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Okay, so it's Wacked Out Simple Stuff time.

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So we've talked just briefly, we always talk briefly about something that makes us kind of unique or something we know from the Bible.

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Today I want to talk to you about what's called our key verse.

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So the church has a key verse, a verse that we chose in the early days when we first started to plant the church and what God led us to.

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And the reference is 1 John 1 3, the moment of truth.

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Can anyone say it from memory?

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Take a stab at it.

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Okay, RJ is going to try it.

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Doesn't it follow fellowship with our fellowship?

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Go.

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No, it's 1 John 1 3.

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Okay, so tonight's entire lesson will be...

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So what we have seen and heard...

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That's what I forgot.

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Who did?

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Alright, go, let's hear it.

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We have seen and heard that you also may have fellowship with us and with our Father and God and His Son Jesus Christ.

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And our fellowship is with the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.

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Very good, okay, so we got it.

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Alright, so based on what she just said, I hope you were listening.

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Were you listening?

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Based on what she just said, what you have seen and heard, what are you supposed to do with it?

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Tell people.

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Okay, Erin said tell people, okay, to proclaim.

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I had a funny instance one time when I had a lady asking me for a passcode and the passcode was proclaim and she said...

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I said, I can't think of what it is.

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And she said, well, let me give you a hint.

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And I said, okay, I'm ready, give me a hint.

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And she goes, it has to do with praying.

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I'm like, praying?

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And it pops in my head at that moment, I said, proclaim.

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The password is proclaim and she goes, yeah, that's it.

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And I said, what does that have to do with praying?

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And it really kind of doesn't, right?

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We pray, we talk to God, really proclaiming doesn't really...

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But that's what we do.

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With what we have seen and heard, we proclaim.

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Why do we proclaim it?

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Why do we tell people what we have seen and heard?

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Yes, so they can have fellowship with us, alright?

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A church is a fellowship.

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This is people living together, a family.

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Brothers and sisters in Christ caring about each other, right?

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You pick up each other's burdens.

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You help each other out.

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We work together to do the things that we do.

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Nobody can preach unless there are people doing all the other things to make that happen.

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Nobody can teach.

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Nobody can sing, right?

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You can do all that stuff by yourself, but you would not be in fellowship,

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which is what the church has called to.

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So we preach so they might have fellowship with us.

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But really we do that, we proclaim it so they might have fellowship with us.

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Because why?

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Because our fellowship is with God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, right?

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And if a person comes into fellowship with Jesus, then what happens to them?

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Right?

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What happens if a person comes into fellowship with Jesus?

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What happens?

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Born a friend?

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And he's asking about why?

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So if a person comes into fellowship with Jesus, that means they become a friend with Jesus.

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That means they get saved.

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Can you say that?

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They get saved.

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So then they're going to spend eternity.

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It's hard to go spend eternity at somebody's house that you don't even know

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or that you've never had any fellowship with or friendship with the whole time you've been alive, right?

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And so we fellowship with each other, yes.

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But we fellowship most importantly with God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.

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And we would like to see other people do that too.

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Interesting thing about that, did it say you have to tell people a lot of Bible verses?

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Did it say you have to tell people the exact story of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus?

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Did it say you have to tell people how they should live?

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What are you supposed to proclaim?

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What we have seen and heard.

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Your personal experience with God, what you learned yourself, what you know yourself.

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A lot of times I hear people say, well I heard a preacher say, okay,

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and that is kind of that because you heard the preacher say,

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but then you go and talk about it, you say that, and then you talk for like two minutes about what the preacher said.

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That's not the same thing.

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You've got to be able to tell what you know about God.

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And everybody in this room is unique then.

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You're a unique person, whether you're male or female, your culture, your background, your skin color,

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your socioeconomic, your core, your rich, whatever, everybody's unique.

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And so your uniqueness, you're going to be able to reach people with your story about what you have seen

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that somebody else may not be able to hear from somebody else.

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So you've been through things that maybe nobody else in this room has been through.

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And then when you share and say, I went through that, this is what I saw God doing.

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Remember from Psalm 78, the works of the Lord, this is what God was doing while that was happening.

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And they can come in to fellowship and you go, you know what?

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I resonate with that.

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I'm like that.

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I feel that.

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I understand what you're talking about.

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And then you say, but look at what God was doing.

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And they're like, okay, I'm listening to you now.

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I hear what God was doing when you said that.

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I was at Myers.

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I used this illustration that I'll close.

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I was going through the cash register, talking to the lady.

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And I said, hey, how you doing?

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She saw I'm kind of down, I'm having some trouble.

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And I said, oh, I'm so sorry.

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I said, is there anything I can do?

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I don't know this lady from Adam.

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Is there anything I can do?

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And she said, well, no, not really.

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And I said, well, what kind of trouble is this?

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Is it health, financial?

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What is it?

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She said, well, I'm having trouble with my schedule.

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I said, they're really messing with my schedule.

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They keep making me work on days when I'm not supposed to work and when I'm supposed to have off.

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And I said, oh, I feel that.

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I worked in retail for almost seven years before that.

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And that, what you just described, it was like that for me all the time.

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I said, and I told her briefly, I remember in line for like two and a half minutes, I told her briefly a couple of my stories.

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Like I told her about working on Christmas.

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Even all my family was at my house.

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And I couldn't get off work to go be there at my house.

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I told her, I said, so I totally get what you're going through.

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And she said, yeah, I see.

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Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

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You know what?

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You know what I'm going through.

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And I said, you know what changed everything for me?

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It changed the way I looked at it, changed the way I felt about it, changed about what I was going through.

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What changed everything for me was when I met Jesus.

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Two and a half minutes.

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Proclaim what you have seen and heard.

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Bring them into fellowship with you.

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And if your fellowship really is with God, the Father, His Son, Jesus Christ, they just might get saved.

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That's one of the reasons, maybe one of the main reasons why our church's key verse is 1st John 1, 3.

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And let me encourage you to memorize that verse, because clearly we have not done that in a while.

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You go back to that and remember the words and I'll do the same.

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Let's pray together then.

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And then we have another song of worship and we'll release the children to go to the classroom.

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Father in heaven, we praise you and thank you for being in fellowship with us.

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I think about how holy you are, how powerful you are, how you know everything,

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how you'll go on and on beyond what I can understand or where I could ever go.

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And even after my body breaks down, you'll still be going.

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And you go all the way back.

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Since before there was anything, you created everything out of nothing through your word.

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That's, it's unfathomable to me.

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That means it's really, really hard for me to wrap my mind around that you want to have fellowship with me.

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But that is exactly the case.

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Your word clearly testifies that we see it and I've seen you do it over and over and over again in my own life

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and in the lives of others that you truly do want to have a relationship with us.

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And then it is by your power and your knowledge, by your ability, by your desire, by your word,

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by the miracles that you've done, by the goings and the comings and the stayings that you make that possible.

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And so Lord we ask you to teach us how to tell people, how to proclaim what we have seen and heard

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so that they might have fellowship with us.

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And then we also ask you Lord to make it that our fellowship is always with you and your son Jesus Christ.

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And then maybe if they come into fellowship with us, they'll come into fellowship with you.

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And we know that latter part, that backside where they're in fellowship with you is more important.

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They don't have to come to us.

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Really Lord, everybody's got to come to you.

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And so we praise you for that and for your willingness, for your desire, for all the power that you've put into it already.

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We ask you to watch over us in this next 45 minutes to an hour as we delve into your word and try to learn a little something.

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And even now as we praise you. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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There is a youth choir for fifth grade and up meeting today at 730 in this room.

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I forgot to make that announcement.

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In the meantime, I need everybody to stand when I'm going to need some help with motions.

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If you're a motioner, be motiony.

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I'm going to fumble through it.

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I'm going to be a friend.

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I'm so glad you're in my life.

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I'm so glad you came to save us, Jesus.

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We came from land to earth to show the way.

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From the earth to the cross, I did to them.

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From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky.

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Lord, I lift Your name on high.

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We came from heaven to earth to show the way.

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From the earth to the cross, I did to them.

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From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky.

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Lord, I lift Your name on high.

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God has a drunkard's cry.

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Soldiers need not to let him die.

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Better than a hallelujah sometimes.

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We pour out our miseries.

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God just gives a melody.

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Beautiful, the less we are.

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The honest cries of breaking hearts.

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Better than a hallelujah.

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Women holding on for life.

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Dying men living up to life.

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Better than a hallelujah sometimes.

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It's a shame when it's been done.

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It's a silence when the words won't come.

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Better than a hallelujah sometimes.

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We pour out our miseries.

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God just gives a melody.

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Beautiful, the less we are.

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The honest cries of breaking hearts.

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Better than a hallelujah.

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Better than a church bell ringing.

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Better than a choir singing out.

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Singing out.

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We pour out our miseries.

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God just gives a melody.

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Beautiful, the less we are.

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The honest cries of breaking hearts.

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Better than a hallelujah.

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Better than a hallelujah.

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Alright, so you've got a worksheet coming around.

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Pens coming around.

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As soon as you get your paper, assuming you're willing,

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you can write the reference anywhere in the middle of the ladder.

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If I tell you that this is a story about a ladder, could anyone guess the book?

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It is Jacob's Ladder, that's correct. Now can you guess the book?

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Anybody?

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It is Genesis, very good. Now can anybody get the chapter?

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This will be really tough.

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If you just kind of guess in the vicinity, I might give it to you.

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27 is super close, it's 28. Well done. I'm impressed. Somebody got really close that fast.

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You got lucky, we'll take it.

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Okay, so the reference is Genesis 28 versus 10 through 22.

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You can write it anywhere in the boxes of the ladder, just write it in the ladder.

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Anywhere you want. Truth is you can write it anywhere on the paper that you want.

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Those 12 verses. Some of us already know a little bit about this story.

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Genesis 28, 10-22.

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I'm going to read, as I read, you do what you can to fill in the boxes and I'll try to help you.

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You're basically going to start in the middle of the page,

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and then when they're speaking, those big bubbles are somebody speaking.

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So here we go. I think you'll figure it out.

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If not, I won't go fast until we make sure everybody's on the right page.

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So then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went down toward Haran.

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He came to a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set.

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He took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head and laid down in that place.

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He had a dream. And behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven.

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So you see the ladder in the middle of the page? You see the H at the top?

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I'm sure you can guess what that is. Yep.

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I'll fill that in as heaven.

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So we've got a ladder reaching from the earth up to heaven.

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Verse 12 again.

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He had a dream. Behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven.

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And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

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Okay, can you find the angels on your paper?

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Yep. So the lines up and down next to the ladder. Does somebody else say that as well?

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All right. Okay. Well, get ready.

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Okay, good job.

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Okay. So you should have on the lines next to the ladder going down the capital A and then N on the next line G-E-L-S going down.

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And then on the other side of the ladder, you should have the A on the bottom and then N-G-E-L-S going up.

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Why is it written like that? Was it going down and going up?

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Because they were ascending. Those angels are ascending and descending.

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The one with the A on the bottom is ascending. It's going up. A-N-G-E-L-S going up.

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The one with the A on the top is A-N-G-E-L-S going down.

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Funny story. Many years ago, very short story.

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I was in the spelling bee in junior high and the word that I got knocked out on, I had two people left,

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me and one other person to go to the final and the word I got knocked out on was angel.

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Funny story. I spelled it A-N-G-L-E instead of E-L.

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Anyway, that's pretty funny. I wasn't a Christian back then.

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I hadn't spent any time in church or any time in the Bible, so I guess maybe that was part of it.

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So we've got angels ascending and descending on the ladder.

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Then it says, and behold, the Lord stood above it. So above the ladder.

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And he said, and now we're in quotation marks.

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If you'll look, you'll see the voice is coming down out of the clouds. You see that?

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We're on the left-hand side.

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So it says I-A-T is what you have. I-A-T.

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Yes, I am the, keep going.

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I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac.

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And so you can just fill those in. I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham.

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And that A got cut off, but it's and the God of Isaac.

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You can fill those in.

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So that's the first thing that he said, that God said when Jacob was looking up and saw the ladder.

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Before we go any further, why is that really significant?

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Think about it. He's the God of those two men, right?

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So not just those two men, but the people of their generation.

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If he is the God of Abraham and Isaac, why is that really significant?

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Where is Abraham at this time?

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When he's speaking, where is Abraham?

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He's in heaven, right? Abraham has already passed away by then.

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So he's in heaven. But God was the God of Abraham when Abraham was alive.

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So if he was the God of Abraham when Abraham was alive, and then at this time, probably Isaac is also dead.

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But he's going to be the God of Jacob. And then when you get to Jesus's day, that I am statement tells them that God is always, he is present tense.

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He is before everything and after everything. And he's always there.

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So it's an I am statement.

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When Moses is thinking about his being recruited to go back into Egypt, and Moses is kind of chickening out and saying, I can't do it.

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I don't talk good. And God said, no, you're going to go do it.

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He said, well, who will I say sent me?

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And God said, tell them I am. I am the God of Abraham and Isaac.

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Right. OK. All right. So you got to there.

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You're going to follow down, stay, continue down the bubble.

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And I forgot what verse I was on now. I got to find it again.

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Thirteen. OK. So it says I am the Lord is in the middle of thirteen. Yep.

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Up through Isaac. And then it says the land on which you lie.

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I will give it to you and your descendants.

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I will give it to you and your descendants. OK. So it's not word for word.

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So if it says LFJ, what is it? Land for Jacob. Right. Land for Jacob.

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And then it says and descendants land for Jacob and descendants.

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OK. Now, 14, your descendants will also now we're still continuing down the bubble.

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Just follow it down the bubble. OK.

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Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth.

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See it? Descendants like dust. That's pretty easy. OK.

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You just follow along and I'll just go a little faster.

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And if somebody gets stuck, quickly raise your hand. So I can stop.

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OK. The descendants will also be like the dust of the earth.

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And you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south.

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And in you and in your descendants, show all the families of the earth be blessed.

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So what is that at the bottom of the bubble there? BAF.

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Anybody got it? Kashan, what would you put there at the bottom? It says and BAF.

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What are those words? Families is F. So BA. What is it? Got it?

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Jason, you got it? OK. Bless all families. Bless all families.

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So basically, God was declaring what he was going to do for Jacob.

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That's a promise. You could call it a prophecy. Right.

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He was declaring what he was going to do for Jacob.

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He's going to take his descendants and make them like the dust.

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So here's the thing. If a person has kids, it doesn't matter if they have five kids or a thousand kids themselves,

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which would be pretty unheard of. Right.

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They have to have a dozen or probably 40 wives to be able to have a thousand kids.

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And a person has kids that does not make them like the dust, even if they have a thousand kids.

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And if they're thousand kids had a thousand kids, that does not make them like the dust, does it?

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That'd be a million kids. And it's still not anywhere near the dust.

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How much you know how much dust is in this room right now? Just this one room? Yeah.

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In the probably trillions. Right.

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You know, it's only that low because we vacuum in here all the time and we dust in here all the time and we clean the chairs all the time.

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Right. So it's in it's very the numbers are very big.

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So the dust of all the earth, you can't do that by normal multiplication.

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So that's actually a prophecy about faith. Right.

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That people who believe become children of Jacob.

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Follow and Jacob will be called Israel. All right.

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So now now we're going up to the other side because God is still speaking.

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So you're going up to the right corner and you'll see a speech bubble coming down from the cloud on the right.

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And it's got the little number two next to it.

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OK.

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Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go.

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And we'll bring you back to this land.

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For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.

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Is there a teenager that can fill in the whole thing?

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Let a teenager try first.

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Can you do the whole thing, Caleb?

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You think so?

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First three. What are the first three?

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No.

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That is correct. Do you like cashews?

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Well, you have to earn them.

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I didn't even understand what it was.

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Sorry, Caitlin.

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OK.

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All right.

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So he will be with him. He will keep him. He will bring him back.

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All that's those phrases.

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And he would not leave him until I have done.

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Now, in the verse, it actually said until I have what I have done, what I have promised you.

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And the emphasis is on the promise because he promised it.

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We know he'll do it because God keeps his promises.

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Right. And that's part of the lesson that he was teaching Jacob.

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And I submit to you that by the time all of this is done, Jacob does not have the lesson.

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So Jacob's example may not be the best to follow because we don't necessarily get.

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If we follow his example, we wouldn't necessarily get everything that God's trying to explain here.

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But he does get a lot.

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Verse 16 then.

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Then Jacob awoke from his sleep, it says.

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So he woke up. He had this dream and he woke up.

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And he said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I did not know it.

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Now, if you'll notice right below the ladder down there, you'll see little Jacob standing.

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And he's got a speech bubble going up to the right.

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And we're going to have a little arrow coming down where we just got done filling out what God said.

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And then we've got what Jacob said.

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Let's have somebody else take a stab before Emily takes all the candy.

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All right. Go. Haley, go.

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Okay. Start with the Lord.

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That's perfect. Do you like cashews?

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All right.

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Be a little careful with those because those things will knock you out, man.

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Okay. All right.

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So the Lord is in this place and I did not know it, which is a profound statement.

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If you think about it.

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If you were a Christian and you would counter the Lord, you should know.

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But remember that in the Old Testament, we talk about Genesis and all those past times, all the way up to Acts chapter two,

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the Holy Spirit did not live in people by and large or a few instances.

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But usually it always says the Holy Spirit fell on them or was on them.

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It doesn't say in them.

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So the Lord was there and he dreamt about it and he looked up.

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Now he saw the Lord standing in heaven above the ladder and speaking.

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And then he wakes up and he says, Hey, the Lord is in this place.

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And I did not know it.

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Okay. And then he goes on.

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He was afraid and said, How awesome is this place?

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Exclamation point.

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This is none other than the house of God and this is the gate of heaven.

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Fill in that next speech bubble.

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I'm waiting to see if Kishan's going to get it and win cashews or not.

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Going once.

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Okay. I'll read the verse again.

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Yes. How awesome is this place?

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This is none other than the house of God and this is the gate of heaven.

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Now you can't show them your paper.

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No, no, no.

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All right. Who's got it?

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I'm not going to wait for him.

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All right. Natalie, go.

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Very good. That is correct.

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Do you like cashews?

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Okay.

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Okay. We're on verse 18.

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So Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put under his head.

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Remember he was sleeping with a stone for a pillow when he had the dream?

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He took that stone that he put under his head and he set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.

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Okay. You see the blanks there?

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There are three blanks.

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You've got the first two right now.

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S and P. What are they?

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Jason?

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Stone and pillar.

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That is correct. Stone and pillar.

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Do you like cashews?

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Okay.

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So we've got stone and pillar.

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Listen to what happens now and that last word will fill in.

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He set it up as a pillar and he poured oil on its top.

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He called the name of that place Bethel, however.

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Previously the name of the city had been Luz.

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Then Jacob made a vow or an oath saying, and we'll stop there for a second.

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The last blank is?

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Oath.

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Okay.

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So he set it up as a stone pillar or an oath.

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Now you'll also notice that the word vow is there.

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And I made you like, don't pick on me about it, but I made a little dot to dot.

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You can connect those, their numbered, connect the numbered dots to make the explosion around the vow.

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It was just for fun.

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And I started it.

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One is up in the upper left hand corner.

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One, two, three, four, five.

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I did.

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Six is down.

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Seven is up.

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You see it?

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Does it make any sense whatsoever?

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Okay.

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I thought it'd be fun.

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Just thought it'd be fun.

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Okay.

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And then you'll see on your paper there's a circle three.

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So now we're going over to the left side.

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This is another quote from Jacob.

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So we've got the lines from Jacob going down.

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You'll see the circle three there, three arrows on the left hand side.

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We're almost through the text.

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Somebody help him.

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There you go.

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Man needs help.

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All right.

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Here we go.

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So it said he called the name of that place Bethel.

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However, previously the name of the city had been Luz.

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We'll come back to that in a second.

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Then Jacob made a vow saying, if God will be with me and will keep me on this journey I take, will give me food to eat and garments to wear.

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And I return to my father's house in safety, then the Lord will be my God.

476
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:53,000
So it starts under the arrows with God with me and it goes all the way down to be my God.

477
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,000
Can anybody do the whole thing?

478
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,000
I'll give you a minute.

479
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000
What?

480
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,000
Yes, ma'am.

481
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000
I sure can.

482
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:24,000
So it says, if God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take and will give me food to eat and garments to wear, and I return to my father's house in safety, then the Lord will be my God.

483
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000
I can do it.

484
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,000
I have all the answers right here.

485
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Caleb, you got the whole thing?

486
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000
First thing, no.

487
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:37,000
The first thing is God with.

488
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,000
You got the top part?

489
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,000
Yeah, what do you got?

490
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,000
You got the top part?

491
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:41,000
Kashawn, give me what you got.

492
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,000
Start from the top and give me what you got.

493
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:48,000
God will be with me and will keep me on this journey.

494
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,000
Okay, it's keep me.

495
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
The K got cut off.

496
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,000
On this journey.

497
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Yep.

498
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,000
Food to eat.

499
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000
Yep.

500
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,000
You can't do that next part?

501
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,000
Are you sure?

502
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,000
Look at it now.

503
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000
He said food to eat and what else?

504
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:06,000
Starts with a G and garments to wear.

505
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Garments are clothing.

506
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:08,000
It's a weird word.

507
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000
We don't use it very much anymore, but it means clothing.

508
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000
Garments to wear.

509
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000
And then you got H and S. Jason?

510
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000
I've got the whole thing.

511
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Okay, go from where it left off.

512
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000
So, H and S.

513
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,000
H, S is what?

514
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,000
Home safely.

515
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Yep.

516
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,000
The Lord will be my God.

517
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000
That's right.

518
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Okay.

519
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,000
So, notice that he's kind of a bargain.

520
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000
It's like a trade off.

521
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,000
He says, well, if God will do, just keep me on this one journey.

522
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
God promises a lot more than that, right?

523
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:47,000
But he says, if God will keep me on this one journey, take me there and back, give me food to eat, garments to wear, bring me home safely, then God will be my God.

524
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000
So, he's kind of making a deal.

525
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000
That make sense?

526
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:59,000
Even though God made a promise, this is sort of his test of God as to whether or not God will keep his promise.

527
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,000
Years ago when I was at East Toledo, there was a young man.

528
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000
He came from a Muslim family.

529
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000
His family was devout Muslims.

530
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:14,000
And he had been, but he was a teenager, and he had found his way into Vacation Bible School.

531
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,000
And we had stories about God and Jesus.

532
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000
And afterwards, we were all sitting around the table.

533
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000
We had pizza that night at the end of Vacation Bible School.

534
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000
There was about 12 teenagers and myself.

535
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000
And I wound up sitting strategically, perhaps, across the table from him.

536
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:33,000
And I started sharing with him, asking him about what he believed, did he believe in God, and so on.

537
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,000
And he said he did believe in God, but his interpretation of God was Allah, right?

538
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:43,000
And then I asked him about Jesus, and he said, no, Jesus was the grand teacher, but he didn't believe what we believed about Jesus.

539
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:50,000
Ultimately, he said to me, if God would send somebody to tell me that this is true, then I would know.

540
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,000
And I kind of joked, and he said, what am I, chopped liver?

541
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000
I'm sitting right here, I'm telling you about it right now.

542
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,000
He goes, no, no, I have to know.

543
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,000
And he said, I need a sign.

544
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,000
I need to know for sure that God is who he says he is.

545
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,000
I need something to happen.

546
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
And I said, well, let me tell you this.

547
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:11,000
If you will trust in the Lord, if you will accept God's promises,

548
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:16,000
if you will accept that God will do what he says he will do, then immediately something will happen.

549
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,000
But it's kind of like, okay, I'll put the keys in the ignition, but I'm not going to turn it.

550
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
I just expect the car to start.

551
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000
That's kind of where you're at.

552
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000
And so I told him, trust in the Lord right now in this moment.

553
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000
I guarantee you something will happen.

554
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000
And he couldn't do it.

555
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
He wouldn't do it.

556
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:39,000
And then he left, and he did not, as far as I know, at any time in that near future, accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

557
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:45,000
And he also was going to have to be making a big choice between his human family, right, because they would have disowned him.

558
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000
He would have had to have probably find a place to live.

559
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000
I mean, it would have been really rough.

560
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000
And he was only like 14 years old because they're pretty volatile about that kind of thing.

561
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000
Okay.

562
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000
So Jacob is kind of already on a journey.

563
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000
He's already lost his safe home.

564
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,000
That's why he left, because his brother was going to kill him.

565
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:09,000
Okay. And so it was kind of like that.

566
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000
And so if you would, what are we doing?

567
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000
Are we good?

568
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000
Focus. Thank you.

569
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,000
All right. So if you want to make a deal with God, here's your deal.

570
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000
God says, trust me, and I'll take care of it.

571
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000
That's the deal.

572
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,000
You got some other kind of deal.

573
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,000
You need God to do a miracle.

574
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,000
He's already done them.

575
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000
He's done hundreds, thousands, millions, and people don't believe just because God does miracles.

576
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000
I can rattle off a half dozen miracles.

577
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000
I personally have seen right now.

578
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:40,000
One of them is standing before you today because when I got saved, there was no way I could have ever stood up here.

579
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:47,000
I couldn't go to a restaurant and order a sandwich without condiments because I was afraid of what the minimum wage worker behind the counter would think of me.

580
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:52,000
I missed 38 days in my junior year of high school because I never wanted to give an oral report.

581
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,000
And I did get stuck giving one, but I missed every other one.

582
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000
I'd stay out of school until they were past me so far they wouldn't go back.

583
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000
And the one time I went back and just said, oh, you're back.

584
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,000
You can do your report. And I got stuck doing it.

585
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000
But every other one I missed.

586
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,000
And the truant officer was hunting me down because I was afraid to ever speak.

587
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000
I couldn't speak to a stranger.

588
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:16,000
I was afraid of what people thought of me, except when I was in my uniform at Kroger's and then I knew I wasn't it wasn't me.

589
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:21,000
I was representing the company and I was just doing what I didn't want to lose my job, wanted to get paid.

590
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,000
And so then I could do it.

591
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000
But any other time, I couldn't do it.

592
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000
And now I'm teaching this lesson.

593
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,000
And it's been like that almost from the beginning.

594
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:32,000
God flipped a switch and so you got to do what I tell you to do and I'm going to take care of everything.

595
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,000
And that's how it's been.

596
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,000
OK. All right.

597
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:40,000
If you look to the left before we go into the conclusions, we're going to fill out a couple of things to take care of real quick.

598
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,000
OK. So the first one, you'll notice there are two signs.

599
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,000
See two signs.

600
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:54,000
One sign is pointing toward Jacob where he's standing at the bottom of the ladder and the other one is laying on the ground.

601
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Two signs, one's pointing toward the bottom of the ladder and one's laying on the ground.

602
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000
There's a little hammer nails there.

603
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,000
OK. So the sign that's pointing toward Jacob, the ladder, should say what?

604
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,000
This is hard because it goes all the way back to the beginning.

605
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Does anybody remember what it what he changed the name of it to?

606
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000
Trina's got it. It's Bethel.

607
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
OK. Bethel B E T H E L.

608
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000
That's what he changed the name of it to.

609
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Now, does anybody know what that means?

610
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000
It means house of God. That is correct.

611
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000
OK. I thought I was going to put you on the spot, but you were ready.

612
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000
OK. Now, how about the one on the ground?

613
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Go, Emily. That is correct. L U Z.

614
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,000
All right. So formerly called Luz, this place will now be called Bethel.

615
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:45,000
All right. Now, if you look all the way over on the right hand side, down under the stone on the ground and the bedroll that's laying there,

616
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000
you'll see some blanks that we haven't filled out yet.

617
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000
They're pretty much the only blanks that we haven't filled out yet.

618
00:38:52,000 --> 00:39:01,000
And it says, it says the S slash P. I'm going to take a stab at it. Stone slash pillar. That's right.

619
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:07,000
So what he did was he took that stone that he was laying his head on and he built a pillar and he put the stone on the top of the pillar.

620
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,000
And then he poured oil on it to represent the spirit of God.

621
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
That's what anointing is. You know, somebody represents the spirit of God coming.

622
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:21,000
You say God is in this place and he will go on to make a commitment that when he worships God, he'll come back to that place to worship God.

623
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,000
He does say that. He calls it Bethel.

624
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:30,000
And as we said, Bethel means Jason. Caleb. Luz.

625
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:35,000
No, Luz is the other name. God's house. That's right.

626
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Got to listen. Even if I'm not the one speaking, somebody's given answers. You got to listen.

627
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:45,000
The stone pillar, God's house. And let's finish up the text.

628
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:52,000
It says, then Jacob made a vow. If God will be with me, will keep me on this journey that that I take and will give me food to eat and garments to wear.

629
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,000
And I returned to my father's house in safety, then the Lord will be my God.

630
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:02,000
Twenty two. This stone, which I have set up as a pillar, will be God's house.

631
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:10,000
And of all that you give me, I will surely give a tenth to you.

632
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Catch that? And so a tenth is a tie. The old word for tenth is tie. T-I-T-H-E.

633
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Now, he's not the first one to ever give a tie. The church doesn't even exist yet.

634
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:37,000
The temple doesn't exist yet. But why would he say, I'll give a tithe to you just because God promised that he would do what he promised he would do?

635
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:42,000
He said, if you take care of it, you'll be my God and I'll give a tithe. Why would he say that?

636
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:50,000
What is the point of the tithe in that case? Does God need money or sheep?

637
00:40:50,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Okay, so that's true. It would be that as well. Yep. Yep.

638
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:07,000
So, but the question is, why does he need to give God anything?

639
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:17,000
R.J. said it's giving back to God what God gave to you. And that's true. But why do you do that?

640
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:23,000
Anybody ever seen a horse and carriage? So when the driver sits on a horse and carriage,

641
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:29,000
and the driver is going to go down the road in the horse and carriage, he says, yep, yep, or he snaps the whip.

642
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:37,000
And the horse just goes down the road, right? And then when he gets to the corner and he wants to turn, he says to the horse, turn the corner, horse.

643
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Right? What, that doesn't work? How does he make the horse turn the corner? With the reins.

644
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Okay, so the tithe is a reminder. It is a statement, as R.J. said, that everything that he has he's getting from God.

645
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:01,000
God's provided. The food, the clothing, the safety on the journey. But he doesn't commit to just tithe on the journey.

646
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:06,000
He's going to tithe the rest of his life to remind himself that everything that he's getting, he's getting from God.

647
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:14,000
When he gives that tithe, that other 90% of the money, he remembers that other 90% came from God or that other nine out of ten sheep.

648
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:20,000
It came from God. So you get control. You put your money where it belongs and get control by giving the tithe.

649
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:25,000
And that's why he did it. He's not the only one to ever do it. Does anybody know in the Bible,

650
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:30,000
so you have a cool Bible scholar thing, who the first person to ever give a tithe was in the Bible?

651
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:41,000
Take a stab at it, Jason? It was not. It was not mentioned that far back. Abraham. Abraham.

652
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:51,000
And there's a specific incident in his life. No, it wasn't then. So what happened was Abraham and Lot split up.

653
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:57,000
They went to two different parts of the land. Then Lot's part of the land got overrun. And Lot got captured.

654
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:03,000
So then Abraham heard about it and said, I'm going to go save my nephew. I can't just let him rot.

655
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:09,000
So he gets all his hired men together and he goes out and saves them. He defeats the kings that had captured them and took all those stuff.

656
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,000
And he got real wealthy from that. He was already super wealthy. He didn't really need any money at all.

657
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:20,000
God was already taking care of him. And he got a bunch more money. And then on the way back, he ran into a guy named Melchizedek.

658
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:27,000
Melchizedek was a high priest, a very famous high priest. And he worshiped God, the God of heaven.

659
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:34,000
And Abraham gave him 10 percent of everything he took. So he set that standard.

660
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,000
And basically what he was doing, he put a rein on it. He put a handle on it.

661
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:44,000
You ever try to walk through a door without turning the knob first? Yeah.

662
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:50,000
If the door is shut and you don't turn the knob and the knob is not cranked down somehow, you'll hit the door.

663
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:55,000
And people get lost up in the false god of money and a lot of other things.

664
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:01,000
You've got to get control of the things that would get control of you. You have to.

665
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:07,000
And the way to do that is to submit them to somebody who is stronger than you are because you already know they've screwed you up.

666
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:12,000
You've already know that you've made mistakes. You already know that it's going to be hard for you to control everything.

667
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,000
Sometimes it comes on you unawares. Sometimes it ambushes you or whatever.

668
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,000
And so he's saying, I will not be ambushed. I now know.

669
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:25,000
I will never be in the same place I was where I was in the presence of God and didn't know it.

670
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,000
So now I'm going to put a rein on everything I ever get.

671
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:37,000
That will always be a reminder to me that God is everywhere and I get everything I get from him.

672
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,000
That's what that's all about.

673
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:45,000
All right. So if you look right in the middle, there is a square and it says Jesus offers more.

674
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:51,000
What was the deal that God gave? What was the offer that he made?

675
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,000
Just give me a brief summary like one second. What did he say he would do for Jacob?

676
00:44:54,000 --> 00:45:01,000
You can get it. Most of it's on the page. What did he say he would do? Say it again.

677
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:06,000
Yeah. What would he do for Jacob? God said, I'll do this. What was it?

678
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,000
Just give me a basic. You don't have to read it. The whole thing is going to be basic.

679
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,000
Go, Caleb, go.

680
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:18,000
Okay. Say that part again. Yep.

681
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:24,000
You give him clothes. Now you're kind of reading from what Jacob said to God, right?

682
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:29,000
Let's go back a little further and go to what God actually said.

683
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,000
What did God say he would do? On my worksheet it says.

684
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:39,000
What? We're not. We're in the conclusion now.

685
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Okay. We've already written it. All right.

686
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:49,000
So he said, I will give you the land that you're sleeping on or were sleeping on.

687
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:54,000
I will make your descendants as many as the dust.

688
00:45:54,000 --> 00:46:00,000
Right. I will. You will spread out and you will cover the earth from the north to the south, the west to the east and be a blessing to all families.

689
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:04,000
That's what God said he would do. And for that, what would Jacob do?

690
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,000
What did God say Jacob would do?

691
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:13,000
Nothing. God didn't say, if you do this, I'll do this.

692
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,000
Right. You know what that's called when there's no payment for it.

693
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:22,000
Nothing is required of you. You get it for free.

694
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:27,000
It's called grace. Right. It's called grace. He was going to.

695
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,000
Would Jacob a good guy?

696
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,000
What does Jacob mean?

697
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,000
Does anybody know what his name means?

698
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,000
Deceiver or liar.

699
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,000
And actually, if you look at his history, what did he do?

700
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,000
He stole his brother's blessing. He stole his brother's birthright.

701
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:51,000
And he did the last part of it all by a grand, grand crafted deception where he dressed as his brother, even putting fur on his arm.

702
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:56,000
So when his, his, when Isaac would reach out and try to touch him, he'd think it was his rough skin of his brother.

703
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:01,000
And he deceived his dad completely. Is Jacob a good guy?

704
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,000
So does grace come to good people?

705
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,000
No. Grace comes to messed up people.

706
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:14,000
Right. And then the messed up people become followers of God and God does what he promised he would do.

707
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:20,000
That's what is happening in this story. So God was promising that he would deliver grace and he would give.

708
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:21,000
He would take care of it.

709
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:30,000
Jacob does come back with, as Caleb was pointing out to us, he comes back with, well, that means God will protect me and he'll provide clothes for me and food for me on this journey.

710
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,000
And he'll bring me back home safely because he was scared because his brother was trying to kill him.

711
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,000
So he's leaving home without much.

712
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:41,000
And I was going to go to a foreign land, find a wife and maybe come back someday, maybe not.

713
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:43,000
So it's kind of a scary time for him.

714
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,000
So he's not what God will protect me and he'll bring me home safely.

715
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:52,000
And if he'll give me food to eat and he'll give me clothing and all that, then he'll be my God for the rest of my life.

716
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,000
See how he he brought it down to the things of his life.

717
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,000
Does that make sense?

718
00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:02,000
So now it becomes about if God will take care of this problem for me, this thing that I see, what was the problem?

719
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:06,000
He was hungry. So if God gave him food, fine, you can be my God.

720
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,000
What else is a problem?

721
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:08,000
Well, you need clothing.

722
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,000
He didn't pack his bags before he left.

723
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,000
So I need clothing.

724
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,000
Fine. If you'll give me clothing, you can be my God.

725
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,000
See how you did that? And that's what people tend to do.

726
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,000
God wants to give you grace.

727
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,000
God doesn't want to just give you food or clothing or safety.

728
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:27,000
Right. He wants to come and live in you and live with you and take you through.

729
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,000
He wants to be with you through the worst of it.

730
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,000
That's the goal.

731
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:32,000
And that's what he was promising for Jacob.

732
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:40,000
So as I said in the beginning, Jacob's not the best example here because he kind of doesn't get it at that point.

733
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,000
Now, he will get it as his life goes on.

734
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,000
He'll understand what we're talking about today.

735
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,000
And you could go on to read more of his story if you want.

736
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,000
But Jesus says it very clearly.

737
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:54,000
He says things like, and though I'll be with you even under the end of the age.

738
00:48:54,000 --> 00:49:07,000
Right. And he says, you want me to go back to my father because when I go back to my father, I'll pray my father and he'll send you another comforter, one who will come and live with you and teach you everything that I have tried to teach you.

739
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:09,000
Right. And so we have the promise of Jesus.

740
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:16,000
Jesus offers more. Jacob saw a pillar with a rock and some oil and came back there to worship.

741
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,000
He made a vow.

742
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,000
He's not quite getting it.

743
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,000
Okay.

744
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,000
He's not getting the deal that God wants to make, which is God's.

745
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,000
God's deal is this.

746
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,000
I will take care of it all.

747
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,000
I will do it.

748
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:32,000
I am God.

749
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,000
You are not God.

750
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,000
I am God.

751
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,000
I will take care of it.

752
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,000
I am God.

753
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:44,000
When you're willing to do that and get a rein on those things in your life that will not submit themselves to God and you say, no, this is a problem for me.

754
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,000
I recognize it's a problem.

755
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000
I'm going to submit that thing to God.

756
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Right.

757
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,000
When you're willing to do that, then God will do what he has promised.

758
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,000
He'll be there with you always and he'll see you through it.

759
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,000
You may get sick and die someday.

760
00:49:58,000 --> 00:49:59,000
Guess what?

761
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,000
That's how bodies work.

762
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,000
We're living in a fallen creation.

763
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,000
Right.

764
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:07,000
You may die if you die from being sick or a bullet to the head or a car ran you over.

765
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:14,000
After you die, you'll be with God forever and eternity if you let God do what God desires to do, which is give you grace.

766
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:15,000
Okay.

767
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,000
I have written some verses here.

768
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:22,000
We're not going to go and read them all, but I'm going to paraphrase a couple and then we'll read a couple and then we're going to be done.

769
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,000
Okay.

770
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:28,000
So Jeremiah 32, 38, you see it's already written on your page down to the right from the box.

771
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:39,000
So here Jeremiah says in the future, he's forecasting hundreds of years into the future, and he says they will be God's people and God will be their God.

772
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:40,000
Okay.

773
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,000
And I'm paraphrasing, obviously.

774
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:52,000
And then several of these New Testament, 1 John 4, 15, for example, he says that if you commit yourself to the Lord, he will come and reside in you.

775
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:54,000
He will live in you.

776
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,000
Okay.

777
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,000
I'm going to read Hebrews 3, 6.

778
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:02,000
So if you're following your bobbing flip there real quick if you want.

779
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,000
We are almost done.

780
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:08,000
Hang tight with me.

781
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:26,000
Hebrews 3, 6 says, but Christ was faithful as a son over his house, whose house we are, not a pile of rock with some oil on it or even a sacred place where you had an awesome vision.

782
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,000
Right.

783
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:31,000
We are, but Christ was faithful as a son over his house.

784
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:35,000
The his is capitalized because it's God over God's house.

785
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:38,000
Whose house we are.

786
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,000
We are God's house.

787
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:47,000
If we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

788
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:50,000
God says, I will do it for you.

789
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:58,000
You say, okay, God, I will let you do it for me and I'll get a rain on everything in my life that's not submitted to you and I'll just keep submitting it to you.

790
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:02,000
And every time I'm screwing up, every time I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing, I'll just keep giving you that.

791
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:04,000
I'll keep putting that back under your control.

792
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,000
You're saying, but you're not doing anything.

793
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:07,000
You're doing nothing.

794
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,000
You're doing nothing.

795
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,000
You're doing your own stupidity, basically, is what you're saying.

796
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:15,000
And then God does what he says he'll do and he takes you through all the way through to the end.

797
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:20,000
In fact, you become the house of God.

798
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,000
It's not a rock, not a pillar, not a building.

799
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:23,000
You become the house of God.

800
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:26,000
That's Jesus's deal.

801
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,000
First Corinthians has two verses and then I think we're done.

802
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:37,000
First Corinthians 3, 16 and 17.

803
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,000
Almost there.

804
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,000
Okay, here we go.

805
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:47,000
First Corinthians 3, 16 says, Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

806
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,000
So this is written to Christians and written to the church.

807
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:56,000
But then in 17, he says, If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him.

808
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:03,000
But the temple of God is holy and that is what you are.

809
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,000
You are the temple of God.

810
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,000
And if you are saved, you're a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.

811
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,000
If you accept Jesus as Lord, that means he tells you what to do and you do it.

812
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,000
And Savior, that means he's paid the price for your sins and he's going to take care of everything.

813
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:18,000
In other words, you're going to get a reign on what's in your life and submit it to God.

814
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:24,000
If you'll do that, then you are the temple of God and you should take care of yourself.

815
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,000
God expects you to do that because you belong to him.

816
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,000
And that's what that verse is all about.

817
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,000
And the last one is First Corinthians 6, 19.

818
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,000
I probably could have done 50 of these, by the way.

819
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,000
The New Testament is all over the place.

820
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:44,000
First Corinthians 6, 19 says, Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,

821
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:49,000
whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

822
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:56,000
For you have been bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body.

823
00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:05,000
You may want to say, well, there's a certain place or a certain thing that I'm expecting God to do.

824
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:11,000
Or eventually I'll get around to doing what I know I'm not doing that God wants me to do.

825
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,000
You may want to say that.

826
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,000
But the bottom line is this.

827
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:20,000
God says, I will take care of everything if you will let me take care of everything.

828
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,000
And how do you take care of everything?

829
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:28,000
You submit it all back to him, stop making deals, stop asking for certain things, no requirements.

830
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,000
If you'll save me, I'll follow you.

831
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:31,000
If you'll do this, I'll follow you.

832
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,000
If you'll give me this, I'll follow you.

833
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:33,000
None of that.

834
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,000
Get a rein on everything in your life and submit it to God.

835
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:41,000
At that point in time, there's nothing to hold God's promises back.

836
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:46,000
Until you do that, your worship may be, your relationship with God may be

837
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:54,000
going to a pillar of stone, going to a place, going to talk to somebody, or even reading it in a book.

838
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,000
There's nothing wrong with reading the Bible.

839
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,000
But God's not in this Bible.

840
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,000
This Bible is about God.

841
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:02,000
God is in heaven.

842
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,000
God the Holy Spirit is in every believer.

843
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:06,000
God is omnipresent.

844
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:09,000
So he's everywhere that he wants to be at all times.

845
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,000
He's not contained to written pages.

846
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:17,000
And we see the failing of that a little bit when we realize that this is not the original language.

847
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:22,000
So the book was written in Hebrew and then translated to English, and it doesn't translate perfectly.

848
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:27,000
But the meaning carries through, enough that we can find God and know about God and know what to do.

849
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,000
And what do you do?

850
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:35,000
Submit yourself to the Lord and everything that's in your life, get a rein on it and give those reins over to God.

851
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:36,000
They belong to him.

852
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:41,000
The other 90%, not just the 10%, but the other 90% also belongs to God.

853
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:42,000
Okay.

854
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,000
Are there any questions?

855
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:52,000
I'm going to ask a few so I can throw candy at the teenagers for a second and then we're going to be through.

856
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,000
Okay.

857
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:55,000
All right.

858
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:59,000
We're going to be through.

859
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,000
Raise your hand.

860
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:06,000
And if you know the answer, if I call on you and you get the answer wrong, you're out.

861
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:10,000
If I don't call on you and your hand's still raised because you say you know the answer, then you'll still be in.

862
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,000
So if you know the answer, raise your hand.

863
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:13,000
Don't shout it out.

864
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:14,000
Teenagers only.

865
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,000
All right.

866
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,000
What was the reference, the whole reference for today's lesson?

867
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,000
If you know the answer, get your hand up.

868
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:22,000
Okay.

869
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:23,000
I see three hands.

870
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:24,000
I'm going to go with it.

871
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:28,000
Are you ready?

872
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:29,000
Going once.

873
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:30,000
Okay.

874
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:30,000
All right.

875
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:34,000
Caleb, give it to me.

876
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:35,000
That is correct.

877
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:36,000
Okay.

878
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:54,000
So all four of you get something there.

879
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:59,000
All right.

880
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,000
Okay.

881
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000
So immediately, you ready?

882
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:04,000
Just raise your hand.

883
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,000
Don't shout it out if you know it.

884
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:12,000
Immediately after Jacob woke up, he spoke this sentence.

885
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:13,000
Okay.

886
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,000
I see one hand.

887
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:19,000
Immediately after he woke up, this is the first sentence he said.

888
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:20,000
Going once.

889
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,000
Going twice.

890
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:24,000
Caleb's not sure.

891
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,000
His hand's halfway up.

892
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:27,000
Okay.

893
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:31,000
Kashawn, go.

894
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,000
Nope.

895
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,000
Put your hand down.

896
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:38,000
All right, Jason, go.

897
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:39,000
That's it.

898
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:40,000
You got it.

899
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,000
The Lord is in this place is the whole sentence.

900
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:43,000
Yeah.

901
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:44,000
Stop there.

902
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:52,000
The Lord is in this place.

903
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:53,000
All right.

904
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:57,000
I'm going to give you one really hard one.

905
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:58,000
I don't know.

906
00:57:58,000 --> 00:57:59,000
It's really hard.

907
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:00,000
It's probably not really hard.

908
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:01,000
Okay.

909
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:06,000
And then we're going to call it.

910
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,000
And it's just the first hand I see.

911
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:10,000
It's going to be the first hand I see.

912
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,000
All right.

913
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:27,000
This is the reference for the New Testament verse that I read that says, I want to say

914
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:28,000
it right.

915
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:29,000
Hold on.

916
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:36,000
I've got to look at it so I don't say it wrong.

917
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:37,000
It's right here.

918
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,000
Do you not know that you are a temple of God?

919
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:42,000
I see one hand.

920
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:45,000
Haley's not sure.

921
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,000
Okay, Haley, do you know it?

922
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:50,000
1 Corinthians.

923
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:51,000
Keep going.

924
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:52,000
Yes.

925
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,000
3, 16, 17.

926
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:54,000
That's right.

927
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:55,000
Do you like cashews?

928
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:56,000
Okay.

929
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:07,000
Give me my last cashew today.

930
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:12,000
All right.

931
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:13,000
We're going to pray at this time.

932
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:14,000
There are snacks in the cafeteria.

933
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:15,000
Hang around.

934
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:16,000
Say hi to some folks.

935
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:17,000
Shake somebody's hand.

936
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:18,000
We are a fellowship.

937
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,000
Maybe proclaim a little bit of the Lord's love.

938
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:23,000
RJ, would you close us in prayer and we'll pray along with you?

939
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:48,000
Dear Heavenly Father, I want to thank you for today.

940
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:56,000
Amen.