WEBVTT 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:06.639 Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.660 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:13.939 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:13.939 --> 00:00:17.879 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:24.160 right in. Look at verse 21. Genesis chapter 2 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:27.679 verse 21. The Lord God caused a deep sleep to 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:32.210 fall on Adam. And he slept. He took one of his 00:00:32.210 --> 00:00:36.270 ribs, closed up the flesh in its place. Then 00:00:36.270 --> 00:00:39.729 the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, 00:00:39.810 --> 00:00:43.549 he made into a woman, brought her to the man. 00:00:43.689 --> 00:00:50.469 Excuse me. So we think now this is starting, 00:00:50.609 --> 00:00:54.570 right? Yes, starting. And we've been discussing 00:00:54.570 --> 00:01:01.439 in this series. issues about or around women's 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:04.239 liberty. We are on a matter which we have stayed 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:08.180 for a long time trying to discuss what is God's 00:01:08.180 --> 00:01:13.219 plan for the woman, what is God's original intention 00:01:13.219 --> 00:01:17.599 in creating the woman. Did he create the woman 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:24.260 just to give birth for the man? I mean, which 00:01:24.260 --> 00:01:29.829 means that her purpose is defined only by the 00:01:29.829 --> 00:01:35.629 man or he has an independent, a really independent, 00:01:35.689 --> 00:01:41.170 she has a complementary or a partnership kind 00:01:41.170 --> 00:01:44.829 of thing with the man to achieve the plan of 00:01:44.829 --> 00:01:48.030 God. It's her purpose defined by her gender. 00:01:48.310 --> 00:01:51.969 It's her purpose defined by whether she can give 00:01:51.969 --> 00:01:53.890 birth to children or not, or whether she can 00:01:53.890 --> 00:01:56.010 even give birth to male children or not. For 00:01:56.010 --> 00:02:00.489 some of us who are coming from, So villages that 00:02:00.489 --> 00:02:08.449 are troubling us is a value defined by a given 00:02:08.449 --> 00:02:13.870 body mass or physique. This has been our discussion 00:02:13.870 --> 00:02:19.169 and last Sunday we discussed the matter and looked 00:02:19.169 --> 00:02:24.610 at how Moses communicated. And we said that the 00:02:24.610 --> 00:02:27.840 key to understanding the Bible is... really to 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:30.539 pay attention to the author and to the audience 00:02:30.539 --> 00:02:33.300 because it's very important, what we generally 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:37.259 call the context. So we have been considering 00:02:37.259 --> 00:02:40.699 scripture, particularly we dwell in Genesis chapter 00:02:40.699 --> 00:02:43.780 2 for some time now. And we're still there because 00:02:43.780 --> 00:02:46.360 there's a lot we need to clarify here because 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:52.259 first, the woman is seen as what we call the 00:02:52.259 --> 00:02:56.719 helper of man. And we noted that that word helper, 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:02.280 and then we quotient that. As we read, we have 00:03:02.280 --> 00:03:06.699 to be very careful to know in the context whether 00:03:06.699 --> 00:03:11.719 the Bible should be taking that in the context. 00:03:12.020 --> 00:03:15.319 Was the author speaking literally? Was he using 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:23.330 figurative expression? Or was he using... which 00:03:23.330 --> 00:03:27.449 type of item to describe whatever he's describing. 00:03:27.750 --> 00:03:31.669 So there's no actually like a formula one plus 00:03:31.669 --> 00:03:34.729 one equals to two. Because I know these days 00:03:34.729 --> 00:03:37.770 we love to have formula which we can apply everywhere. 00:03:38.289 --> 00:03:40.990 You know, even those days, once they taught us 00:03:40.990 --> 00:03:43.330 quadratic equation, we made a formula which is 00:03:43.330 --> 00:03:45.449 not almighty and we call it almighty formula. 00:03:45.789 --> 00:03:48.990 And it's not almighty. And we knew that quadratic 00:03:48.990 --> 00:03:51.150 equation, there are some quadratic equation that 00:03:51.150 --> 00:03:54.620 you can't solve using. actually the formula. 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:59.460 I knew that then you have to, sorry, all of us 00:03:59.460 --> 00:04:02.819 have done mathematics, so at least general mathematics. 00:04:02.860 --> 00:04:06.900 I knew that there are four ways which we were 00:04:06.900 --> 00:04:12.680 taught, you understand, to solve quadratic equations 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:18.680 from using the graph, using the formula, by factorization 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:23.120 and so on. Again, we found out that we cannot 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:26.680 use almighty formula in scripture. So we have 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:29.779 to learn to pay attention to context. That's 00:04:29.779 --> 00:04:31.819 what we have been describing. So that when we 00:04:31.819 --> 00:04:38.480 see a word, like in the case of helper, we don't 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.920 just pick it like that as if we are... Even dictionary, 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:44.759 when you are reading dictionary, dictionary does 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.180 not just give you one word. It gives you several 00:04:47.180 --> 00:04:49.949 words and you have to look. and be careful to 00:04:49.949 --> 00:04:53.170 know which one are you looking for. So the same 00:04:53.170 --> 00:04:56.430 thing here, we need to pay attention to what 00:04:56.430 --> 00:04:58.649 we are talking about. And we saw that the word 00:04:58.649 --> 00:05:02.470 helper, no, no, no, no, that is not talking about 00:05:02.470 --> 00:05:05.790 the woman because that word helper is ezer. And 00:05:05.790 --> 00:05:08.569 nowhere has the word ezer been used for a woman. 00:05:08.689 --> 00:05:11.589 And the context in which it appears, it couldn't 00:05:11.589 --> 00:05:15.949 have been the woman because man, the woman cannot. 00:05:16.949 --> 00:05:20.949 rescue man from trouble. In fact, the trouble 00:05:20.949 --> 00:05:23.810 that she was to be rescued from, I mean the trouble 00:05:23.810 --> 00:05:27.129 that they are entering, which she herself was 00:05:27.129 --> 00:05:31.230 the one who through her came, she also needed 00:05:31.230 --> 00:05:35.670 help. So the helper is also for her, which needed 00:05:35.670 --> 00:05:40.829 to get her out of the trouble that plunge humanity. 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:45.600 And so we noted and we continued our discussion, 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.220 now to reach a point whereby he talks about the 00:05:48.220 --> 00:05:53.420 rib. That's where I read to us. And we saw that. 00:05:53.740 --> 00:05:58.660 We asked a very personal question. Was Moses 00:05:58.660 --> 00:06:05.540 referring to the biological or the physical rib 00:06:05.540 --> 00:06:09.319 we know, or in anatomy that we know, the rib 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:14.970 which we have? 12 PS, as we said, was he talking 00:06:14.970 --> 00:06:20.509 about that to build the woman? What was the discussion 00:06:20.509 --> 00:06:24.110 actually there? You know, even though most of 00:06:24.110 --> 00:06:28.050 the times we use these scriptures actually in 00:06:28.050 --> 00:06:33.089 the issue of marriage generally, and we have 00:06:33.089 --> 00:06:35.889 not come to realize that even marriage itself 00:06:35.889 --> 00:06:40.839 was actually a parable, was actually... a pointer 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:43.899 to something that the teaching of marriage ought 00:06:43.899 --> 00:06:47.360 to be done in such a way that it points to Christ 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:52.600 because it's not meant to be when the word a 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:55.860 man coming together and to join most times we 00:06:55.860 --> 00:06:58.339 use it in marriage well we can use it but if 00:06:58.339 --> 00:07:01.220 we have the understanding that God desire us 00:07:01.220 --> 00:07:03.779 and I'm going to talk about that later on so 00:07:04.529 --> 00:07:07.329 The point is that we then asked actually, was 00:07:07.329 --> 00:07:11.069 Moses talking about the physical rip? And then 00:07:11.069 --> 00:07:14.790 we began to see, okay, let's go to Moses because 00:07:14.790 --> 00:07:18.410 he's not only in Genesis that he taught. So he 00:07:18.410 --> 00:07:20.870 had the teaching material in the same Genesis, 00:07:20.990 --> 00:07:24.310 Exodus, in the same Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. 00:07:24.389 --> 00:07:27.430 And we tried to look at that same word, how he 00:07:27.430 --> 00:07:31.189 used it. And throughout where we read, we read 00:07:31.189 --> 00:07:33.670 throughout Exodus. In Exodus, that's where he 00:07:33.670 --> 00:07:39.110 used that so well to teach with that word. And 00:07:39.110 --> 00:07:42.790 we later find out that that word, rip, is always 00:07:42.790 --> 00:07:46.889 where it appears in Moses' teaching material. 00:07:47.629 --> 00:07:51.050 It's in reference to the building of a tabernacle. 00:07:51.529 --> 00:07:55.149 Is that where we stop? Yes. So we saw that it 00:07:55.149 --> 00:07:57.370 was in reference to the building of a tabernacle. 00:07:57.899 --> 00:08:01.699 And the tabernacle, we said again, it wasn't 00:08:01.699 --> 00:08:03.980 a strange thing. I mean, because when you see 00:08:03.980 --> 00:08:07.000 Moses emphasizing something over and over, you 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.959 need to be, wait a minute, why did he emphasize 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.839 that so well? He has used that word in several 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:17.300 places and in reference to only a particular 00:08:17.300 --> 00:08:20.220 thing, you understand, and which is a tabernacle. 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.420 So we're trying to ask again, why was it that? 00:08:23.500 --> 00:08:25.959 Then we saw that, ah, tabernacle was not a strange 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:29.089 thing. to the children of Israel. We now saw 00:08:29.089 --> 00:08:32.190 that it wasn't that Moses just imagined and said, 00:08:32.230 --> 00:08:34.610 okay, let me build Tabernacle for you. No, they 00:08:34.610 --> 00:08:37.289 are aware. They are acquainted with the Tabernacle 00:08:37.289 --> 00:08:40.669 because of their experience in Egypt. And so 00:08:40.669 --> 00:08:44.409 we saw that Tabernacle actually, because of Egypt 00:08:44.409 --> 00:08:46.549 experience, they knew. And we read a couple of 00:08:46.549 --> 00:08:49.629 scriptures. And I want us to note all those scriptures 00:08:49.629 --> 00:08:54.429 in which we noted, showing that Egypt was actually 00:08:54.429 --> 00:08:58.539 a place of idolatry. Egypt was a place that is 00:08:58.539 --> 00:09:02.019 full of all kinds of gods. And I want to read 00:09:02.019 --> 00:09:05.639 one more scripture today to show that also that 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.080 these people, they learned so much of this idolatry. 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.600 And even when they were out of Egypt, they were 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.980 still in the wilderness. Still that thing never 00:09:14.980 --> 00:09:18.440 let them. Come with me to Exodus chapter 32. 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:22.039 Exodus chapter 32. So I'm just going to add this 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:25.559 scripture. to the ones I've already talked about, 00:09:25.659 --> 00:09:29.019 like Exodus chapter 12, verse 12 to 13, and we 00:09:29.019 --> 00:09:32.080 read also Joshua chapter 24, verse 14, and Ezekiel 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:39.639 25 to 18. So I'm going to add Exodus 32, verse 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:49.100 1 to 6. Exodus 32, verse 1 to 6. I want us to 00:09:49.100 --> 00:09:52.159 go there. all of us. Okay, so I will read from 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:57.019 just verse 1. It says that now when the people 00:09:57.019 --> 00:10:02.200 saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.779 the people gathered together to Aaron and said 00:10:05.779 --> 00:10:10.259 to him, come, make us God that shall be before 00:10:10.259 --> 00:10:14.059 us. Where do you think the land is? Make us what? 00:10:14.220 --> 00:10:17.039 God. They were coming from somewhere, you understand? 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.470 Look at what they continue to say. He said, As 00:10:19.470 --> 00:10:23.149 for this Moses, the man who brought us up out 00:10:23.149 --> 00:10:27.750 of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has 00:10:27.750 --> 00:10:31.629 become of him. And Aaron said to them, Break 00:10:31.629 --> 00:10:35.409 off the golden earring. Don't wish to have a 00:10:35.409 --> 00:10:37.950 leader like that. Don't wish to have a leader 00:10:37.950 --> 00:10:45.169 like that, who anything goes. Aaron told them, 00:10:45.230 --> 00:10:48.720 he said to them, Break off the gold earrings 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.600 which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.659 and your daughters, and bring them to me. So 00:10:56.659 --> 00:10:59.879 all the people broke off the golden earrings 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:04.860 which were in their ears and brought them to 00:11:04.860 --> 00:11:10.039 Aaron. And he received the gold from their hands. 00:11:10.500 --> 00:11:15.309 He fashioned it. with an engraving tool and made 00:11:15.309 --> 00:11:22.590 a molded calf. Then they said, This is your God, 00:11:22.590 --> 00:11:26.970 O Israel, that brought you out of the land of 00:11:26.970 --> 00:11:31.210 Egypt. Verse 5. So when Aaron saw it, he built 00:11:31.210 --> 00:11:35.049 an altar before it. Did you see what is happening? 00:11:35.429 --> 00:11:39.730 You see, the issue of idol worship was not a 00:11:39.730 --> 00:11:43.110 strange thing to them. He built an altar. They 00:11:43.110 --> 00:11:46.549 knew what they were doing. So not just only that, 00:11:46.570 --> 00:11:53.009 they made an idol, a molded calf. Aaron also 00:11:53.009 --> 00:11:57.090 built an altar. And Aaron made a proclamation 00:11:57.090 --> 00:12:01.289 and said, Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord. Then 00:12:01.289 --> 00:12:05.690 he arose early on the next day, offered a burnt 00:12:05.690 --> 00:12:09.230 offering, and brought peace offering. And the 00:12:09.230 --> 00:12:16.299 people sat down. Now, eat, drink, and arose to 00:12:16.299 --> 00:12:21.580 play. This also text was made reference in the 00:12:21.580 --> 00:12:25.039 New Testament. I believe we treated it in the 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:30.799 book we read last three months. Amen. So this 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:34.059 is very important. And I want us to pay attention 00:12:34.059 --> 00:12:35.779 to it. So you could see that these people are 00:12:35.779 --> 00:12:38.309 coming from somewhere with... He already had 00:12:38.309 --> 00:12:40.429 the information on how to build the altar, how 00:12:40.429 --> 00:12:44.250 to do this was not a strange thing. The worship 00:12:44.250 --> 00:12:46.669 of idols was not a strange thing. So Moses' audience 00:12:46.669 --> 00:12:50.370 were familiar or is familiar with the tabernacle 00:12:50.370 --> 00:12:53.409 or the temple. You can call it the temple from 00:12:53.409 --> 00:12:57.289 Egypt. There is a scripture again I need to add. 00:12:57.450 --> 00:12:59.950 I think that would be good. Jeremiah chapter 00:12:59.950 --> 00:13:06.409 43. Please look at Jeremiah 43. Jeremiah 43, 00:13:06.809 --> 00:13:11.210 look at verse 12. I will candle a fire in the 00:13:11.210 --> 00:13:16.590 houses of the gods of where? The gods of Egypt. 00:13:16.889 --> 00:13:20.370 I want you to know the word, the houses of the 00:13:20.370 --> 00:13:24.309 gods of Egypt. And he shall burn them and carry 00:13:24.309 --> 00:13:27.830 them away captive and he shall array himself 00:13:27.830 --> 00:13:32.470 with the land of Egypt as a shepherd puts on 00:13:32.470 --> 00:13:35.950 his garment and he shall go out. from there in 00:13:35.950 --> 00:13:38.769 peace. He shall also break the sacred pillar 00:13:38.769 --> 00:13:43.009 of Beth Shemesh that are in the land of Egypt. 00:13:43.250 --> 00:13:46.210 This word Beth Shemesh, if you look at some other 00:13:46.210 --> 00:13:50.470 version, talks about the house of the sun. That 00:13:50.470 --> 00:13:55.649 is sun, that you know. S -U -N. Beth Shemesh. 00:13:55.929 --> 00:14:00.529 So, and the house of the gods of the Egyptians, 00:14:00.909 --> 00:14:06.230 he shall burn with fire. The house. of the gods 00:14:06.230 --> 00:14:10.250 of the Egyptians. So these people are conversing 00:14:10.250 --> 00:14:13.509 with this. They are conversing with house. I 00:14:13.509 --> 00:14:19.090 told you that word house also in Hebrew can also 00:14:19.090 --> 00:14:24.110 mean temple. It's temple also. Temple, house. 00:14:24.210 --> 00:14:27.509 Temple is the same thing or tabernacle. It's 00:14:27.509 --> 00:14:32.470 the same thing. It's the word bayit. B -A -Y 00:14:32.470 --> 00:14:36.500 -I -T. It also means, so you can see the house 00:14:36.500 --> 00:14:41.179 of the gods of the Egyptians or the houses of 00:14:41.179 --> 00:14:45.000 the gods, sorry, or the tabernacle of the gods 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.899 or the temple of the gods. They still mean the 00:14:47.899 --> 00:14:56.399 same thing. So this is very key and clear that 00:14:56.399 --> 00:14:59.320 we understand that when Moses was communicating 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:02.279 to them, he knew they understood what he was 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:04.559 trying to say. This is why we said sometimes 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:08.279 you have to sit where the audience sat to be 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:12.940 able to hear what they heard. Because the audience 00:15:12.940 --> 00:15:15.519 also plays no matter how you communicate will 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:21.919 be based according to the audience. And so I 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:25.720 don't want you to forget the message actually 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:29.700 we have been reading in Genesis chapter 1 and 00:15:29.700 --> 00:15:34.539 Genesis chapter 2. The message there is one of 00:15:34.539 --> 00:15:39.059 God building his house. It's one God building 00:15:39.059 --> 00:15:45.740 his own house. And this house is not a place 00:15:45.740 --> 00:15:50.120 like we see for idols. It's a tabernacle. It's 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:54.980 a house. In fact, he has repeated it over and 00:15:54.980 --> 00:16:00.870 over. It's not a house made with hands. Isaiah 00:16:00.870 --> 00:16:05.450 66 tells us, even in the book of Acts, you understand, 00:16:05.789 --> 00:16:10.929 Paul was teaching and he brought that also to 00:16:10.929 --> 00:16:13.529 the people, I think to the people of Arkans, 00:16:13.769 --> 00:16:17.889 understand, that he doesn't live in a house made 00:16:17.889 --> 00:16:21.330 with hands. So right, the message about God's 00:16:21.330 --> 00:16:25.190 building a house starts from Genesis, talking 00:16:25.190 --> 00:16:28.070 about how he will build a family. You can call 00:16:28.070 --> 00:16:32.929 that again a family. a house, a family. So that's 00:16:32.929 --> 00:16:35.549 the message of Genesis. We have seen that from 00:16:35.549 --> 00:16:37.549 Genesis. We keep teaching it, you understand, 00:16:37.769 --> 00:16:41.269 until we get that. That's what Moses was communicating. 00:16:41.789 --> 00:16:44.330 But then I want to point you to something else 00:16:44.330 --> 00:16:47.429 before I come, so that you know that when Moses 00:16:47.429 --> 00:16:50.649 was talking about Tabernacle, he was using what 00:16:50.649 --> 00:16:53.830 they knew, but he was communicating something 00:16:53.830 --> 00:16:58.649 ahead. Something ahead, you understand? Something 00:16:58.649 --> 00:17:01.799 ahead. Now, maybe probably we should refresh 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:06.579 our mind with what the intention of God is. Probably, 00:17:06.660 --> 00:17:09.119 let me go to Hebrews. Come with me to Hebrews 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:11.920 first before I now look at other scriptures that 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:19.400 we have looked at before. Hebrews chapter 8. 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:23.980 Look at Hebrews chapter 8 verse... Look at verse 00:17:23.980 --> 00:17:31.309 3. Hebrews chapter 8 verse... Three, he said, 00:17:31.369 --> 00:17:36.029 for every high priest is appointed to offer both 00:17:36.029 --> 00:17:40.109 gifts and sacrifice. Therefore, it is necessary 00:17:40.109 --> 00:17:44.009 that this one also having something to offer. 00:17:44.390 --> 00:17:49.089 He said, for if he were on earth, he would not 00:17:49.089 --> 00:17:54.490 be a priest, since there are priests also, or 00:17:54.490 --> 00:17:57.569 there are priests who after the gift according 00:17:57.569 --> 00:18:01.650 to the law. There are priests according to the 00:18:01.650 --> 00:18:05.170 law. You understand? According to the law. Are 00:18:05.170 --> 00:18:08.109 we together? Remember, once you say law, he's 00:18:08.109 --> 00:18:12.049 talking about what Moses gave. What Moses instituted. 00:18:12.250 --> 00:18:15.349 You understand? Or gave them. You understand? 00:18:16.029 --> 00:18:20.609 Which came about as a result of unbelief. You 00:18:20.609 --> 00:18:24.509 understand? In the gospel. So, he said, who shall 00:18:24.509 --> 00:18:27.990 have a copy? Because you cannot have priests. 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.480 without having where they worship, you understand? 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:34.500 And that is the temple, the tabernacle. And that 00:18:34.500 --> 00:18:36.900 setting was actually depicting where they are 00:18:36.900 --> 00:18:38.519 coming from. So they have a quite understanding 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:41.339 of what Moses was talking about. So when Moses 00:18:41.339 --> 00:18:43.279 was to communicate to them, he uses what they 00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:45.940 are familiar with, but then talking about what 00:18:45.940 --> 00:18:50.319 is to come. He said, who serve the copy and a 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:54.779 shadow of the heavenly things as Moses was divinely 00:18:54.779 --> 00:18:58.509 instructed. when he was about to make the tabernacle. 00:18:58.750 --> 00:19:02.329 Now, can you look at how the New Testament put 00:19:02.329 --> 00:19:06.170 it? He said, when he was about to make the tabernacle. 00:19:06.509 --> 00:19:09.670 Now, he's showing that it wasn't God who asked 00:19:09.670 --> 00:19:12.869 him directly to make the tabernacle. But when 00:19:12.869 --> 00:19:15.750 he was about to make it in the psalm, God told 00:19:15.750 --> 00:19:17.829 him, you have to do it according to pattern. 00:19:18.390 --> 00:19:20.289 Because that pattern he's talking about, he's 00:19:20.289 --> 00:19:23.849 talking about what he saw ahead, what Christ 00:19:23.849 --> 00:19:27.789 will come to do. He said, you are now about to 00:19:27.789 --> 00:19:30.509 do something. I want you to do it according to 00:19:30.509 --> 00:19:34.869 pattern. You understand? He said, he was divinely 00:19:34.869 --> 00:19:38.730 instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. 00:19:38.849 --> 00:19:41.130 That was when he was instructed. The instruction 00:19:41.130 --> 00:19:43.710 was not to make the tabernacle. But when he was 00:19:43.710 --> 00:19:46.430 about to make the tabernacle, he was instructed. 00:19:46.809 --> 00:19:50.269 You understand? That's what he said. See that 00:19:50.269 --> 00:19:53.150 you make all things according to the pattern 00:19:53.150 --> 00:19:58.640 shown you. on the mountain. So he built the tabernacle 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:04.000 with something in mind. And as you continue to 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:09.079 read, verse 6 says, but now he has obtained a 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:13.839 more excellent ministry in the sand, inasmuch 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:17.359 as he is also a mediator of a better covenant, 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:22.359 which was established on better promises. We 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:26.069 have discussed this text. a better covenant, 00:20:26.309 --> 00:20:29.650 a better promises. This is talking about not, 00:20:29.690 --> 00:20:32.130 it's not comparatively. We have discussed this. 00:20:32.210 --> 00:20:34.930 Pastor Fred also have taught in this time. He's 00:20:34.930 --> 00:20:38.430 not talking about comparing the two, which one 00:20:38.430 --> 00:20:40.549 is. No, no, no. He's talking about just the same 00:20:40.549 --> 00:20:42.529 way we are taught also when the Bible says this 00:20:42.529 --> 00:20:45.490 is true bread. He's not talking about that there 00:20:45.490 --> 00:20:48.569 is a fake one. He's trying to say that one, which 00:20:48.569 --> 00:20:51.250 is the bread they ate, you understand, was a 00:20:51.250 --> 00:20:55.420 pointer, was a hypodigma. was an example of what 00:20:55.420 --> 00:20:59.160 is to come. It was pointing to something. That's 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:04.140 what is communicated. So we saw that when Moses 00:21:04.140 --> 00:21:07.299 was doing, so these people, as Moses was doing 00:21:07.299 --> 00:21:10.980 that, he was pointing them to a tabernacle. He 00:21:10.980 --> 00:21:14.039 was pointing them to a priesthood, you understand, 00:21:14.180 --> 00:21:17.319 which is heavenly. He's pointing them to a tabernacle, 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:20.160 which is heavenly, you understand. He was pointing 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:23.990 them to the building of God. which will happen. 00:21:24.089 --> 00:21:28.809 And I want you to see what Jesus talked to Peter. 00:21:30.849 --> 00:21:34.369 Look at what Jesus told Peter in Matthew chapter 00:21:34.369 --> 00:21:38.990 13. Sorry, Matthew 16. Look at what Jesus told 00:21:38.990 --> 00:21:43.589 Peter in verse 18. Matthew 16, verse 18. He said, 00:21:43.730 --> 00:21:48.029 And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this 00:21:48.029 --> 00:21:52.789 rock... I will build, I will build my church 00:21:52.789 --> 00:21:57.890 and the gate of Hades shall not prevail against 00:21:57.890 --> 00:22:01.210 it. And the gate of Hades shall not prevail against 00:22:01.210 --> 00:22:04.150 it. That building is a church. That tabernacle 00:22:04.150 --> 00:22:07.269 is a church. That's the dwelling place of God. 00:22:07.549 --> 00:22:10.069 That's the dwelling place of God. In fact, Peter 00:22:10.069 --> 00:22:13.089 understood clearly what Jesus was talking about 00:22:13.089 --> 00:22:16.690 because he said he's going to build a house. 00:22:17.069 --> 00:22:19.509 He was there when they were being communicated, 00:22:19.589 --> 00:22:22.410 when they were being taught as recorded by John. 00:22:22.730 --> 00:22:26.509 He said, in my father's house are many mansions. 00:22:26.670 --> 00:22:31.789 You understand? So he was in John 14. So he was 00:22:31.789 --> 00:22:33.710 there when they were communicating. So when he 00:22:33.710 --> 00:22:35.890 was talking about here again, I will build my 00:22:35.890 --> 00:22:37.970 church. You understood what he was talking about. 00:22:38.109 --> 00:22:41.309 That was why when Peter wrote in 1 Peter 2, he 00:22:41.309 --> 00:22:43.349 clearly, that was what he was saying. You understand? 00:22:43.650 --> 00:22:46.490 He knew what God was saying. I mean, what Jesus 00:22:46.490 --> 00:22:50.390 spoke to him in the sand, and he knew that death 00:22:50.390 --> 00:22:54.049 would not actually stop, would not oppose, would 00:22:54.049 --> 00:22:58.410 not stop, would not prevail upon what Jesus was 00:22:58.410 --> 00:23:01.950 about to build by his death and resurrection. 00:23:02.450 --> 00:23:09.150 Look at 1 Peter 2, verse 4. Look at 1 Peter 2, 00:23:09.289 --> 00:23:12.450 verse 4. He said, coming to him as to, well, 00:23:12.589 --> 00:23:17.630 coming to him is... Coming to him a living or 00:23:17.630 --> 00:23:22.609 life, you understand. Anyway, that word in, what 00:23:22.609 --> 00:23:26.369 do you call it? In Italics, you understand, it 00:23:26.369 --> 00:23:30.829 was inserted by the translators. So, let's just 00:23:30.829 --> 00:23:34.809 begin it. Coming to him as to a living stone, 00:23:35.069 --> 00:23:38.329 you understand, rejected indeed by men, but chosen 00:23:38.329 --> 00:23:45.700 by God and precious. Verse 5. You also, as living 00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:51.000 or lively stones, have been built up a spiritual 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:55.480 house, a holy priesthood. Do you see that? A 00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:59.279 spiritual house. Moses was building a physical 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:03.019 one pointing to a spiritual house. Do you understand? 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.960 A spiritual house, a holy priesthood. Do you 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:10.599 see that? They were a physical priesthood who 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:13.599 are unbelievers, who never believed, you understand? 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:17.839 You know, normally, when we normally speak, we 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:27.200 used to exempt... We used to exempt those, the 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:29.539 Levites, as if they are the ones who believe 00:24:29.539 --> 00:24:31.920 God. They are unbelievers, all of them, you understand? 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:35.440 All of them are unbelievers. So, they refused 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:38.460 to believe too. So, while they were... doing 00:24:38.460 --> 00:24:42.339 that, they were pointing to a spiritual priesthood. 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:46.220 You understand? Spiritual priesthood. Not some 00:24:46.220 --> 00:24:48.559 certain, unfortunately, some churches have made, 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:52.339 I keep perpetuating the old system. I see there 00:24:52.339 --> 00:24:54.519 are some spiritual people on top of a pulpit. 00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:59.019 No. Our brother was praying and helping us before 00:24:59.019 --> 00:25:02.200 we start this teaching. He said the goal is for 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:05.730 us, all of us, to be taught to mature. that we 00:25:05.730 --> 00:25:09.210 also would teach others to do what was done to 00:25:09.210 --> 00:25:14.309 us. That's the order of God. So the priesthood 00:25:14.309 --> 00:25:18.730 is everyone, everyone in the South, holy priesthood, 00:25:18.750 --> 00:25:23.930 to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to 00:25:23.930 --> 00:25:27.650 God through Jesus Christ. So what makes your 00:25:27.650 --> 00:25:31.109 service, your sacrifice acceptable? It's not 00:25:31.109 --> 00:25:33.569 whether you go and wash your hands and bath, 00:25:33.710 --> 00:25:35.609 you know, those days before they offer it, you 00:25:35.609 --> 00:25:38.289 have to go and cleanse themselves. They normally 00:25:38.289 --> 00:25:42.029 call it consecrate themselves. No. What makes 00:25:42.029 --> 00:25:46.130 us, our service acceptable is what Christ has 00:25:46.130 --> 00:25:50.630 done. You understand? Your merit does not give 00:25:50.630 --> 00:25:53.789 you qualification. It doesn't make God accept 00:25:53.789 --> 00:25:58.789 your service. We offer spiritual sacrifices through 00:25:58.789 --> 00:26:03.019 Jesus Christ. Are we together? He said, Therefore, 00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:07.279 it is also contained in the Scripture, Behold, 00:26:07.339 --> 00:26:11.160 I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, a leg precious, 00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:16.480 and he who believes on him will by no means be 00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:21.019 put to shame. Therefore, you who believe is precious, 00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:26.579 but to those who are disobedient, the stone which 00:26:26.579 --> 00:26:29.279 the builder rejects has become the chief cornerstone. 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:33.359 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. 00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:38.700 They stumbled, being disobedient to the word 00:26:38.700 --> 00:26:43.599 to which they also were appointed. Verse 9. But 00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:47.140 you, my chosen generation, a royal priesthood, 00:26:47.180 --> 00:26:51.619 a holy nation, his own special people, that you 00:26:51.619 --> 00:26:54.839 may proclaim the praises of him who called you 00:26:54.839 --> 00:27:12.839 out of darkness into his. The same thing Paul 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:16.200 wrote as well. Paul wrote in Ephesians chapter 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:20.880 2, Ephesians chapter 2 verse 9, Ephesians chapter 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:27.410 2 verse 19. Did I say 9? Sorry. He said, now, 00:27:27.650 --> 00:27:31.569 therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, 00:27:31.750 --> 00:27:37.450 but fellow citizens with the saints and members 00:27:37.450 --> 00:27:42.410 of the household of God. We are members of the 00:27:42.410 --> 00:27:46.509 household. We are a fulfillment of what Moses 00:27:46.509 --> 00:27:50.809 wrote about. The communication of Moses was a 00:27:50.809 --> 00:27:55.130 fulfillment. A household of God. Not male, not 00:27:55.130 --> 00:27:58.170 female, all of us. You understand? There is no, 00:27:58.269 --> 00:28:01.190 we have one identity. You understand? Here he 00:28:01.190 --> 00:28:04.190 didn't mention male or female. No, he said all 00:28:04.190 --> 00:28:07.670 of us are members of the household of God. Having 00:28:07.670 --> 00:28:11.670 been healed. How? By the death and resurrection 00:28:11.670 --> 00:28:14.990 of Christ. Because he told Moses, you understand, 00:28:15.190 --> 00:28:18.190 on this rock. I mean, sorry, he taught Peter 00:28:18.190 --> 00:28:23.519 on this rock. I will build my church and the 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:27.980 gate of Hades. Death will not prevail against 00:28:27.980 --> 00:28:32.420 it. I will resurrect and that will be the means 00:28:32.420 --> 00:28:35.539 by which the church, by which the building of 00:28:35.539 --> 00:28:38.960 God, that spiritual building will be built. He 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:43.140 said, having been built on the foundation of 00:28:43.140 --> 00:28:46.059 the apostles and the prophet. What is that foundation? 00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:49.559 It is Jesus Christ because he is the founder 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:52.849 of the church. He founded it upon his resurrection. 00:28:53.269 --> 00:28:56.230 He said the foundation of the apostles and the 00:28:56.230 --> 00:28:58.890 prophets, that is Jesus Christ. He's not saying 00:28:58.890 --> 00:29:00.990 different, you know, some people now come to 00:29:00.990 --> 00:29:04.470 say, you understand, we are the apostles and 00:29:04.470 --> 00:29:06.930 the prophets. We are the foundation of the church. 00:29:07.170 --> 00:29:09.329 No, that's not what this place is saying. He's 00:29:09.329 --> 00:29:12.089 not saying the apostles and the prophets are 00:29:12.089 --> 00:29:14.450 the foundation of the church. He said, no, they 00:29:14.450 --> 00:29:17.250 are actually, we have been built on the foundation. 00:29:17.289 --> 00:29:20.529 What is that foundation? That foundation is Christ. 00:29:20.650 --> 00:29:22.869 That is the foundation that the apostles used. 00:29:23.230 --> 00:29:25.369 Do you understand what I'm trying to say? Because 00:29:25.369 --> 00:29:28.690 it's Christ they have taught. It's Christ they 00:29:28.690 --> 00:29:30.869 have taught. It's Christ they have taught. It's 00:29:30.869 --> 00:29:33.549 Christ they have taught. You understand? So they 00:29:33.549 --> 00:29:36.970 could not be the very people that actually they 00:29:36.970 --> 00:29:39.710 are talking about themselves. And so Jesus Christ 00:29:39.710 --> 00:29:43.809 himself, the chief, not being, but the chief 00:29:43.809 --> 00:29:48.309 cornerstone in whom the whole building, did you 00:29:48.309 --> 00:29:52.279 see that? in whom the whole building be fitted 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:57.440 together grow into a holy temple. That word again. 00:29:57.559 --> 00:30:02.079 So temple, house, household means the same thing. 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:06.420 Or tabernacle means the same thing. Are we together? 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:11.900 He said a temple, a temple in the Lord in whom 00:30:11.900 --> 00:30:17.900 you also have been built or build. together for 00:30:17.900 --> 00:30:22.740 a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Amen. 00:30:23.099 --> 00:30:28.180 So, and each time these people are about to deviate 00:30:28.180 --> 00:30:31.180 from their identity, you will hear Paul talk 00:30:31.180 --> 00:30:35.579 in 1 Corinthians 6, 19, don't you know, or do 00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:38.619 you not know that your bodies are the temple 00:30:38.619 --> 00:30:41.400 of the Holy Spirit? Because each time he would 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:44.700 tell them, don't you know? in the sand. Don't 00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:47.660 you know? Don't you know? Don't you know? Are 00:30:47.660 --> 00:30:50.019 we together? So we saw that in that Hebrews, 00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:53.339 that that is what Moses was talking about. He 00:30:53.339 --> 00:30:57.400 was pointing to whatever he did was a copy. Whatever 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.680 he did was a shadow. Whatever he did was actually 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:04.619 pointing to something ahead that I want us to 00:31:04.619 --> 00:31:08.339 take note. Therefore, it is evident, it is very, 00:31:08.380 --> 00:31:11.180 very evident that Moses built the tabernacle 00:31:11.180 --> 00:31:15.240 or the temple, you can say, to teach his audience 00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:19.079 God's plan for the new tabernacle. Are we together? 00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:25.920 Moses built, you understand, remember, these 00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:28.059 people, I want you to get that very clearly. 00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:32.500 Moses built, you know, we normally, we have clarified 00:31:32.500 --> 00:31:35.519 that, that Moses did not give them the law to 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:38.140 substitute grace. Are we together? Because he 00:31:38.140 --> 00:31:40.180 preached to them, they refused. So he said, okay, 00:31:40.259 --> 00:31:43.460 let me give them another means. You understand? 00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:45.740 Like today we normally say, you know, there are 00:31:45.740 --> 00:31:48.500 many means, you understand, to serve the Lord. 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:50.799 It's not only one means. So don't always insist 00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:53.240 on your own. You know, just to make you slack, 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:56.000 you understand? Don't always insist on your own 00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:58.140 way. There are many means. If God wanted to make 00:31:58.140 --> 00:32:01.839 us all one, he would have made us. No, it doesn't 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:04.019 work that way, you understand? He doesn't force 00:32:04.019 --> 00:32:08.980 us into those things. So it is evident that Moses 00:32:08.980 --> 00:32:11.359 built the tabernacle. in the south of the temple 00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:14.319 to teach his audience God's plan for the new 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:18.160 tabernacle, God's plan for the new house, the 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:22.559 new humanity, the new creation, where he will 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:27.160 inhabit and he will dwell in the sun. He will 00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:31.720 inhabit and he will dwell. So when Moses said, 00:32:32.019 --> 00:32:38.119 go back to Genesis chapter 2. Genesis chapter 00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:44.480 2. Go back to Genesis chapter 2, verse 21. So 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:48.519 when Moses said in verse 21, And the Lord God 00:32:48.519 --> 00:32:53.059 caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept 00:32:53.059 --> 00:32:57.019 in the sand. And he took one of his three, that 00:32:57.019 --> 00:33:00.279 word, and he took one of his three. So it's evident 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:05.579 that Moses was not just talking about just basically 00:33:05.579 --> 00:33:08.559 biology. Are we together? He was not referring 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:12.839 to Adam's physical rib. Or he was not referring 00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:21.119 to Adam's biological body. Moses was not teaching 00:33:21.119 --> 00:33:25.059 using biology there. Did you hear how I put it? 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:28.359 I didn't say Moses was not teaching biology. 00:33:28.460 --> 00:33:32.940 I said Moses was not using biology or anatomy. 00:33:32.980 --> 00:33:37.009 Please. It's very important you get it. how I 00:33:37.009 --> 00:33:40.130 put it in the sand. So he was not using, because 00:33:40.130 --> 00:33:44.210 it looks as if he was using actually biology 00:33:44.210 --> 00:33:49.069 or anatomy. No, he was not using that. He was 00:33:49.069 --> 00:33:52.210 not using biology or anatomy to teach. Because 00:33:52.210 --> 00:33:54.970 we discover that that word rip is not a biologic 00:33:54.970 --> 00:33:57.630 term, even though it appears that way there. 00:33:57.869 --> 00:34:00.910 Are we together? From Moses' teaching note, if 00:34:00.910 --> 00:34:02.950 you look at the entire place where that word 00:34:02.950 --> 00:34:06.049 rip appears, which we said that rip, is the word 00:34:06.049 --> 00:34:09.750 sight. We look at Moses' teaching notes where 00:34:09.750 --> 00:34:12.150 we go through all where he taught using that 00:34:12.150 --> 00:34:15.710 word in the book of Exodus and also in Genesis 00:34:15.710 --> 00:34:20.949 where we saw in the sand, Moses did not use that 00:34:20.949 --> 00:34:27.449 term as a human anatomy term. But one thing we 00:34:27.449 --> 00:34:30.710 saw, it was an architectural term. Please, I 00:34:30.710 --> 00:34:32.650 want you to know that. It was an architectural 00:34:32.650 --> 00:34:37.710 term. that he utilizes in the sun to refer to 00:34:37.710 --> 00:34:42.630 a part of a building, meaning a part of a hole 00:34:42.630 --> 00:34:46.869 in the sun. It's a building, a tabernacle, or 00:34:46.869 --> 00:34:50.550 a portion in the tabernacle, like an ark, to 00:34:50.550 --> 00:34:56.409 describe a part of a hole. Again, a part of a 00:34:56.409 --> 00:35:00.530 hole. So, rip is not a biological term. Rip there 00:35:00.530 --> 00:35:09.510 is not actually a... a term in anatomy, in human 00:35:09.510 --> 00:35:15.650 anatomy, that word rib is an architectural term. 00:35:15.769 --> 00:35:18.349 An architectural term that talks about or refers 00:35:18.349 --> 00:35:21.829 to a part of a building. In this case, a part 00:35:21.829 --> 00:35:27.190 of or a site. Now, what side of the tabernacle? 00:35:28.030 --> 00:35:30.610 Now, there's a question then we will have to 00:35:30.610 --> 00:35:35.440 ask. Understand? If that is the case, or since 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:40.980 that is the case, that the rip is a site or a 00:35:40.980 --> 00:35:45.099 part of a tabernacle. Now the question is, what 00:35:45.099 --> 00:35:49.380 tabernacle was Moses talking about? If actually 00:35:49.380 --> 00:35:57.840 we said that place or rip there is a site of 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.159 a tabernacle, then what tabernacle was Moses 00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:04.900 referring to? When he said the sight of a man 00:36:04.900 --> 00:36:10.219 or the rip, one of the rip of a man in the sand. 00:36:10.380 --> 00:36:13.000 What is he talking about? Which side of a tabernacle 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:15.940 is he talking about? So we need to clarify that. 00:36:16.460 --> 00:36:20.039 Now, go back to that scripture also, because 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:24.039 we need to do some work now to clarify what Moses 00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:28.519 was referring to. Now, what is that? Look at 00:36:28.519 --> 00:36:34.250 it. Let's, we can follow. reading from the response 00:36:34.250 --> 00:36:40.130 of Adam when the woman, yes, was brought to him. 00:36:40.210 --> 00:36:43.050 Look at what Adam said. It can give us a lead 00:36:43.050 --> 00:36:46.570 to where we are going, to how to answer which 00:36:46.570 --> 00:36:52.070 type of tabernacle Moses was referring to. So, 00:36:52.070 --> 00:36:57.210 look at verse 23. It said, and Adam said, understand, 00:36:57.570 --> 00:37:04.590 this is now born of my bones and flesh of my 00:37:04.590 --> 00:37:10.110 flesh. She shall be called woman because she 00:37:10.110 --> 00:37:16.610 was taken out of man. She shall be called woman 00:37:16.610 --> 00:37:22.630 because she was taken out of man. She was taken 00:37:22.630 --> 00:37:28.070 out of man. I want you to know the word the bones 00:37:28.070 --> 00:37:34.639 of my bones. and the flesh of my flesh. Now, 00:37:34.659 --> 00:37:37.960 before we answer that, we have to clarify because, 00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:40.719 you know, those words that were there, we need 00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:43.059 to explain a number of them that normally bring 00:37:43.059 --> 00:37:46.000 confusion. One of them before I'm coming to this, 00:37:46.099 --> 00:37:49.039 we will answer this. But I want you to note the 00:37:49.039 --> 00:37:52.760 bones of my bones and the flesh of my flesh. 00:37:52.940 --> 00:37:55.619 What does that mean? We're going to answer that. 00:37:55.960 --> 00:38:00.280 But let's look at that. He said, verse 21, he 00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:04.099 said, and the Lord God caused a deep sleep, fall 00:38:04.099 --> 00:38:07.679 on Adam, and he slept and he took. So he looked 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.179 as God performed an operation. And we said that 00:38:10.179 --> 00:38:13.840 the description here is not biology. All those 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:17.800 descriptions are a description, like rip we have 00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:21.599 mentioned is an architectural term. So how did 00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:25.550 Moses be using these terms here? What is this 00:38:25.550 --> 00:38:29.650 deep sleep? That's the question now. If the deep 00:38:29.650 --> 00:38:32.010 sleep is not literal, because we saw now, rip 00:38:32.010 --> 00:38:35.630 is not literal. You understand? It means sight. 00:38:35.849 --> 00:38:39.309 Again, then what is deep sleep? Then deep sleep 00:38:39.309 --> 00:38:43.690 could actually not be also literal. You understand? 00:38:43.829 --> 00:38:47.690 What is then deep sleep? You understand? Now, 00:38:47.789 --> 00:38:50.929 deep sleep is a single word I want you to note 00:38:50.929 --> 00:38:56.630 in Hebrew. Deep sleep is a... single word in 00:38:56.630 --> 00:39:04.010 Hebrew. It means hedema. It means T -A -R -D 00:39:04.010 --> 00:39:12.050 -E -M -E. T -A -R -D -E -M -E. Which means trans. 00:39:12.630 --> 00:39:17.429 It means trans. Of course, there are many places 00:39:17.429 --> 00:39:23.300 where in the Bible that talks about It uses it 00:39:23.300 --> 00:39:26.559 literally, actually. But we're looking at the 00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:30.940 teaching notes of Moses, you understand? So it 00:39:30.940 --> 00:39:35.079 actually means trance, you understand? And so 00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:38.960 what exactly are we saying now, you understand? 00:39:39.219 --> 00:39:41.920 So that means, let's look at some scripture, 00:39:42.059 --> 00:39:45.079 you understand? That same word was used in Genesis 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:50.599 15. Look at Genesis 15, verse 12. Genesis... 00:39:50.969 --> 00:39:54.489 Just go up a little bit because we're trying 00:39:54.489 --> 00:39:58.429 to study the teaching notes of Moses. Genesis 00:39:58.429 --> 00:40:03.929 15 verse 12. And when the sun was going down, 00:40:03.969 --> 00:40:09.650 a deep sleep fell upon Abraham and behold, horror 00:40:09.650 --> 00:40:12.829 and great darkness fell upon him. Now, if you 00:40:12.829 --> 00:40:16.250 just read this verse alone, you would think actually 00:40:16.250 --> 00:40:20.500 that Abraham just slept. No. But when you start 00:40:20.500 --> 00:40:22.780 from verse 1, you understand what the Bible is 00:40:22.780 --> 00:40:25.079 talking about. Look at verse 1 of Genesis 15. 00:40:25.380 --> 00:40:28.179 After these things, the word of the Lord came 00:40:28.179 --> 00:40:32.880 to Abraham in a what? Oh, talk to me. In a vision 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:38.599 saying. Did you see that? In a vision. So that 00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:40.900 reading continually, when you continue to read 00:40:40.900 --> 00:40:44.619 in the context up to 12, and all the discourse 00:40:44.619 --> 00:40:46.500 on the event that was happening, it was in the 00:40:46.500 --> 00:40:50.829 dream. You understand? You remember dream when 00:40:50.829 --> 00:40:53.110 I'm saying dream? That means it's in a vision. 00:40:53.769 --> 00:41:00.230 So that means this word is in reference to vision, 00:41:00.670 --> 00:41:06.269 deep sleep, trance, you understand? Vision. Are 00:41:06.269 --> 00:41:09.730 we together? Therefore, deep sleep means vision. 00:41:10.070 --> 00:41:14.130 So what actually happened to Adam was not a surgical 00:41:14.130 --> 00:41:19.179 or a medical operation, you understand? No. It 00:41:19.179 --> 00:41:23.679 was a vision that God took Adam to see something. 00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:27.639 Then you will not be surprised. His response, 00:41:27.940 --> 00:41:30.699 immediately you walk off from the vision. Did 00:41:30.699 --> 00:41:33.400 you understand what I'm trying to say? So he 00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:39.179 saw the vision of what God in the sand, what 00:41:39.179 --> 00:41:43.599 God intends. So what God showed Adam was a vision 00:41:43.599 --> 00:41:50.280 ahead, what he will do. Are we together? So when 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:54.000 God says, and the Lord God caused a deep sleep 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:58.219 to fall on Adam and he slept, he was talking 00:41:58.219 --> 00:42:01.920 about a vision and he took one of his ribs. We 00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:04.420 have already described that rib. That means what 00:42:04.420 --> 00:42:08.260 Adam is seeing, that means now you can now understand 00:42:08.260 --> 00:42:09.719 that he's not talking about literature. The rib 00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:11.800 is not literature. So when he said he took one 00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:13.980 of his ribs, that means he was talking about 00:42:13.980 --> 00:42:17.420 a building. So in the vision, that was what Adam 00:42:17.420 --> 00:42:21.860 was seeing. You understand? And close up with 00:42:21.860 --> 00:42:26.760 the flesh in this place. Now, it is not God performing, 00:42:26.840 --> 00:42:30.199 as I said, a surgical procedure on Adam. No. 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:36.119 You understand? Like Abraham, Adam was just being 00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:39.960 shown a vision. Was being shown a vision. Now, 00:42:39.980 --> 00:42:43.159 the question again we want to ask, what vision? 00:42:43.579 --> 00:42:47.219 What vision was God showing him? You understand? 00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.019 Now look at Adam's response in verse 23. In verse 00:42:52.019 --> 00:42:56.579 23 of that Genesis. And this is what he said. 00:42:56.679 --> 00:43:01.199 I said, this is now the bone of my bones and 00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:04.500 the flesh of my flesh. So this Adam's response 00:43:04.500 --> 00:43:08.360 in verse 23 tells us what vision Adam saw. And 00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:11.139 I want you to note the word, this is the bones 00:43:11.139 --> 00:43:15.239 of my bones and the flesh of my flesh. The word 00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:18.550 they are bones is... Follow me gradually because 00:43:18.550 --> 00:43:24.210 we're so close. The word bones there is a Hebrew 00:43:24.210 --> 00:43:29.110 word which means ascent. Which means is E -S 00:43:29.110 --> 00:43:36.550 -E -M. Ascent. E -S -E -M in Hebrew. Also of 00:43:36.550 --> 00:43:40.849 my bones is also the same thing ascent. So bones 00:43:40.849 --> 00:43:45.380 means ascent. Of my bones means ascend. So if 00:43:45.380 --> 00:43:48.940 we say the bones of my bones, I will say ascend, 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.519 ascend. So if you are going to say that in Hebrew, 00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:56.300 it will be ascend, ascend in a sign. And that 00:43:56.300 --> 00:44:01.760 word ascend means self, same. Please follow me 00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:06.780 gradually. That word ascend means self. It means 00:44:06.780 --> 00:44:10.440 also or same, same. That is the same in a sign, 00:44:10.500 --> 00:44:14.449 the same. Moses used the same word. And I want 00:44:14.449 --> 00:44:17.289 you to see where Moses used the same word of 00:44:17.289 --> 00:44:21.809 that ascent. That is the bones of my bones. Oh, 00:44:21.889 --> 00:44:24.730 bones. You understand? Because that was what 00:44:24.730 --> 00:44:28.369 Adam saw. And he now responds. He is the bones 00:44:28.369 --> 00:44:31.329 of my bones. It means ascent, ascent. That means 00:44:31.329 --> 00:44:34.329 what he is saying is that he is the same, the 00:44:34.329 --> 00:44:39.230 same. You understand? Same, the same. What is... 00:44:41.620 --> 00:44:46.579 Adam saying, Genesis chapter 7. Genesis 7 verse 00:44:46.579 --> 00:44:50.539 13. Look at Genesis 7 verse 13. On the very same 00:44:50.539 --> 00:44:55.780 day, Noah and Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, 00:44:55.900 --> 00:44:59.480 and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons, 00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:04.260 with them entered the ark. On the very same. 00:45:04.659 --> 00:45:07.280 Did you see that word? That word same there. 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:12.070 On the very same. That word same. Means a sin. 00:45:12.750 --> 00:45:19.849 Genesis 17. Genesis 17. It means that very sin. 00:45:20.210 --> 00:45:24.690 Look at Genesis 17 verse 23. So Abraham took 00:45:24.690 --> 00:45:30.469 Ishmael, his son, all who were born in his house 00:45:30.469 --> 00:45:36.469 and all who were bought with his money, every 00:45:36.469 --> 00:45:42.070 male among the men of Abraham's house. and circumcised 00:45:42.070 --> 00:45:47.150 the flesh of their foreskin that very same day. 00:45:47.230 --> 00:45:50.989 That word same there is also a sin as God has 00:45:50.989 --> 00:45:54.570 said to him, as God has said to him. So that 00:45:54.570 --> 00:45:57.989 word is same there. So in other words, when Abraham 00:45:57.989 --> 00:46:04.289 said, this is my bones, or this now, or this 00:46:04.289 --> 00:46:09.550 is now bone of my bone, he was saying same, same. 00:46:10.409 --> 00:46:13.170 We are the same. Do you understand what I'm saying? 00:46:13.489 --> 00:46:17.070 So he was saying that this woman, we are the 00:46:17.070 --> 00:46:20.530 same. We are the same. We are the same. The bones 00:46:20.530 --> 00:46:24.849 of my bones. You know, we have used this as a 00:46:24.849 --> 00:46:26.530 marriage statement. Do you understand? This is 00:46:26.530 --> 00:46:29.409 not a marriage statement. It's a response to 00:46:29.409 --> 00:46:33.349 a vision. Adam saw. He said, this, we are the 00:46:33.349 --> 00:46:39.780 same. Men don't want to hear that one. So this 00:46:39.780 --> 00:46:43.380 was not a marriage statement. Well, you know, 00:46:43.460 --> 00:46:47.480 sometimes, as I said, we can use the term in 00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:50.840 marriage if we understand and speak correctly 00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:54.539 about what it means. You understand? Because 00:46:54.539 --> 00:46:57.380 if you talk about, even in marriage, you can 00:46:57.380 --> 00:47:01.639 print John 3, verse 16. You understand? So, but 00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:03.980 if you say those things, so you must have to 00:47:03.980 --> 00:47:06.880 preach it correctly. You understand? You must 00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:12.250 have to preach it. Look at Genesis 29. Look at 00:47:12.250 --> 00:47:18.409 Genesis 29. Genesis 29 verse 14. Genesis 29 verse 00:47:18.409 --> 00:47:24.030 14. And Laban said to him, Surely you are my 00:47:24.030 --> 00:47:27.489 what? Oh, speak to me. Surely you are my what? 00:47:27.610 --> 00:47:33.670 My bones and my flesh. And he stayed with him 00:47:33.670 --> 00:47:36.989 for a month. Were they married? Oh, talk to me. 00:47:37.130 --> 00:47:39.989 Were they married? So how come he would say, 00:47:40.050 --> 00:47:44.750 he was my bones and my flesh? So that's, you 00:47:44.750 --> 00:47:48.530 see, the word bones is talking about a different 00:47:48.530 --> 00:47:51.929 thing. What he's trying to say that we are of 00:47:51.929 --> 00:47:55.070 the same family. We are the same. We come from 00:47:55.070 --> 00:47:58.289 the same, the same kindred. Are we together? 00:47:58.670 --> 00:48:03.090 So that's what, so when Adam said, the bones 00:48:03.090 --> 00:48:06.369 of my bones and the flesh of my flesh. He was 00:48:06.369 --> 00:48:09.550 referring that the woman is of the same family 00:48:09.550 --> 00:48:12.949 in the son. And when he was saying that he was 00:48:12.949 --> 00:48:17.590 talking about the new humanity in the son, when 00:48:17.590 --> 00:48:20.349 he was saying that he was talking about the family 00:48:20.349 --> 00:48:24.429 of God, which he will establish, we are both 00:48:24.429 --> 00:48:26.769 of us. That was what Peter was speaking about. 00:48:26.989 --> 00:48:29.949 That was what Paul was saying about that we are 00:48:29.949 --> 00:48:33.150 members of the same household. of the household 00:48:33.150 --> 00:48:36.329 of God. That was what he was talking about. Look 00:48:36.329 --> 00:48:41.610 at Judges. Judges. I'm looking for where to stop. 00:48:41.730 --> 00:48:49.010 Judges. Glory to Jesus. Judges chapter 9, verse 00:48:49.010 --> 00:48:55.530 1. Judges chapter 9, verse 1. Then Abimelech, 00:48:55.570 --> 00:49:02.739 the son of Jeroboam, went to shake him. to his 00:49:02.739 --> 00:49:05.360 mothers, please I want you to know those words, 00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:11.619 to his what? Mothers, brothers, and spoke with 00:49:11.619 --> 00:49:17.320 them and with all the family of the house of 00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:23.099 his mother's father, saying, please speak in 00:49:23.099 --> 00:49:27.699 the hearing of all the men of Shechem, all the 00:49:27.699 --> 00:49:33.349 men of Shechem, which is, Better for you that 00:49:33.349 --> 00:49:38.289 all 70 of the sons of Jeroboam reign over you 00:49:38.289 --> 00:49:44.909 or that one reign over you. Remember that I am 00:49:44.909 --> 00:49:50.730 your what? Your own flesh and bone. Is he talking 00:49:50.730 --> 00:49:53.750 about marriage here? No, he was talking about 00:49:53.750 --> 00:49:56.489 marriage. He was talking about we are of the 00:49:56.489 --> 00:50:00.869 same. We are of the same family, the same stock. 00:50:01.340 --> 00:50:04.679 The same nation. You understand? We are of the 00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:10.380 same nation. We are of the same nation. 2 Samuel 00:50:10.380 --> 00:50:17.679 chapter 5. 2 Samuel chapter 5. 2 Samuel chapter 00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:25.519 5 verse 1. 2 Samuel chapter 5 verse 1. Then all 00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:47.980 the tribe of Israel came to David. Did you see 00:50:47.980 --> 00:50:52.219 that? The entire nation. So that means a member 00:50:52.219 --> 00:50:55.500 of a household, a member of the same nation, 00:50:55.579 --> 00:51:02.699 a member of the same... We call bone and flesh. 00:51:02.900 --> 00:51:06.619 Are we together? Are we together? Amen. Can you 00:51:06.619 --> 00:51:13.239 move to 2 Samuel 19? 2 Samuel 19. Look at verse 00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:20.139 9. 2 Samuel 19, verse 9. Now all the people were 00:51:20.139 --> 00:51:23.219 in a dispute throughout all the tribe of Israel, 00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:53.860 saying, The king... Verse 11. And Abiathar the 00:51:53.860 --> 00:51:57.059 priest, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, 00:51:57.280 --> 00:52:01.420 saying, Why are you the last to bring the king 00:52:01.420 --> 00:52:06.280 back to his house, since the words of all Israel 00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:11.539 have come to the king to his very house? Verse 00:52:11.539 --> 00:52:15.539 12. You are my brethren. I want you to know that. 00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:18.920 You are my brethren. You are my what? Oh, talk 00:52:18.920 --> 00:52:22.309 to me. Oh, talk to me. You are my brethren. You 00:52:22.309 --> 00:52:28.730 are my bone and my flesh. That means same family. 00:52:29.590 --> 00:52:35.050 Same. Understand. Why then are you the last to 00:52:35.050 --> 00:52:39.570 bring back the king? Verse 13. And so to Amasa, 00:52:39.650 --> 00:52:46.869 are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to 00:52:46.869 --> 00:52:51.599 me and more also. If you are not commander of 00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:57.500 the army before me continually in place of Joab. 00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:00.559 Did you see that? Okay, let me read the last, 00:53:00.579 --> 00:53:02.940 probably last scripture because we have to close 00:53:02.940 --> 00:53:08.539 it. Hallelujah. 1 Chronicles chapter 11. 1 Chronicles 00:53:08.539 --> 00:53:15.039 chapter 11. 1 Chronicles 11. Are you following 00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:21.429 the teaching? Okay. It says, Then all Israel 00:53:21.429 --> 00:53:27.309 came together to David at Hebron, saying, Indeed, 00:53:27.449 --> 00:53:33.530 we are your what? Your bone and your flesh. Now, 00:53:33.590 --> 00:53:37.150 did you see that? That means it's evident that 00:53:37.150 --> 00:53:42.730 bone of my bone means the same stock, the same 00:53:42.730 --> 00:53:49.080 kindred, the same family, the same nation. identity, 00:53:49.080 --> 00:53:54.400 and the same. Are we together? The same. So that 00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:59.619 was the vision. Remember, deep means vision. 00:53:59.860 --> 00:54:04.840 And so in the vision, God showed to Adam that 00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:10.480 this woman will be of the same family. You will 00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:14.960 not be different from her in the son. While we 00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:18.960 have differences physically, because the woman 00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:22.000 gives birth, you understand, and there are some 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:26.500 physical features, but that is not in the household 00:54:26.500 --> 00:54:31.780 of God. In the new nation, God is building. It's 00:54:31.780 --> 00:54:34.619 not different. We are not different. We have 00:54:34.619 --> 00:54:39.119 one Lord, one identity, the same spirit, you 00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:43.239 understand. We are the same. That was what the 00:54:43.239 --> 00:54:46.119 Lord showed to Adam. And Adam saw that and he 00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:52.980 exclaimed, This now is the bone of my bone and 00:54:52.980 --> 00:54:56.659 the flesh of my flesh. So that was not a marriage 00:54:56.659 --> 00:55:00.780 thing. It wasn't a marriage thing. Are we together? 00:55:01.039 --> 00:55:04.420 It was not a marriage statement. It was an affirmation 00:55:04.420 --> 00:55:09.739 that this woman is of the same stock with me. 00:55:09.840 --> 00:55:13.670 We are the same. Let me show you that. I think 00:55:13.670 --> 00:55:16.510 that is a good way to conclude. Because if we 00:55:16.510 --> 00:55:18.829 don't conclude in the New Testament, I mean, 00:55:18.829 --> 00:55:23.210 it will look somehow. Amen. So let's go to New 00:55:23.210 --> 00:55:25.610 Testament. Ephesians. I think that's the best 00:55:25.610 --> 00:55:30.349 way to conclude. Ephesians chapter 5. Ephesians 00:55:30.349 --> 00:55:35.929 chapter 5, verse 30. Good to me, verse 30. So 00:55:35.929 --> 00:55:38.849 let me read from verse 29. I think it's good. 00:55:39.070 --> 00:55:42.369 It says, For no one ever hated his own flesh. 00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:46.059 Did you hear that? You know, sometimes when we 00:55:46.059 --> 00:55:47.900 read that verse, you used to think that he's 00:55:47.900 --> 00:55:52.320 talking about this one. Remember when he talked 00:55:52.320 --> 00:55:55.000 to the man to love? He said, For no one ever 00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:58.500 hated his own flesh, but nourished and cherished 00:55:58.500 --> 00:56:01.980 it, just as the Lord does the church, that is, 00:56:02.059 --> 00:56:05.460 the Lord does to his own also. Are we together? 00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:11.059 For we are members of his word. Of his what? 00:56:11.159 --> 00:56:15.619 Are we together? Oh, talk to me. Members of his 00:56:15.619 --> 00:56:18.840 body. Of his what? Oh, are you there with me? 00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:24.960 Of his flesh. And what? That's what he's saying. 00:56:25.460 --> 00:56:29.239 Hebrews 2, 11 talks to us that he is not ashamed 00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:34.760 to call us brethren. We are of the same. We are 00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:39.380 members of his body. That was what Adam saw what 00:56:39.380 --> 00:56:43.099 God is to do in Christ. That will become members 00:56:43.099 --> 00:56:46.139 of his body. That's why he said the bones of 00:56:46.139 --> 00:56:49.340 my bones, the flesh of my flesh. Are we together? 00:56:49.619 --> 00:56:53.099 So Jesus Christ now said, for we are members 00:56:53.099 --> 00:56:58.579 of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 00:56:58.820 --> 00:57:02.679 Look at that one. He said, for this reason, a 00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:06.599 man shall leave his father and mother. and be 00:57:06.599 --> 00:57:12.059 joined to his wife, and the two shall become 00:57:12.059 --> 00:57:21.139 one flesh. One flesh. Verse 32. This is a great 00:57:21.139 --> 00:57:24.980 mystery, but I speak concerning who? The Christ 00:57:24.980 --> 00:57:30.300 and the church. The Christ and the church. So 00:57:30.300 --> 00:57:35.309 one flesh is when he was spoken about. was actually 00:57:35.309 --> 00:57:39.210 pointing to what Christ will do to bring us into 00:57:39.210 --> 00:57:43.469 himself, to be in the house of God, in the tabernacle 00:57:43.469 --> 00:57:46.650 of God. We are the same. We are not different. 00:57:47.369 --> 00:57:51.070 In the sad, we are members of his body, his flesh 00:57:51.070 --> 00:57:54.969 and his bones. So bones of my bones refers to 00:57:54.969 --> 00:57:59.590 God's plan for humanity. God, which actually 00:57:59.590 --> 00:58:04.099 we are in the fulfillment. So you cannot be in 00:58:04.099 --> 00:58:07.500 church and see a woman lower. That means something 00:58:07.500 --> 00:58:13.599 is wrong with your teaching. We are the same. 00:58:13.699 --> 00:58:17.139 We have the same stock. We are the same family. 00:58:17.300 --> 00:58:20.639 We are members of the same family. We have the 00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:24.039 same identity, you understand? No one is higher 00:58:24.039 --> 00:58:27.699 in value, in significance, in purpose. So it's 00:58:27.699 --> 00:58:30.820 an aberration to say... Because a woman is a 00:58:30.820 --> 00:58:34.099 woman, so she cannot leave the church. Or a woman 00:58:34.099 --> 00:58:37.739 is a woman, so she cannot be able to sing. Or 00:58:37.739 --> 00:58:40.380 she must keep quiet in the church. Or she cannot 00:58:40.380 --> 00:58:43.420 lead. Or she cannot do certain things. I mean, 00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:46.139 you don't really understand the plan of God. 00:58:46.619 --> 00:58:50.840 The plan of God is that all of us together, we 00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:55.619 are the house of the Lord. Are we together? We 00:58:55.619 --> 00:58:59.559 are the house of the Lord. Amen. So we will stop 00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:02.599 here and continue with our discussion later on 00:59:02.599 --> 00:59:05.659 to see how God will help us. But I want you to 00:59:05.659 --> 00:59:07.920 note, because we are discussing issues around 00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:10.840 woman's liberty. Now the question is, what is 00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:13.619 God's original plan for the woman? The same plan 00:59:13.619 --> 00:59:17.440 he has for the man. What is God's original plan 00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:20.260 for the woman? The same plan he has for the man. 00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:22.860 Simple and short. Remember, we are answering 00:59:22.860 --> 00:59:25.000 the question now. You understand? It took us 00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:27.360 a long while to answer that question. It's a 00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.619 little bit quiet. But now we are answering, what 00:59:30.619 --> 00:59:34.360 is God's plan, original plan for the woman? Is 00:59:34.360 --> 00:59:37.719 the same plan that he has for the man, that together 00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:42.000 they become a tabernacle for him? Hallelujah. 00:59:43.219 --> 00:59:48.639 Amen. We appreciate you being here today. We 00:59:48.639 --> 00:59:50.559 hope you carry this word with you throughout 00:59:50.559 --> 00:59:53.460 your week. Don't forget to check the show notes 00:59:53.460 --> 00:59:56.199 for additional insights. Stay connected with 00:59:56.199 --> 00:59:58.909 us through our website. or follow us on social 00:59:58.909 --> 01:00:02.570 media. If you were encouraged, share this message 01:00:02.570 --> 01:00:05.590 with someone you care about. Until next time, 01:00:05.650 --> 01:00:06.590 stay blessed.