"Assemble the People, Gather the Tribes" | Bill Cloud | Jacob's Tent

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together as one body as your body as your people as your children to worship you in truth and in spirit and father we just ask that as we go forward during this time that you would come and visit us and that we would truly be sensitive to feel your spirit move in and through and amongst us that our minds would be open that our hearts would be cleansed and open and that our ears would be open to hear what you have for us this day whether it's through the song whether it's through the prayers whether it's through the word whatever manner it comes we want to hear from you today father and we just ask that you would leave us as pliable clay in your hands that you would mold us and give us a little bit closer to perfection as we seek to father follow our messiah yeshua that we would draw nearer to him that we would walk closer to him that we would walk more in according to the path that he set out before us and that we would honor and glorify what he has done on our behalf that we would honor and glorify your will and that we would show and demonstrate your will in our lives and your will not only in our lives but our lives within our communities around us that we would be that light that even if we tried to hide it we could not because you are there and because we as your children seek to honor our father allah go with us now through this day keep us safe those who may still be coming here keep them safe bring them here so that we may all be together and gathered in peace and in harmony and protected by you for your head surrounds us as we gather in your name and under your authority that which is given under the authority of yeshua your son and our messiah and redeemer [Music] amen [Music] a [Music] oh [Music] how lovely [Music] thy tabernacle [Music] is [Music] is and in thy great compassion i will come into your house [Music] there i will fear [Music] if we'd have our shofar blows please come to the front get ready shofar choirs dad calls it [Music] all right [Music] [Music] [Applause] amen shabbat shalom [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] m [Music] [Applause] he [Music] brothers to dwell together behold how good and how pleasant it is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] in unity [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] it is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign it is [Music] [Music] [Music] one more time [Applause] [Music] morning y'all how are you doing oh my gosh that was so terrible i was like morning how are you doing what's up buddy there's somebody hey we should do like a vocal warm-up or something just get everybody awake everybody had their coffee this morning i didn't but all right ask you guys again how's everybody doing this morning there we go let's celebrate let's rejoice volkertov i don't think y'all know this song but we're gonna try it anyway [Music] these are the days of elijah declaring the word of the lord [Music] and these are the days of your servant moses righteousness being restored and though these are days of great trials for them and in darkness and sword still we are the voice in the desert [Music] crying [Applause] [Music] [Applause] salvation [Music] and these are the days of ezekiel the tribals be coming as flesh and these are the days of your servant david rebuilding a temple of grace and these are the days of the harvest the fields are is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] i need some rhythm up here guys there was no one there's no god i like to hold there's no god like you hold up there's no god like you hold up there's no god like jehovah there's no god like jehovah there's no god like jehovah there's no god like jehovah there's no god like jehovah there is no god like jehovah there's no god like you [Music] there's no god [Music] [Applause] you believe [Music] [Applause] riding on the clouds [Applause] [Music] [Applause] she was [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] hallelujah hey man all right i'm done later [Music] we're gonna do a new song this morning that is actually an old song praises rising eyes are turning to you [Music] we turn to you [Music] hope is [Music] we long for you cause when we see you [Music] [Music] us worthy of all our praises [Applause] [Music] hear the sound of hearts [Music] in your kingdom [Music] [Applause] [Music] and in your presence [Music] [Applause] you are the god who saves us [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] welcome you here yes you are [Music] [Applause] [Music] us worthy [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] we welcome you here [Music] you are the god who saves us worthy of all our praises [Music] joseph joseph [Music] we welcome you here [Music] of every day pray sad all night all the nations of the earth all the angels dancing praise out of night and praise all the nations of the earth [Music] [Music] mountains bow down every ocean roars to the lord of hosts who is like him [Music] who the is seated on the throne when mountains bow down [Music] every ocean of roars praise all the angels and the snakes [Music] him who is [Music] every ocean [Music] [Applause] to the end of every day [Music] all the nations of the earth from the rising of the sun to the end of every day [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we lift our voices higher and higher and higher [Music] [Applause] [Music] we want to touch you we lift our voices higher and higher and higher to using it out if we [Music] higher [Music] [Music] you [Music] from the rising of the sun to the end of everyday praise all the nations of the [Applause] [Music] [Applause] of earth [Music] [Applause] [Music] in the sun [Music] and sings my soul [Music] my savior to me how great how great though [Music] my savior how great how great [Music] oh [Music] i see the stars [Music] then sings my soul my savior [Music] [Applause] [Music] how great how great and when i think that god his son not sparing sent him to die ours [Music] he bled and died to then sings my soul my savior this is [Music] how great [Music] when christ shall come with shouts of our cremation and take me home what joy shall fill my heart that i will bow [Music] my god [Applause] [Music] how [Music] my [Applause] how great how great their how great cause you are great you do miracles there's no one else like you there is no one else like you you are great you do miracles there is no one else like you there is no one else [Music] so great there is no one else like you and there [Music] you do is so great there is no one else like you there is no one girls like you and then sings my soul [Music] [Applause] [Music] i [Music] how great thou art how great thou art how great how great let's just just for a moment just contemplate that and how great he's been in your life to bring you to this place to this point father we are grateful that you are great we are thankful father that you above all you are above all there's none beside you i'm thankful father that in spite of all the failures and shortcomings on my part that you have in your faithfulness and your greatness brought me and my family to this place i know that all the families that are gathered here can testify the same thing and so we are thankful to you because you do miracles that are great and the greatest one is that you can look upon us in our flesh and our weakness and have compassion and mercy upon us and extend your hand and forgiveness that we might be reconciled to you and i'm grateful for that today i'm thankful that you have watched over me and my family and kept us from things we were aware of later and things that we probably still aren't aware of and again i know that everybody in this room and everybody who's joining us online can testify of that and so we do proclaim your greatness today and i want us just one more time won't you sing that course again how great thou art let's just i want to hear you sing it more than i want to hear them sing it not anything and against them but i want to hear it reverberating throughout this room just how great our father is amen and sings [Music] my savior [Music] how great thou art that then sings my soul then sings my soul my savior how great this is [Music] one more time that shakes myself how great thou art [Music] [Music] [Applause] how out yes let's thank him amen [Applause] [Music] amen hey man let's just remain standing and as we go to the besham room and let's declare these things together because there we go will you say this with me please and the lord spake unto moses saying speak thou also unto the children of israel saying verily my sabbaths you shall keep for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations that ye may know that i am the lord that doth sanctify you wherefore the children of israel shall keep the sabbath to observe the sabbath throughout their generations for a perpetual covenant it is a sign between me and the children of israel forever for in six days the lord made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed in mark chapter 12 it says that one of the scribes came and having heard them reasoning together perceiving that he'd answered them well ask him which is the first commandment of all [Music] and yeshua replied hear o israel the lord our god the lord is one and you shall love the lord your god with all of your heart with all your soul with all your mind and with all of your strength this is the first commandment and the second like it is this you shall love your neighbor as yourself there is no other commandment greater than these [Music] [Music] [Music] hero o israel the lord our god the lord is one blessed be his name and his glorious kingdom [Music] forever [Music] and you shall love the lord your god with all of your heart with all of your soul with all of your mind with [Music] come over you shall love your neighbor as yourself and upon these two commandments stands a whole lot love your neighbor love your god they are [Music] and you shall love the lord your god with all of your heart with all of your soul with all of your mind with all of your strength amen this would be a good time for everybody just get to know one another greet one another shake hands yeah do all of that rub elbows [Music] so [Music] all righty if i could get all the moms with the little ones or dads with the little ones the little itty bitty ones y'all come on in here first [Music] come on in kirsten [Music] bring the little guys in here so we can get our sons and daughters the young men and women get this get as close in as you can make room for the others coming through if you will [Music] adrian you better cooperate boy [Music] amen they're still coming [Music] we're very grateful to our father for all of our our boys and girls our sons and daughters our children our grandchildren and i'm going to tell you something a little bit i can't seem to get away from this but i want you to remember that i said this in just a few moments just how important it is moms dads granddads grandmothers aunts uncles how important it is for us to pray over our children to bless our children to speak life into their lives [Music] i am convinced beyond any doubt that i'm here today because my mother prayed for me when i was out doing things that i shouldn't be doing and i can recall at least two occasions that i'm aware of where the father spared me from certain death and i know that i know that i know it was because my mother was praying for me and had been all my life and thankfully i have a wife that prays for me and prays over our children so i want to stress this morning just how important it is that what we're doing here it's not just liturgy it's not just wrote it's not just something we do to fill up time this is something that we believe that when we pray over our sons and daughters our father in heaven hears and he honors that and he watches over them and he keeps them according to what we've asked him to do so i want everybody who can to stand i want you to extend your hands toward our sons and our daughters our grandsons our granddaughters and i want us to pronounce this blessing over them believing that the father will do what we're asking him to do and for those children who aren't here who are far off either in distance or in relationship we want to include them into this as well and here very soon what we're going to be doing and i'm i'm i'm going to go ahead and let you know we're going to bring a box into this house and it's going to be a treasure box and what we're going to get you to do is you bring pictures of all your children and your grandchildren and those who are special to you that can't be here and put those pictures in this box and we're going to have this box under the hoop because we're going to pray over them we're going to bless them too amen let's let's pray the blessing of our children may the lord protect and defend you may he always shield you from shame [Music] may you come to be in israel a shiny [Music] and may you be like ruth and like david may you be deserving of praise strengthen them o lord and keep them from the stranger's [Music] and may god bless you and you long [Music] may god make you good husbands and wives [Music] may the lord protect and defend you may the law favor them o lord with happiness and peace i want to pass this mic down to josh ledbetter and i want you to pray over the children [Music] abba father we just thank you for this day father we just thank you for this day that you've carved out of creation for us and that you've met with us in this place father and we thank you for these children that you've um that you've given to us and that you've allowed us to be stewards with father and i just pray that we can get we can be good stewards with them following that we can teach them and we can teach them your word teach them your ways and and i pray that each and every one of them father just have a have an encounter with you have an encounter with your son yeshua father and and just fill with your holy spirit i pray that none of these children will ever bow and need anything except for your will father and i just pray that you just build them up give them the courage today give them the courage today to face that world that's going to persecute them for your name and i just pray for each and every one of them to be steadfast in your word in the mighty name of yeshua amen [Music] amen thank you everybody can return to your seats [Music] [Music] so [Music] so okay i want to give them time to get that the hoopa put back in place and um are we going to put some chairs in here robert is that the plan okay thank you one thing at a time [Music] i'm going to just take just a moment let them do that because i want to make certain everybody kind of gets settled and because i have something i feel like i'm supposed to share and i want to i want it to be that everyone who can and would listen to hear what i have to say so if you'll just bear with me just a moment while they get some cheers brought in here first folks [Music] [Music] all right you can you can play a little bit while i share this um if you've been part of this congregation for any length of time you know that from time to time i feel i pause and i feel like i'm supposed to do something or say something and then i i know that for some that's a little out of the ordinary you're not accustomed to that and i would just say that if we're going to be spirit-led then we need to all get accustomed to there are times the father we feel speaks to us you me and that we just need to lead or follow him as he leads so uh well it's kind of as i think about this and i was processing this as i'm standing there and i felt like father was speaking to me about something then in light of our tour portion today and the the idea of jacob calling his sons together to tell them things that are very very important about their lives and about the future of their children and the tribes and things and i guess this kind of makes sense then but here goes as we were singing how great there are how great thou art i was in a flash i was taken back to a childhood a childhood memory and the very first time that i remember hearing that song how great thou art was at my cousin wayne's funeral he this was 1969 april of 1969. he was 16 years old he and her buddy went out one night doing things that 16 and 17 year old boys do but shouldn't and they had a car accident and they were both killed [Music] and i as i'm thinking on this i'm just having these flashbacks i don't know why i'm telling you this but i'm just going to do it but i had flashbacks of him the images i have and remembrances that i have of him because i would be you know six years old at this time and how he was a good kid he was just kind of struggling trying to find his way and unfortunately for him at that time his well he didn't his father was gone there was there was no father in his life his mother was just trying to make ends meet and she was struggling and she wasn't at the time she wasn't living the way that she was supposed to and so here's my point there were people that were trying to reach him but couldn't and one night he paid the price and i am convinced when i thought about that and then immediately thought of my own life the difference wasn't that i wasn't doing the same things that he did because i did and then some it was because there was somebody praying earnestly over me for the father to watch over and keep so here's what i'm saying [Music] not just young people but i want i just this is what's on my heart this morning young people listen to your mother and your father heed their instruction listen to what they have to say because they are telling you things because they love you and they care about you and they're concerned for your future and they want you to become the man and the woman that you are supposed to be so when i was thinking on this and wondering you know father should you know really should i share this because it's going to kind of bring the mood down considerably i could not get away from it i tried to i come up on the stage and it was still burning in my stomach and i felt like i had to say it's important moms dads grandmom's granddads for us to continue to earnestly seek the father for on behalf of our children and grandchildren to continually pray for their welfare and their benefit and and that he would watch them and keep them because i can tell you twice i know that i know that i know that i know i would not be here physically if my mother at the time had not been praying for me [Music] and so i'm very thankful that i had someone praying for me who cared enough about me to continue to pray when i was unlovable unlikable she prayed and then i married a woman who prayed for me when i was unlovable and unlikable she continued to pray for me and he's great because he do he does miracles they're great and some of the greatest miracles are those that he has he has something for them in their life and for them to go and to run from it or whatever however the case may be but then to to bring them into the fulfillment of the fulfillment of that in spite of their choices and their actions and many times to snatch them out of the clutches of the adversary and to preserve them from death itself so if you can get anything out of that and if that resonates in your heart and spirit in any way just know this that the father for whatever reason took me back about 50 years to a childhood memory and reminded me this is the first time you heard that song and what was the setting [Music] and now look at your life and where you're at and how it could have just as easily been you bill but there were people praying for you there were people who loved you who prayed for you in spite of you and and i honored those prayers and i answered those prayers let's go to our torah portion genesis chapter 47 thank you melody verse 28 it's called valeji and jake and jacob lived and he lived in the land of egypt 17 years and so the length of jacob's life was 147 years and when the time drew near that israel must die he called his son joseph and said to him now if i have found favor in your sight please put your hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me please do not bury me in egypt but let me lie with my fathers and you shall carry me out of egypt and bury me in their burial place and so as we begin the thought that occurs to me is if a man knows that he is soon to die the things he has to say should be carefully considered because he's probably going to say just those things that matter the most perhaps things that he would not have said in any other situation but now he knows that his life is drawing to a close and he needs to say certain things and so he begins telling joseph these things and so he realizes that he is going to die in a foreign land and yet the emphasis is not so much on the death [Music] as much as it is in the fact that he lived the death is just the transition from this existence to what the father has afterwards but what we do in this existence matters and fulfilling his purpose for us regardless of how big or small we see our part in this to be it matters so jacob lived not just physically but he lived in every sense of the word 17 years in egyptian exile 20 years in syrian exile 37 years away from his home and his family in his country 110 years he did live in the land of canaan but through those years he endured many hardships he had to flee from esau had to overcome esau he had to deal with lavon and the treachery and the false accusations and he had to deal with what happened to his daughter dina and he had to deal with losing joseph and all that and then after all these things there was this famine and the prospect of losing his entire family or at least other sons and so then again the portion and he live is going to emphasize that he did live and that he did endure and that he did overcome in spite of all these other things and so when it got to the termination point of his physical existence here the things that he's going to say and the things that he's going to share carry with it a certain power because he has a perspective that few others really have so we understand that in this life there are going to be trials there are going to be disappointments there are all going to be lost there's going to be these tribulations yeshua said this in john 16 33 i have said these things to you that in me you may have peace in the world you will have tribulation that's a promise apparently but take heart i have overcome the world and so if he is overcome then we are given the authority and the power to overcome and as his followers our life is in him and our life in him is intended to inspire others to live in a way that positively impacts this world one person can make the difference and a multitude of people's lives and so we should never consider that our role and our what the father has for us is insignificant in the overall plan because there are people that you will reach i never will there are people that you will meet and interact with that none of us will ever see and so each and every one of us carries within the potential because we are in him to affect this world in a great way something we can't even imagine not that it's the emphasis is on us mind you but it's the one who dwells in us and who lives in us and so then imagine that in this scenario each of us is individuals and families and even congregations coming together as a whole can you imagine the monumental impact a united body of messiah could have in this world which is exactly why the adversary does not want a united body of the messiah however he will not get his way because in the end god's people will be those that he's called them to be there is going to be an israel that fulfills the purpose for israel and i'm not just talking about the political entity in the state that's over in the middle east and i'm not speaking against that either i'm just saying that it is much more than that and it's hinted at in our torah portion here but we're going to go over to genesis chapter 49 verse 1 and jacob called his sons and said gather together that i may tell you what shall befall you in the last days gather together and hear you sons of jacob and listen listen to israel your father again because of all the things that jacob jacob had come through had endured had overcome he has a perspective that gives credibility and power and authority to what he is going to say because of his relationship with the almighty he has a prophetic insight as well because his grandfather's abraham there have been certain things promised to abraham and those things were passed along to isaac and now it has come to jacob to make certain that before he leaves this world that that next generation following him understands the significance of their existence in this world so again young people not exclusively young people but i'll i'm going to emphasize you today because that's what jacob was emphasizing the generation that was coming after him take he to what your father and what your mother are telling you those that have served him are serving him when they speak listen take these things to heart do not treat them as flippantly i don't care if they've made mistakes because we're all guilty of that and you will make mistakes too and very the very reason they're telling you these things is because they made those mistakes and they don't want you to do the same stupid things that we did but now we're not stupid enough to think that you won't do the same stupid things that we did but that's not going to stop us from telling you and saying take heed to what i'm saying here because also there are times that when we speak as parents or grandparents it's not just out of the head but it's the spirit of god that works in us that are telling you things sometimes we tell you things we warn you things because it's the spirit of god in us warning you i've been on the receiving end of this i know how it works and i know when it comes from god even when i wanted to stop up my ears and run away and not listen to it jacob has a relationship with the almighty that he has an insight and so he assembled his sons to declare their future in their destinies tribes the first term he uses here in hebrew anyway that is translated for us as gather is the word asaf and it's aleph pay or fail to gather and this particular root word is used in connection with collecting things and making them one things that are scattered you start to gather them and you put them together and collect them to make them one and so this is a term that we'll often see used in connection with harvest collecting you know bringing in the sheaves bringing in the sheaves we shall come rejoicing bringing in this well you know that song's about right it's about the in-gathering it's about the harvest not just the literal but the harvest as our father sees it and so this is the term that is used and so he's using that terminology with that kind of a connotation to gather in it's time to collect together it's time for the harvest to be collected by the way this same root word is the root for joseph joseph and there are prophetic implications just in that the second time we see this word gather in the verses that we just read it's translating the hebrew word an alternate translation of this word would be to assemble so there's a slight distinction there to collect something to gather it together and then to assemble together and to assemble carries with this idea pay attention listen you know we can get together we can gather together and we we can make a bunch of noise and from this point up here it sounds like okay now you and your individual conversations you know what you're saying but up here just sounds like a roar but then there are times that we are to assemble with the intent of it's time to and it's time to shma it's time to listen when we were in school when they used to have school that you actually went to the school and you sat in desk and there was a teacher there and you know you saw people and had lunch together you remember those days most of the time we were there we were expected to do something and that is to sit to listen because there are important things the teacher's going to be sharing with us and those important things are going to show up later in our lives on these things that they call tests and exams and it was really important that we spent that time in assembly listening to what was being taught to us now they gave us time to go outside and run screen playing get on the well do they call them monkey bars anymore i don't know what the proper term is anymore you know they let us go out get on the monkey bars and the teeter-totter and or maybe the seesaw and the the what was it the the merry-go-round and all those kinds of things you know and just a sidebar how many of you remember getting the girls on there and running around real fast to get them real dizzy all right let me get back on track here we were given opportunity to do those kinds of things but we were in school to assemble to listen and so that is what jacob was telling i want you all to to get together but when you get together i want you to assemble because i've got some things to say you need to be quiet and you need to listen to what i've got to say to shema to israel your father so i want you to think in terms of this scene that happened so many thousands of years ago being a message to all of israel specifically those of us who are living in the last days in fact that's what he said so that i can tell you what's going to befall you in the latter days the literal translation of that phrase is so that i may tell you what will call to you in the end of days and that deserves just talking about a little bit because the word karach do we have that word to show them what we call the book of leviticus but vayikra is and he called that is the creator called to moses come here i've got some things to say answer the call and so what isaac excuse me what jacob is saying is that in the end of days there is there are things that are going to call to you there are things that are going to call out to you and it is your purpose it is your responsibility to answer that call that comes out to you and this is the word that's used rather than this word the other word that means to befall kara it's hey it sounds the same but it's spelled differently and so my point is this jacob used his words very carefully he chose his words very carefully because there was something he was intending to say and as the father moved upon him by his spirit to say these things not just to men who lived thousands of years ago but to his people for all time and particularly those who would be at the last days and if you're like me and you believe we're living at the last days in other words he's speaking to us that there are things that are going to call to us in the last days and it is our responsibility to answer that call so everything that occurred in israel's life all of the all of the loss the the anguish and the hardships and the tribulation all of those things occurred for a purpose there was a reason behind all of them to make my point the father took me back 50 years to a childhood memory just to make a point with me and to amplify the call that goes out to me to my family to you to your family that everything in our lives i'm not saying he orchestrated every mishap and every misstep i'm not saying that at all but i am saying that all of those things that happened in our lives occur for a reason for a purpose or he will use it for his reasons and his purposes and he will make something out of those things that we consider to be lost everything everything occurred for a reason and though the purpose of those things overall pertained to the call that god had on his life and so likewise with you and me all of us as god's people he has required and he is requiring and he will require certain things of us and particularly those of us who are living at the end of the age the last days because there are going to be things that will call to us or there are things the father will use to or use those things in order to call to us and what is our responsibility listen in this pattern i think it teaches that there's going to come a time when god will issue a collective call that is to his people at large to gather and to assemble to start coming together and as we start coming together there will be a time that we need to be quiet and we need to listen to what the spirit is saying unto his congregations there are things that we're going to need to hear that we need to hear right now that we will need to hear tomorrow if we're going to be able to effectively live out his purpose in this world it's just like the teacher we have to listen to the teacher and get the information from the teacher or it might be that we don't do well on the test and what happened when you didn't do well on the test you went back and you did what you took it again and you kept taking it until you got it so as a sidebar those things that you keep coming around to again and again and again and again that you you keep tripping up over guess what he's going to continue to bring those things around in our lives until we overcome it he's overcome the world he's given us the authority and the power to overcome the world but we have the responsibility to listen to what he's saying and to answer the call the end goal here is to serve the purpose to which we have been called and ultimately as a people this is referring to the restoration of the kingdom of israel and it's to that end that through the prophet micah the the almighty said this in chapter 2 verse 12 i will surely assemble all of you o jacob i will surely gather the remnant of israel i will put them together like sheep of the fold like a flock in the midst of their pasture they will make a loud noise because of so many people that's what we do when we get together right well he's just acknowledging that we're going to do that as we gather together but then something's going to happen that's going to get our attention it says the one who breaks open will come up before them they will break out pass through the gate and go out by it and their king will pass before them with the lord at their head now a couple couple things here real quick the word a symbol here is translated from that word asaf that we spoke of it was in the previous verses where it means to gather and where gather is used here it is translated from the word kabutz which means to get ready to listen to hear what's going to be said so in other words jacob the wording that he used the prophet is using the same wording here in this prophecy regarding the end gathering and when god calls all of his people together and in this prophecy micah is alluding to you and i as being sheep i mean i know that's nothing new for anybody we are his sheep we're his flock and he is our shepherd and guess what he said my sheep know my voice and so if his sheep know his voice that when he speaks what should we do we need to listen we need to stop what we're doing and we need to listen because sheep apparently are noisy i've never had sheep i've had goats and before i could get out the door i remember in the morning they would be calling to me which translation food now [Music] beth used to say your girlfriends are calling you so they would call me and then sometimes i'd have to call them but he he is uh micah is using the uh the symbolism of sheep and these noisy sheep are being gathered into a fold which is basically a pen an enclosure something that kind of pins them in and and there's a lot of things that we get into here and i don't want to get too far into that particular prophecy but the point is is that there comes a time he says that i'm going to gather my sheep you've been wandering out here but there is going to come a time that you're going to need to be gathered together and that you're going to need to assemble because something's getting ready to happen and in this particular prophecy it is the breaker hapolitz in hebrew the breaker who comes up and he initiates a breakout a breakthrough because they're in the pen what are they wanting to do get out let's think of it this way if you've been in jacob's tent a long time in this little room what are you what are you ready to do we're ready to break out aren't we so i'm not going to equate that scenario with what we're really talking about here but you can kind of get the idea well if something big is getting ready to happen in the lack of jacob's tent then there comes that time that we need to be quiet and we need to listen to what he has to say because i've never known him to try to talk over all the other voices that i was letting into my life never he's never tried to outshout them never it's my responsibility to filter out all those other voices and all those other messages so that i can hear my shepherd's voice so they're making a bunch of noise and all of a sudden they're it's the breaker comes and he he initiates a breakthrough he takes that rod which is symbolic of authority and he takes it and he he breaks the stones down that allows a breach so that the sheep can break out and we've talked about this in greater detail before but here's what i wanted to emphasize this all culminates in the arrival of the king we're getting ready for the king that's the idea of the gathering and the assembly and this is what was alluded to in matthew 11 regarding john the baptist i want to read a few verses for you matthew 11 verse 7 as they departed that was the emissaries that john had sent to yeshua as they departed you should begin to say to the multitudes concerning john what did you go out into the wilderness to see a reed shaken by the wind what did you go out to see a man clothed in soft garments indeed those who wear soft clothing are in king's houses my translation of that is what were you looking for what what what what's the motivation of your heart what are you seeking what are you searching for and that question should be put to each and every one of us starting with me what are we really looking for we just want somewhere we can come and make some friends and eat together or is it more than that what are we seeking what did you go out to see a prophet yes i say to you and more than a prophet for this is he of whom it is written behold i send my messenger by the way my messenger in hebrew is malaki or we'd say malachi my ma behold i send my messenger before your face who will prepare your way before you he is going to prepare the way of the lord assuredly i say to you among those born of women there is not risen one greater than john john the baptist but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he and from the days of john the baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force for all the prophets in the law prophesied until john and if you're willing to receive it he is elijah who is to come he who has ears to hear let him hear if i may borrow from that what i said earlier at the very beginning he who has ears to hear let him hear because not everybody hears what the spirit is trying to say and and it's usually because we got too many other voices going on up here too many other influences too many other things pulling at us but those who are willing and able to filter out all of those other voices hear what the spirit is saying he who has ears to hear let him hear now in the king james new king james it uses the phrase suffereth or suffer violence but it would be better rendered breaking out from the days of john the baptist until now the kingdom of heaven is breaking out and then the violent would be better rendered as those who are breaking out because as the kingdom of heaven is breaking out the breakout is fueled by his people it's those sheep in the sheepfold that have been bottled up and pinned up they're ready to get out they realize something is on the other side they realize something's getting ready to happen they don't know what it is but they're getting anxious and all of a sudden the guy who has the authority that rod comes up and he makes a breach in the wall they begin to break out and as two break out follow they're followed by four four followed by eight eight are followed by more and more and more and more and it culminates in the coming of the king and so here's what yeshua was saying he was alluding in talking about john the baptist he was alluding to the prophecy of micah the breaker in essence what he was saying is the kingdom of heaven's kind of been pinned up for a while but when john came on the scene he was given that rod of authority and he made a breach and people began to realize what was going on that god was doing something and people began to break out and as some broke out more followed and more followed and more followed and all of a sudden here's the king right in your midst the king whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple so he was alluding to all of that but he also connected this prophecy in micah 2 with the prophecy that we find in malachi or malaki my messenger the prophecy that speaks of the coming of elijah malachi chapter 4 specifically so here's why i'm bringing this out both these prophecies in micah and in malachi 4 are in regard to the regathering the restoration of the temple gathering the people assembling the people because you see in the days of john the baptist until now yeshua is saying things aren't the same as they were before things are happening times they are a-changing and something very very important is getting ready to happen and the people who realize that who are listening who are paying attention they recognize it and when they see it they know that's the father's hand at work and nobody has to convince them because they hear what the spirit is saying they have the ears to hear what he is saying so in the first century significant events were getting ready to occur consequently there was a call to what what was the first thing john says repent why the kingdom of heaven is at hand repent because the kingdom's at hand it's very close and so you need to get ready for what's about to happen when yeshua comes on the scene what's the first thing he says repent why for the kingdom of heavens at hand because everything has to be established how at least by two right and did significant things occur this is where you can get involved did significant things occur at that time did everybody notice it and we're talking about god's people did every did every one of god's people take heed and embrace it no they did not just those who were able to filter out all those other voices and hear what the spirit was saying and to recognize the hand of god when they saw it how many of you want to be those people right well then we have a responsibility so if it happened once it's going to happen again right because we understand the end by understanding the beginning so that call is going out today and we've heard that call to return to him to repent to turn away from this action or this attitude and these rituals and whatever we've heard that for a while and along with that call to repent we understand that something's getting ready to happen that's why he's calling to us so earnestly to turn from your way and to turn back to him and so the call has gone out to gather and to assemble why because we need to listen because he's getting ready to do something now going back to genesis 49 as i stated earlier that word together asaph is the root for the word or the name yosef in fact you can see it there on the screen yud vav samekh and so the name yosef is attached to the idea of gathering which is kind of interesting considering the pattern and the picture that joseph paints for us not only of the messiah but of the body of messiah as well and more specifically the part of the family that lived outside of the land that looked like the egyptians that talked like the egyptians that did all the things that they did and yet knew that he was the seed of abraham and how god had put him in a particular place for a particular purpose at a particular time so that the family could be reunited and the people be put back together when jacob was presented with his blood-soaked tunic by his brothers and jew to ask him is this is this the tunic of your son here's what jacob said in genesis 37 verse 33 and he recognized it and said it is my son's tunic a wild beast has devoured him without doubt joseph is torn to pieces the hebrew phrase that is translated torn to pieces i want to show you here in hebrew it's just doubling of that word to emphasize he was torn into now that's what jacob is thinking physically but here's what we want you to see this because this is very very important as it relates to the pattern that we see in joseph the story the significance of joseph's story in relation to the restoration of the family because joseph was the one who was torn and he was cut off from the rest of his family and yet it was that one that god used to bring the family back together the one that was cut off and torn all these terms that we're talking about and all these concepts in the story of joseph these are things that we find in other passages of scripture that speak of the restoration ezekiel 37 is you know everybody should be familiar with that one that goes into a lot of great detail about how the two become one but i want to look at another what should be very familiar prophecy it's found in hosea chapter 6 verse 1 come and let us return to the lord that word is shuff means to turn from one way and turn back better translated return come and let us return to the lord it's the basis of the word teshuva which is repentance so that's what it's talking about let's turn from our way let's turn back to his ways let's turn from the things that have caught our eye and our attention let's turn back to him and let's focus on him come and let us return to the lord for he has torn and that word there is the same word that is used when speaking of joseph when jacob said surely he has been torn in pieces the reason i want you to see this and hear this is because the father is really careful about the words he uses to make points he has torn but he will heal us he has stricken but he will bind us up after two days he will revive us now there's an alternate uh translation of this that i found kind of interesting it says that after two days excuse me he will heal us from the two days and what that says to me anyway is all the stuff that we've had to go through it's not just when he's going to do it it's what he's doing when he does it that he is healing us of those things that we have had to suffer and endure during the two days i found that quite interesting and on the third day he will raise us up that we may live in his sight let us know and let us pursue the knowledge of the lord here's another alternate reading of that verse or that sentence let us know and let us eagerly strive to know the lord now that one resonates with me to eagerly strive because that's that's what it feels like striving fighting scratching clawing pressing enduring persevering let us earnestly strive to know the lord his going forth is established as the morning he will come to us like the rain like the latter and the former rain to the earth so here's why we read this in hosea there are those who are hearing the call the call that goes out to them at the last days remember the words of jacob there are going to be things that are going to call to you in the last days and this that is calling to you is calling you to gather to assemble to prepare yourselves to listen what the king has to say because he's getting ready to do something and oh yeah you're supposed to be involved with this he's going to do it in and through you so these are the people who are hearing that and these are the ones who are returning to him they are turning from their ways to his they recognize what has occurred and why it has occurred because they like joseph were torn in pieces they have been torn they have been disconnected they have been cut off but they recognize that the call has gone forth and god is gathering those who were torn he is gathering those who were cut off and he's going to collect them in one place i know that there are those here and there are those who are in the live stream that are part of this body and i'm not talking about just this local body i'm talking about the body that could testify of what we just said how they were cut off from everybody and everything they were torn they were broken they felt hopeless and it was in that scenario that he gathered them that he reached out that he found them that he spoke to them he he did something to speak to their heart i was raised in church i was raised around you know god all my life my earliest memories are church and god and and those kinds of things in scripture but it was standing on a stage in hammond louisiana surrounded by a bunch of drunk people dancing on the top of tabletops and that is not an exaggeration playing some song from the 80s that i heard the voice say you know you don't belong here all right it startled me so that i stopped playing and i told the other guys let's take a break and it was immediately after that that i left that band i put my guitar in the closet i didn't take it out until brandon was like 13 or 14 years old that's when i met her and that's when she laid the gauntlet down said if you're going to marry me it's not going to be that way it's going to be this way and i i begin to realize how he was slowly surely but systematically he was healing me and he's still healing me of those things in the two days you understand what i'm saying still working on it we're all working on it right all right but there's somebody i feel that needs to hear this you've been torn you've been disconnected you've been cut off and you have used that as justification to continue being cut off the call is going out to you that it is time for you to be gathered it is time for you to come and return to the lord and what has been torn he will heal and what has been broken he will bind up and he will raise you up but you must heed that call the word torn here in hosea chapter 6 is that same word that is used to describe joseph that he was torn but that word is also a word that means to be plucked it is the word that is used in genesis chapter 8 when noah has sent the dove out to see if there are any signs of life and when the dove returns that second time he comes with a freshly plucked olive leaf or olive branch and that was the sign to noah that they were soon to leave the ark so that which torn is in one you know scenario is torn to be ripped out to be torn into to be disconnected is the very word that also means to be plucked to be plucked out of a situation and then be brought into the ark to be plucked out of a wild olive tree and to be grafted into a cultivated olive tree and to serve a very significant purpose in the father's overall plan for his people i look out in this room and i guarantee you there are many there are many brands that have been plucked from the fire here there are many here that you came out of families that did not raise you in this way perhaps even some extremes they raised you to be everything but this okay but the father had a purpose had a reason and he plucked you out of that disconnected scenario to make you part of something that he is doing by the way romans 11 you know what that's about right it's about the regathering it's about the restoration of the kingdom these people in hosea chapter six that hear the call they're returning to him these are the same people that other prophecies regard as the lost sheep and these lost sheep realize that it is time to return to the fold it's time to return to the to the flock it's time to hear our shepherd's voice and heed his voice and return to him with all of our hearts and so these are those who are being gathered and they're being assembled as in a sheepfold according to what micah chapter 2 says luke chapter 15 the parable of the lost sheep that wasn't just something yeshua pulled out of thin air he doesn't leave the 99 to go fetch the one just because you thought that would sound like a good story he's making a point the reason i'm here is to put the family back together i'm going to go find those that have been disconnected i'm going to go find those that have been lost i'm going to go find those that have been torn i'm going to go find those who know who they are and yet won't walk in it i'm gonna go check them down and he's gonna do it he said according to ezekiel 20 on a dark and gloomy day so this theme is recurring throughout the scripture and because of that it was something that was weighing very heavily on the minds of yeshua's disciples on the mount of olives as he's preparing to ascend into heaven so they it says in acts chapter 1 verse 4 and being assembled together i think luke knew what he was doing or better put the spirit of god moved upon luke 2 pin these words knew exactly what he was doing and being assembled together with them he commanded them not to depart from jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father which he said you have heard from me for john truly baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the holy spirit not many days from now therefore when they had come together they asked him saying lord will you at this time restore the kingdom to israel and he said to them it is not for you to know times or seasons which the father has put in his own authority but you shall receive power when the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in jerusalem and all judea and samaria and to the end of the earth in a nutshell yeshua's response is this the father is going to restore the kingdom but he's going to do it at the end of days there is a set time for these things to come so first you guys have to be empowered by the spirit of god and you have to go preach to the lost sheep you have to go out there to those who had been torn and disconnected you've got to go speak to them because if you go speak to them my sheep will smile they'll hear my voice in your words so if it was true then it needs to be true today that what people hear is not bill it's not you it's their shepherd his voice in our words and so it is our responsibility responsibility then to be authentic and to be faithful and true representatives of our king to not misrepresent him with our opinions but to represent him faithfully with his words and to bring his message and to be guided by his spirit there is no there's no doubt in my mind and i i i know i keep going back to this but i cannot begin to express to you what i'm feeling inside of me right now but going back to this there is something that the father wants to impress upon someone in the fact that it is critical that you listen to those that are reaching out to you um you know i'm speaking for the benefit of all those who are out there on the live stream as well now what's i try very hard to be um what's the word i'm looking for here help me father sensitive considerate of of god's people and feelings and things like that but there's something inside of me that says you know there are those things that need to be said that may not your flesh may not like but there are things that sometimes we need to hear for the saving of our soul so when we go out and we speak to others we need to be very sensitive to his spirit so that they will hear our shepherd's voice in the word spoken to them because we are living i believe in a time where that call is going out and for some things time may be short there may be things that we have to respond to very quickly we've got to be able to recognize his voice i personally believe that we're living in the set time that the psalmist wrote of in psalm 102 talking about the time to favor zeon that set time has come and this will be written for a generation to come those who will praise the lord i believe that we're living in that time and if we are then that call is going forth so then if we are being called to know the lord and to pursue the knowledge of the lord to eagerly strive to know the lord not just know about him if the call is going forth then we are to understand as well that we're being assembled that we're being gathered for that calling to come to pass because there is a reason that all of us have to come together that's why we're in this time in history so if we return and we pursue him according to hosea's prophecy like the dawn of day is certain to occur what we don't understand today will be brought to light tomorrow that's what he was hinting at that if we pursue him if we are eagerly pursuing him there are things that may we may not understand right now but in time we will come to understand because he will make it clear and why because we're pursuing him we're wanting to be more intimate with him joseph come to understand that what his brothers intended for evil god meant it for good so the closer we get to him the clearer his word is going to be to us and we're going to better understand the call that is upon our life but if we don't respond as we pursue him as we draw closer to him the rain he says that the blessings that he bestows upon his people he's going to bestow those upon us and it in the prophecy in hosea we are to consider that he comes as the latter and the former rains here's my understanding from being in israel a few times the latter rain happens in the spring the former rain happens in the fall the latter rains comes basically at the end of the growing season to ensure that the fruit is going to be healthy and abundant the former rain essentially prepares the season for the in gathering but they're both important and they happen in different seasons and to serve different purposes but it also in my mind connects to this idea that things that are happening now have been and what has been will happen he did things once and he is going to do those things again for example john the baptist he's the breaker he comes up to prepare the way he's preaching repentance preparing the way of the king yeshua the king he comes on the scene to accomplish the father's will and that was two thousand years ago or two days ago right but something happens in hosea's prophecy after two days after two days he is going to what he is going to revive us he is going to raise this up that we may live in his sight we also understand that john was elijah yeshua said if you can receive this because in matthew 17 elijah comes to do what to restore all things now i'm bouncing around a lot and i know that some of you may have to go back and listen to this again but i'm just gonna put it this way he who has an ear to here led him here what i'm getting at here is the way has to be prepared again why because the king is coming and so elijah comes on the scene to do what to call to his people malachi chapter 4 verse 1 for behold the day is coming burning like an oven and all the proud yes all who do wickedly will be stubble and the day which is coming shall burn them up says the lord of hosts that will la that will leave them neither root nor branch but to you who fear my name the son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings what is he going to do after two days he's going to revive us he's going to heal us that we've been torn and if the one translation is correct then he's going to heal us of those things that we've endured for those two days he's going to arise with healing in his wings in literal hebrew that is in his corners at his side remember the woman reached out she grabbed the corner of his garment because that's where the fringes were right but it is also alluding to the fact that in his corners on his side will envision help me father envision the prophecy in zechariah chapter 4 of the menorah the seven branch lamp stand and it's flanked on either side by olive branches i argue one's a natural branch and one's a wild branch but they they both come together and become one in him so he will arise with healing in his wings and you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves you shall trample the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day with that i do this says the lord of hosts remember the torah of moses my servant which i commanded him for all israel with the statutes and judgments behold i will send you elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord and he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children of the fathers lest i come and strike the earth with the curse there's something that keeps popping up in this for me and i maybe you've noticed it and i didn't realize it until just right before i come into the platform but through this torah portion and through things that i felt the father impressed me to put in our message today here's this recurring theme of the father's reaching the children and speaking to the children and calling to the children and turning the hearts of the children back to the fathers the fathers to the children and restoring and reuniting reconciliation of these things why because there's something significant getting ready to happen something important is getting ready to happen so thus the call to return to repent in order to be healed to be revived to be gathered together assembled ready to listen to what the king has to say and i with all my heart believe we're living in that time and i don't think it's just happenstance that we are now hearing the great need to assemble together in communities and to have relationships like that because that that time that he spoke of in these prophecies is at hand i'm convinced of it it might not happen in my lifetime but it is at hand it is near and the father is preparing his people for these things that are coming upon the world and so again i don't think it's happened stance that the call is going forth to find communities of like-minded people those of you who are joining us on the live stream we we love and appreciate you and wish there was wish there was so much more we could do but we cannot replace what only personal interaction is going to be able to give you and to help you with and to how it will encourage you we'll do the best we can in this in this way and we'll do it for as long as the father allows but the call is going forth to find to connect if you've been disconnected to pray that he will connect you and if he has to pluck you out of a place and join you to something be prepared to allow him to do that if it is his will hallelujah if there comes a day he plucks some of us from here to there so that we can better accommodate his people and the growth of what he wants to do then we have to be prepared for that because to quote my good friend brad he's smarter than we are he knows what he's doing right we're just striving to know and to understand so i don't think it's an accident that we hear this call and i also don't believe it's an accident that the world is saying the very opposite the world is saying disconnect stay home you'll be safer this way i'm trying to rein in bill right now all right but it's not an accident that this this is what the world is not only asking people to do in some situations demanding and even the governor of new mexico you heard this one the governor of new mexico is fining churches ten thousand dollars apiece and here's why because they met i gotta reign in bill again so to all our friends in new mexico we're just going to be we're going to be praying for you let me let me try to bring this to a close i've gone off script several times here but what the father is calling us to is not going to be easy it's going to be the hardest thing we've ever done it's going to be very difficult because it's going to war with what our flesh wants to do what's comfortable for us what's convenient for us but i'm going to suggest this because it is going to be so difficult perhaps that's why these past two days i'll just use that terminology have been difficult that's why so many of us have had to go through things that we've got to go through that's why we've had to endure difficult times loss anguish disappointment this kind of thing that's why so many of us have had to exercise our faith muscle in ways that we've never had to exercise them to just pick up and leave your home in texas and go to tennessee believing that the father has something for you there or arizona or california or new york or florida new jersey and i'm probably missing some states that are represented here today california but the reason so many of us have been through these trials and tests that have just at times even caused us to be considering just saying i quit yes i quit i can't do this but then to come through that to overcome that it was flexing our faith muscle because we're going to need that extra strength in the days ahead because he will not call us to do things that he has not equipped and empowered us to do amen maybe that's why we have been tested so in relationships with others because this whole idea of getting together and being one with them can be quite difficult perhaps that's why we have been tested so in how we deal with the challenges that have faced us maybe he has allowed these things to happen and touch our lives to see what was in our hearts what's in your heart are you willing to do what i've called you to do and i'll be honest with you there are times i thought you got the wrong guy there ain't no way i can't do look you know me you know my weakness you i can't do this and in myself i can't in yourself we can't we know that we can do all things through the one who strengthens us but i want you to consider this that it it takes on a whole different meaning for me that would we consider that together as one with him working in and through all of us what great things can be accomplished for his purpose so it's in that vein i want to try to bring this too close and i want us to look at a couple of things that jacob had to say to his oldest sons not not going to go through all 12 don't have time today in consideration of things that have happened and the father perceiving or looking to to see and and have it be revealed what's in our hearts i want you to consider some things that he says to some of his older sons genesis chapter 49 verse 3. reuben you're my firstborn my might and the beginning of my strength the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power unstable as water you shall not excel build him up just to let him down a little bit no no no he is stating things that are true now i want to put myself in the position of a father is going to have to tell his son some very difficult things i want him to understand that i love him i want him to understand that i'm on his side and i want him to understand that i recognize things in you good and bad and here's the hope that you won't give in to the things that are bad but that you'll allow those things that are good and virtuous and prosperous those things to grow within you and to add to that i'm about to leave this world so i'm not going to hold anything back so you are unstable as water you shall not excel so i you know we're not going to go through reuben's life but if you've read the scripture you know there are things that he did that he should not have done right and so jacob's rebuke is merited concerning all of that because reuben was in line to receive the birthright and the dignity that goes with being the firstborn and rabbinical sources even teach that that would have included not only the birthright of the firstborn but the priesthood and the kingship as well but because he acted impestiously he just acted on a whim he gave into his emotions didn't think about things first he just reacted and did things cost him all of that he forfeited all of those sacred things because he had no strength of character reuben often expressed good intentions but he wouldn't put those good intentions into action let us not be a assembly that talks the talk let us be the assembly that walks the walk and let us do those things that he has told us to do israel said we will hear and we will do because what's that man who goes and looks in the mirror he sees what he looks like and he goes off and then what he forgets what kind of a man he is that's the guy who hears but doesn't and so we're to be those who are hearers and doers of the word so we need to glean from reuben's mistakes and resolve not to repeat those mistakes in the days of deborah and barack when the other tribes were taking action the tribe of reuben was in great thoughts of heart let me think about this a while and then let me think about it some more and let me think about it some more and let's talk and discuss and debate and that's that in the other and never did anything i'm not against talking things through i'm not against planning i'm not against you know meditating getting counsel deliberating debating even but there comes a time we have to take action there comes a time we have to do according to jacob reuben was as unstable as water implying that he was reckless still waters you know they say that uh deep water the still waters are usually the ones that you know are the deepest okay i get that but even still waters can be ruffled by the wind and what starts out as a ripple can turn into a tempest fast flowing water it's going to take the course of least resistance and it's going to run where it can and it doesn't really matter what's in its way if it can it'll run right over it but it's also at the same time going to take the path of least resistance implying it's not it doesn't have the strength of character if you will to overcome it so reuben is someone that is he's a person who lacked self-control he lacked the resolution of purpose he lacked the will to overcome and so i'm saying that because if we are hearing the call let's make certain that we don't repeat the errors of some of those who've come before us isn't is our father's ambassadors we can't be rash and impestious people we need to be the kind of people who consider the consequence of our actions before we take those actions because we cannot afford to be as little children that are tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine because there's going to be a lot of stuff that's going to come all those voices are going to come and they're going to try to dissuade they're going to try to persuade they're going to try to distract distort and we're going to have to be the people who can filter out all those voices so that we can hear our shepherd's voice before we consider our course of action let's also quickly consider what jacob said to simeon and levy he cursed their anger he didn't curse them he cursed their anger you see he loved them and he knew that they too had purpose in god's kingdom it's just he was pointing out that look you guys have a tendency to give into your passions and your emotions especially this violent anger that you've got and he was implying i believe anyway you can't be ruled by those things you have to be one who rules over those emotions because as we see with reuben and we see with others one misstep can alter the entire trajectory of a person's life and at the very least can frustrate god's purpose for you i i've probably beaten a dead horse at this point but it's just it's just in my spirit today very heavily i would hate to think i'd have to stand before the almighty not having done any of this if that's what we were supposed to do missed it because something that happened a long time ago because i was stupid and my mother's prayers weren't covering me so that he could pluck me from the clutches of death you understand what i'm trying to say here how just so quickly things can turn and how it has such far-reaching ramifications in other words i've gone through my george bailey moment and i'm on the other side now you know mary you know never mind anyway you know just so you knew i was about we must consider that the last words of a dying man are to be regarded as critical and consequently they should be heeded and jacob's words were not just two men who lived thousands of years ago they are to those who are in the latter days so if the time has come for god's people to gather and to assemble that i'm going to recommend that we not be engaged in anything any attitude any actions any deeds any uh anything that would work against that call that's going out there and having done this myself it does you no good to run from it he will track you down and he will make your life miserable until you answer the con fact i want us to pray that he will make their lives miserable until they answer the call we need to work in harmony with what the father is doing at this time the world is saying and demanding don't gather don't assemble don't get together and i say well let's just say that we're going to do what the father said today amen all right our father in heaven god of abraham isaac jacob [Music] we thank you for your word and we thank you father for your spirit the one the spirit of truth that leads us into all truth and father i just pray that the most important thing you wanted to say this morning that that's the message that went forth and those things that you wanted to impart to us as a whole and those things you wish to impart to each of each of us as individuals i pray that that word went forth and that you're you're pleased and i pray father that you would help us all to be the people you've called us to be to listen to heed your voice to to respond to that call that goes forth now and to have the courage and have the determination and the commitment to do what you've called us to do in spite of what's going on around us and we realize that in and of ourselves that we can't muster that but that we know that your spirit can quicken us and you can bring us to that place that we are bold that we are courageous you've you've told us again and again and again to not fear them not be intimidated by them but to be bold and strong and of good courage because we know that you go before us we know that you are our rear guard we know that you watch over and keep us help us father to hear the words of your servant jacob and let it resonate within us today and though the man has long passed the experiences and the lessons and the example that he left for us it still lives within us today and i pray that this little fellowship called jacob's tent would be an authentic and faithful representation of what you through your servant jacob israel and what you accomplished in him but more importantly what you wish to accomplish through your people at large that it will be exemplified in this body and so we ask father that you forgive us of anything that would offend you anything that would be contrary to your will father i pray that if there's anything in my heart in life that you're unhappy with that you would bring it to my attention and you know and give me the strength to turn from it i pray father that you would just allow us all to sense the the need to turn from our way quickly and to earnestly strive to be one with you and that you would heal those places that we've been torn those people that have been disconnected i pray father that you will revive us and that as we assemble together father help us have ears to hear what you are saying right now so that we will embrace it and we will go and we will do to the glory of our father and i pray father as events in this world continue to unfold help us not to give in to fear anger passions and emotions that would lead us astray but to be still and to know that you are you these things we pray and ask and we believe you for because we've come to you today in the name that is above all the name of our king and messiah yeshua amen amen you can i just first like to clarify that brandon was not 13 years old when we met i do still try to help him with his grammar from time to time [Music] brandon's our firstborn who will be 33 this month and um [Music] [Applause] and we are in our 35th year of marriage so that would not have been possible apparently he was still caught up back in that place in louis louisiana for a minute i'm also glad bill didn't have to drive the tractor in this morning we're sorry that we were late um but that would be kind of neat to see him driving in on the tractor kind of wild-haired um i'm very thankful that alan was not harmed when the battery malfunctioned this morning um it's frustrating when things like that happen and when you see your vehicle is about to blow up and your child's face is in it it's like all these things go through your mind and i wasn't really concerned about being late at that point i was just thankful that alan wasn't harmed and so i said go inside and tell dad he's going to have to ride with us so we better hurry so he did and i went around to the car to tell allison and her little friend that um you kitty cat stay right here because the herd is spreading out again so um we need to be able to find everybody and allison said she could sense my frustration and you know the emotion of what just happened and she said very cheerfully divine delay because she was in the car with me one time when i almost had to drive the tractor in in the morning and i did drive it over to try to start the car and can you get the point that we need to do something about our vehicles here anyway um i was very frustrated and it was raining and you know all the emotions that go along with all that last minute stuff that happens and i've talked to so many people y'all all experience the same thing because the bottom line is the enemy just doesn't want us to be here but i'll borrow one of bill's um interesting vocabulary words to the [Applause] enemy but anyway the reason i was [Music] i know honey i'm helping you out anyway um that's why allison said divine delay because she was in the car with me that morning and had we left on time had i not have to drive the tractor around to try to jump the car off um which didn't work then i had to go get the four wheeler which i'm still shocked that that started the car battery we would have been in a head-on collision that was just around the corner from the street we live on and i could tell you so many stories throughout our lives and the years we've been ministering that that exact thing has happened and saved not just our lives but our whole youth group some of our our youth kids still call us call me mama beth now you know what i'm talking about because you were there gay bello that was on um at the hanukkah conference he's one that was on the bus one time and he knows what i was talking about so things happen we don't know why but the father knows why i dare say at the age of six that bill had no idea when he was standing looking in the casket of a 16 year old cousin who perhaps didn't have the parents praying over him and he made that fatal mistake with his buddies because it was just the cool thing to do and that was the last thing he did and i made a big impression on him but at six years old i dare say he had no idea when he heard that song that 50 years later it would have the meaning that it does today for this message i feel that in my heart i know you is resonating with you too i just feel the holy spirit impressing us with that story today so things that happen that [Music] we have no idea why he has a purpose and it may take 50 years for us to understand why we heard that thing or why that song impressed us but he has a reason and if we'll stay in line with him he'll bring it back he'll bring it back to our memory and he'll use it [Music] i was talking with a really good friend yesterday my friend max is so encouraging uh she always has such a positive attitude and uh she's been through many trials in her life but we were talking about kobe we were talking about 2020 and how i was just so glad to kick it to the curb and let's move on you know but she said beth yeah it's been very trying but think of all the silver linings that have come out of it that would not have happened otherwise so this dark thing called koba that has tried to swallow up the whole world so many good things have come out of that and i won't go through all of them you have your own stories but guess what homeschooling is cool now so we've been cool for a lot longer than they knew we were cool right you know so now they're doing it too they're fine you better sit down anyway you know out of it families are together more you know the restaurants aren't as open as later they're just not open at all or you just can't go to them and the movie theaters you know all of these things that we entertained ourselves with and went off and did that kind of scattered family has separated us maybe there's a reason and so in his message today [Music] he's talking about um the hearts of the fathers and the hearts of the children and anybody who knows me knows that i am all about family the heart of the home you know i love my family i try to help any of you who have any issues you ever want to talk about with your family i pray for you you know that's just that is my heart and i think as women we're definitely much more emotional there and we're supposed to be and that's a good thing but the the world is trying to rip families apart right now so the families need to be together so one thing that i have talked to in the last i don't know it's been several months [Music] and so if we're going to talk about reconciliation of family there's something we need to talk about if you're a parent raise your hand okay the majority of the people in here raise their hands okay raise your hand if you're a perfect parent okay a joke over here right but then she put it down anyway there's not one perfect parent in here okay as much as we love our parents they weren't perfect either raise your hand if you have a perfect heavenly father look how his children have behaved so we got to get over this blaming stuff and saying well i can behave this way because my parents did this or my parents did this because their parents did that [Music] when you stand before the father is that going to be your excuse because you're not responsible for what your parents did and you reach an age where they're not responsible for what you do anymore it's between you and him so we're going to bring families back together let's just get over the blame game okay none of us are perfect we never have been we never will be that's why we need each other it does not matter the age so now that we have that settled and i pray that we do then let's pray for each other and let's show each other you know what you're imperfect i'm imperfect but i still love you and i'm going to help you and i'm going to be there for you we're going to stumble but we're going to pick each other back up and we're going to march forward we're going to lock arms because we are soldiers all in the same army and we need each other we need to help each other in our weaknesses not kick each other while we're down [Music] i was standing on our deck last night and the it was a the moon was shining beautifully through the clouds it was had been a very rainy day and the wind was blowing it just felt so great and it was the perfect temperature and it was just so peaceful while the cat was ferociously rubbing on my legs telling me the stupid dogs ate her food i stayed focused and the song just came to me [Music] and i can't even remember all of the words but you'll know it lord you're beautiful and i'm just taking in his creation just a simple few minutes before i go to bed and that song just weld up in my heart lord you're beautiful your face is all i seek that's all we should seek not the treasures of this world yeah we have to pay our bills not to be the coolest latest greatest personality or idea or whatever but it's your face that's all i seek because when your eyes are on this child your grace abounds in me [Music] i don't remember the rest of the song but where i took it from there is if his grace is in me how much can i extend that to my brother or sister how much should i and so i was just overwhelmed and i woke i went to bed with that song in my heart i woke up with that song in my heart and i just want to share thee the love and the peace and the joy and the comfort that just that one little phrase that somebody pinned a long time ago when they were speaking to their perfect father our perfect father they didn't have any idea that i'd be standing on my deck last night and that would mean what it did to me and i would feel the need to share it with you because somebody needs to hear those same words so the father does things for a reason so before we get angry or frustrated or impatient i'm so thankful for allison's cheerful two words divine intervention no divine delay because it's all for our good if we're walking with him like we're supposed to be we're not ignoring the truth he will work things out for our good now the opposite of that is true too if we aren't it's not that he can't or doesn't want to as we remove ourselves so we need to consider that as well anyway i'm going to move on to a couple of prayer requests um denise oakey's 36 year old son is going to have surgery on january the 5th it's pretty extensive and she's hoping for of course the very best of outcomes so if you will just pray for him and judy gallagher in dartmouth nova scotia i think i have that right is um one of those who's cut off and she had she had to move and it's not been pleasant she has no one to fellowship with and so let's pray for judy and today let judy represent all of those people in our live stream family who are so cut off so isolated so lonely so by themselves that they gather right there by themselves with nobody else with them to watch this live stream now i'm thankful they can do that and we all want to put our arms around you and hug you but wouldn't it be great if the father would send just one or two or a few families that they could fellowship with and they could do the feast with and just experience more joy so let's pray for them let's let judy be that person today who represents everybody else so judy gallagher we're praying for you and expecting a good report from up there in your neck of the woods i want to say hello to live stream family in holland i got a sweet encouragement from them and from forgive me if i don't say this right brigate or brigitte in georgia um brigitte okay i thought it might be british but i wasn't sure anyway she we met her a couple of times and um through a mutual friend she started watching the live stream and um you know listening to the teachings and everything and she just said also a very sweet and encouraging note so you just never know when you're going to cross paths with somebody and something you say or somebody else you know is going to say something about you that's going to lead somebody to him then um one more i'll just share this and then i'll close i got the sweetest note and i want to say hello to mr kelly and miss laura mcbee in kentucky your note really touched my heart and i want the rest of the family here locally to hear just a snippet i didn't ask your permission so i won't share all of it so don't worry but um i'm just very thankful and excited for what the father is doing in your life mr kelly said that he's not attended a church regularly as an adult and he said that he he can't say he knows what the holy spirit feels like but a couple of months ago at the end of the service he felt a sensation come over him that and his words snapped him to attention so this is somebody who by his own admission is saying he's not really familiar with what the holy spirit would feel like but he felt something that day that he feels like that's what it was and he said since then he's read his entire bible and he feels more at peace and has more understanding and they hope to visit us soon so when you do please do not leave i want to give you a hug and i'm sure a lot of other people do here too so just think about what happens we're just a tiny little group right here in a tiny little building in a little town that most people never heard of but look what the father's doing it is just our minds are continually blown they shouldn't be because he is all of that he is awesome magnificent wonderful beyond comprehension isn't it wonderful to have something that blows your mind in such a wonderful way in this crazy world today so i just wanted to share that with you i wanted to say hey to a few people i'm not leaving others out on purpose but i guess i kind of am because it would take me all day long to say hi to everybody because we get some really wonderful notes of encouragement here and laura passes those on to me if i don't see them myself and i just like to share them from time to time to let those of you here locally and the rest of our live stream family know what's going on out there and that we are all woven together by that silver thread and the holy spirit doesn't reside just here in this little building they feel it out there on the live stream too if you will stand with me and let's pray [Music] i mentioned a couple of prayer requests just because i like to you know people who can't be here like to to mention that but i know there are people right here in this house today who have requests i certainly do i y'all know me i always tell you all the time i always have prayer requests i always have things that i'm praying about things that sometimes are more heavy on my heart than others so you're never praying alone i'm right there in that request group with you so if you do have a request you do have a need you have healing that needs to happen in your life we're praying for you too and i want to remind you that um our ladies will pray with you in the overflow room afterward if you feel like you need some special one-on-one prayer um but while we're praying don't just listen to me pray because i'm not the only one who can speak to the father every one of you here no matter your age you're all his children so he listens to your voices too so let's pray together [Music] our abba our king our healer our provider our protector our everything so many things we don't even realize that you are to us we thank you as i prayed this morning on the way in abba thank you again for providing us the opportunity to call ourselves your children please please let us never ever ever take that carelessly it means so much more than we can ever comprehend father there are people here you already know what they need you know the healing physically that needs to happen you know the healing and heart that needs to happen you know the spiritual healing that needs to happen you know the direction that people are asking for you know the plans of the enemy to try to confuse your direction [Music] father we pray that the enemy's plans will be thwarted just like you did this morning for our family and for so many others who made it here against the intent of the enemy loosen his chariot will's father [Music] abba your children come to you knowing there is no other way to be whole to receive the things that we need in our life and thank you that we can come to you and that we can lay our requests at your feet and leave them there and know that you are already on it most often you just want us to ask just to acknowledge that you are the supreme being the only one who can really fix the situation and you're just waiting for us to ask so we ask today whatever the need may be abba we bring it before you with every confidence that it cannot be fixed more perfectly than what you can do for us so we ask you to do that help us to yield and to bend in whatever way we need to [Music] to make it happen as quickly as possible we thank you for your love and for your answered prayers father and all the ways you demonstrate to us that we are your children we thank you abu and yeshua's precious name amen amen this is the part of the service where we want to invite you those who have prepared and you have a willing heart if you want to present an offering unto the lord i want to invite you to do that again everyone who is online if you would like to participate in that as well we invite you to do so at this time [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh you're beautiful [Music] let's all sing and when your eyes are on this child your grace [Music] is [Music] one more time [Music] is [Music] your grace amen just remain standing please [Music] may the lord may thy lord may his grace and his face [Music] may the lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace and give you peace [Music] [Music] this is [Music] is [Music] is and give you peace and give you peace [Music] oh man well yeah let's do that real quick okay while he's getting the elements for kiddish and i'm like doing the rest of the joyful tears we want to turn to the rest of our family over here this camera right above the just to the left of the door here that's where the rest of our family is so we want to say hi to our streamer family everybody wave shabbat shalom we love you they can hear you so say hello shabbat shalom we love you [Applause] here we go okay so we just don't ever want to leave them out they can't be right here with us and nickster is still waving over there so okay oh um on the other side the people who are over there since we have such a full house we do have people on the other side today in the fellowship hall if you can hear me would you please as soon as we have finished with kiddish make your way over here and just visit for a little bit so that they can have time to get the fellowship hall set up that'll make it a lot easier thank you okay [Music] all right join with me [Music] [Music] blessed are you o lord our god king of the universe who creates the fruit of the vine and for giving us yeshua the messiah who said i am the vine and you are the branches the highest blessed are you o lord our god king of the universe who brings forth bread from the earth and giving us yeshua the messiah who said i am the bread of life amen just everyone be seated for a moment no that's all right since we do have so many here today and beth said they're gonna need a few extra minutes to get everything ready mama told me not to talk with my mouth [Music] full [Music] well i'm about to when you

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