WEBVTT 00:00:01.160 --> 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 --> 00:00:24.820 right in. Okay, so we are continuing from where 00:00:24.820 --> 00:00:28.660 we left on Sunday. We'll continue from where 00:00:28.660 --> 00:00:32.600 we left on Sunday. I just want to thank the pastorate 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:35.619 for another opportunity to share the word of 00:00:35.619 --> 00:00:39.320 God with us. We began teaching on God's plan 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.619 for all nations on Sunday, and we're going to 00:00:42.619 --> 00:00:46.700 continue in that teaching. I believe that we 00:00:46.700 --> 00:00:50.200 had already started in Genesis 1, 20, 60, 28, 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:53.920 which is God's original plan. So I'm going to 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.380 give a background or a recap on what we did on 00:00:58.380 --> 00:01:01.920 Sunday. We started reading from the book of Matthew 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:07.260 chapter 28 from verses 16. And we found out that 00:01:07.260 --> 00:01:11.700 the Lord appointed a mountain to meet his disciples, 00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:18.140 which is in Galilee. And we say that our Lord 00:01:18.140 --> 00:01:22.640 Jesus intentionally chose that location. Pastor 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:26.299 Fanny helped us to see and also Pastor Victor 00:01:26.299 --> 00:01:30.939 during Catechismas. But geography, right, is 00:01:30.939 --> 00:01:33.359 important when it comes to the interpretation 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.719 of the scriptures also. It's very important. 00:01:37.379 --> 00:01:40.560 And one of the things we looked into was Galilee 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:44.159 was referred to as Galilee of the Nations by 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.659 the time we go to Isaiah chapter 9 from verses 00:01:47.659 --> 00:01:51.659 1 to 2 because of what had happened in that region. 00:01:52.379 --> 00:01:55.519 And if you go back to the book of Kings, 2 Kings, 00:01:56.299 --> 00:01:59.019 One thing you see there is that there was an 00:01:59.019 --> 00:02:02.319 invasion that happened. That's Kings 15. You 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:06.560 see the northern side, what was happening in 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:09.680 the northern side, which is the kingdom of Israel. 00:02:09.900 --> 00:02:12.580 But this time, Israel was divided into two kingdoms, 00:02:12.740 --> 00:02:16.759 the south and the north. So the north, that's 00:02:16.759 --> 00:02:19.360 where it happens to, that side happens to have 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:23.000 the Galilee, that Galilee. And in that region 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:25.340 also, we have lands like the lands of Naphtali 00:02:26.300 --> 00:02:29.960 the land of Zebulon. So one thing you see in 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:35.259 that 2 Kings chapter 15 was that the kings, the 00:02:35.259 --> 00:02:39.180 king of the north, they wanted to go and invade, 00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:42.479 the king of the north wanted to go and invade 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:44.300 the king of the south, the southern kingdom. 00:02:44.740 --> 00:02:47.539 Because the southern kingdom refused to join 00:02:47.539 --> 00:02:51.460 them, right? Well, they wanted to fight the Assyrian 00:02:51.460 --> 00:02:54.699 kingdom that was reigning by that time, but they 00:02:54.699 --> 00:02:56.580 were paying taxes to them. So they They wanted 00:02:56.580 --> 00:02:59.020 the south to join them. When the south refused 00:02:59.020 --> 00:03:03.419 to join them, they now wanted to attack the south. 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:09.240 So by that time, Ahaz, in 2 Kings 16, he now 00:03:09.240 --> 00:03:12.379 sends some gifts to the king of Assyria, telling 00:03:12.379 --> 00:03:15.560 him to come for his aid or his help. Because 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:20.319 of the king of south and the king of Syria, they 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.840 wanted to fight the king of the north and the 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:26.159 king of Syria. wanted to fight the king of the 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:30.879 south. So later on, in response, the king of 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:36.020 Assyria now comes and invades that portion of 00:03:36.020 --> 00:03:37.919 the land because he had been called to help. 00:03:38.419 --> 00:03:43.120 So he comes and invades the north part, which 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.400 happens to have Galilee. Then when that invasion 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.680 happens, he took the people of that place captive. 00:03:49.979 --> 00:03:53.919 Then in return, he now repopulated the same region. 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:56.740 with different people, right, from different 00:03:56.740 --> 00:04:00.259 regions who were not actually the original inhabitants 00:04:00.259 --> 00:04:04.139 of that land. So now that's where the background, 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.659 you see that now it's called the Galilee of Nations 00:04:06.659 --> 00:04:10.460 because there was now an emerging of different 00:04:10.460 --> 00:04:12.719 people from different ethnicities, from different 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:15.139 parts of the world coming to live in that region. 00:04:15.340 --> 00:04:18.439 And also it happens to be a trade route, right, 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:21.500 a trade route. So when people come to do trade, 00:04:21.579 --> 00:04:24.290 they usually come to the ports. of Galilee nearby. 00:04:24.569 --> 00:04:27.129 So it shows you that Galilee was like a gateway 00:04:27.129 --> 00:04:30.949 to all the other parts of the world. And also 00:04:30.949 --> 00:04:33.550 we looked at around Galilee, there were also 00:04:33.550 --> 00:04:36.209 regions that were filled with pagan worship. 00:04:36.949 --> 00:04:42.009 And one of the places we looked into was Caesarea 00:04:42.009 --> 00:04:44.730 Philippi, which happens to be some few kilometers 00:04:44.730 --> 00:04:48.250 to the north side of Galilee. Then also across 00:04:48.250 --> 00:04:52.959 the sea, we see a place called Decapolis. And 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:56.600 in that area of Degapolis, we have the Gadarenes. 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:58.800 And in that place of Gadarenes, they show you 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:01.100 that it was not a Jewish region because they 00:05:01.100 --> 00:05:04.759 were keeping swine, which was seen as ceremonially 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:08.540 unclean. And also there were tombs all over the 00:05:08.540 --> 00:05:10.199 embassy. A man there and Jesus is going there. 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:14.339 It shows you the kind of place it was. And it 00:05:14.339 --> 00:05:18.180 is in that place, near that place, that Jesus 00:05:18.180 --> 00:05:21.360 gave the Great Commission. to go into all the 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:24.879 world and preach the gospel. So meaning, one 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:28.120 thing we look also is that the mandate of God 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:31.519 or the plan of God is not discriminatory. So 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:34.899 it's for all the world. I think we are together 00:05:34.899 --> 00:05:40.420 on that. So now, we're going to look at the original 00:05:40.420 --> 00:05:44.019 plan of God from the beginning. We'll look at 00:05:44.019 --> 00:05:46.480 the original plan, then look at what went wrong. 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:50.060 So we have to look at the original plan and what 00:05:50.060 --> 00:05:53.819 went wrong. At the last meeting, we looked at 00:05:53.819 --> 00:05:57.139 Genesis chapter 1 verses 26 to 28. Let's go there. 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:06.480 Genesis chapter 1, 26 to 28. Genesis 1, 26 to 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:14.779 28. I'll read. And God said, let us, let us make 00:06:14.779 --> 00:06:18.639 man in our image. after our likeness, let them 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.779 have dominion over the fish of the sea and over 00:06:21.779 --> 00:06:24.899 the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over 00:06:24.899 --> 00:06:28.860 all the earth and over every creeping thing that 00:06:28.860 --> 00:06:33.980 creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in 00:06:33.980 --> 00:06:37.100 his image, in his own image. In the image of 00:06:37.100 --> 00:06:41.920 God created he, him, male and female, created 00:06:41.920 --> 00:07:02.540 he, them. And God blessed them. So we are seeing 00:07:02.540 --> 00:07:06.240 that this is the intention or God's plan. And 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:08.720 one of the things also we looked in the ending 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:13.339 part of Sunday meeting is the image is not... 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:17.860 about functionality first, but rather it's about 00:07:17.860 --> 00:07:21.139 identity, right? Then after identity follows 00:07:21.139 --> 00:07:25.579 functionality. So God created man in his image, 00:07:25.779 --> 00:07:34.100 which implies that man is to be God's representative 00:07:34.100 --> 00:07:37.420 here on earth. And we looked in word studies, 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:41.319 we looked at the word image, and we said that 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:44.800 word was derived from... The Hebrew word tselem. 00:07:45.139 --> 00:07:51.060 T -S -E -L -E -M. And it means resemblance. Then 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:55.139 also we looked at the word likeness. And we said 00:07:55.139 --> 00:07:57.420 the word likeness was derived also from a Hebrew 00:07:57.420 --> 00:08:02.860 word, which is demuth. D -E -M -U -T -H. Which 00:08:02.860 --> 00:08:08.019 carries the same connotation as tselem. So, that 00:08:08.019 --> 00:08:11.279 word demuth was derived from a Hebrew word, another 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.649 Hebrew word, which is... Damah, D -A -M -A -H, 00:08:15.050 --> 00:08:20.209 which means to, which means resemblance, right? 00:08:20.290 --> 00:08:24.970 Also, right, to be like God, right? To be like 00:08:24.970 --> 00:08:28.730 him or to be like God. So the word man also, 00:08:28.769 --> 00:08:31.009 we look there, that is the word Adam. And in 00:08:31.009 --> 00:08:34.850 this context, it implies humanity, which is both 00:08:34.850 --> 00:08:38.250 male and female, which is both male and female. 00:08:38.690 --> 00:08:43.789 So the fundamental truth, right, is that. man 00:08:43.789 --> 00:08:47.190 in God's image and likeness, right? It talks 00:08:47.190 --> 00:08:51.389 about or it gives us an idea of God's new creation, 00:08:51.610 --> 00:08:54.830 God's new creation or new humanity. And this 00:08:54.830 --> 00:08:59.549 new humanity includes both male and female, both 00:08:59.549 --> 00:09:02.289 male and female. Then we looked also and we say 00:09:02.289 --> 00:09:05.990 that the word blessed in Genesis 1 .28 is from 00:09:05.990 --> 00:09:09.250 the word barak, which means to welcome in this 00:09:09.250 --> 00:09:13.350 context, right? to welcome into God's plan. So 00:09:13.350 --> 00:09:15.509 in other words, the writer explained that both 00:09:15.509 --> 00:09:19.350 male and female, right, are welcomed into God's 00:09:19.350 --> 00:09:23.070 new humanity, that is God's new creation, which 00:09:23.070 --> 00:09:27.110 is in the image and the likeness of God, which 00:09:27.110 --> 00:09:29.490 is in the image and the likeness of God. And 00:09:29.490 --> 00:09:32.350 also we look at some terms, and just in that 00:09:32.350 --> 00:09:35.789 same verse 28, which is the word subdue, the 00:09:35.789 --> 00:09:39.740 word subdue, which is the word kabash. K -A -B 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:45.100 -A -S -H. The word subdue in Genesis 1 .28. Which 00:09:45.100 --> 00:09:48.600 implies to trample underfoot. And also we have 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:52.960 another word called replenish. Replenish. And 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.639 the word replenish is the word male. M -A -L 00:09:55.639 --> 00:10:02.720 -E or malai. M -A -L -A. The word was referenced 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:07.679 as feud. Feud. It means just to feel. So. And 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:10.360 the word multiply is the word rabah, which implies 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:16.419 increase, rabah, R -A -B -A -H, which means increase, 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.460 to increase. Then the word fruitfulness is the 00:10:20.460 --> 00:10:23.399 word parah, which implies to bring forth much 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:27.480 fruit. And the word dominion is the word radah, 00:10:27.679 --> 00:10:30.960 which means to prevail against or to reign, but 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:34.220 without violence in this context, without violence 00:10:34.220 --> 00:10:38.919 and death. This is important because when we 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.299 are going to move to Genesis chapter 11, you 00:10:41.299 --> 00:10:45.460 will see the exact opposite of Genesis 1, 26 00:10:45.460 --> 00:10:50.039 to 28 happening. So that's why I have to pass 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:55.179 through this. So the words replenish, multiply, 00:10:55.600 --> 00:11:00.039 fruitful, and dominion in Genesis 1, verse 28 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:04.860 had to do with God's plan for man. It has to 00:11:04.860 --> 00:11:08.299 do with God's plan for man to function as his 00:11:08.299 --> 00:11:13.000 image here on earth. So we are going to look 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:17.240 at that as we go down. So in that same place, 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:22.340 let's look at Genesis 2 .21. Genesis 2 .21. Genesis 00:11:22.340 --> 00:11:25.919 2 .21. We are still looking at God's original 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:31.379 plan. Genesis 2 .21. It reads, And the Lord God 00:11:31.379 --> 00:12:01.389 caused a deep sleep. So there's a teaching here 00:12:01.389 --> 00:12:05.190 by Pastor. Victor, right, woman's liberty. You 00:12:05.190 --> 00:12:07.450 can also try to go through it and also pastor 00:12:07.450 --> 00:12:12.309 Fred teaching from Karatismas and many years 00:12:12.309 --> 00:12:17.429 also you see the same explained. So here you 00:12:17.429 --> 00:12:21.049 see the word rib and we're meant to understand 00:12:21.049 --> 00:12:25.669 that the word rib there means cellar. S -S -T 00:12:25.669 --> 00:12:30.549 -S -T -S -E -L -A is the word cellar. It was 00:12:30.549 --> 00:12:34.539 applied for a building. of a tabernacle, or at 00:12:34.539 --> 00:12:38.820 all, a temple, or a house. Tsela, talking about 00:12:38.820 --> 00:12:41.240 the side of a tabernacle, or temple, or house. 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:46.740 So, in this reference, it was, we're going to 00:12:46.740 --> 00:12:48.860 look, sorry, we're going to look at how it was 00:12:48.860 --> 00:12:52.100 used by Moses in other writings. Let's read the 00:12:52.100 --> 00:12:55.659 book of Exodus 25, verse 12. We'll see how he 00:12:55.659 --> 00:13:01.409 applied the word tsela. Exodus. Exodus chapter 00:13:01.409 --> 00:13:06.389 25, verse 12. It reads, And thou shalt cast four 00:13:06.389 --> 00:13:11.149 rings of gold, right, of gold for it, and put 00:13:11.149 --> 00:13:14.190 them in the four corners thereof, and the two 00:13:14.190 --> 00:13:18.409 rings shall be in the side of it, and the two 00:13:18.409 --> 00:13:20.909 rings in the other side of it. Talking about 00:13:20.909 --> 00:13:25.110 the building of the tabernacle, right? Then verse 00:13:25.110 --> 00:13:30.250 14 says, And thou shalt put the staffs, into 00:13:30.250 --> 00:13:33.210 the rings of the sides, same word, selah is the 00:13:33.210 --> 00:13:38.529 word sides, of the ark. That is, that the ark 00:13:38.529 --> 00:13:41.470 may be born with them, right? So talking about 00:13:41.470 --> 00:13:45.490 still in the context of the temple, right, or 00:13:45.490 --> 00:13:49.429 the tabernacle. Then also we have Exodus 26, 00:13:49.669 --> 00:13:56.389 verse 20. Exodus 26, 20. Exodus 26, 20. It reads, 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:00.320 And for the second side of the tabernacle on 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.639 the north side, there shall be 20 boards. So 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:06.159 you're talking about the side of a tabernacle. 00:14:06.980 --> 00:14:09.460 That's how Moses applies it. You can write the 00:14:09.460 --> 00:14:14.919 other ones down. That is Exodus 36, 31. Exodus 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:23.440 36, 31. And Exodus 26, 26. Exodus 26, 26. So, 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:27.240 after going through... how the word was used 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:32.399 by Moses. One thing that we can see is both male 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:36.179 and female have the same identity in God's plan 00:14:36.179 --> 00:14:42.580 and purposes. They have same identity in God's 00:14:42.580 --> 00:14:46.120 plan and purpose, both male and female. Let's 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.259 go back to Genesis 1, Genesis 2. Let's go to 00:14:49.259 --> 00:14:53.960 Genesis 2 again. Genesis chapter 2. So we're 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:57.000 still looking at God's plan. And as we're going 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.580 to move, we're going to see when we reach to 00:14:59.580 --> 00:15:02.259 Babel, we'll be able to see what really went 00:15:02.259 --> 00:15:05.720 wrong when we are reading that Babel. The story 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:09.480 at Babel, that is Genesis 11. So, let's go back 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:15.580 to Genesis 2. Genesis 2. Verse 21. And the Lord 00:15:15.580 --> 00:15:19.000 God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:21.960 he slept and took one of his ribs and closed 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:25.539 the flesh instead of. So, One thing you see is 00:15:25.539 --> 00:15:29.440 that Adam, God caused a deep sleep to fall upon 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:32.519 Adam. Pastor Victor also in Women's Liberty, 00:15:32.580 --> 00:15:35.559 he explained this. So I'm not going to do much 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:37.940 on this. You can refer back to the messages, 00:15:37.940 --> 00:15:40.779 they are online. So the word deep sleep there 00:15:40.779 --> 00:15:45.360 is the word tadema, which means deep sleep and 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:49.639 also can mean trance, a deep sleep or trance. 00:15:50.269 --> 00:15:53.210 And we see the same word used in Genesis 15 verse 00:15:53.210 --> 00:15:56.929 1 in reference to Abraham. Genesis 15 verse 1. 00:15:57.870 --> 00:16:02.529 Genesis 15 verse 1. So one thing we'll see is 00:16:02.529 --> 00:16:05.649 that both male and female, they have the same 00:16:05.649 --> 00:16:08.730 identity in God's plans and purposes here on 00:16:08.730 --> 00:16:12.110 earth. Genesis 15 verses 1. It says, And this 00:16:12.110 --> 00:16:14.990 thing, after these things, the word of the Lord 00:16:14.990 --> 00:16:18.789 came unto Abraham in a vision, saying, Fear not, 00:16:18.809 --> 00:16:22.149 Abraham. I am thy shield and thy exceeding great 00:16:22.149 --> 00:16:25.549 reward. And Abraham said, Lord, what wilt thou 00:16:25.549 --> 00:16:29.350 give me, seeing that I go childless? Verse 1 00:16:29.350 --> 00:16:33.669 is talking about vision. Then he said, Abraham, 00:16:33.769 --> 00:16:38.149 now ask the Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing 00:16:38.149 --> 00:16:41.210 that I go childless, and the steward of my house 00:16:41.210 --> 00:16:44.590 is this Eleazar of Damascus? And Abraham said, 00:16:44.990 --> 00:16:47.970 Behold, to me thou hast not given a seed. And, 00:16:48.009 --> 00:16:50.570 Lord, one born in my house is mine heir. And, 00:16:50.629 --> 00:16:52.970 behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, 00:16:53.169 --> 00:16:56.629 This shall not be thy heir, but he that shall 00:16:56.629 --> 00:16:59.789 come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine 00:16:59.789 --> 00:17:03.470 heir. And he brought him forth abroad and said 00:17:03.470 --> 00:17:06.529 unto him, Look now towards heaven and tell the 00:17:06.529 --> 00:17:09.369 stars, if thou be able to number them. And he 00:17:09.369 --> 00:17:13.410 said unto him, So shall be thy seed. And he believed 00:17:13.410 --> 00:17:17.559 the Lord, and he accounted to him. for righteousness. 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:21.859 So one thing you see here is that Abraham, right? 00:17:21.980 --> 00:17:25.380 He says that what? He says that the word of the 00:17:25.380 --> 00:17:28.220 Lord come to Abraham in a vision. So this is 00:17:28.220 --> 00:17:31.759 a supernatural occurrence. And in that supernatural 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:35.180 occurrence, the Lord reiterates, the Lord iterates 00:17:35.180 --> 00:17:38.900 his plans to him. He narrates his plan to Abraham 00:17:38.900 --> 00:17:43.099 in a supernatural encounter, right? Supernatural 00:17:43.099 --> 00:17:46.640 encounter. We see the same word used in Samuel 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:51.819 26 verse 12 for Saul. 1 Samuel 26 verse 12 for 00:17:51.819 --> 00:17:53.859 Saul. They say that Saul fell into a deep sleep. 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:58.819 Then also we have it in Job 33 verse 15. You 00:17:58.819 --> 00:18:00.579 can write that down. You can just refer them 00:18:00.579 --> 00:18:04.019 back when you get home. Also in Job 33 verse 00:18:04.019 --> 00:18:08.920 15. So meaning that what Adam saw in Genesis 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:14.859 2 was that the woman and him, They have the same 00:18:14.859 --> 00:18:18.339 identity, right, in regarding to God's plans 00:18:18.339 --> 00:18:21.420 and purposes for the earth. That's what it is. 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:24.579 So it was a supernatural, that was a supernatural 00:18:24.579 --> 00:18:29.039 sight that happened there in Genesis 2. That's 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:32.420 a supernatural sight, right? Then also, going 00:18:32.420 --> 00:18:37.180 back, so let's go back again to Genesis 2. Genesis 00:18:37.180 --> 00:18:39.940 2. Let's just be there for just a few minutes, 00:18:39.980 --> 00:18:43.559 then we'll move quickly. Genesis 2. From verses 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:49.940 23, right? Which follows after 22, and Adam said, 00:18:50.339 --> 00:18:54.000 this is now the bone of my bones and the flesh 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.900 of my flesh. She shall be called woman because 00:18:57.900 --> 00:19:02.880 she was taken out of man, right? So same flesh, 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.619 bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, right? 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:09.619 Which is a same and Bazaar, a same, a same and 00:19:09.619 --> 00:19:13.180 Bazaar, right? Yes. When you look to the, And 00:19:13.180 --> 00:19:17.579 that word refers to one who is your kindred. 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:21.619 The one who is your kindred. You see that used 00:19:21.619 --> 00:19:25.420 in Genesis 29 verse 14. It means one of your 00:19:25.420 --> 00:19:29.619 kindred. One who is your kindred. Genesis 29 00:19:29.619 --> 00:19:34.220 verse 14. Genesis 29 verse 14. Let's just read 00:19:34.220 --> 00:19:36.839 a few. Then the next one you can just write them 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:39.400 down. Then read them when you get home. Genesis. 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:46.559 Genesis 29 verse 14. Genesis 29 verse 14. It 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:50.759 reads, And Laban said unto him, Surely thou art 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:55.059 my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him in 00:19:55.059 --> 00:20:00.559 the place of a month. This is Jacob and Laban. 00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:03.720 So he's talking about relation in this scripture. 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:07.619 Then also we have 2 Samuel chapter 5 verse 1. 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.630 2 Samuel chapter 5 verse 1. Then the rest, I'll 00:20:11.630 --> 00:20:14.009 just cut them out and you write them down. 2 00:20:14.009 --> 00:20:18.990 Samuel 5, verse 1. It says, Then came all the 00:20:18.990 --> 00:20:21.549 tribes of Israel to David and to Hebron, and 00:20:21.549 --> 00:20:25.089 spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy 00:20:25.089 --> 00:20:29.069 flesh. So you're talking about kindred. So, therefore, 00:20:29.309 --> 00:20:34.329 what Adam saw, and Adam's words that proceeds 00:20:34.329 --> 00:20:38.460 after what he saw, saying, Surely she is the 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:41.700 bone of my bone and the flesh of my flesh. He's 00:20:41.700 --> 00:20:44.599 just saying that there is a shared identity between 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.740 man and female as regarding to God's plans and 00:20:48.740 --> 00:20:51.480 purposes for the earth. There is no one who is 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:54.299 inferior to another. It's the same. That's why 00:20:54.299 --> 00:20:58.059 when you now read how Moses constructs it or 00:20:58.059 --> 00:21:00.660 how Moses paints it in Genesis and subsequently 00:21:00.660 --> 00:21:04.299 in other writings of Moses, he refers to the 00:21:04.299 --> 00:21:09.430 same word. side, that is verse 22, talking about 00:21:09.430 --> 00:21:13.450 the tabernacle. So, he's talking about the tabernacle 00:21:13.450 --> 00:21:16.269 and refers to the word side in reference to both 00:21:16.269 --> 00:21:21.269 male and female. So, both male and female are 00:21:21.269 --> 00:21:25.369 the house of the Lord. Are we together? Yes. 00:21:25.789 --> 00:21:31.710 So, now, let's read. Now, this will make us understand 00:21:31.710 --> 00:21:36.359 Genesis 20, Genesis 19. Verse 4 to 8, still in 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:40.220 Pastor Victor's teaching. Genesis chapter 19, 00:21:40.319 --> 00:21:47.380 verse 4 to 8. Genesis 19, 4 to 8. When the Pharisees 00:21:47.380 --> 00:21:50.319 came to ask Jesus a question concerning divorce. 00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:56.619 That's Matthew 19. Yes. Matthew 19, verse 4 to 00:21:56.619 --> 00:22:04.019 8. Matthew 19, 4 to 8. Sorry. So. Let's read 00:22:04.019 --> 00:22:07.440 from verses 3. And the Pharisees also came unto 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:10.220 him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it 00:22:10.220 --> 00:22:13.539 lawful for a man to put away his wife for every 00:22:13.539 --> 00:22:16.240 cause? And he answered and said unto them, Have 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:20.319 you not read that he that made them at the beginning 00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:23.519 made them male and female? Referring to Genesis. 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:28.359 And said, For this cause shall a man leave his 00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:30.799 father and mother. and shall cleave unto his 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.380 wife, and the twain shall become one flesh. Wherefore, 00:22:34.420 --> 00:22:39.940 there are no more twain, but one flesh. Why therefore 00:22:39.940 --> 00:22:44.279 God hath joined together, let no man put a sinner? 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:47.940 So, then he continues and says, then they say 00:22:47.940 --> 00:22:50.400 unto him, why then did Moses then command us 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:54.319 to give a writing of divorcement and to put away? 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.559 And he said unto them, Moses, because of the 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:00.130 hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put 00:23:00.130 --> 00:23:03.829 your wives away. But from the beginning, it was 00:23:03.829 --> 00:23:06.549 not so. And I say to you, whosoever shall put 00:23:06.549 --> 00:23:09.470 away his wife, except of fornication, shall be, 00:23:09.549 --> 00:23:11.910 and shall marry another one, committed adultery, 00:23:12.029 --> 00:23:14.710 and whosoever married her, which is put away, 00:23:14.930 --> 00:23:17.410 doth commit adultery. So what Jesus was doing 00:23:17.410 --> 00:23:21.970 here was to put them or to make them see, right, 00:23:22.009 --> 00:23:25.890 the intention from the beginning. That man and 00:23:25.890 --> 00:23:28.210 female, male and female, from the beginning, 00:23:28.809 --> 00:23:33.009 Right? Their identity is in regards to God's 00:23:33.009 --> 00:23:35.470 plans and purpose, and they are equal. I'm not 00:23:35.470 --> 00:23:39.549 going to talk much about this. So, having seen 00:23:39.549 --> 00:23:42.609 that now, we've seen God's plan, we've seen God's 00:23:42.609 --> 00:23:46.349 purposes in Genesis 1, 2, entering into 3. Then 00:23:46.349 --> 00:23:49.329 the question now that comes is, what then went 00:23:49.329 --> 00:23:54.250 wrong? What went wrong? What went wrong? Where 00:23:54.250 --> 00:23:58.980 did the nations emerge from? If God's man has 00:23:58.980 --> 00:24:04.039 one identity, why then was there confusion when 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.660 you now go to Genesis 11? What happened or what 00:24:07.660 --> 00:24:11.359 went wrong? So now we are getting into the teaching, 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:13.960 the main teaching. Genesis chapter 11, let's 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:17.299 go there. All of us in your Bibles, if you have 00:24:17.299 --> 00:24:20.539 a hard copy Bible, you can use that. It works 00:24:20.539 --> 00:24:24.289 best. Let's look at what went wrong. We have 00:24:24.289 --> 00:24:26.250 seen God's plan. We have seen God's intention 00:24:26.250 --> 00:24:28.849 for both male and female and what God wants. 00:24:29.150 --> 00:24:31.950 But something went wrong when you go to Genesis 00:24:31.950 --> 00:24:35.950 chapter 11. I want you to read Genesis 11 from 00:24:35.950 --> 00:24:44.589 verses 1 down to, from verses 1 up to 10. It 00:24:44.589 --> 00:24:48.990 reads, and the whole earth was of one language 00:24:48.990 --> 00:24:53.240 and one speech. And it came to pass as they journeyed 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:56.099 from the east that they found a plain in the 00:24:56.099 --> 00:24:58.680 land of Shinar. And they do out there, the background 00:24:58.680 --> 00:25:01.980 is chapter 10. You can go and read it. And they 00:25:01.980 --> 00:25:05.059 said one to another, go to, let us make brick 00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:08.319 and bend them thoroughly. And they had brick 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:11.779 for stone and slime they had made for mortar. 00:25:12.259 --> 00:25:16.500 And they said, go to, let us build us, let us, 00:25:16.500 --> 00:25:22.130 let us build us a city. and the tower whose top 00:25:22.130 --> 00:25:27.329 may reach unto heaven. And let us make us a name, 00:25:27.490 --> 00:25:30.690 lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of 00:25:30.690 --> 00:25:34.130 the earth. And the Lord came down and see the 00:25:34.130 --> 00:25:37.049 city and the tower which the children of men 00:25:37.049 --> 00:25:41.769 built. And the Lord said, Behold, the people 00:25:41.769 --> 00:25:46.109 is one, and they have one language. And this 00:25:46.109 --> 00:25:50.720 they began to do, and now nothing. will be restrained 00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:54.779 from them which they have imagined to do. Go 00:25:54.779 --> 00:25:59.059 to, let us go down. And they confounded their 00:25:59.059 --> 00:26:02.420 language that they may not understand one another. 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.900 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence 00:26:06.900 --> 00:26:10.259 upon the face of all the earth and they left 00:26:10.259 --> 00:26:15.319 off to build the city. Therefore is the name 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:19.519 of it called Babel. Because the Lord did there 00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:23.279 confound the language of all the earth, and from 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:26.359 thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:30.319 the face of the earth. So, let's move from here. 00:26:30.819 --> 00:26:33.740 So, let's go back to verse 1 now. We do word 00:26:33.740 --> 00:26:37.420 study, right? We do a word study there in Genesis 00:26:37.420 --> 00:26:40.000 11. The first word you see appearing in verse 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:43.119 1 is the word earth. It's the word earth, which 00:26:43.119 --> 00:26:45.980 is the word eretz. Earth, which is the word eretz. 00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:54.480 E -R -E -T -S. Eretz. E -R -E -T -S. Eretz. And 00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:58.359 that word means land. It means earth. But in 00:26:58.359 --> 00:27:03.400 this context, the whole earth there talks about 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:08.160 humanity. It's talking about humanity. It's in 00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:10.900 reference to humanity. Then when you go to verse 00:27:10.900 --> 00:27:14.859 2, it says, and it came to pass as they journeyed. 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:19.220 From the east that they found in a plain, they 00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:21.700 found a plain in the land of Shina and they do 00:27:21.700 --> 00:27:24.200 it there. Another word that we need to look at 00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:26.440 is the word journeyed. And the word journeyed 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:31.559 is the word Nasa. Nasa. N -A -S -A. It means 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:36.039 to start on a journey. It means to march. It 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:39.799 means to set aside. It actually infers a nomadic 00:27:39.799 --> 00:27:43.400 lifestyle in response in this context. We are 00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:47.299 going to see it at the end. It infers a nomadic 00:27:47.299 --> 00:27:51.140 lifestyle in response to God's plan to fill the 00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:55.200 earth with his image. Just hold that thought. 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:57.440 And another word we want to look at is the word 00:27:57.440 --> 00:28:04.099 duals. Duals. Duals. Which is D -W -E -L -T. 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:10.799 Which is the word yashab. Yashab. Y -A -S -H 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:15.369 -A -B. It means to settle. It means... To remain. 00:28:16.470 --> 00:28:21.109 And it means to make a house or to tarry. So, 00:28:21.109 --> 00:28:23.690 in your mind now, one thing that is coming is 00:28:23.690 --> 00:28:28.029 they said, let us dwell. That is, they are staying 00:28:28.029 --> 00:28:32.009 in one place. They want to stay in one place. 00:28:32.309 --> 00:28:35.450 And you see why they want to do it and how it 00:28:35.450 --> 00:28:39.390 is a counter narrative to God's plans and purposes. 00:28:39.730 --> 00:28:42.589 Just hold on. Then we see the word build also 00:28:42.589 --> 00:28:46.099 in that verse 4. In verse 4, the word build. 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:51.200 And they said, go to, let us build us a city 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:55.359 and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven and 00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:59.480 let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad 00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:03.039 upon the face of the whole earth. And the word 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.920 build there is the word banah. B -A -N -A -H. 00:29:07.700 --> 00:29:14.500 B -A -N -A -H. It means to make. It means to 00:29:14.500 --> 00:29:19.200 repair. It means to set up. Right? It means to 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:23.720 repair, to set up, or also it means also to obtain 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:27.059 children. That's another meaning of that. This, 00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:31.000 when you read it, it is actually a contrast to 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:35.519 God's plan. Because when you go to Genesis, it 00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:39.240 is God's plan is that he himself is the one who 00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:41.720 will be built by his spirit. From Genesis 1, 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.930 verse 1, 2, 3. It is God who is to do it. But 00:29:45.930 --> 00:29:48.890 now we see man. They are the ones who are to 00:29:48.890 --> 00:29:50.369 build. And you see what they are going to build. 00:29:50.890 --> 00:29:53.829 It is God who is building his house in the earth. 00:29:54.190 --> 00:29:56.650 But here you see that man, they are building 00:29:56.650 --> 00:29:59.509 something that is counter to God's plans and 00:29:59.509 --> 00:30:02.730 purposes. Let's just move. We'll see. They say, 00:30:02.789 --> 00:30:06.769 let us build us a city. Let us build us a city. 00:30:07.730 --> 00:30:12.309 And city there is here. I -Y -R -A. I -Y -R -A. 00:30:12.779 --> 00:30:18.720 which means a town or a people. Let's go a bit 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:22.019 faster. And we have the word in verse five, which 00:30:22.019 --> 00:30:26.099 is tower, which means migdal, tower. You see 00:30:26.099 --> 00:30:28.960 what they are building. Just follow. We have 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:32.400 the word migdal for tower. That word means a 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:37.460 stronghold, right? By analogy, right? It often 00:30:37.460 --> 00:30:41.019 describes a stronghold in cities where gods, 00:30:41.579 --> 00:30:47.339 where gods, G -O -D -S, and idols are kept. That's 00:30:47.339 --> 00:30:51.380 what it meant. So the writer here, Moses, communicates 00:30:51.380 --> 00:30:55.660 that what people intended to build was a temple 00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:59.440 or a supernatural, it was a temple or a supernatural 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:03.339 space in the earth for supernatural beings who 00:31:03.339 --> 00:31:06.180 sit. That's what they intended to build or to 00:31:06.180 --> 00:31:09.180 do, which is a counter narrative to God's plans 00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:12.829 and purposes. So, another word we'll look at 00:31:12.829 --> 00:31:17.369 is the word top. The word top. The word top in 00:31:17.369 --> 00:31:21.930 verse 5, right? It reads, that should be verse 00:31:21.930 --> 00:31:27.369 4, going down. And they say, let us build a city 00:31:27.369 --> 00:31:31.069 and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven. 00:31:31.190 --> 00:31:34.769 The word top there, it implies head. It implies 00:31:34.769 --> 00:31:39.250 beginning or source of authority. It means head. 00:31:39.769 --> 00:31:43.109 beginning or source of authority. So, they intended 00:31:43.109 --> 00:31:48.269 to make a tower, right? It means authority, right? 00:31:48.369 --> 00:31:51.529 So, it will imply they intended to make a tower 00:31:51.529 --> 00:31:55.630 their ruler, right? Or the object of their worship. 00:31:59.750 --> 00:32:02.789 What they were building there was a house of 00:32:02.789 --> 00:32:07.329 idol worship. Are we together? It was a house 00:32:07.329 --> 00:32:10.250 of idol worship. That's what they were doing 00:32:10.250 --> 00:32:13.329 there. That's what was happening there. Then 00:32:13.329 --> 00:32:18.930 to explain it further, he said that it may reach 00:32:18.930 --> 00:32:22.630 into heaven. It may reach into heaven. It may 00:32:22.630 --> 00:32:25.990 reach into heaven. That's what he said. And they 00:32:25.990 --> 00:32:29.109 said, go to, let us build a city and a tower 00:32:29.109 --> 00:32:32.890 whose top may reach unto heaven. Whose top may 00:32:32.890 --> 00:32:36.490 reach unto heaven. So, heaven there, talk about 00:32:36.490 --> 00:32:39.750 supernatural space. So what they were doing there, 00:32:39.849 --> 00:32:44.089 they were trying to build by themselves, right? 00:32:44.390 --> 00:32:47.769 They were trying to build a supernatural space 00:32:47.769 --> 00:32:52.369 in the earth for supernatural beings, which we 00:32:52.369 --> 00:32:54.170 call idol worship. That's what was happening 00:32:54.170 --> 00:32:58.690 there. This is a counter. This is counter to 00:32:58.690 --> 00:33:02.890 God's plan and purpose. This is opposite. Totally 00:33:02.890 --> 00:33:06.069 opposite. If you want to go and do more study, 00:33:06.269 --> 00:33:08.910 that's where you find the Ziggurat, the concept 00:33:08.910 --> 00:33:13.390 of Ziggurat. Ziggurat is like a space which people 00:33:13.390 --> 00:33:16.109 built. And on top of it, there's a temple. And 00:33:16.109 --> 00:33:18.589 what happens there, because it's elevated, Pastor 00:33:18.589 --> 00:33:21.829 Fred has taught us about heaven, going to heaven, 00:33:21.910 --> 00:33:23.890 and so forth. I think you have an idea. They 00:33:23.890 --> 00:33:26.029 built an elevated place. And what was happening 00:33:26.029 --> 00:33:28.569 there was worship. So an elevated place means 00:33:28.569 --> 00:33:32.930 heaven to them. Right? Yes. It implies heaven. 00:33:33.450 --> 00:33:36.960 So what was happening there was idol worship 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:40.420 that was happening in Genesis chapter 11. They 00:33:40.420 --> 00:33:43.559 built themselves in them. They stayed in one 00:33:43.559 --> 00:33:48.779 place. Right? This is directly different or totally 00:33:48.779 --> 00:33:52.480 counter to what God planned. What God planned 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:56.259 for the earth and for humanity. So this is a 00:33:56.259 --> 00:33:58.579 problem. Already there's something that is going 00:33:58.579 --> 00:34:02.259 wrong. We'll see something. Why this? There's 00:34:02.259 --> 00:34:04.480 the contrast of this. Let's see the contrast 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:09.199 of this. That is Genesis 28. Genesis 28. Genesis 00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:14.880 28, verse 11 to 12. Genesis 28, 11 to 12. This 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.860 is a contrast of what is happening there in Genesis 00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:22.039 11. Genesis 28 is a contrast. Genesis 28, 11 00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:28.679 to 12. Right, 11 to 12. It reads, And he lighted 00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:31.199 up a certain place and tarried there all night, 00:34:31.340 --> 00:34:34.840 because the sun was set, talking about... Jacob, 00:34:34.900 --> 00:34:38.300 before the sun was set and took off the stones 00:34:38.300 --> 00:34:42.619 of that place and put them for his pillows and 00:34:42.619 --> 00:34:46.360 laid down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed 00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:50.019 and behold, a ladder was set on the earth and 00:34:50.019 --> 00:34:53.639 the top of it reached heaven. And behold, the 00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:56.360 angel of the Lord ascending and descending on 00:34:56.360 --> 00:35:00.300 it. And all the Lord stood above it and said, 00:35:00.380 --> 00:35:03.260 I am the Lord of Abraham, thy father. and the 00:35:03.260 --> 00:35:10.099 God of Isaac, the land whereon thou liest, to 00:35:10.099 --> 00:35:13.380 thee will I give it, and to thy seed. So one 00:35:13.380 --> 00:35:16.840 thing you see that here, God is the builder of 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:19.960 what happened in this analogy. It is no man who 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:22.219 intended to do it. It is not Jacob who built 00:35:22.219 --> 00:35:24.980 anything, but it is God who was doing it by himself. 00:35:25.659 --> 00:35:30.199 It is God doing it by himself. And we see also, 00:35:30.619 --> 00:35:32.960 The opposite of this is Genesis 11, verse 4. 00:35:34.179 --> 00:35:37.000 Let's go back to Genesis 11. We have not finished. 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:41.219 And we see the word scattered abroad, the phrase 00:35:41.219 --> 00:35:45.500 scattered abroad, which means to break. Genesis 00:35:45.500 --> 00:35:48.860 11, right, to scatter abroad, which means to 00:35:48.860 --> 00:35:54.000 break or to spread. So they intended, these people, 00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:57.019 they intended the very opposite of God's plan 00:35:57.019 --> 00:36:01.119 to replenish the earth. and to fill the earth. 00:36:01.500 --> 00:36:04.239 So they are coming to one place and they are 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.000 doing it for themselves. All of them, let's come 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.920 together. But God's plan and purpose is that 00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:12.719 the whole earth should be filled with the knowledge 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:16.820 of the Lord. So this is contrast to what God 00:36:16.820 --> 00:36:20.699 wants. God wants the word of God and God's plans 00:36:20.699 --> 00:36:22.699 and purpose to spread in all areas of the world, 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:26.500 all parts of the world. But the language, their 00:36:26.500 --> 00:36:30.030 communication, and their actions, They seem to 00:36:30.030 --> 00:36:33.070 talk otherwise or to present otherwise as compared 00:36:33.070 --> 00:36:36.869 to God's plans and purposes. And then also we 00:36:36.869 --> 00:36:40.690 see confound, confound in verse seven, which 00:36:40.690 --> 00:36:43.190 is the word balao, which means to overflow or 00:36:43.190 --> 00:36:47.010 to mix or also it means to mingle, right? And 00:36:47.010 --> 00:36:51.070 we have in verse nine, the word babel, the word 00:36:51.070 --> 00:36:54.230 babel in verse nine. In verse nine, we have the 00:36:54.230 --> 00:36:58.280 word babel, which implies confusion. It's root 00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:00.280 word, actually, you see the word Babylon there. 00:37:00.780 --> 00:37:05.460 So, and in Old Testament, we see the word Babylon. 00:37:05.719 --> 00:37:09.800 And that Babylon, it's usually connotes, right, 00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:14.280 the world, the system of the world, or man -made 00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:18.519 system. It means man -made system. And also it 00:37:18.519 --> 00:37:22.019 talks about man doing things without God's spirit. 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:26.289 When you go and check it, right, Babylon. So 00:37:26.289 --> 00:37:28.809 as a result of men trying to give, what men was 00:37:28.809 --> 00:37:31.849 trying to do in Genesis 11 was to give the earth 00:37:31.849 --> 00:37:34.329 a purpose. That's what they were trying to do. 00:37:34.650 --> 00:37:37.429 Right. Which is against God's plans and purposes. 00:37:38.269 --> 00:37:43.070 Right. So in itself, that is rebellion that was 00:37:43.070 --> 00:37:45.489 happening there. So they were rebelling against 00:37:45.489 --> 00:37:49.469 God's plans and purposes. Right. So fast forward 00:37:49.469 --> 00:37:53.530 now in chapter 12. Let's start now. Chapter 12. 00:37:54.369 --> 00:37:57.719 So. This is something, something has already 00:37:57.719 --> 00:38:01.579 gone wrong. So God, in response of what had happened 00:38:01.579 --> 00:38:06.760 in Genesis 11, he now calls Abraham out of those 00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:09.400 nations that were scattered. Because when you 00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:13.619 go now in chapter 10, you see the table of generations. 00:38:13.860 --> 00:38:16.400 You see that they came about 70 generations from 00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:19.480 that point. If you read the Septuagint, they 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:23.400 had two extra, which is 72. So by the time you 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:27.239 get to... Genesis 12, you see the Lord calling 00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:32.039 Abraham out of those nations, which you find 00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:36.400 in Genesis 11. So what is God doing? This is 00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:40.019 God's response to men's disobedience to his plans 00:38:40.019 --> 00:38:43.099 and purposes. So what does God do? God calls 00:38:43.099 --> 00:38:47.900 a man to reorder what had gone wrong. Because 00:38:47.900 --> 00:38:50.139 God's plan is that the whole earth, man should 00:38:50.139 --> 00:38:53.599 be in his image and his likeness. But this plan 00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:56.880 has been thwarted in chapter 11. So God does 00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:59.500 not have a plan B. That's number one. What he 00:38:59.500 --> 00:39:01.699 does is that he corrects what went wrong. So 00:39:01.699 --> 00:39:03.659 let's look at this. We are going to move a bit 00:39:03.659 --> 00:39:05.960 quicker because we have already done the background. 00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:09.320 Now the Lord said unto Abraham, Get thee out 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:12.480 of thy country and from thy kindred and from 00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:14.280 thy father's house unto the land which I will 00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.940 show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation 00:39:16.940 --> 00:39:19.219 and I will bless thee and make thy name great 00:39:19.219 --> 00:39:21.840 and thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless 00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:23.659 them that bless thee, and I shall curse him that 00:39:23.659 --> 00:39:28.320 curses thee. And in thee shall all the families 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:33.219 of the earth be blessed. That is, God picks Abraham. 00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:36.599 And when God picks Abraham, he does not ignore 00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:39.400 what happened in chapter 11. He's saying that 00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:42.679 through Abraham, he's going to correct what had 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:46.539 gone wrong in chapter 11. All the nations of 00:39:46.539 --> 00:39:50.469 the earth, he's talking about all those. nations 00:39:50.469 --> 00:39:54.530 you see in chapter 11. So he says that whosoever 00:39:54.530 --> 00:39:56.829 bless thee shall be blessed and whosoever cast 00:39:56.829 --> 00:40:00.010 thee shall be cast. That means their blessing 00:40:00.010 --> 00:40:03.590 it means to walk on. Same with Barak. That means 00:40:03.590 --> 00:40:07.210 Abraham will be a carrier of God's plans and 00:40:07.210 --> 00:40:09.449 purposes. He is going to tell them about which 00:40:09.449 --> 00:40:12.989 plan. The same plan of God blessing all the nation 00:40:12.989 --> 00:40:16.309 all mankind to be the image of God and his likeness. 00:40:16.610 --> 00:40:20.949 So Everyone who believes that, they will be welcomed 00:40:20.949 --> 00:40:25.550 in God's plans and purposes. That is, whosoever 00:40:25.550 --> 00:40:27.590 shall bless thee shall be blessed, and whosoever 00:40:27.590 --> 00:40:30.010 shall curse thee shall be cursed. All right. 00:40:30.730 --> 00:40:34.849 Let's move. Let's also read Genesis. Okay, let's 00:40:34.849 --> 00:40:38.750 continue in that Genesis 12. Let's go from verses... 00:40:38.750 --> 00:40:42.690 All right. Let's go to Genesis 15. Genesis 15. 00:40:42.769 --> 00:40:45.449 Just leave it there. Genesis 15 from verses 4. 00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:49.760 Genesis 15 verse 4. It reads, And behold, the 00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.599 word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This 00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:55.440 shall not be thy hair, because Abraham had asked 00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:58.679 about him, he did not have an hair. Then verse 00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.019 5, it says, And he brought him forth abroad, 00:41:02.300 --> 00:41:05.860 and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the 00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:08.619 stars, if thou be able to number them. And he 00:41:08.619 --> 00:41:12.900 said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed 00:41:12.900 --> 00:41:15.750 God, and it was accounted for him. for righteousness. 00:41:16.650 --> 00:41:20.710 And he blessed him, right? And he said unto him, 00:41:20.869 --> 00:41:23.349 I am the Lord thy God that brought thee out of 00:41:23.349 --> 00:41:26.269 the chaldeans, that is chapter 11. You see from 00:41:26.269 --> 00:41:29.789 chapter 11, right? To give thee this land to 00:41:29.789 --> 00:41:33.090 inherit it. So one thing you see is that Abraham, 00:41:33.530 --> 00:41:36.789 what did he believe? Abraham believed the word 00:41:36.789 --> 00:41:38.789 of God. And what was the word of God to Abraham? 00:41:39.090 --> 00:41:41.690 That God is going to make right what was going 00:41:41.690 --> 00:41:45.480 wrong in chapter 11 through him. And what is 00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:48.539 the message of it? That man will be in God's 00:41:48.539 --> 00:41:52.019 likeness and his image. That is what he believed. 00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:56.380 So, fast forward. Now, when you now go and read 00:41:56.380 --> 00:42:02.940 Deuteronomy 32 verse 9. Deuteronomy 32 verse 00:42:02.940 --> 00:42:08.300 9. Deuteronomy 32 verse 9. It reads, and the 00:42:08.300 --> 00:42:13.019 Lord's portion is his people, Jacob. It says, 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:15.800 Jacob is the Lord's inheritance. Can we start 00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:20.400 from verse 7? Remember the days of old. Consider 00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:22.639 the years of many generations. This, consider 00:42:22.639 --> 00:42:25.539 the years of many generations. Ask thy father, 00:42:25.619 --> 00:42:27.340 and they will show thee, and thy elders, they 00:42:27.340 --> 00:42:29.940 will tell thee. Go to verse 8. When the Most 00:42:29.940 --> 00:42:32.300 High divided to the nations their inheritance, 00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:35.440 when he separated the sons of Adam, and set the 00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:37.000 bounds of the people according to the number 00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:40.360 of the children of Israel. And the Lord's portion 00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:45.590 is... his people. And Jacob, Jacob is the Lord 00:42:45.590 --> 00:42:48.010 of the Lord's inheritance. So I mean that out 00:42:48.010 --> 00:42:50.889 of those nations, the Lord chose Israel, nation 00:42:50.889 --> 00:42:53.690 of Israel. And why did he choose them? It's not 00:42:53.690 --> 00:42:57.070 that there were many, more than any other nations, 00:42:57.269 --> 00:43:01.010 or they were the best. No. God chose them because 00:43:01.010 --> 00:43:03.789 he had confidence with their fathers. And the 00:43:03.789 --> 00:43:06.730 plan is that through Israel, the Lord was going 00:43:06.730 --> 00:43:10.130 to make right what had gone wrong. So Israel, 00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:14.159 was to be God's servant to all other nations 00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:19.519 of the world. Are we together? Exactly. So, Israel 00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:22.559 was to be God's servant to all the nations of 00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:25.119 the world, which they failed in, sadly. They 00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:27.579 didn't do it. Or they refused. By the time you 00:43:27.579 --> 00:43:31.619 go to Israel in 19, you see them, God telling 00:43:31.619 --> 00:43:33.440 them that he wants to talk to them, but they 00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:36.760 refused. In chapter 20, in fact. That should 00:43:36.760 --> 00:43:41.259 be Exodus, sorry. Exodus 19 and 20. Then, Exodus 00:43:41.259 --> 00:43:44.840 19, Moses tells them that God wants you to be 00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:47.519 a peculiar nation, a kingdom of priests and kings. 00:43:47.820 --> 00:43:49.960 Chapter 20, they say, no, no, no, Moses, you'll 00:43:49.960 --> 00:43:52.780 be under God, right? You talk to God and talk 00:43:52.780 --> 00:43:56.400 to us. You see unbelief in that, right? So they 00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:59.420 were not able to do it. They're not able to do 00:43:59.420 --> 00:44:02.420 it. So what God is doing now is that through 00:44:02.420 --> 00:44:06.019 Israel, he wants to make things right, but they 00:44:06.019 --> 00:44:10.730 failed on it. So let's see. I mean, Israel as 00:44:10.730 --> 00:44:13.230 a nation was out of it. There were many other 00:44:13.230 --> 00:44:15.989 Israelites or some Jews that preached the gospel 00:44:15.989 --> 00:44:19.309 because Moses also is part of them. Paul is part 00:44:19.309 --> 00:44:25.889 of them, right? So let's go to Genesis into Acts 00:44:25.889 --> 00:44:30.309 chapter 17. Let me just jump some things. Acts 00:44:30.309 --> 00:44:33.429 chapter 17, Acts 17. What we are going to see 00:44:33.429 --> 00:44:36.510 is that did the word of God reach the Gentiles 00:44:36.510 --> 00:44:38.559 also? We're going to just read this and we'll 00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:41.599 see that the word of God, right, or the plan 00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:45.980 of God, it also reached the Gentiles. And Gentiles 00:44:45.980 --> 00:44:49.340 were coming in into this plan. So God was making 00:44:49.340 --> 00:44:53.460 things right. Genesis, sorry, Acts 17 verse 1. 00:44:53.659 --> 00:44:58.280 Acts 17 verse 1. Let's read there. Right. Acts 00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:04.760 17 verse 1. Acts chapter 17 verse 1. And then. 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:09.860 And when they had passed through, this way. Anyways. 00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:15.860 It's Amphib Police, right? Am I right, sir? Yes, 00:45:15.900 --> 00:45:20.480 thank you. Yes. I know police is there. Well, 00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:23.300 it's talking about a city of metropolitan, something 00:45:23.300 --> 00:45:27.960 like that. And Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica 00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:30.780 and there, there was a synagogue of the Jews. 00:45:31.139 --> 00:45:34.570 There was a synagogue of the Jews. Then continuing 00:45:34.570 --> 00:45:38.070 fast forward, verse 17 to 31, let's read 17 to 00:45:38.070 --> 00:45:42.130 31 of the same chapter. It reads, this is Paul, 00:45:42.289 --> 00:45:45.650 right? And it says that, therefore he disputed, 00:45:45.650 --> 00:45:48.670 all right, I'm reading the right position. Yes, 00:45:48.710 --> 00:45:52.210 and he disputed, he disputed he in the synagogue 00:45:52.210 --> 00:45:54.949 with the Jews and with the devout person and 00:45:54.949 --> 00:45:58.230 in the market daily with them that met with him. 00:45:58.329 --> 00:46:01.630 And certain philosophers, the Epicureans and 00:46:01.630 --> 00:46:04.659 the Stoics encountered him. And some said, What 00:46:04.659 --> 00:46:12.000 would this babbler say? Other some, he seemeth 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.920 to be a setter forth of strange gods, because 00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:18.599 he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection. 00:46:19.000 --> 00:46:22.760 And they took him and brought him unto Aropagos, 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:29.059 saying, May we know what this new doctrine therefore 00:46:29.059 --> 00:46:32.340 thou speakest is. For thou bringest certain strange 00:46:32.340 --> 00:46:35.519 things to our ears. We would know, therefore, 00:46:35.699 --> 00:46:39.940 what these things mean. For all the Athenians 00:46:39.940 --> 00:46:43.699 and the strangers which were there, right, spent 00:46:43.699 --> 00:46:48.380 their time in nothing else but either to tell 00:46:48.380 --> 00:46:51.699 or to hear about new things. They loved too much 00:46:51.699 --> 00:46:54.400 knowledge. Then Paul stood in the midst of mass 00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:58.059 here and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that 00:46:58.059 --> 00:47:02.519 in... All things ye are too superstitious. For 00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:05.760 as I passed by, I behold your devotions, and 00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:09.920 I found an altar with inscriptions to an unknown 00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:13.320 God, whom therefore you ignorantly worship. Unto 00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:17.219 him declare I to you. God, who made the world 00:47:17.219 --> 00:47:19.980 and all things therein, seeing that he is the 00:47:19.980 --> 00:47:22.639 Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in the 00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:27.440 temples, made with hands. Still the same narrative. 00:47:28.200 --> 00:47:31.699 Genesis 11. There is still worship of gods here. 00:47:31.860 --> 00:47:36.159 There is still worship of idols here. Men attempt 00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:39.480 to reach out to God, but they missed it. See, 00:47:39.579 --> 00:47:43.320 verse 25. Neither is worshipped with men's hands, 00:47:43.579 --> 00:47:47.000 as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth 00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:51.539 to all life and breath and all things. And at 00:47:51.539 --> 00:47:54.500 Med, just pay attention to 26. I want you to 00:47:54.500 --> 00:47:56.159 tell me what comes in your mind immediately. 00:47:56.960 --> 00:48:01.739 and hath made of one blood all nations of men, 00:48:01.900 --> 00:48:05.059 for to dwell on the face of the earth, and hath 00:48:05.059 --> 00:48:08.320 determined the times before, and appointed, and 00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:12.239 the bounds of their inhabitation. Of one blood, 00:48:12.340 --> 00:48:17.780 he hath made man of one blood. He hath made of 00:48:17.780 --> 00:48:20.539 one blood all nations. What comes in your mind? 00:48:21.340 --> 00:48:26.500 One blood identity. So God's man is one. God's 00:48:26.500 --> 00:48:30.119 intention is one. One man with one identity. 00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:34.179 That's Genesis 1, 26 -28. That is what Paul is 00:48:34.179 --> 00:48:38.659 taking their minds to. That God's man is one. 00:48:39.340 --> 00:48:41.420 There's idol worship that is happening here. 00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:46.599 One blood talking about one identity there. So, 00:48:46.739 --> 00:48:49.980 Paul explains, you can take this down, Paul explains 00:48:49.980 --> 00:48:53.699 humanity as one blood or one humanity or same 00:48:53.699 --> 00:48:58.659 identity in that. So God has made all man. He 00:48:58.659 --> 00:49:00.579 goes further than that. He made all man to seek 00:49:00.579 --> 00:49:04.659 God and God is not far away from everyone, right? 00:49:04.699 --> 00:49:07.000 When he goes down. So Paul's argument is that 00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:11.000 God is just one man or one kind of man, right? 00:49:11.380 --> 00:49:15.760 So by this time, there were many races, different 00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:18.099 cultures, languages, and different locations. 00:49:18.460 --> 00:49:21.320 Even today we have that. All those are man -made. 00:49:21.980 --> 00:49:24.869 All those are man -made. So Paul's argument here 00:49:24.869 --> 00:49:28.289 is that there is only one man in God's plan and 00:49:28.289 --> 00:49:31.329 purposes. And that one man is in God's image 00:49:31.329 --> 00:49:35.329 and likeness. Right? That was the beginning. 00:49:35.570 --> 00:49:38.750 That was the beginning. God's man is one. And 00:49:38.750 --> 00:49:42.510 man is one identity. Right? So that is Paul's 00:49:42.510 --> 00:49:46.789 argument. That this is the intention. So in that, 00:49:46.789 --> 00:49:48.710 he preaches to them about the resurrection of 00:49:48.710 --> 00:49:52.050 Christ. Pointing them back to God's plan and 00:49:52.050 --> 00:49:58.300 purposes for man. here on earth. So now in closing 00:49:58.300 --> 00:50:01.360 in about four minutes time. Right. You now see 00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:04.860 the same Apostle Paul writing in Ephesians chapter 00:50:04.860 --> 00:50:09.739 11 verse Ephesians chapter 2 verse 11 to 21. 00:50:10.099 --> 00:50:13.099 Let's just read that in about four minutes. I'm 00:50:13.099 --> 00:50:15.599 just going to read rushing. You see that now 00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:18.860 he comes and say both the Jew and the Gentile 00:50:18.860 --> 00:50:23.559 are one. What is he taking us back to? That Ephesians 00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:27.900 2 is in reference to Genesis 1, 26 to 28. Both 00:50:27.900 --> 00:50:31.639 Jew and Gentile are one. That is God's plan. 00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:34.340 Because all of them are in one identity now. 00:50:34.659 --> 00:50:39.139 Let's read Ephesians 2, 11 to 21. All right. 00:50:39.139 --> 00:50:41.719 It says, Therefore, wherefore remember that ye 00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:44.920 having in time past Gentiles in the flesh who 00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:49.210 are called and circumcision. by that which is 00:50:49.210 --> 00:50:51.730 called circumcision in the flesh made by the 00:50:51.730 --> 00:50:56.230 hands. That at that time you were without Christ, 00:50:56.349 --> 00:50:58.590 being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel 00:50:58.590 --> 00:51:00.909 and strangers from the convenance of the promise, 00:51:01.130 --> 00:51:03.769 having no hope and without God in the world. 00:51:03.909 --> 00:51:07.889 But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were 00:51:07.889 --> 00:51:11.730 far off are made nigh by the blood of Jesus. 00:51:12.230 --> 00:51:16.889 So what did Jesus do? Jesus comes again and... 00:51:17.230 --> 00:51:20.769 Ask where Israel failed and fulfilled what Israel 00:51:20.769 --> 00:51:25.750 failed to do. That is, in Christ, God has made 00:51:25.750 --> 00:51:28.849 right what went wrong. This is what Paul is trying 00:51:28.849 --> 00:51:35.610 to explain to them. Verse 14. For he is our peace, 00:51:35.809 --> 00:51:39.250 who hath made both one, and hath broken down 00:51:39.250 --> 00:51:41.829 the middle wall of petition between us, having 00:51:41.829 --> 00:51:46.000 abolished in his flesh the enmity. even the law 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:48.199 of the commandments contained in the ordinances, 00:51:48.340 --> 00:51:53.760 and to make in himself of twain one new man, 00:51:53.900 --> 00:52:00.420 one new man, Genesis 1, 26 -28, yes, one new 00:52:00.420 --> 00:52:04.219 man, so making peace, and that he might reconcile 00:52:04.219 --> 00:52:09.880 both unto God in one body by the cross, having 00:52:09.880 --> 00:52:13.730 slain the enmity thereby. and come and preach 00:52:13.730 --> 00:52:16.809 peace unto you which were afar off, and to them 00:52:16.809 --> 00:52:19.449 that were nigh. Talking about Jew and Gentile. 00:52:19.989 --> 00:52:24.849 Nations, Genesis 11, made right in Christ. Yes. 00:52:25.469 --> 00:52:29.389 For through him we both have access by one spirit 00:52:29.389 --> 00:52:33.510 unto the Father. Now therefore, ye are no more 00:52:33.510 --> 00:52:36.030 strangers or foreigners, but fellow citizens 00:52:36.030 --> 00:52:39.170 with the saints and of the household of God. 00:52:39.309 --> 00:52:42.920 This is what God is doing. Right. and are built 00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:44.920 upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, 00:52:45.059 --> 00:52:47.099 Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone 00:52:47.099 --> 00:52:49.679 in whom all the building fitly joined together 00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:53.400 groweth unto the holy temple, right? Holy temple 00:52:53.400 --> 00:52:58.059 in the Lord. Genesis 1, 26. Yes. God's intention 00:52:58.059 --> 00:53:03.000 to dwell in both, right? Male and female, Gentiles, 00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:06.980 Jews. Yes. So things were now made right in Christ. 00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:10.900 So Paul's argument in closing. So Paul, will 00:53:10.900 --> 00:53:14.179 now go with this understanding to preach to the 00:53:14.179 --> 00:53:16.840 nations that were lost. And what is he telling 00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:19.920 them? That Christ, in Christ, God has made right 00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:23.219 that which had gone wrong. So what is God doing 00:53:23.219 --> 00:53:27.179 today in our lives? Is that God is reclaiming 00:53:27.179 --> 00:53:30.059 the lost through us. God is reclaiming those 00:53:30.059 --> 00:53:32.960 nations that are in darkness because they are 00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:35.880 also God's people and God wants them to come 00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:38.480 in. So therefore, we are ambassadors of Christ. 00:53:39.050 --> 00:53:42.170 In this island, primarily. In our schools, in 00:53:42.170 --> 00:53:44.929 our houses. What are we going to do? We know 00:53:44.929 --> 00:53:47.789 now the plan of God. That God is making right 00:53:47.789 --> 00:53:50.110 that which went wrong. Through you and through 00:53:50.110 --> 00:53:53.070 me. So anytime when you walk on the streets, 00:53:53.349 --> 00:53:56.190 have the consciousness of this. That God is making 00:53:56.190 --> 00:53:58.929 right that went wrong through you. So you have 00:53:58.929 --> 00:54:01.230 to speak. You have to preach. You have to share. 00:54:01.750 --> 00:54:03.889 What are you doing? You are pointing back man 00:54:03.889 --> 00:54:06.789 to God. Because in God's plan, there's only one 00:54:06.789 --> 00:54:10.150 man. And that man is in the image and the likeness 00:54:10.150 --> 00:54:13.550 of God. And he functions as God's priest here 00:54:13.550 --> 00:54:18.650 on earth. So, just pray for yourself. The Lord, 00:54:18.670 --> 00:54:21.889 I understand this truth. Right? Through you, 00:54:21.889 --> 00:54:24.050 we are reclaiming the lost through me. From our 00:54:24.050 --> 00:54:26.929 relatives to people around us, God is reclaiming 00:54:26.929 --> 00:54:30.550 the lost through you. We appreciate you being 00:54:30.550 --> 00:54:33.230 here today. We hope you carry this word with 00:54:33.230 --> 00:54:49.570 you throughout your week. Until next time, stay 00:54:49.570 --> 00:54:49.909 blessed.