Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] I'm Rich Young iii. And this is an amazing thing.
[00:00:17] I am here to facilitate learning the word of God on a fundamental level.
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[00:00:29] And that starts now.
[00:00:40] Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to an amazing thing. Thank you for joining me today. This is our midweek show where we. It's a continual Bible study and we will start where we left off last week and continuing in.
[00:00:54] In the beginning. This is lesson number five, God cultivating a relationship with man. And we'll continue with that. But we'll start with a review from where we left off last week.
[00:01:05] Last week we talked about two men bringing their worship to God.
[00:01:10] One man's worship was accepted, the other man's was not.
[00:01:14] And a lot of times when we find ourselves not being accepted the way that we think we are to that can be upsetting. And usually in a case like that, pride is the reason why we feel that way.
[00:01:28] And in that case, God was the one who told him that his worship was wrong.
[00:01:36] So he doesn't want to change anything. He's full of pride, goes out and kills his brother.
[00:01:41] And so we see how that whole thing turned out. And when we are so full of pride and we are disobedient, sin lies at the door a hundred percent out of a hundred. So we had that situation.
[00:01:55] We go on to men seeking a relationship with God.
[00:02:02] We know that Enoch walked with God and God took him home with him. He says, enoch is closer to where I live than where you live. Come on, go home with me. Enoch does. And so that shows the. That's a great credit to Enoch's life and his spiritual walk with God. And we go on and God men become wicked once again. And God regrets even having man on the. On the face of the earth and seeks to destroy man just start all over.
[00:02:33] But Noah finds grace in the sight of God.
[00:02:37] And so Noah, God gives Noah a plan for his salvation and told Noah to build your salvation, which is the ark this way, by this many cubits wide, this many cubits high.
[00:02:49] And if you want your salvation to float, stick to the pattern.
[00:02:55] And so throughout time, God has always told man to stick to the pattern. We don't have the authority to change the pattern.
[00:03:02] And so many, many different people of Noah's age who saw Noah building his salvation didn't like it, didn't agree with it, thought it was crazy.
[00:03:12] And so Noah was able to save himself and those who heard him. And in this case, it was just his family.
[00:03:19] So that's where we were. With that, Noah found grace and God tried to, to save mankind. Ended up just saying, saving one family.
[00:03:30] After that, man began to grow and become populating the earth once again. And God asked us to scatter out and to replenish the earth.
[00:03:44] And they said, we don't want to replenish earth. We feel better if we are in cities together.
[00:03:53] And so we want to stay together.
[00:03:55] And then someone said that, you know, last time we disobeyed God, he sent a flood and killed everybody. Well, we'll build a tower and let him send it. We'll run up the tower, have homeland security is our own homeland Security.
[00:04:10] We can secure and save ourselves as that happen.
[00:04:15] So God has to confound the language now because, you know, that's one thing that breeds distrust is when you don't know what these folks are talking about, you can't understand the language. And so we'll, that's where we'll, we'll stop our review of last week and that will become a part of a future lesson that we will, we will, we will cover in the future. So that's going to be something you need to remember.
[00:04:39] Also we need to know that in the word of God, when God sees something that's very, very important to him, he'll spend a lot of time on that.
[00:04:50] And it depends on what the subject matter is.
[00:04:53] It may be where he's discussing this, these particular things. He may spend three verses on something that he that is important and one verse on the other four or five things.
[00:05:06] So this is a pattern that we should take note of as we study the Word of God. And that's the case where we start here. We know that God spent 11 chapters on 2000 years.
[00:05:19] Now we get to the point where we're dealing with one man's life. God slams on the brakes and spends 12 chapters on that one man. That's quite a tribute to that one man.
[00:05:31] And put how he's known and how he's going to be known. And we'll start to study that in this particular lesson. We're going to begin here in Genesis, chapter 12, verses 1 and 2. Now we're talking about Abraham, who's known as the father of the faithful. He's the father of the physical people of God upon the earth, the Jews as well as the spiritual people upon the earth, the church.
[00:05:54] And so we'll start reading here. This is Genesis 12, 1 and 2.
[00:05:58] Now the Lord said unto Abram, he's called Abram at this time. Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house into a land that I will show you.
[00:06:11] I will make of thee a great nation. I will bless thee and make thy name great. And thou shall be a blessing. So God sees a great blessing for Abraham as Abraham being able to be a blessing.
[00:06:26] So that's an amazing thing right there. So God has a plan to shape the world through the generations of this one man. And this one man is going to be the key ingredient in this nation that God is going to build. So God tells Abraham he's going to be a blessing. God is showing us that it's better to be a blessing than to always be looking for a blessing ourselves.
[00:06:51] And so Abraham, a faithful man, so he's full of faith, which is the first step toward pleasing God.
[00:07:00] The scripture tells us to believe that God is and that he's a rewarder of them that digitally seek him. That's the first step.
[00:07:11] So believing in God is what Abraham did here. And that's very, very pleasing to him.
[00:07:18] And so God is about to start to remove the things from Abraham's life that he does not like. That's going to be in the way of building the proper relationship with God and bringing things into Abraham's life, introducing him to things that will be a blessing in their relationship together.
[00:07:39] So Abram first has to let go of his own ambition.
[00:07:43] God knows what he built within us.
[00:07:47] So we need to grab a hold to God's plan. And if we must do this our own way and not submit ourselves, then we cannot be used by God.
[00:07:57] So a lot of times we find ourselves asking God to bless what we have already decided for ourselves.
[00:08:06] I'm going to start this business and I'm praying to God to bless me in this business. Instead of seeking what God has decided that we need or what's best for our lives.
[00:08:18] That's a habit that is right throughout our relationship with God. So we have to learn to die to our own will.
[00:08:27] You know, if we lose our lives, for God's sake, we'll find it.
[00:08:33] And so God knows what he put in us from the start. And that thing, we'll be happy in that. A lot of times people hear things like that that I just stated and they feel like God is going to prevent them from becoming some in some profession or something that they desire to be. That's not always the case.
[00:08:53] Sometimes God's desire for your life will fit into what you're already doing. Maybe he led you into that, but I certainly would Seek him to see what he says about it. And if that should be what I've decided to do in my own life is not what God has. He'll show me, he'll bless me, he'll teach me, and he'll put me in that place that I need to be to fulfill what he's pronounced for my life. And that is what is meant by us being able to submit ourselves to his will.
[00:09:24] He wants you to leave your family, leave your traditions behind and your business and the way you see things, your opinions, your relations.
[00:09:34] A lot of times we have people.
[00:09:39] We grew up in a community with people, relatives and things that have shaped our lives and built our traditions.
[00:09:45] And that becomes the right way to us. That's the way Grandma and Grandpa did it. That's where Daddy did it. So obviously that must be the way God intends for us to do it. Well, not necessarily.
[00:09:57] A lot of times we grow up feeling good about a particular thing, but that doesn't mean that it's right in God's eyes. And a lot of times we don't take time to pursue and to see what God's opinion of that particular thing is.
[00:10:11] And God was sometimes the first step with you seeking what your life is in his eyes, is to separate you from a particular belief that you have particular to separate you from a family tradition or even a family, which is what God does with Abraham that we're going to see shortly here.
[00:10:33] God wants to separate you from something that he does not like, even though it seems right to you.
[00:10:40] I was watching a show one time and they were trying to convey this particular point to someone and then they were interrupted. Look, we don't want to hit it. It's called that's the way we do it.
[00:10:53] And so we're not interested in changing anything. This, the way we do it is good enough for us.
[00:10:58] And that's what we are going to do here. And so we first have to be able to get out of that type of thing. And so, you know, it will. It would be tough for any human to be able to walk with God and hold on to his own traditions and thoughts and opinions of his own culture and those kinds of things. So we have to be willing to.
[00:11:22] To.
[00:11:24] To do what it is that God is asking us to do willingly and with a. With an open heart and a joyful heart. This is Genesis, chapter 12, verse 3. And I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse of thee. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. This is a Scripture that is in effect today, it's still working. It's still in effect.
[00:11:51] Our legislation, at least up until this point, has believed that scripture. Now under the Pratt at the time of this recording, the past executive branch and a lot of the Congress under President Biden in that time don't necessarily believe that. So that has changed in a lot of our leadership have begun to forget that scripture. We know that President Biden withheld the armaments that were already allocated to Israel by our Congress. He had no right to do, but he held it back because Israel wouldn't do what he said.
[00:12:30] And so I don't know how that whole thing would turn down. I know that unrepentant sin always brings judgment, and that is still up in the air. But God knows looking for us. God knows how to separate the people who didn't agree with that, those things from the people who did. And those are the kind of things that we have to be willing to accept in our own lives. A lot of times we have.
[00:12:55] It's difficult to go against the crowd when they're doing something that goes against God's word. But we have to be men and women willing to do that.
[00:13:04] The United States has great wealth and we're the most powerful nation on earth right now. And so we have attained that, not because of our own craftsmanship, not because of our own intelligence, is because we Israel's friend.
[00:13:21] That is the root of why, of where our ability to be great and to be so much a blessing to people around the world comes from that. And we don't have to be another people or another country's enemy to be Israel's friend.
[00:13:42] You know, it's almost like Satan leads us down a path to believe that I have to do this. Only two, two things that could be either this or that. Well, there's 10, 20 different things we can be. And so I can be Israel's friend. I can also be the Palestinians friend. I can also be all the Arab people that are Israel's neighbor's friend too.
[00:14:04] But it has to be within the boundaries of God's word. And I have to come to that conclusion. And so God gave us the borders of the Promised Land. We're going to see what that those borders are.
[00:14:17] And we know that it said in Acts, chapter 10, verse 34 that God is no respecter of persons. That mean God didn't favor one people over another.
[00:14:27] But when you're out of covenant with him, then you tie his hands to where he can't work and do the things in your life that he wants to do. And that's the case with people all around the world. So God is about to show us we need to adopt the lifestyle of Abraham.
[00:14:45] We need to become the true children of Abraham.
[00:14:50] And so we're going to learn about how to do that in the time that we live in future lessons. So we're gonna go on now to Genesis, chapter 12, verses 6 and 7.
[00:15:00] And Abraham passed through the land unto a place of sichem, unto the plain of Moreh.
[00:15:07] And the Canaanite was there in the land. And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said, unto thy seed, I will give this land.
[00:15:16] So this is the first time we see the promise of who this land belongs to that God gave to Abraham and to Israel.
[00:15:25] It doesn't matter where we are.
[00:15:28] We know that if we're close to God, God will bring things to pass, bless us, help us to be able to be a part of his plan, no matter where we find ourselves. So we're going to continue there. Even the Father of the faithful failed to obey God fully when God started making all these plans with him.
[00:15:53] So God. God told Abraham to leave your land and your kindred, and I'm going to show a land that I'm going to give you. So Abraham partially obeyed that he took his nephew with him. Now, in Abraham's tradition, and in his mind, he thought, I helped raise this boy. His father's passed on, and he's my responsibility. I'm gonna take him on with me. God didn't tell him because when you tend to do things like that, you are continuing to bring a tradition with you, a belief system close to you that God is trying to move you away from so that he can build a relationship with you. A lot of times the traditions that we have are preventative to God building a relationship that he wants to have with us. And so that's what we find here. And so, so we know that Abraham brings his nephew with him. So he brings with him strife tradition, all the conditions that they're trying. God is trying to get them away from. God is trying to separate him from that. And so God is trying to create a situation so that Abraham can obey him completely.
[00:17:12] Abraham is doing his thing, and so God wants him to be able to obey him completely.
[00:17:20] And so what we're going to do is we're going to take a break here, and when we come back, we will continue what we are doing here.
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[00:18:34] Okay, we're back and we're going to continue here. Now we're going to take up where God is continuing to try to separate Abraham from tradition that he has brought with him, the point of view and all those kinds of things. So God helps to create the strife between Abraham and Lot because he needs to separate himself from Lot in order for God to do the things that God wants to do. This is Genesis, chapter 13, verses 5 through 7.
[00:19:03] And Lot also, which went with Abraham, had flocks and herds and tents, and the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together, for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
[00:19:18] So there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle.
[00:19:25] So there's strife here. And we know that the main herds of Lot and Abraham both were goats and sheep, camels and also some cattle.
[00:19:37] We know that that goats and sheep and camel, when they eat and graze on the ground, they bite the grass off even with the ground.
[00:19:47] So that is what created the strife between Abraham and Lot's servants.
[00:19:52] Because when you have animals biting off the grass that short, you got to keep moving.
[00:19:59] There's not going to be long. You can't stay somewhere and rest for three or four days. You got to keep moving because the animals are constantly eating up everything in sight. And so now they got to keep moving. That creates strife. They aren't able to stay in any place, any particular time.
[00:20:14] So that's what God uses to create the strife between Lot.
[00:20:18] We constantly, when we constantly bring our traditions and things, it's becomes more and more difficult for God to change things in us because we're constantly putting our traditions, no matter how we look at it, our traditions, our thoughts, the way we always did things, on equal footing with what God wants to do. And that cannot work. He got to keep remembering and reminding ourselves that he's the creator and we're the creature.
[00:20:49] And so that's what we have to do here.
[00:20:52] And so, so God is trying to separate us from those kinds of things. It'll happen to each of our lives when we, when God starts to. God starts to deal with us, he is going to bring those things that interfere with our relationship with him to the forefront so that we can move those things out of our lives. And sometimes they can be quite painful to move something or someone that we love so dear out of our lives. But we have to, to be willing to do that in order to build the relationship. And that is the most relate important religious relationship that one can have is our relationship with God.
[00:21:31] Now we're going to get to the part now where Lot and Abraham separate. We find that in Genesis 13, verses 8 through 9.
[00:21:39] And Abraham said unto Lot, let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsman, for we are brethren.
[00:21:50] It is not. Is not the whole land before thee.
[00:21:54] Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. And I will take the the left, and you can go to the right, or you, wherever you go. What he's saying, I take the other way.
[00:22:04] And so that's what he is. Strife is ungodly.
[00:22:07] We know that it is. And where strife is, pride is the culprit nine times out of 10.
[00:22:14] And so in our walk with God, as well as I walk with our companions, we'll either change them, they'll change us, or we'll separate. Those are only three things that can happen in this. And so now God is trying to separate Abram from. From Lot because there's no way to change this situation in Lots. Man. And God was not dealing with lots of God, was dealing with Abraham. So Abraham took the low road and allowed Lot to choose in spite of the fact that he was the one that God was with.
[00:22:48] So he told a Lot, if you go to the right, I go to the left. If you go to the left, I go. You choose the way. I'm gonna take the the low road.
[00:22:58] And so now Lot pitches his tent towards Sodom.
[00:23:02] And so this is Genesis chapter 13, verses 12 and 13.
[00:23:09] Abraham dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent towards Sodom. But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord. Exceedingly, they. They weren't just sinful, they took that sin to that other level.
[00:23:27] And so Lot should have thought before I Make this decision.
[00:23:31] What will this do to my spiritual life?
[00:23:35] But Lot was a me first kind of guy. He didn't look at the spiritual. He looked at the money. He said, you know what this city is over here. I got the only flocking herd around here. I can charge twice as much a pound for this meat. And these people won't have nobody to deal with but me. That's convenient for them. So that's the way he saw it. So before we make decisions, we should determine what is this going to do to my walk with God, my family's walk?
[00:24:03] A lot of times we find ourselves making decisions that are going to affect our family. And then when our family move out on, on their own and they don't want to serve the Lord, they don't want to live in a particular way, well, we could have done something to contribute to their walking the right road and the right relationship with God. So we need to learn about that through these lessons and learn how God sees that particular thing. Lot decided to pitch his tent towards Sodom. You know what the old folks used to say when I was a kid, when you pick your friends, you picking your future.
[00:24:39] Well, now when a lot of. When Lot pitches his tent towards Sodom, he's picking an unrighteous situation for himself and for his family. Ada Abraham pitched his tent toward God and his life was preserved and his family was blessed and he became a blessing himself.
[00:24:59] So that's an amazing thing. Now God is about to promise Abraham a son. This is Genesis 15, 4 and 5.
[00:25:08] He that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad and said, look toward the heaven.
[00:25:18] Tell the stars if thou able to number them. And he said unto him, so the shall thy seed be. You can't count all those stars up there. Your seed is going to be just like that, a problem. A promise from God truly is an amazing thing.
[00:25:37] And we should remember that. God promised Abraham to look unto the stars. Can you count how many it is?
[00:25:43] Abraham and Sarah have tried to have children and cannot now they're older.
[00:25:48] Belief equals righteousness.
[00:25:51] So Abraham believed God. This is Genesis 15, verse 6. And he believed in the Lord and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
[00:26:03] So faith in God is a righteous thing that we have to do in order to be blessed of God. We have to believe him. The first step toward God is to believe that he is.
[00:26:14] That he is an answer of prayer. So we have to believe those two things. God loves people who believe in him.
[00:26:22] So this is the main ingredient for our walk with God. It was the main ingredient in Abraham's walk with God was what faith. Abraham was the father of the faithful. God shares things with people who walk closely with him. And that's something too that we have to have to have a part of our lives and those sorts of things there. So if we want God to share things with us, then we need to walk closely with him, be for him to be able to trust us. This is the first time we hear this eternal, this eternal truth. And God goes on in Genesis verse chapter 15, verse 18 to define the borders that he's going to give to Abraham and his seed here. So God first foretells Egyptian bondage that is coming. That's a part of God sharing things with his friend Abraham.
[00:27:20] God shares with Abraham that his descendants will be strangers in a land and they will be afflicted for 400 years.
[00:27:28] And then God would judge that nation and they will be brought out once again with great substance.
[00:27:38] So God shares that with Abraham. So God tells us, just like he did, there's good, there's good news coming, but it's bad news first.
[00:27:47] So don't be discouraged by the bad news because good news is going to follow that. Okay, now we're going to go on to God that we said a few minutes ago, God is going to define the promised land. This is the. Where God defines. This is found in Genesis 15:18. This is the covenant God made with Abraham. In that same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abraham saying unto thy seed, I have given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.
[00:28:14] Now God has defined the promised land that he's going to promise Abraham and his descendants.
[00:28:20] So there's constant fighting right now over that promise that God made to Abraham.
[00:28:27] God did never mention to Abraham there's going to be a two state solution.
[00:28:32] He said, I'm going to give this land to you and your descendants forever. And so that's what we have to understand.
[00:28:40] God had made a promise to Abraham and Sarah. Well, it gives me some, you know, Abram, Abraham and Sarah wavered in their faith a little bit, but it didn't destroy their covenant that God had made with them. And so that gives me hope because a lot of times we aren't always walking in our faith so steadfastly.
[00:29:03] And so we're going to read it. This is Genesis 16, verses 1 and 2.
[00:29:08] Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bear him no children. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said to Abram, behold, the Lord has restrained me from bearing. I pray thee that go that into thy maid that I may obtain children by her.
[00:29:32] And Abraham harked unto the voice of Sarai.
[00:29:37] And so she was called Syria at this time because you know, Sarah is the mother of, and she wasn't a mother yet. So, so God is going to change her name. So she was called Sarah at this time and Abraham was called Abram at this time. And, and they decide to help God out.
[00:29:54] You know, we are going to help God with his promise to us. Now God doesn't need any help. And so since they decided to help God, so now we have Middle east crisis from that time to this.
[00:30:06] So we have all the different peoples of the Middle east fighting with one another.
[00:30:13] Sarah gives Hagar to Abram. This.
[00:30:17] Now this was an Egyptian practice. Now they, they obviously had Egyptian servants and things and they would watch them.
[00:30:24] And one thing that the Egyptians would do is when someone was unable to have children, they would allow their husbands or however the case may be to go into somebody else. And then when that baby was about to be born, she would sit on the lap of the person and when she had the baby, they'd push that woman off and the baby would, would, would be held by the, the mother, the intended, the adopted mother. And so Abraham and Sarah had been watching these people do this and they decided to adapt that custom themselves.
[00:30:55] Well, when God calls us to a particular belief system and do a particular thing, we shouldn't stop to see what the people doing. Later we're going to find out in these lessons that God called his people to be a, called out people, not to be like the people that were surrounding them.
[00:31:15] So this is a practice that they did themselves. And they took, instead of listening to God, they did what they wanted to do. And so therefore it causes disturbance in God's plan for them.
[00:31:28] And so Hagar conceives.
[00:31:31] And so when she conceived, she didn't just conceive and walk around pregnant. She probably had a little attitude. She probably was shirking duties and, and back talking Sarah and those kinds of things. So Sarah has to deal harshly with her, you know. And so Hagar flees, runs off in the desert. And the angel of the Lord appears to Hagar in the desert and prophesies to her of the son that she will bear.
[00:32:00] And so the angel of the Lord, this is in Genesis 16, verses 10 and 12. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly.
[00:32:10] That shall not be numbered for multitude. Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son and shall call his name Ishmael.
[00:32:20] And he shall be a wild man.
[00:32:23] His hand will be against every man and every man's hand will be against him.
[00:32:27] And he shall dwell in the presence of his brethren.
[00:32:31] So he's going to be constantly surrounding his brethren.
[00:32:35] God named this child because God loved Abraham. This was not something that Abraham should have done. But since he did it, God says, well, I love Abraham. Let me try to make the best out of this situation. And so the Arab nations were born out of this situation right here. So God's description of the Arab nations is very, very accurate.
[00:32:59] A lot of the things that they do are wild things and they are fighting with different, not fighting with each other, they're fighting with somebody else. And so that is, is what you know, has become of this prophecy that God gave Hagar about her son.
[00:33:15] And so let's continue here. This is Genesis, chapter 17, verse 14.
[00:33:20] And the circumcised man child whose flesh is of flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised. That so shall he be cut off from his people and broken. My covenant. God made a covenant with Abraham. And we mentioned this just a moment ago, that God wanted to separate his chosen people. This I made a commitment and a covenant with this particular man and his family.
[00:33:48] So I want there to be a physical difference between he and the people that they are surrounded by.
[00:33:57] We're gonna find later that there is a supposed to be difference in a spiritual conclusion to this thing. That the reality of this type and shadow that God has given Abraham circumcision is what sits the Jewish nation apart from all other nations at this time. So when this type and shadow of circumcision is broken, my covenant is broken. You cut off.
[00:34:20] Well, in the New Testament, when the covenant, that is a, that is a reality of this type and shadow is broken, you cut off.
[00:34:28] So in future lessons we're going to find with the fulfillment of this in a spiritual way is going to be right now it's physical, it's the foreskin should be circumcised. And that was the establishment this, that God made with Abraham.
[00:34:42] Now God is about to renew his promise with Abraham and Sarah that they, they would have, they would have a son. This is Genesis, chapter 17, verse 17.
[00:34:54] God tells them, you're going to have a son.
[00:34:57] Then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed and said in his heart shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old. And Sarah, who's 90 years old.
[00:35:11] And so Abraham laughed and, and thought that he was going to have a son at 100 years old of his own lineage, his own loins. And Sarah from her own loins, her own womb, at the age of 90 years old. Now we know about. Never heard of this before.
[00:35:29] When the son came, that was the promise by the Lord.
[00:35:33] They named him Isaac, which means laughter.
[00:35:36] So Isaac was a great point of joy for these two wonderful people that God chose to make a covenant with.
[00:35:46] Okay. God continued to interact with Abraham and whatnot. And remember a few minutes ago, we talked about how God shares things with people who walk closely to him, his friends.
[00:35:57] And God shares that. Now God is about to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities. Now this is Genesis, chapter 18, verses 20.
[00:36:06] And the Lord said, because the cry of song, Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sins is very grievous.
[00:36:17] God had measured the sin of these people and it was running over.
[00:36:22] And God didn't want to have to deal with this situation. But there's no repentance inside. God's word forces him. God is also subject to his own word. The word of the Lord is forever settled in heaven. So this time, type of unrepentant sin has to be dealt with.
[00:36:39] And so God is getting ready to deal with these people. Now, God considers Abraham his friend and he reveals things to those people who walk closely with him.
[00:36:51] God reveals to Abraham that he's going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah.
[00:36:56] And Abraham proceeds to intercede for Lot in his family. Now, Abraham didn't have relationship with nobody else, but he loves his nephew Lot, who he raised. Lot has a family down there.
[00:37:09] And God. But we've all heard the story. But God discusses this with Abraham and Abraham starts to intercede, says, I bet there'd be 50 righteous in those cities. God said, I won't destroy for 50. What about 40? I won't destroy for 40, 30? I won't destroy. And Lot gets. Abraham gets down to 10 and he stops. So obviously we know that that is the number of the people in Lot's family. Lot, his wife, he has daughters and sons and sons in laws.
[00:37:40] So we know that this happened here. And so this shows us that we can intercede for our loved ones who are lost, people who maybe don't believe there's a God at all or whatever they believe. We can intercede through prayer that God would touch these people's hearts and that we can pray and God will work in these people's lives to bring them to repentance, to love the Lord, to grow in understanding and all those kinds of things. This is Genesis, chapter 19, verse 5.
[00:38:14] And they called them to Lot.
[00:38:18] And Lot said unto them, where are the men which came unto thee this night? Bring them out so that we may know them.
[00:38:26] All the men of Sodom was outside of Lots house yelling to send them men out here. That's visitors in this. In this. In this city, that we may know them. So God sent the angels unto Sodom in the forms of men, so they look like ordinary men.
[00:38:43] But the wickedness of Sodom came to Lot's house, banging on his door. Give us those men so that we may rape them.
[00:38:50] That's what they was going to do. So obviously the subject matter here is homosexuality.
[00:38:57] And so Lot refuses to turn the men over under his roof whom are angels, over to the wicked men. A Lot obviously didn't have a complete understanding of who these men were. He didn't know they was angels either. But he do know that, did know that they were missing messengers from the Lord because they. He eventually did what they said.
[00:39:16] And so the angels strike the men outside of Lot's house with blindness and instructs Lot to take your wife and your daughters that are here, the mother ones over there. You ain't got time. Go try to find them, around them up, get out.
[00:39:31] So that's what he's showing him. And God ends up destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as well as the surrounding cities. We found out later for the sin of homosexuality, you know, we don't have the authority to change God Word and how he feels about sin and the great amount of disgust he had for particular sin.
[00:39:57] You know, we cannot get used to sin because it's become an everyday part of our lives where we live in the time that we live. And this being the subject matter of homosexuality, now we all got somebody gay or some alternative lifestyle in our families and friends fear whether we know it or not.
[00:40:18] And we love those people.
[00:40:20] But I'm not going to say that God accepts that when I know that he doesn't. And I will constantly pray for those people and try to, you know, interject God into their lives. Because God certainly can change and correct anything that we do. Any lifestyle, he can change that.
[00:40:40] For the people who say, I was born this way, well be born again in the time that we live in, is possible for us to be born again.
[00:40:47] So Christ can save us from any lifestyle if we seek him and sincerely ask him for help.
[00:40:57] And so we can't allow those types of things to be something that stops us from being able to, to, to be and to do what God has asked us to do. And that is probably as, as you know, as sincerely as I can express that to you.
[00:41:18] And like I say, we all have people of a certain things like that in our lifestyle that we love very, very much and we need to continue to pray for them. But we don't have to accept that type of sin or endorse it.
[00:41:30] And so that's where we are.
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