Participants: Justin Kim
Series Code: OTR
Program Code: OTR000969
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01:01 My name is Pastor Justin Kim.
01:02 I'm the pastor of the Detroit Oakwood Adventist Church, 01:05 down by the airport. 01:06 And I am not married. I don't have kids. 01:11 That does not make me less of a man, 01:12 but I don't know of some things about masculinity 01:15 because I don't have an experience 01:16 that some of you do here. 01:18 But I'm a son and it's all like kind of, 01:20 kind of fulfill right now and the pastor. 01:23 So I figure we can go to scripture 01:25 and look at who are amongst of Bible characters 01:29 or is a good example of Biblical Masculinity. 01:35 When you think of father figures', 01:36 who is the greatest father of them all? 01:38 Obviously out of outside of God, 01:40 it is, Father Abraham had many sons, you know, Psalms. 01:44 So we're gonna through Abraham today and go through 01:46 and compare his character with the character of Lot. 01:50 Please open your Bibles 01:51 to Genesis Chapter 18 and Chapter 19. 01:54 And today, you wanna, you can take notes. 01:57 This is not a most of a sermon, but a Bible study. 02:01 And we're gonna be flipping back 02:02 and forward of 18 and 19. 02:06 Eighteen, nineteen back and forward. 02:08 Genesis 18 and 19. Before we read scripture 02:12 and go through the study, 02:13 I gonna ask you bow your heads 02:14 and ask for the Lord's blessing. 02:21 Father in heaven, 02:22 Your sons have come here to hear this morning. 02:26 Father help us to get beyond the formality of this event. 02:31 Father view the sincerity in our hearts or do we, 02:36 maybe be law before heaven 02:38 and we ask for the Holy Spirit. 02:42 You can bless these words to make them living 02:46 before our eyes and our hearts. 02:48 Father bless my lips, bless my brother's ears, 02:52 and that this word maybe living 02:55 in the lives of everyone here. 02:57 We pray this in Jesus name, amen. 03:01 Okay. Let's go to Genesis Chapter 18 and 19, 03:04 Genesis 18 and 19. 03:06 The second half of this Bible study 03:07 will be in the afternoon. 03:08 We'll be looking into entire Book of Genesis, 03:10 obviously the narrative of Abraham. 03:15 I actually lied. Let's go to Genesis 13 03:16 to start of with, Genesis 13. 03:19 And we see here the first interaction 03:21 between Abraham and Lot. 03:23 Many of you already know that Abraham 03:25 was the father of faith. 03:26 He is the father that has been called out of Babylon, 03:28 out of City of Ur, and he has a nephew named 'Lot'. 03:33 In Chapter 13, we see an interaction between them. 03:35 So we start from verse 5, verse 5. 03:39 "And Lot also, which went with Abram, 03:41 had flocks, and herds, and tents. 03:43 And the land was not able to bear them, 03:45 that they might dwell together, 03:46 for their substance was great, 03:47 so that they could not dwell together. 03:49 There was a strife between the herdsmen 03:51 of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle." 03:54 Verse 8, "And Abraham said unto Lot, 03:56 "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, 03:59 between me and thee, and between my herdsmen 04:01 and thy herdsmen, for we be brethren." 04:03 It's interesting. This is a middle-eastern culture. 04:07 And there is something there is some stalked differences 04:09 between the eastern side of the world 04:12 and the western side, different backgrounds. 04:15 And more so Abraham and Lot are more eastern 04:18 than western thinking. 04:19 And in the eastern way of thinking elders 04:22 have more of an authority more 04:24 of a say than younger ones do. 04:26 And in this culture, if two people are fighting 04:30 it's actually more gracious for the older person to come 04:33 and approach the younger one. 04:35 And what does he say in Verse 8? He says unto Lot, 04:38 " Let there be no strife, I pray thee, 04:40 between me and you, and between my herdsmen 04:42 and thy herdsmen; for we be," what? 04:45 Brethren! We are like-minded brothers. 04:48 We are also connected. 04:49 We are kinsmen. We are relatives. 04:51 That's interesting. It keeps on going. 04:53 So Verse 9, "Is not the whole land before thee? 04:57 Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: 05:00 if thou wilt take the left hand 05:01 then I will go to the right. 05:03 And if thou will go to the right hand 05:05 then I will go to left." 05:06 This is very gracious of Abraham to do this. 05:10 You ever have, I don't know, 05:12 I am South Korean by descent, American born. 05:16 And it's interesting that when I go out to eat 05:19 with my Korean friends, you finish all eating 05:22 and say hey I will pay you guys. 05:25 And then what happens in eastern cultures 05:27 are like, well no. I will pay. No I will pay. 05:29 And you fight. You do this little dance. 05:32 I will pay and I will pay and finally you said okay 05:34 well you get this time and I will get next time 05:36 and you do get out. Yeah. 05:38 Now once I went eat, eat out with my American friends 05:41 and so I thought this is the same culture 05:42 and I go out there is about four or five people 05:44 there in expensive restaurant. 05:46 Hey guys well this one is on me. 05:48 He is expecting a little tug and an interplay there. 05:53 So hey guys I will take this. It's on me. 05:56 And a pause waiting for the response. 06:00 Hey thanks Justin. Yeah we appreciate. 06:02 You are a good guy Justin. 06:04 And here I am stuck with this bill. 06:10 Now here you see. Here Abraham is the older one 06:13 and he is the uncle, 06:14 and he says alright we can't get along. 06:16 And your people and our people have this problem 06:19 and he takes the first gracious, 06:21 hey you know what? I'll let you choose. 06:24 Why don't you go ahead? Whatever you choose 06:26 I will take the other. It was gracious of Abraham. 06:29 Now he was the older relative. 06:31 He could have said, okay Lot come over here. 06:33 I am gonna take this and you take this 06:35 and we wanna call it. 06:36 He could have played in authority. 06:38 Does he do that? No, he is gracious. 06:41 Now what would have been culturally responsible 06:44 for Lot would have been, well uncle Abraham. 06:47 I appreciate your graciousness but no, no, 06:49 because you are older. 06:50 What? You go ahead and take the first choice. 06:55 And what does Lot do? Very interesting. 06:57 Lot verse 10. Lot lifted up his, what? His eyes. 07:05 It's interesting. Men are visually oriented. 07:09 We are these hunters long this scenery. 07:12 You just imagine on a mount top somewhere 07:14 and there is all that land and he is looking, 07:16 and he is looking and looking. 07:17 Verse 10, "Lot lifted up his eyes 07:20 and beheld all the plain of Jordan 07:23 that it was well watered." Where? 07:26 Just one spot? No. Everywhere. 07:31 Now for us in the modern context, 07:33 living in North America water being everywhere 07:35 is quiet annoying. You know, 07:36 Michigan floods all time, water everywhere, 07:38 and floods the basement. But for a herdsman, 07:41 for a shepherd water everywhere means what? 07:44 It's a convenience. You don't have to walk as 07:46 and all your, your, animals and livestock 07:51 they are all just watered and it's all hunky-dory. 07:53 So verse 10, that it was well watered everywhere before, 07:57 and this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah 08:00 and it was as the, what? The garden of the LORD, 08:06 meaning the 'Garden Of Eden' in Chapter 1. 08:11 So he sees this place. It's like a tropical. 08:14 I don't know what it look like, but it's awesome, 08:16 fertile, just rich land. 08:20 And he says in Verse 10, Verse 11, 08:24 "Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan 08:27 and Lot journeyed east. They separate themselves, 08:29 the one from the other." 08:31 So here's the inter dialog. 08:33 Abraham is like my gracious Nephew 08:35 why don't you have first choice. 08:37 Wherever you take I will take the other, 08:38 and he is taking a humbler position and he is waiting 08:40 for the response to come back. 08:42 And Lot gets on top of the rock and he is looking 08:45 he is like yep, I'll take that one. 08:47 See you later uncle and he bust out of there. 08:51 Okay. Now we see later on what's happening here. 08:52 The character of Lot emerges. Verse 12, 08:56 "Abraham dwelt in the land of Canaan, 08:59 and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain 09:02 and pitched his tent towards Sodom." 09:05 We will get back to that a little bit later. 09:07 Go to Genesis 14, go to Genesis 14, 09:12 Genesis 14 verse 14. 09:15 We will start from verse 13. 09:17 The Bible reads, this is the account 09:21 of a old war happening. Verse 13, 09:24 "there came one that had escaped, 09:25 and told Abraham the Hebrew; 09:28 for he dwelled in the plain of Mamre, 09:30 the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol, 09:31 the brother of Aner, 09:33 and these were confederate with Abram. 09:36 And when Abram heard that his brother 09:37 was taken captive, 09:38 he armed his trained servants, 09:40 born in his own house, 318 and pursued them unto Dan." 09:46 Now this is the character of Abraham. 09:49 In Chapter 13 we see the character of Lot. 09:51 Lot is the little guy and he is like, 09:52 yep I will take it and he is out of there. 09:54 Okay. Now Abraham is a bit different. 09:56 Abraham verse 13, 09:58 He hears that his nephew has been taken away. 10:03 And as a good father, good man of God that he is, 10:07 verse 13, He is hanging out with three brothers. 10:11 We have Mamre the Amorite. 10:13 He is the brother of Eshcol 10:15 and the brother of Aner, three brothers. 10:17 And you see here, 10:18 Abraham is mingling with three other. 10:20 He is conferring. He is making allies here. 10:24 In Verse 14, when Abraham heard his brother 10:27 or relative was taken captive which is, Lot 10:30 he armed his own, his servants. 10:33 He trained them and 318, and pursued them unto Dan. 10:39 Now if you know the geography of this area, 10:41 they are living in southern Israel, you know today, 10:44 and he goes all the way to the north 10:46 and he is coming with his 318, 10:48 these were men born in his own house. 10:50 And he is training them. Now does this guy, 10:53 Abraham, have any training in military warfare 10:56 and strategy whatsoever. No. But he was like, 11:00 I need to get my nephew back. 11:03 And a certain level of determination, 11:06 and he trains 318 and he goes all the way to the north 11:10 and that's where Dan is, pursue them unto Dan 11:12 and verse 15, this is verse interesting, 15. 11:14 "He divided himself against them." 11:17 He is a strategist. "He and his servants by night." 11:20 Question, why they are going by night? 11:24 It's, yeah it's dark. Good. It's dark. 11:26 They can't see him. Strategy. Okay, verse now. 11:30 "And he smote them and pursued them unto," where? 11:35 If you know geography, they are living in the south. 11:37 They go all the way north unto Dan 11:39 and then they go even far north unto Hobah, 11:44 meaning they pursue these enemies until the end. 11:49 It's not like, let's just go halfway, let's half big it. 11:52 Let's go halfway and just, you know, do halfway, 11:55 get my Nephew and get back out. 11:57 He gets his nephew and he continues 11:59 and pursues them all the way. 12:01 Verse 16, "he brought back all the goods, 12:03 brought also again his brother Lot his goods, 12:05 women also, and the people. 12:08 Let's go to Chapter 13:12, 13:12, 12:15 "Lots character was such, in Verse 12 it says, 12:18 "Abraham dwelled in the land of Canaan, 12:20 and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain 12:22 and pitched his tent," what? "Towards Sodom." 12:28 So here is Lot and there's the reputation of Sodom 12:32 was well known back in their day. 12:34 And he sees this Garden of Eden as kind of territory, 12:38 and he knows that Sodom is over there, 12:41 but he pitches his tent toward that area. 12:46 This is the beginning of his compromise. 12:50 Now Abraham is out in other 12:51 and he is staying away from Sodom. 12:54 Is there a tendency where in your subconscious 12:57 you know you want something? 12:59 But you know you should not go towards it, 13:01 but you lean towards it. 13:05 When you are on the internet you know you shouldn't go 13:06 to that website, but you go to another website 13:09 and do a search on it that's kind of similar 13:12 and by chance happen to go to this website. 13:15 Well you know you shouldn't go on this direction 13:17 to that place, you know onto on the way home, 13:20 but for today you decided to be creative, 13:22 and you take this particular route. 13:25 You know you shouldn't talk to this lady, 13:28 but because in your subconscious 13:29 you do wanna talk, you kind of lean towards her. 13:33 And here that's what he is doing. 13:35 He has his tent pitched towards Sodom. 13:39 Now next Chapter we see what's happening. 13:41 Go to Chapter 14:12, "sometime passes," 13:47 Chapter 14:12, and says that these nations took Lot. 13:51 Abraham's brother son and then it says, 13:55 Lot who dwelt, where? 13:58 Not towards Sodom but now, where? 14:01 He is now living in Sodom. 14:07 In Sodom! It's like hmm... 14:09 Let me, let me just live towards New York city. 14:13 You know the real estate over there is okay, 14:16 with this economy there is you know, 14:17 the market will go up. 14:18 I'll get some more money and you are going towards there 14:21 and after a couple of years, what? 14:23 We find out that Lot is living downtown Manhattan. 14:28 He is living inside. 14:31 That was interesting is, keep going Chapter 19:1, 14:37 stage one he is going towards this, 14:40 stage two he is in this. 14:43 And Chapter 19, the third stage, 14:47 "there came two angels to Sodom at even, 14:50 at evening; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom." 14:55 Question, what is this 'in the gate of Sodom?" 14:58 Back in their day, the gate was the 15:01 open area for the village, for the city. 15:04 That's where everyone would come out, 15:05 bring all their things, all their, 15:06 you know, goats and potatoes and, 15:09 I don't know what they bring in. 15:10 They would all sell it, okay. 15:11 Now there is a dispute amongst two people. 15:14 They come out to the front gate of the village. 15:17 And there the person who sits 15:19 at the gate was the town mayor 15:22 or the judge or someone in-charge at that time 15:26 and he would judge and moderate 15:31 some of these arguments. So stage three. 15:34 Here Lot sitting at the gate is not Lot's like, hmmm... 15:38 I need a place to sit. Oh there is a gate. 15:41 Ah, it's a free space. I will sit at the gate. 15:43 This is not the case. Amen. 15:45 He is in-charge of something inside. 15:49 Stage one, pitched a tent towards Sodom. 15:53 Stage two, he is in Sodom. 15:56 Stage three, he is in-charge of something in Sodom. 16:01 Okay. Now let's go to the 16:03 Chapter 18 and 19 and we gonna flip around here. 16:06 And look at some of the aspects of scripture here. 16:09 And scripture is so, I have a comical perspective 16:12 and it's funny what, what scripture does. 16:17 Chapter 18:1, "the LORD appeared 16:21 unto him in the plains of Mamre. 16:23 He sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. 16:26 He lifted up his eyes and looked, 16:28 and, lo, three men stood by him. 16:31 When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door. 16:34 He bowed himself to the ground and said, 16:36 "my Lord, if I, if now I have found favor in thy sight, 16:41 pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. 16:43 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, 16:46 and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. 16:49 I will fetch a morsel of bread, comfort your hearts; 16:52 that you shall, after that you shall pass on: 16:54 for therefore are you come to your servant." 16:57 And they said, "So do, as thou said." 16:59 Abraham hastened into the tent, into Sarah, and said, 17:02 "Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, 17:05 knead it, make cakes upon the hearth." 17:07 And Abraham ran unto the herd, 17:09 fetched a calf tender and good, 17:11 gave it to a young man and he hastened to dress it. 17:14 He took butter, and milk, and the calf 17:16 which he had dressed, and set it before them; 17:18 and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat." 17:22 One characteristic of Abraham, 17:24 another characteristic I should say. 17:26 He is a man of hospitality. Now it's interesting. 17:32 Scripture goes to many verses 17:35 to describe this attribute of Abraham. 17:39 Couple of things to bring out. 17:41 Verse 2, he lifted up, he looks up and sees three men. 17:46 And when Bible says in Verse 2, 17:47 when he saw them, he what? He ran. 17:53 Is there a difference between a running and walking? 17:59 Did you ever felt awkward where there is 18:01 a long corridor and someone is walking towards you? 18:05 And you are walking towards them and you have to say, 18:08 hi, but you don't know when to say hi. 18:12 So like forward, hey Joe, hey Joe. 18:15 Alright, hey Justin and you are walking 18:17 and you have this awkward time 18:19 and you are kind of walking towards each other, 18:21 and you make conversations. So how is it going? 18:24 You enclose it or do you actually ignore each other, 18:28 until you get to a reasonable space and say, 18:30 hey, how's it going? 18:32 Yeah, I saw you full fire back, 18:33 but just wanna yelling, it's kind of awkward, 18:36 to make that awkward distance not so awkward. 18:40 Here Abraham as a sign of politeness, 18:43 what, he doesn't walk towards him. 18:45 Walking is a sign of arrogance, 18:47 if you will, but he runs out of hospitality, of humility. 18:51 Now when he runs, he says verses 3, 18:54 " My LORD, if now have found favor in your sight, 18:57 pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant." 18:59 Meaning, stay here, and he goes all out. 19:02 Verse 4, "Let a little water, I pray you, 19:04 be fetched, and wash your feet." 19:06 Question, why does he, 19:08 why do they need your feet to be washed? 19:11 In their society, in this society, 19:12 it's a desert culture. 19:14 You got desert, sands blowing everywhere 19:17 and in their day they did not have 19:20 wonderful Timberlands or Nike shoes. 19:23 They just had a piece of hard leather 19:25 on the bottom of their feet wrapped around 19:27 with string or a ligament of an animal or something. 19:31 So, as they are walking around their feet 19:33 has intimate contact with the sand 19:36 and the dirt all around them. Yes. 19:38 Now how many of you do when you do full washing, 19:40 your feet are extremely dirty. 19:43 If anything, when you do full washings 19:45 you got like sock fuzzies come under water 19:47 and gets this murky grayish, blue-black color. 19:50 And it's dirty, but it's not dirty-dirty. 19:53 Now when they washed feet, it was just, you know, 19:56 all the sand and stuff would come out. 19:58 But in addition, what kind of culture is this? 20:00 This is an agriculture society. 20:03 Along with humans walking on these roads, 20:06 what else is walking on these roads? 20:09 Not you beamer, not you homer, but what? 20:12 Mr. Cow, and Mrs. Camel 20:15 or you know whatever animals. 20:17 Now when animals run and when they move 20:20 they leave gifts on the floor, 20:22 on the offerings all over. 20:24 Now in our context we think, ah it's gross 20:27 and you would tippy-toe around these things 20:28 if you ever walked through apartments 20:29 and just dust or poop everywhere and you are like, 20:31 you are walking all around this way. 20:32 But here in their society, it's just animal poop, 20:36 so you just walk through it. 20:38 So, here is the context. 20:39 You are walking and if they walk for 20:41 miles and miles and miles and here there is dust 20:44 all over the feet and there is poop all over the feet 20:47 and then the dust sticks to the poop 20:49 and then it's hard and it gets all crusty 20:52 and funny you have these, 20:53 you know, cakes on your feet. 20:57 So when you are coming to eat, 20:59 what you want to do? 21:01 Washing your hands 21:02 with antibacterial soap is the least concern. 21:06 You wanna wash your feet. Are you with me? 21:09 So they go and he says, 21:10 let a little water be fetched. 21:12 Can you imagine? 21:13 He's like, hey little girl servant come here. 21:15 And he take the chisel out and they are chiseling away, 21:18 these crustified cakes of goodness 21:23 and it's floating in the water. 21:25 Can you imagine how refresh they are? 21:27 Ah! My feet are all clean. 21:30 If you have sand between you toes, 21:32 one of the most horrible sensations. 21:34 Anyway keep on going. 21:36 Verse 4, it say, "Let a little water, 21:38 I pray you, be fetched, wash your feet, 21:40 rest yourselves under the tree." 21:42 Trees are scarce. So there is the hot sun, 21:46 you are under the tree, that's refreshing, isn't it? 21:48 Yes, okay, Verse 5, "I will fetch 21:51 a morsel of bread, and comfort your hearts, 21:53 and after that you shall pass on; 21:55 for therefore are you come to your servant." 21:58 So Verse 6, Abraham what? He hastens. 22:02 Again, he is running. He goes to his wife. 22:04 He says make very quickly. 22:05 Now one of the most annoying things I heard, 22:08 I don't have a wife, but for husband 22:09 to do to the wife is, hey make some dinner now. 22:12 Five of my friends are coming right now. 22:14 And wife, you know, okay and she makes dinner 22:18 and she has to make something, 22:19 make something fresh out. 22:20 He does the same to Sarah 22:23 and here it's not the main meal. 22:24 It's just an appetizer. 22:26 A small little piece of bread, 22:27 have a little piece of bread, have appetizer. 22:30 And while he is making the appetizer, 22:31 she is making the appetizer. 22:32 He goes to a young man, verse 7, 22:35 "Abraham ran unto the herd, 22:36 fetched the calf tender and good." 22:38 Now this is the choice, you know, prime, 22:40 you know, Kobe Beef Filet Mignon, 22:43 I don't know. Use your imagination. 22:44 And gave it unto the young man 22:46 and he hastened to dress it. 22:48 Do you see the speed that Abraham is working at? 22:51 He runs, hastens to Sarah, 22:54 and hastens back to this young man. 22:56 Verse 8, "he took butter and milk," 22:58 very expensive things, "and the calf which 23:00 he had dressed and set it before them 23:03 and he stood by them under the tree," 23:05 and he is standing by while they are eating. 23:08 Meaning, I am the servant if you need anything, 23:11 I am here at your will. 23:14 This is a characteristic of a man of God. 23:20 Now, contrast this to the hospitality of Lot. 23:23 Go to Chapter 19:1; let's go to mid-half, the half of One. 23:30 "Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; 23:32 and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground." 23:35 And Lot is also gracious. He is the nephew of Abraham. 23:38 But Verse 2, "he said, Behold now, my lords, 23:42 turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, 23:44 tarry all night, wash your feet, 23:46 and you shall rise up early, go on your ways. 23:48 And they said nay we will abide 23:50 in the street all night. He pressed upon them greatly. 23:53 They turned in unto him, and entered into his house, 23:56 and he made them a feast and bake them," what? " 23:59 Unleavened bread and they did eat." 24:02 Question, are there differences here? 24:05 In Chapter 18, scripture uses about 8 verses 24:09 to describe what Abraham did. 24:12 In Chapter 19 there is only may be a half, 24:16 one-and-a-half verse that described what Lot did. 24:19 Interesting verse 2, he says, stay here all night 24:23 and wash your own feet. It's an imperative. 24:26 Hey here's some water you wash your own feet. 24:29 Where he says, let water be fetched 24:31 and let your feet be washed. 24:33 It's in the past tense. And verse 2, "he says," 24:36 and you shall rise up early and go on your ways."" 24:38 Meaning get up early and you can get out of here. 24:41 Okay. In verse 3, 24:43 "he makes them a feast but bakes them," what? 24:45 Does he goes all out with fine flour 24:48 and kneads them with choice bread and gets them a calf. 24:51 What does he makes them? 24:53 He makes them unleavened bread. 24:55 Do you know what unleavened bread is? 24:57 It's bread with a leaven, yeah we know. 24:59 Well, unleavened bread is unleavened bread 25:02 because it's quick to make. 25:06 You don't have to wait for the yeast to rise. 25:09 So we see here is Abraham goes all out. 25:12 He's running, making a feast. 25:14 He is getting flame in yarn and going all out. 25:18 Lot comes, and he also has some hospitality. 25:20 And he presses upon them greatly. 25:22 But says, hey here some water, 25:23 wash your own feet, and by the way here's a microwave 25:25 burrito in the meantime while you are waiting. 25:29 Is there a difference between the two? 25:32 Yes there is. Continuing on, 25:35 Abraham was an example of maximum hospitality, 25:38 and Lot was an example of minimum hospitality. 25:42 Chapter 18 and 19 are comparing and contrasting. 25:44 We are going to see for today, 25:45 what aspects are the same? 25:47 For example in Chapter 18:9 and 10, 25:51 "They, the angles said unto him, 25:53 "where is Sarah your wife?" 25:55 And he said, Behold, in the tent?" 25:57 In verse 10, "And he said, I will certainly 26:00 return unto you according to the time of life; 26:02 and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. 26:05 Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him." 26:08 What we have here is a conversation 26:11 between on both sides of the door. 26:13 You have Abraham and the angels 26:15 on one side of the door and on the other side is who? 26:18 You have Sarah listening in. 26:20 In Chapter 19, and I know many of you know the story. 26:24 Is there a conversation that is 26:26 happening on both sides of the door? 26:30 Chapter 19:5, "these Sodomite men 26:36 called out unto Lot and said unto to him, 26:39 "where are the men which came in to see to thee this night? 26:42 Bring them out unto us that we know them." 26:45 But Lot went out at the door unto them, 26:47 shut the door after him, and he said 26:49 I pray you brethren do not so wickedly." 26:54 I think just funny verse 6, 26:56 "he shuts the door behind him." 26:57 I would have not shut the door behind me. 27:00 I would have kind of kept it open for and is, 27:04 but he is protecting his people. 27:06 Okay. Now Verse 8. 27:08 "Behold now, I have two daughters 27:10 which have not known man; let me, 27:12 I pray thee, bring them out to you, 27:14 do thee unto them as is good in your eyes: 27:17 only onto these men do nothing; 27:19 therefore came they under the shadow of my roof." 27:21 We'll talk about that a little bit later. 27:22 Verse 10, let's go to verse 10. 27:25 Let us pass to verse 9, 27:27 "they pressed sore upon the man, 27:29 specially Lot, and came near to," what? 27:32 "To break the door." 27:34 Verse 10, "the men put forth their hand, 27:37 and pulled Lot into the house to them and shut to the door. 27:40 They smote the men that were at the 27:42 door of the house with blindness, 27:43 both small and great; so that they wearied 27:45 themselves to find the door." 27:47 We see here two instances. 27:50 One there is a conversation happening at the door, 27:53 where's your wife? She is over there. 27:55 And they said you are going to be pregnant with the son. 27:57 Here there is a conversation at the door. 28:00 These men are like give us the men 28:02 and then they are fighting 28:03 and the door is about to break. 28:04 Okay, next part of comparison. 28:06 Go to Genesis 18:17, 18:17, 28:12 18:17, God is speaking to himself and He says, 28:17 "Shall I hide from Abraham the thing which I do?" 28:20 Talking about Sodom and Gomorrah destruction." 28:22 Verse 18, " Seeing that Abraham 28:25 shall surely become a great and mighty nation, 28:28 and all the nations of the earth 28:29 shall be blessed in him?" Verse 19, "for I," what? 28:34 "I know him." Question, does God know you? 28:40 Does He say I know Bob? I know Steve. 28:47 I know Justin. Now interestingly enough 28:51 this word for 'know' is the word 'Yada' in Hebrew. 28:54 Meaning it is an intimate knowledge 28:57 and understanding of. It is not just know 29:00 in the sense of, hey, do you guys know Michael Jackson? 29:03 Or how many know Michael Jackson? 29:06 I don't think any of you knows Michael Jackson. 29:09 Too many of you know your best friend 29:12 or your wife or your parents 29:14 but you don't know Michael Jackson. 29:16 But you know him, yes. 29:18 Isn't there a difference between the two? 29:19 Okay. And here he says "I know him." 29:24 Chapter 19, Chapter 19, yeah, Chapter 19. 29:27 There is a Verse 5, the same word is used. 29:32 "They called out unto Lot, and they said unto him, 29:34 where are the men which came in to thee this night? 29:37 Bring them out to us, that we may," what? " 29:41 that we may know them." 29:43 And we all know what kind of know that is. 29:45 It is an extra curricular kind of intimate, 29:48 you know, you know, weird deviant way 'know'. 29:53 Here Abraham, it has the connection 29:57 and the environment of heaven. 29:59 All of the Heaven knows Him. 30:02 Here Lot is surrounded with people 30:05 who have perverse ideas. And they have 30:08 a 'Yada' in a different sinful way. 30:13 Chapter 18:11, next point of comparison, 18:11, 30:20 "Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; 30:23 it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. 30:25 And therefore Sarah," what? What she did do? She laughed. 30:30 The Hebrew word for laugh is, it's a 'Yitzhak,' 30:35 does it sound like anything. 30:36 Their son's name was 'Yitzhak' 30:40 or the anglicized version Isaac. It's funny. 30:45 She laughed and God says you laughed? 30:48 Then she says I laughed not. 30:50 And later on she has a baby 30:51 and she laughed in a different way. 30:52 Yes. She laughed by having her child. 30:56 And here, in chapter 19 verse 12, 31:00 the word 'Yitzhak' comes off same derivative. 31:05 See if you can point it out. 31:06 Chapter 19:12, "the angels said to Lot, 31:12 "Hast thou here any besides? 31:14 Son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, 31:16 and whatsoever thou hast in the city, 31:17 bring them out of this place 31:19 for we will destroy this place?"" 31:21 Verse 14, "Lot went out, and spake unto 31:23 his sons in law, which married his daughters, 31:25 and said, "Up, get you out of this place; 31:29 for the LORD will destroy this city." 31:32 But he seemed as one that mocked to his sons in law." 31:37 Now in the King James it is very unclear, 31:39 but the word that is used there is, 31:40 'Yitzhak', meaning not that Lot made fun of his sons, 31:45 that wouldn't make any sense. 31:46 It's actually other way around. 31:48 His sons-in-law, what? Made fun of his father. 31:54 Now Chapter 18 verse 19. 31:58 God says, "For I know him, 32:01 I adore him and he will command 32:04 his children and his household after him, 32:07 and they shall keep the way of the LORD, 32:08 to do justice and judgment; the LORD may bring upon 32:12 Abraham that which he had spoken unto him." 32:15 Here God says I know this man 32:19 because he commands his household. 32:23 Now this is not an authoritarian powers, 32:25 power trip. He's not saying, yeah, 32:27 I am the man, and I had to beat 32:28 my wife and my children to get me 32:30 my Latte in the morning. 32:32 Not this, but he has a command 32:35 structure of his household in the way of, what? 32:39 In the way of the Lord. 32:42 The greatest need in our Church today, 32:46 is men who know how to be fathers 32:49 and to command their households 32:51 not after themselves, not after the world, 32:55 but in the way of the Lord. 32:58 In North America, especially in United States of America, 33:03 men have a hard time especially with the 33:04 baby boomer generation right now. 33:07 There has been an absence of a pattern of fatherhood. 33:11 Because the World War I and II, 33:13 an entire generation of fathers 33:15 has been just obliterated. 33:17 So the next generation that pops up, 33:19 men do not know how to be fathers. 33:23 For women it is different. 33:24 It is biological to be a mother. 33:27 A mother when she is pregnant has a child. 33:29 She has intimate connection with the child. 33:31 The child is inside of her. 33:32 She has the mechanical structure 33:34 and the biological structure to know how to be a mother. 33:37 She can feed the child. 33:38 She knows how to take care of her child. 33:39 There is something natural about it, 33:41 whereas the father has no intermittent connection 33:45 with the child, yes? How many of you, 33:47 when you had your child for the first time. 33:50 You saw your child for the first time, 33:51 like wow, he is real. He is, that's mine. 33:59 I have no idea what that feels like. 34:02 But it's interesting, it takes longer for the 34:04 husband to get acclimated 34:06 to the child than it does mother. 34:08 A father needs to learn how to be a father. 34:14 And too often many men become biological fathers 34:19 without learning how to be fathers. Amen. 34:25 The only way to learn how to be a good father 34:27 is to have a good example of a Biblical father. 34:30 And then in North America that pattern has been broken. 34:34 Here God says I know him. 34:37 He can command his household, verse 19, 34:40 "he will command his children and his household 34:43 after him that they shall keep the way of the Lord 34:46 to do justice and judgment that the Lord may bring upon 34:50 Abraham that was just spoken of him." 34:52 Now contrast that here Chapter 19:14, 34:58 "Lot went out and speak unto his sons in law," 35:01 interestingly enough does Lot have a father? 35:04 His father had passed away early, 35:06 that's why he comes and falls or enter 35:08 into the guardianship of his uncle. 35:11 Verse 14, "he seemed as one that 35:14 mocked unto his sons in law." 35:17 His sons in law are making fun of him. 35:20 Lot goes and he says, guys pack up your goods. 35:23 We got to get out of here. 35:24 And I don't know what they did. 35:26 I don't know if they sat down under their sofas 35:28 and they held onto their, and they are laughing, 35:31 they are pointing, or if they slapped their 35:33 father-in-law back of the head like 35:34 hey get with the program what are you talking about. 35:37 I don't know if they made fun of him, 35:38 if they ignored him, but he had no respect whatsoever. 35:42 Today in North America, if you do cultural exegesis, 35:46 every TV show makes fun of the father figure. 35:51 It started in the early 1990s 35:53 and I did a seminar on this last year. 35:55 It started with one TV show in 35:57 a response to the Cosby show. 35:59 Cosby show all throughout the 80s 36:01 was the epitome of Fatherhood. 36:02 You know the Cosby show? 36:04 Okay, next generation has no idea who Bill Cosby is. 36:08 It's a shame, Bill Cosby was a good father, 36:11 Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable. And he had his wife 36:15 who is a lawyer, and all these kids, 36:17 and it was place when America was hurting, 36:20 when America was anxious, they turned on their TV 36:24 and they would be with Heathcliff Huxtable. 36:27 And he would give father the advice 36:28 and the classic scene is when he is 36:30 teaching his son Theo about life. 36:33 He meant monopoly, I don't know if you watch TV 36:35 if you don't that's fine, but if you do that's the 36:37 classic scene of fatherhood. 36:39 Well in comes Fox network. 36:42 Fox network has not been around for a while. 36:44 Back then it was the big three--CBS, NBC and ABC. 36:49 In comes Fox network and they say, 36:51 how can we compete against the big three. 36:54 And they come up with this risqué programming 36:57 and one of the first TV shows that come up with 36:59 is called, "Married... with Children." 37:02 For the first time "Married with Children," 37:04 comes on and says instead of 37:05 revealing the father figure let's, 37:09 'Yitzhak the father.' Let's make fun of him. 37:12 Let's make him a degenerated, drunk, 37:15 stupid, fat, you know just a lazy incompetent father. 37:21 And at the end of the early shows of 37:23 "Married with Children," they end, 37:25 they conclude with the mother 37:28 and the two kids making fun of Al Bundy at every episode. 37:32 Oh dad! You can't, you cannot support us. 37:35 Oh dad you are an idiot. Oh dad you just drink beer 37:37 and you sit in front of your TV all day. 37:39 Well that's our dad. Ha! Ha! Ha! 37:41 And the credits roll. We are in a generation, 37:45 we are in a culture with the father figure, 37:47 it's an authority the Lord has given us, 37:50 where the rest of the world now it says 37:52 fathers are to be made fun of. 37:55 Now what happens? This program goes off the roof. 37:59 They started picking up another TV show, 38:02 not on reality but a cartoonized 38:04 animated version of this. 38:06 And it's not called "Married with Children," 38:08 it's one of the longest running TV shows 38:09 ever in history and it's called the, what? 38:12 "The Simpsons." Yellow, you know, 38:15 yellowish weird things and guess what? 38:17 The father figure is, what's his name? 38:20 Homer Simpson and he is the carbon copy of Al Bundy, 38:25 but for more general population. 38:27 And guess what? After that, all the sitcoms 38:31 whereas throughout the 70s and 80s the father figure 38:34 was the backbone from that point on, 38:36 there is a paradigm shift. And from that point on 38:39 all TV shows make fun of the father. 38:43 This is not a source of comedy. 38:46 This is an attack on masculinity, 38:49 the way that the Lord had originally intended. Amen. 38:53 Here Lot is being made fun of by his children. 38:59 Gentlemen, I plead with you as fathers, 39:01 as grandfathers, as uncles, 39:02 as sons--do not have anyone mock you. 39:06 Now I am not saying you'd be stern, authoritarian. 39:09 You know, have a, you know, 39:10 a sword in your hand and you chop off 39:12 people's heads every time they laugh at you. 39:13 I am not saying that at all. 39:16 We went from one extreme of masculine dominance 39:21 and we are going to the other way, 39:22 where we become this effeminate, oprahization men, 39:26 who sit around and talk about our feelings and cry. 39:30 There is nothing wrong with talking about your feelings 39:32 and nothing wrong with crying but can we 39:34 become uber-feminized men. 39:38 Is that where the direction culture is going towards? 39:41 And what happens? When a man is incompetent 39:45 he ceases to be a man. 39:48 A defining mark of masculinity is competence. 39:52 Where Abraham says my nephew is gone 39:56 318 I am going to train you. 39:58 We are going to get this finished, 39:59 no matter what it takes to get my nephew back. 40:04 I will not be allowing it when a command my child. 40:07 But in chapter 18 he says in the way of the Lord, 40:10 that's important amen, in the way of the Lord, 40:15 that word for 'way' is the word 'Derek,' 40:18 that's found in Chapter 19 also. 40:20 Chapter 19, open with me Chapter 19, 40:23 Chapter 19. I am in chapter 22. 40:33 Chapter 19 and verse 30, 40:42 Chapter 19:30 and this is one of the perverse, 40:47 weird passages of scripture. 40:49 And you know this passage, many of you do. 40:51 Verse 30, "Lot went up out of Zoar, 40:53 and dwelt in the mountain, 40:54 and his two daughters with him; 40:56 for he feared to dwell in Zoar: 40:57 and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters." 40:59 Verse 31, "the firstborn said unto the younger, 41:03 'Our father is old, and there is not a man in earth 41:07 to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth"'. 41:11 That word for manner in Greek, guess what it is? 41:14 It is the word 'Derek'. 41:17 Chapter 18, "Derek of the Lord," 41:21 Chapter 19, "the Derek of the world." 41:23 Do you see how the two are contrasting each other? 41:25 There are two ways to be a man, 41:27 one to be a man after the Lord's own heart, 41:30 and another way to be a man after the world. 41:33 And guess what happens in this situation. 41:34 These daughters are skimming. 41:36 There is no other way for this guy to be our father, 41:39 so that's what we should we do? 41:40 Let's have an extracurricular activity with him 41:43 and I shall have a child, his name shall be Moab 41:46 and you get the Moabites and you get 41:47 the pre-generator of one of route to becomes 41:50 in the line of Jesus, and the second born becomes Ammon. 41:54 And Amenities come on, the Moabites 41:56 and Ammonites annoy the Israelites 41:58 from that point on. There are two ways. 42:01 Derek of the Lord, Derek of the World. 42:04 Next point of comparison Chapter 19:15, 19:15, 42:14 "when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, 42:17 saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, 42:20 which are here; lest thou be 42:21 consumed in the iniquity of the city." 42:23 Verse 16, "while he," what? "Lingered." 42:31 Here you see Abraham is a epidemy of haste, 42:35 of competence, and he is quick. 42:39 When there is an emergency situation, 42:41 men know exactly what to do. 42:42 Call 911. Get the ambulance. 42:45 Bring a towel. Get me a coke. 42:47 You know, whatever you do decaffeinated. 42:48 You know, whatever you got to do. 42:51 Now here Lot is incompetent. He lingers. 42:56 Now if this was a so, so kind of ambiguous situation, 43:01 lingering could be logical. Yes. 43:04 Hey, there is a cow coming 43:06 towards you from 15 miles away. 43:09 Okay well let me linger for a while. 43:10 That makes sense. But what is the context 43:14 of the situation that's happening here. 43:16 He says there are fireballs coming down 43:18 from the city now get out with your daughters. 43:22 Lot is thinking umm... hmm... 43:27 Yeah, let met get on internet here. Fireballs.com. 43:33 Yeah, the weather channel and he is lingering. 43:36 Gentlemen how many of us, do we dilly-dally 43:39 with the small things of life. 43:42 Gentlemen are competent 43:43 in every avenues of their lives. 43:46 And too often no one has taught us how to be men 43:50 and the way that we've been since boys 43:53 has just carried on to marriage and some of us are 43:56 80, 90 year old over-needy boys. 44:00 And we are not looking for wives to compliment us 44:03 and to ameliorate our ministries. 44:05 We are just finding other moms to take care of us. 44:10 Here verse 16, "While he lingered, 44:14 the men laid hold upon his hand 44:17 and upon the hand of his wife, 44:18 and upon the hand of his two daughters; 44:19 the LORD being merciful unto him: 44:21 and they brought him out, and set him without the city." 44:26 Now here because he lingers 44:29 that lingering attribute of his character 44:33 has an impression upon his wife. 44:36 The little things that men do, 44:38 everyone watches especially your children, 44:41 especially your wife. And because he lingers, 44:44 the wife does not take seriously 44:47 the admonition of the Angels. 44:51 And what happens to Lot's wife? 44:52 You all know this, Mrs. Lot, verse 26 44:57 "but Mrs. Lord looked back from behind him, 45:00 and she became," what? " 45:03 A compliment to table pepper." 45:07 She looked back. The salvation of your wives, 45:13 the salvation of your families, 45:16 very well may be dependent on you, 45:21 upon your spirituality, upon your shoulders. 45:26 In Genesis Chapter 1, God instructs to Adam 45:31 to be responsible for his wife and the household. 45:35 Last point of comparison, last point of comparison. 45:40 Chapter 18 verse 22, 18:22, 45:45 18:22, "The men turned their faces from thence, 45:48 and went towards Sodom, 45:49 but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. 45:52 Abraham drew near, and said, 45:54 "Will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?" 45:57 Peradventure, may be, there would be fifty people." 45:59 And you know this conversation. 46:01 May be there is 50, will you destroy? 46:02 God says no. Forty Five? No. 46:04 Thirty? No. 46:05 Twenty? No. 46:07 Ten? And he has this long conversation. 46:10 He is in prayer. He is in meditation. 46:13 He is meditating on the behalf of his nephew. 46:18 In chapter 19, Lot is also praying. 46:22 Chapter 19 verse 17, "it came to pass 46:27 when they had brought them forth abroad, he said, 46:29 "Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, 46:34 neither stay thou in all the plain, 46:35 escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed."" 46:37 Verse 18, "Lot says unto them," what? 46:41 "Oh! Not so my Lord, Behold now, 46:44 thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, 46:46 and thou hast magnified thy mercy, 46:48 which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; 46:51 I cannot escape to the mountain, 46:53 lest some evil take me, and I die. 46:55 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, 46:57 and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, 47:00 is it not a little one? And my soul shall live then." 47:05 At the end of each chapter both men are praying, 47:09 Abraham is praying for his nephew. 47:10 He is pleading Lord save my nephew. 47:14 Will you destroy? Please have mercy. 47:16 Please, please, 50, 45, 30, 20, 47:19 and he is pleading, pleading, pleading, 47:20 he is pleading on the behalf of someone else. 47:24 Gentlemen how many of our prayers 47:26 are for someone else and ourselves. 47:28 Here Lot in Chapter 19 is also pleading 47:31 with the Lord but who is he pleading for? 47:34 He is pleading for himself. 47:36 He is like Lord I can't go to the mountain. 47:38 It's too far away. 47:39 Let me go to this little city. It's a little city. 47:41 Lord, please let me go to the city. 47:42 It's such a little small thing to pray for? 47:45 It's so selfish. Say the Lord 47:48 my nail was broken, please heal my nail. 47:50 My nail is so painful, whereas someone is praying. 47:52 Lord may he be healed of cancer. 47:55 And he is talking for his nail to heal. 48:00 Here we see selfish intersession 48:02 mixed with mediation for someone else behalf. 48:08 In the end, now I ask you to turn to 48:10 Second Peter chapter 2. 48:12 Second Peter chapter 2, and in a New Testament, 48:16 and today I have been very rough on Lot. 48:19 But the New Testament treats him a little bit differently. 48:22 Second Peter Chapter 2, Chapter 2 verse 7, 8 and 9. 48:31 Chapter 2 verse 7, 8 and 9, "God delivered just Lot," 48:37 not just that does not mean only Lot 48:39 means that it is just one, just Lot, 48:42 "Vexed with the filthy conversation 48:44 or the conduct of the wicked." 48:46 For that righteous man welling among them, 48:49 in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul 48:53 from day to day with their unlawful deeds. 48:56 The Lord knows how to deliver the Godly out of," what? 49:00 "Temptations, and to reserve the unjust 49:03 unto the day of judgment to be punished". 49:07 Here we see two men, two examples 49:10 one is the father of faith and he is competent. 49:13 Is he a perfect man? Not by any means 49:15 we will see it later on in Genesis 12-22, 49:18 he had some other problems. 49:20 But in comparing him to Lot he is a man of prayer, 49:24 man of competence, man to get things done. 49:27 He commanded his family, 49:30 and he was a righteous man praying for other people. 49:33 On the flipside, Lot was a selfish little boy. 49:37 He took the best for himself. 49:39 He was a minimal hospitaliarian. 49:44 He was not a nice guy. 49:52 He prayed for himself. He wined. 49:55 His family members made fun of him, and he was not a man. 50:00 But despite that in chapter two of Peter, 50:03 the Bible says for that righteous man 50:06 dwelling amongst them and seeing and hearing, 50:08 vexed his righteous soul. And here is the point. 50:11 Gentlemen, you may not be a perfect man, 50:15 well none of us in the room are. 50:17 But are you sighing and crying because of the 50:20 conditions of the world around us? 50:24 Are you vexing your soul because 50:25 the temptations around us are evil? 50:28 Are you grasping the cross of Jesus 50:30 because this world is too hard to survive? 50:34 A true man is not someone who can wither this world. 50:38 The true man is someone who takes up the cross 50:41 and lives in this world by cleaning onto the cross. 50:46 A true man is someone who is humble enough 50:50 to ask help from only one person, 50:53 to get directions from only one person, 50:56 to use GPS from only one satellite source. 50:59 That is who? It's Jesus Christ. 51:02 Today you have come here because 51:03 Michigan Men of Faith convocation 51:05 and you shall, blew ha, ha, ha, and what not. 51:10 Do you understand the 51:11 repercussions of this conversation? 51:14 If the men of this conference start becoming sanctified, 51:19 start changing into image of the masculine son, 51:22 and starting embodying principles of masculinity, 51:26 of fatherhood, families will be changed. Amen. 51:31 Commit mistakes, so be it, 51:33 the Lord takes care of the past. Amen. 51:35 But from today do resolve to be more like 51:38 Abraham in light of Christ than instead of Lot. 51:43 And if you are Lot, are you 51:44 vexing your soul like Peter is talking about? 51:48 Once families are changed, Churches will change. 51:53 Deacons will change. Elders will change. 51:56 And once churches change, this country will change. 52:01 Once this country changes the world will change. 52:06 The Gospel work will change. It all starts from here, 52:12 from people of XY genes hanging up together. 52:16 The Kinesthetic potential for the world work 52:19 of the Gospel is in this room. 52:22 And it doesn't matter if you don't have a wife or a child, 52:25 or if you're not a brother or a son or what not. 52:27 It's because you're a male. 52:30 It's not because you are superior. 52:32 The Lord has a different work 52:34 and a customized work for women. 52:36 Amen. But the Lord wants men. 52:42 How many of you, today in your hearts, 52:44 the Holy Spirit has taught to you? 52:47 In some way you're saying Lord I want that in my life. 52:53 The objective is the Bible study is not to say. 52:55 Now go and do it. Is that what it is? 52:57 That's the old convent. Yes we'll do. 52:59 We'll now be men. We'll now watch brave heart. 53:01 We'll now buy a sword and we'll now chop off 53:04 each other's heads in grunt and scratch our armpits. 53:07 No. That is the world's concepts of masculinity. 53:12 We need gentlemen in Christ, sharp thinkers, 53:16 competent leaders, wise man, energetic, 53:21 capable, strong men. 53:24 Do you want to be this kind of men in Christ? 53:26 Do you want to resolve today in your hearts? 53:29 I pray that today is the beginning of this resolve. 53:34 Amen. That is you deserving. 53:36 I am asking you to stand up as a man 53:38 on your two manly feet 53:39 to bow your manly heads to pray with me. 53:51 Father in heaven, the potential for men 53:56 has not been reached yet. 53:58 Father forgive us have mercy upon us, 54:01 may your blood cover us. 54:03 But father we also say have mercy upon us 54:06 as you had mercy on Lot. 54:10 Father we are being attacked by the devil. 54:13 We are being attacked physically in our bodies. 54:17 We are being attacked psychologically 54:20 in our minds, in our imaginations. 54:23 We are being attacked socially 54:25 in our Churches and in our families. 54:30 Lord, may every man in this room 54:33 be an open conduit to the blessings of heaven 54:37 that will overflow to our spouses, 54:40 to our children, to our siblings, 54:43 our parents, our neighborhoods, 54:45 our churches, and to this world, 54:47 may we fulfill the original intact you had for Abraham, 54:52 to bless all the nations of the world. 54:57 We ask for this important blessing, 55:02 humbly in Jesus name, Amen. |
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