sarah. But notice this. Sara denies laughing verse 15 then for 16.

Then the men rose from there and look toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to send them on the way. And the Lord again, Jehovah is speaking. And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham? What I am doing since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all nations of the earth shall be blessed in him. Jehovah says to the two who are with him. Well, I hide what I’m about to do, considering that Abraham is the I’m gonna paraphrase here the chosen one through whom the chosen nation through whom the chosen seed will come.

Well, I hide from him. What I’m about to do. It’s a rhetorical question. By the way, God’s not looking for an answer from his two companions because there’s not one Do you have a comment? Correct. Correct chapter before? Yes, So Verse 19 though God says this is the one who I’ve chosen to become a great and mighty nation. He has no Children yet. He’s almost 100 years old. He has no Children, and he’s the chosen one through whom I’ve chosen to bring forth a mighty nation and the one to whom all nations of the earth will be blessed.

But then this statement, verse 19 4 I have known him. God says, I know something about Abraham. I have known him in order that he may command his Children and his household after him. We’re told that there was a result from Abraham knowing God. The result. Waas Abraham directed his Children’s path. God says I have known him on because I have known him. He will do this. And so while we only have one chapter dedicated to Isaac before Isaac’s ever born, we know exactly the kind of person Isaac’s going to be.

Now we’re gonna find out in this chapter he’s not a perfect person, but guess what. Neither was Abraham, and yet he knew Jehovah. Notice what we see. He says. That he may command his Children his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has spoken to him. The declaration concerning Isaac the declaration concerning Abraham’s path that he will set his descendants on after him is he will command them. He will direct them as a as a officer does his soldiers,

he will command them in the ways of righteousness and justice, and they will keep those paths. So in Genesis Chapter 26 we read concerning Isaac. There was a famine in the land. Besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham and Isaac went to Obama. Let king of the Philistine Sze in gear are. Then the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt, live in the land of which I shall tell you you look at a map. Isaac’s dwelling kind of.

In the midst of the land of Canaan, famine begins. It’s a great famine, like in the days of his father,

and Isaac begins to move. Move out of the land where the famine is begin to move towards the place where they’re still food.

Why would he begin moving? What? What does he have with him? Animals? And when there’s a famine in the land,

what is there quite often stopped being right. Grass and water? Because usually a famine is a result of a lack of water or a some some form of of invasion by,

uh, critters of some former fashion in sex grasshoppers or or such lying that have eaten the plants. So it’s a lack of plants,

or it’s a lack of water, generally speaking, so he begins to move. He comes to gear,

or a place where Abraham has been before, and God appears him and tells him what stay. But more specifically,

Don’t go where Don’t go to Egypt. Egypt will become the salvation of Jacob’s family. But it’s not time to go to Egypt,

and I firmly believe God’s telling Isaac don’t go to Egypt because there’s some knowledge that God has that if he goes down to Egypt,

he’s not coming back. That’s just purely Aaron’s judgment. That’s that’s not Scripture there. But there’s a reason God says you go where I tell you,

and don’t go to Egypt And what is Isaac do? Exactly what God tells him to do. He doesn’t go to Egypt.

He will go to gear. Or And he will dwell there. But he’ll have some of the same misgivings about the people in the land that his father had.

And you’ll make them the same mistake his father made without half the excuse that his father had notice what we read.

Dwell in this land. Verse three. This is the Lord speaking toe. Isaac and I will be with you and bless you for to you and your descendants.

I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham. Your father.

Now God is meeting with Isaac. God is speaking to Isaac and revealing to him I will be with you.

I will bless you. And I will perform the oath. The covenant that I made with your father.

I will perform it with you. What should that have done to Isaac? Mentally speaking, relieved. His anxiety assured him that he was going to be fine.

Why? Because God says I’ll bless you not. You’ll travel down to the land of the roar, and I and yet still much like we see in the life of Abraham and the life of Sarai.

He’ll attempt to solve his problems his way instead of God’s way. But let’s not fault him too badly.

We do the same thing, don’t we? Too often, instead of looking for God’s wisdom and following God’s path and allowing God to direct our path,

we go for our solutions. Well, look, as far as we can see, right just past the end of our nose and think we’ve got to figure this out.

So Isaac is told I will make verse for your descendants, multiplies the stars of heaven I will give to your descendants all these lands and in your seed all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge.

My commandments, my statutes, my laws. God said I chose your descendants because of the actions of your father.

He kept my commandments. He kept my charge, my statutes, my laws. If any people in the Old Testament beginning with Moses,

who recorded these events through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and wrote them down and gave them to Israel,

if anyone in Israel had wanted to know what they needed to do to make sure that the covenant continued through them and to make sure that they were blessed way Abraham was.

All they needed to do was come right here because God said, Here’s what caused me to use Abraham for this.

He kept my charge, my commandments, my statue to my laws. Had Israel wanted to know what it was that they should be doing There it is my charge,

my commandments, my statutes of my laws. And if you go through the entire book of Deuteronomy and the last year of Moses is life,

what you will read over and over and over and over and over again is keep his commandments, keep his statutes,

keep hiss laws, do what he has told you to do. I love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart,

with all thy soul, with all thy strength, with all my mind and love your neighbor as yourself.

And by the way, Jesus said those two ideas keeping all of God’s statutes, laws, judgments, commandments charges and loving the Lord thy God with all my heart,

with all thy soul, with all thy strength with all thy mind and loving thy neighbor’s myself, he said.

Those two things are synonymous. Those two things are on an equal plane because the loving the Lord thy God and loving one another as yourself is the underpinning of all of those commandments,

statues and laws. So if we want to be the Children of Abraham in a spiritual sense, what will we do?

Jesus and John, Chapter eight told the Jews, You aren’t the Children of Abraham. Who did he accuse them of being the Children of the devil?

Now wait a minute. These are Jews, these air direct descendents of Abraham. They are the bloodline of Abraham.

How is it that they could be the Children of the devil, what Jesus accused them of doing, keeping his law?

But he said, I know you’re the Children, the devil, because you do the works off your father.

He was a liar from the beginning, and so are you. He accuses the Jews of being the Children off the one whom they followed the deeds of he tells because this this again,

this is Aaron’s judgment here. But the Jehovah that we read about in Genesis chapter 18 I firmly believe is Christ.

But he tells Abraham, I know you, that you will charge your descendants to keep my statutes in my judgments on.

Then we read about Abraham that he kept his statutes and judgments, and if Isaac does what a burr him did,

he’ll keep his statutes and judgments. But the Jews in Jesus’s Day, he said, You’re nothing like your father.

You’re nothing like Abraham. You’re just like your father, Satan, because he rejected God from the beginning and continues to to this day just like you now,

because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge. My commandments, mice, Angie to my laws. So Isaac dwelt in G roar and the men of the place asked about his wife and he said,

She is my sister, for he was afraid to say she is my wife because he thought less. The men of the place kill me for Rebecca because she is beautiful to behold because Moses doesn’t write in chronological order.

We don’t know the exact point in time that this happens, but the indication is it is after the death of Abraham,

which means who’s already born Jacob, and it’s all because how old were Jacob? And he saw when Abraham died?

Ahmad Abraham died when he was 175 years old. Isaac was born when he was 100 years old. Isaac was 60 years old when Jacob and Esau were born.

60 subtracted from 175 115. Subtract 115. Okay, so they were born. They were 15 years old when Abraham died.

And the indication of all of these statements is Isaac’s now the patriarch, which means Abraham’s died. Which means Jacob Denise,

although they’re not mentioned in this whole account, are a minimum of 15 years old. And they’re there somewhere in this process.

When their father says to the men of the land, She’s my sister. Yeah, but we were never told,

though it’s sure a coincidence if they came up with the same. Why? But maybe Sarah told him.

I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t answer that, but tells the same lie with half the justification.

Because at least Abraham was half brother to Sarah. It was a lie. It was a lot. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Either way, here’s the Here’s the problem, Isaac makes the same mistake Abraham did.

He believed the people of the land to be those who didn’t fear the Lord. And so he feared for himself.

When God told Isaac, you stay here, don’t go to Egypt. God told him, You stay.

He should have known he was safe to stay. He should have trusted the Lord turned Proverbs. Chapter three.

We keep going back to this passage because this this passage keeps bringing forward the lesson we ought to keep learning every time Abraham and Isaac make a mistake.

Proverbs, Chapter three, Beginning of Verse five. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and there’s the key.

There’s the hard one and lean. Not on your own understanding. No one ever said the wise sayings of People are hard are easy to deal with because that one’s not.

We’re taught our entire life. Think through the process. Think through what’s going on. Make sure you make a good choice all of these things that we tell our Children,

which are good things, by the way. But we’re supposed to be reminding them. Think through them according to God’s commandments,

not think through what you do but think through what you do and weigh it against what God says. It’s not enough to weigh it against ourselves.

It’s not enough to weigh it against our wisdom. The wise man says. Stop judging yourself by yourself.

I think another wise person said that, didn’t I? Stop judging yourself by your own wisdom. Start judging yourself by your trust in the Lord and in all your ways.

Acknowledge him and he shall direct your path. Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord.

And apart from evil, when you start judging your direction based upon fear of the Lord, and that path is evil,

I’m going to not go that direction. What would Isaac have chosen Toh Lai or not like If he fear the Lord and departed from evil,

he wouldn’t be lying. Now again, we’re emphasizing the fact Isaac’s not perfect. Neither way, Isaac is righteous,

but he’s not perfect. And this is another opportunity when Moses has the ability to emphasize to the Israel lights.

You may be the chosen nation, but they’re something to learn from the people around you. Because here are righteous people who will again,

they won’t rebuke Moses. There rebuke Isaac as they rebuked Abraham. This is the lesson toe Learn that just because you might think you’re the only righteous person doesn’t mean you are.

We learned in the days of Elijah. Elijah thought. I’m the only faithful one of the Lord and God tells Elijah there 7000 who haven’t about the need to bail.

You think you’re the only one you’re not. So if I don’t hurry up, we’re never gonna get done.

And then nobody’ll have birthdays or cake or ice cream. Now it came to pass that he had been there a long time.

That happens when Moses writes you. You get a lot of detail and then go skip right past whatever,

whatever was going on, it’s, It’s fine, it’s fine. You didn’t need to know that he’s been there a long time.

That’s not a day, not a month. He’s been there a long time. When he had been there a long time that have been like the king of the Philistines,

looked through a window and saw that there was Isaac showing endearment to Rebecca his life. Then a Bill Malek called Isaac and said,

Quite obviously she is your wife whatever they were doing, they wouldn’t have been doing if they were married.

Quite obviously she is your wife. So how could you say she is? My sister, Isaac said to him,

Because I said, lest I die on account of her and a bit, Malek said, What is this you have done to us?

One of the people might soon have lain with your wife, and you would have been, you would have bought brought guilt on us.

Here’s a nation. Here’s the people who understands the guilt of adultery, and they’re not descendents of Abraham.

And they’re not those who have have been given the law of Moses. And they already know adultery is wrong and it carries consequences.

Guilt, he says. Notice, Yeah. What is this the same Been elected Abram. This there’s a indication,

and the answer is, we’re not certain. But there is an indication that a bim elect might be a position and not an individual’s name.

Much like the name Faeroe was so the it could be, it could be that a bit. Malek is the designation of the family of the kings of the Roar as,

and so there very well might be his son. It might be the same one. It might be the same Obama like that that Abraham comes to,

but it very well might be a descendant of his, uh, and not not him, that, you know.

Okay, there was once this guy who came and claimed that his wife was his sister and Nick caused all sorts of trouble.

And by the way, I let him have this land. Yep. Well, anyway, we’ll get to that in a minute.

What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife,

and you would have brought guilt on us. Or Dim Elect charged all his people saying he who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

A big erect becomes the protector of Isaac, who becomes the protector of Rebecca and noticed. Then Isaac sewed in that land and reaped in the same year.

Ah, hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him. Where have we read about selling and reaping hundredfold in the New Testament,

where we read about the word of God being sold by Christ and some reaped 30 fold and some 60 fold some 100 fold Isaac SOS on reefs a hundredfold.

What he sos, God said, I’ll bless you. Then we read. The man began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous.

He was no small account when he got there. Now he begins farming and becomes more prosperous to the point where he’s exceedingly prosperous.

The notice what happens for he had possessions of flocks and possessions, have herds and a great number of servants.

So the Philistine Sze envied him. Now the philistine had stopped up all the wells with which his father servants had dug in the days of Abraham,

his father and they had filled them with Earth and obey, Malek said to Isaac, Go away from us,

for you are much mightier than we. Here’s a nation of Phyllis teens, a city at a minimum,

a city which Abraham had made a covenant with. But the king comes to Isaac and says, You’ve grown so much since you’ve been here.

You need to leave. You’re bigger than we are. One family and his two sons and all their servants have become mightier than an entire city.

Sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it? Is he got a philistine. Oh, no. I think the indication is its Phyllis teens of this time based based upon the text because that’s what Moses calls them.

Um, again, we know this is the land of Phylicia. This is the land that will become the Philistine.

But the indication is the philistine sze of this day are anything like the Philistines of David’s Day. Okay,

so or even the Philistines of the days when Moses is leading Israel out of the land of Egypt and God says,

Don’t don’t go through late the Philistines because you’ll fight, you’ll face war. Okay, So then Isaac departed for 17 and pitched his tent in the valley of gear are and dwelt there.

And Isaac Dougall again the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham. His father for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham.

He called them by the names which his father had called them. Also, Isaac servants dug in the valley and found a well of running water there.

But the herdsmen of gear are quarreled with Isaac’s herdsman saying the water is ours. So he called the name of the well.

He sick because they quarreled with him. Then they dug another well and they quarreled over that one. So he called its name sitting a and he moved from there and dug another well,

and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name rehab off because he said, For now the Lord has made room for us and we shall be fruitful in land.

Then he went up from there to Beersheba. And the Lord appeared to him that same night and said,

I am the god of your father, Abraham, do not fear for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham’s sake.

So he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord. And he pitched his tent there and they’re Isaac’s servants.

Dug a well, then of Emelec came to him from gear are and from a who’s at one of his friends and fight call the commander of his army and Isaac said to them,

Why have you come to me since you hate me and have sent me away from you? Then they said,

we have certainly seen that the Lord is with you. So we said, Let there now be an oath between us,

between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you that you will do us no harm since we have not touched you.

And since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace, you are now the blessed of the Lord.

So he made them a feast and they ate and drink. Then they arose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another.

And Isaac sent them away. And they departed from him in peace. And it came to pass the same day that Isaac servants came and told him about the well which he had dug and said to him,

We have found water. So he called it Sheba. Therefore, the name of the city is Behr Sheba.

To this day, when he saw was 40 years old, he took as wives Judith, the daughter of Beer I,

the hit tight and bass math, the daughter of Ellen. The hit tight and they were a grief of mind.

To Isaac and Rebecca. Isaac doesn’t necessarily at least not quickly make the same preparations that Abraham did. How old was Isaac when his wife was brought to him by the servant of Abraham for him to marry 40.

How old is he? Saw when he saw Finds his own lives. Authority. Isaac doesn’t make the same preparation that Abraham did,

and it seems like he suffers for it. Actually, it’s clear he suffers for it because the daughters of the hit tights will be a grief to him.

And to Rebecca. You don’t get to always pick your family, and sometimes you get stuck with someone who you wish.

I sure wish I wasn’t related to them. Oh.

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Honor Your Parents – Admonition 220

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Scripture:

Matthew 15:4 – For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Transcript:

And now, Admonition.

In Matthew chapter 15 in verse four we read this, For God commanded saying, honor your father and your mother and he who curses father or mother, let him be put to death. Here in this passage, Jesus is quoting the old Testament and Jesus is saying, this is a commandment from God under the law of Moses — under the law that the Jews lived under in Matthew chapter 15 and this was a requirement of God’s people to honor their father and their mother.

But did you realize that this word honor isn’t talking about you? You speak to them respectfully. Oh, it certainly involves that — It involves respect, but that’s not what Jesus is saying — Jesus is saying, and the law was saying, when your parents get to an age where they are in need of your assistance, your help, your support, your financial assistance you provide for them. If you have parents who are older, are you honoring your parents?

2019-09-25 – Wednesday PM – Aaron Cozort – Genesis 26 – Isaac

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Genesis Chapter 26 We have the only record. The only chapter I should say we have the Onley chapter dedicated to the promised son of Abraham. We’ve spent 13 chapters hearing God promised to Abraham, You’re going to have a son and we get one chapter dedicated to the sun. Because in those 13 chapters, the focus wasn’t the son. The focus was the promise, not just the promise of a son, but the promise of a seed. And ultimately, the seed that was promised is the seed that would bless all nations of the Earth.

And ultimately, the seed promise wasn’t about Isaac. But Christ, it was about the savior. It was about the one who would come through the seed of Isaac through the seat of Jacob ultimately through the seed of Judah through the seat of David. But the seed it was Christ. And as we get to Genesis Chapter 26 we see a glimpse into the life of the son of Abraham. Now, before we get into Chapter 26 go to Genesis Chapter 18 Genesis, Chapter 18 verse 10. And he said,

I will certainly return to you according to the time of life. And behold, Sara, your wife shall have a son. Sir was listening in the 10 door, which was behind him. Now. Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Therefore, Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord, Being old also. And the Lord said that Abraham, Why did Sarah laughed, saying,

Shall I surely bear a child since I am old? Is anything too hard for the Lord? So who made the promise, as he was standing there, who made the promise to Abraham that within a year Sarah would have a son, The Lord did God in the previous verses. Up until the point where this statement is made, there’s no identification with clarity on Abraham’s part that the person who’s in front of him, the person who’s there with the two companions, the person that he’s just fed dinner, too,

is God. But now this individual speaks and we’re told clearly by Moses that the Lord, when you see in the in the English versions, Lord and you see the capital l with the capital. But that small capital org. Or in some translations or some versions, you see just all caps. L O R D. What? They’re indicating to you what the translators were indicating to you is that is a use of the Hebrew term. Yeah, Way Jehovah. Jehovah Says to Abraham, you will have a son.

You’ll have a son by Sarah. But notice this. Sara denies laughing verse 15 then for 16. Then the men rose from there and look toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to send them on the way. And the Lord again, Jehovah is speaking. And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham? What I am doing since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all nations of the earth shall be blessed in him. Jehovah says to the two who are with him. Well,

I hide what I’m about to do, considering that Abraham is the I’m gonna paraphrase here the chosen one through whom the chosen nation through whom the chosen seed will come Well, I hide from him. What I’m about to do. It’s a rhetorical question. By the way, God’s not looking for an answer from his two companions because there’s not one. Do you have a comment? Correct. Correct chapter before. Yes, So Verse 19 though God says this is the one who I’ve chosen to become a great and mighty nation.

He has no Children yet. He’s almost 100 years old. He has no Children, and he’s the chosen one through whom I’ve chosen to bring forth a mighty nation and the want to whom All nations of the earth will be blessed. But then this statement, verse 19 4 I have known him. God says, I know something about Abraham. I have known him in order that he may command his Children and his household after him. We’re told that there was a result from Abraham knowing God. The result.

Waas Abraham directed his Children’s path. God says I have known him on because I have known him. He will do this. And so while we only have one chapter dedicated to Isaac before Isaac’s ever born, we know exactly the kind of person Isaac’s going to be. Now we’re gonna find out in this chapter he’s not a perfect person, but guess what. Neither was Abraham, and yet he knew Jehovah. Notice what we see, he says. that he may command his Children in his household after him,

that they keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has spoken to him. The declaration concerning Isaac the declaration concerning Abraham’s path that he will set his descendants on after him is he will command them. He will direct them as a as a officer does his soldiers, he will command them in the ways of righteousness and justice, and they will keep those paths. So in Genesis Chapter 26 we read concerning Isaac. There was a famine in the land.

Besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham and Isaac went to a bim elect, King of the Philistine Sze in gear are. Then the Lord appeared to him and said, Do not go down to Egypt, live in the land of which I shall tell you you look at a map. Isaac’s dwelling kind of. In the midst of the land of Canaan, famine begins. It’s a great famine, like in the days of his father,

and Isaac begins to move, Move out of the land where the famine is begin to move towards the place where they’re still food.

Why would he begin moving? What? What does he have with him? Animals? And when there’s a famine in the land,

what is there quite often stopped being grass and water because usually a famine is a result of a lack of water or a some some form of of invasion by,

uh, critters of some former fashion in sex grasshoppers or or such lying that have eaten the plants. So it’s a lack of plants,

or it’s a lack of water, generally speaking, so he begins to move. He comes to gear,

or a place where Abraham has been before, and God appears him and tells him what stay. But more specifically,

Don’t go where Don’t go to Egypt. Egypt will become the salvation of Jacob’s family. But it’s not time to go to Egypt,

and I firmly believe God’s telling Isaac don’t go to Egypt because there’s some knowledge that God has that if he goes down to Egypt,

he’s not coming back. That’s just purely Aaron’s judgment. That’s that’s not Scripture there. But there’s a reason God says you go where I tell you and don’t go to Egypt.

And what is Isaac Do? Exactly what God tells him to do. He doesn’t go to Egypt. He will go to gear.

Or And he will dwell there. But he’ll have some of the same misgivings about the people in the land that his father had.

And you’ll make them the same mistake his father made without half the excuse that his father had notice what we read.

Dwell in this land. Verse three. This is the Lord speaking toe. Isaac and I will be with you and bless you for to you and your descendants.

I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham. Your father.

Now God is meeting with Isaac. God is speaking to Isaac and revealing to him I will be with you.

I will bless you. And I will perform the oath. The covenant that I made with your father.

I will perform it with you. What should that have done to Isaac? Mentally speaking, relieved. His anxiety assured him that he was going to be fine.

Why? Because God says I’ll bless you not. You’ll travel down to the land of the roar, and I and yet still much like we see in the life of Abraham and the life of Sarai.

He’ll attempt to solve his problems his way instead of God’s way. But let’s not fault him too badly.

We do the same thing, don’t we? Too often, instead of looking for God’s wisdom and following God’s path and allowing God to direct our path,

we go for our solutions. Well, look, as far as we can see, right just past the end of our nose and think we’ve got to figure this out.

So Isaac is told I will make verse for your descendants, multiplies the stars of heaven I will give to your descendants all these lands and in your seed all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge.

My commandments, my statutes, my laws. God said I chose your descendants because of the actions of your father.

He kept my commandments. He kept my charge, my statutes, my laws. If any people in the Old Testament beginning with Moses,

who recorded these events through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and wrote them down and gave them to Israel,

if anyone in Israel had wanted to know what they needed to do to make sure that the covenant continued through them and to make sure that they were blessed way Abraham was.

All they needed to do was come right here because God said, Here’s what caused me to use Abraham for this.

He kept my charge, my commandments, my statue to my laws. Had Israel wanted to know what it was that they should be doing There it is my charge,

my commandments, my statutes of my laws. And if you go through the entire book of Deuteronomy and the last year of Moses is life,

what you will read over and over and over and over and over again is keep his commandments, keep his statutes,

keep his laws, do what he has told you to do. I love the Lord, thy God with all thy heart,

with all thy soul, with all thy strength, with all my mind and love your neighbor as yourself.

And by the way, Jesus said those two ideas keeping all of God’s statutes, laws, judgments, commandments charges and loving the Lord thy God with all my heart,

with all thy soul with all thy strength with all thy mind and loving thy neighbor’s myself, he said.

Those two things are synonymous. Those two things are on an equal plane because the loving the Lord thy God and loving one another as yourself is the underpinning of all of those commandments,

statues and laws. So if we want to be the Children of Abraham in a spiritual sense, what will we do?

Jesus and John, Chapter eight told the Jews, You aren’t the Children of Abraham. Who did he accuse them of being the Children of the devil?

Now wait a minute. These are Jews, these air direct descendents of Abraham. They are the bloodline of Abraham.

How is it that they could be the Children of the devil, what Jesus accused them of doing, keeping his law?

But he said, I know you’re the Children, the devil, because you do the works off your father.

He was a liar from the beginning, and so are you. He accuses the Jews of being the Children off the one whom they followed the deeds of he tells because this this again,

this is Aaron’s judgment here. But the Jehovah that we read about in Genesis Chapter 18 I firmly believe is Christ.

But he tells Abraham, I know you, that you will charge your descendants to keep my statutes in my judgments on.

Then we read about Abraham that he kept his statutes and judgments, and if Isaac does what Abra him did,

he’ll keep his statutes and judgments. But the Jews in Jesus’s Day, he said, You’re nothing like your father.

You’re nothing like Abraham. You’re just like your father, Satan, because he rejected God from the beginning and continues to to this day just like you now,

because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge. My commandments, mice, Angie to my laws. So Isaac dwelt in G roar and the men of the place asked about his wife and he said,

She is my sister, for he was afraid to say she is my wife because he thought less. The men of the place kill me for Rebecca because she is beautiful to behold because Moses doesn’t write in chronological order.

We don’t know the exact point in time that this happens, but the indication is it is after the death of Abraham,

which means who’s already born Jacob, and it’s all because how old were Jacob? And he saw when Abraham died?

Come on. Abraham died when he was 175 years old. Isaac was born when he was 100 years old.

Isaac was 60 years old when Jacob and Esau were born. 60 subtracted from 170 5 115. Subtract 115.

Okay, so they were born. They were 15 years old when Abraham died. And the indication of all of these statements is Isaac’s now the patriarch,

which means Abraham’s died. Which means Jacob Denise, although they’re not mentioned in this whole account, are a minimum of 15 years old.

And they’re there somewhere in this process. When their father says to the men of the land, She’s my sister.

Yeah, but we were never told, though it’s sure a coincidence if they came up with the same.

Why? But maybe Sarah told him. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t answer that,

but tells the same lie with half the justification. Because at least Abraham was half brother to Sarah. It was a lie.

It was a lot. Yeah, yeah, All right. Either way, here’s the Here’s the problem.

Isaac makes the same mistake Abraham did. He believes the people of the land to be those who didn’t fear the Lord.

And so he feared for himself. When God told Isaac, you stay here, don’t go to Egypt.

God told him, You stay. He should have known he was safe to stay. He should have trusted the Lord turned Proverbs.

Chapter three. We keep going back to this passage because this this passage keeps bringing forward the lesson. We ought to keep learning every time Abraham and Isaac make a mistake.

Proverbs, Chapter three, Beginning of Verse five. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and there’s the key.

There’s the hard one and lean. Not on your own understanding. No one ever said the wise sayings of People are hard are easy to deal with because that one’s not.

We’re taught our entire life. Think through the process. Think through what’s going on. Make sure you make a good choice all of these things that we tell our Children,

which are good things, by the way. But we’re supposed to be reminding them. Think through them according to God’s commandments,

not think through what you do but think through what you do and weigh it against what God says. It’s not enough to weigh it against ourselves.

It’s not enough to weigh it against our wisdom. The wise man says. Stop judging yourself by yourself.

I think another wise person said that, didn’t I? Stop judging yourself by your own wisdom. Start judging yourself by your trust in the Lord and in all your ways.

Acknowledge him and he shall direct your path. Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the Lord.

And apart from evil, when you start judging your direction based upon fear of the Lord, and that path is evil,

I’m going to not go that direction. What would Isaac have chosen Toh Lai or not like If he fear the Lord and departed from evil,

he wouldn’t be lying. Now again, we’re emphasizing the fact Isaac’s not perfect. Neither way, Isaac is righteous,

but he’s not perfect. And this is another opportunity when Moses has the ability to emphasize to the Israel lights.

You may be the chosen nation, but they’re something to learn from the people around you. Because here are righteous people who will again,

they won’t rebuke Moses there, Rebuke Isaac as they rebuked Abraham. This is the lesson toe Learn that just because you might think you’re the only righteous person doesn’t mean you are.

We learned in the days of Elijah. Elijah thought. I’m the only faithful one of the Lord and God tells Elijah there 7000 who haven’t about the need to bail.

You think you’re the only one you’re not. So if I don’t hurry up, we’re never gonna get done.

And then nobody’ll have birthdays or cake or ice cream. Now it came to pass that he had been there a long time.

That happens when Moses writes you. You get a lot of detail and then go skip right past whatever,

whatever was going on, it’s, It’s fine, it’s fine. You didn’t need to know that he’s been there a long time.

That’s not a day, not a month. He’s been there a long time. When he had been there,

a long time would have been like the king of the Philistines looked through a window and saw that there was Isaac showing endearment to Rebecca his life.

Then a Bill Malek called Isaac and said, Quite obviously she is your wife. Whatever they were doing,

they wouldn’t have been doing if they were married. Quite obviously she is your wife. So how could you say she is?

My sister, Isaac said to him, Because I said, lest I die on account of her and a bit,

Malek said. What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife,

and you would have been you would have bought brought guilt on us. Here’s a nation. Here’s the people who understands the guilt of adultery,

and they’re not descendents of Abraham. And they’re not those who have have been given the law of Moses.

And they already know adultery is wrong and it carries consequences. Guilt, he says. Notice. Yeah,

this there’s a indication, and the answer is, we’re not certain. But there is an indication that a bim elect might be a position and not an individual’s name.

Much like the name Faeroe was so the it could be, it could be that a bit. Malek is the designation of the family of the kings of the Roar as,

and so there very well might be his son. It might be the same one. It might be the same Obama like that that Abraham comes to,

but it very well might be a descendant of his, uh, and not not him, that, you know.

Okay, there was once this guy who came and claimed that his wife was his sister and Nick caused all sorts of trouble.

And by the way, I let him have this land. Yep. Well, anyway, we’ll get to that in a minute.

What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife,

and you would have brought guilt on us. Or Dim Elect charged all his people saying he who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

A bill elect becomes the protector of Isaac, who becomes the protector of Rebecca and noticed. Then Isaac sewed in that land and reaped in the same year.

Ah, hundredfold. And the Lord blessed him. Where have we read about selling and reaping hundredfold in the New Testament,

where we read about the word of God being sold by Christ and some reaped 30 fold and some 60 fold.

Some 100 fold Isaac sos on reefs a hundredfold. What he sos? God said, I’ll bless you.

Then we read. The man began to prosper and continued prospering until he became very prosperous. He was no small account when he got there.

Now he begins farming and becomes more prosperous to the point where he’s exceedingly prosperous. The notice what happens for He had possessions of flocks and possessions,

have herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistine Sze envied him. Now the philistine had stopped up all the wells with which his father servants had dug in the days of Abraham,

his father and they had filled them with Earth and obey. Malek said to Isaac, Go away from us,

for you are much mightier than we. Here’s a nation of Phyllis teens, a city at a minimum,

a city which Abraham had made a covenant with. But the king comes to Isaac and says, You’ve grown so much since you’ve been here.

You need to leave. You’re bigger than we are. One family and his two sons and all their servants have become mightier than an entire city.

Sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it? Is, uh, he got a philistine. Oh, I think the indication is its Phyllis teens of this time based based upon the text,

because that’s what Moses calls them. Um, again, we know this is the land of Phylicia. This is the land that will become the Philistine.

But the indication is the philistine sze of this day are anything like the Philistines of David’s Day. Okay,

so or even the Philistines of the days when Moses is leading Israel out of the land of Egypt and God says,

Don’t don’t go through late the Philistines because you’ll fight, you’ll face war. Okay, So then Isaac departed for 17 and pitched his tent in the valley of gear are and dwelt there.

And Isaac Dougall again, the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham, his father for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham.

He called them by the names which his father had called them. Also, Isaac servants dug in the valley and found a well of running water there.

But the herdsmen of gear are quarreled with Isaac’s herdsman saying the water is ours. So he called the name of the well.

He sick because they quarreled with him. Then they dug another well and they quarreled over that one. So he called its name sitting a and he moved from there and dug another well,

and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name rehab off because he said, For now the Lord has made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land.

Then he went up from there to Beersheba. And the Lord appeared to him that same night and said,

I am the god of your father, Abraham, do not fear for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham’s sake.

So he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord. And he pitched his tent there.

And they’re Isaac’s servants. Dug a well. Then of Emelec came to him from gear are and from a who’s at one of his friends and fight call the commander of his army and Isaac said to them,

Why have you come to me since you hate me and have sent me away from you? Then they said we have certainly seen that the Lord is with you.

So we said, Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you that you will do us no harm since we have not touched you.

And since we have done nothing to you but good and have sent you away in peace, you are now the blessed of the Lord.

So he made them a feast and they ate and drink. Then they arose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another.

And Isaac sent them away. And they departed from him in peace. And it came to pass the same day that Isaac servants came and told him about the well which he had dug and said to him,

We have found water. So he called it Sheba. Therefore, the name of the city is Behr Sheba.

To this day when he Saul was 40 years old, he took as wives Judith, the daughter of Beer I,

the hit tight and bass math, the daughter of Ellen, The hit tight and they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebecca.

Isaac doesn’t necessarily at least not quickly make the same preparations that Abraham did How old was Isaac when his wife was brought to him by the servant of Abraham for him to marry 40.

How old is he? Saw when he saw Finds his own lives. Authority. Isaac doesn’t make the same preparation that Abraham did,

and it seems like he suffers for it. Actually, it’s clear he suffers for it because the daughters of the hit tights will be a grief to him.

And to Rebecca. You don’t get to always pick your family, and sometimes you get stuck with someone who you wish.

I sure wish I wasn’t related to them. No.