Alrighty, if you've got a Bible this morning, or are we almost afternoon, would
you turn to Genesis 35? We've been looking at the this this life of this
dude named Jacob, aka Israel, and that's very significant, that name change, and
what we're seeing today, I don't know if you guys saw it this this week, but
yesterday or the day before Amir Tsarfati gave an update on what is next
for Israel, and if you have not seen that, I encourage you to go and look at it.
It's actually quite powerful what God has planned for this people, for
his people, and the Bible says you and I are grafted in as believers in the Lord
Jesus Christ, that we have been born again, we have been rescued for a purpose
and a plan, and God is going to work that plan if you and I let him, so I
pray that that's your heart, and so we left off in verse 15
where Jacob was back at Bethel, and he poured a drink offering, and he poured
oil, and we talked about that oil being a type of the Holy Spirit,
that Jacob's name has been changed from that conniving, sneaking, rotten rat
that he was, to this prince with God is what Israel means, or some have said
governed by God, but the fact is, is Jacob came to the end of himself, have you
come to the end of yourself today? I entitled this message "Life Goes On" when
you come to the end of yourself, and you come to Christ, and the Lord opens these
new doors and gives you new eyes, my friend and I were talking about that
this week, just how you see things once you're born again. I left off last week
sharing out of John and just Jesus's instruction to the very religious
fellow named Nicodemus, so you must be born again, and God gives you a new set
of eyes, you can just see things that you've never seen before, you can see the
lies and the darkness and the fiery darts of the evil one, and if you
can't see that and you've been blinded, the Bible says that's
Satan's ploy, is to keep people in the dark of what's going on, what's going on
in the world, what's going on around you. I've got a squeak up here that is
driving me absolutely crazy, I can't even shift my weight without it sounding like
an inappropriate sound. But the Lord's working and life does go on, and
that just because you come to Christ, just because you're born again, it
doesn't mean that life gets easier, right? We just simply have our eyes open, and
actually, it's about the only difference is, is now you know when to duck, right?
You can see it coming, and so the Lord, he definitely shines his light on
us, and that's what's going on in Jacob's life, but because life goes on, we're
gonna pick it up in verse 16, we'll read through verse 21, I know it's
an odd place to stop, but we'll do it. "Then they journeyed from Beth-El," so
now they leave Beth-El, which is house of God, "and when there was but a little
distance to go to Ephrathath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard
labor. Now it came to pass when she saw, when she was in hard labor, that the
midwife said to her, 'Do not fear, you will have this son also.' And so it was as her
soul was departing, for she died, that she called his name Ben-Oni, but his father
called him Benjamin. And so Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrathath,"
which is Bethlehem, "and Jacob set a pillar on her grave," which is the pillar of
Rachel's grave to this day, "and then Israel journeyed and pitched his tent
beyond the tower of Edor, and it happened when Israel dwelt in the land that
Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard
about it." Weird, let's pray. Lord thank you for your Word and we just we know
that there's always nuggets to glean when we read about the the life and the
death of the people throughout Scripture. Lord that they're just like us and they
have trouble just like us and that they're gonna face death just like us
unless you tarry or unless your coming is is soon and some of us it needs to be
sooner than others. And so Lord we just praise you that you you are coming and
we have that future and that hope and Lord that you would truly just help us
to absorb some nuggets out of the truth of your word Lord in these chapters 35
and 36 here in the book of Genesis. And God we we just thank you thank you that
you you don't leave us as orphans Lord but you give us away and you make a way
for us and you've done that through the Lord Jesus and it's in your name Lord
Jesus we pray, amen. So so they they pack up and they're journeying and the only
reason I think why they're packing up and they're gonna make a 30 mile
trek to the south and simply to go see Jacob's Papa. We know is Isaac or Israel's
Papa as he's called now and and they so they're on this journey and they're
heading south and about 15 miles in Rachel goes into labor now they're
obviously quite a bit older his oldest boys are probably in their 20s at this
time this may be what they what they consider a geriatric pregnancy. Have you
heard of those? Was it past 35 Susan? Past 35 years old if you get pregnant
it's a geriatric pregnancy. I thought that was interesting because my
daughter was 35 when she had her baby I said geriatric I thought that only
applied to me. But we don't know if that was the case obviously there seems to be
a little less tension about pregnancies and having babies as before you know
they were flipping coins and passing chicks around to Jacob to get as many
babies as they could and it was it was a it was quite the soap opera as the
stomach turns. There doesn't seem to be this catty wild competition among the
women or the sisters at this point you know and so they're kind of settled in I
think and and and she's pregnant and some think that Rachel believed that she
would get pregnant again simply because of what she named her first son his
name was? Who was her first Rachel's first son? Bible trivia Joseph right it
means adding that she you know remember back way back when she she chastised
Jacob give me children lest I die right and she was he was she was beside
herself and he gets mad at her am I in the place of God I'm not in control of
the womb that's God's deal and that is God's deal we see it throughout
Scripture God's the one who allows those little ones to be conceived and so I
know a lot of women say God why did you do this but he does it and and where to
live with it and and so Rachel's heart no doubt was settled so having this
second baby was just kind of icing on the cake for her now she's having this
baby but her labor is hard and her midwife encourages her sure enough
Rachel dies which probably was fairly common back then you know you had any
kind of a hemorrhage and and you know couldn't get into an emergency room or
whatever that that that happened quite often I was talking to a friend of mine
the other day and she her daughter had twins and she was the way her body was
she was gonna you know have multiple eggs at the same time out that she was
you know she could even have triplets she had two sets of twins and she went
in to get this procedure done while she was pregnant with the second set and her
heart was so for her children that she said save my babies if it comes down to
me or the babies you save my babies and let me go and I just thought that's an
awesome heart that's a that's a unfeigned sacrificial love right and and
so often today we we don't see that and so she's encouraged by her she goes hey
you're gonna have you're gonna have this little boy and so as Benjamin is born
and her life is is fading away in her departing last words actually is he's
son of my sorrow think about that her whole life there for a while was about
having a baby that was her whole life she thought that that would satisfy her
and yet at the end of her life when she's having her second son what does
she say son of my sorrow son of my sorrow this kind of goes along with what
what Moses was talking about in in Psalm chapter 90 we read it at funerals often
we quote it to ourselves if we have any desire for wisdom it says this and and
Psalm chapter 90 in verse 9 it says for all our days have passed away in your
wrath speaking of God we finish our years like a sigh the days of our lives
are 70 years and if by reason of strength they are 80 years yet their
boast is only labor and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away who knows
the power of your anger for as the fear of you so is your wrath so teach us to
number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom is that your heart because the
fact is is this life is full of sorrow and it notice the psalmist says it
doesn't matter how long you live you think you can grow out of sorrow sorry
haven't you noticed as your hair starts getting gray the more and more funerals
that you go to you know and people complain about it well only time we get
to see each other is in funerals well at least we get to see each other and I
tell people you just you know you just the older you get it kind of spins up
you go to more funerals more funerals and preaching there you are you're at
your own but at this point who's Rachel thinking about herself she really is
thinking this is son of my sorrow well think about the poor kid he's got to
live with this name are you there sorrow how you doing there you little budger
right so praise God Jacob in his in his is his wisdom he so no no no no no no
no we're not gonna go there he's not gonna be son of sorrow he's gonna be son
of my right hand right some of the Benjamins that I know that when they
what they know what this name means I got a little spring in their step they
got a little puff in their chest yeah son of the right hand right much
different what's your name Ben who awning son of sorrow so and and
throughout scripture we see that the right hand is is that sign of strength
this idea is expressed in an Exodus chapter 15 6 it says your right hand Oh
Lord has become glorious in power your right hand Oh Lord has dashed the
enemies in pieces the Lord is our strength in honor and and that's that's
maybe the mindset that the Israel has here as he names Benjamin Psalm 16 8
says I have set the Lord always before me because he is at my right hand I shall
not be moved sometimes it's in the death of a loved one right that causes us to
put the Lord always before me a lot of times it's we we kind of are coasting
through life things are going good and then somebody dies maybe unexpectedly
not even unexpectedly a lot of times a parent passes away isn't it amazing how
you just have this sense even siblings you know I've lost a sibling and a parent
and it's like a chapter of your life closes it's different life's different
without that person in your life and and Israel is is experiencing this right he
he loses we had Deborah the handmaid of Rebecca dying and and earlier in this
chapter and now Rachel's passing away and and so the pages in Israel's life
are turning but what does that cause you to do it's that cause you to draw near
to the Lord it causes me to draw near Lord because I want to see them again
right like I it was it was about a year ago and I was kind of just contemplating
all the people who have gone on you know when you when you stop and you start
looking back thinking wow how many people I look at my prayer list and how
many people I've crossed off you mean you don't pray for your loved ones after
they're gone no they're with Jesus they don't need my prayers right or like the
first grader said prayer don't work when you're dead but I'm thinking holy cow
look at all these people they're gone they're not here anymore and and but I
I can't wait to see them and we're gonna see that here in a minute talk about
being gathered to your people kind of looking forward to being gathered to my
people because I'm starting to forget names here but when I when I get there I
won't forget I'll know I'll know I got a fact I almost know as many people there
as I do here now and at this stage in my life and and so he gives him this name
and no doubt it it it changes this this guy's life Benjamin eventually he is the
only warriors that we hear talked about in the Bible that are ambidextrous
they're they could shoot a bow and chuck a stone with a sling either left or
right-handed with the same amount of accuracy can you do that have you tried
writing your name with your opposite hand that's pretty it's almost
unlegible and among what other things trying to do with your opposite hand is
is crazy but but God blesses Benjamin and in Israel sees the importance of
this name the son of my right hand and and so they they bury Rachel their
effort that if wrath it means fruitful and Bethlehem means bread so this was
just the name before we see throughout history the names of places get changed
right and so here this was a fruitful house of bread now it's interesting that
it probably would have Bethlehem would have only been known for the the death
of Rachel it would have only been known for death except for that's where the
Prince of Life was born right so when you and I hear Bethlehem today what do
you think of the coming of Jesus right the first advent of Christ Jesus pretty
interesting stuff and yet Jesus comes think about it with me the Bible speaks
so loud sometimes in the most seemingly insignificant places so here's Rachel
they bury her there at Bethlehem and it's known for her death and her grave
spot and yet here comes Jesus the Savior of the world and what does he come to do
he comes to conquer death and the grave he comes to conquer it and bring
attention to not death but to life and so they load up they move a little
further to the south and then out of the blue it tells us about some hanky-panky
going on with his oldest boy and one of his concubines that's what I love about
the Bible it doesn't cover anything up it just tells it like it is now we don't
know what went on here was it because Bill ha it was Rachel's handmade so we
don't really know what it was he trying to comfort her was she really upset that
Rachel had died and obviously maybe Jacob hadn't been with her and sometimes
maybe she wanted her relationship with Jacob to be more now that Rachel is gone
who knows in the human heart when you add the the human factor and the the
desperately wicked heart and no no telling what's going on here but it seems
that it was consensual it wasn't like he raped her or anything but it was very
condemnable it was a vile thing for him to do where it says there and in verse
22 it says and it happened when Israel dwelt in the land that Reuben went and
lay with Bilhah his father's concubine and Israel heard about it and so this
boy who was the firstborn right so he would have had all the benefits that
Israel had as he swiped him from Esau that Reuben would have had all these all
these benefits of being the firstborn and yet he defiles his father's bed and
this was condemnable you know it was it wasn't normal he probably even in that
culture and and and definitely when Moses comes and he receives the law this
would be considered adultery which would been condemnable by death anybody here
have received the death sentence in your life my hands up I was an adulterer God
should have killed me but but he doesn't he knows about it that's all it says and
and maybe I don't know maybe Reuben really thought that he was you know
Israel was getting close to the grave and he's like this is my opportunity to
act and to usurp the authority of the family we don't know we don't know why
it happened whatever the case this axe was was extremely extremely vile and so
first it was punishable by by death secondly by doing what he did you you
surfing the position of the head of the family it's it's the same heart as the
prodigal that we see in Luke chapter 15 you remember the prodigal that comes to
his father's say hey dad give me what I got coming what they would never get
unless their father had died right they wouldn't get the inheritance out till
after the father is gone so what are you saying basically is dad I wish you were
dead give me what I got coming to me and that's kind of that the attitude that is
it is here thirdly it costs Reuben his firstborn status and first Chronicles
chapter 5 verses 1 through 2 it says now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of
Israel he was indeed the firstborn but because he defiled his father's bed his
birthright was given to the sons of Joseph and the son this the son of
Israel so that the genealogy is not listed according to the birthright yet
Judah prevailed over his brothers and from him came a ruler all old although
the birthright was Joseph's right there's another place in the Psalm where
it actually should have been Ephraim and every time a firstborn would get into a
lifestyle of sin it cost them spiritually right it cost them so it is
with us folks we get into sin spiritually in other words we're not
right with God on that spiritual plane where we're we're having koinonia and an
intimacy with the God who created us you can get in trouble really fast and you
can forfeit a lot of stuff in your life and as I look back even at my own life
and and some of the things I've forfeited and some of the things my
parents forfeited simply because of sin right my dad lost a lot of authority
with us kids when he committed adultery on my mother right how dare him say
anything to us about sin my mother because she saw her hellion sons mainly
Rick and Scotty Brown living like monsters would try to check us on our
sin and we'd throw it right back in her face because of her sinful lifestyle she
had no authority with us we're getting you're gonna talk to us and then we
tried talking to her about your sin and she's looking at me like you little
wicked suckers you're gonna talk to me about my sin what about yours you see
how that that works it just you you actually disqualify yourself from
speaking anything into anybody because of how sinful we've all been and maybe
Jacob it said he knew about it but he didn't say anything about it maybe
because he knew in his own life he says there's just things in my own life that
weren't right how can I and that's not right either when God calls you and he
redeems you and he washes you clean you should be able to speak truth to people
even if it's convicting sharing the truth and love the Bible tells us right
when Jacob is is giving his blessing there in Genesis chapter 49 he talks
about Reuben he says you are my firstborn my might in the beginning of
my strength the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power unstable as
water you shall not excel because you went up to your father's bed you defiled
it you went up to my couch he disqualified himself what's been
disqualified from now God can come along and restore stuff but I think that it
should cause us to walk in humility knowing where we've all fallen short of
God's glory and that's why the Bible says that we should speak the truth and
love why because we've been there you've blown it you've sinned I've sinned and
so when we speak truth to each other don't do it with the hoity-toity holier
than thou attitude because the fact is is we've all we've all been there we've
all blown it we've all had the three fingers pointing back at us when we
point the finger at somebody verse 23 he transitions here in verse 23 and says
now the sons of Jacob were 12 the sons of Leah were Reuben Jacob's firstborn and
Simeon Levi Judah is a car Zebulun the sons of Rachel or Joseph and Benjamin
the sons of Bilhah Rachel's maidservant were Dan and Naphtali that would have
been weird right your older brother was messing with your mom I don't know that
it gets it gets pretty really funky and the sons of Zilpah was Leah's maidservant
were Gad and Asher these were the sons of Jacob who were born to him at
Paderon and so just listen that's their their it's not their birth order it's a
birth order from their mothers but not their literal birth order and so then he
it goes on and I think this was the point of their trip in verse 27 then
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kerjath Arba which is Hebron where
Abraham and Isaac had dwelt now the days of Isaac were 180 years so Isaac
breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people being old and
full of days and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. Isaac he had a long life he
lived longer than Abraham a hundred and eighty years and so they come together
Esau and and Israel and they they have a funeral service for their dad there at
Hebron and we know that this is the main burying place for the patriarchs. Leah is
gonna be buried here Jacob will be brought back there and and Isaac
breathes his last maybe this was his last-ditch effort to get to his dad and
maybe have all the kids maybe all these boys know who their grandpa was. I don't
know if you have a as a grandfather if you have a relationship with your
grandkids or not but that's a pretty sweet thing and I don't know what it is
about grandkids why is it that they don't seem to be as big as sinners as
your kids? You know it's just it's just kind of bizarre I think the Lord gives
us as a partial blindness when it comes to our grandkids and um but but being
able to see the old patriarch there before he passed away I'm sure maybe
maybe inspired some of those boys to do what God had called them to do because
it's obvious that obvious that God had a plan for these twelve boys who are
eventually the twelve tribes of Israel who are gonna come back and reign
through the millennial reign of Christ. There's 144,000 you hear about it some
some religious groups think they're the 144,000 right? Well no you have to have
Jewish DNA in your bloodstream to be one of these and it was very specific what
tribes they're from and so God's gonna do this and they're gonna be preaching
machines they're gonna be Jews who are sharing the gospel and these guys are
the people that God uses to bring them into the world. Maybe you've forfeited
some of your life but maybe you got generations under you maybe kids
grandkids that you can speak truth into and be an influence that way be an
influence for the future to the future generations that love you and are not
mad at you you about in all the places that you've sinned in your life. I look
at my grandkids and I know their their view of me is much different than what's
true. My kids have a little closer feel for what I really am but when they don't
see all of that failure a lot of times they're a lot quicker to hear and so
they end up at Hebron they do the funeral and then we jump into chapter 36
where God is completing and fulfilling his his his plan and promise to this
dude named Esau. God has a plan for Esau you say yeah but he don't love God in
fact God hates him God hates him in the spiritual realm yes but God keeps his
promise that he's gonna be a nation you remember when Rebecca came to the Lord
and said what if everything's so good then what abouts going on in here and
the Lord told him he says inside of you are two nations and they're wrestling
they're fighting and it was Israel and Edom it was Jacob and Esau were
fighting in the womb and God's gonna make sure what he told Rebecca was true
Esau is gonna become a nation and we see when when Jacob meets Esau what does he
say he gives him goods he says I got enough man in other words God's blessed
me he's he's I've got enough in my life and it says there in chapter 36 verse
one now this is the genealogy of Esau who is Edom Esau took his wives from the
daughters of Canaan Adah the daughter of Elan the Hiltite and a whole Obama
sounds like it vice president the daughter of Anna the daughter of Zibeon
the Hivite notice though these are Canaanite people these are people they
shouldn't have married and Basamoth the Ishmael's daughter remember he was
trying to get close to his Lord to his father when he when he married Ishmael's
daughter sister of Mehroj Nebeljoth and Adah bore Eliphaz and to Esau and
Basamoth bore Reul and a whole Obama bore Jehosh and Jalam and Korah and these
were the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan so Esau has
sons he has three wives he has five boys and and as you go down through there you
see God's blessing is all over this guy God blesses Esau right and and and this
this this 36 I'm not gonna go through the whole chapter but we're gonna try to
condense it here and and before we say amen but but notice is it contains a
whole bunch of names and it's truly the story of Esau Esau and we don't see him
much after this today it's that it's the place called Jordan is where the Edomites
dwelt and most believe that they inhabited actually the rock city Petra
and some think that that's where the Jews are actually gonna be hidden during
the tribulation period but but that's where they were and they they were an
enemy they fought with Israel not only that but as you read down through there
you'll see that's where the Amalekites came through from the Amalekites was was
though those group when they were coming through the wilderness going to the
promised land they attacked him from behind and slaughtered the women and
children these were descendants of Esau proving their hatred for God now I I
really think you know so we see here let me get to this real quick Esau so he
became a nation which is Edom he had five sons had multiple grandsons there
are 11 Chiefs that we see in this chapter there are eight kings that come
from Esau you think of that scripture that God reigns on the just in the
unjust God was gonna keep his promise he's gonna bless this guy remember he
and Jacob ended up giving him more more lifestyle Esau was would have been a
likable guy he would have fit well in Idaho Esau would have he would have been
a guy that that we liked man he probably had a pickup and a horse trailer a lot
of livestock cute Copenhagen tifties hat to women I don't know so when it says
that God hated Esau it doesn't mean that God hated every part of his life because
God blessed his life God displayed grace towards Esau is that you have you been
blessed God's blessed your life I know there are a lot of people and I would
call them good old boys they are on a highway to hell right but their life's
been blessed it's like God's saying I know you're not gonna ever turn your
heart to me and you're never gonna become mine and so I'm gonna let you
have as good as it gets and that's this life get what you can get buy what all
you can buy right pour around all you want whatever it is that makes you happy
go for it because that's all you get now I don't about you but I'm with the the
writer of Proverbs that says I would rather have a crust of bread with peace
than a fatted calf with strife right speaking of the torments that are gonna
come after this life when everyone stands before God God blessed this man
abundantly Esau was just not going to have anything to do with God period
nothing I know there's probably some men sitting in this room the only reason you
come and plop your hind end down in one of these chairs is because your wife
drags you right you just been hand packed out okay well anyway I'm gonna
shut her up is go to church right can I just tell you that's not the right
attitude right but to love though your Lord your God when they come to Jesus
and they ask him that infamous question what is the greatest commandment love
the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind
and with all your strength and can I say and then just sit back and watch what
happens talk about yee-haw right you better screw your hat down tight because
it is a ride and that's what God hates is somebody who is not willing to love
him he wants to come wants us to come and taste and see that is good that he
is good he and he really is if you haven't made that decision please make
it I wonder if Jesus had Esau in mind when he spoke these words in Matthew
chapter 5 verse 44 it says but I say to you love your enemies bless those who
curse you do good to those who hate you remember Jacob gave him all that
livestock what was he saw doing to him 20 years earlier he was cursing him he
was hating him he was he was killing him in his heart do good to those who hate
you and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you one of Jacob's
praying for Esau and sends rain on the unjust the just and the unjust for if
you love those who love you what reward have you do not even the tax collectors
do the same see God has called us to be so different from the world the contrast
between Israel and Esau is is striking what's the contrast between your life
and and the worldly people in your life is there contrast I got buddies listen I
was III was just you know I was on that highway you know in my early 20s and and
I remember the guys I hung with you know and and how vile we were the things we
did and and I look at some of them now and they're they're you know 59 60 61
years old and I'm thinking you ain't changed a bit because the the difference
is is when you're born again it's like the Lord gives you a new life but when
you're still in that old life that's all you know see I know both lights I knew
what it was like to be whiskey drunk and just in trouble and and doing hideous
deeds right I remember what that was like but now God has called me and
removed me from that and I'm going wow that was and I spent a long time now but
I haven't forgot I'm a got forgot what I've been delivered from but the
contrast in these two boys between Israel and Esau it's spiritual because on the
outside yeah you may not tell a whole lot of difference but on the inside and
the fact that Israel loves God and he honors God and he gives praise to God
and he worships God that's the difference you know when I was at the
school you know we were always trying to compete right with the public schools or
that especially when the when the Charter School started coming in right
and you know everyone's always saying we got we got to be different how can we be
different when we got a bunch of these little stinking sinners in this building
right how can we be any different right and then us all our staff members we're
sinners too the only difference is Jesus that is the only difference that's that
was it the only difference was we had lives that had been touched by Jesus and
then we tried to share that with the kids some of them get it some of them
don't right I see some kids in this room but I knew when they as little bitty
guys and that makes me feel old but they get it they're here today good you know
it just kind of does my because so often I felt like I was spinning my wheels
what are we doing we are wasting our times it goes one ear and out the other
these kids are you know just a bunch of little rebels right just flesh balls
listen one person plants right the seed is the Word of God one person plants one
person waters but God gives the increase and you have to by faith let those chips
fall where they may whether it's in a church service like this or you home
talking to your kids and your grandkids put the seeds and the truths of God's
Word in their heart let the chips fall where they may they may love God they
may not love God but far be it from you to be guilty of not telling them about
God
Esau refused to see how great God was right I pray that you don't refuse to
see that because the fact that you're here today proof should prove to you
that God is good he's got an incredible plan for your life
amen let's pray Lord thank you for your word thank you for your people
Lord we pray for the people of Israel right now Lord they're under attack
they're claimed to be evil when they're not we're truly living in those days
Lord when people are calling evil good and good evil you're the only good one
and so I pray that you would put your goodness in our hearts Lord as we yield
to you Lord and I know there may be some here today Lord that haven't done that
yet Lord may you move upon their hearts Lord for them to get up out of their
seat and come and be prayed for up here with the prayer team as they come
forward Lord we need you in these days they're they're crazy wild days Lord
where the it's truly as nation is rising against nation and Kingdom against
Kingdom and mainly the kingdom of darkness against the kingdom of light
and you've called us into this marvelous light Lord that is your kingdom so Lord
help us to see ourselves for what we are help us to turn to you with all that we
are Lord and for the generations coming behind us Lord give us a voice and that
we would speak your truth to them and in your mighty and powerful love Lord that
you would truly bring us all to a place of being world changers until you come
Lord we know that we're staying the hand of wickedness Lord the one who restrains
is active and alive and that is your your body in this world Lord help us to
be full of you in Jesus Holy Name amen let's stand