 Many of you have been waiting for the world's greatest Bible study in the history of YouTube I don't know if you've been waiting for it or not, but you should have been waiting for it You should have been you should have been clamoring for this thing to start last night. That's how excited you guys should have been Anyway, good morning everyone. I hope you all are doing well I want to go over a couple of things first I hope you all doing well by the way, but I want to go over a couple of things first And I don't know if you guys have noticed it. I don't know how I'm how Many of you guys have noticed it or not and If you haven't I'm going to clue you in because I don't know if you notice what's been happening to you over these last What is this? This is the seventh session. I don't know if you notice or paid attention. What's been happening to you? Haven't been doing anything spooky with you Haven't cast any spells on you or anything like that being hypnotic or anything like that But I want you to notice How you guys have been developing your hermeneutic and we're gonna look at that in just a little bit before we do I want to go back and cover what we know what we've dealt with thus far Now all we've gone through so far. You should have read up up through all of Genesis I'm not totally sure if we're going to get into Job or not today We may just make Job his own study, but we'll see how time goes. I'm I'm It's probably looking like we're probably not going to because of everything that we're going to cover today, but If you go back and think about the first of all think about what you know about the Bible already Think about what you know about this whole walk this whole relationship that we have with God We know about God the Godhead Jesus his his identity the Holy Spirit We know how We're saved we're saved by what by faith All the things that we know of as a Christian right now What about and how do we apply that? How does that look in terms of what we've seen thus far only in the first book only in Genesis? How does that? mesh so Think about something. I really have two main really two main questions really three questions three things that we can notice We can notice something about man We can notice something about God and then we can notice something about how we are or how they are Saved or redeemed or justified So when we think about this, what do we know about God just in the first? 50 chapters of the book, which is all of Genesis. What do we know about man? Well, we know that man is Man sucks pretty horrible in the best conditions ever in Eden What happens man sins? Man is deceived man sins Man still wants to do his own thing and when I say here's I mean his and hers We also know about God. What do we know about God? Well, we seem to have gotten a glimpse into How God exists? We seem to have gotten a glimpse into how God exists and by the way If in Genesis one or Genesis two or Genesis five or Genesis six We are starting to formulate something about God or about man or about anything else If what we formulate in the beginning if it's true Then as we go forward it will be verified Now it's hard to make a lot of We can't ascribe a lot of things because we're not seeing a lot in the very beginning But what we're seeing is one what God wants us to see but also remember Who is writing? When he's writing who he's writing to so the first time that we hear some of these terms Aren't the very first time they shown up. So when Moses is speaking to or reading or writing to the Jews They've they've been in existence. It's a matter of fact. I've got something in my eyebrow I mean my lid but as a matter of fact We are getting ready to catch up with Moses in other words Moses has been writing Moses has Moses hadn't seen any This stuff in Genesis. He doesn't know any of this stuff in Genesis as of yet. None of it So how does he know about it? Well? God is telling him It's like watching a movie and you hear the person who's involved in the story and They're telling you kind of in the background not not off. You know off camera. You hear their voice Telling you some things that have happened Right. Well, this is what Moses is doing Moses is telling the people what's happened And he only knows because God is telling them now. We are getting ready to catch up To where Moses is so now is Moses speaking about the past, but now we're gonna see Moses almost live Almost live. It's not live, but we're gonna catch up to where Moses can write and he can write from authority because he's there Now he's writing about Prior to Moses are you with me and so whatever truths we know are going to remain truths For the entirety of the Bible for the entirety of our lives Without bringing in any preconceived notions because we're we're displaying ourselves to say have we earned that yet? Can we gain that from the text? And so when we get further off into the Bible where there's many other books that we have read We'll still be able to say that we earned that is that what the text says in other words How to keep things in context and how to try to keep any presuppositions or preconceived notions or doctrines out now this is where I'm going to want to have I said before that No Methodists are allowed no Baptist no Episcopalian no Presbyterians are allowed in this Bible study no Provisionists no Armenians no Calvinists are allowed none of those But this is where I wish that we had the the super Calvinists here, and I'm not picking on the Calvinist again I've been called a Calvinist I don't know how many times because there are some a lot of things that Calvinist believe that I agree with but there are some things that I don't I can't go along with because when I look at the hermeneutics that we've been using and nobody as I've gone through the videos and look at the chats Nobody has objected not once to the hermeneutics that we've been employing Nobody has raised a fuss to the hermeneutics that we've been employing because they didn't know we were we were actually using a particular hermeneutics because how we were reading it is exactly how you guys read everything else And so it was natural it fit and it didn't bother you Be mainly because even the conclusions that we came through fit What do I mean by that? Well, I told you guys that I want you all to determine figure out what your hermeneutic is hermeneutic is a hermeneutic is The method that you employ in reading The sort of rules that you govern yourselves by it can be an art It can be a science But it's better to be a science because a science will be consistent and art is kind of how you feel in the moment I think I'll do it this way. We want to be consistent as we go The way I read it in Genesis is the way I want to read it in Exodus is where I want to read it in in Jeremiah's the way I want to read it in Lamentations where I want to read what I get to the gospel where I want to read it when I get to the Paulian epistles The way I want to read it when I get to Revelation we want to be consistent. Otherwise All we're going to do is just be subject to our own opinion. Well, I don't see it this way I don't see it that way or with me. So what have we been doing? I told you that I but I hold to a literal grammatical historical hermeneutic Meaning by literal I'm going to take the words to mean what they mean just in a regular normal plain understanding That obviously means that I can use figures of speech similes metaphors Idioms and so forth. I can I can do that So when it says that that he was speaking before God face to face or before the face of God Then I understand that he's not literally speaking to God's eye. Look at his eyeballs Nose and nose mouth to mouth forehead to forehead and so forth. I understand that because God didn't have that and So we employ these literary devices to kind of help us understand some things Then also the grammatical is that when I use the actual grammar and the rules of grammar to help me to understand certain things and The horc historical keeping things in context as they unfold over time Let me give you example and you can see that we've been using this literal grammatical Historical hermeneutic and nobody has raised a fuss nor should they ever raise a fuss? Why because it's how you read everything else in life. It literally is how you read everything else in life Here's what I mean if I say the literal thus far When we look at creation Guys in the chest is where I want you guys to chime in now How do you take creation when when God is telling us that he created things on day one Day two day three day four day five day six Do you think that he literally created on day one light and an evening day and evening on day one? Do you believe when he said let there be life if that's literally what happened or? Do you think that there was some sort of spiritualized light some sort of metaphorical light that showed up not an actual light I like that you can actually see well Sure We believe that it was an actual light that showed up and that there must have been the beginning of the globe spinning because he Divided light and darkness the only way you divide life from darkness as far as we're concerned Is there's an object in between which is the earth and it spends one day one one part of the day It's day the other part of the day. It's night. So we see that to be literal Oh by the way, remember Moses is writing to somebody who understands these Jews who understand what a day is Secondly, what about the flood? God tells Noah one it's going to rain. Does it literally rain sure it literally rains then what happens? Is there a literal flood? Yes for how long literally 40 days? Do we think this is some sort of figurative 40 days some allegorical 40 days? I made there there about it wasn't quite 40 days that it rained But you know some days a few days a couple weeks how many weeks few weeks give or take no He says 40 days 40 nights, and then we see how many days that they were actually in the arc He tells us how many clean and unclean animals to bring in Does he mean just I know seven, but you know what just five will do no Literally, what has happened and he kills them Does Adam and Eve do they are these literal creatures are they figurative is God? Just trying to prove a point and he just using throwing some names out just because no these are literal human beings We know so because the rest of the Bible verifies this are you with me He makes a covenant with with Noah and all of mankind and then also with Abraham Was that a literal covenant? We look at what the what's entailed in this literal covenant. He says you're gonna have a son He literally has a son Now something else literally that's going to happen and we're gonna see this today When Abraham asked How will I know that this is going to be so this covenants you're making and What does do you remember what God says to Abraham? When he asked him how will I know that this covenant that I'm gonna have this child I'm gonna be this great nation all of this stuff that you said. How does God respond? What does he say? he says You will die at a ripe old age and be buried with your with your people But your descendants will be sojourners and they'll be enslaved and when they leave They'll leave with great possessions Did God literally mean that what he said about Abraham's descendants? Yes As a matter of fact, we're gonna see that's gonna happen as a matter of fact It's being set up right now In the next part so that's the literal part the grammatical part in the grammatical part We're taking a look at obviously literary devices Employed here, but we're gonna look at the words the word uses and so forth so for example we read in the beginning and Then we stated that in the beginning if we go and look at it It's not the definite article that's there. So it's not in the absolute very beginning of anything But it's at a certain point in time in in the beginning of things not the very definite the beginning We saw that and it gives an idea of how to understand what God is talking about When it talks about the name or the word for God We see that as we look at his name is Elohim Then we see Yahweh Elohim or the Lord God We see this it matter of fact gross is even more so we see with the angel of of God angel of Lord We see these words and how we take these words literally Because we're using grammar and we're using also the rules of grammar We're gonna see some of that also in play today, but then also the historical aspect of this hermeneutic Things are progressing over time and they end up progressing just like God has said When he says that They're going to die They do die, but in the meantime, they're going to fulfill what God is trying to accomplish And so there's some things that we have seen Over this there's some things that we have seen that have that have been true That we've had to mark and make sure that we hold hold fast Remember these going forward such as obviously the no way at Covenant obviously Genesis 3 15 Obviously very important within the no way at Covenant But then also the Abrahamic Covenant and what he says going to do specifically Genesis chapter 12 verses 2 and 3 How he's going to bless this nation of Israel or Abraham to be the great nation and through him this descendant But also other nations are going to come through him Or he's going to be the father of other nations and these other families of the world will be blessed Very important We see how this covenant is made that it is a an unconditional covenant that it's not it's not dependent upon Abraham or Isaac or Jacob or anyone else doing anything to keep this particular covenant Are with me he spoke about a land that he's going to give them All of these things and so I want you all to be thinking about how we're we're going to stay consistent with how we read the Bible This is why I wanted some of those very same people who have Corey. I disagree with you on this I disagree with you on that. Okay. Well, let's just see because what we're going to see is One how God interacts with people we've seen how has God interacted with people thus far When God is not when they're not close to God they do whatever They're supposed to do whatever but they need we need God to be close with us. Otherwise, we're going to do some bad things We're gonna we're gonna fall apart. We're gonna stop that. We're gonna stop trusting. We're gonna have some doubt We're gonna have fear Look at Abraham whom God says He believed and was counting him righteous But it does not mean that that Abraham believed every single thing that God said because he didn't matter of fact He didn't believe the first time About this son. He laughed, right? He didn't believe the guy was going to protect him So twice he lied about his wife being his sister because he was in fear of his life Not so much for Sarah's life, but for his own life We see it happening with his own son and then with his grandson Jacob So that being the case remember these things remember these important things We'll highlight them again as we go But now I want to go ahead and jump into the actual passages And we left off in Genesis 32. We'll pick back up in Genesis 33. This is talking about Jacob And then his soon-to-be sons So let's go to Genesis 33 starting verse 18 Jacob Now this is after by the way he has wrestled with this man Who we know to be God because he calls him God He calls him God He says that he's seen God face to face again. There's his literary device face to face Obviously now in this case he actually sees a physical face a physical somebody whom he calls God And we know it's true because Moses is telling the story He's writing the story down recounting it to us as well as the children of Israel mainly and God is one that's telling them this So now we see after this after this whole issue with with esau Now we see he has decided to settle in Shechem in chapter 33 verse 18 now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem Which is in the land of Canaan, which is where they're supposed to be When he came from Fadam Aram And camp before the city he brought he bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent From the hands of Hamar Shechem's father for 100 pieces of money Then he erected there an altar and called it Elohei Israel Now I'll leave it right there now. We're going to go into the the the the good parts The soap opera parts of this whole journey Now Dynah Not that Dynah. This is a this is a different Dynah. This isn't like Dynah reviews. This is this Dynah is older The Dynah reviews Good question. Let's put on the screen matter of fact. Let's put on the screen Daryl asks a question Why didn't Jacob die after seeing God? So there's a question. I'll put before you guys. Can you guys answer that question? Why did Jacob not die After seeing God face to face My question Daryl is why do you think that he should have died? There's the question Why do we think that he should have died? Anybody have an idea? Why do we think that he should or why do we think that he should not have died? And this part this part is going to be interesting This part is going to be interesting cg says because he was in the flesh. Okay um, Anola says uh because this is God And I I see wait a second. I see hold on before I get to the correct answer I see this question right now. I see this. That's a good response You guys give him good responses. He didn't experience God's full glory. How do you how do you know that? Enrico, how do you how do you know that? How do you know he hadn't seen his full glory? Who told you that? Well, let's go. Let's go to chow young cat Who's I'm sorry wrong wrong one. Where is it? I answered it and I missed it. Where is it at? Ah I put the wrong there it is. There it is. There it is not yet. There it is not yet Not yet. We don't know we there spider monkey. We don't know we don't know We don't know now. Okay fine because you guys are getting it. You guys are getting it We're going to get to a point to where moses is going to make a statement About his full glory, but we don't know anything about that We don't know anything about the full glory or anything. We don't know that yet guys We haven't earned that yet You can guess Brian you you can guess but there's no way to to validate your guess because we hadn't gotten to it No, obviously, I know I know I know I and it's hard not to bring in what you haven't seen But what you have seen if you bring it in too soon Right now it's going to color how you see things it's going to color it and so again We talked before that there that that trinitarians are not allowed Oneness are not allowed No Because what's going to happen is those folks who don't believe in what we would call or ascribe to as the trinity will come in and say And they'll bring in their preconceived notions They'll say well, this is why and they'll bring out passages here and there and then the trinity trinitarians are going to bring out Passes here and there and so forth Now that's another let's answer this question Darrell asks another question that Darrell is not allowed Darrell is not allowed to ask this question either He says do you think it was jesus? Darrell Who is jesus? Who in the world is jesus first christen 15 went through four Who is jesus who who is the father? Who are the you guys are bringing up? I don't who are these people who are g who is jesus? Who is the father? Tell them jared we we haven't earned it yet. We don't we have no idea We have no idea who these people are You're talking about jesus It does david it does It does i remember having this sort of being talked to me like wait a second wait a second i'm trying to i'm trying to jump the gun But let me ask you guys a question and i don't mean to i take i hope i don't take this the wrong way Hope you guys make the wrong way and i don't mean to be belittling anyone But when you guys train your children Your child wants to jump ahead to the next step or the next thing you tell them hold on hold on hold on Because i don't want you to get ahead of yourself and miss a step Right So what we're doing and this is for those who are just now joining who have who have not seen this What we're doing is we're going to make each other earn a point And so the hard part in doing a study is not to bring in any preconceived notions Now you may think because here's how this works I don't have any preconceived notions. I don't have any presuppositions. Nope What i know is the truth now these other folks they always bring in preconceived notions They always read stuff out of context. Well, how do we make us our sales because this truth is we all of that same way How do we keep that? Well, we stick with what the text says thus far. So right now we're only in genesis 33 And so thus far we can only take what has been stated to us We don't know anything about jesus. We don't know anything about the father We know about the spirit of god, but that's all we know. We've never even heard it been called the Heard him being called the holy spirit. We don't know any of these things We don't know anything about some so-called trinity that you guys are going to want to throw in there We don't know any we don't know any of these things All we can go off of is what we do know And we do know that this man this person wrestled with jacob and jacob called him god Are you with me jacob called him god? That's all we know. So jacob called him god And Moses is the one writing the story to us recounting the story And god is the one that's given the story to most to recount about jacob calling him god Well, then who was it that jacob wrestled with? God That's all we know now we might in our minds. How could that be? Huh, how is that or like or like Darrell asked wait a second? How is it that he saw god's face and didn't die? Well, we don't know anything about people seeing god's face and not dying as a matter of fact This isn't guys the first time that we see god speaking to somebody We hadn't seen we haven't seen it so far. No can't go there Mr. Impressive because we hadn't gotten x of 33 yet We hadn't gone to x of 33 yet. So we can't bring in another passage But we've seen god in other places speaking to people we saw god Come down and talk to to uh to moses And that moses abraham Before he destroyed a lot. We heard him call out. We've seen god go go and speak to um haigar We've seen somebody Was walking in the garden looks like the lord god was walking in the garden And they heard it and he had from the presence of something Seems to be an actual person not just from voice coming from heaven Are you guys are you guys with me? And I know yeah, I want to I want to go there. I want to get there But I promise you if we discipline ourselves here and as we go through the scriptures Things should start if it's the truth everything should line up perfectly We shouldn't get to the point. Wait a second. This doesn't quite fit here This doesn't quite fit here. This doesn't quite fit here. Everything should fit together perfectly And it will if we hold ourselves consistent and the only way to do so is if we discipline ourselves right now Amen so And by the way by the way by the way by the way, um because I said somebody put up an angel We can't call it an angel. First of all, we've heard this term the angel of god Before we even hear the term an angel We heard the term the angel of god before we hear the term angel And what do we do now? We naturally want to want to describe the angel of god as an angel because we want we're thinking about what an angel is But before we hear of an angel we hear about the angel of god So you shouldn't describe The angel of god as an angel Are you with me? We hadn't even heard of an angel yet. Now we do eventually We've actually we we've got to the point where we hear of angels So when most with abraham Is speaking these three men two of them are angels. We know that it's the first time that we hear about the term angel showing up But the angel of god Uh is different and what all the word means is message messenger Now can the messenger of god be god? Is it possible that the messenger of god be god? Well, he calls him god So this person is bringing this message With a definite article the Of god He is god Are you with me? We know that because he calls him god And we're gonna see it even more vividly in just a second as well. So that's that's a good question Very good question. How do we how come how come jacob did not die? Well, we don't we don't know right now that jacob was supposed to die We're gonna see something in just a little bit. So so you're fine though But that's a good question. That's a good question All right, let's go back to it. Now dino I'll remove this out of the way Not our dino this our dino is is a lot younger a whole lot younger than this dino And this would have happened to our dino because dino is a fighter. She would she I think our dino would cut somebody This dino not so much this dino was was was a little softer Our dino would kill somebody it wouldn't it wouldn't even it wouldn't even went down that way Amen Anyway, now dino the daughter of lia now remember Jacob has these two wives And then these two major concubines. I mean these concubines also okay so now dino the daughter of lia Whom she had born to jacob remember jacob also has four boys born to lia And then we have racha whom jacob really loves She has some kids afterwards, but and then the the maize the concubines also have remember that She went out to visit the daughters of the land When shechem the son of haemorr the hevite the prince of the land saw her He took her and lay with her by force now this word Took with her and lay with her by force. It can be taken a couple ways It can be taken as though he you know, he he he our word that which will be on the way He raped her it can be taken that way he forced himself or It can also be taken as though he just kind of just real smooth talking and so forth. He didn't follow the right ways It doesn't really matter in this sense because Because it's still the same way. It's still taking the same way in other words you could not just If you sweet talked a girl or or or coerced a girl or or deceived her However, you want to put it maybe she was super naive It's the same as you actually Tackling her holding her down and raping her. It's the same thing You don't you don't get off because well, no, it's consensual. Nope. Nope. We got problems There's a right way and a wrong way to do this thing and shechem didn't do it the right way So shechem spoke to his father. Hey more by the way, these are folks that are still in many ways related So shechem spoke to his father. Hey more saying get me this young girl for a while He so he's he's feeling dying. He likes dying a lot Now jacob heard that he had that he had been that he had defiled dying his daughter But his sons were with his livestock in the field So jacob kept silent until they came in Then hey mar the father shechem went out to jacob to speak with him Now the sons of jacob came in from the field when they heard it And they were grieved and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in israel by lying with jacob's daughter For such thing ought not to be done Very with me Verse 30 verse 8 but hey mar spoke with them saying the soul of my son shechem Longs for your daughter. Please give her to him in marriage Intimary with us Give us your daughters to us to take our daughters for yourselves Thus you shall live with us and the land shall be open before you and live in trade And it will and in it acquire property in it Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers if I find favor in your sight Then I will give you whatever you you say to me ask me whatever Uh ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift and I will give according to you As uh as you say to me but give the girl in marriage. So now the father Is obviously bothered by it and wants to make it right. He wants to go over and above Uh, listen, let's have this covered in between us and so forth and and whatever you guys want We'll do we'll give to you But jacob's son answers shechem and his father. Hey mar with the seat Here in lies a problem because he had defiled dine of their sister They said to them we cannot do this thing to give our sister to one who is Uncircumcised remember What was The sign of the covenant that god made with abram or abraham. What was the sign of the covenant that all the males Either natural born males or sojourners folks part of the family. They must be circumcised Now that part is true But their reason for doing so is Is deceptive as we're going to find out as you already know um Only on this condition verse 15 Will we consent to you if you will become like us in that every male of you be circumcised now notice Who's doing the talking the boys are doing the talking and not the father They weren't supposed to say anything. It's the father supposed to handle this But he's not we're going to find out some more things about jacob anyway Because remember it's not the fact that that god is Beholding to jacob because he's such a noble person because he's such a righteous person because he's such an honorable person No, he is going to remember the promise that he made with abraham and then isaac and obviously jacob But it really is him being holding being beholding to his own word because again this covenant is an Unconditional covenant He alone is the one who has to keep the covenant set the terms of the covenant and He's going to make sure this covenant becomes fulfilled So verse 16 then we will give our daughters to you And we will take and we will take your daughters for ourselves and we will live with you and become one people But if you will not let's do us to be circumcised and we'll take our daughter and go Now the words seem reasonable to haymar and shekem haymar's son Then the young men did not delay to do this thing because He delighted he was delighted with jacob's daughter. Now. He was more respectful than all his household of his father Okay We shouldn't say a whole lot does it He was more respectful than all the household of his father But you did this to dino So haymar and his son shekem came to the gate of the city and spoke to the men of the city saying these men are Friended with us therefore let them live in the land and trade in it and behold for the wet now So in other words, they all agreed they all agreed to this problem is though Getting circumcised at an older age. I don't know But I would imagine Painful and we're going to see this because now it came about on the third day When they were in pain, so they decided to go ahead and go along with and be circumcised That two of jacob's sons look at who are the two sons that does so simian and levi dino's brothers They simian and levi are her brother from the same mother Okay, not the other one not nappily or gathering those folks Her brothers from her mother All right Dino's brother each took his sword and came up on the city unaware and killed every male They killed haymar and his son shekem with the edge of the sword and took dino From shekem's house and went forth jacob's son came up on the slain and looted the city because they had the fathers as they took their flocks And their herds and their donkeys And that which was in the city and that which was in the field and they captured and looted all their wealth And all their little ones and their wives Even all that was in the house Then jacob said to simian and levi you have brought trouble upon me By making me odious among the inhabitants of the land among the canines and the parasites And my men being few in number They will gather together against me and attack me and I will be destroyed I and my household, but they said should he treat our sister as a harlot so now Yeah, they got cut twice It doesn't seem like jacob was was as concerned about the honor of his family and his daughter as much as by being protected and saved Which tells us how much he feared or should say fear or how much he trusted god Because god is going to take care of his people But then also though you guys did lie You guys did lie Um, you should just went and killed them. That's what you should have did making a fair fight, but Now let's go to 35 And there's some interesting things going to come up here Then god said to jacob arise go to bethel and live there and make an altar there to god who appeared to you When you fled from your brother esau stop there hold up put a pause on everything Did anyone catch what was just said? Did anybody catch that? Did anybody catch what was just said and this actually relates back to one of daryl's question Look what he says then god said to jacob What he says Then god said to jacob arise and go to bethel and live there and make an altar there to god Who appeared to you when you fled from your brother esau? He's making all to god And he gives him extra information about this god Who appeared to you? When you fled your brother esau? What happened in genesis 32? Before he meets esau god appeared to him So if anyone were to come back and say that wasn't god that wasn't that whatever Clearly he said this was god god said go back to the place where god appeared to you When you fled from your brother esau? Let's go ahead and start quickly dispelling this notion That god can't take on flesh Let's go ahead and dispel this notion Because we see it happening over and over and over and over again God can take on flesh god did take on flesh God can appear to man if he wants to Not only that if he wants to he did he appeared to clearly he appeared to jacob He appeared to abraham. He appeared to isek matter of fact He even appeared to abraham's concubine to his wife's maid. He appeared to haygar He keeps appearing Why because god is intimately involved with his people God is not a god that's sitting back on the couch just chilling God's not sitting back drinking coffee Not What is my full name? My full name gregory is quarry minor God is not a person who is just absent just hanging out. No, he is intimately involved Time out for a second I'm gonna violate the rules Cory from time to time you can't you violate these rules? I can violate the rules Because I got all these buttons right here for two reasons. I'm allowed to violate the rules one I've got these buttons right here and two because I'm bald Those two things alone being bald being bald gets you into a lot of rooms. Yeah Being bald gets you into a lot of rooms Hey, I'm here to watch the uh the game. Do you have a ticket? No, but I'm bald come on in cori Come on in If I'd have been bald before I went before the judge, I would have not have gone to prison But I'm bald now Is that how it works? Here's the violation I'm going to don't tell you that because I want you to see this also God makes it or paul makes a statement on behalf of god. He says that He who began a good work in you He will complete it Time out time back in This is how god operates guys This is how god operates He says He wants you to know that god is going to complete Things that he begins Do I think that god appears to man now? No Good question. It's not with this, but I want to answer the question anyway Why does god not appear to man now? Well one we know when he's going to appear How he's going to appear in the form of he's going to appear And whenever you saw god appear to people there was for a specific reason those reasons are no longer in play anymore But no god does not appear to to mankind No one go on the same level. No one goes to heaven and comes back. No one goes to heli come back Okay, so let's I do want to cover that because somebody's going to ask that question But no now we'll get more than that as we get further into the studies, but Uh, let's go back to it. So this is that that part I wanted to make that part clear because it needed to be stated that god Had appeared to Jacob some some people do come back to well, that wasn't god. That wasn't really god Okay, we just saw it here. We just saw it here. So let's go ahead. I want to finish reading chapter 30 35 1 through 12 So he saw I mean so jacob said it was household and to all who were with him put away now. Listen to this Listen to this is strange Put away the foreign gods which are among you and purify yourselves and change your gardens. Why do you have foreign gods? What does that tell you? God is with them and they're still disobeying They're still disobeying You got these foreign gods with you What is wrong with you people? What in the world is wrong with you people you've seen god deliver you. What what is wrong? What's that the Uh, the little the video clip everyone says what's wrong with you people What's wrong with these people first three and let us arise and go to up to Bethel And I will make an altar there to god Who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I've gone So they gave to jacob all the foreign gods which they have was they had and the rings which they Which were in their ears and jacob hid them under the oak which was near sycambe As they journeyed there There was a great terror upon the cities which were around them And they did not pursue the sons of jacob now. Let's yeah rc's bro. Listen is Did you see that? As they got up and left there was a great terror not for them But from amongst the nations of the people that are around them There was never and there should never be a need There should have been a need for jacob especially to have any sort of fear of what anybody was going to do Look what god does god causes this terror to come upon these people and they're gonna mess with them Verse six, so jacob came to luz that is bethel And the reason why it's called bethel then it was not called bethel It's called bethel at the time that's being written up most is right because bethel means house of god It wasn't house of god then it's called luz then anyway, which is in the land of canaan He and all the people who were with him he built an altar there And called the place place l bethel because there god had had had revealed himself to him When he fled from his brother. So again, he's indicating that god was the one who revealed himself to jacob Now debra Rebecca's nurse died and she was buried below bethel under the oak. It was named alan bakuth Then god appeared to jacob again god keeps showing up So again, we need to be able to quickly put to rest when anyone says that god doesn't appear Didn't appear to any of them didn't take on flesh. That was not god Well, then our your bible my bible is a lie because it's clearly saying god And this word for god is the word Elohim, which we saw in the very beginning We're also going to see the word yaw way the the Hebrew word for his We'll deal with the name part matter of fact, we'll cover that again tomorrow a little bit more in depth Anyway says god said to him your name is jacob You should no longer be called jacob, but israel shall be your name. Thus. He called him israel God also said to him. I am god almighty Move this up. I am god almighty Now here he's got Well, the god part right here el is a singular el is a singular god Um, albert hall says that singular god Right here god almighty is the singular el But then here It's the plural Elohim Elohim, which is the plural form of the word But then we have the singular form of god So it's a good question Be fruitful and multiply, huh? They keep hearing that term be fruitful and multiply A nation and look what he says a nation and a company of nations Shall come from you and king shall come forth from you The land which I have given which I gave to abraham isaac I will give it to you and I will give the land to your descendants after you This is what's important guys. This is where this is important remember We're talking about how we read the bible thus far Everything has been literal So how should we take what we're reading now? Look what he says. He says and I will give The land which I gave to you abraham and isaac I will give to you. Look what he says And I will give the land to your descendants after you I'm going to give this land to your descendants after you I will give this land to your descendants after you That's important guys. He is not speaking figurative He's not speaking about anybody else in the other nation He's speaking about to him and his descendants after him. It's the same thing that he said to abraham Make you a great nation. I'm giving you this land for those people and then also he also Brings up other people other nations that he'll be the father of them as well and bless those other nations And so here he's also speak. He's comparing and contrasting His people with other people other nations, but this land is for him and his descendants Okay, and so we have to take this part literally The reason why I'm bringing this up guys is because there's going to come this tendency to want to force in some other meaning That's outside of what the text is plainly saying The plain reading of the text should always suffice unless it just doesn't make any sense Unless which means we get some sort of idiom or we get some sort of metaphor. Okay Again, it's raining outside. Is it raining bad? Man, it's raining cats and dogs It's pouring down Well, if I say raining cats and dogs I can't take it literally there or if it's pouring down. I can't take it. I know But I understand idioms. I understand figures of speech. I understand metaphors So try it. We're gonna always take this literally until we cannot Now it's raining sideways Now let's go ahead. We're gonna jump around We're not going to yeah, yes. Yes. I'm sorry. Yes. We are. Yes. We are. I'm sorry I'm sorry. There's there's a couple important parts. We have to read in here There's a couple important parts. We have to read here. Let's go to verse 22 It came about This is horrible, by the way This is really horrible It came about when israel was dwelling in the land I'm sorry when when israel was dwelling in that land that rubin Went and lay with bill high his father's concubine and israel heard of it Not a lot is given at this moment about that bill high is actually one of his brother's mothers rubin uh is one of his first born not the first born but I'm sorry. Actually, yes. Wait a second. Let's go back and look at the uh Yeah, rubin is the first born now his first four born are who rubin simian Levi and then juda Those were the four born of I've and also obviously the girl dinah We're born of lia Okay No, the company of nations are not counted as his descendants Uh, so no Now What rubin did was first of all rubin knows better. He's the oldest Rubin Did something dashedly and we don't hear much about it after that for a while For a while. So let's go ahead and leave chapter 34 And let's jump to we're going to skip around and we're going to go to chapter 37 He's got all of his boys except for one Benjamin hadn't been born yet. Okay. This is where joseph has his dream. Okay now We can't cover all this because if we do We'll be forever Okay, hold up. Let me go back to this Um, we hadn't gotten there yet ruth, but because we actually did cover this before Uh, it's fine. It's fair game Paul says and to your seed means Uh, and to christ not many descendants in glaceons 316 How would how how would that apply? How would that not apply to genesis 35 12? Because what he's speaking of in in glaceons 316 is not dealing with that glaceons 316 is is directly referencing Genesis 315 matter of fact, paul even references the whole point into your seed Is what god is speaking of in genesis 315 So every time we hear the word descendants doesn't doesn't mean that we're talking about the same thing Okay, now Our other descendants outside going to be blessed. Yes, but but that to to his seed Genesis 315 says And to her seed he will bruise the seed he will bruise his head the seed of him So the seed of woman Will bruise the head of the seed of satan Well, who's the seed of this woman we're speaking of jesus Okay, so that clearly couldn't be talking about what we're speaking of about these descendants plural because a seed in genesis As well as elation is the singular seed as a matter of fact paul even fleshed that out It says that he didn't mean seeds plural, but he's talking about seed singular So I hope it helps roof all right Joan that yeah, there those are his sons too it's the cards everyone Can we disagree about israel and still be christian sure? Sure, you can disagree about it But what I want you to what I want you to get is not that it's okay to disagree But let's figure out why we disagree Because if we disagree on this And we know why we disagree then we can also figure out why we disagree on other things, but if we hold ourselves Would you all agree that there's probably a way that god wanted us to read the bible? That there's probably a way that god wanted all of us to read it Or do you think that he wanted all of us to read it in our own ways? Think about that for a second What if now I say that I believe that god wants us to read the same way And he wants us to come to the same conclusion Because what if we all read it differently and come to different conclusions well then Wow, we're all over the we're all over the place Truth is in however. I say it And the best truth is dependent upon who says the best That is a good question So rachel was holding these idols. She stole from laban and his entire time this entire time I would say yes, but I would also say there's probably other idols there as well because It wasn't just in in jacob's house that these idols were there Others had idols and then their earrings as well And so there's something about these earrings as well if they weren't supposed to have this also So yeah that and that's a good point. Dutch Dutch remembered that point where eight rachel has told the idol Thank you drew. I appreciate that So he wants us to read it the same way just like just like when we were in school The teacher's not saying hey, hey, hey gus Not there any little uh kindergarteners or first graders named gus, but if or okay, man Hey gus Read the bible the same way that becky is reading it Frank read read the bible read your book the same way read the story See spot run the same way that that uh bob is reading Gus don't read it your own way read it the way everyone else is supposed to be reading it Okay, we read it the same way so that we can come to the same conclusion Are you with me? Anyway All right, let's go back to this now here We have jacob and his kids and then all of a sudden here comes this guy named joseph Who is the youngest? Boy, he's born born to um He's born to The woman he loves rachel He's abraham believed in abraham believed in jesus. We don't know who jesus is just yet We don't know what abraham believed in We don't know what now. We do know this though We we do know this hammer hit abraham believed god Because you know what the bible says abraham believed god and it was counted to him righteous Well, is jesus god You you make you're making us deal with jesus now hammerhead. We don't know who jesus is so He believed god And god is god is fine Now let's go ahead Now jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned in the land of canaan. These are the records of the generations of Of jacob by the way this word we see this word again This total wealth which we saw in the very beginning of genesis these generations It's generation of this person the generation of that person generous that person is that that same word there Is is the word for total? now verse Going into verse three. Well, this is two joseph when 17 years of age was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth So how does joseph 17? um with his brothers along with the sons of bill ha and the son of zilpa His father's wife. So his other brothers who were born of his father's concubines. You know bill ha the one that that uh Simeon decided he wanted to go in and have relations with you. You gotta be let me just say this. I gotta say this That's a sick dude That's sick. You don't go sleep with your father's wife. I mean your father's concubine All these women out here All these women out here and you want to do that? What kind of r kelly messes this anyway? joseph was 17 And he's pastoring with his brother. I'm sorry. I'm sorry ruben. I said I said simian ruben. Yeah ruben I'm sorry. Thank you spider monkey And joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father So joseph wants a tattle tail on his brothers Not good. They don't like that Now israel loved joseph more than all his sons. That's not a good thing. That's Especially if you know it It's one thing if you love this one more than the other but then you tell everybody else everybody knows Yeah, that's his favorite. Yeah, that's my favorite How do I how how do you know that's my favorite because I gave him a special coat He loved joseph more than all of his sons Because he was a son of his old age and made him a very colored tunic or coat of many colors And so they hated him and could not speak to him on from they could not stand this boy couldn't stand him And now you tell him on us Why do they call the concubines wives? They they had the they had the same treatment They didn't have the same place of honor though. That's they they did not have the same place of honor As a matter of fact The first wife has the supreme place of honor And remember remember this was not god's plan God wanted them to have one wife now He has two because Because uh their father Mistreated one wanted to dump li off on somebody so she dumps them off on the first guy that came through But he still loved rachel so the men worked 14 years with both of these And then their their maids came along and so forth and then remember remember though That rachel couldn't get pregnant And so she offers up her maid And then lia offers up her maid. So that's how this came to be And so just so hey, we can't say that That jaco's out here, uh running the street That that so let's let's let's kind of make it legal like Okay, uh dominant demeanor of god. What are you talking about? We're we're on something different Was I my daddy's favorite? Of course I was Was I my dad? Of course I was my daddy's favorite. How could I not be? I was my daddy's favorite My mother's favorite Dominion we're we're listen. We're we're on something different. I talked about healing yet. Okay. Just just stay on this. Okay Then joseph had a dream and when he told it to his brothers They hated him even more. He said to them. Please listen to this dream, which I've had Now i'm pretty sure joseph probably understands that they don't like me But I want you to hear this dream. Was it important that joseph gave the dream to his brothers? It was not That's just him doing so. Remember just that's just him doing so Which gets him in trouble. We'll find this out later Please listen to this dream. I want you all to hear how great I am For behold, we were binding sheaves in the field and lo my sheep rose up and also stood erect And behold your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheep Then his brother said to him. Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us? So they hated him even more for this dream and for his words Not very wise not very wise at all. Thank you, michael and may for the super chat. I appreciate that and the kind words as well Verse nine now he had still another dream and related to his brothers joseph Hush hush stop it. You're digging yourself a well You're digging yourself a hole and I mean literally joseph He said lo I have had still another dream and behold the sun and the moon and 11 stars Or bowing down to me he related it to his father and to his brothers And his father rebuked him and said to him. What is this dream that you have? That you have had shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come about ourselves for you To the ground his brothers were joseph him and look what his father said though his father did now his father did something wise Finally jacob But his father kept the saying in mind other where he just pondered he thought about him. Let me think about this for a second Then his brothers went to pasture their father's flock and check them israel said to joseph Are you not are not your brother's pasturing the flock and shake them? So now let's pause for a second. So now they're out. He goes out. You all know the story They're angry. Why because here comes his little bubbly bouncing little arrogant little something He comes up and what is he doing when they're walking up? They're working. He ain't working He's not working but they're working Not only is is he not working and they're working He's walking with this with this coat of many colors Well, here we are out here in the field Doing our work and you show up with your sunday best song We got a problem We don't like you anyway joseph in case you didn't know that we don't like you. You should have caught all of this No, it didn't it didn't say it didn't say uh that he raped her. So all we just know that that he laid with her But remember you got to remember though this one I brought this up in relation to dina that laying with her You can't get you can't get past the whether it was a rape Or whether he just kind of smooth talked her or whatever whether it was willful doesn't matter. It's on you It's on you. And so no, you you don't get it past. Well, she was making google eyes at me and so forth. No, that's that's how it works As a matter of fact, joseph is about to fire this out as well So you say i'm sure joseph uh was trying to bond with his brothers and they and they left him. Yeah Yeah, hey guys, can I come hang out with you guys? And you know how it is when you got a little brother your little brother wants to tag along and And but it's not like that. No, it's not like I don't go see I didn't have a little I don't have a little brother Well, I take it back. I take it back The word on the street is that my father You know papa was rolling stone The word on the street is that my father does have another brother. I'm another son. So I may have a little brother Um, but growing up I didn't have a little brother But if I did I would make me have my little brother come on little fella Right That's not how they treated joseph get away from us. We cannot stand you a little bum UN kick rocks and your little your little multicolored suit you got on So y'all know the story now. We're gonna fast forward because we got a lot to cover They devised this plot They put them in in this in this pit that joseph metaphorically dug Now interestingly enough though is rubin that says no, let's not kill him. Let's just say you got killed. And so they sell them off to these Traveling um singers. They're not traveling singer. I made that part up. Sell them off And joseph finds his way down to Egypt before we go there Gotta read something else Must read something else Let's go to genesis chapter 38 and it came about That time that judo departed from his brothers And visited a certain a doula might whose name was hera judo saw there a daughter of a certain canine woman whose name was Shua and he took her and went into her so she conceived and bore a son and named him ur What are you doing? What are you doing man? You you just out there just doing Jacob Honestly guys, can we just can we just tell the truth? shame the devil Tell the truth. Jake was not the best father Jacob really is not the best father He really thankfully though it's god who Initiated this and who's gonna complete it because remember jacob still got these idols allowing his kids and so forth He's not the one that stood up for dine on his sons are doing all the talking and so forth. So But anyway judo saw that there was a certain Kenanite woman and remember how everyone else got a wife their fathers Had this happen, but now judo's going on to get his own So she conceived and bore a son and named him ur Then she conceived again and bore a son named him onan. She bore still another son and named him sheila I'm sorry. I just And it was at kesit That she bore him now judo took a wife for ur his first born And her name was tamar so he goes out and get a wife for his kids But jacob didn't go out and get a wife for his didn't go out and get a wife for judo Which way he was supposed to do anyway Uh, then judo said i'm sorry But ur judo's first born was evil in the sight of the lord. So the lord killed him So the lord killed him How bad do you have to be everybody first of all everyone else is bad You're so bad that you're bad trumps everybody else is bad. I got to kill you. You just you just wicked you are just wicked That's pretty bad pretty despicable wouldn't you agree I says, uh You are a teacher after my own. Thank you Thank you. I I thank you the kind words those words go those bless me guys Those make me Can I say this though those the kind of things that really make me want to go back and just Keep doing studying and second so forth by the way No, I'll I'll say this for later. I'll say this announcement for later. I'll say it for later But it does relate to what when he just said my thank you though. I appreciate that Verse eight Then judo said to onan go into your brother's wife and perform Your duty as a brother-in-law to her and raise up offspring. So here it is If your brother your older brother has a wife dies And you're not married then you need to go produce an heir for for him. That's his offspring I'm so glad we don't live in that air because I'm not doing that It's been ooh. Yeah nasty. I'm not I'm not doing that But that was what it was there And he was supposed to do so. So what onan do onan knew that the offspring would not be his So when he went into his brother's wife, he wasted his seat on the ground in order to give offspring to his brother Now there's a debate. There's a question as as to whether this is saying that this was something that was happening repeatedly I'd like a one-time thing And what god killed him for was not the fact that he's built his seat on the ground The fact that he didn't do what he was supposed to do He didn't want to give an inheritance for his brother, which was what he was supposed to do and so god Killed him too But what he did was just pleasing the side of the lord. So he took his life also. So god is not playing God is going to kill you. Thank you. Sherry. God is going to kill you I don't know why we think that god who's the same yesterday today and forevermore has changed Sometimes we we forget And maybe we will attribute to natural causes or I don't know drug use or Suicide we'll attribute death a lot of different things And oftentimes we forget that the hand of god is still yet on this planet And if he wants to do to you for your evil for your witness for your sin We'll think oh, no a truck just hit him No Remember guys, and I think this is important God is the one who gives life God is the one who takes life We get wrapped up in the method He drowned it was a hurricane a tree fell on him He died of cancer whatever it is God who does so the method Sometimes makes us think that it's something else when it's always got For whatever reason now could be because he's ready for you to come be with him It could be because he's just sick and tired of you. Don't let god get FYI a little commercial on the side Don't let god get sick and tired of you Let you let you on uh Uh close let her get tired of you Let you let your brother get tired of you Don't let god get sick and tired of you Amen, amen good good words to live by and so this was happening Then juda said to his daughter-in-law tomorrow remain a widow in your father's house until my son sheila grows up now Y'all know the story the other story go back and read it That he's ah he forgets about it now his wife ends up dying And so he goes to the the local brothel and gets him Someone on the side As they will they say sally on the side Pardon me if anyone's name is sally. I apologize. That's the oldest thing old saying a little sally on the side um Was that was that uh, was it the okay? It's both But it wasn't the wasting the seat on the ground And i'm and we may have children in the next room maybe watching saturday morning cartoons or playing video games So I don't want to you know But it wasn't necessarily that As was the fact that he wasn't going to do his job because remember he saw that He saw that the seat was not going to be his or that the child was not going to be his And he didn't want to do that and that's that's what was that this honored god And i'm pretty sure god's not happy with the other part to the the spilling of the seat on the ground as well All of that listen all of that no matter how you die ultimately is god Because you can think about something think about how this person the same thing happens over here This person dies that happens over here. Nobody dies You can say you want to kill someone but unless god is in it then it ain't gonna happen You can shoot a person ahead if god if god if god is not taking that person's life Then the bullet won't do a thing. It's just a piece of metal But we've got a piece of god who if he wants to take you he'll take you out He wants to keep he'll keep you it's and by the way, we're gonna cover that on next week this issue of Him giving life and taking life. Why because guess what? Guess what? Joe brings us up We're not we're out of Matthew 10 18s. We have to stay here. Okay, say with it. I need you. Listen. Listen young brother Young brother. I need you to stay on task. We are in what is this genesis 38? Okay, we're not in Matthew Mark lucre john All right Okay So now What does he do? He forgets about uh tomorrow So he goes um and tomorrow knows about it. So she goes and covers herself up and then She ends up sleeping with juda It's reported that hey juda that girl tomorrow Is pregnant Well bring her here. We got to kill her. Why do we have to kill her? We're gonna kill the we go. What about the woman that she was with? See, but anyway Come to find out y'all know the story that She says the person who's signet ring who this stuff belong to that's the father. That's the that's the baby daddy mori This is the baby's daddy And so juda juda finds out that you are the father And he's like man. She's more honorable than I am. She is more honorable than I am and then these two boys are born One of the name one of the boys name is pares Who is pares? So I matter of fact, let's drop down. Let's find this. Um Uh Because this part is actually important. How far down is this thing? Okay, here it is So, uh, but it came about uh as he drew back his hand that behold his brother came out then is the story about how The two boys were born Uh, so he was named pares afterwards His brother came out who had the scar throat in his hand. His name was zara. I won't go any further But just remember these names Especially Remember the name pares Okay, why because that name is going to be found in the the lineage of this person that we keep bringing up Yeah, person's hypocrite. I'm I'm just impressive We see a lot of hypocrisy Now I want y'all to remember these things that we're seeing We see not just the hypocrisy We see the outright, um all these idols We see sin We see a lot of this stuff With people who are supposed to be close to god God is dealing intimately with jakem How many of you have literally seen jakem? I mean seeing jakem seeing god face to face Seeing the god who takes on flesh. How many of you with jakem seen him a few times And he's still messing up You're still doing these things Tells us something about mankind and god how how close god has to be with us and be intimately involved with us Just to keep us from going off the off the beaten path and we still do so Now let's go to 39 Now joseph Let's pick back up in joseph. Y'all know the story So we won't spend a whole lot of time with joseph Imprisonment and so forth Y'all know the story but the couple things I do want to highlight on Joseph had been taken down to Egypt and potifur and an Egyptian officer of pharaoh the captain of the bodyguard interestingly enough the captain Of pharaoh of his bodyguard this Egyptian officer potifur This person is the one that buys joseph so to speak It's important Bought him from the ishmaelites who had taken him down there the lord was with joseph That's really all we need to know The lord was with joseph Now we're going to tie this into something that happened So last week week before last We're going to tie this in because something very important Because we said the question was asked when god says something is he speaking metaphorically allegorically? So we read allegorically or do we take it literally we're going to find that he literally said this and meant this literally We'll get there in a second the lord was with joseph So he became a successful man if the lord is with you you will be successful And he was in the house of his master the egyptian now his master Saw that the lord was with him His master saw that the lord was with him and look at the word that's there for the lord This is the word where we get the word the term yawai We think is we think it's pronounced yawai, but maybe yawa yawa yahoa. We don't know for sure But the lord Was with him and how the lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hand People will see that the lord is with you not everybody But some people if the lord is with you people will see you don't have to run around and tell anybody. Hey guys I got the lord on my side Okay, we'll see So joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal servant and made him overseer of his house And all that he owned he put in charge Now later on well, we know the story that mrs. Potiphar mrs. Potiphar Batten her eyes and moving her hips and we don't know what she looks like Um, but enough to where she thought that joseph might might be impressed and just like i'm not impressed uh, sweetheart And so y'all know the story concocted That he tried to do something to her tried to assault her and he's thrown in prison and even in prison Joseph finds favor with god the lord is with And y'all know the story that Pharaoh's servants are there by the way No, i won't i won't read that part that part is not important, but let's go to where Uh when he's in prison now when his master heard the words of his wife Which he has spoken. This is what uh, your slave did to me his anger burned. So joseph's master took him and put him into jail The place where the king's prisoners were confined because remember this is what he is He's he's a the office that he holds has to deal with that Um first we want but the lord was with joseph and extended kindness to him and gave him favor in the sight of the chief jeller Because remember joseph had a dream that was given him by god The chief jeller committed joseph charge all in charge of all the prisoners Who were in the jail so that whatever was done there he was responsible for so he'd get ranked inside of prison He's a shot caller joseph is made the first shot caller in the history of the world the first prison shot caller And it came the past verse chapter 40 verse 1 That the cupbearer and the baker of the king of egypt offended their lord and the king of egypt Farrah was furious with his two officials the chief cupbearer and the chief baker So he put them in confinement now. They both have this dream the cupbearer and the um the baker So now they have these dreams and the cupbearer and the baker of of the king of egypt Who were confined to jail both had a dream the same night Each man with his own dream and each dream with his own interpretation When joseph came to them in the morning and observed them behold They were dejected and he asked feral's officer was basically what's going on They said to him we have had a dream and there is no one to interpret Then joseph said do not in do not interpretations belong to god Tell it to me please and so the cupbearer tells him a dream Now Let's drop down and he tells him what the cupbearer is going to happen when he says only this though verse 14 Keep me in mind when it goes well with you. In other words, remember me I can testify that when you're in these places you want somebody to remember you So joseph's like man, he just remember me. I'm sick of this place I'm serving the lord, but I really don't want to be in this place I really want you to bring me out of this place. Lord help me Get me out of this place And we know the story he did now the other person has a dream the baker has a dream Will shoot if you're gonna interpret this guy's dream and it's good. Tell me mine Sorry, mr. Baker. It won't go well with you off with your head is coming pretty soon Now you know the story Pharaoh has a dream also The chief baker doesn't remember. I'm sorry the cupbear didn't remember Pharaoh has a dream and then he was reminded. Oh, there was a person who interpreted my dream And so because of that They bring joseph out joseph interprets a dream and says that there is going to be a famine in the land Seven well first of all, it's gonna be seven years of good and plenty And then seven years of a famine now. I want you guys to pay attention I'm not reading the scriptures. You all should have read this if not go back and read it Probably the truth we told you all should have read this before at some point in time But if you haven't no problem I want you all to think about what has happened here and what has happened to joseph's lineage in the past Make these dots connect now He tells about this dream seven years of good and plenty. There's gonna be seven years of famine So what are we gonna do? We are going to save Store up for these seven years Seven years so what if it were you and I and we decided that we're gonna save up for these seven years How how would we say we would probably say one seventh for this year one seventh for that year one seventh, right? But if you notice when you go back and read you'll find out that they were saving one fifth And not one seventh Does anybody have any idea? Of why they might be um saving one fifth instead of one seventh What's the reason can can you hmm? Can you think of a reason? Why joseph is leading them or why he is Maybe being led by god to have to keep one fifth versus one seventh because after the seven years of bad Then things are gonna come back All you need is one seventh, but why one fifth which is more Yeah, one fifth is bigger than one seventh Why one fifth why why I mean one seventh was why Yep. Jeff. Jeff. You might be on or something Silver-eyed line king. You might be you might be on or something Because we're about to have some company Amen Rgc rjc. We're about to have some company We are we are about to have some company One not just the children visit, but also some other folks. We're about to have some company They're in lies the wisdom either of joseph or the the thought to follow what god is having him to do And so that's what happened, but now think about this though Do y'all recall how many times Either abraham or Isaac have gone into egypt in the past They've gone into egypt in the past before Why because of a famine at least twice Because of a famine His forefathers have gone into egypt And every time they've gone into egypt Fearfully, I might add they've come back with possessions now Remember the story Remember the story Matter of fact, let's go back to it. Let's go back to it. Let me find it. Let's put it on the screen Genesis, I think it's 15 Yeah, let's see Let me make sure I I have this correct because I want to um All right, here it is Genesis chapter 15 verse 8 This is him speaking abraham or abraham. He says he says oh lord god. How may I know that I will possess it Well Abram You'll know that you'll possess it because I said so How many you all ever said to your kids because I said so and this is god speaking But how will I know How how how will I know how will I know? God should could have said because I said so but look what he says. Look what he says Um He says bring me a three-year-old heifer and something that we won't go into to this part But then look what he says after this he says now when the sun Let's go down god said To abraham know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs How long where they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years? Well, we know this is going to be egypt oppressed for 400 years And he gives the timeline And this is exactly literally how it happened to be Now I want to deal with someone just a little bit because I I I see something's happening here. We need to address this For 400 years, but I will also judge the nation whom they will serve and afterwards they will come out with many possessions As for you you will go down to your father's in peace. You will be buried at a good old age. So now God tells them what's going to happen And the sign of this that you can know That god is going to be with you Since you don't want to listen to me Your descendants are going to have to deal with this And they're going to be in Egypt. So now why is why is joseph in egypt? Why did joseph have a dream? Why was he taken into captivity? By the way, by the way, can I give a plug? There's a video that I did. I got I you know what? I'm gonna put that video Um in the uh in the favorites. So as soon as you go to the channel, you'll see it afterwards There's a sermon that I've preached About this about why is all of this transpiring The question is going to be Why all this is happening? Let's get to why all this is happening. Let's go to Let's let's let's let's jump. No, you know what? Lisa Tyra who changed her her thumbnail picture Um, who else is in here? Brian Remind me to cover what I'm just on right now remind me to cover why Remember so I don't forget. I don't care if it's four o'clock If it takes me that long to get to it. I need to cover the why it's very important So remember what I just said we'll put it on pause. We'll come back to it Let's jump to chapter 40 a big jump. They've got this famine in the land and Joseph has Done this prophecy and so forth told what goddess says it's gonna happen and it happens just like that and now he's made number two He's in charge and then they go and come to find out what's happening in the land That his fathers are in that doesn't know that joseph is still alive They're affected and so they go and they end up Coming to joseph the very same person who they tried to kill Who now they are Um, what would you say? All right, I'll get you. I'll kneel and has a question. I'll come back to you. I'll come to in the second kneeling So now they find themselves before them and joseph is playing around with him He's having some fun with them placing the money in their back in them make it look like that they have Stolen placing his gob this this this the silverware in there making something like they stolen that and so forth. So now And yeah, that's a big jump right a huge jump because if not, we'll be here forever And we don't want to be here forever. So now let's go to verse 48 Chapter 48 verse 1 now it came to pass after these things that joseph told behold your father is sick. So he's told That uh, Jacob is sick bothers him So he took his two sons manassas and Ephraim and now I want you all to go ahead and read on your own We don't have time for this But how he's going to bless Ephraim and manassas and he switches hands And there's a reason for that because Ephraim we're going to find out Don't gonna have to do this. I had to do this time out We're going to find out later on that Ephraim is going to be the dominant tribe in the northern kingdom Time out. I just had to put that up there. There's a reason why uh, jacob does this Joseph's like don't do this But no, he so he puts him on the right hand one on the left hand But no, this one I'm gonna bless way across his hands up like this Are you with me? So I want that to kind of be you know to be spelled out, but then verse four I want you to see something chapter chapter 48 verse four Let's go to verse three Then joseph said to joseph god almighty appeared to me at love's in the land of canaan and bless me And he said to me behold. I will look what he says guys. This is important. This is important I will make you fruitful and numerous and I will make your make you a company of people's this word right here I mean Is plural people not one single but plural people's and I will give this land to your Descendants, this is the word uh, zara Or zaraq zaraqa, which is your your descent your physical descendants This word here is your physical descendants. I'm going to give them. Look what he says after you For an everlasting possession So god is as told Jacob that your descendants will have this land as an everlasting possession The question is does he mean his people? Or some other people does he mean this land? Or some other land he's just is he being literal? Or is he's just being kind of in metaphors? I submit to you that he's speaking literally And so the people and the land he means literally because it goes back to Genesis chapter 12 verses 1 2 and 3 Where he's going to make him a great nation make his name great bless him with this land and so forth He's given them the boundaries of the land. Oh, by the way Israel to this day Hadn't observed fully all of the land that god has promised him Will god give them all the land that he's of it that he's promised him. Yes, he will So now I want you all to see this because this is going to come up again and again and again Since we have no reason to think that it's not literal Don't make up a reason Don't make up a reason are you with me? But god because because again god could say it the way we want to take it God could see I don't really mean that But god is not like us. We say something what I what I really meant We do that No, but see what I meant to say was this god doesn't say that We do that and we kind of portray how we are and put that on god. That's not how god is So now he's going to bless And notice he uses the word for people or for nations But then he also talks about he contrasts that with his seed his descendants Descendants his seed is alright and nations or I mean are two different things There are these nations and these families that are going to be blessed by them But then also he speaks of his seed his descendants his flesh Do not conflate the two as a matter of fact later on in the bible We're going to see the distinction being made And we're going to see people today wanting to kind of conflate the two make the two be the same and they're not Is let me just say this time out. We'll see later is real and gentiles are not the same In christ we are But god is going to fulfill what he said look what he says right here. He says Uh and to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession An everlasting possession this word right here is forever Olam forever An everlasting possession. All right guys That's very important. That's why it's important to understand what he's doing with with the two boys Ephraim and I forgot the other boy's name already Um effeminate manassas Now I want to show something else This part is extremely important. Now we're jumping from chapter 48 to 49 And we're getting close to an end Chapter 49 verse 1 Jacob that is israel summons his boys Okay revelation there. I have no idea what you're talking about, but okay fine. You're entitled to that If you say so the word by the way smart is literally in the bible Anyway, then Jacob summoned his sons and said assemble yourself that I may tell you What will befall you in the days to come? Hmm What will befall you in the days of come? Look he says gather together and hear oh sons of Jacob and listen to israel. You're a father ruben heaven ruben The guy who did something disastrous he says Okay, you're right It may not always but in this case it actually it absolutely does mean forever. It means uh an everlasting Um, as a matter of fact in most cases, it does mean everlasting Um, he says ruben my might and the beginning of my strength Permanent indignity and permanent in power. Look what he says uncontrolled as water You shall not have preeminence You shall not have preeminence. Why because you went up to your father's bed. Then you defiled it He went up to my couch Ruben Did you think you were going to get away with that? Did you think that you were going to get away with it? No ruben guess what? To the back of the line You you were preeminent. You were number one not anymore Next Seminy and Levi are brothers their swords are implements of violence Let my soul not enter into their council Let not my glory be united with their assembly because What he says in their anger they slew men and in their self-will they laying oxen Cursed be their anger for it is fierce and their wrath for it is cruel I will disperse them in Jacob and scatter them in isra, which by the way he does god does So son number one, you're out of there son number two and three You're going Who's next? Here comes Judah And he's gonna say something very important guys. Judah Your brother shall praise you now. Judah hadn't been the most honorable, but He's the most I guess he's the he's the next in line. He hadn't been as bad So Judah your brother shall praise you your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies Look what he says guys very important very very very very important your father's sons Shall bow down to you Judah is a lions well From the pray my son you have gone up He couches he lies down as a lion and as a lion who dares rouse him. Look what he says Chapter 49 verse 10 Here's another one of those tattoo moments If you want to tattoo something if you want to write something down sticky note, whatever This is one of those verses That you must remember The scepter shall not depart from Judah the ruler's staff from between his feet until silo come And to him shall be the obedience of the people What scepter There's no rulership here. There's no kingdom here Not yet Not yet Remember that we'll get to it later We'll get to it later, but this is vitally important He ties his fold to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine He washes his garments and wine and his robes in the blood of grapes His eyes are dull from wine and his teeth white from milk Zebel now I won't go into the rest of the people too. Yeah, you notice that Jeff Notice that listen even the colts in the Old Testament there Yeah I won't go into the rest of them Zebel and so forth Um Ishikar I'll leave them alone, but the main point has to do with Judah Has to do with Judah now. Let's go to chapter 50. We're almost to the end We're almost to the end chapter 50 and let's go to verse. I think it's 15 When joseph's brother saw their father was dead Uh-oh, what are we going to do because joseph was probably only being nicest because of his father? And so they go and ask for forgiveness Let's go to what he says Let's start in verse 17. Thus you shall say to joseph. Please forgive I beg you the transgressions of your brothers and their sin for they did not for they did you wrong And now please forgive the transgressions of your servants of the god of your father and joseph wept When he spoke with them then his brothers also came and fell down before him and said, behold We are your servants, but joseph said to them do not be afraid for am I look what he says Look what joseph says very important Do not be afraid for am I in god's place? as for me You meant You meant evil against me But here's the key, but god meant it for good In order to bring about this present result to preserve many people alive So why Was joseph there? why Did abraham I mean why why why did joseph forgive? Well, let's work our way back or work our way forward. Have everyone look at it Am I not in the place that god wants me to be? I'm here Because ferro had a dream And I interpret it. I'm here because god has ordained a famine That ferro dreamt about that he had no idea I'm here to interpret about this dream because I was in prison And interpreted another dream and I was remembered about that dream But I was only in prison Because some woman made advances, but I held my dignity Uh and did not touch her now the only reason why I was even there with her in the first place because I was sold in the slavery Why was I sold in the slavery? I was sold in the slavery because my brothers were jealous Why were my brothers jealous because I had a dream And why did joseph have a dream joseph had a dream Because abraham his grandfather asked a question How will I know Why did he ask his question because he was old without a child But god had made a promise to him that he is going to be a father of many nations Though he didn't have any and why did god do so because god wanted to bless not just him But also everybody else all the other nations of the world Through abraham because of this promise that god wants to make That's why joseph had a dream. That's why joseph was in prison. That's why joseph interpreted feral's dream That's why there was a famine. That's why he said No, you meant for evil, but god meant this for good Why because there's going to be some people coming in we got some guests coming And so as we do this now, let's go over to exodus We're only gonna be for a few more minutes and then we're good Let's go over to exus and let's see what's happening Now these are the names of the sons of israel who came to egypt With jacob They came each one with his household rubin simian levi and juda isacar zebilim and benjamin dan nathalie gad and asher All the persons who came from the loins of jacob were 70 in number, but Joseph was already so wasn't a large number just 70 But joseph was already in Egypt joseph died and all his brothers and all generation But the sons of israel were fruitful and increased greatly multiplied and became increasingly Mighty so that the land was filled with them now a new king arose over egypt Who did not know joseph? He said to his people Behold the people the sons of israel are more and miter than we are come Let us deal wisely with them or else they will multiply and in the event of war They will also join themselves to those who hate us and fight against us and depart from the land Now here's a problem. We got a huge problem. What's the problem america? What's the problem canada? What's the problem mexico people in guatemala people in Turks and cacos trinidad the uk scotland iceland What's the problem? Why in the world Are the children of israel even there in the first place? Can someone help me out? Why are the children of israel even there in the first place? Should they be there? No, they should not the famines over with why are you still there? What was the land that was promised you're not you're not where you're supposed to be? After no one told you this day, so here's a problem you should have left but you didn't But guess what they have this this this innate desire to be disobedient anyway You getting comfortable you're growing you're being you know you're being prosperous you're growing and growing and growing And then you got some haters in the land who don't want you there. They want you out of their country these egyptians And now you're going into slavery But it was already foretold because your great-grandfather your ancestor abraham had the audacity to not trust god fully And so god said this is how you know And so for 40 years you guys are about to go into slavery But fear not you'll die in slavery, but your ancestors in 40 years will come out with great success with wealth Now we'll leave it there. We'll pick we'll pick back up No, you know what? No, I'm sorry. No, we're not. No, we're not we can't leave it there We cannot leave it there. We cannot leave it there Let's let's let's jump a little forward. Let's jump a little forward We won't deal with we know about moses How the king has wanted to kill all the boys and so forth and moses His his birth him being raised by ferrell's daughter But then ferrell's daughter is having moses's mother To raise in a nursing. She's getting paid to raise her own child What listen that'd be a good government program if the government paid you to raise your own child That is have i'll take it back. That is happening nowadays in just after not with the same results Anyway, anyway, so we know what's happening with moses This now we hear about the birth of moses moses the bible says was handsome Which tells me something about moses that tells me that moses must have been born bald Yeah, that that's clearly how moses was born moses found favor because he was because he was bald Y'all saw y'all see that right you all agree, don't you? Anyway, so moses finds himself out by himself In the wilderness Then he finds a family He gets him a wife Uh And he marries her as a poorer Her father's name is jethro got some money got some got some uh some livestock I want to i i didn't want to end i want to go ahead and end on this part I wanted to end up on this part Now moses was pastoring the flock of jethro his father-in-law The priest of median and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to oryp the mountain of god And lucky who shows up here And the angel of the lord shows up We have definitely seen him before The angel of the lord shows up Hmm Question Oh, I did chest champ. That was the why or I covered the why chest and wouldn't I did all that and chest ham didn't catch it Who shows up the angel of the lord? natural question The angel of the lord shows up how so appeared to him in a blazing fire From the midst of a bush So who's in the midst of the bush? Y'all have heard me cover this before Who's in the midst of the bush? The angel of the lord That part is easy And behold the bush was burning with fire yet the bush was not consumed. So moses said now moses is now giving a First person account. I'm there me. I was there. So now moses speaking from experience God didn't have to tell him what's happening here. Moses is telling his recounting of the story I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight why the bush is not burned up when the lord So so who saw when the lord saw That he turned aside to look god called to him from the midst of the burning bush So who's in the most the midst of the burning bush? The angel of the lord because he just said so But also god and also the lord these are the three names of the three titles would have you that are given As who is in the midst of the burning bush? You all see that the lord the angel of the lord And god are calling out from the midst of the or in the midst of the burning bush That's on fire the lord the angel of the lord and god. I didn't just make that up I did not just make that up. That's just what it says The lord I'm sorry the angel of the lord the lord and then god now We'll stop right there The reason why we'll stop right there It's because if I go any further we'll be here for a lot longer and I don't want to be here for a lot longer I don't want to be here for a lot longer So is god directly or indirectly causing these events to happen? Well, here's the question kneeling Do you think that The famine Was indirectly caused by god or god caused it. Well, it had to be god causing it that this didn't happen He controls the winds and the waves he controls all of this So yeah, the famine is happening and by the way god was the one who said they're going to be in this land We didn't know at the time that it was egypt, but god is the one who said that they were going to be in this land So yeah god god is causing these things um to happen Music love it's okay, buddy. It's brother. It's so it's okay. It happens By the way when it when it comes to dealing with people it's easy to get your emotions up And so that's why the default position should be That's just i'm you know I'm gonna say what you're gonna say because it takes a whole lot of strength to not say what you want to say Or do what you want to do. So I get it brother. I get it. I get it There's a big man even say what you just said. So praise god for you um But yeah god caused things to happen For us to think that the devil is busy and god is not would be would would would be tragic in how we view god Satan's busy the devil is busy, but god is not no god is busy God is active god is moving god is god is out To do um his bidding god is not because could you imagine if god left it up to us? What what is the history of us the history of us is to continually mess up? now um You make this statement joseph did not have the fullness of the spirit. I'm not sure why you bring that up. Um All we know is we don't know if you have the spirit or not. We just know that god was with him the lord was with him Because we don't know that anyone had the fullness of spirit. We don't know that matter of fact matter of fact guys at this point in time We don't see anyone having the spirit of god We don't see that we just see that god is with them We don't know about the spirit dwelling inside somebody or anything like that or whatever Which is going to happen later? But again, what's happening is we want to take what we see then and bring it over here We hadn't gotten here yet. We are building this foundation and guys honestly one of the biggest reasons. Thank you child young cat again I appreciate that and bless and god bless you all you mothers as well for mother's day um But what happens is we end up doing this thing where we we just want to be so right about something We're going to make sure that I get my point in even if my point has nothing to do with what we're talking about because I want to I want to I want everyone to eventually see what I see But how about we all just see what this what the text says And then matter of fact, maybe we can save some egg on our face Instead of telling everybody what we think and then find out that hey, you're you're wrong happened to me I was so interested in saying okay. This is the right way And then as we're going on what dog on that can't be the right way and so That's why we're that's why we're we're being intentional on how we go How slow we are and let's look at the scriptures Now next week we won't jump back into exodus Next week we're going to joe. So have all of joe red Have all of joe red. We're going to cover joe. Why because Remember where's it at? Let me put this back on the screen guys We have this and if you haven't if you haven't done a screenshot of this, please do so This is the timeline We have the chronological books genesis exes numbers joshua judges first and second sanham first and kings azurnia mya Then we also have the complimentary book the complimentary book of genesis is joe When we go into exes the week after that Then we have these complimentary books for exes which is leviticus and numbers and so forth and so So guys so make sure you read joe. We're not going to read all of joe together. We're going to hit the main points Why why is god tripping on joe? Jobe didn't do anything wrong. Why are you making a why are you making joe to be an example? And what's up with his friends these four friends these really these three friends and the fourth one ends up being the right one And then what does joe have to do to save them? We're going to find some other little nuggets as well We're going to find that joe was also viewed as a righteous person with god How in the world is joe righteous? There's no there's no cross for joe to be righteous under There's not even the day of atonement for joe How was how was joe righteous? Well, how was Noah righteous? How was Abraham righteous? What's happening? How to how was able righteous? We're going to find something out So Have that all read and then after that we're going to go into Exodus Which is going to take us into this old covenant that we're going to see All right guys. So, uh, hope that has let's see got it Thank you shine I appreciate that and it should be Well, Kathleen it could be it it could be the oldest. We're not sure Uh, depending upon which textual critic which scholar you ask, uh, jobe is slightly older than genesis or it's slightly younger We just know this that they're about They're about so we're not sure which one was written before which we we we just don't know But then we're going to notice some differences between joe and and what's happening in genesis And because the question I'm going to ask you guys is this Not when was joe written But the question is going to be When these events are taking place, when did these events take place? Did they take place before the flood? Did they take place after the flood? Don't know We're going to find this out on next week though. We're going to talk about it on next week We're going to talk about it. Hey Renee. Thank you also for the super chat guys. Thank you all so much I appreciate you guys. Um, I look forward to seeing you all again. Actually tomorrow Actually tomorrow, I've got something that I want to cover someone to ask a question But I wanted to cover this uh a little bit more because it talks about the greatness of god And it has to do with god's name, you know that that y h w h the tetragrammaton the what we say that yaway There's another name. It's also there before it is that actually god's name What does he mean by this term that he gives ecce or yaway these two? Oh, I said I I said a word that you all may have never heard before But we'll cover that we'll cover Elohim we'll cover the local for all of that stuff tomorrow About his name and then why it is what it is So in the meantime guys be blessed and I will see you later