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00:01 Welcome to a new Carter Report series,
00:03 The Game Changers. 00:05 These rare individuals appear once in a lifetime. 00:09 Like a blazing meteor across the night sky, 00:12 they change the course of history. 00:15 They show us the way forward. 00:18 Welcome to the Game Changers. 00:27 So glad to see you here today. 00:30 We're studying another series. 00:32 Now we've talked about the Game Changers, 00:34 the Men Game Changers. 00:36 But I made a real faux pas, 00:38 I should have started with the Lady Game Changers. 00:43 And so having been chastised by my family 00:47 and the other ladies whom I know, I have repented. 00:51 And today, we're talking about 00:53 the Lady Game Changers. 00:57 You know that women for thousands of years 01:02 have been treated like second class citizens. 01:07 You know that, don't you? 01:08 There the lady said amen. 01:10 During the 19th century in Great Britain, 01:13 in days of Queen Victoria, this formidable character, 01:19 women were largely regarded 01:22 as attractive ornamental pieces 01:26 or play sets. 01:29 But they were not considered intelligent enough to discuss 01:32 with their husband weighty matters like politics, 01:37 therefore they were forbidden to vote. 01:41 Let me tell you about women's right to vote. 01:45 In 1881, on the Isle of Man, 01:49 should've been the Isle of Woman, 01:51 but the Isle of Man, 01:53 which is a British crown dependency, 01:56 women were given the right to vote 01:58 as long as they owned property. 02:01 That was 1881. 02:03 1893, New Zealand gave all women right to vote. 02:08 This was followed up, I think, it was... 02:12 I think, it was followed straight after 1895 02:15 by South Australia, not all of Australia. 02:18 But then the whole of Australia, 02:19 in 1902, gave women the right to vote. 02:23 1907, now this is not an exhaustive list. 02:26 But 1907, Finland, 02:29 1917, Canada, 02:32 1920, United States of America, 02:37 40 years behind the Isle of Man. 02:42 1933, Spain, 1944, France. 02:47 1971, I was astounded 02:50 to discover the Switzerland, Switzerland. 02:55 And in 2015, Saudi Arabia. 02:59 Nothing surprising about that one. 03:01 A Protestant country is generally first, 03:04 then the Catholic countries. 03:06 And last of all, the Muslim countries. 03:10 But all countries have treated women 03:13 as second class citizens. 03:18 In the days of Jesus, 03:20 the word of woman "did not count." 03:25 And so that's why, 03:27 when Mary Magdalene and the women came 03:29 with the news of the resurrection, 03:32 the men said, "This is just woman talking." 03:36 It was considered to be vain tales 03:39 because of women. 03:42 But Jesus change things. 03:45 So let it be said today loud and clear, 03:49 women have done mighty deeds 03:52 and they have changed the course of history. 03:56 And so today, we're not just talking about 03:57 the game changers, 03:59 we're talking about, who, the lady game changers. 04:04 We're going to start today with the mother of us all. 04:08 Her name, of course, was Eve. 04:10 We all go back to Eve. 04:12 Therefore, we are all related, whether we're black or white 04:16 or brown or red or whatever the color. 04:19 We all go back to Eve, we are all genetically related. 04:24 And the story of Eve 04:25 really starts in Genesis 1:27. 04:31 And the TV audience, 04:32 you've got Bibles on the tables, 04:34 and the Bible says, Genesis 1:27, 04:38 "So God created man in His own image, 04:42 in the image of God, 04:43 He created him male and female." 04:48 He created them. 04:51 Eve was probably the most beautiful woman 04:57 the world has ever seen 04:59 because she came fresh 05:03 from the hand of God. 05:06 She was extremely beautiful. 05:11 She was beautiful, ladies, but she wasn't wise. 05:16 If you turn to Genesis chapter 3 in the Bible 05:20 and verses 1 to 4, it says, "Now the serpent," Satan, 05:25 "was more cunning than any beast of the field 05:28 which the Lord God had made. 05:31 And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 05:34 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?' 05:37 And the women said to the serpent, 05:39 'We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden 05:42 but of the fruit of the tree 05:43 which is in the midst of the garden. 05:46 God has said, 05:47 'You shall not eat it nor shall you touch it, 05:51 lest you die.' 05:54 Then the serpent said to the woman, 05:58 'You will not surely die.'" 06:00 And verse 5 and 6, 06:02 "For God knows that in the day you eat of it, 06:05 your eyes will be opened and you will be like God 06:10 knowing good and evil." 06:11 And here, he was telling the truth. 06:15 "So when the woman saw 06:16 that the tree was good for food, 06:18 that was pleasant to the eyes, 06:21 and a tree desirable to make one wise, 06:23 she took of its fruit and ate. 06:25 She also gave to her husband with her, 06:29 and he ate." 06:33 Woman 06:35 is naturally curious. 06:40 And you know what curiosity did to the cat, don't you? 06:45 Women have many marvelous qualities and characteristics, 06:49 and high in the list is the capacity of curiosity. 06:57 We have a beautiful, little granddaughter, 07:00 and her name is Amiley. 07:03 And she is just now seven years of age. 07:07 And since she was two, or was it one, 07:11 she's had two very precious, important words. 07:16 You know what they are? 07:18 No. No. 07:21 And not just no, but no. 07:24 And the second one, you know what it is? 07:26 Why? 07:28 And then if you answer that, 07:29 you know what the next question is, why? 07:32 Why? 07:33 So I guess, 07:35 Amiley got it from Eve. 07:40 I once went up there Christmas time with Beverley. 07:44 And I said to Amiley, 07:46 "We bought you a pair of new shoes." 07:48 You know what she said? 07:50 What color, grandpa? 07:55 What color, grandpa? 07:57 You see, they don't learn this. 07:59 They don't learn this. 08:00 It's born in them. 08:03 And Eve was a... 08:05 God bless them, she was curious. 08:10 It's good to be curious, 08:11 but not when it leads you to disobey God. 08:14 And she disobeyed God, 08:16 and the result was sin and death. 08:19 And later on, they had two sons. 08:21 It's quite history, Cain and Abel. 08:24 And the first man who was born of the human race 08:28 was a murderer. 08:30 He murdered his brother. 08:32 And on one day, 08:33 Adam and Eve lost their boys. 08:37 And Eve came to know good and evil. 08:40 Satan was right. 08:43 But there is some evidence that suggests 08:45 she repented and learned to trust in God. 08:50 This is not definitive, 08:51 but I think there's evidence for it. 08:53 If you look at Genesis 4:25 and 26, 08:58 the Bible says, "And Adam knew his wife again, 09:01 and she bore a son, and named him Seth. 09:04 'For God has appointed another seed for me 09:07 instead of Abel whom Cain killed.' 09:11 And as for Seth, to him also a son was born, 09:14 and he named him Enosh. 09:16 Then men began to call on the name of the Lord." 09:21 It appeared that when she had a boy, 09:27 she taught him about the Creator God, 09:29 taught him about the law of God, 09:31 and taught him the Gospel of God. 09:34 And then when he had a family, the Bible says, 09:39 "People began to call on the name of the Lord." 09:44 I think it's because of what she taught him. 09:47 And there's something else, too. 09:48 I want you to notice this. 09:49 This is quite remarkable. 09:51 Genesis 3:20 and 21, 09:57 Genesis 3, 09:59 "And Adam called his wife's name Eve, 10:03 because she was the mother of all living. 10:07 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God 10:10 made tunics of skin, and clothed them." 10:13 What does that tell you? 10:16 It tells you that God with His own hands 10:21 slew a beast, maybe a lamb. 10:26 And so blood was shed 10:28 so that these people might be covered 10:32 by the grace and the goodness of God 10:35 which is the gospel. 10:36 So if God covered Eve with the garments 10:41 that were caused by the shedding of blood, 10:44 I would suggest to you that Eve was safe 10:49 because she was under the blood of the covenant. 10:53 And even though there was great sin 10:56 and this is the glory of God. 10:58 Even though there was great sin, 11:01 there was great grace because where sin did abound, 11:04 what does the Bible say? 11:06 Grace did much more abound. 11:09 Second great lady game changer is Sarah, 11:12 the lady who had a baby when she was 90 years of age, 11:18 a woman of divine destiny, 11:21 the mother of the Israelites, 11:24 the mother of the Messiah 11:26 who would redeem Eve's sin and failure. 11:29 Her name means princess. 11:32 She is first mentioned by name after Eve. 11:36 And the Bible tells us 11:39 that she came from Ur of the Chaldees. 11:43 "And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, 11:48 the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai," 11:54 later Sarah, "his son Abram's wife, 11:57 and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldees 12:01 to go the land of Canaan, 12:03 and they came to Haran and dwelt there." 12:06 So this woman came from Iraq, 12:11 Southern Mesopotamia. 12:15 I've been to Ur of the Chaldees. 12:17 Once upon a time, 12:18 it was a marvelously sophisticated city. 12:22 She went with Abraham north to Haran's state awhile 12:25 and then went to Palestine. 12:27 All this happened some 4,000 years ago. 12:29 But we will discover that human nature 12:31 is the same today as it was then. 12:34 Sarah was very, very beautiful. 12:38 The Bible says that through no fault of Sarah, 12:42 he took her into his harem. 12:45 She was a woman with the wow factor. 12:50 She had the ability to turn men's heads and their hearts. 12:55 Abraham said to her, "Say you are my sister." 12:58 And when he said this, he told a half truth. 13:02 But a half truth, you all should know, 13:05 is a total lie. 13:07 And she was saved by the divine intervention of God 13:11 and saved from being a part of harem's family. 13:16 Sarah wanted a baby. 13:20 She was unable to conceive, 13:22 and this was a thing of great disgrace in her day. 13:25 And so, she said to her husband Abraham, 13:29 "I have a beautiful girl who is my slave girl. 13:33 She is a beautiful Egyptian girl, 13:35 she looks as fair as the princess of the Nile. 13:39 Her name is Hagar. 13:41 I want you to go into her, 13:44 and have my baby through her." 13:48 Abraham said, "Whatever you tell me to do, 13:52 I'm just going to do that as a faithful husband." 13:57 He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant, 14:00 and she bore a boy by the name of Ishmael. 14:05 But later on when Hagar showed disrespect to Sarai, 14:09 because she was now on top of everything, Sarah got mad, 14:13 punished Hagar and treated her very unkindly. 14:19 Some people think that the Bible characters 14:21 are sinless people, and that's not so. 14:25 Sarah was not a woman to mess with, 14:29 she was not perfect in herself. 14:32 And about 14 years later, three men came calling. 14:36 This is one of the most extraordinary stories 14:38 in the Bible 14:40 because one of those men that came calling, 14:42 if you can believe this, two of them were angels, 14:46 and one of those men that came calling 14:50 was Yahweh Elohim. 14:53 And He said, 14:55 "This time next year, Abraham, 14:59 Sarah your wife is going to have her own baby." 15:04 And the Bible says 15:07 that Abraham fell on his face and laughed, 15:11 and Sarah was in another part of the tent, 15:14 and she laughed and laughed. 15:16 And God said to her, "You're laughing." 15:19 She said, "I'm not laughing." 15:25 She's almost 90. 15:29 Never give up, my folks. 15:31 Never give up. 15:32 Sarah is almost 90, 15:33 Abraham is almost 100, and they laughed. 15:39 And next year, Sarah is pregnant, 15:42 she is 90 and still has the wow factor. 15:47 Abraham is 100. 15:49 Everyone is laughing for joy. 15:54 Nothing is too hard for God, 15:56 and the boy is called laughing, 16:01 that's Isaac. 16:03 The time comes for Isaac to be weaned. 16:06 You can read this in Genesis 21:9 to 11. 16:09 Genesis 21:9 to 11, 16:12 "And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, 16:15 whom she had borne to Abraham, scoffing. 16:20 Therefore, she said to Abraham, 16:21 'Cast out this bondwoman and her son, 16:26 for the son of the bondwoman 16:28 shall not be heir with my son, namely with Isaac. 16:32 And the matter was very displeasing 16:34 in Abraham's sight because of his son." 16:38 She's little hard, this woman, little vindictive. 16:44 Cast them out. 16:46 So they cast out in the desert. 16:49 The circumstances are so deplorable 16:52 that it appears 16:54 that they're going to die for want of water. 16:59 Then God intervened. 17:00 So He opens up a well, 17:02 and Hagar and Ishmael 17:06 are saved. 17:08 Ishmael becomes the father, 17:10 as you all know, of the Arabs. 17:14 And Sarah, the mother of Isaac becomes the father of the Jews. 17:20 And thus the feud 17:23 between these two warring women 17:26 is perpetuated today in the struggle 17:29 between the Arabs and the Israelis. 17:33 The great fight in the Middle East 17:35 that goes on now 17:38 goes back to two proud women 17:43 who just wouldn't get along. 17:47 Now she trains Isaac to love and obey God. 17:50 And then comes the great test. 17:52 Genesis 22:1 and 2, "Now it came to pass 17:55 after these things that God tested Abraham, 17:57 and said to him, 'Abraham!' 17:59 And he said, 'Here I am.' 18:00 Then He said, 'Take now your son, 18:02 your only son Isaac, 18:03 whom you love and go to the land of the Moriah, 18:06 and offer him there as a burnt offering 18:08 on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.'" 18:10 An extraordinary thing. 18:13 Here's the boy they'd hope for and prayed for all their lives. 18:17 And the boy is now a young man, 18:20 he's probably as big and as strong as his father. 18:24 And God says to him, 18:26 "Go to Mount Moriah, 18:29 offer him up." 18:32 It's three days journey to Mount Moriah. 18:34 Look at Genesis 22:9 to 11, 18:38 three long horrible days. 18:41 "Then they came to the place of which God had told him. 18:44 Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order, 18:47 and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, 18:50 upon the wood. 18:51 And Abraham stretched out his hand 18:53 and took the knife to slay his son. 18:56 But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven 18:59 and said, 'Abraham, Abraham!' 19:01 And he said, 'Here I am.'" 19:03 You just think of this. 19:05 He's a big, strong, solid young man. 19:11 And he allows his father to bind him 19:15 and put him on an altar. 19:17 What does that tell you? 19:20 It tells me that she must have taught 19:23 this young man to trust in God 19:27 and to obey his parents. 19:30 What so odd about this! 19:33 Trust in God and obey your parents. 19:38 But then, 19:41 there's a ram caught in the thicket. 19:45 God says, "Look around. 19:48 There's a lamb." 19:50 Abraham takes the lamb and lets his boy go, 19:54 and he sacrifices the lamb. 19:56 Can you imagine Abraham, Isaac getting home? 20:01 Abraham calls at, "Sarah, Sarah." 20:04 He's been away for days. 20:05 She runs out. 20:07 He says, "Here is your boy. 20:09 Here is your boy. 20:11 God provided a lamb." 20:15 People say, "Folks back there had no idea about the gospel." 20:19 This is the gospel, the lamb. 20:23 He was submissive because she was a great mother. 20:25 From Isaac came Jacob, from Jacob came Israel, 20:29 from Israel came Jesus, savior of the world. 20:33 The girl who came from Southern Iraq, 20:39 been there. 20:41 There came a game changer. 20:43 Sarah changes the world and gave us Christ 20:46 who redeemed Eve's failure. 20:49 She teaches us to believe in the God of the impossible, 20:52 the God of miracles. 20:54 What do you say about that? 20:56 Sort of amazing, isn't it? 20:57 Nothing is too hard for God, and God provides a lamb 21:01 for His people, that's the gospel. 21:05 Third lady game changer is somebody 21:07 most of us know nothing about. 21:09 Her name is Hatshepsut, 21:11 the princess who found baby Moses, 21:15 and this woman eventually became the Pharaoh. 21:17 When you read the story 21:19 in Exodus 2:5 and 6, 21:25 "Then the daughter of Pharaoh 21:27 came down to bath at the river." 21:29 I think it was Hatshepsut. 21:30 "And her maidens walked along the riverside, 21:33 and when they saw the ark among the reeds, 21:35 she sent her maid to get it. 21:38 And when she opened it, she saw the child, 21:41 and behold, the baby is crying. 21:46 So she had compassion on him, and said, 21:49 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'" 21:51 Well, here is a pagan princess, 21:54 she becomes the lady Pharaoh. 21:58 I'm going by the best of scholarship in agreement 22:01 with great scholars like Dr. Randall Younker. 22:05 She was a pagan princess, 22:07 but God used her to save Israel's savior. 22:11 No Moses, no Pentateuch. 22:15 No Moses, no Exodus, 22:18 no Ten Commandments, 22:20 no Israel, no Jesus, no gospel. 22:25 Because of this lady whom I believe, later on, 22:29 came to understand the gospel 22:31 because she saw the blood on the door. 22:34 What do you think Moses would have told? 22:37 And so this pagan lady 22:41 that most of us know nothing about 22:43 is one of the reasons we are sitting here today. 22:48 At the same time, in this great drama, 22:52 there are two ladies, Jochebed and Miriam. 22:57 Look at Exodus 2:7 to 9. 23:01 Exodus 2:7 to 9, "Then his sister," 23:06 this is the sister of Moses. 23:09 She's about seven years old. 23:11 She's like Amiley. 23:12 "Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter," 23:15 we think that's Hatshepsut, "Shall I go and call a nurse 23:20 for you from the Hebrews women, 23:22 that she may nurse the child for you?" 23:25 Just found this little baby in the bulrushes. 23:27 "And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, 'Go.' 23:30 So the maiden went and called the child's mother." 23:36 People say, "I can't believe in a providence of God." 23:39 "Then Pharaoh's daughter said to her, 23:41 'Take this child away and nurse him for me, 23:45 I'm going to pay you for being a mother.' 23:48 So the woman took the child and nursed him.'" 23:52 We've got here two amazing women. 23:56 When Moses was born, 23:58 Miriam was about seven years of age, 24:01 like my granddaughter Amiley. 24:04 My American friends, my granddaughter, 24:06 our granddaughter Amiley was born on the 4th of July. 24:11 How American can you get. 24:16 But God trusted the fate of the world 24:18 to a seven year old girl. 24:20 How well her mother had trained Miriam. 24:23 She watched over her baby brother, 24:25 she was reliable and dependable. 24:28 She saved her brother from certain death. 24:31 What a great little girl. 24:33 Jochebed only had him for a few years, how long? 24:37 Look at Exodus 2:10. 24:40 We're not told exactly, 24:42 but I'm going to tell you what I think. 24:44 "And the child grew," this is Moses, 24:47 "and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, 24:51 and he became her son. 24:54 So she called his name Moses, saying, 24:56 'Because I drew him out of the water.'" 25:00 He's probably 12 years of age, think what she taught him. 25:03 She had him for 12 years, only 12 years. 25:06 She taught him who he was, where he came from, 25:11 why he was here, and where he was going. 25:15 She told him the story of the creator. 25:19 It never left him. 25:23 He might look like an Egyptian prince 25:27 on the way to become Pharaoh. 25:30 He may look like an Egyptian prince. 25:35 But in his soul, he was an Israelite. 25:39 I want you to know this, the hand that rocks 25:43 the cradle is the hand that rules the world. 25:46 I want you to know this, without these two heroes, 25:52 Moses could have ended up in the Cairo Museum. 25:57 Amazing! 26:00 And we'll be back in a moment 26:02 with more of the lady game changers. 26:19 In the series, This I Believe, 26:21 Pastor Carter reveals the heart and soul of the Carter Report. 26:26 I believe in Jesus Christ. 26:30 I believe in the Ten Commandments. 26:35 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