1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:22,120 Alrighty, you got a sword, whip that baby out would you? Genesis chapter 46 and God 2 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:34,400 reminds Jacob of who he is. Maybe God needs to remind you today who he is. That 3 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,560 he's the God who cares and he's the God who loves and he's the God who saves. And 4 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:47,600 so this this story has been incredible. It always fascinates me one of the 5 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:54,440 greatest stories with with Joseph being there in Egypt, God sending him there, not 6 00:00:54,440 --> 00:01:00,360 without wounds obviously. Bible says faithful are the wounds of a friend and 7 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:06,300 sometimes the Lord has to wound us a little and we need to be okay with that. 8 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:13,800 Sometimes it's a simple wounding like bend over and grab your ankles and he 9 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:22,260 will light you up. So but we know that they had come home, the boys had come home 10 00:01:22,260 --> 00:01:31,160 from Egypt, they tell Jacob Joseph is alive, right? And obviously he was full of 11 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:35,000 doubt at that moment but just to probably hear the name of his son and 12 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:42,600 the words that he is alive it says that that Joseph's heart stood still. His 13 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:50,960 heart like stopped and maybe not believing them until he heard the words 14 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:56,920 of Joseph and and saw the carts and the goods that Joseph had sent to retrieve 15 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:04,160 his father and the family to bring them to Egypt. And then it says his spirit was 16 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:10,080 revived. You need your spirit revived today, right? I think I need spiritual 17 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,960 revival like every morning, right? That's why it's so important to get be still 18 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:20,520 before the Lord and the mornings and and ask him to speak to your heart. My cry 19 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:26,040 every morning is, "Lord Jesus please help me." Especially on Sunday mornings because 20 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:35,520 I got to stand up in front of all you. Look at all these folks. I know you know 21 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,040 up here it this is quite a vantage point you know I can tell you know I can tell 22 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:44,440 sometimes I can tell if you agree or disagree but I can tell really tell if 23 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:58,280 you had a rough night when you're like this catching flies but so and Joseph or 24 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,640 excuse me Jacob has something to live for now right he's got something to look 25 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:07,160 forward to isn't life so much easier when you got something to look forward 26 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:11,560 to right you're looking forward to things throughout your life right you 27 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:17,680 got dreams and and you know you got got goals that you want to reach out I wasn't 28 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,280 never a big goal setters some people are goal setters I'm just not a goal setter 29 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:28,440 I just try to take it one day at a time now when I was rodeo and obviously my 30 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:33,160 great goal was I was gonna be a world champion right I mean why do it if 31 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:39,040 you're not gonna shoot you know swing for the fence but but but never any 32 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:44,320 goals and then then Jesus gets a hold of your life and all of my goals changed 33 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:49,040 right when Jesus got a hold of my life my my goals totally changed I thought 34 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:55,480 I only have one goal now and I can shoot for that every single day to be more 35 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,960 like Christ every day that I live my life no matter what I'm doing whether 36 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:04,280 I'm digging ditch or whether I was competing or whether I was working at my 37 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:16,760 job that's a great goal right because it it absolutely determines how you live 38 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:22,000 your life and so now he's motivated he's excited he knows there's a trip ahead of 39 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,080 him now Jacob is the hundred and thirty years old at this point right so he's no 40 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:31,200 spring chicken and he's thought for several several times throughout this 41 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,780 these chapters we see him mentioning his death you guys are gonna bring my gray 42 00:04:35,780 --> 00:04:40,720 hair down to the grave in sorrow and he's he knows that that's in sight isn't 43 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:45,560 that amazing as you get older how you think oh wow we've got less life in 44 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:52,480 front of us than I do behind me now right as you get closer to to 70 and 80 45 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:57,000 and the three score and ten and then the four score if by reason of strength you 46 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,020 make it that long and so he here he is he's he's he's excited he's got 47 00:05:02,020 --> 00:05:08,280 something to look forward to and and we're gonna read in in Genesis 46 so 48 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:11,840 let's pray before we do that Lord thank you thank you for your word and how you 49 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:17,880 teach us so much by other people's lives and experience throughout history and 50 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:25,720 here we have this story of our the patriarch Jacob and his reunion with his 51 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:32,640 son Joseph Lord just reminding us Lord that you Lord are our sovereign and that 52 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:37,920 you're good and that you're involved in the affairs of men and you're involved 53 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,280 in in the affairs of our lives personally you love us and you have a 54 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:47,840 plan Lord I pray that we would embrace that idea Lord and and Lord most of all 55 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:52,200 that we would allow you to work your plan in us and and sometimes those 56 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,800 changes and those corrections and those prunings that you bring to us Lord 57 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:01,640 they're painful but you use them for good Lord that we might be more fruitful 58 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:06,920 in this life in our occupation until you come so Lord would you would you bless 59 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,760 Lord like like only you can Holy Spirit that that sweet comforter would you come 60 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:17,280 and and touch our hearts with your word in Jesus name amen so here we go verse 61 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:24,000 one it says so Israel took his journey with all he had and came to Beersheba 62 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:33,280 and we'll stop there I know I didn't even get one verse but but pretty 63 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:45,560 fascinating Beersheba very fixed place on the map in the in the Bible there 64 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:50,680 it's the southernmost part of Israel a lot of times when you hear people talk 65 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:55,600 about all of Israel they'll they'll describe it as Dan which is in the north 66 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:00,920 to Beersheba in the south and that's all Israel because I think Israel east to 67 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:05,160 west it's only like I don't know 45 miles wide or something like I said it's 68 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:12,000 not it's not much but maybe 70 but but it's always described from Dan to 69 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:19,960 Beersheba Beersheba was there in the south and and so they they take off and 70 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:25,760 it's about a week travel time to where to where they come into Beersheba and so 71 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:32,920 no doubt as as Jacob comes into that place of of his old stomping grounds so 72 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:38,840 to speak the memories come flooding in and just like a like a flood so this 73 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:47,760 last week you know and and pastor J shared and I was I was in my old stomping 74 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:54,480 grounds I was in the Magic Valley where I grew up and it is amazing the memories 75 00:07:54,480 --> 00:08:01,640 that come back you know usually on Sunday after the service we go down to 76 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:06,580 the canyon the Snake River Canyon and it's down there it stays warm usually 77 00:08:06,580 --> 00:08:11,840 and so they grow peaches and and and apples it's called Kelly Orchards and we 78 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:16,660 go do the you pick peaches thing well my wife called me and said hey that frost 79 00:08:16,660 --> 00:08:21,400 had froze all the blooms so we're not picking peaches this year but every time 80 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:27,580 I go down in the canyon it all these memories come just flooding back and and 81 00:08:27,580 --> 00:08:38,240 some of them how God spared my life we would do serious partying in the canyon 82 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:45,160 and we about ran into the river several times and and I tell people oh if those 83 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:53,120 rocks if those canyon walls could could talk they would tell on me right they 84 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,900 would tell some stories and and when you when you go to those places that so I 85 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:01,740 went I walked around the Twin Falls County Fair and the people I saw and the 86 00:09:01,740 --> 00:09:09,480 places I remembered in in my youth and and and obviously that was the place 87 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,060 where the Lord began to start getting a hold of me because in that arena is 88 00:09:13,060 --> 00:09:18,560 where a bull stepped on my chest should have killed me didn't and God began to 89 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,120 knock on the door of my heart for the next five years I was I was a bit 90 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:28,140 miserable remembering that I should have died that night and yet God spared my 91 00:09:28,140 --> 00:09:36,160 life and and so no doubt these these memories are coming back and and and not 92 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:43,600 only Jacob's experiences of his own but both of his his his grandfather Abraham 93 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:48,720 and Isaac lived for a time in Beersheba both of them had been there Beersheba 94 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:54,160 means the well of seven or the well of the oath and so we know that the Abraham 95 00:09:54,160 --> 00:10:00,400 had made an oath there about that well and and that he he could he could have 96 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,680 ownership of it and we know that that's the the southern part of the of the 97 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:10,000 ground that God had promised to Abraham and then to Isaac and now to Jacob it's 98 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:18,160 it's part of the promised land and Jacob's grandfather Abraham had had 99 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:22,680 lived there after offering Isaac on the Mount Moriah you remember he went to 100 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:27,860 Beersheba and there he and he dug a well and he and he planted a tamarisk tree 101 00:10:27,860 --> 00:10:32,200 there many many think that it's still there today it's a wildest looking thing 102 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,280 if you if you look it up there at Beersheba there's still there's this old 103 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:42,240 tree gnarled up old tree there and that he had called on the name of the Lord 104 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:47,600 there Abraham did it in Genesis 21 and Isaac received a special promise from 105 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:52,200 God and and built an altar of for sacrifice and also dug a well there 106 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:58,720 calling on the name of the Lord and so part of his spiritual heritage is here 107 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:06,680 in in Beersheba you got spiritual heritage I remember I went back and when 108 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:11,120 my grandma died we went into the little church where she used to take us when we 109 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:16,160 were kids for her funeral and you know it's just it's weird so I walk in I'm 110 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:21,880 going wow this place seems so much bigger I really thought it was a big 111 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:25,800 Cathedral it was a little it was like a tiny little schoolhouse is what it was 112 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:32,400 this this church and but it was it was the place of my spiritual heritage we 113 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,200 did both my grandmother and my grandfather's funeral there and and it 114 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:43,920 took me back you know I could I could hear her singing I could see my grandpa 115 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:54,880 with his bolo tie on and and and so it's those memories are precious right but 116 00:11:54,880 --> 00:12:02,480 it's it's a reminder that God's hand had been on my life all that time even when 117 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:15,560 I was running amok and being a wicked evil decadent youth and he he spared and 118 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:26,080 he spoke and and he also used my family and and and that's what what Jacob no 119 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:34,320 doubt is remembering here as he he comes to this place of Beersheba and and there 120 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:40,400 in in Genesis 26 the Lord speaks to Isaac when he's there and it says and the 121 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,980 Lord appeared to Isaac the same night and said I am the God of your father 122 00:12:44,980 --> 00:12:49,800 Abraham do not fear for I am with you I will bless you and multiply your 123 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:54,440 descendants with my servant for my servant Abraham's sake so he built an 124 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,560 altar there Isaac did and called on the name of the Lord and he pitched his tent 125 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:06,440 there and there Isaac's servants dug a well right it was at Beth's excuse at 126 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:13,360 Bathsheba here also Beersheba excuse me where Hagar right had an encounter with 127 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:22,880 the Lord and so maybe Jacob sees that altar that his dad built and and maybe 128 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:29,240 he's he's motivated to seek the Lord because of all this history and all all 129 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:37,700 this memory that the Lord had been with his grandfather and with his father what 130 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:43,560 is it can I ask you today that causes you to seek the Lord can you look back 131 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:49,960 in your life and see where where God has intervened maybe you have a good 132 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:58,200 spiritual heritage you had somebody praying for you and and you remember and 133 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:03,120 you're you're maybe maybe even overwhelmed and and hopefully that would 134 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,080 cause you to seek the Lord because a lot of people aren't motivated to seek the 135 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:14,000 Lord until till trouble comes whether it's marital or financial or trial and 136 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:21,860 tribulation right people people don't seek the Lord that's a lot of people 137 00:14:21,860 --> 00:14:27,320 seek the Lord only when when they're at the end of themselves listen you need to 138 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:34,360 be at the end I need to be at the end of myself every day right and and and 139 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:39,880 realize that apart from him like he tells us Jesus told us this is written 140 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:48,040 in letters of red there in John 15 apart from me you can do nothing and so 141 00:14:48,040 --> 00:15:01,280 seeking the Lord is just up it becomes a lifestyle and the older I get the more 142 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:05,640 the Lord seems to be doing in my life I know that I need to seek him more and 143 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:10,840 more and our I have to say that our prayer meetings during the week on on 144 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:16,120 Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm convinced it's the only thing that keeps us going it's 145 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:21,600 the only thing that keeps me going personally to be seeking the Lord and 146 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:31,540 and desiring his will and so it's just a great way to live your life right it's a 147 00:15:31,540 --> 00:15:36,700 great way to live your life seeking the Lord on a daily basis Jeremiah 29 13 and 148 00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:43,000 you will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart God 149 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:50,240 God's not into the half-heartedness stuff no it's it's it's all or nothing 150 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:56,840 so we'll read a couple verses here and so it says after after he came to 151 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:01,760 Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac and I'm 152 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,620 convinced that's because he saw the altar and then are remnants of it then 153 00:16:05,620 --> 00:16:11,500 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night and said Jacob Jacob and he 154 00:16:11,500 --> 00:16:19,460 said here I am and so he said I am God the God of your father do not fear to go 155 00:16:19,460 --> 00:16:26,500 down to Egypt for I will make you a great nation there I will go down with 156 00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:33,080 you to Egypt and I will also surely bring you up again and Joseph will put 157 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:48,220 his hand on your eyes so I wonder sometimes if Jacob's scared to death of 158 00:16:48,220 --> 00:16:53,800 this whole Egypt thing right because he knows that his grandfather went down 159 00:16:53,800 --> 00:17:02,360 there and gotten a pickle right that's when Abraham had Sarah lie right and and 160 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:09,280 Pharaoh could have killed Abraham but he didn't for lying to him and and and also 161 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:17,160 that that that Isaac was going to go down and God forbade him do not he told 162 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:23,280 him go down to Egypt so maybe Jacobs remembering that his grandpa got in 163 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:29,400 trouble and his dad was forbidden and the Lord has to speak loud and clear 164 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,100 because maybe he's having second thoughts he had no problem telling his 165 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:37,120 boys to go there right Egypt throughout scripture is a picture of the world 166 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:43,120 right throughout scripture it is a picture of the world in sin and and so 167 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:49,360 that's why the Exodus is spoken so much about is is being delivered from the 168 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:59,320 world or from this from sin and so Jacob he he hears the Lord speak loud and 169 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:04,280 clear Jacob Jacob and we see this throughout scripture when the Lord 170 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:08,720 calls somebody's name twice he did it to Abraham Abraham Abraham remember the 171 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:14,560 young Samuel the Lord said Samuel Samuel or how about Martha you're worried about 172 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:23,040 many things Martha good I got you Martha's mouse thinking I do sorry my 173 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:32,720 colors talking to me here with this but or how about this one Saul Saul why are 174 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:37,960 you persecuting me and so the Lord gets people's attention when he calls their 175 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:43,840 name twice it's encouraging to know that the Lord knows our name amen he knows 176 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:50,800 your name God knows your name but the scary thing is so to Satan right and 177 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:56,480 Satan asks for you by name because really if you belong to Jesus Satan has 178 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:02,400 no power over you unless God kind of pulls back the hedge kind of like he 179 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:08,440 what he did with job and he Jesus told Peter Satan's asked to sift you as wheat 180 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:16,940 but I have prayed for you Oh Lord please pray for me so he knows our names he 181 00:19:16,940 --> 00:19:21,600 knows our personal needs right John 10 27 my sheep hear my voice and I know 182 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:30,800 them and they follow me you following the Lord God wanted to remind Jacob that 183 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:37,520 he wasn't limited to Canaan I'm not just gonna be with you if you're if you're in 184 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:42,240 the land I'm with you always no matter where you go for he's the Lord of all 185 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:48,060 the earth including Egypt God would go with Jacob to Egypt and be with him to 186 00:19:48,060 --> 00:19:54,240 bless him just as he had been with Joseph and blessed him Jacob had nothing 187 00:19:54,240 --> 00:20:01,080 to fear because the Lord would keep the promises he had made to him at Bethel 188 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:06,760 and you remember there in in Genesis 28 when when Jacob's on his way to get his 189 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,600 bride and the Lord shows up and says behold I'm with you and will keep you 190 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:16,400 wherever you go and will bring you back to this land for I will not leave you 191 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:24,080 until I have done what I have spoken to you and so the Lord speaks to him again 192 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:34,160 and Jacob Jacob and he says here I am and so he goes okay now that I've got 193 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:41,520 your attention I'm God the word there for God is L and it's it can be 194 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:48,520 translated helpless in other words the one who needs no help that God don't 195 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:53,240 need no help right God doesn't need your help I've heard people tell me that well 196 00:20:53,240 --> 00:21:01,520 God needs my help God doesn't need your help please please spare me right no we 197 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:08,040 need his help right God does not need us God wants us there's a big difference 198 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:14,800 between needing and wanting God wants us God doesn't need us he needs absolutely 199 00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:22,720 nothing and so I am God I am the help the one who needs no help is is who he 200 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:34,520 first identifies himself and and and so he says I am God the God of your father 201 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:41,680 the word the second word for God is different it's it's it's it's Elohim and 202 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:47,960 it means the exceedingly great one so the one who needs no help the exceedingly 203 00:21:47,960 --> 00:22:02,400 great one is the one talking to you Jacob is reminded by God who God is we 204 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:10,060 all need reminded who God is you need reminded today I need reminded today who 205 00:22:10,060 --> 00:22:15,320 God is that's why I got up and I I read my Bible this morning I have a lot of 206 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:19,320 times on Sunday morning I don't read my Bible but I'm thinking God I need to be 207 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:24,400 reminded who you are and you know what every single time I pick my Bible up and 208 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:30,480 read it I'm reminded of who God is right and not only that but I'm reminded of 209 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:36,400 who I am who that's scary right and so when that don't happen and I know I've 210 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:39,800 shared this with you I feel like a broken record sometimes that my job as a 211 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:47,280 pastor is to remind remind remind remind right is when I read God's Word right 212 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:53,920 God stays in his place and I stay in my place but when I do not read God's Word 213 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:58,480 when I don't put it in my heart and I'm not reminded of who God is right and I'm 214 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:04,360 not reminded of who I am it starts to go like this right oh no now I'm God and I 215 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:11,200 don't even I forgot about him and that's the problem that's the problem with our 216 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:21,800 world mankind believes that he is God that's his problem I can't help but when 217 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:27,360 I hear these people speak and some of them are just brilliant but I'm 218 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:31,640 reminded of the verse in Romans 1 that says professing to be wise they have 219 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:42,240 become fools fools professing to be wise they have become fools and I just 220 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:50,280 retinat rovick and I were just talking about this and so be reminded today of 221 00:23:50,280 --> 00:24:03,240 who God is it's why we can't have church you know I I try to harp on the issue 222 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:08,040 all the times people just come to church once a week or maybe that's the only 223 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:15,320 time they open their Bible but hopefully they'll be reminded of who God is 224 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:28,480 though it's pretty weak but something's better than nothing don't you think so 225 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,820 God makes Jacob three promises here number one he says I will make you a 226 00:24:32,820 --> 00:24:39,440 great nation there and so God's gonna you're gonna go into Egypt I'm gonna 227 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:45,200 make you a great nation there God told Israel what his purpose was to in 228 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:50,480 bringing the large family or clan down to Egypt because of the exclusive 229 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:58,480 segregated nature of the Egyptian life Israel's descendants could grow as large 230 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:07,000 as a large distinct nation there and they did right one commentator says 231 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:12,200 Egypt became like a mother's womb to Israel as a nation and there they grew 232 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:17,320 from something small to something full-size not really that really 233 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:25,920 happened so he says that's where I'm gonna make Israel Jacob a nation there 234 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:31,800 and we still have him today right you're not amazing the nation of Israel is fast 235 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:39,960 absolutely fascinating number two he says I also surely will bring you up 236 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:45,740 again in other words I'm gonna bring you back into the Promised Land and he did 237 00:25:45,740 --> 00:25:50,680 he brought the bones of Jacob back into the Promised Land because he dies in 238 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:57,800 Egypt Jacob dies but he says I'm gonna bring you up again so not only did he 239 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:05,520 bring Jacob up to the Promised Land he brought Jacob up to heaven right Jacob 240 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:11,480 was in the presence of the Lord when he took his last breath I'm wondering if he 241 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:16,040 heard those words well done now good and faithful servant enter into the joy of 242 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:25,880 the Lord fascinating stuff the reason that that Jacob didn't need to fear the 243 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,680 journey to Egypt was because of God's promise no I'm gonna bring you back I 244 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:39,600 got you I got you are you fearful right now just know that that God's got you in 245 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:45,720 the palm of his hand there's nothing can happen without his permission you know 246 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:50,480 just doing these funerals for these kids these last couple weeks just it's 247 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,120 fascinating to me and yet when I talk to the parents and I I talked to people 248 00:26:55,120 --> 00:27:04,120 close to them the Lord's right in the middle of it nothing happens right that 249 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:10,400 he doesn't know about oh this was an accident this shit didn't happen maybe 250 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:15,360 not it from our perspective from God's perspective that was an appointment they 251 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:19,680 weren't gonna miss because it's appointed for man wants to die right and 252 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:26,480 then the judgment both the families of these young people honestly believe in 253 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,520 their heart well I mean when they spoke to me it was just like there was such a 254 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:38,320 confidence in that God was protecting them from some stuff in this world that 255 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:44,760 lied ahead of them God was like no I don't think so you just come with me and 256 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:52,720 they're just fine right they're just fine nobody else is but they are they're 257 00:27:52,720 --> 00:28:03,760 just fine so the promise of a great nation the promise of God bringing him 258 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:09,720 back up not only that but bringing him to himself I just read that today when 259 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:17,400 when Saul freaks out King Saul freaks out and goes and and summons the the 260 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:22,440 spirit of Samuel to come up from the dead you remember what Samuel tells him 261 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:29,420 tomorrow you're gonna be with me now that that I realized that opens up a big 262 00:28:29,420 --> 00:28:34,280 can of worms you can ask me about it later but that what so what was was 263 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:40,120 it's all go to heaven I have no idea Bible says he was an enemy of God I 264 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:45,880 don't know if God lets his enemies into heaven or not but God makes that call 265 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,840 right something that Sam was just talking about you're gonna be in the 266 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:54,000 grave dude you're gonna die tomorrow you're gonna be in the same condition 267 00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:05,120 that I am right now in the grave as far as his body goes so God rescued him and 268 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:10,720 brought him up brought his bones back when they came back to the Promised Land 269 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:19,960 and then thirdly he says Joseph will put his hand on your eyes right that Joseph 270 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:27,080 is gonna be there in other words you are gonna see your boy the final assurance 271 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,560 was for God himself to tell Jacob that Joseph lived and would care for him 272 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:39,400 until his dying day no doubt this was a sweet assurance right I kid see my boy 273 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:44,920 talking to a few fathers over the years that have lost sons that's just like 274 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:49,960 right there all the time they think about it all the time can't wait to see 275 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:56,800 my boy right especially as they get older they know it's coming it's coming 276 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:02,680 soon and so God reassures him he says you're gonna you're gonna see Joseph 277 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:12,240 Joseph Joseph's alive so this is all Jacob needed was to proceed with 278 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:16,680 confidence he said okay we can cross the border now we're going man after the 279 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:22,520 vision they're off no doubt it was slow going they were in carts and they had 280 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:29,060 everything and everyone in the family with them as they go verses 8 through 27 281 00:30:29,060 --> 00:30:34,500 I'm not gonna read them but it lists the children and the grandchildren of the 282 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:40,120 women right Jacob's wives so you got Leah with Reuben Simeon Levi Judah 283 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:45,600 is a car and Zebulun Dinah is also mentioned there then you have Zilpah the 284 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,920 mother of Gad and Asher and then you have Rachel the mother of Joseph and 285 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:56,760 Benjamin and Bilhah the mother of Dan and Naphtali 70 persons and it took his 286 00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:06,060 it took this family 215 years to grow to 70 people but in the next 430 years they 287 00:31:06,060 --> 00:31:12,480 grew to over 2 million people right and it's what we see today they they 288 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,880 maintained their identity as a nation throughout the world even when they were 289 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:22,600 scattered during the times of the Kings and so some pretty pretty fascinating 290 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:29,160 stuff there so we'll jump to verse 28 and it says then he sent Judah before 291 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:34,340 him to Joseph to point out before him the way to Goshen and they came to the 292 00:31:34,340 --> 00:31:39,200 land of Goshen so Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet 293 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:44,080 his father Israel and he presented himself to him and fell on his neck and 294 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:49,320 wept on his neck a good while and Israel said to Joseph now let me die since I 295 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:56,320 have seen your face because you are still alive right you ever feel like 296 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,860 that sometimes your your cuffs just running over just like I could die now 297 00:32:00,860 --> 00:32:08,200 this has just been great happened to me yeah here a while back I had all four of 298 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,360 my kids and all eight of my grandkids in my house I'm just like what else do I 299 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:18,880 need right I can just go be with Jesus you know they can write a little pamphlet 300 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,480 this is your life Scottie Brown 301 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:34,220 totally satisfied are you there it's good to be there to to be ready right to 302 00:32:34,220 --> 00:32:40,240 be ready for that that day when we we close our eyes maybe I'm super 303 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,920 hypersensitive to it cuz because of so many funerals in my life I'm going to 304 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:51,380 one right after service by the way it's just like no be ready the living take it 305 00:32:51,380 --> 00:32:55,760 to heart when they when they come to these services and and so it's just just 306 00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:01,940 so important and Jacob's like I'm good I've seen Joseph all that morning for 307 00:33:01,940 --> 00:33:09,920 nothing do you realize the statistics on worry that's why Jesus said don't worry 308 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:17,180 like way over half of what we were worried about never happens we give 309 00:33:17,180 --> 00:33:30,200 ourselves ulcers for nothing least earn them so it's interesting 310 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:35,600 Jacob sends Judah so it's like his relationship with his boys that are it 311 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:40,220 kind of settled in and everybody's cool Judah to lead the way which is fitting 312 00:33:40,220 --> 00:33:45,320 for Judah for because he's the messianic line obviously Jesus is a the lion of 313 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:52,280 the tribe of Judah that he he just as Judah went before Israel so Jesus went 314 00:33:52,280 --> 00:34:04,480 before us and made a way for us and so it's kind of sweet to see this this 315 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:11,360 peace between in this family you know it reminds me of Psalm 133 one where it 316 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,940 says behold how good and how pleasant it is it is for brethren to dwell together 317 00:34:15,940 --> 00:34:22,080 in unity and that and obviously no doubt all of them are probably pretty excited 318 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:27,320 to see their dad's heart when he sees his boy who he's thought was dead so 319 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:33,520 the reunion of Israel and Joseph was more than he had ever before dreamed 320 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,760 obviously he had heard the news that the favored son lived and now it was 321 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:43,560 fulfilled this was a dramatic change from the attitude that said before all 322 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,720 things are against you remember that he said all things are against me that's 323 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:53,760 why he was hanging on to Benjamin like he did no doubt Jacob is reminded that 324 00:34:53,760 --> 00:35:01,440 God that God truly uses everything together for good for those who love him 325 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:10,740 and that's that's the whole issue folks that's the the issue is on us everything 326 00:35:10,740 --> 00:35:15,600 will work together for good for you I promise you I can promise you that 327 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:20,640 because God's Word promises you that everything you go through in this life 328 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:29,240 will work together for good for you if there's a big ol if if you love God 329 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:38,360 because sometimes we wonder when that dad called me here a couple weeks ago 330 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:45,600 about doing his daughter's funeral I was I was just impressed I'm just going my 331 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:53,520 gosh how can you even talk and he talked and he he joked and and and he told me 332 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:58,000 Friday you know he says we don't we don't mourn like those who have no hope 333 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:04,040 I got plenty of hope God's gonna see us through that confidence was just it was 334 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:08,440 it was really overwhelming because I can't imagine right I don't want to 335 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:14,680 imagine what that's like and so but it was very very powerful and they 336 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:22,200 recognized it as God doing something good or turning what seemed to be tragic 337 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:33,480 and hard and maybe even evil into something that was good so Jacob's 338 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:41,920 Jacob's statement in verse 30 reminds us of Simeon right Simeon statement when he 339 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,880 held the infant Jesus and where he says Lord now you you are letting your 340 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,000 servant depart in peace according to your word for my eyes have seen your 341 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:59,520 salvation and Jacob is kind of in that same vein here as he as he sees Joseph 342 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:09,680 and and the sorrow and and the the the weight of the whole death thing is is is 343 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:20,520 lifted and he says now I can die I can die I'm fulfilled all of Joseph's dreams 344 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:29,280 have come true now right all of them had come true now it was it was time to 345 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:34,840 share the joys and sorrows of life with his extended family right it's they're 346 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:41,920 all together God's God's done an amazing work God's brought about restoration and 347 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:47,520 healing verse 31 says then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's 348 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:53,000 household I will go up and tell Pharaoh and say to him my brothers and those of 349 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,640 my father's house who were in the land of Canaan have come to me and the men 350 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:04,960 are shepherds for their occupation and for their occupation has been to feed 351 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:09,580 livestock and they have brought their flocks their herds and all that they 352 00:38:09,580 --> 00:38:13,960 have and so it shall be when Pharaoh calls you and says what is your 353 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:18,680 occupation that you shall say your servants occupation has been with 354 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:25,060 livestock from our youth even till now both we and also our fathers that you 355 00:38:25,060 --> 00:38:29,760 may dwell in the land of Goshen for every shepherd is an abomination to the 356 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:38,800 Egyptians right this is this is kind of interesting that that God made all the 357 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:54,680 Jacobs boys cowboys their stockman right people that have livestock have have 358 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,240 kind of a different sense of humor 359 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:03,100 because you know you just never when you have livestock you never know what's 360 00:39:03,100 --> 00:39:10,180 gonna happen right it can be wild well especially if you have cattle and or 361 00:39:10,180 --> 00:39:19,840 wild horses they tear everything up they destroy your facilities right my cousin 362 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,600 used to have bucking bulls he finally had to make everything out of pipe 363 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,680 because I don't know how many fences they tore down they just they just 364 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:29,980 demolish them right there there's there's a it's you're always in 365 00:39:29,980 --> 00:39:35,400 construction mode when you're a stockman because they they they take so much care 366 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:43,640 but but Joseph wanted Pharaoh to know that his family had a distinction about 367 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:50,080 them they were different and and that there would be there would maintain this 368 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:56,840 separation between the Egyptians and the Israelites and and obviously this is God 369 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:04,020 used this to to to grow his nation and to keep them separate and and and it's 370 00:40:04,020 --> 00:40:10,820 it's really a picture of us being in the world they were in Egypt but they were 371 00:40:10,820 --> 00:40:18,120 not of Egypt you and I we are in this world God forbid that we be of this 372 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:24,160 world right we're in the world yes and we're sojourners and we're we're just 373 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:31,280 getting by and because the difference between the children of Israel the 374 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:36,920 Egyptians the Egyptians picturesque of the people of the world considered this 375 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:44,240 is the people of Israel an abomination right it means abomination means object 376 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:50,200 of loathing they loathe them because they were stockman right they worked with 377 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:58,720 cattle and sheep and goats and and that was a that was disgusting to the 378 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:05,500 Egyptians disgusting and that's good because that kept a separation and that 379 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:13,160 God could grow his people are are you an object of loathing to the worldly people 380 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:18,960 around you right because they do loathe us right you know we just think they're 381 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:28,400 wrong and we disagree with them but they they despise the people of faith they 382 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:33,200 despise them they have murder in their heart for them if they could kill us and 383 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:38,160 get away with it they would do it oh wait maybe that's gonna happen right 384 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:46,020 that's that's what the believer in the God of heaven is to the world a object 385 00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:54,240 of loathing Jesus said listen they hated me do not expect anything different 386 00:41:54,240 --> 00:42:02,640 towards you they hated me first and so we we are this this object of loathing 387 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:11,040 and so God reminds Jacob and in in fixing all this what seems to be a mess 388 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:16,340 in all these previous chapters God has brought it together for good and God 389 00:42:16,340 --> 00:42:26,200 reminds Jacob hey I'm God I don't need any help I'm I'm Elohim right that I I'm 390 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:33,300 the all-powerful one and and I've got your life in my hands and you can rest 391 00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:39,780 in that God is sovereign and God is good a lot of people don't kind of marry 392 00:42:39,780 --> 00:42:43,360 those two things up they believe God's sovereign but not good or they believe 393 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:49,440 God's good but he's not sovereign no he's sovereign and he's good that's what 394 00:42:49,440 --> 00:43:01,680 makes him God right what has the Lord reminded you of today what do you need to 395 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:07,120 be reminded of do you need you need to be reminded of God's goodness do you 396 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:12,820 need to be reminded of God's sovereignty maybe you need to be reminded that God 397 00:43:12,820 --> 00:43:18,280 sees your pain God knows your pain he knows what you're going through he knows 398 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,820 what you're struggling with maybe maybe you're struggling with with with your 399 00:43:22,820 --> 00:43:30,380 health or or with your your mental health we hear that a lot today set your 400 00:43:30,380 --> 00:43:34,840 mind on things above the Bible says I've got a lot of a lot of advice for the 401 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:45,800 mental health people it's all found in God's Word but you know we have church 402 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:50,080 service on Sundays to remind each other you know kind of rubber shoulders with 403 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,720 each other we can share our troubles with each other but we can also the most 404 00:43:54,720 --> 00:44:00,640 the sweetest thing we can do is he encourage one another in our faith right 405 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:06,960 keep going man don't weaken now you know I've seen people in these last years 406 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:10,640 last two or three years wanting to throw in the towel I mean like where are you 407 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:16,560 gonna go well you're so you're done with the Christian life because it gots gets 408 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:24,480 hard and you don't understand you know Peter nailed it well Lord where are we 409 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:28,880 gonna go you're the you're the one that has the words of eternal life in fact I 410 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:34,960 want to close this morning just with with some words of Peter first he tells 411 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:41,680 us in 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 13 he says um yes I think it right as long as 412 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:49,720 I am in this tent to stir you up by reminding you reminding you that God's 413 00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:55,760 good that God's sovereign that God has requirements for us he says this in 414 00:44:55,760 --> 00:45:01,000 verse 5 of the same chapter he says but also for the very reason giving all 415 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,840 diligence add your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge to knowledge self 416 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:11,040 control to self control perseverance to perseverance godliness to godliness 417 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:16,600 brotherly kindness to brotherly kindness love for if these things are yours and 418 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:21,800 abound you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord 419 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:26,960 Jesus Christ for who he who lacks these things is short-sighted even to 420 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:33,240 blindness and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins therefore 421 00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:39,020 brethren be even more diligent to make your calling election sure for if you do 422 00:45:39,020 --> 00:45:46,120 these things you will never stumble for so an entrance will be supplied to you 423 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:51,160 abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ he 424 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:58,280 said that's why I'm reminding you right add to these things faith virtue press 425 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:02,840 in put the word in your heart like that's almost said that we might not sin 426 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:08,240 against him because he's not he knows he knows your life he knows what's ahead of 427 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:15,320 you tomorrow and he's got all the grace sufficient for you and I right isn't 428 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:19,400 that what he tells Paul when he's he's he's having a thorn in the flesh that 429 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:25,220 this life is not easy and this life isn't easy but we got a God who's big 430 00:46:25,220 --> 00:46:31,300 enough and will give us enough grace to survive every single day we just have to 431 00:46:31,300 --> 00:46:35,720 be reminded of that amen let's pray father we thank you thank you for your 432 00:46:35,720 --> 00:46:42,120 word thank you for your encouragement Lord Jesus that though Jacob thought it 433 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:50,800 was all over it wasn't all over Lord you have plans and purposes and you're doing 434 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:58,760 things that we don't understand Lord that it's it's so much bigger than our 435 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:05,880 measly little lives you're you're you're you're using us Lord we're we're like a 436 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:11,600 or like a tool in your hand Lord I pray that you would help us be in that place 437 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:19,480 of being yielded Lord that you're sovereign and that you're good and that 438 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:27,480 those those plans of yours are to remind us remind us of that Lord no matter how 439 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:33,320 bad or how dark the days seem and it almost feels like there might be dark 440 00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:39,400 days ahead of all of us Lord in our country and in our world Lord that that 441 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:45,000 has truly seemed to have lost its way that has trusted in their own 442 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:51,520 understanding and not acknowledged you in all their ways and and Lord's 443 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:56,360 therefore their their paths are amiss and so Lord I just pray that we would 444 00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:00,520 remind ourselves that we there is a God in heaven that rules and the affairs of 445 00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:07,600 men Lord that you truly are sovereign and that you've you've given us a a good 446 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:12,720 way to go and you've even whispered in our ear telling us this is the way walk 447 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:17,880 in it and so Lord as we put your word in our hearts in these days Lord that our 448 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,560 love wouldn't grow cold Lord but that you would fan out with the flame of your 449 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:27,320 Holy Spirit realizing Lord that this this love that you call us to it it has 450 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,760 to come from you because we don't have it and so Lord may we be a people who 451 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,840 are humbled before our God and and realize Lord that you're drawn to that 452 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,520 and you're willing to fill our cup with your goodness and your truth and your 453 00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:47,740 love also courage Lord in these days and full of faith and so Lord we love you we 454 00:48:47,740 --> 00:48:52,560 praise you may you and inhabit our worship right now Lord as we just close 455 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:59,240 this service in a song of adoration to our King Lord we love you and praise you 456 00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:03,280 Lord I pray that you would minister to hearts Lord maybe you've reminded 457 00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:08,200 somebody today Lord that that they need you Lord that they need to be surrendered 458 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:13,560 to you and give you all that is left of their life Lord that they like Jacob at 459 00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:18,760 the end of their lives would be totally fulfilled and completed in Jesus Holy 460 00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:22,680 Name amen amen if you need prayer the prayer team will be here to the right 461 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:26,160 let's worship the Lord