WEBVTT 00:00:01.260 --> 00:00:06.719 Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:09.720 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:14.019 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:14.019 --> 00:00:17.960 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:29.739 right in. So last Sunday we stopped at a scripture. 00:00:30.379 --> 00:00:37.920 that we got from Matthew 19 so that the Pharisees 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:42.619 came to test Jesus with a question that is it 00:00:42.619 --> 00:00:47.579 lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just 00:00:47.579 --> 00:00:51.780 any other reason and we noted that the Pharisee 00:00:51.780 --> 00:00:56.659 had a twisted knowledge or understanding of a 00:00:56.659 --> 00:00:59.579 woman because whatever action you would take 00:01:00.109 --> 00:01:03.670 to a friend to someone who is close to you will 00:01:03.670 --> 00:01:07.269 depend on how you see the person and we noted 00:01:07.269 --> 00:01:10.489 a quite difference between what jesus was pointing 00:01:10.489 --> 00:01:15.109 at and what the pharisees were insisting their 00:01:15.109 --> 00:01:21.590 focus is to put away understand they knew the 00:01:21.590 --> 00:01:26.609 law that is not uh at for any cause now they 00:01:26.609 --> 00:01:30.400 want to ask jesus Can we put her away for any 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:33.920 cause? Remember, they want to test him. But Jesus' 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:39.519 focus was, no. In the beginning, it was not so. 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:45.120 In the beginning, the idea is to join, not to 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:52.040 put away. So by saying just to join, Jesus pointed 00:01:52.040 --> 00:02:00.700 us to something very critical. Which we are trying 00:02:00.700 --> 00:02:05.700 to explore. As we continue. But he quoted. Two 00:02:05.700 --> 00:02:13.479 scriptures. In verse 4. That. And. He answered 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:18.680 and said. To them. Have you not read. That he 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:25.300 who made them. At the beginning. Made them male 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:29.979 and female. This scripture is taken from. Genesis 00:02:29.979 --> 00:02:38.560 chapter 1, verse 27. And we saw that scripture 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:41.340 repeated in Genesis 5 too. We're going to that. 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:47.900 Then verse 5, and said, for this reason, for 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:50.379 the reason of what? That is for the reason of 00:02:50.379 --> 00:02:55.020 the verse 4. That is they are made male and female. 00:02:55.979 --> 00:02:59.030 And we noted that we are coming to that. That 00:02:59.030 --> 00:03:03.229 male and female, they are made in the image of 00:03:03.229 --> 00:03:07.069 God. So Jesus was not just talking about marriage. 00:03:07.229 --> 00:03:09.289 It's beyond marriage what he's trying to talk 00:03:09.289 --> 00:03:16.509 about. So then he said, on the basis of this 00:03:16.509 --> 00:03:18.889 understanding that they are made in the image 00:03:18.889 --> 00:03:22.770 of God, male and female, a woman is not less 00:03:22.770 --> 00:03:25.789 of the image of God than the man. You understand? 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:29.460 Based on this understanding, therefore shall 00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:33.879 a man, you understand, leave his father and mother 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:37.159 and be joined to his wife. So it's about the 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:41.180 joining. And the joining is predicated upon an 00:03:41.180 --> 00:03:45.780 understanding, you understand, of who the woman 00:03:45.780 --> 00:03:50.259 is or the image of God. Because she's the same 00:03:50.259 --> 00:03:54.580 as the man, you understand, the image of God. 00:03:56.860 --> 00:03:59.680 Either join. But they did not have that understanding. 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.240 That was why Jesus said. Have you not read. In 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:05.379 the beginning it was not so. Because they have 00:04:05.379 --> 00:04:10.840 no understanding of this. Value of a woman. That 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:13.860 both the woman and the man. In the image of God. 00:04:13.979 --> 00:04:17.759 So they see a woman of a lesser value. So it's 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:21.819 just about. Let's put her away. Understand. Let's 00:04:21.819 --> 00:04:26.860 put her away. And remember. that the focus is 00:04:26.860 --> 00:04:30.319 always the woman. What about the Pharisee? So 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:34.259 he can go and sleep anywhere, anyhow, and nothing 00:04:34.259 --> 00:04:39.980 happens to him. Because there was no any idea 00:04:39.980 --> 00:04:43.060 around what will happen to the Pharisee, you 00:04:43.060 --> 00:04:46.040 understand? If he's the one that misbehaved. 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:50.480 But the focus is the woman because she is of 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:53.560 a lesser value to them. Because that's a patriarchal 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:58.670 culture. You understand? So, and then we now 00:04:58.670 --> 00:05:01.930 move to look at those two scriptures, which we 00:05:01.930 --> 00:05:04.889 said we are going to explain them. But before 00:05:04.889 --> 00:05:08.550 I come to Genesis 1, then we move to look at 00:05:08.550 --> 00:05:11.829 Genesis 2, verse 24, where Jesus said, therefore, 00:05:12.110 --> 00:05:18.810 for this reason, man shall leave his father and 00:05:18.810 --> 00:05:21.430 mother and join to his wife. Then we move to 00:05:21.430 --> 00:05:26.149 Genesis 2, verse 24. Genesis 2 .24, which we 00:05:26.149 --> 00:05:33.730 said, that scripture as always, because we started 00:05:33.730 --> 00:05:36.829 work on that. And then we read that scripture. 00:05:37.290 --> 00:05:40.189 And then we said, for us to understand the basis, 00:05:40.250 --> 00:05:45.009 because he said, therefore, you understand. Are 00:05:45.009 --> 00:05:48.069 we together? Verse 24. Are you there? Genesis 00:05:48.069 --> 00:05:53.490 24 and 2 .24. Therefore, a man shall leave his 00:05:53.490 --> 00:05:56.089 father and mother. And then what we did was to 00:05:56.089 --> 00:05:58.269 read because what we see, therefore, that means 00:05:58.269 --> 00:06:00.490 it's coming to a conclusion. You understand? 00:06:00.709 --> 00:06:02.870 This is something that needs to be understood. 00:06:03.689 --> 00:06:07.129 Are we together? Just the same way, Jesus, the 00:06:07.129 --> 00:06:09.550 way Jesus also arranged the scripture in Matthew 00:06:09.550 --> 00:06:13.029 is not haphazard. You understand? Definitely, 00:06:13.290 --> 00:06:16.550 that verse he quoted, male and female. You understand? 00:06:16.689 --> 00:06:20.879 Then, therefore, it's not by mystic. is by the 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.300 spirit of God that it was put that way. And that's 00:06:23.300 --> 00:06:25.000 why you find out that even in the scripture here, 00:06:25.220 --> 00:06:27.860 the way also, that's the same, because there 00:06:27.860 --> 00:06:30.980 must be that kind of revelation first before 00:06:30.980 --> 00:06:33.360 the devil, because the devil, shall a man leave 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:35.220 his father and mother and join to his wife, is 00:06:35.220 --> 00:06:39.480 like a conclusion predicated upon actually this 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:42.259 understanding and revelation. And we said, okay, 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:45.560 let's go back and read a little bit in the sand 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:50.089 to understand. what the Bible is saying before 00:06:50.089 --> 00:06:54.410 coming to this day of all. And then we started 00:06:54.410 --> 00:07:01.449 from verse 18. And then we will go behind, but 00:07:01.449 --> 00:07:03.990 we will start at verse 18 because it says, and 00:07:03.990 --> 00:07:07.329 the Lord God said, it is not good that a man 00:07:07.329 --> 00:07:11.410 should be alone. You understand? Then he now 00:07:11.410 --> 00:07:19.860 said, I will make him a helpmate. Or in my version 00:07:19.860 --> 00:07:22.459 here, I see a helper. I think those who are using 00:07:22.459 --> 00:07:28.300 King James says a help me. Amen. So he said a 00:07:28.300 --> 00:07:34.199 helper comparable to him. A helper comparable 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:40.180 to him. And then we read that. So we stop at 00:07:40.180 --> 00:07:44.379 verse 18. And as we said, oftentimes this verse. 00:07:45.019 --> 00:07:47.860 is taught as the woman that is the woman as the 00:07:47.860 --> 00:07:52.300 helper and so we explore some ideas in the sense 00:07:52.300 --> 00:07:54.160 that because when you start reading from behind 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:57.959 it looks as if uh the issue of tending of the 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:03.779 um the garden and all that is a work of the man 00:08:03.779 --> 00:08:06.920 and so the woman is coming to help the man in 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:09.879 his assignment so more or less as it has always 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:15.149 been taught that the man is a one day That God 00:08:15.149 --> 00:08:17.990 gave him the work. He is the man that has the 00:08:17.990 --> 00:08:20.990 assignment. The man that has the ministry. The 00:08:20.990 --> 00:08:24.170 woman is coming. Actually to help the man in 00:08:24.170 --> 00:08:29.129 the work. And then we noted that. That actually 00:08:29.129 --> 00:08:32.929 does not hold true. Through our scriptures. Because 00:08:32.929 --> 00:08:36.509 as we said. That the Holy Spirit is the author. 00:08:36.730 --> 00:08:40.610 Is one. Therefore whatever that is taught in 00:08:40.610 --> 00:08:43.529 Genesis. Must be consistent. with the entire 00:08:43.529 --> 00:08:47.049 bible because that's the entire context so and 00:08:47.049 --> 00:08:50.169 then we look at it we said in no part when we 00:08:50.169 --> 00:08:52.909 begin to read and i read some i mean it's a scripture 00:08:52.909 --> 00:08:59.070 like second corinthians uh 5 17 to 20 and we 00:08:59.070 --> 00:09:02.429 saw that actually that scripture is is showing 00:09:02.429 --> 00:09:05.409 to us that the ministry is both for male and 00:09:05.409 --> 00:09:09.429 female no one is is is actually like a quote 00:09:09.429 --> 00:09:12.620 -unquote a helper of the order You understand? 00:09:12.860 --> 00:09:16.039 That we are all, those who have been reconciled 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:18.940 are given the ministry of reconciliation. And 00:09:18.940 --> 00:09:21.600 those who have been given the ministry of reconciliation 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:23.600 are those who have been reconciled. And those 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:25.559 who have been reconciled are male and female. 00:09:25.980 --> 00:09:28.960 You understand? All have been reconciled. And 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:32.019 these are people in Christ. So I say, okay. So 00:09:32.019 --> 00:09:34.419 it actually contradicts a lot of things. And 00:09:34.419 --> 00:09:37.639 we didn't look at it as actually making any sense. 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:39.899 In the sense that, so what about those ladies 00:09:39.899 --> 00:09:42.919 who are not married? Okay, we said every woman 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:47.320 is a helper of a man. What about those who are 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:54.820 not married? Does that mean that a woman becomes 00:09:54.820 --> 00:09:59.960 useless if she is not married? And then we noted 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:03.139 that also, again, the purposes of God is not 00:10:03.139 --> 00:10:05.659 gender -based. It's also marriage -determined. 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:10.460 Marriage is a choice. You can decide to marry. 00:10:11.029 --> 00:10:14.190 Decide not to marry in the sun. But as we noted, 00:10:14.230 --> 00:10:17.629 if we decide to get married, it must be because 00:10:17.629 --> 00:10:20.230 of the Lord. If we decide not to get married, 00:10:20.309 --> 00:10:23.049 it also must be for the Lord. If you go and do 00:10:23.049 --> 00:10:24.870 it for any other selfish reason, are you savvy? 00:10:25.549 --> 00:10:28.350 We are not dead yet. We are not dead yet also. 00:10:29.070 --> 00:10:32.190 So, because the consequences is going to come 00:10:32.190 --> 00:10:36.450 along the line. And so, the point is that now 00:10:36.450 --> 00:10:39.500 we want to understand then in the sun. Is the 00:10:39.500 --> 00:10:41.799 woman the helper of the man? So we want to go 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:46.080 down to look at the word helper and then explain 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.720 to understand whether the woman is the helper 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.580 of the man. Now let's look at that verse 18 again. 00:10:53.019 --> 00:10:58.080 And the Lord God said, it is not good that man 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:06.360 should be alone. That man should be alone. So 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:11.220 I will make him a helper. So the issue of I will 00:11:11.220 --> 00:11:15.919 make him a helper comparable to him was God's 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:21.200 response to actually it is not good that man 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:27.080 be alone. It's not good that man be alone. Now, 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:29.259 we have done that study for those of us who have 00:11:29.259 --> 00:11:32.279 been in the church for some time. We have done 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:37.580 this study. during some of our teachings about 00:11:37.580 --> 00:11:39.860 marriage and relationship and also teachings 00:11:39.860 --> 00:11:43.899 about salvation. But let's go over it. We have 00:11:43.899 --> 00:11:46.960 a lot of people who have not been with us. But 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:50.379 then again, we really need to go over it again. 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.759 First, I want us to know that word alone. That 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:59.419 word alone. It is not good that man be or should 00:11:59.419 --> 00:12:02.600 be alone. That word alone. That word alone in 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:09.080 Greek is B -A -D. Bad. B -A -D. Alone. That word 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:20.980 alone in Hebrew is B -A -D. It's B -A -D. That 00:12:20.980 --> 00:12:25.120 is bad. You understand? Not bad the one in English. 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:34.179 Not the bad in English. Yes. So that word. Bad 00:12:34.179 --> 00:12:38.039 is a noun, actually. So it means separation or 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:41.139 apart from. That's what it means. It means separation 00:12:41.139 --> 00:12:47.240 or apart from. And when I looked at it more deeply, 00:12:47.379 --> 00:12:54.399 it is from a root word, badad. B -A -D -A -D. 00:12:55.100 --> 00:12:59.440 Badad is from a root word, badad. So that word 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:04.809 bad, which is alone. is from the root word badad. 00:13:04.950 --> 00:13:10.190 Of course, the root word is a verb. B -A -D -A 00:13:10.190 --> 00:13:16.929 -D. It means to separate or separate or be isolated. 00:13:17.409 --> 00:13:20.370 That's what it means. Separate or be isolated. 00:13:20.669 --> 00:13:25.129 That's what it means. So we can say, if we plug 00:13:25.129 --> 00:13:30.210 that into the verse, we can say that it is not 00:13:30.210 --> 00:13:36.090 good that Man should be separate or apart from. 00:13:36.970 --> 00:13:43.210 Man should be separate or apart from. But there 00:13:43.210 --> 00:13:46.149 is a question we need to ask here at this point. 00:13:49.409 --> 00:13:53.990 Be separate or apart from what? Because that's 00:13:53.990 --> 00:13:56.909 the question we want to ask. If man is not good 00:13:56.909 --> 00:14:01.799 to be separate or to be alone or to be... apart 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:06.220 from to be separate or to be apart from what 00:14:06.220 --> 00:14:11.840 what exactly are we together now to answer that 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:16.220 question we need to so just bear with me that's 00:14:16.220 --> 00:14:17.899 the reason why i use questions a lot because 00:14:17.899 --> 00:14:21.879 that it takes us gradually you understand so 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:25.940 um to answer that question we need to explain 00:14:25.940 --> 00:14:31.750 the word helper because um In that verse 18, 00:14:32.070 --> 00:14:39.549 God's response to it is not good that man be 00:14:39.549 --> 00:14:44.110 alone is that he will make him a helper. Did 00:14:44.110 --> 00:14:46.210 you understand what I'm saying? So that means 00:14:46.210 --> 00:14:51.149 if we can understand the word helper, we will 00:14:51.149 --> 00:14:58.179 then understand actually what God... never intended 00:14:58.179 --> 00:15:01.320 or did not want or the reason why god did not 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.539 want man to be separate or to be apart from in 00:15:05.539 --> 00:15:09.539 the sun are we together we have already noted 00:15:09.539 --> 00:15:14.460 that that could not be the woman because of some 00:15:14.460 --> 00:15:17.639 of the question we have raised which does not 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:23.600 actually uh meet the test of the entire scripture 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:25.539 because there are other scriptures that seems 00:15:25.539 --> 00:15:29.950 to show that the woman have a ministry and have 00:15:29.950 --> 00:15:33.389 a purpose apart from the man. So it could not 00:15:33.389 --> 00:15:36.710 be that. But let's look at it closely again, 00:15:36.809 --> 00:15:41.370 as we said. So let's look at the word helper. 00:15:41.590 --> 00:15:50.330 The word helper is a word E -Z -E -R or E -Z 00:15:50.330 --> 00:15:56.360 -E -R. However, either you say Z or Z, whichever 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:03.519 one you use. So E -Z -E -R. Ezar. That's what 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:08.220 it means. Now, this word Ezar, please follow 00:16:08.220 --> 00:16:11.639 me gradually. I'm a bit detailed this time around. 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:17.379 It occurs 21 times in the Bible. 21 times. That 00:16:17.379 --> 00:16:25.549 word particularly. It occurs 21 times. Now, Moses 00:16:25.549 --> 00:16:29.990 alone, Moses alone in his five books, that is 00:16:29.990 --> 00:16:32.409 Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, 00:16:32.549 --> 00:16:37.470 Moses alone uses six times. Use that same word 00:16:37.470 --> 00:16:42.509 six times. Then in the book of Psalms alone, 00:16:42.649 --> 00:16:47.669 it is used 11 times. In the book of Psalms, it's 00:16:47.669 --> 00:16:53.169 used 11 times. Then in Isaiah, it is used once. 00:16:54.309 --> 00:16:58.610 In Ezekiel, it is used once. In Daniel, it is 00:16:58.610 --> 00:17:03.929 used once. And then Hosea, it is used once. Let 00:17:03.929 --> 00:17:08.250 me come again. Moses alone used that. We said 00:17:08.250 --> 00:17:12.750 the whole that word Isaiah is used 21 times in 00:17:12.750 --> 00:17:17.430 the Bible. I'm using King James, so probably, 00:17:17.529 --> 00:17:20.829 let's say about 21, because I used the King James. 00:17:20.990 --> 00:17:22.910 So that means if you're using any other translation, 00:17:23.210 --> 00:17:26.490 maybe you can find a different number. However, 00:17:26.730 --> 00:17:31.509 it will be about that. So, as I said, Moses alone 00:17:31.509 --> 00:17:38.809 uses six times in his five books. In the book 00:17:38.809 --> 00:17:41.930 of Psalms, 11 times that word was used, Ezzah. 00:17:42.670 --> 00:17:47.039 In Isaiah, it was used one time. In Ezekiel, 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:53.579 one time or once. In Daniel, it was used once. 00:17:55.660 --> 00:18:01.779 And then Hosea also once. So quickly, let's already 00:18:01.779 --> 00:18:06.440 look at the first one in the book of Moses in 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:10.660 Genesis. If you look at Genesis 1 .18, can you 00:18:10.660 --> 00:18:16.440 see that Genesis 1 .18? Genesis 1 .18. Helper 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:20.339 is there. So that's one time. When you go to 00:18:20.339 --> 00:18:24.980 verse 20, that's the second one. Verse 20. So 00:18:24.980 --> 00:18:28.839 Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of 00:18:28.839 --> 00:18:33.660 the air, and to every beast of the field. But 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:38.740 for Adam, there was not found a helper comparable 00:18:38.740 --> 00:18:43.200 to him. There was not found a helper comparable 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:47.490 to him. So that word helper there is also Ezar. 00:18:47.549 --> 00:18:52.069 That's the second time Moses is using it. The 00:18:52.069 --> 00:18:57.089 third time Moses uses or used that word is in 00:18:57.089 --> 00:19:05.750 Exodus 18. Exodus 18 verse 4. Exodus 18 verse 00:19:05.750 --> 00:19:14.309 4. And the name of the order was Elijah. For 00:19:14.309 --> 00:19:18.609 he said, so note that word Elisa is from the 00:19:18.609 --> 00:19:23.809 word El and Ezar. You understand? El and Ezar. 00:19:24.130 --> 00:19:30.130 Remember the E -L, El refers to God. Ezar, we 00:19:30.130 --> 00:19:33.769 said, is the word helper. So Elisa means, that's 00:19:33.769 --> 00:19:36.990 why he explained what that means. He said, for 00:19:36.990 --> 00:19:43.680 he said, God, the God. Of my fathers was my what? 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:50.119 Was my help and delivered me from the sword of 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:53.240 Pharaoh. So, I want you to note the use of this 00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:59.859 one here. At least, let's put the ones in Genesis 00:19:59.859 --> 00:20:03.400 first. Let's move with these ones. Now, in this 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:08.839 place, Ezra means God. You understand? And God 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:13.640 as a deliverer. That's what is clear here. God 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:17.559 as a deliverer. Okay, Deuteronomy 33. That's 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:23.200 the fourth one. Deuteronomy 33, that Moses used 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:27.720 that word. Because Moses was the one who started 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:32.839 using this word. So we have to follow to see 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.259 how Moses used the same word in other places. 00:20:36.339 --> 00:20:38.960 Because that would give us an idea. Because he 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:43.259 was the one who used the word. So, if you look 00:20:43.259 --> 00:20:50.359 at Deuteronomy 33, verse 7. Deuteronomy 33, verse 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:56.960 7. And this he said of Judah. Hear the Lord, 00:20:57.099 --> 00:21:01.759 the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people. 00:21:01.819 --> 00:21:06.359 Let his hand be sufficient for him, and may you 00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:11.869 be a help against his enemy. Again, he's using 00:21:11.869 --> 00:21:16.029 this place as referring to God, a help against 00:21:16.029 --> 00:21:21.589 his enemy. Okay. We'll go to 26, Deuteronomy 00:21:21.589 --> 00:21:32.549 33, 26. There is no one like the God of Jehurum, 00:21:32.549 --> 00:21:38.900 or Jeshurum, rather, who rides the heaven. To 00:21:38.900 --> 00:21:42.680 help you. So it's referring still to God. To 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:47.559 help you. And in his excellencies. Of the cloud. 00:21:49.380 --> 00:21:53.380 Deuteronomy 33. 29. So move to 29. Verse 29. 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:59.480 That same chapter. So in Deuteronomy. Just 33. 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:06.579 He uses it three times. Verse 29. Happy are you. 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:10.720 O Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:14.759 the Lord, the shield of your help. So that means 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.079 it's still referring to God as a shield of his 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:20.759 help, that is of your help. And the sword of 00:22:20.759 --> 00:22:24.019 your majesty, your enemies shall submit to you 00:22:24.019 --> 00:22:29.539 and you shall tread down their high places. So 00:22:29.539 --> 00:22:32.700 we can see this is the, so we can see that from 00:22:32.700 --> 00:22:35.440 Exodus and the three verses in Deuteronomy 33. 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:40.400 All of them refers to God as Ezzah, you understand, 00:22:40.660 --> 00:22:45.559 who came to deliver. You can see that he's explaining 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:54.160 that word in the direction that God is the deliverer. 00:22:54.539 --> 00:23:00.420 God as a help means God as a deliverer or a savior 00:23:00.420 --> 00:23:09.369 or one who rescues. from enemies, from danger. 00:23:10.470 --> 00:23:15.650 Okay, let's go to Psalms 20. Let's look at the 00:23:15.650 --> 00:23:21.529 verses in the Psalms. Psalms. We said there are 00:23:21.529 --> 00:23:30.250 11 verses in Psalms that use the word helper 00:23:30.250 --> 00:23:37.029 or ezer or help. 20 verse 2. 20 verse 2, Psalms 00:23:37.029 --> 00:23:42.210 20 verse 2. May he send you help from the sanctuary 00:23:42.210 --> 00:23:46.269 and strengthen you out of Zion. Now, when you 00:23:46.269 --> 00:23:48.349 read verse 1, you will understand he's talking 00:23:48.349 --> 00:23:51.190 about the Lord. Verse 1 says, may the Lord answer 00:23:51.190 --> 00:23:54.970 you in the day of trouble. May the name of the 00:23:54.970 --> 00:23:59.890 God of Jacob defend you. May he send you. So 00:23:59.890 --> 00:24:03.170 he's still talking about God sending you help 00:24:03.170 --> 00:24:10.180 in times of trouble. Okay. Psalm 33, verse 20. 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:15.759 Psalm 33, verse 20. Our soul awaits for the Lord. 00:24:15.940 --> 00:24:21.859 He is our help and our shield. Again, referring 00:24:21.859 --> 00:24:32.700 to God. Psalm 70, verse 5. Psalm 70, verse 5. 00:24:33.579 --> 00:24:37.460 But I am poor and needy. Make haste to me, O 00:24:37.460 --> 00:24:43.180 God. You are my help and my deliverer. So God 00:24:43.180 --> 00:24:48.559 as a deliverer. God as a help, O Ezra. Psalms 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:56.000 89 verse 19. The next one is Psalms 89 verse 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:01.680 19. Then you spoke in a vision to your Holy One 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:06.910 and said, I have given help to one who is mighty. 00:25:08.210 --> 00:25:13.210 I have exalted one chosen from the people. Yes, 00:25:13.230 --> 00:25:16.950 talking about, because when you read, verse 18 00:25:16.950 --> 00:25:20.930 says, our shield belongs to the Lord and our 00:25:20.930 --> 00:25:24.589 king to the Holy One of Israel. Then verse 19 00:25:24.589 --> 00:25:28.569 says, then you spoke in a vision to your Holy 00:25:28.569 --> 00:25:32.089 One. So when you continue, you understand what 00:25:32.089 --> 00:25:38.009 that is talking about also. Okay. Psalms 115. 00:25:39.890 --> 00:25:49.930 That is 115 verse 9. Psalms 115 verse 9. O Israel, 00:25:50.049 --> 00:25:54.349 trust in the Lord. He is your help and your shield. 00:25:54.690 --> 00:25:59.490 He is your help and your shield. Then the next 00:25:59.490 --> 00:26:02.430 verse, that's verse 10. So add one, Psalms 115 00:26:02.430 --> 00:26:08.869 verse 10. O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord. 00:26:09.069 --> 00:26:14.569 He is your help and your shield. Then the next 00:26:14.569 --> 00:26:20.130 verse also, Psalms 115 verse 11. You who hear 00:26:20.130 --> 00:26:25.769 the Lord, trust in the Lord. He is their help 00:26:25.769 --> 00:26:28.900 and their shield. So you can see. Someone who 00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:33.079 shields you. Someone who rescues you. Someone 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:38.559 who delivers from trouble. That is Ezzah. That 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:43.960 is Ezzah. The popular one, Psalms 121. Next one. 00:26:44.299 --> 00:26:49.299 Psalms 121. This one is popular. I will lift 00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:55.460 up my eyes to the hills. From whence comes my 00:26:55.460 --> 00:27:00.970 help. Did you see that? Verse 1. That word help 00:27:00.970 --> 00:27:05.309 is exact. From whence comes my help? Then verse 00:27:05.309 --> 00:27:10.089 2. That's another one. So Psalms 121 verse 2. 00:27:10.230 --> 00:27:14.650 He said my help comes from the Lord. That word 00:27:14.650 --> 00:27:18.990 help is exact. Who made heavens and the earth? 00:27:19.170 --> 00:27:23.569 Who made the heavens and the earth? Who made 00:27:23.569 --> 00:27:29.490 the heavens and the earth? Psalms 124, look at 00:27:29.490 --> 00:27:37.529 124, verse 8. Our help is in the name of the 00:27:37.529 --> 00:27:43.710 Lord who made heaven and earth. There again, 00:27:43.930 --> 00:27:50.730 talking about God. Psalms 146, verse 5, the last 00:27:50.730 --> 00:27:57.410 one in the book of Psalms. Psalms 148. Sorry, 00:27:57.450 --> 00:28:04.930 46. Let's say 48. 46 verse 5. Happy is he who 00:28:04.930 --> 00:28:12.369 has God of Jacob for his help. Who has the God 00:28:12.369 --> 00:28:15.549 of Jacob for his help. Whose hope is in the Lord 00:28:15.549 --> 00:28:19.630 is God. So again, you can see throughout the 00:28:19.630 --> 00:28:24.069 book of Psalms the 11 times it presents that. 00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:30.740 Isaiah is God referring to God who saves, who 00:28:30.740 --> 00:28:38.000 shields, who delivers. Are we together? Who saves, 00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:44.319 who shields from trouble, who helps from trouble, 00:28:44.460 --> 00:28:52.019 who delivers from trouble. Okay. Then we said 00:28:52.019 --> 00:28:57.049 there is one verse in Isaiah. Isaiah 30 verse 00:28:57.049 --> 00:29:03.809 5. Isaiah 30 verse 5. Opening plenty scripture 00:29:03.809 --> 00:29:10.369 is good for our health. Glory to Jesus. Are you 00:29:10.369 --> 00:29:16.609 in verse 30? I'm sorry, chapter 30 verse 5. He 00:29:16.609 --> 00:29:20.009 said, they were all ashamed of a people who could 00:29:20.009 --> 00:29:28.319 not benefit them or be helped. Or benefits. But 00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:34.599 a shame. And also a reproach. Now I want you 00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:37.720 to see something here. Very dramatically. He 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:43.680 said a people. Who could not. Benefit them. Or 00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:48.980 be a help. That is. They could not be a czar. 00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:57.019 A people. That could not be a czar. I want you 00:29:57.019 --> 00:30:00.160 to be very instructive. So it appears to look 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:04.619 as if it's only God that can be Ezzah. Because 00:30:04.619 --> 00:30:08.759 we have a people who cannot give benefit them 00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:13.799 or be Ezzah. You understand? So I want you to 00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:18.980 see this very clearly. Now when you read here 00:30:18.980 --> 00:30:22.599 in the text, you will see it talks about how 00:30:23.210 --> 00:30:27.950 uh the egyptians couldn't help uh actually um 00:30:27.950 --> 00:30:35.069 if you go back by the time you read from uh verse 00:30:35.069 --> 00:30:37.910 even from verse three he said therefore the strength 00:30:37.910 --> 00:30:40.410 of pharaoh shall not shall not be your shame 00:30:40.410 --> 00:30:44.069 and that and trust in the shadow of egypt shall 00:30:44.069 --> 00:30:48.250 be your humiliation for his princess were as 00:30:48.250 --> 00:30:52.289 soon and his ambassadors came to harness They 00:30:52.289 --> 00:30:57.150 were all ashamed of a people who could not benefit 00:30:57.150 --> 00:31:00.130 them or be a help. So it's talking about Egypt, 00:31:00.230 --> 00:31:05.250 the Egyptian who could not be a czar to Israel. 00:31:05.410 --> 00:31:09.809 You understand? It was like a futility to depend 00:31:09.809 --> 00:31:14.930 on them to give you help. Okay. Then Ezekiel 00:31:14.930 --> 00:31:26.769 12 verse 14. Ezekiel 12 verse 14 he said I will 00:31:26.769 --> 00:31:32.470 scatter to every wind all who are around him 00:31:32.470 --> 00:31:38.089 to help him and all his troops and I will draw 00:31:38.089 --> 00:31:44.109 out the sword after them if you read also contextually 00:31:44.109 --> 00:31:49.309 you will see that this text is showing the captivity 00:31:49.309 --> 00:31:52.430 of Judah, how God will scatter their helper. 00:31:52.670 --> 00:31:54.849 You can see that he said, I will scatter. When 00:31:54.849 --> 00:31:58.109 you read this one, I don't want us to read one 00:31:58.109 --> 00:31:59.769 because that's not the direction we are going. 00:31:59.910 --> 00:32:02.230 But if you read in the context, you will see 00:32:02.230 --> 00:32:04.869 that he's talking about Judah, you understand, 00:32:05.069 --> 00:32:08.329 the captivity of Judah and how God will scatter 00:32:08.329 --> 00:32:14.769 those who provide help, you understand, any person, 00:32:14.849 --> 00:32:18.220 you understand, their helper. God will scatter 00:32:18.220 --> 00:32:22.779 them. And then look at Daniel chapter 11. I know 00:32:22.779 --> 00:32:25.480 we like that verse closely. You understand? That 00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:31.500 other verse. 1130. Daniel 1130. We like that 00:32:31.500 --> 00:32:37.140 verse, right? Amen. Now look at, I'm not reading 00:32:37.140 --> 00:32:39.720 32. That's the one most people normally quote. 00:32:40.460 --> 00:32:43.859 But if you read also in the context, you understand 00:32:43.859 --> 00:32:45.920 what that means. You understand? But I will read. 00:32:46.990 --> 00:32:52.569 34. Now when they fall, they shall be aided with 00:32:52.569 --> 00:32:57.190 a little help, but many shall join with them 00:32:57.190 --> 00:33:02.910 by entry. So if you read behind, I mean, if you 00:33:02.910 --> 00:33:06.329 read in the context, I mean, those post -texts, 00:33:06.329 --> 00:33:09.009 you will see that this scripture is talking about 00:33:09.009 --> 00:33:12.990 the king of the north that set himself against 00:33:12.990 --> 00:33:16.730 the people of the covenant. you understand he 00:33:16.730 --> 00:33:18.569 set himself against the people of the covenant 00:33:18.569 --> 00:33:21.450 and then the people of the covenant could not 00:33:21.450 --> 00:33:25.150 get much help you could only get little help 00:33:25.150 --> 00:33:28.910 in that time of persecution you understand you 00:33:28.910 --> 00:33:32.750 could only get little help in that time of persecution 00:33:32.750 --> 00:33:36.369 you understand of course the scripture we normally 00:33:36.369 --> 00:33:40.549 read is those who do wickedly against the covenant 00:33:40.549 --> 00:33:44.470 shall be corrupt with flattery that means Because 00:33:44.470 --> 00:33:47.490 it was a time of trouble. There are those people 00:33:47.490 --> 00:33:50.170 who will be corrupted. But then the Bible says 00:33:50.170 --> 00:33:54.069 that, but the people who know their God shall 00:33:54.069 --> 00:33:58.529 be strong and carry out great exploits. Meaning 00:33:58.529 --> 00:34:02.750 that they shall stand their ground. Because the 00:34:02.750 --> 00:34:07.670 king of the north was coming against the people 00:34:07.670 --> 00:34:11.000 of the covenant. So some will be corrupted. those 00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:13.360 people who know their god they shall withstand 00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:16.960 they shall stand strong are we together and so 00:34:16.960 --> 00:34:20.219 when you go down he talks about also that these 00:34:20.219 --> 00:34:22.900 people of the covenant in that time of difficulty 00:34:22.900 --> 00:34:26.460 they could not receive much or they received 00:34:26.460 --> 00:34:30.500 little help in the sun are we together amen then 00:34:30.500 --> 00:34:39.639 lastly hosiah hosiah hosiah 13 verse 9 oh israel 00:34:40.030 --> 00:34:45.130 you are destroyed but your help is from me i 00:34:45.130 --> 00:34:53.590 will be your king where is any other that he 00:34:53.590 --> 00:34:59.670 may save you in all your cities and your judges 00:34:59.670 --> 00:35:02.969 to whom you said give me a king and princess 00:35:02.969 --> 00:35:08.550 so here again is pointing god as a zap Now, in 00:35:08.550 --> 00:35:13.610 all these places where it appears, now, you know, 00:35:13.690 --> 00:35:18.250 as we thought, each time you read context, you 00:35:18.250 --> 00:35:22.110 try to find the original meaning of the word 00:35:22.110 --> 00:35:24.389 and where it appears and in different contexts. 00:35:25.550 --> 00:35:29.949 We try to look at, even though, yes, the root 00:35:29.949 --> 00:35:35.150 word does not tell us what the meaning of that 00:35:35.150 --> 00:35:37.909 word contextually. But they help us to give us 00:35:37.909 --> 00:35:41.070 an idea of actually how we can relate to what 00:35:41.070 --> 00:35:45.690 the world is talking about. So, sometimes when 00:35:45.690 --> 00:35:48.110 we look at the world, it appears in different 00:35:48.110 --> 00:35:50.710 contexts differently. You understand? Just like 00:35:50.710 --> 00:35:53.530 even here that we saw. You understand? But you 00:35:53.530 --> 00:35:55.989 see, if you look at how it appears, it appears 00:35:55.989 --> 00:36:00.409 majority showing God as Ezra. Are we together? 00:36:00.949 --> 00:36:04.849 But in no place did it appear as showing that. 00:36:05.389 --> 00:36:11.449 Ezra means a woman. So that is instructive for 00:36:11.449 --> 00:36:15.510 us to pay attention. So in all the 21 places 00:36:15.510 --> 00:36:19.730 where it appears in the sun, all of them in the 00:36:19.730 --> 00:36:24.349 sun, the word helper does not refer to a woman 00:36:24.349 --> 00:36:30.289 in no any place, no any place. But we could see 00:36:30.289 --> 00:36:37.539 that Ezra refers to a savior. A rescuer. One 00:36:37.539 --> 00:36:43.679 who is powerful. And superior. In strength. And 00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:47.440 coming in times of trouble. To rescue. Or to 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:50.780 deliver. So we can see that. That one we can 00:36:50.780 --> 00:36:55.480 be able to. Generally look at those. To conclude. 00:36:55.860 --> 00:37:00.099 It mostly appeared as. That Ezar must be one. 00:37:00.179 --> 00:37:04.329 Who is superior in strength. Who. comes to rescue 00:37:04.329 --> 00:37:10.130 you who is powerful you understand and it comes 00:37:10.130 --> 00:37:15.329 to help you in terms of trouble in times of trouble 00:37:15.329 --> 00:37:20.369 this is not a description of a woman you understand 00:37:20.369 --> 00:37:23.389 this certainly is not a description of a woman 00:37:23.389 --> 00:37:27.070 no a woman is not described as a savior of a 00:37:27.070 --> 00:37:31.949 man or neither as a rescuer of a man that's not 00:37:31.949 --> 00:37:37.070 how She's not superior to a man. Remember, we 00:37:37.070 --> 00:37:39.650 have already noted. Neither is a man superior 00:37:39.650 --> 00:37:42.250 to her. Because we are coming back to that scripture. 00:37:42.329 --> 00:37:45.250 Remember? I need to be reminding you. We are 00:37:45.250 --> 00:37:46.650 coming back to that scripture. They are made 00:37:46.650 --> 00:37:50.110 male and female in the image of God. That means 00:37:50.110 --> 00:37:56.750 none is superior. Glory to God. Okay. So, this 00:37:56.750 --> 00:38:04.579 helper is not the description of a woman. Okay. 00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:09.119 So, what we can see here is that in all those 00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:11.739 places, particularly, we'll pay attention to 00:38:11.739 --> 00:38:16.099 because, let me tell you one thing. Everybody 00:38:16.099 --> 00:38:21.860 in scripture gets his message from Moses. You 00:38:21.860 --> 00:38:24.400 know what I'm saying? Everybody gets his message 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:29.340 from Moses. A subsequent prophet is from Moses. 00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:36.010 You understand? So, You see, first let's focus 00:38:36.010 --> 00:38:40.210 in how Moses used the word. In the place we saw 00:38:40.210 --> 00:38:46.349 Moses use the word, both in Exodus and in Deuteronomy, 00:38:46.489 --> 00:38:51.590 he was teaching, please note that, he was teaching 00:38:51.590 --> 00:39:02.130 the Israelites that God is their deliverer. God 00:39:02.130 --> 00:39:06.750 is their deliverer. God is their rescuer from 00:39:06.750 --> 00:39:10.369 trouble. And God is their savior. That was what 00:39:10.369 --> 00:39:17.849 Moses was teaching. So, could that his teaching 00:39:17.849 --> 00:39:22.989 from Exodus and Deuteronomy be different from 00:39:22.989 --> 00:39:28.380 what he is teaching from Genesis? Remember, You 00:39:28.380 --> 00:39:31.219 cannot understand fully Genesis without understanding 00:39:31.219 --> 00:39:35.920 Exodus. Because the message of Genesis is revealed 00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:42.199 to the Exodus. So we understand Exodus. And then, 00:39:42.260 --> 00:39:46.920 because that's where the background is. Are we 00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:55.780 together? So, let's go back to our 18th. That 00:39:55.780 --> 00:40:05.619 is Genesis 2. Genesis 2 .18. Genesis 2 .18. So 00:40:05.619 --> 00:40:09.300 now, let me just start to address something here, 00:40:09.420 --> 00:40:14.559 even though I can't finish that. So, what we 00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:18.960 see now here is that Moses was teaching and referring 00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:26.360 to God as Ezra. So, bear in mind now. Now, let's 00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:30.079 put God as the helper there. You understand? 00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:34.599 So that means that a helper, you understand, 00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:40.320 is God saying, I will be the helper of man. You 00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:43.340 understand? Because it is not good that man be 00:40:43.340 --> 00:40:47.360 alone, so I will be a helper to him. You understand? 00:40:48.019 --> 00:40:52.239 I'll be a helper to him. So the question now 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:58.929 is, If God is to be a helper to man, and we saw 00:40:58.929 --> 00:41:04.090 that the helper is rescuing from trouble, in 00:41:04.090 --> 00:41:07.409 all that it appears, when we see God as Ezra, 00:41:07.550 --> 00:41:12.929 is that he rescues from trouble. He delivers 00:41:12.929 --> 00:41:15.949 from trouble. Are we together? Are we together? 00:41:16.190 --> 00:41:19.070 Yes, that's very important. Now, the question 00:41:19.070 --> 00:41:23.449 now is that, we should ask here is that, What 00:41:23.449 --> 00:41:26.949 is God rescuing man from? Because that's the 00:41:26.949 --> 00:41:31.010 question. Since God is a helper, dear, what is 00:41:31.010 --> 00:41:35.329 he rescuing man from? Because we have to answer 00:41:35.329 --> 00:41:40.730 that one to be able to be sure or to fully explain 00:41:40.730 --> 00:41:45.329 that really that Ezzat there is God. What is 00:41:45.329 --> 00:41:49.050 God rescuing man from? Now, I want us to move 00:41:49.050 --> 00:41:52.500 back a little bit. You understand? Move back 00:41:52.500 --> 00:41:59.159 a little bit. To. Verse 16. Because that verse 00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:05.980 18. Could not have just moved like that. Because 00:42:05.980 --> 00:42:08.840 there is some verses behind. So let's read behind. 00:42:09.579 --> 00:42:13.320 Some verses in the first text. Now verse 16. 00:42:13.460 --> 00:42:19.300 And the Lord God commanded man. Saying. Of every 00:42:19.300 --> 00:42:25.369 tree. of the garden you may freely eat you may 00:42:25.369 --> 00:42:30.110 freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of 00:42:30.110 --> 00:42:35.889 good and evil you shall not eat for in the day 00:42:35.889 --> 00:42:46.570 you eat of it you shall surely die then Verse 00:42:46.570 --> 00:42:50.550 18 says now, and the Lord God said, it is not 00:42:50.550 --> 00:42:54.630 good for a man to be alone. It appears that God 00:42:54.630 --> 00:42:59.230 has already is making plan for man because there 00:42:59.230 --> 00:43:04.269 is imminent danger of what man will do. But let's 00:43:04.269 --> 00:43:09.510 move so that we will not just answer it just 00:43:09.510 --> 00:43:13.599 like that. We want to see it. From scriptures. 00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:16.159 To explain it from scriptures. Because in the 00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:19.440 day you eat. You shall surely die. Would it be 00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:22.500 that God is becoming a help. For man to rescue 00:43:22.500 --> 00:43:25.960 him from death. From. Did you get what I'm trying 00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:31.760 to say? To rescue man from death. To rescue man 00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:38.820 from death. Are we together? Okay. So. I want 00:43:38.820 --> 00:43:40.480 you. But before that. I want you to know the 00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:44.539 word every day. verse 16 every three you know 00:43:44.539 --> 00:43:46.659 most times when we read this we normally use 00:43:46.659 --> 00:43:49.940 we normally assume once we say every three we're 00:43:49.940 --> 00:43:51.920 thinking there are plenty trees you understand 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:56.619 plenty trees around there understand that what 00:43:56.619 --> 00:44:05.099 every is cold cold p sorry the icc k o l k o 00:44:05.099 --> 00:44:11.789 l that word every in verse 16 of every in the 00:44:11.789 --> 00:44:21.849 sun cold in hebrew k -o -l is a noun and it means 00:44:21.849 --> 00:44:30.590 it could mean each it could also mean any it 00:44:30.590 --> 00:44:35.329 could also mean all it could also mean whole 00:44:35.329 --> 00:44:44.039 w h o l e It also means totality or everything. 00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:50.219 So that word kol will mean any of this. Now, 00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:52.079 it might interest you to know that that word 00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:58.199 kol is from the root word kalal. That is K -L 00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:06.440 -A -L. K -A -L, sorry, K -A -L -A -L. That is 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:13.400 kalal. And that word kalal means perfect or complete. 00:45:13.780 --> 00:45:18.440 That's a verb. So a verb means complete or perfect. 00:45:18.920 --> 00:45:25.659 So that means whole means whole, complete. I 00:45:25.659 --> 00:45:29.960 mean, I want to point you to something. Generally, 00:45:29.980 --> 00:45:34.059 when you use the word every, it is used before 00:45:34.059 --> 00:45:37.530 what we call a singular noun. You know what I'm 00:45:37.530 --> 00:45:42.809 saying? To refer to individual members of a set. 00:45:43.030 --> 00:45:44.690 Like, for example, just, you know, individual 00:45:44.690 --> 00:45:54.469 now. To refer to, like, all the individual members 00:45:54.469 --> 00:45:59.070 of a set without exception. You understand? Of 00:45:59.070 --> 00:46:03.550 a set of 18 without exception. And know that 00:46:03.550 --> 00:46:08.380 that word every is not actually... uh a determinant 00:46:08.380 --> 00:46:13.500 of the number in the set it's not he's not talking 00:46:13.500 --> 00:46:17.019 about the number in the set or he's talking about 00:46:17.019 --> 00:46:20.179 the kinds in the sets let's for example you have 00:46:20.179 --> 00:46:24.900 a box the box has let's say 20 balls you understand 00:46:24.900 --> 00:46:29.860 when you say every ball you are not referring 00:46:29.860 --> 00:46:35.000 to the number of the box one you are also not 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:38.400 referring to the kinds of the balls let's say 00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:40.800 blue green whatever no that's not your focus 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:45.039 your focus is actually saying all the balls that 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:49.119 is all the individual in the set without exception 00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:54.639 are we together so that's the the the the focus 00:46:54.639 --> 00:46:57.940 so it cannot tell you whether there are there 00:46:57.940 --> 00:47:00.139 are two threes four threes five threes seven 00:47:00.139 --> 00:47:02.679 threes so when you say every three it just talks 00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:05.539 about all the trees But it's not referring to 00:47:05.539 --> 00:47:07.440 there are plenty trees there. That's not what 00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:12.719 he's saying. So it is reading in the context 00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:16.059 that will tell us the trees there. You understand? 00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:20.699 So every tree does not mean many trees. That's 00:47:20.699 --> 00:47:24.119 not what it means. Look at verse 9. Because it 00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:27.519 mentioned that also there. Also let me read verse 00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:30.639 19 first. 19 also tells us about that every. 00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:33.800 Out of the ground, the Lord God formed every 00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:37.980 beast of the field, every breath of the air. 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:41.340 So you see, he's not trying to tell us the number. 00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.400 He's not trying to tell us all the kinds. He's 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:48.940 just trying to tell us all the individuals in 00:47:48.940 --> 00:47:54.780 the set. So look at verse 9. He said, out of 00:47:54.780 --> 00:48:01.570 the ground, the Lord God made every tree. Grow. 00:48:02.309 --> 00:48:05.730 That is pleasing to the sight. And good for food. 00:48:06.349 --> 00:48:14.050 Then. The next line says. The tree of life. Was 00:48:14.050 --> 00:48:18.909 also in the middle. Of the garden. And the tree 00:48:18.909 --> 00:48:24.369 of the knowledge. Of good and evil. So I want 00:48:24.369 --> 00:48:26.590 us to pay attention here. Because there is an 00:48:26.590 --> 00:48:29.190 additional information. That verse 9 gives to 00:48:29.190 --> 00:48:36.380 us. That verse. 16 did not. And 17. Because it 00:48:36.380 --> 00:48:38.880 just tells us. Every tree of the garden. You 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:42.099 may freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge 00:48:42.099 --> 00:48:44.539 of good and evil. You shall not eat. For in the 00:48:44.539 --> 00:48:48.900 day that you eat. Of it you shall surely die. 00:48:49.099 --> 00:48:51.679 So that means it's focusing. If you look at verse 00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:54.940 17. It's focusing on the tree of the knowledge 00:48:54.940 --> 00:48:58.659 of good and evil. So it didn't give us any other 00:48:58.659 --> 00:49:02.429 identity of the tree. But again, in verse 9 helps 00:49:02.429 --> 00:49:08.750 us more further. It says the tree of life is 00:49:08.750 --> 00:49:11.710 introduced another tree, which is a tree of life. 00:49:12.110 --> 00:49:14.150 And then you also acknowledge the tree of the 00:49:14.150 --> 00:49:18.670 knowledge of good and evil. So if you look at 00:49:18.670 --> 00:49:20.610 the A part, and again, this is another thing 00:49:20.610 --> 00:49:22.230 that if you are reading Genesis, you have to 00:49:22.230 --> 00:49:24.730 be very careful because it's a slippery place. 00:49:26.050 --> 00:49:28.849 In the sense that there are all kinds of mixture 00:49:28.849 --> 00:49:33.130 between literal and figurative expression. Are 00:49:33.130 --> 00:49:38.269 we together? Are we together? Yes. So that's 00:49:38.269 --> 00:49:42.590 why you have to also pay attention. So if you 00:49:42.590 --> 00:49:45.710 look at that verse, there is something here in 00:49:45.710 --> 00:49:48.750 my Bible here, when he says the tree of life 00:49:48.750 --> 00:49:51.789 was also in the middle of the garden. Actually, 00:49:51.889 --> 00:49:55.030 translators added some of these words and make 00:49:55.030 --> 00:49:58.800 it a little bit more confusing also. which I 00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:02.739 want to clarify. For example, that word was is 00:50:02.739 --> 00:50:06.300 not there because it is in italics. So it means 00:50:06.300 --> 00:50:10.820 it was inserted by the translators. So there 00:50:10.820 --> 00:50:15.659 is no word was there. So it was inserted. And 00:50:15.659 --> 00:50:20.639 then if you look at also, that word also is one 00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:25.179 word together. There is no also. You understand 00:50:25.179 --> 00:50:28.289 what I'm trying to say? So it means just... the 00:50:28.289 --> 00:50:32.429 tree of life because the tree of life also is 00:50:32.429 --> 00:50:38.389 one word in the sense so that um also so if you 00:50:38.389 --> 00:50:41.949 remove walls and also it becomes just the tree 00:50:41.949 --> 00:50:47.710 of life are we together the tree of life in the 00:50:47.710 --> 00:50:50.409 midst of the garden and the three of the knowledge 00:50:50.409 --> 00:50:54.889 of good and evil so we can clearly see that that 00:50:54.889 --> 00:50:58.059 the focus of this place and genesis is on two 00:50:58.059 --> 00:51:02.559 trees you know sir on two trees which is the 00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:07.119 the tree of life and the three of the knowledge 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:13.980 of good and evil and clearly when verse 16 says 00:51:13.980 --> 00:51:18.519 and the lord commanded the man and saying of 00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:24.820 every tree of the garden you may freely eat are 00:51:24.820 --> 00:51:30.289 we together But he said, no, do not eat the tree 00:51:30.289 --> 00:51:32.489 of the knowledge of good and evil. Because if 00:51:32.489 --> 00:51:36.389 you do, you will die. Which means that the man 00:51:36.389 --> 00:51:40.130 can partake from the tree of life which gives 00:51:40.130 --> 00:51:46.150 life. But he is not to partake from the tree 00:51:46.150 --> 00:51:52.369 of the knowledge of good and evil. Because when 00:51:52.369 --> 00:51:59.679 he does that, The consequences is death. The 00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:06.860 consequences is death. Now, I will refer us to 00:52:06.860 --> 00:52:12.159 what Pastor Imad did with us again in a few weeks 00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:16.179 message when he used that word command. You understand? 00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:19.599 If you look at how Moses used the word command, 00:52:20.059 --> 00:52:23.099 Pastor Imad taught us. Now, that word when you 00:52:23.099 --> 00:52:28.199 hear commanded, it is not talking about something 00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:32.019 you should do. You understand? It's talking about 00:52:32.019 --> 00:52:36.480 something you should believe. And he took us 00:52:36.480 --> 00:52:38.679 through a lot of scriptures, through Genesis. 00:52:38.980 --> 00:52:41.960 In fact, he took us to what we call the Ten Commandments. 00:52:41.980 --> 00:52:44.300 You understand? He took us to other scriptures 00:52:44.300 --> 00:52:47.400 and shows to us that when the Bible says, and 00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:51.760 God commanded or Moses commanded Israel. What 00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:56.119 he is saying is that it means a call to obedience 00:52:56.119 --> 00:53:00.900 or a call to believe the word of the Lord. And 00:53:00.900 --> 00:53:05.039 the word of the Lord is the gospel. The word 00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:09.579 of the Lord is the gospel. The word of the Lord 00:53:09.579 --> 00:53:13.280 is the gospel. And again, which I will refer 00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:17.179 to because we did that teaching also both in... 00:53:18.619 --> 00:53:21.219 That, although when I come next, I will start 00:53:21.219 --> 00:53:23.940 from there. But we did that teaching equally, 00:53:24.179 --> 00:53:27.420 both in the cell meeting as well also in the 00:53:27.420 --> 00:53:33.099 church. And we saw that because there is no fruit 00:53:33.099 --> 00:53:37.579 on earth that when you eat, you will die. Do 00:53:37.579 --> 00:53:42.480 you understand? There's no fruit like that on 00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:45.960 earth. So God is speaking figuratively. Again, 00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:49.260 from what Kaseyma taught us. Command talks about 00:53:49.260 --> 00:53:55.119 obedience or believing. A call to faith. A call 00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:58.059 to believing the word of the Lord. And what is 00:53:58.059 --> 00:54:00.699 the word of the Lord? The word of the Lord is 00:54:00.699 --> 00:54:06.000 the gospel. So when Moses gave them the Ten Commandments, 00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:10.619 he was not expecting them to practice, so to 00:54:10.619 --> 00:54:15.360 say. Because Jesus summarized the entire law 00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:18.199 and the prophet. And said is love the Lord your 00:54:18.199 --> 00:54:21.199 God. And love your neighbor as yourself. And 00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:24.420 he said even the second is as the first. And 00:54:24.420 --> 00:54:28.119 loving the Lord. Means believing in him. That's 00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:32.139 what it means. So if you sing and say. I love 00:54:32.139 --> 00:54:36.139 you Lord. I love you. Don't be thinking of works. 00:54:36.420 --> 00:54:40.440 Be thinking that. I believe in you. Do you understand 00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:41.940 what I'm trying to say. That's actually what 00:54:41.940 --> 00:54:47.530 should be in your head. So. That is what that 00:54:47.530 --> 00:54:53.710 means. So that's one clue to give us what God 00:54:53.710 --> 00:54:57.630 was saying when he said, and the Lord God commanded 00:54:57.630 --> 00:55:01.889 the man. In other way, God is demanding faith 00:55:01.889 --> 00:55:06.289 from the man. In other words, God was preaching 00:55:06.289 --> 00:55:10.110 the gospel to man. That's what he was doing. 00:55:10.949 --> 00:55:14.650 And again, we note it because it helps us to 00:55:14.650 --> 00:55:18.519 know that What goes into the man of God does 00:55:18.519 --> 00:55:23.460 not defile him. So there is no how God will be 00:55:23.460 --> 00:55:27.300 referring of the literal fruit. You understand? 00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:32.440 That when man eats, he will die. No. No. We did 00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:36.440 that teaching. And Jesus helped us to know that 00:55:36.440 --> 00:55:39.119 not everything that goes into a man, you understand, 00:55:39.400 --> 00:55:41.639 defiles him, but that which comes from his heart. 00:55:43.719 --> 00:55:46.380 And we saw also he taught in John chapter 6. 00:55:48.239 --> 00:55:53.480 You understand? And in John chapter 6, he shows 00:55:53.480 --> 00:55:58.300 to them what eating is. So eating talks about 00:55:58.300 --> 00:56:03.039 faith. When he said, eat my flesh. If you do 00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:05.519 not eat my flesh, you understand? He said, what 00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:07.199 you have on your mind is this one. How can you 00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:10.519 say we should eat your flesh? Is this one okay? 00:56:11.789 --> 00:56:14.690 But you see, they are carnal men. They do not 00:56:14.690 --> 00:56:19.610 understand. But as you read down, even though 00:56:19.610 --> 00:56:21.289 I know it's not just only that, we have many 00:56:21.289 --> 00:56:23.269 of our brothers and sisters who think that that 00:56:23.269 --> 00:56:26.190 one is the Holy Communion. Once you take the 00:56:26.190 --> 00:56:29.289 communion, it literally changes the body of Jesus. 00:56:29.750 --> 00:56:35.030 I mean, how can you not read the context and 00:56:35.030 --> 00:56:37.289 see what Jesus is talking about now? That means 00:56:37.289 --> 00:56:39.090 you are like the Pharisees who do not even understand. 00:56:39.389 --> 00:56:41.849 Because in that very scripture, I mean, that 00:56:41.849 --> 00:56:44.250 very, this is the Jew. We are arguing, how can 00:56:44.250 --> 00:56:46.090 we eat? In fact, that's the reason why many of 00:56:46.090 --> 00:56:50.090 them left him. They left him. All of them left 00:56:50.090 --> 00:56:52.989 him. And including, so I said, Kai, this teaching 00:56:52.989 --> 00:56:55.789 is hard. And then he turned to his disciples 00:56:55.789 --> 00:57:01.230 and said, are you also going? They said, to who 00:57:01.230 --> 00:57:05.909 shall we go? You have the word of life. So, When 00:57:05.909 --> 00:57:08.889 you read John 6, from the beginning to the end, 00:57:09.010 --> 00:57:11.929 there is no how you can ever miss that Jesus 00:57:11.929 --> 00:57:14.230 is talking about you should eat his flesh. But 00:57:14.230 --> 00:57:18.849 now, you have gone to school. Don't look as if 00:57:18.849 --> 00:57:21.429 the suffering, your parents have been paying 00:57:21.429 --> 00:57:24.989 money and then you are not doing anything. So, 00:57:24.989 --> 00:57:29.510 what we are trying to say is that Jesus defines 00:57:29.510 --> 00:57:32.889 that eating talks about believing. So, when God 00:57:32.889 --> 00:57:38.679 is talking about here, That in the day you eat, 00:57:38.820 --> 00:57:42.840 you shall die. He was talking about believing, 00:57:43.079 --> 00:57:48.539 not actually literal eating. That's figurative 00:57:48.539 --> 00:57:54.519 expression. So when we come, we will see. But 00:57:54.519 --> 00:57:57.360 what I'm trying to say here is that, is to understand 00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:06.380 that what God spoke to man, concerning the trees 00:58:06.380 --> 00:58:10.260 was the gospel. And he was commanding man, meaning 00:58:10.260 --> 00:58:13.639 he was calling on man to believe that he should 00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:17.840 eat from the tree of life, but not to eat from 00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:22.739 the tree. You understand? The other tree, which 00:58:22.739 --> 00:58:25.059 is a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:28.159 Because he said, in the day you did it, you would 00:58:28.159 --> 00:58:34.150 die. And immediately, verse 17 ends. He now says, 00:58:34.230 --> 00:58:40.250 and the Lord God said, it is not good. Oh, that 00:58:40.250 --> 00:58:43.230 is, I do not want man to be separate from me. 00:58:43.909 --> 00:58:46.630 That's what he said. I will rescue him from the 00:58:46.630 --> 00:58:50.809 dead. Because there was already death, verse 00:58:50.809 --> 00:58:55.090 17. That's why he said, and God said that it 00:58:55.090 --> 00:58:58.150 was not good that man should be alone. I will 00:58:58.150 --> 00:59:02.719 be his help. I will be his exile. Meaning I will 00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:06.019 be his savior. I will be his rescuer. Who will 00:59:06.019 --> 00:59:09.940 rescue him from death? That is the message of 00:59:09.940 --> 00:59:14.380 the gospel. Are we together? That's the message 00:59:14.380 --> 00:59:17.380 of the gospel. And that's the same message that 00:59:17.380 --> 00:59:19.360 was also preached. We will see the message even 00:59:19.360 --> 00:59:24.579 from Genesis 1. So, when you understand it this 00:59:24.579 --> 00:59:26.940 way, then you will know that this place is not 00:59:26.940 --> 00:59:30.389 talking about women. He's talking about the salvation 00:59:30.389 --> 00:59:34.389 plan of God. He's talking about the gospel. In 00:59:34.389 --> 00:59:38.989 the sand. Are we together? So when we come. We 00:59:38.989 --> 00:59:43.110 will continue. To study. And come to a place. 00:59:43.409 --> 00:59:47.349 To that place. Verse 24. Where he said therefore. 00:59:48.409 --> 00:59:52.489 Now if you understand this very well. When we 00:59:52.489 --> 00:59:57.809 come. To the verse. Therefore. You will see. 00:59:58.539 --> 01:00:01.539 That there is no different from this Genesis 01:00:01.539 --> 01:00:05.199 and the scripture that I read to you last time 01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:09.300 in 2 Corinthians. You see that there is no different. 01:00:10.900 --> 01:00:13.380 That scripture I read to you. You understand? 01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:20.679 Because the ministry work is for both men and 01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:25.880 women. You understand? Not for some certain people. 01:00:27.920 --> 01:00:33.360 And understanding that, that the same value a 01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:37.139 man has, that's the same value a woman has before 01:00:37.139 --> 01:00:43.739 God. Both are of the same value. Both have the 01:00:43.739 --> 01:00:48.539 spirit of God. Both are sons. Both, you understand, 01:00:48.940 --> 01:00:53.539 they are the image of God. Then you will treat 01:00:53.539 --> 01:00:59.000 the woman with respect. with honor she will not 01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:03.119 become like a commodity that she's only good 01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:08.940 you understand for children she's only good for 01:01:08.940 --> 01:01:14.760 for for sex you understand she's only good because 01:01:14.760 --> 01:01:17.659 that means her value is always attached either 01:01:17.659 --> 01:01:21.000 to marriage either to children i mean that's 01:01:21.000 --> 01:01:23.960 a confusion You understand? It's a big confusion. 01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:25.920 That's the reason why we are suffering what we 01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:29.079 are suffering. You understand? Because so many, 01:01:29.099 --> 01:01:31.480 many of the breakup we have in marriage in homes, 01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:35.199 if the woman, you understand, in those days, 01:01:35.619 --> 01:01:38.420 that's the reason even why our great -great -father 01:01:38.420 --> 01:01:40.480 married many women because they want more children. 01:01:40.980 --> 01:01:43.840 You understand? And we have some men whose village 01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:46.659 they are still following them. If it is not a 01:01:46.659 --> 01:01:49.760 male child, you understand, that means something 01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:54.170 is wrong fundamentally with you. Because you 01:01:54.170 --> 01:01:58.150 think that you are here to build a name. He said, 01:01:58.170 --> 01:02:00.730 who will carry the name of my family? I mean, 01:02:00.750 --> 01:02:05.690 what sort of smelling information is that? Who 01:02:05.690 --> 01:02:07.869 will carry the name? Did you think that you were 01:02:07.869 --> 01:02:11.110 here to do with the name of your family? Did 01:02:11.110 --> 01:02:13.670 you remember? Did you know the name of your great 01:02:13.670 --> 01:02:16.969 -great -great -great -grandfather? How many people 01:02:16.969 --> 01:02:18.969 do you remember their name? Are those people 01:02:18.969 --> 01:02:22.010 who do something in life, something that is... 01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:25.940 What nothing. There are people that are remembered, 01:02:26.099 --> 01:02:30.099 not people who give back to male children. Glory 01:02:30.099 --> 01:02:35.360 to Jesus. We appreciate you being here today. 01:02:35.679 --> 01:02:38.139 We hope you carry this word with you throughout 01:02:38.139 --> 01:02:41.039 your week. Don't forget to check the show notes 01:02:41.039 --> 01:02:43.780 for additional insights. Stay connected with 01:02:43.780 --> 01:02:46.480 us through our website or follow us on social 01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:50.159 media. 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