Genesis Chapter 22 Bible Study

praise God my brothers and sisters god bless you and welcome and welcome back to another Bible study my name is Clarence I'm pastor of united body of Christ Church I want to give God some honor and some praise and worship father I bless you I love you my father we love you and we thank you thank you for waking us up thank you for being with us as we went to and from throughout this day oh God thank you for keeping us safe from hurt harm or danger thank you for when still in your word and that thirst within us to seek after your righteousness God thank you for your son the Lord Jesus Christ who was indeed our Redeemer who is our king and the holder of our faith and the establisher of our salvation father thank you for your word bless you saints of God today we'll be reviewing the book of Genesis I know we had and I think it's been a week since I've been into Genesis in our the Bible study I've been hitting of the the books of Acts or the acts according to the apostle's nevertheless to let the last time we convened we went we went over I believe it was chapter 20 and 21 of the book of Genesis so we'll we'll review those two and then we'll go right into chapter 22 chapter 22 is short I'm not exactly sure if we have time to hit Genesis 23 because there are some there are some things that we need to cover with in 22 so we'll we'll let the spirit lead and dictate the flow there if you don't have Bibles as always go to our website www.rockymountainatvmc.com the corresponding chapters you want to click on the chapter four today they're also prayer requests very important we do get prayer requests in and it doesn't matter what hour of the day we get them you know there's always somebody available to to take the prayer request and we believe God for you that's a valuable resource go to our website click on that prayer request tap and it take you to a page where it's required for you to fill in some confidential information we need to know what's going on with you amen fill out that information click the submit button send it to us we'll get that in petition God for you prayer works amen I mean we're talking healing we're talking we you know you you need consultation through God you know you need him to give you peace direction you know prayer works anything that establishes the kingdom of God and all of this righteousness all of its glory the expansion of the kingdom of God you are the church the edification of you prayer works Jesus says whenever two or three are gathered in my name I'm in the midst of them you know whatsoever things you're touching you know we believe we believe God for you so that's a valuable resource please take advantage of that amen after after you submit your prayer we do give you some scriptures to help you out and then I'll come back you know as the Lord will I'll come back later and check on you to see where you are and try to give you a little bit more direction according to the leading of the Spirit of God and then I won't hold you over I always say that I won't hold you over I know I can be a little bit long-winded but you know that the goodness of the Lord his word is powerful and I get extremely excited about his word so anyway we'll go right into the lesson allow me to to break bread we just gave God some things but let us you know let's let's break bread here with some prayer and go right into this to the lesson today to the review and the lesson a man father we bless you we thank you father we adore you father thou cares for us and we care for you O God we love you you are indeed our parent our God our Father our Creator you are our counselor you are the reason why our heart beats you want the air that our lung take in Oh God you are the energy in our brains you other strength of our legs Oh God you are the blood that flows through our heart Oh God father we bless you father without you there is no us father you have been merciful and your tender sweet mercy scarred father we thank you for we thank you for your thoughts toward us O God to the point that you would send your only begotten Son thank you for your thoughts towards us the love that you have for us no matter what bad report you get from us you are still able to see the good no matter if the accuser tries to come at you about us you still seem fit to send your son for us because you love us you see the good in us O God and then you supply us with all that we need father you've even supplied us with your Holy Word that is alive to this day so father I pray in the name of Jesus we all gather before you we gather before you seeking the face of God seeking the wisdom of God seeking the knowledge of God o my father I pray in the name of Jesus that you bless this word allow the words in this Bible to become life allow these words to jump off the page and become pictorials to our senses o God that we will have a better understanding of these things that we are learning about you and your ways o God and their father let it be inscribed within our hearts that we can share it to all of our friends co-workers brother and sisters about the goodness of God and the ways of God let it edify our spirits O God that we may stand on the principles and the precepts of the Most High God Father we love you thank you for setting a table thank you for feeding our spirits thank you for allowing us to gather before you like we're gathering around a campfire and you're about to tell a story God thank you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we love you Father amen amen all right my brothers and sisters I won't hold you over let's go ahead with the review reveal in chapter 20 of the book of Genesis Abraham journeyed toward the south him and his wife end up going over there to the Philistines land over there to Abimelech you know he was in a bimla Kingdom and if you remember this we're talking about to review here if you remember something similar happened here with Abimelech that happened with King Pharaoh over there over in Egypt apparently the spirit of spirit of fear came up over came over Abraham and the first thing he does is he tells his wife to say that you are my sister you know his wife Sarah he says say you are my sister and he already illustrated he already described the essence of his fear what he said was he was afraid that you know he said this in the book of another book and in the land of Egypt what he was saying is he felt that if they saw his wife's beauty and they knew that he was married to her that that was his wife that they would have an occasion to kill him and have their way with her they would kill him so so then they would take her and she wouldn't be anybody's wife because he would be dead so he had her to say that he was that she was his sister in northern that he may live amen and he did the same thing here with them demonic and what happened is as they come into the land and they see they see Sarah she is taken and given to Abimelech and by night of them electus sleeping and the Lord visited him in his dreams and tell a bit like the head you know that you are a dead man I've got a contract on your head and it's about to be cashed in you know he says because the woman that you have is a man's wife and Abimelech was like wait a minute I didn't know this will you just he said will you kill the righteous nation it was like I had no idea I'm going about what they told me he says out of innocence has my hands done this I didn't know this and the Lord reason with them in a dream is like yeah I know you have it he said yeah I know that you're innocent you know I know that you haven't done this based on the intentions on your heart but based on what they've told you he says that's what the Lord were known to say that's why I kept you from sinning against me nevertheless nevertheless this contract is still on your head you need to make sure you release her back to his you know back to her husband and and you need to do that quick fast and in a hurry so in the morning time Abimelech gathered his men together and he told him about the visitation of the Lord within his dream and he immediately called Abraham into his presence and he acts day for him why would you do this to me you know for what have you seen within my kingdom what unrighteousness have you seen that that you would you know bring this contract or this bounty on my head no from God himself you know Abraham you know responded by saying I thought the fear of the Lord wasn't in this place and he said why what have you seen within me to make reason forget the kingdom what have you seen within me that you would bring this crime you know on me and nevertheless he released Sarah back to Abraham and then cashed he cashed Abraham out gave gave Abraham a thousand pieces of silver and gave him on men servants and woman servants you know and at the end and also there was a curse even though even though L bill Malik hadn't touched you know that he hadn't touched Sarah nevertheless there was an automatic curse that was upon the kingdom and what it did is it shut up the the womb of all the women or it's not all the one why I want to say it shut up the womb or of the house of Abimelech so quite possibly I guess you can interpret that as all the wounds of the house of Abimelech or you could say his kingdom although all the women so that nobody could produce any children and so it took the prayers of Abraham to release that curse if you will amen so that was chapter 20 chapter 21 is the birth of Isaac which is this that the son that the Covenant of God is attributed to amen and Isaac actually means he laughs and if you remember that remember when the Lord Jesus and the two angels that was with him came and visited Abraham and and and the Lord Jesus said you know we're going to reverse we're going to reverse the time clock it in into her body that's in her body we're gonna reverse time that her body would be able to produce or that she would be able to bear children because she had passed the time for a woman to be able to produce well jesus said we're gonna reverse the time Clark you know and she remember what she did she laughed and he said why are you laughing and she said my lord I didn't laugh he said their name but thou did this laughs and so nevertheless the son she had it she named him Isaac according to what the Lord had mentioned and the name Isaac mean he laughs Amen during this during this two time went on Haggar if you remember Hagar she was the Egyptian slave she was also the if you will the wife of Abraham in a sense illegitimate wife you would say if you remember the story Abraham's wife Sarah kind of hasting getting ahead of God if you will we ended up pushing the the the the maid or the servant often to Abraham and I allow those two to procreate to trying to create a child and they did they ended up having a child by the name of Ishmael so Ishmael is about I believe this Mills around 14 years old 14 or 15 at the time here I believe he's 14 years old during the time of the birth of Isaac and what happened is Ishmael was laughing Ishmael was laughing or mocking if you will mocking Isaac and Sarah caught wind of it and wasn't happy with this so she cast out she cast out the woman and her son Abraham was broke up you know over this because she was like I don't know where they gonna stay but they can't stay here they need to go I'm tired of him I had too many conflicts I mean I gotta get you know soon as soon as she was pregnant I had to get the dirty looks from her you know it's one thing to deal with her but now I got to deal with the attitude of her son out they go and Abraham of course he was grieved about it but the Lord visited him and told him that you need to listen to your wife on this one this thing's must needs be she's not she and her son or her son rather it's not part of this covenant but he'll be taken care of so so you really need to let them go you know your wife is actually right on this nevertheless Abraham got up early the next morning and prepared some bread and some water gave it to Hagler and his son Ishmael and sent them off into the wilderness and she was devastated of course she was devastated she got put away and and she knew that she felt like like he sent them off into the wilderness to die nevertheless she sets Ishmael down in a spot and their water was empty so she put him under some shrubs if you will and she went as scripture said that she went a bow shot away which means you know if you take a bow and you release it the distance I just traveled that seems to be the distance that she went away with and I nevertheless the the Spirit of the Lord the voice came upon God heard the voice of the land and the angel called out to Hagar from heaven spirit of the Lord called out and you know let her know that it's okay you know we are aware of the situation this is God talking you know where where the situation I understand what's going on I knew you I know you got cast out were we not our father the child and and it said and it watched his verse 20 of Genesis 21 verse 20 it says and God was with the lad and he grew that mean God fathered him you know God was they you know he was an adoptive son to God if you will God fathered him since he had no father once he got cast away once he got put to the side then that was it nevertheless nevertheless the Lord was with them blessed them multiplied them you know took care of him this as he promised anyway to wrap 21 up as far as to review goes Abimelech knew that Abraham was strong and mighty and that the Spirit of the Lord was upon Abraham and so Abimelech was a little worried I mean because he didn't even touch the man's wife and all of a sudden he heaped upon himself curses you know within his cane a man a contract over his head so him send the blessings and a favor upon the the the head in the soul of Abraham him and his chief captain of the army of the army you know they they come on - to Abraham Abimelech and his captain came to Abraham and what they try to do is make a covenant of peace with Abraham and you know and and and you know so nevertheless they set a covenant between one another and you know that they would live in peace and harmony and then you know disc included verse 34 and Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines many days so that's going to take care of the review if I took if I went too fast for you go to our website you know plenty of plenty of videos there are plenty of videos for you to take your time you know we don't charge you for anything you know we make sure that you know things are there for your enjoyment and for the edification of your Spirit amen so if I go to the reviews too fast for you please don't don't worry about it you know take advantage of the resources that God offers you and man we'll start here at 22 and says then it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto Him Abraham and he said behold here am I and tip here you can say try April God tried Abraham if you will amen and he said take now thy son thine only son Isaac whom thou lovest and get the into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I would tell the of now now notice that the scriptures called Isaac Abraham's only Son now you know he had Ishmael but once he put Ishmael away that's that was it it was no longer his son that means God to go with the parental obligations of Ishmael so notice how the Scriptures is called and Isaac is the only son because he's the son that's part of the Covenant if you will I mean even though biologically Abraham as Ishmael's father boat goddess God is looking more towards Isaac as the seed of the Covenant that that everything is going to come through that's why he's referring to him as the only Son here man but also look at what's going on God is trying his faith will you be obedient and we see something like this similar to to uh and this is major if you think about it because the beginning of Genesis we see that there was a tree in the Garden of Eden which was the the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and God told Adam and Eve not to eat of that tree so basically he God commanded Adam and Eve told him what to do and what not to do and left it up to them to be obedient so here we have something similar God is telling Abraham I need you to sacrifice something dear to you just to see and you can actually think you can actually look at it like this the tree in the garden might have been used to to try if you willed the faith of Adam to see if he would be obedient unto God same thing is happening here so let's go on with this here I'll reverse to again and he said take now thy son thine only son Isaac whom thou lovest and get the into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon them one of the mountains which I would tell the of and Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took us the two of his young men with him which was his servants and Isaac has and Isaac his son and he cut the wood when you see clave has cut the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went into the place of which God had told him then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and he saw the place afar off and I think I read somewhere that that it was like fifty miles yeah the journey was about fifty miles so it took about three days to get to where he was going there it says and Abraham said unto his young man this is once they arrived at the place that God wanted him to be at a body here with the ass and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again unto you notice he didn't say that him in the lab will come back he just said look me and a boy we're gonna go and pray pray and worship and and they'll come back but he never said who would come back a man an Abraham - and and this is major because you could see how much he loved Ishmael - how devastated he was with Ishmael and now his other son Isaac you know now his son is his beloved son God is wanting to to have him used as a sacrifice but not God is not warning he's wanting to see if Abraham is going to be obedient but can you imagine the thoughts that's running through Abraham's mind on this one but Abraham is going to say something to let you see how profound his faith is watch this let's go on with this and Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaacs upon Isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they they went both of them together so you know when you have the burnt offering you kill it and then you put it over the fire so he took maybe it was a torch maybe it was a burning lamp nevertheless he took the fire which like I said it might have been in an element of a lamp or torture what have you he took that he took a knife and then his son he struck the wood to a son and then they went to a place to set up to set up an altar for burn offering a night in verse 7 Isaac spake unto Abraham his father and said My father and he said here am I my son and he said Behold the fire in the Woollett but where is the lamb for the burnt offering and Abraham said my son God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering so they went both of them there their way together they went both of them together profound statement because you got to understand how the gravity were the magnitude and what he just said God will provide himself a lamb indeed God was providing himself a lamb number one was Abraham I'm talking about your the lamb okay and I know that if God is going to use you based on his promises that he has already promised me obviously he's going to replace you because he's already taken one son he's already taken one son they're mmm could it be that Abraham looked at it like this that at the end maybe god I got faith enough to know that maybe God is not going to have this thing done but nevertheless let me follow through as I'm supposed to it's kind of hard to see which way but at the end of the day Abraham was still obedient to know that even if God took took his son that he still believed that God is going to give him another child because a year ago from that moment he didn't have a kid and if God had already said that he was going to make a multitude come from his wound come come from his loins if you will that even if he sacrificed his son Isaac that God is still going to be God and do what he said that he was going to do that is major faith you know number one to give up your son whom you just gave up one son and now by your own hands you got to give up your second son but to still believe God that he will replace remember how hurried they was too they felt God was waiting or maybe his wife felt that God was waiting too long and so he pushed hag dong-won to Abraham so that they could have a son together now all of a sudden you get rid of you get rid of the first son which is is meal and then the second son you're about to kill but the faith to believe that God is still God of his word is major now that's one way to look at it that's one thing here's the other thing that I want you to see because this is New Testament also this is part of a New Testament if you look at this and Abraham said my son God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering Jesus Christ was considered the holy sacrificial man of God God is the one that sent Jesus to come and die for us John 3:16 for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son the same thing that he's asking Abraham to do is what God had already did for us and just and as we read here God is going look I don't if you don't know the story I don't want to spoil it so I won't go to that though that way but God seen forth that his son was delivered as though he was the Lamb that was sacrificed for mankind major major major you ain't shouting and blessing God right now you need to be hallelujah Lord bless you bless you Lord let's go on glory to God let's let's go on with this watch this verse 9 and they came into the place which God had told him of and Abraham built an offer in there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him at the altar of the wood it says an Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay him he was about to do it and watch this and the angel of the Lord called out on the called called excuse me the angel the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham and he said here am I and he said lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do thou anything unto him for now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou has not withheld 9 only son from me that is Major so God stopped him right before the knife dropped he stopped him but look at the fervency of Abraham because the faith is God has been promising me this all alone that I'm going to have a multitude of seed from from my loins you know that there's going to be generations of generations that start from Abraham that's connected through Abraham and if God is going to take this son away then I know he can produce another one and so this is what my god wants said this is what my God is going to get that is the that is faith and adoration for God if you will amen go on with this and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns Abraham went and took the RAM and offered a muff for a burnt offering instead and in the stead of his son or in the place of his son if you will and Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh and Jehovah Jireh mean God my provider if you will late man it says and as it is said to this day in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen verse 15 and the angel of the Lord called out called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time and he said by my sweat by myself I've sworn saith the Lord because thou has done this thing and has not withheld thy son thine only son that in the blessing I will bless thee and then multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and that's the sand which is upon the sea shore and thy seed shall possess the gate of the enemy now if you think about it remember earlier he said if you can look up he said why don't you look up and tell the Stars how many are there he says and if you can do that then you'll know how many how many of the multitude of the earth will be associated with you those will be part of Yoyogi that's party that show seed that's all going to come from her to come from you originate from you that'll be connected by you you know through faith amen and he was talking about Jesus Christ coming through that bloodline and and that them receiving that us we're all receiving Jesus by faith this is the faith that was that established Abraham their covenant between God and Abraham amen so God is reaffirming this now I want to stop right there because notice 16 what 16 says and he said by myself have I sworn said the Lord for because thou has done this thing and has not when held thyself of thy son thine only son that you haven't he says by myself I'm swearing this two things are going on here and we're actually going to go over into he six and 13 so while I'm talking why don't we talk about this you know why we let's go over here in Hebrews and then I'll explain a few things to you hear what I say he brews a 6 and 13 so two things just went on there God says by myself that's one and then have I sworn that's - that's a promise to you and this is major here because Hebrews actually talks about this Hebrews 6 and 13 watch this let me put my pen here watch this he says for when God made a promise to Abraham because he swear by no greater he swore by himself saying surely blessing I will bless thee and multiplying I will multiply thee and so after he had he had patiently endured he obtained the promise so after Abraham had endured you know he bought to kill his son he took he rode it to the end he end up obtaining this promise from God it says for men verily swear or men truly swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to the end or is to them an end of all strife so basically if you think about it what that what that verse is saying is Amen you know when it comes to when it comes to certain things men argue about they will conclude the argument you know or give render confidence to the to the person I said look I swear to you at the end of the day you can take this to the bank my word is my word and from them making that promise you know them swearing my something and making that promise at least in the olden times that was supposed to add confidence to the person that they were up against that their word meant something amen that I'm in it when it says that that it was the end of all strength it means that that other person didn't have to worry because that person's word meant something of course over the children and the span of time we come up with contracts that are broken marriage vowels that are broken I don't really mean anything anymore the word don't mean anything but back then man would swear by something and then seal it with the promise and that promise was the end of a strife fort or rest from debate or confidence to the person that that they were making the promise to admit something so verse 17 wearing God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability which means unchangeable the unchangeableness of his council confirmed confirmed it by an oath that two unchangeable things what are the two unchangeable things number one God cannot lie he if he say something is concrete so that's one thing that's the first thing the second thing gets to promise so first God not being able to lie is the first one and then the second thing is the promise that God won't break he won't lie and he don't break promises those are two things that are unchangeable it goes on and say we're in God willing more abundantly to show unto his heirs of of the promise the unchangeableness of its counsel he confirmed it by an oath or confirmed it by promise that two unchangeable things in which it was impossible for God to lie we might have strong consolation or strong strong confidence or unmovable confidence who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us so basically God promised us salvation and deliverance through Jesus Christ our hope is in Jesus and the and and the redeeming or the reorder the refreshing of our salvation when God calls when God is ready to send Jesus to come get us we can rest assured in the hope that God has not lie that that God does not lie that these things will come to pass it is it is he said that if God have made that promise it's a done deal everything that God promises us it's a done deal I don't care how long you have to wait just like Abraham had to do he had a presence there to the end and it was right before the knife drop that God stopped them how long do we have to wait it doesn't matter but at the end of your presence the promises of God will be fulfilled even concerning our salvation amen why because God can't lie and he don't break promises his word is his son his son could not be broken they couldn't even break the bone of his son ain't been his son God's work God Jesus is God's Word Jesus cannot be broken God cannot lie amen let's go praise God let's go on with this which hope verse 19 which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast or unmovable if you will and which enter it until the veil or behind within the veil so basically what the scripture is saying we hope we have an anchor we which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both Shore and an unmovable which entereth behind the veil so you look at so basically it said look you can place your hope in here you know Jesus is not going to let you down you could come behind the veil and you can rest there is rest for you you know you can stay in your place and rest and and those things that you're hoping for will come to pass is going to happen all you need to do was rest in the promise that God has made so that's the magnitude of what happened here in in a book of Genesis when God says here in verse 16 of chapter 22 and said by myself how about swarm because there was none other greater than God for him to swear to there is none other back then men would swear on something you know and and and then wrap it up with an oath that was supposed to be concrete that was supposed to be as good as money God couldn't swear by nobody greater than himself and said by myself have I sworn saith the Lord for because thou has done this thing and has not when told that son thine only Son that in blessing I will bless thee and then multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and that's the sandwich is upon the seashore and I see shall possess the gates of nine enemy this is what Jesus said that upon this rock I'll build my church but the and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it you know even coming to today we're all part of this promise God is speaking speaking about us even today amen let's go on with this and as I see shall all nations on the earth be blessed because thou has obeyed my voice and he's talked about the arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ is going to come in to them through the bloodline of Abraham and we're all will all of be established as part of that bloodline through faith even of connecting ourselves to God by the sacrificial is a crow fishing lamb the Lord Jesus Christ us receiving the adoption of the Father through Jesus by faith that same faith that was established with Abraham and you know Amen that this is powerful let me go on here and then thy seed shall all the nations on the earth be blessed because not as a vote has bathed my voice so Abraham returned unto the junk man and they rose up and went together to bear Sheba and neighbor him drop dwelt that bear bear Sheba and it came to pass that after these things it was told unto Abraham behold Milka she had she had also borne children unto his brother Nahor now remember Abraham and Nahor took them wives Nahor took the wife of his of his late brother his late brother was a hey hey more give me a moment here I'm not good my mind is not as sharp they both took them wives here Abraham took him took his wife as Sarah I which was called at that time here on that was the name of his brother his late brother's brother died his brother didn't get an opportunity to - to outlive his father Terah nevertheless his brother's daughter was Milka and so Nahor took his wife which was Milka and then at that time Abraham took his wife which was Siri I nevertheless Milkha just gave Nahor some children here they look like they and I'm having eight kids HUS his firstborn buzz his brother and a Camille the father of a a Merle Abram and the chest and Hayes hazel and the pill - and jet lap and Beth Yul and Beth Ruby got Rebecca says these eight Milka did bear to Nahor Abraham's brother and his concubine whose name was a room a rumor she also bare Tebow and gay hum it says Anna that they hash and make up so we can stop right there powerful lesson today because you know as we can see God you know he he is he doesn't lie he's major and as he says they're daring nobody around for me to swear for me but for me to swear this thing going or to put this thing on it can't remind me of the way we were when we was growing up now I swear on my mama's grave you know kids would say some crazy stuff like that man I swear on my baby's life you know so we were actually going back to the way they used to do things back in the past but there was nothing that God can swear by that was greater that's that even that even today that's greater than himself and so when he put it out there he put it on his own life you know I man I swear on my own life that I'm gonna do this thing and it's gonna be major you know and there was a promise you know and there was an oath and then the fact that he put it on his own life that this thing is gonna come to pass so that's major that's that's major and you gotta believe that as as God is making this the statement here this promise that he's not doing this for Abraham because he didn't you you got you got to understand if God is saying I swear by my own you know I swear by myself and then he had made an oath this got to be for those of us that has a hard time believing things because abraham believed god to the point that he was gonna kill his son because he knew God could replace him you know but this got to be for us that that God would knew that would be reading this later that would have a hard time believing something there's got to be four other people you know later on way after Abraham that God knew that this thing would be written you know and that the promises are there Jesus did fulfill that and that the things that are promised even for us concerning Jesus Christ's second return you gotta go by what God is saying here that all things will be fulfilled amen now it's time for us to open up the the gates to the kingdom of God you know a magnificent and marvelous Kingdom that you don't have to die to get to you can actually come into the frame of thinking of the kingdom right now you can actually invoke your citizenship your citizenship to the kingdom right now in order to do that you've got to be able to embrace his son that's how you get into the kingdom you got to come in you know how you want to come into this country you you got to fill out citizenship you got to go through the process they scrutinize you they give you a temporary visa you know in order to come into the States to America the temporary visa they look you over to do a criminal background you got fulfilled this you got to fulfill that just to become a citizen and then when you hear you is it's a whole lot of red tape a greater Kingdom then America would never be able to match up to the kingdom of God and the only thing that it takes you don't have to fill out a immigration papers you don't have to fill out a visa here's what you have to do you have to accept you have to accept the Lord Jesus Christ that's how you come into the kingdom of God and it's got more advantages more resources more perks more freedom more Liberty you know no lack you know there is no one has more than the other you know there's no lack once you come into the kingdom of God you're neither your need you're not poor you're not needy you're rich in faith through God and and not only does he take care of you now but when Jesus began to rule you're gonna really see something but you get a chance to invoke your rights to the kingdom right now now I want to go over some few verses with you because if you're intrigued by what I'm saying you want to know more about this kingdom you want to come in you've heard about this kingdom of God you you love this you you you thought about you know living for something because then you got it in order to excel or dirt to come into the kingdom you have to come by way of the king which is the son of God and and the creator of the kingdom is the father himself the father has left an inheritance for his son which is the Lord Jesus Christ to control the kingdom and in order for you to get through in order for you to get in and experience the perks you have to be able to accept the son that's how you get in and the son is is not going to make it hard but the problem is how serious do you take this to the point that you think you've got time the problem is you may not have enough time the time that you think you will have so you're rolling the dice amen you're rolling the dice now speaking of time I want to share a few scriptures with you two that maybe will help you make up your mind if you want to be saved and and get a chance to dwell within the kingdom now and later amen so I need you to go with me real quick I read this before I need you to go with me real quick to Matthew 25 Matthew 25 we're gonna do verses 1 through 13 amen 1 through 13 again maybe the way you've been living maybe you're tired of the system of the world it's not what you've invested so much into it you've been hurt you've been bamboozled you've been taking advantage of they've used you up the world is used you up and spit you out your family has came inch to your landlord is trying to evict you you find no happiness you only find temporary enjoyment out of illicit things like sex some people look at sex for temporary enjoyment and toilet doesn't fulfill them again and then they got a dig in for greater pleasures maybe drugs maybe alcohol maybe you got an eviction notices you probably just got fired basically everything that you have attempted has not has not done you any good you've tried everything else but the Lord Jesus Christ your skeptic about coming into the church because the experience that you had before didn't live up to your expectations of what you thought church would have been the problem is that we look at the people of the world versus the people at church and when we go to church we see no difference the same people that's mistreating us out in the world we see them taking up pills in the church you know we look surprised coming in there saying the same person that was at the club the night before but here's the problem while you're judging them they're still sitting in a Pew trying to trying to let Jesus get their lives together some of them are playing church but they're in the right place this church having come in to them yet so now what you need to do is not be focused on where they were the night before and why they are sitting in church now you need to be focused on where you are going so you can't keep looking at the experiences that you have before how that church hurts you how the pastor never called you when you were there how you know they didn't save your seat whatever experiences that you didn't have it's not enough of you to go to hell over okay because where will you go you need to go somewhere you can't stay with this word you've already seen that the world is offering what's not saving you they're offering what's killing you okay so now you're in search of what's going to save you what's going to render you contentment but you got to be able to block out some things when you go into some churches amen you got to be able to put some things out of your mind you can't be worried about the person that's looking at you you know why because there are still spirits in the church that that that still has the job to do there to keep you from coming to Christ don't think spirits don't dwell in church who was in when Jesus went into the temples what was in the audience at the time that he was teaching okay he had to tell the enemy that was any others the enemy said I know who you are Jesus how to tell him to shut up because of what in his time go into the book of Job the the the devil the accuser says these the sons of God presented themselves before God which were the angels and then all of a sudden in the midst of them guess it was there it was Satan himself Lucifer the devil God says where you've been he says I've been going to it from throughout the earth he was trying to see who we can get us you know he was trying to see who we can try or attempt you know or killed if you will my point in making those references is don't if you think that the enemies don't don't dwell within our churches you've got an all wrong there are demonic spirits that are loose in church amen a lot of time most of them getting the word so that they can see how to use it against you amen nevertheless you go into that church be not afraid if you have a hunger and a thirst for righteousness you will find Jesus he will come to you because you are seeking after him don't get discouraged if you go into a temple and you see somebody that's there that shouldn't that you think in your own mind shouldn't be there the enemy won't to take you take your mind off of Jesus and put it on that person that's in that church they're not saving you okay Jesus is going to save you you stay here focus now I don't know why I said that I kind of got off track here but let me get back on track we want to talk about the 10 virgins here on a matthew 25th chapter watch this then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins which took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom now watch what is it says ten virgins so what do we get from that verse that they're sanctified sanctified means set aside amen so you have you have people that are set aside that were meant to be with Christ Jesus okay or then or in this case the bridegroom they've been set aside to be with the bridegroom let me go on to verse two and five of them were ivenn wise and five foolish okay so being sanctified don't mean you're going to be wise it just means you were said in thought you were set aside for the glory of the bridegroom which is Christ Jesus a man going on to verse three and they that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them but the wise took oil in their vessels and with their lamps okay so five of them were prepared to meet the bridegroom and the other five just kind of put it off they didn't prepare themselves they were chosen but they didn't feel they were called but they didn't fulfill their calling by preparing themselves if you will they men verse five and where the bridegroom tarried he actually came and said they all slumbered his slow so he actually came and waited while they were sleep they didn't know that he was here he actually waited now watch this verse six and that midnight there was a cry made behold the bridegroom coming come yell to meet him I can't get over the verse before though he came one of Jesus is actually here and he just st. sound the alarm yet he just here waiting why we all why some of us asleep in the door what we won't - he's waiting for that appointed time but what if he was already released to come he just saying sound - trumpet yet because you know a day - God is like a thousand years or a thousand years is like a day - God so what if he's just kicking it in the crowd waiting to sound this alarm amen let me go let me go on verse seven then all those remember he sounded the alarm and then there was a there was the cry that will now go ye out to meet him behold the bridegroom comes go yell to meet him then all those virgins arose and trimmed and lamps and the foolish said unto the wise give us an oil for our lamps are gone now so they all turned on their lamps or lit the lamps okay and so right off the back they were able to light the lamp but then it went them and they couldn't see so they asked the five foolish acts the five wise you know can you can you help a brother out can you help us sister out come on a conversa verse eight verse 9 but the wise answer saying not so lest there be not enough of us and you but go ye out rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves it says and while they went out to buy the bridegroom came and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage and the others the door was shut and the door was shut I should say afterwards came also the other verges and Lord Lord opened unto us by the answered and said verily or truly I say unto you I know not you it says watch therefore for you know not whether you know neither the day nor the hour when there the son of man coming here's what I'm saying though you go to church those are those that are considered sanctified church needs to come into you you'll know it because you're going to start to move towards those things that will make you complete that's going to fill your lamp with oil ok you're already satisfied you've already sanctified because you have an awareness that you don't belong in the world you already have this awareness that you don't belong you're already sanctified but you've got to follow the appropriate calling of God the fact that you know you don't belong in the world you know you don't belong in the club you know you don't belong drunk you know you don't belong in that man that married man or marry woman's bed you know you don't belong in jail you know you don't belong on a corner begging you don't belong that way you don't belong like that you're better than that you already know that he put his spirit in you that's weighing on your conscience telling you that that's not you you are sanctified you're set aside but guess what you need to be up you need to go to God because your name is supposed to be written in the book you need to be able to go to him huh and so in order for this to happen you got to come on by out of where you are those that are listening to this and be like man you fool is date night call you're not saying to find you just in somebody else's way I'm talking to those that are tired of being tired they're chasing after the children who are disrespectful they're chasing after the husband or the wife that's out there fornicating or committing adultery doing what they want to but you yourself you know that you are better than this and you better than this the problem is you trying to get you better from the system you need to be getting you're better from the kingdom and God Himself amen so here's what you do I need you to go to God right now praise God I mean his Spirit is she's talking to somebody amen I need you to go to God right now and here's what I need you to do this is what I need you to praise God this is what I need you to do father I come to you right now in the name of your most precious son the only begotten child of God the Lord Jesus Christ I need you to say father and I need you to only say this if you believe this thing if God is the Spirit of the Spirit of God is talking to you right now finish this you say father you know my sins I believe that Jesus Christ is your son and I believe that you sent him down to earth I believe that he was slain crucified murdered I believe that he was killed that he was buried and resurrected on the third day and soon after ascended up into heaven that we may have life eternally with you and your son Jesus I believe that Jesus now resides on the right hand side of you God and all power of heaven and earth had been given given into his hands now you say this Jesus I call on you right now forgive me for all of my sins and I'm ready to have you live through me for I want to live for you my life is now your life and your life is now my life if you've said that and you believe it I don't care if you was once with Jesus as an inn you walked away from him this means you too if you mean what you just said praise God you are now saved and you are now welcome back to the fold those of you that I walked away you know why because he heals the backslidden that means those that have backswing whatever caused you to walk away he forgave you and he brought you back into the fold like you never left before now those of you that have not been baptized I need you to be he baptized this is what you want to do you want to pick up the phone and you want you want to go through your phone book you want to find your nearest church or local church and I'm not gonna recommend you going to a Catholic Church because you need to be baptized they believe in sprinkle sprinkle you know not the problem that I got is the scripture says that we need to be submerged into the waters because we go down we are totally submerged and we are coming up new creatures in Christ if you will amen so that happens when you call a man of God you confess to the man of God that you just received the Lord Jesus Christ and you want to be baptized in his name in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that man of God is going to come to your home and baptize you in your tub where you're going to go to his place and he's gonna baptize you there at the church but he's gonna do it in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen praise down my brothers and sisters I enjoyed the Bible study I always enjoy the Bible studies and I hope you do too you can drop us correspondence at ubc Church now to work just go to our Contact Us page fill out the correspondence we would love to hear from you we love you do you understand that God loves you his son loves you if we didn't love you if we didn't love our father we you don't understand this if we the description says you said you loved me whom you don't see but you hate your brothers who you do see no let me tell you something we love you we love him and we're mindful of us people so we love you too god bless you until we meet again a man named you

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Length: 59min 25sec (3565 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 01 2012