My name is Pastor Justin Kim.
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I'm the pastor of the Detroit
Oakwood Adventist Church,
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down by the airport.
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And I am not
married. I don't have kids.
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That does not
make me less of a man,
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but I don't know of
some things about masculinity
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because I don't
have an experience
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that some of you do here.
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But I'm a son and
it's all like kind of,
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kind of fulfill
right now and the pastor.
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So I figure we
can go to scripture
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and look at who are
amongst of Bible characters
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or is a good example
of Biblical Masculinity.
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When you think
of father figures',
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who is the
greatest father of them all?
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Obviously out of outside of God,
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it is, Father Abraham had
many sons, you know, Psalms.
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So we're gonna through
Abraham today and go through
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and compare his character
with the character of Lot.
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Please open your Bibles
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to Genesis
Chapter 18 and Chapter 19.
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And today, you
wanna, you can take notes.
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This is not a most of a
sermon, but a Bible study.
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And we're gonna be flipping back
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and forward of 18 and 19.
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Eighteen,
nineteen back and forward.
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Genesis 18 and 19.
Before we read scripture
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and go through the study,
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I gonna ask you bow your heads
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and ask for the Lord's blessing.
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Father in heaven,
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Your sons have come
here to hear this morning.
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Father help us to get beyond
the formality of this event.
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Father view the sincerity
in our hearts or do we,
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maybe be law before heaven
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and we ask for the Holy Spirit.
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You can bless these
words to make them living
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before our eyes and our hearts.
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Father bless my lips,
bless my brother's ears,
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and that this word maybe living
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in the lives of everyone here.
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We pray this in
Jesus name, amen.
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Okay. Let's go to
Genesis Chapter 18 and 19,
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Genesis 18 and 19.
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The second half
of this Bible study
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will be in the afternoon.
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We'll be looking into
entire Book of Genesis,
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obviously the
narrative of Abraham.
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I actually lied.
Let's go to Genesis 13
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to start of with, Genesis 13.
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And we see here
the first interaction
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between Abraham and Lot.
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Many of you
already know that Abraham
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was the father of faith.
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He is the father that has
been called out of Babylon,
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out of City of Ur, and
he has a nephew named 'Lot'.
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In Chapter 13, we see an
interaction between them.
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So we start from
verse 5, verse 5.
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"And Lot also,
which went with Abram,
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had flocks, and
herds, and tents.
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And the land was
not able to bear them,
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that they might dwell together,
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for their substance was great,
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so that they could
not dwell together.
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There was a strife
between the herdsmen
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of Abram's cattle and the
herdsmen of Lot's cattle."
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Verse 8, "And
Abraham said unto Lot,
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"Let there be no
strife, I pray thee,
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between me and thee,
and between my herdsmen
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and thy herdsmen,
for we be brethren."
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It's interesting. This
is a middle-eastern culture.
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And there is something there
is some stalked differences
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between the
eastern side of the world
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and the western side,
different backgrounds.
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And more so Abraham
and Lot are more eastern
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than western thinking.
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And in the eastern
way of thinking elders
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have more of an authority more
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of a say than younger ones do.
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And in this culture,
if two people are fighting
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it's actually more gracious
for the older person to come
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and approach the younger one.
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And what does he say in
Verse 8? He says unto Lot,
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" Let there be no
strife, I pray thee,
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between me and you,
and between my herdsmen
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and thy
herdsmen; for we be," what?
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Brethren! We are
like-minded brothers.
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We are also connected.
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We are kinsmen.
We are relatives.
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That's
interesting. It keeps on going.
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So Verse 9, "Is not
the whole land before thee?
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Separate thyself,
I pray thee, from me:
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if thou wilt take the left hand
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then I will go to the right.
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And if thou will
go to the right hand
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then I will go to left."
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This is very gracious
of Abraham to do this.
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You ever have, I don't know,
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I am South Korean by
descent, American born.
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And it's interesting
that when I go out to eat
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with my Korean
friends, you finish all eating
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and say hey I will pay you guys.
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And then what
happens in eastern cultures
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are like, well no. I
will pay. No I will pay.
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And you fight. You
do this little dance.
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I will pay and I will
pay and finally you said okay
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well you get this time
and I will get next time
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and you do get out. Yeah.
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Now once I went eat, eat
out with my American friends
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and so I thought
this is the same culture
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and I go out there is
about four or five people
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there in expensive restaurant.
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Hey guys well this one is on me.
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He is expecting a little
tug and an interplay there.
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So hey guys I will
take this. It's on me.
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And a pause
waiting for the response.
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Hey thanks Justin.
Yeah we appreciate.
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You are a good guy Justin.
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And here I am
stuck with this bill.
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Now here you see. Here
Abraham is the older one
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and he is the uncle,
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and he says
alright we can't get along.
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And your people and our
people have this problem
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and he takes the first gracious,
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hey you know what?
I'll let you choose.
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Why don't you go
ahead? Whatever you choose
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I will take the other.
It was gracious of Abraham.
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Now he was the older relative.
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He could have said,
okay Lot come over here.
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I am gonna take
this and you take this
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and we wanna call it.
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He could have
played in authority.
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Does he do that?
No, he is gracious.
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Now what would have
been culturally responsible
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for Lot would have
been, well uncle Abraham.
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I appreciate your
graciousness but no, no,
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because you are older.
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What? You go ahead
and take the first choice.
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And what does Lot
do? Very interesting.
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Lot verse 10. Lot
lifted up his, what? His eyes.
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It's interesting. Men
are visually oriented.
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We are these
hunters long this scenery.
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You just imagine on
a mount top somewhere
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and there is all that
land and he is looking,
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and he is looking and looking.
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Verse 10, "Lot
lifted up his eyes
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and beheld all
the plain of Jordan
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that it was
well watered." Where?
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Just one spot? No. Everywhere.
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Now for us in
the modern context,
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living in North
America water being everywhere
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is quiet annoying. You know,
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Michigan floods all
time, water everywhere,
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and floods the
basement. But for a herdsman,
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for a shepherd water
everywhere means what?
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It's a convenience.
You don't have to walk as
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and all your, your,
animals and livestock
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they are all just
watered and it's all hunky-dory.
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So verse 10, that it was
well watered everywhere before,
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and this was before the Lord
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah
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and it was as the,
what? The garden of the LORD,
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meaning the 'Garden
Of Eden' in Chapter 1.
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So he sees this
place. It's like a tropical.
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I don't know what it
look like, but it's awesome,
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fertile, just rich land.
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And he says in
Verse 10, Verse 11,
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"Then Lot chose him
all the plain of Jordan
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and Lot journeyed east.
They separate themselves,
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the one from the other."
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So here's the inter dialog.
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Abraham is like
my gracious Nephew
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why don't you have first choice.
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Wherever you take I
will take the other,
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and he is taking a humbler
position and he is waiting
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for the response to come back.
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And Lot gets on top of
the rock and he is looking
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he is like yep,
I'll take that one.
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See you later uncle
and he bust out of there.
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Okay. Now we see later
on what's happening here.
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The character of
Lot emerges. Verse 12,
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"Abraham dwelt in
the land of Canaan,
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and Lot dwelt in
the cities of the plain
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and pitched his
tent towards Sodom."
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We will get back to
that a little bit later.
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Go to Genesis
14, go to Genesis 14,
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Genesis 14 verse 14.
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We will start from verse 13.
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The Bible reads,
this is the account
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of a old war
happening. Verse 13,
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"there came one
that had escaped,
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and told Abraham the Hebrew;
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for he dwelled in
the plain of Mamre,
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the Amorite, the
brother of Eshcol,
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the brother of Aner,
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and these were
confederate with Abram.
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And when Abram
heard that his brother
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was taken captive,
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he armed his trained servants,
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born in his own house, 318
and pursued them unto Dan."
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Now this is the
character of Abraham.
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In Chapter 13 we see
the character of Lot.
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Lot is the little
guy and he is like,
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yep I will take it
and he is out of there.
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Okay. Now Abraham
is a bit different.
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Abraham verse 13,
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He hears that his
nephew has been taken away.
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And as a good father,
good man of God that he is,
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verse 13, He is hanging
out with three brothers.
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We have Mamre the Amorite.
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He is the brother of Eshcol
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and the brother of
Aner, three brothers.
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And you see here,
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Abraham is
mingling with three other.
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He is conferring. He
is making allies here.
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In Verse 14, when
Abraham heard his brother
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or relative was
taken captive which is, Lot
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he armed his own, his servants.
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He trained them and 318,
and pursued them unto Dan.
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Now if you know the
geography of this area,
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they are living in
southern Israel, you know today,
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and he goes all
the way to the north
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and he is coming with his 318,
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these were men
born in his own house.
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And he is training
them. Now does this guy,
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Abraham, have any
training in military warfare
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and strategy
whatsoever. No. But he was like,
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I need to get my nephew back.
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And a certain
level of determination,
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and he trains 318 and he
goes all the way to the north
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and that's where Dan
is, pursue them unto Dan
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and verse 15, this is
verse interesting, 15.
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"He divided
himself against them."
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He is a strategist. "He
and his servants by night."
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Question, why they
are going by night?
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It's, yeah it's
dark. Good. It's dark.
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They can't see him.
Strategy. Okay, verse now.
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"And he smote them and
pursued them unto," where?
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If you know geography,
they are living in the south.
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They go all the
way north unto Dan
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and then they go
even far north unto Hobah,
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meaning they pursue
these enemies until the end.
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It's not like, let's just
go halfway, let's half big it.
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Let's go halfway and
just, you know, do halfway,
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get my Nephew and get back out.
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He gets his
nephew and he continues
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and pursues them all the way.
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Verse 16, "he
brought back all the goods,
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brought also again
his brother Lot his goods,
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women also, and the people.
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Let's go to
Chapter 13:12, 13:12,
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"Lots character was
such, in Verse 12 it says,
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"Abraham dwelled
in the land of Canaan,
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and Lot dwelled in
the cities of the plain
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and pitched his
tent," what? "Towards Sodom."
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So here is Lot and
there's the reputation of Sodom
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was well known
back in their day.
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And he sees this Garden
of Eden as kind of territory,
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and he knows that
Sodom is over there,
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but he pitches his
tent toward that area.
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This is the
beginning of his compromise.
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Now Abraham is out in other
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and he is
staying away from Sodom.
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Is there a tendency
where in your subconscious
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you know you want something?
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But you know you
should not go towards it,
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but you lean towards it.
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When you are on the internet
you know you shouldn't go
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to that website, but
you go to another website
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and do a search on it
that's kind of similar
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and by chance happen
to go to this website.
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Well you know you
shouldn't go on this direction
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to that place, you
know onto on the way home,
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but for today you
decided to be creative,
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and you take
this particular route.
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You know you
shouldn't talk to this lady,
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but because in your subconscious
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you do wanna talk, you
kind of lean towards her.
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And here that's
what he is doing.
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He has his tent
pitched towards Sodom.
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Now next Chapter we
see what's happening.
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Go to Chapter
14:12, "sometime passes,"
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Chapter 14:12, and says
that these nations took Lot.
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Abraham's brother
son and then it says,
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Lot who dwelt, where?
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Not towards
Sodom but now, where?
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He is now living in Sodom.
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In Sodom! It's like hmm...
00:14:07.31\00:14:09.79
Let me, let me just
live towards New York city.
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You know the real
estate over there is okay,
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with this economy
there is you know,
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the market will go up.
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I'll get some more money
and you are going towards there
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and after a
couple of years, what?
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We find out that Lot is
living downtown Manhattan.
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He is living inside.
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That was interesting
is, keep going Chapter 19:1,
00:14:31.35\00:14:36.80
stage one he is
going towards this,
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stage two he is in this.
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And Chapter 19, the third stage,
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"there came two
angels to Sodom at even,
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at evening; and Lot
sat in the gate of Sodom."
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Question, what is this
'in the gate of Sodom?"
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Back in their
day, the gate was the
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open area for the
village, for the city.
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That's where
everyone would come out,
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bring all their
things, all their,
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you know, goats
and potatoes and,
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I don't know what they bring in.
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They would all sell it, okay.
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Now there is a
dispute amongst two people.
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They come out to the
front gate of the village.
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And there the person who sits
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at the gate was the town mayor
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or the judge or
someone in-charge at that time
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and he would judge and moderate
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some of these
arguments. So stage three.
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Here Lot sitting at the
gate is not Lot's like, hmmm...
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I need a place to
sit. Oh there is a gate.
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Ah, it's a free space.
I will sit at the gate.
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This is not the case. Amen.
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He is in-charge
of something inside.
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Stage one, pitched
a tent towards Sodom.
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Stage two, he is in Sodom.
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Stage three, he is
in-charge of something in Sodom.
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Okay. Now let's go to the
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Chapter 18 and 19 and
we gonna flip around here.
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And look at some of the
aspects of scripture here.
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And scripture is so, I
have a comical perspective
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and it's funny
what, what scripture does.
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Chapter 18:1, "the LORD appeared
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unto him in the plains of Mamre.
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He sat in the tent
door in the heat of the day.
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He lifted up
his eyes and looked,
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and, lo, three men stood by him.
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When he saw them, he ran to
meet them from the tent door.
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He bowed himself to
the ground and said,
00:16:34.25\00:16:36.45
"my Lord, if I, if now I
have found favor in thy sight,
00:16:36.46\00:16:41.30
pass not away, I pray
thee, from thy servant.
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Let a little water,
I pray you, be fetched,
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and wash your feet, and
rest yourselves under the tree.
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I will fetch a morsel of
bread, comfort your hearts;
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that you shall, after
that you shall pass on:
00:16:52.32\00:16:54.93
for therefore are you
come to your servant."
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And they said,
"So do, as thou said."
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Abraham hastened into the
tent, into Sarah, and said,
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"Make ready quickly
three measures of fine meal,
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knead it, make
cakes upon the hearth."
00:17:05.14\00:17:07.44
And Abraham ran unto the herd,
00:17:07.45\00:17:08.98
fetched a calf tender and good,
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gave it to a young man
and he hastened to dress it.
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He took butter,
and milk, and the calf
00:17:14.58\00:17:16.15
which he had dressed,
and set it before them;
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and he stood by them under
the tree, and they did eat."
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One characteristic of Abraham,
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another
characteristic I should say.
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He is a man of hospitality.
Now it's interesting.
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Scripture goes to many verses
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to describe this
attribute of Abraham.
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Couple of things to bring out.
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Verse 2, he lifted up, he
looks up and sees three men.
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And when Bible says in Verse 2,
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when he saw
them, he what? He ran.
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Is there a difference
between a running and walking?
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Did you ever felt
awkward where there is
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a long corridor and
someone is walking towards you?
00:18:01.83\00:18:05.82
And you are walking towards
them and you have to say,
00:18:05.83\00:18:08.62
hi, but you don't
know when to say hi.
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So like forward,
hey Joe, hey Joe.
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Alright, hey
Justin and you are walking
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and you have this awkward time
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and you are kind of
walking towards each other,
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and you make conversations.
So how is it going?
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You enclose it or do you
actually ignore each other,
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until you get to a
reasonable space and say,
00:18:28.14\00:18:30.75
hey, how's it going?
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Yeah, I saw you full fire back,
00:18:32.06\00:18:33.28
but just wanna
yelling, it's kind of awkward,
00:18:33.29\00:18:36.27
to make that awkward
distance not so awkward.
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Here Abraham as a
sign of politeness,
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what, he doesn't
walk towards him.
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Walking is a sign of arrogance,
00:18:45.62\00:18:47.11
if you will, but he runs
out of hospitality, of humility.
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Now when he
runs, he says verses 3,
00:18:51.86\00:18:54.61
" My LORD, if now have
found favor in your sight,
00:18:54.62\00:18:57.56
pass not away, I pray
thee, from thy servant."
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Meaning, stay here,
and he goes all out.
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Verse 4, "Let a
little water, I pray you,
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be fetched, and wash your feet."
00:19:04.92\00:19:06.61
Question, why does he,
00:19:06.62\00:19:08.07
why do they need
your feet to be washed?
00:19:08.08\00:19:09.69
In their
society, in this society,
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it's a desert culture.
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You got desert,
sands blowing everywhere
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and in their day
they did not have
00:19:17.73\00:19:20.46
wonderful
Timberlands or Nike shoes.
00:19:20.47\00:19:23.35
They just had a
piece of hard leather
00:19:23.36\00:19:25.29
on the bottom of
their feet wrapped around
00:19:25.30\00:19:27.53
with string or a ligament
of an animal or something.
00:19:27.54\00:19:31.09
So, as they are
walking around their feet
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has intimate
contact with the sand
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and the dirt all
around them. Yes.
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Now how many of you do
when you do full washing,
00:19:38.48\00:19:40.69
your feet are extremely dirty.
00:19:40.70\00:19:43.07
If anything, when
you do full washings
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you got like sock
fuzzies come under water
00:19:45.27\00:19:46.97
and gets this murky
grayish, blue-black color.
00:19:46.98\00:19:50.69
And it's dirty, but
it's not dirty-dirty.
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Now when they washed
feet, it was just, you know,
00:19:53.42\00:19:56.44
all the sand and
stuff would come out.
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But in addition, what
kind of culture is this?
00:19:58.12\00:20:00.78
This is an agriculture society.
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Along with humans
walking on these roads,
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what else is
walking on these roads?
00:20:06.42\00:20:08.17
Not you beamer, not
you homer, but what?
00:20:09.22\00:20:11.75
Mr. Cow, and Mrs. Camel
00:20:12.50\00:20:15.46
or you know whatever animals.
00:20:15.47\00:20:17.05
Now when animals
run and when they move
00:20:17.06\00:20:20.29
they leave gifts on the floor,
00:20:20.30\00:20:22.47
on the offerings all over.
00:20:22.48\00:20:24.42
Now in our context
we think, ah it's gross
00:20:24.43\00:20:27.06
and you would
tippy-toe around these things
00:20:27.07\00:20:28.83
if you ever
walked through apartments
00:20:28.84\00:20:29.81
and just dust or poop
everywhere and you are like,
00:20:29.82\00:20:31.28
you are walking
all around this way.
00:20:31.29\00:20:32.68
But here in their
society, it's just animal poop,
00:20:32.69\00:20:36.64
so you just walk through it.
00:20:36.65\00:20:38.31
So, here is the context.
00:20:38.32\00:20:39.61
You are walking
and if they walk for
00:20:39.62\00:20:41.45
miles and miles and
miles and here there is dust
00:20:41.46\00:20:44.44
all over the feet and
there is poop all over the feet
00:20:44.45\00:20:47.61
and then the dust
sticks to the poop
00:20:47.62\00:20:49.82
and then it's hard
and it gets all crusty
00:20:49.83\00:20:52.08
and funny you have these,
00:20:52.09\00:20:53.41
you know, cakes on your feet.
00:20:53.42\00:20:55.99
So when you are coming to eat,
00:20:57.76\00:20:59.30
what you want to do?
00:20:59.31\00:21:01.02
Washing your hands
00:21:01.03\00:21:02.47
with antibacterial
soap is the least concern.
00:21:02.48\00:21:05.32
You wanna wash your
feet. Are you with me?
00:21:06.77\00:21:08.51
So they go and he says,
00:21:09.73\00:21:10.70
let a little water be fetched.
00:21:10.71\00:21:12.26
Can you imagine?
00:21:12.27\00:21:13.26
He's like, hey little
girl servant come here.
00:21:13.27\00:21:15.30
And he take the chisel out
and they are chiseling away,
00:21:15.31\00:21:18.14
these crustified
cakes of goodness
00:21:18.15\00:21:23.16
and it's floating in the water.
00:21:23.17\00:21:25.42
Can you imagine
how refresh they are?
00:21:25.43\00:21:27.02
Ah! My feet are all clean.
00:21:27.03\00:21:30.88
If you have sand
between you toes,
00:21:30.89\00:21:32.17
one of the most
horrible sensations.
00:21:32.18\00:21:34.27
Anyway keep on going.
00:21:34.28\00:21:35.31
Verse 4, it say,
"Let a little water,
00:21:36.62\00:21:38.26
I pray you, be
fetched, wash your feet,
00:21:38.27\00:21:40.54
rest yourselves under the tree."
00:21:40.55\00:21:42.79
Trees are scarce. So
there is the hot sun,
00:21:42.80\00:21:46.82
you are under the tree,
that's refreshing, isn't it?
00:21:46.83\00:21:48.53
Yes, okay,
Verse 5, "I will fetch
00:21:48.54\00:21:51.43
a morsel of bread,
and comfort your hearts,
00:21:51.44\00:21:53.45
and after that
you shall pass on;
00:21:53.46\00:21:55.01
for therefore are you
come to your servant."
00:21:55.02\00:21:58.76
So Verse 6,
Abraham what? He hastens.
00:21:58.77\00:22:02.52
Again, he is
running. He goes to his wife.
00:22:02.53\00:22:04.44
He says make very quickly.
00:22:04.45\00:22:05.65
Now one of the most
annoying things I heard,
00:22:05.66\00:22:08.03
I don't have a
wife, but for husband
00:22:08.04\00:22:09.69
to do to the wife is,
hey make some dinner now.
00:22:09.70\00:22:12.96
Five of my friends
are coming right now.
00:22:12.97\00:22:14.96
And wife, you know,
okay and she makes dinner
00:22:14.97\00:22:18.53
and she has to make something,
00:22:18.54\00:22:19.51
make something fresh out.
00:22:19.52\00:22:20.57
He does the same to Sarah
00:22:20.58\00:22:23.12
and here it's not the main meal.
00:22:23.13\00:22:24.95
It's just an appetizer.
00:22:24.96\00:22:26.21
A small little piece of bread,
00:22:26.22\00:22:27.47
have a little piece
of bread, have appetizer.
00:22:27.48\00:22:30.00
And while he is
making the appetizer,
00:22:30.01\00:22:31.49
she is making the appetizer.
00:22:31.50\00:22:32.58
He goes to a young man, verse 7,
00:22:32.59\00:22:35.00
"Abraham ran unto the herd,
00:22:35.01\00:22:36.92
fetched the calf
tender and good."
00:22:36.93\00:22:38.46
Now this is the
choice, you know, prime,
00:22:38.47\00:22:40.70
you know, Kobe
Beef Filet Mignon,
00:22:40.71\00:22:43.36
I don't know.
Use your imagination.
00:22:43.37\00:22:44.86
And gave it unto the young man
00:22:44.87\00:22:46.60
and he hastened to dress it.
00:22:46.61\00:22:48.49
Do you see the speed
that Abraham is working at?
00:22:48.50\00:22:51.82
He runs, hastens to Sarah,
00:22:51.83\00:22:54.07
and hastens back
to this young man.
00:22:54.08\00:22:56.01
Verse 8, "he
took butter and milk,"
00:22:56.02\00:22:58.90
very expensive
things, "and the calf which
00:22:58.91\00:23:00.95
he had dressed
and set it before them
00:23:00.96\00:23:03.11
and he stood by
them under the tree,"
00:23:03.12\00:23:05.32
and he is standing by
while they are eating.
00:23:05.33\00:23:08.62
Meaning, I am the
servant if you need anything,
00:23:08.63\00:23:11.89
I am here at your will.
00:23:11.90\00:23:14.47
This is a
characteristic of a man of God.
00:23:14.48\00:23:18.59
Now, contrast this to
the hospitality of Lot.
00:23:20.23\00:23:23.78
Go to Chapter 19:1; let's go
to mid-half, the half of One.
00:23:23.79\00:23:30.67
"Lot seeing them
rose up to meet them;
00:23:30.68\00:23:32.91
and he bowed himself with
his face toward the ground."
00:23:32.92\00:23:35.36
And Lot is also gracious.
He is the nephew of Abraham.
00:23:35.37\00:23:38.89
But Verse 2, "he
said, Behold now, my lords,
00:23:38.90\00:23:42.15
turn in, I pray you,
into your servant's house,
00:23:42.16\00:23:44.77
tarry all night, wash your feet,
00:23:44.78\00:23:46.74
and you shall rise up
early, go on your ways.
00:23:46.75\00:23:48.86
And they said nay we will abide
00:23:48.87\00:23:50.29
in the street all night.
He pressed upon them greatly.
00:23:50.30\00:23:53.08
They turned in unto him,
and entered into his house,
00:23:53.09\00:23:56.49
and he made them a
feast and bake them," what? "
00:23:56.50\00:23:59.91
Unleavened bread
and they did eat."
00:23:59.92\00:24:02.02
Question, are
there differences here?
00:24:02.03\00:24:03.65
In Chapter 18,
scripture uses about 8 verses
00:24:05.04\00:24:08.98
to describe what Abraham did.
00:24:08.99\00:24:12.52
In Chapter 19 there
is only may be a half,
00:24:12.53\00:24:16.02
one-and-a-half verse
that described what Lot did.
00:24:16.03\00:24:18.60
Interesting verse 2, he
says, stay here all night
00:24:19.72\00:24:23.42
and wash your own
feet. It's an imperative.
00:24:23.43\00:24:26.62
Hey here's some water
you wash your own feet.
00:24:26.63\00:24:29.34
Where he says,
let water be fetched
00:24:29.35\00:24:31.53
and let your feet be washed.
00:24:31.54\00:24:33.32
It's in the past
tense. And verse 2, "he says,"
00:24:33.33\00:24:36.46
and you shall rise up
early and go on your ways.""
00:24:36.47\00:24:38.73
Meaning get up early
and you can get out of here.
00:24:38.74\00:24:41.47
Okay. In verse 3,
00:24:41.48\00:24:43.57
"he makes them a
feast but bakes them," what?
00:24:43.58\00:24:45.92
Does he goes all
out with fine flour
00:24:45.93\00:24:48.28
and kneads them with choice
bread and gets them a calf.
00:24:48.29\00:24:51.60
What does he makes them?
00:24:51.61\00:24:53.11
He makes them unleavened bread.
00:24:53.12\00:24:55.77
Do you know what
unleavened bread is?
00:24:55.78\00:24:57.72
It's bread with a
leaven, yeah we know.
00:24:57.73\00:24:59.24
Well, unleavened
bread is unleavened bread
00:24:59.25\00:25:02.47
because it's quick to make.
00:25:02.48\00:25:04.25
You don't have to
wait for the yeast to rise.
00:25:06.28\00:25:09.29
So we see here is
Abraham goes all out.
00:25:09.30\00:25:12.54
He's running, making a feast.
00:25:12.55\00:25:14.36
He is getting flame in
yarn and going all out.
00:25:14.37\00:25:16.85
Lot comes, and he
also has some hospitality.
00:25:18.11\00:25:20.90
And he presses
upon them greatly.
00:25:20.91\00:25:22.56
But says, hey here some water,
00:25:22.57\00:25:23.66
wash your own feet, and
by the way here's a microwave
00:25:23.67\00:25:25.68
burrito in the
meantime while you are waiting.
00:25:25.69\00:25:27.70
Is there a
difference between the two?
00:25:29.60\00:25:32.01
Yes there is. Continuing on,
00:25:32.02\00:25:34.00
Abraham was an example
of maximum hospitality,
00:25:35.31\00:25:38.37
and Lot was an example
of minimum hospitality.
00:25:38.38\00:25:42.19
Chapter 18 and 19 are
comparing and contrasting.
00:25:42.20\00:25:44.70
We are going to see for today,
00:25:44.71\00:25:45.91
what aspects are the same?
00:25:45.92\00:25:47.84
For example in
Chapter 18:9 and 10,
00:25:47.85\00:25:51.41
"They, the angles said unto him,
00:25:51.42\00:25:53.04
"where is Sarah your wife?"
00:25:53.05\00:25:55.09
And he said,
Behold, in the tent?"
00:25:55.10\00:25:57.43
In verse 10, "And he
said, I will certainly
00:25:57.44\00:26:00.14
return unto you
according to the time of life;
00:26:00.15\00:26:02.48
and, lo, Sarah thy
wife shall have a son.
00:26:02.49\00:26:05.16
Sarah heard it in the tent
door, which was behind him."
00:26:05.17\00:26:08.29
What we have
here is a conversation
00:26:08.30\00:26:11.01
between on both
sides of the door.
00:26:11.02\00:26:13.89
You have Abraham and the angels
00:26:13.90\00:26:15.66
on one side of the door
and on the other side is who?
00:26:15.67\00:26:18.70
You have Sarah listening in.
00:26:18.71\00:26:20.65
In Chapter 19, and I know
many of you know the story.
00:26:20.66\00:26:24.42
Is there a conversation that is
00:26:24.43\00:26:26.27
happening on both
sides of the door?
00:26:26.28\00:26:28.47
Chapter 19:5,
"these Sodomite men
00:26:30.30\00:26:36.88
called out unto Lot
and said unto to him,
00:26:36.89\00:26:38.97
"where are the men which came
in to see to thee this night?
00:26:38.98\00:26:42.80
Bring them out unto
us that we know them."
00:26:42.81\00:26:45.25
But Lot went out
at the door unto them,
00:26:45.26\00:26:47.87
shut the door
after him, and he said
00:26:47.88\00:26:49.85
I pray you brethren
do not so wickedly."
00:26:49.86\00:26:54.60
I think just funny verse 6,
00:26:54.61\00:26:56.29
"he shuts the door behind him."
00:26:56.30\00:26:57.83
I would have not
shut the door behind me.
00:26:57.84\00:26:59.99
I would have kind of
kept it open for and is,
00:27:00.00\00:27:03.05
but he is protecting his people.
00:27:04.86\00:27:06.02
Okay. Now Verse 8.
00:27:06.03\00:27:08.80
"Behold now, I
have two daughters
00:27:08.81\00:27:10.35
which have not
known man; let me,
00:27:10.36\00:27:12.45
I pray thee,
bring them out to you,
00:27:12.46\00:27:14.80
do thee unto them as
is good in your eyes:
00:27:14.81\00:27:17.49
only onto these men do nothing;
00:27:17.50\00:27:19.46
therefore came they
under the shadow of my roof."
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We'll talk about
that a little bit later.
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Verse 10, let's go to verse 10.
00:27:22.80\00:27:24.31
Let us pass to verse 9,
00:27:25.36\00:27:27.10
"they pressed sore upon the man,
00:27:27.11\00:27:29.35
specially Lot, and
came near to," what?
00:27:29.36\00:27:32.68
"To break the door."
00:27:32.69\00:27:34.43
Verse 10, "the men
put forth their hand,
00:27:34.44\00:27:37.09
and pulled Lot into the house
to them and shut to the door.
00:27:37.10\00:27:40.79
They smote the
men that were at the
00:27:40.80\00:27:42.09
door of the
house with blindness,
00:27:42.10\00:27:43.73
both small and
great; so that they wearied
00:27:43.74\00:27:45.67
themselves to find the door."
00:27:45.68\00:27:47.10
We see here two instances.
00:27:47.11\00:27:50.94
One there is a conversation
happening at the door,
00:27:50.95\00:27:53.16
where's your
wife? She is over there.
00:27:53.17\00:27:55.16
And they said you are going
to be pregnant with the son.
00:27:55.17\00:27:57.91
Here there is a
conversation at the door.
00:27:57.92\00:28:00.00
These men are
like give us the men
00:28:00.01\00:28:02.25
and then they are fighting
00:28:02.26\00:28:03.23
and the door is about to break.
00:28:03.24\00:28:04.71
Okay, next part of comparison.
00:28:04.72\00:28:06.80
Go to Genesis 18:17, 18:17,
00:28:06.81\00:28:10.94
18:17, God is speaking
to himself and He says,
00:28:12.87\00:28:17.14
"Shall I hide from
Abraham the thing which I do?"
00:28:17.15\00:28:20.73
Talking about Sodom
and Gomorrah destruction."
00:28:20.74\00:28:22.91
Verse 18, " Seeing that Abraham
00:28:22.92\00:28:25.51
shall surely become a
great and mighty nation,
00:28:25.52\00:28:28.16
and all the nations of the earth
00:28:28.17\00:28:29.54
shall be blessed in
him?" Verse 19, "for I," what?
00:28:29.55\00:28:34.17
"I know him."
Question, does God know you?
00:28:34.18\00:28:39.20
Does He say I
know Bob? I know Steve.
00:28:40.53\00:28:47.43
I know Justin. Now
interestingly enough
00:28:47.44\00:28:51.17
this word for 'know' is
the word 'Yada' in Hebrew.
00:28:51.18\00:28:54.33
Meaning it is an
intimate knowledge
00:28:54.34\00:28:57.38
and understanding
of. It is not just know
00:28:57.39\00:29:00.71
in the sense of, hey, do
you guys know Michael Jackson?
00:29:00.72\00:29:03.37
Or how many
know Michael Jackson?
00:29:03.38\00:29:06.16
I don't think any of
you knows Michael Jackson.
00:29:06.17\00:29:09.86
Too many of you
know your best friend
00:29:09.87\00:29:12.46
or your wife or your parents
00:29:12.47\00:29:14.50
but you don't
know Michael Jackson.
00:29:14.51\00:29:16.55
But you know him, yes.
00:29:16.56\00:29:18.12
Isn't there a
difference between the two?
00:29:18.13\00:29:19.54
Okay. And here he
says "I know him."
00:29:19.55\00:29:24.48
Chapter 19, Chapter
19, yeah, Chapter 19.
00:29:24.49\00:29:27.47
There is a Verse 5,
the same word is used.
00:29:27.48\00:29:32.61
"They called out unto
Lot, and they said unto him,
00:29:32.62\00:29:34.91
where are the men which
came in to thee this night?
00:29:34.92\00:29:37.93
Bring them out to
us, that we may," what? "
00:29:37.94\00:29:40.38
that we may know them."
00:29:41.39\00:29:43.88
And we all know what
kind of know that is.
00:29:43.89\00:29:45.65
It is an extra
curricular kind of intimate,
00:29:45.66\00:29:48.01
you know, you know,
weird deviant way 'know'.
00:29:48.02\00:29:50.78
Here Abraham, it
has the connection
00:29:53.27\00:29:57.58
and the environment of heaven.
00:29:57.59\00:29:59.96
All of the Heaven knows Him.
00:29:59.97\00:30:01.66
Here Lot is
surrounded with people
00:30:02.25\00:30:05.79
who have perverse
ideas. And they have
00:30:05.80\00:30:08.69
a 'Yada' in a
different sinful way.
00:30:08.70\00:30:12.40
Chapter 18:11, next
point of comparison, 18:11,
00:30:13.64\00:30:18.45
"Abraham and Sarah were
old and well stricken in age;
00:30:20.33\00:30:23.20
it ceased to be with
Sarah after the manner of women.
00:30:23.21\00:30:25.94
And therefore Sarah," what?
What she did do? She laughed.
00:30:25.95\00:30:30.66
The Hebrew word for
laugh is, it's a 'Yitzhak,'
00:30:30.67\00:30:35.21
does it sound like anything.
00:30:35.22\00:30:36.66
Their son's name was 'Yitzhak'
00:30:36.67\00:30:40.56
or the anglicized
version Isaac. It's funny.
00:30:40.57\00:30:45.56
She laughed and
God says you laughed?
00:30:45.57\00:30:48.42
Then she says I laughed not.
00:30:48.43\00:30:50.17
And later on she has a baby
00:30:50.18\00:30:51.43
and she laughed
in a different way.
00:30:51.44\00:30:52.89
Yes. She laughed
by having her child.
00:30:52.90\00:30:54.87
And here, in
chapter 19 verse 12,
00:30:56.09\00:30:59.21
the word 'Yitzhak'
comes off same derivative.
00:31:00.98\00:31:03.83
See if you can point it out.
00:31:05.00\00:31:06.45
Chapter 19:12,
"the angels said to Lot,
00:31:06.46\00:31:12.14
"Hast thou here any besides?
00:31:12.15\00:31:14.35
Son in law, and thy
sons, and thy daughters,
00:31:14.36\00:31:16.25
and whatsoever
thou hast in the city,
00:31:16.26\00:31:17.68
bring them out of this place
00:31:17.69\00:31:19.29
for we will
destroy this place?""
00:31:19.30\00:31:20.61
Verse 14, "Lot
went out, and spake unto
00:31:21.53\00:31:23.95
his sons in law,
which married his daughters,
00:31:23.96\00:31:25.90
and said, "Up, get
you out of this place;
00:31:25.91\00:31:29.79
for the LORD will
destroy this city."
00:31:29.80\00:31:32.58
But he seemed as one that
mocked to his sons in law."
00:31:32.59\00:31:37.28
Now in the King
James it is very unclear,
00:31:37.29\00:31:39.18
but the word
that is used there is,
00:31:39.19\00:31:40.61
'Yitzhak', meaning not
that Lot made fun of his sons,
00:31:40.62\00:31:45.34
that wouldn't make any sense.
00:31:45.35\00:31:46.51
It's actually other way around.
00:31:46.52\00:31:47.97
His sons-in-law, what?
Made fun of his father.
00:31:47.98\00:31:52.58
Now Chapter 18 verse 19.
00:31:54.45\00:31:57.40
God says, "For I know him,
00:31:58.95\00:32:01.34
I adore him and he will command
00:32:01.35\00:32:04.09
his children and
his household after him,
00:32:04.10\00:32:07.17
and they shall keep
the way of the LORD,
00:32:07.18\00:32:08.90
to do justice and judgment;
the LORD may bring upon
00:32:08.91\00:32:12.46
Abraham that which
he had spoken unto him."
00:32:12.47\00:32:15.87
Here God says I know this man
00:32:15.88\00:32:19.35
because he
commands his household.
00:32:19.36\00:32:23.01
Now this is not an
authoritarian powers,
00:32:23.02\00:32:25.68
power trip. He's
not saying, yeah,
00:32:25.69\00:32:27.18
I am the man, and I had to beat
00:32:27.19\00:32:28.95
my wife and my
children to get me
00:32:28.96\00:32:30.63
my Latte in the morning.
00:32:30.64\00:32:32.73
Not this, but he has a command
00:32:32.74\00:32:35.67
structure of his
household in the way of, what?
00:32:35.68\00:32:39.26
In the way of the Lord.
00:32:39.27\00:32:41.61
The greatest need
in our Church today,
00:32:42.79\00:32:46.32
is men who know
how to be fathers
00:32:46.33\00:32:49.29
and to command their households
00:32:49.30\00:32:51.66
not after
themselves, not after the world,
00:32:51.67\00:32:55.07
but in the way of the Lord.
00:32:55.08\00:32:58.96
In North America, especially
in United States of America,
00:32:58.97\00:33:03.00
men have a hard
time especially with the
00:33:03.01\00:33:04.87
baby boomer
generation right now.
00:33:04.88\00:33:07.02
There has been an absence
of a pattern of fatherhood.
00:33:07.03\00:33:11.02
Because the World War I and II,
00:33:11.03\00:33:12.98
an entire generation of fathers
00:33:12.99\00:33:15.14
has been just obliterated.
00:33:15.15\00:33:17.28
So the next
generation that pops up,
00:33:17.29\00:33:19.56
men do not know
how to be fathers.
00:33:19.57\00:33:23.00
For women it is different.
00:33:23.01\00:33:24.67
It is biological to be a mother.
00:33:24.68\00:33:27.27
A mother when she is
pregnant has a child.
00:33:27.28\00:33:29.54
She has intimate
connection with the child.
00:33:29.55\00:33:31.21
The child is inside of her.
00:33:31.22\00:33:32.86
She has the mechanical structure
00:33:32.87\00:33:34.61
and the biological structure
to know how to be a mother.
00:33:34.62\00:33:37.12
She can feed the child.
00:33:37.13\00:33:38.13
She knows how to
take care of her child.
00:33:38.14\00:33:39.25
There is
something natural about it,
00:33:39.26\00:33:41.40
whereas the father has
no intermittent connection
00:33:41.41\00:33:45.00
with the child,
yes? How many of you,
00:33:45.01\00:33:47.34
when you had your
child for the first time.
00:33:47.35\00:33:49.98
You saw your child
for the first time,
00:33:49.99\00:33:51.44
like wow, he is
real. He is, that's mine.
00:33:51.45\00:33:57.30
I have no idea
what that feels like.
00:33:59.74\00:34:01.73
But it's interesting,
it takes longer for the
00:34:02.82\00:34:04.95
husband to get acclimated
00:34:04.96\00:34:06.83
to the child
than it does mother.
00:34:06.84\00:34:08.88
A father needs to
learn how to be a father.
00:34:08.89\00:34:13.14
And too often many men
become biological fathers
00:34:14.48\00:34:19.88
without learning
how to be fathers. Amen.
00:34:19.89\00:34:23.53
The only way to learn
how to be a good father
00:34:25.25\00:34:27.34
is to have a good
example of a Biblical father.
00:34:27.35\00:34:30.03
And then in North America
that pattern has been broken.
00:34:30.04\00:34:32.53
Here God says I know him.
00:34:34.26\00:34:37.52
He can command his
household, verse 19,
00:34:37.53\00:34:39.97
"he will command his
children and his household
00:34:39.98\00:34:43.93
after him that they
shall keep the way of the Lord
00:34:43.94\00:34:46.80
to do justice and judgment
that the Lord may bring upon
00:34:46.81\00:34:50.27
Abraham that was
just spoken of him."
00:34:50.28\00:34:52.62
Now contrast that
here Chapter 19:14,
00:34:52.63\00:34:58.37
"Lot went out and
speak unto his sons in law,"
00:34:58.38\00:35:00.99
interestingly enough
does Lot have a father?
00:35:01.00\00:35:04.44
His father had
passed away early,
00:35:04.45\00:35:06.66
that's why he
comes and falls or enter
00:35:06.67\00:35:08.39
into the
guardianship of his uncle.
00:35:08.40\00:35:11.62
Verse 14, "he seemed as one that
00:35:11.63\00:35:14.13
mocked unto his sons in law."
00:35:14.14\00:35:17.05
His sons in law
are making fun of him.
00:35:17.06\00:35:20.38
Lot goes and he says,
guys pack up your goods.
00:35:20.39\00:35:23.59
We got to get out of here.
00:35:23.60\00:35:24.78
And I don't know what they did.
00:35:24.79\00:35:26.54
I don't know if they
sat down under their sofas
00:35:26.55\00:35:28.69
and they held onto
their, and they are laughing,
00:35:28.70\00:35:31.20
they are pointing,
or if they slapped their
00:35:31.21\00:35:33.44
father-in-law
back of the head like
00:35:33.45\00:35:34.88
hey get with the program
what are you talking about.
00:35:34.89\00:35:37.35
I don't know if
they made fun of him,
00:35:37.36\00:35:38.66
if they ignored him, but
he had no respect whatsoever.
00:35:38.67\00:35:42.34
Today in North America,
if you do cultural exegesis,
00:35:42.35\00:35:46.96
every TV show makes
fun of the father figure.
00:35:46.97\00:35:50.98
It started in the early 1990s
00:35:50.99\00:35:53.16
and I did a
seminar on this last year.
00:35:53.17\00:35:55.51
It started with one TV show in
00:35:55.52\00:35:57.64
a response to the Cosby show.
00:35:57.65\00:35:59.94
Cosby show all
throughout the 80s
00:35:59.95\00:36:01.52
was the epitome of Fatherhood.
00:36:01.53\00:36:02.93
You know the Cosby show?
00:36:02.94\00:36:03.91
Okay, next generation has
no idea who Bill Cosby is.
00:36:04.96\00:36:08.14
It's a shame, Bill
Cosby was a good father,
00:36:08.15\00:36:11.88
Dr. Heathcliff
Huxtable. And he had his wife
00:36:11.89\00:36:15.38
who is a lawyer,
and all these kids,
00:36:15.39\00:36:17.15
and it was place
when America was hurting,
00:36:17.16\00:36:20.28
when America was
anxious, they turned on their TV
00:36:20.29\00:36:23.97
and they would be
with Heathcliff Huxtable.
00:36:23.98\00:36:27.01
And he would
give father the advice
00:36:27.02\00:36:28.55
and the classic
scene is when he is
00:36:28.56\00:36:30.95
teaching his
son Theo about life.
00:36:30.96\00:36:33.39
He meant monopoly, I
don't know if you watch TV
00:36:33.40\00:36:35.42
if you don't that's
fine, but if you do that's the
00:36:35.43\00:36:37.06
classic scene of fatherhood.
00:36:37.07\00:36:39.62
Well in comes Fox network.
00:36:39.63\00:36:42.09
Fox network has not
been around for a while.
00:36:42.10\00:36:44.42
Back then it was the
big three--CBS, NBC and ABC.
00:36:44.43\00:36:49.96
In comes Fox
network and they say,
00:36:49.97\00:36:51.73
how can we compete
against the big three.
00:36:51.74\00:36:54.42
And they come up with
this risqué programming
00:36:54.43\00:36:56.98
and one of the first
TV shows that come up with
00:36:56.99\00:36:59.27
is called,
"Married... with Children."
00:36:59.28\00:37:02.59
For the first time
"Married with Children,"
00:37:02.60\00:37:04.40
comes on and says instead of
00:37:04.41\00:37:05.94
revealing the
father figure let's,
00:37:05.95\00:37:09.55
'Yitzhak the father.'
Let's make fun of him.
00:37:09.56\00:37:12.80
Let's make him a
degenerated, drunk,
00:37:12.81\00:37:15.90
stupid, fat, you know
just a lazy incompetent father.
00:37:15.91\00:37:21.14
And at the end of
the early shows of
00:37:21.15\00:37:23.20
"Married with
Children," they end,
00:37:23.21\00:37:25.47
they conclude with the mother
00:37:25.48\00:37:28.35
and the two kids making fun
of Al Bundy at every episode.
00:37:28.36\00:37:32.61
Oh dad! You can't,
you cannot support us.
00:37:32.62\00:37:35.17
Oh dad you are an idiot.
Oh dad you just drink beer
00:37:35.18\00:37:37.68
and you sit in
front of your TV all day.
00:37:37.69\00:37:39.26
Well that's our dad. Ha! Ha! Ha!
00:37:39.27\00:37:41.46
And the credits roll.
We are in a generation,
00:37:41.47\00:37:45.00
we are in a culture
with the father figure,
00:37:45.01\00:37:47.68
it's an authority
the Lord has given us,
00:37:47.69\00:37:50.26
where the rest of
the world now it says
00:37:50.27\00:37:52.90
fathers are to be made fun of.
00:37:52.91\00:37:55.01
Now what happens? This
program goes off the roof.
00:37:55.71\00:37:59.72
They started
picking up another TV show,
00:37:59.73\00:38:02.08
not on reality but a cartoonized
00:38:02.09\00:38:04.79
animated version of this.
00:38:04.80\00:38:06.59
And it's not called
"Married with Children,"
00:38:06.60\00:38:08.17
it's one of the
longest running TV shows
00:38:08.18\00:38:09.82
ever in history and
it's called the, what?
00:38:09.83\00:38:12.67
"The Simpsons."
Yellow, you know,
00:38:12.68\00:38:15.40
yellowish weird
things and guess what?
00:38:15.41\00:38:17.53
The father figure
is, what's his name?
00:38:17.54\00:38:20.91
Homer Simpson and he is
the carbon copy of Al Bundy,
00:38:20.92\00:38:25.08
but for more general population.
00:38:25.09\00:38:27.73
And guess what?
After that, all the sitcoms
00:38:27.74\00:38:31.89
whereas throughout the
70s and 80s the father figure
00:38:31.90\00:38:34.57
was the backbone
from that point on,
00:38:34.58\00:38:36.50
there is a paradigm
shift. And from that point on
00:38:36.51\00:38:39.06
all TV shows make
fun of the father.
00:38:39.07\00:38:42.40
This is not a source of comedy.
00:38:43.93\00:38:45.99
This is an
attack on masculinity,
00:38:46.00\00:38:49.40
the way that the Lord had
originally intended. Amen.
00:38:49.41\00:38:53.79
Here Lot is being made
fun of by his children.
00:38:53.80\00:38:59.16
Gentlemen, I plead
with you as fathers,
00:38:59.17\00:39:01.11
as grandfathers, as uncles,
00:39:01.12\00:39:02.72
as sons--do not
have anyone mock you.
00:39:02.73\00:39:06.25
Now I am not saying
you'd be stern, authoritarian.
00:39:06.26\00:39:09.23
You know, have a, you know,
00:39:09.24\00:39:10.23
a sword in your
hand and you chop off
00:39:10.24\00:39:12.25
people's heads every
time they laugh at you.
00:39:12.26\00:39:13.41
I am not saying that at all.
00:39:13.42\00:39:14.67
We went from one
extreme of masculine dominance
00:39:16.71\00:39:21.43
and we are going
to the other way,
00:39:21.44\00:39:22.58
where we become this
effeminate, oprahization men,
00:39:22.59\00:39:26.66
who sit around and talk
about our feelings and cry.
00:39:26.67\00:39:30.48
There is nothing wrong
with talking about your feelings
00:39:30.49\00:39:32.40
and nothing wrong
with crying but can we
00:39:32.41\00:39:34.85
become uber-feminized men.
00:39:34.86\00:39:38.15
Is that where the direction
culture is going towards?
00:39:38.16\00:39:41.88
And what happens?
When a man is incompetent
00:39:41.89\00:39:45.38
he ceases to be a man.
00:39:45.39\00:39:48.09
A defining mark of
masculinity is competence.
00:39:48.10\00:39:52.27
Where Abraham
says my nephew is gone
00:39:52.28\00:39:56.43
318 I am going to train you.
00:39:56.44\00:39:57.99
We are going to
get this finished,
00:39:58.00\00:39:59.70
no matter what it
takes to get my nephew back.
00:39:59.71\00:40:04.64
I will not be allowing
it when a command my child.
00:40:04.65\00:40:06.97
But in chapter 18 he
says in the way of the Lord,
00:40:06.98\00:40:10.82
that's important amen,
in the way of the Lord,
00:40:10.83\00:40:13.86
that word for 'way'
is the word 'Derek,'
00:40:15.61\00:40:18.08
that's found in Chapter 19 also.
00:40:18.09\00:40:20.73
Chapter 19, open
with me Chapter 19,
00:40:20.74\00:40:23.24
Chapter 19. I am in chapter 22.
00:40:23.25\00:40:27.54
Chapter 19 and verse 30,
00:40:33.88\00:40:40.43
Chapter 19:30 and this
is one of the perverse,
00:40:42.90\00:40:45.89
weird passages of scripture.
00:40:47.76\00:40:49.53
And you know this
passage, many of you do.
00:40:49.54\00:40:51.19
Verse 30, "Lot
went up out of Zoar,
00:40:51.20\00:40:53.88
and dwelt in the mountain,
00:40:53.89\00:40:54.86
and his two daughters with him;
00:40:54.87\00:40:56.38
for he feared to dwell in Zoar:
00:40:56.39\00:40:57.54
and he dwelt in a cave,
he and his two daughters."
00:40:57.55\00:40:59.91
Verse 31, "the
firstborn said unto the younger,
00:40:59.92\00:41:03.72
'Our father is old, and
there is not a man in earth
00:41:03.73\00:41:07.44
to come in unto us after
the manner of all the earth"'.
00:41:07.45\00:41:11.54
That word for manner in
Greek, guess what it is?
00:41:11.55\00:41:14.72
It is the word 'Derek'.
00:41:14.73\00:41:16.43
Chapter 18, "Derek of the Lord,"
00:41:17.77\00:41:21.12
Chapter 19, "the
Derek of the world."
00:41:21.13\00:41:23.80
Do you see how the two
are contrasting each other?
00:41:23.81\00:41:25.86
There are two ways to be a man,
00:41:25.87\00:41:27.56
one to be a man
after the Lord's own heart,
00:41:27.57\00:41:30.79
and another way to be
a man after the world.
00:41:30.80\00:41:33.02
And guess what
happens in this situation.
00:41:33.03\00:41:34.94
These daughters are skimming.
00:41:34.95\00:41:36.31
There is no other way for
this guy to be our father,
00:41:36.32\00:41:39.25
so that's what we should we do?
00:41:39.26\00:41:40.90
Let's have an extracurricular
activity with him
00:41:40.91\00:41:43.90
and I shall have a
child, his name shall be Moab
00:41:43.91\00:41:46.44
and you get the
Moabites and you get
00:41:46.45\00:41:47.64
the pre-generator of
one of route to becomes
00:41:47.65\00:41:50.75
in the line of Jesus, and
the second born becomes Ammon.
00:41:50.76\00:41:54.64
And Amenities
come on, the Moabites
00:41:54.65\00:41:56.57
and Ammonites
annoy the Israelites
00:41:56.58\00:41:58.92
from that point
on. There are two ways.
00:41:58.93\00:42:01.11
Derek of the Lord,
Derek of the World.
00:42:01.12\00:42:04.68
Next point of
comparison Chapter 19:15, 19:15,
00:42:04.69\00:42:12.10
"when the morning arose,
then the angels hastened Lot,
00:42:14.04\00:42:17.66
saying, Arise, take thy
wife, and thy two daughters,
00:42:17.67\00:42:20.31
which are here; lest thou be
00:42:20.32\00:42:21.42
consumed in the
iniquity of the city."
00:42:21.43\00:42:23.94
Verse 16, "while
he," what? "Lingered."
00:42:23.95\00:42:29.66
Here you see Abraham
is a epidemy of haste,
00:42:31.43\00:42:35.81
of competence, and he is quick.
00:42:35.82\00:42:39.08
When there is an
emergency situation,
00:42:39.09\00:42:41.07
men know exactly what to do.
00:42:41.08\00:42:42.93
Call 911. Get the ambulance.
00:42:42.94\00:42:45.44
Bring a towel. Get me a coke.
00:42:45.45\00:42:47.24
You know, whatever
you do decaffeinated.
00:42:47.25\00:42:48.92
You know,
whatever you got to do.
00:42:48.93\00:42:51.53
Now here Lot is
incompetent. He lingers.
00:42:51.54\00:42:56.62
Now if this was a so, so
kind of ambiguous situation,
00:42:56.63\00:43:01.30
lingering could be logical. Yes.
00:43:01.31\00:43:04.15
Hey, there is a cow coming
00:43:04.16\00:43:06.75
towards you from 15 miles away.
00:43:06.76\00:43:09.47
Okay well let me
linger for a while.
00:43:09.48\00:43:10.96
That makes sense.
But what is the context
00:43:10.97\00:43:14.18
of the situation
that's happening here.
00:43:14.19\00:43:16.38
He says there are
fireballs coming down
00:43:16.39\00:43:18.89
from the city now get
out with your daughters.
00:43:18.90\00:43:22.53
Lot is thinking umm... hmm...
00:43:22.54\00:43:25.71
Yeah, let met get on
internet here. Fireballs.com.
00:43:27.54\00:43:33.30
Yeah, the weather
channel and he is lingering.
00:43:33.31\00:43:36.38
Gentlemen how many
of us, do we dilly-dally
00:43:36.39\00:43:39.62
with the small things of life.
00:43:39.63\00:43:42.12
Gentlemen are competent
00:43:42.13\00:43:43.71
in every avenues of their lives.
00:43:43.72\00:43:46.61
And too often no one
has taught us how to be men
00:43:46.62\00:43:50.76
and the way that
we've been since boys
00:43:50.77\00:43:53.11
has just carried on to
marriage and some of us are
00:43:53.12\00:43:56.96
80, 90 year old over-needy boys.
00:43:56.97\00:44:00.63
And we are not looking
for wives to compliment us
00:44:00.64\00:44:03.69
and to
ameliorate our ministries.
00:44:03.70\00:44:05.88
We are just finding
other moms to take care of us.
00:44:05.89\00:44:08.79
Here verse 16,
"While he lingered,
00:44:10.59\00:44:14.80
the men laid hold upon his hand
00:44:14.81\00:44:17.17
and upon the hand of his wife,
00:44:17.18\00:44:18.39
and upon the hand
of his two daughters;
00:44:18.40\00:44:19.75
the LORD being
merciful unto him:
00:44:19.76\00:44:21.70
and they brought him out,
and set him without the city."
00:44:21.71\00:44:26.41
Now here because he lingers
00:44:26.42\00:44:29.75
that lingering
attribute of his character
00:44:29.76\00:44:33.08
has an impression upon his wife.
00:44:33.09\00:44:36.63
The little things that men do,
00:44:36.64\00:44:38.95
everyone watches
especially your children,
00:44:38.96\00:44:41.77
especially your wife.
And because he lingers,
00:44:41.78\00:44:44.53
the wife does not take seriously
00:44:44.54\00:44:47.64
the admonition of the Angels.
00:44:47.65\00:44:50.99
And what happens to Lot's wife?
00:44:51.00\00:44:52.85
You all know
this, Mrs. Lot, verse 26
00:44:52.86\00:44:55.46
"but Mrs. Lord
looked back from behind him,
00:44:57.33\00:45:00.59
and she became," what? "
00:45:00.60\00:45:02.28
A compliment to table pepper."
00:45:03.59\00:45:05.58
She looked back. The
salvation of your wives,
00:45:07.18\00:45:13.15
the salvation of your families,
00:45:13.16\00:45:16.95
very well may be
dependent on you,
00:45:16.96\00:45:20.69
upon your spirituality,
upon your shoulders.
00:45:21.81\00:45:26.77
In Genesis Chapter
1, God instructs to Adam
00:45:26.78\00:45:31.08
to be responsible for
his wife and the household.
00:45:31.09\00:45:35.20
Last point of comparison,
last point of comparison.
00:45:35.21\00:45:38.46
Chapter 18 verse 22, 18:22,
00:45:40.69\00:45:43.26
18:22, "The men turned
their faces from thence,
00:45:45.08\00:45:48.69
and went towards Sodom,
00:45:48.70\00:45:49.75
but Abraham stood
yet before the Lord.
00:45:49.76\00:45:52.39
Abraham drew near, and said,
00:45:52.40\00:45:54.56
"Will you also destroy the
righteous with the wicked?"
00:45:54.57\00:45:57.53
Peradventure, may be,
there would be fifty people."
00:45:57.54\00:45:59.90
And you know this conversation.
00:45:59.91\00:46:01.18
May be there is
50, will you destroy?
00:46:01.19\00:46:02.74
God says no. Forty Five? No.
00:46:02.75\00:46:04.83
Thirty? No.
00:46:04.84\00:46:05.90
Twenty? No.
00:46:05.91\00:46:06.98
Ten? And he has
this long conversation.
00:46:06.99\00:46:10.75
He is in prayer.
He is in meditation.
00:46:10.76\00:46:13.93
He is meditating on
the behalf of his nephew.
00:46:13.94\00:46:18.32
In chapter 19,
Lot is also praying.
00:46:18.33\00:46:20.63
Chapter 19 verse
17, "it came to pass
00:46:22.08\00:46:26.97
when they had brought
them forth abroad, he said,
00:46:26.98\00:46:29.53
"Escape for thy
life; look not behind thee,
00:46:29.54\00:46:32.56
neither stay
thou in all the plain,
00:46:34.26\00:46:35.59
escape to the mountain,
lest thou be consumed.""
00:46:35.60\00:46:37.79
Verse 18, "Lot
says unto them," what?
00:46:37.80\00:46:41.22
"Oh! Not so my Lord, Behold now,
00:46:41.23\00:46:44.55
thy servant hath
found grace in thy sight,
00:46:44.56\00:46:46.84
and thou hast
magnified thy mercy,
00:46:46.85\00:46:48.60
which thou hast shewed
unto me in saving my life;
00:46:48.61\00:46:51.01
I cannot escape to the mountain,
00:46:51.02\00:46:53.03
lest some evil
take me, and I die.
00:46:53.04\00:46:55.17
Behold now, this
city is near to flee unto,
00:46:55.18\00:46:57.94
and it is a little one:
Oh, let me escape thither,
00:46:57.95\00:47:00.82
is it not a little one?
And my soul shall live then."
00:47:00.83\00:47:03.77
At the end of each
chapter both men are praying,
00:47:05.18\00:47:09.16
Abraham is
praying for his nephew.
00:47:09.17\00:47:10.85
He is pleading
Lord save my nephew.
00:47:10.86\00:47:13.98
Will you destroy?
Please have mercy.
00:47:13.99\00:47:16.17
Please, please, 50, 45, 30, 20,
00:47:16.18\00:47:19.22
and he is
pleading, pleading, pleading,
00:47:19.23\00:47:20.96
he is pleading on the
behalf of someone else.
00:47:20.97\00:47:24.41
Gentlemen how
many of our prayers
00:47:24.42\00:47:26.00
are for someone
else and ourselves.
00:47:26.01\00:47:28.67
Here Lot in
Chapter 19 is also pleading
00:47:28.68\00:47:31.38
with the Lord but
who is he pleading for?
00:47:31.39\00:47:33.81
He is pleading for himself.
00:47:34.89\00:47:36.07
He is like Lord I
can't go to the mountain.
00:47:36.08\00:47:38.32
It's too far away.
00:47:38.33\00:47:39.49
Let me go to this little
city. It's a little city.
00:47:39.50\00:47:41.60
Lord, please let
me go to the city.
00:47:41.61\00:47:42.58
It's such a little
small thing to pray for?
00:47:42.59\00:47:45.61
It's so selfish. Say the Lord
00:47:45.62\00:47:48.46
my nail was broken,
please heal my nail.
00:47:48.47\00:47:50.54
My nail is so painful,
whereas someone is praying.
00:47:50.55\00:47:52.64
Lord may he be healed of cancer.
00:47:52.65\00:47:55.80
And he is talking
for his nail to heal.
00:47:55.81\00:47:58.21
Here we see selfish intersession
00:48:00.70\00:48:02.41
mixed with mediation
for someone else behalf.
00:48:02.42\00:48:06.93
In the end, now I
ask you to turn to
00:48:08.22\00:48:10.21
Second Peter chapter 2.
00:48:10.22\00:48:12.26
Second Peter chapter
2, and in a New Testament,
00:48:12.27\00:48:16.30
and today I have
been very rough on Lot.
00:48:16.31\00:48:19.37
But the New Testament treats
him a little bit differently.
00:48:19.38\00:48:22.13
Second Peter Chapter 2,
Chapter 2 verse 7, 8 and 9.
00:48:22.14\00:48:29.23
Chapter 2 verse 7, 8 and
9, "God delivered just Lot,"
00:48:31.38\00:48:37.60
not just that
does not mean only Lot
00:48:37.61\00:48:39.03
means that it is
just one, just Lot,
00:48:39.04\00:48:42.08
"Vexed with the
filthy conversation
00:48:42.09\00:48:44.36
or the conduct of the wicked."
00:48:44.37\00:48:46.75
For that righteous
man welling among them,
00:48:46.76\00:48:49.92
in seeing and hearing,
vexed his righteous soul
00:48:49.93\00:48:53.09
from day to day with
their unlawful deeds.
00:48:53.10\00:48:56.32
The Lord knows how to
deliver the Godly out of," what?
00:48:56.33\00:49:00.51
"Temptations, and
to reserve the unjust
00:49:00.52\00:49:03.31
unto the day of
judgment to be punished".
00:49:03.32\00:49:05.58
Here we see two
men, two examples
00:49:07.02\00:49:10.39
one is the father of
faith and he is competent.
00:49:10.40\00:49:13.25
Is he a perfect
man? Not by any means
00:49:13.26\00:49:15.89
we will see it
later on in Genesis 12-22,
00:49:15.90\00:49:18.26
he had some other problems.
00:49:18.27\00:49:19.50
But in comparing him to
Lot he is a man of prayer,
00:49:20.75\00:49:24.29
man of competence,
man to get things done.
00:49:24.30\00:49:27.21
He commanded his family,
00:49:27.22\00:49:30.16
and he was a righteous
man praying for other people.
00:49:30.17\00:49:33.27
On the flipside, Lot
was a selfish little boy.
00:49:33.28\00:49:37.11
He took the best for himself.
00:49:37.12\00:49:39.13
He was a minimal hospitaliarian.
00:49:39.14\00:49:44.62
He was not a nice guy.
00:49:44.63\00:49:48.89
He prayed for himself. He wined.
00:49:52.18\00:49:55.13
His family members made fun
of him, and he was not a man.
00:49:55.14\00:49:58.89
But despite that in
chapter two of Peter,
00:50:00.18\00:50:03.53
the Bible says
for that righteous man
00:50:03.54\00:50:06.03
dwelling amongst them
and seeing and hearing,
00:50:06.04\00:50:08.25
vexed his righteous
soul. And here is the point.
00:50:08.26\00:50:11.90
Gentlemen, you may
not be a perfect man,
00:50:11.91\00:50:15.01
well none of us in the room are.
00:50:15.02\00:50:17.52
But are you sighing
and crying because of the
00:50:17.53\00:50:20.90
conditions of
the world around us?
00:50:20.91\00:50:22.93
Are you vexing your soul because
00:50:24.02\00:50:25.88
the temptations
around us are evil?
00:50:25.89\00:50:28.52
Are you grasping
the cross of Jesus
00:50:28.53\00:50:30.69
because this world
is too hard to survive?
00:50:30.70\00:50:34.58
A true man is not someone
who can wither this world.
00:50:34.59\00:50:38.39
The true man is
someone who takes up the cross
00:50:38.40\00:50:41.29
and lives in this world
by cleaning onto the cross.
00:50:41.30\00:50:44.79
A true man is
someone who is humble enough
00:50:46.14\00:50:50.38
to ask help
from only one person,
00:50:50.39\00:50:53.14
to get directions
from only one person,
00:50:53.15\00:50:56.03
to use GPS from only
one satellite source.
00:50:56.04\00:50:59.07
That is who? It's Jesus Christ.
00:50:59.08\00:51:02.10
Today you have come here because
00:51:02.11\00:51:03.92
Michigan Men of
Faith convocation
00:51:03.93\00:51:05.38
and you shall, blew
ha, ha, ha, and what not.
00:51:05.39\00:51:08.26
Do you understand the
00:51:10.06\00:51:11.06
repercussions of
this conversation?
00:51:11.07\00:51:12.69
If the men of this conference
start becoming sanctified,
00:51:14.10\00:51:19.21
start changing into
image of the masculine son,
00:51:19.22\00:51:22.82
and starting embodying
principles of masculinity,
00:51:22.83\00:51:26.56
of fatherhood,
families will be changed. Amen.
00:51:26.57\00:51:31.73
Commit mistakes, so be it,
00:51:31.74\00:51:33.23
the Lord takes
care of the past. Amen.
00:51:33.24\00:51:35.86
But from today do
resolve to be more like
00:51:35.87\00:51:38.96
Abraham in light of
Christ than instead of Lot.
00:51:38.97\00:51:43.09
And if you are Lot, are you
00:51:43.10\00:51:44.58
vexing your soul like
Peter is talking about?
00:51:44.59\00:51:48.22
Once families are
changed, Churches will change.
00:51:48.23\00:51:53.04
Deacons will
change. Elders will change.
00:51:53.05\00:51:56.59
And once churches change,
this country will change.
00:51:56.60\00:52:01.62
Once this country
changes the world will change.
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The Gospel work will
change. It all starts from here,
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from people of XY
genes hanging up together.
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The Kinesthetic
potential for the world work
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of the Gospel is in this room.
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And it doesn't matter if you
don't have a wife or a child,
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or if you're not a
brother or a son or what not.
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It's because you're a male.
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It's not because
you are superior.
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The Lord has a different work
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and a customized work for women.
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Amen. But the Lord wants men.
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How many of you,
today in your hearts,
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the Holy Spirit
has taught to you?
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In some way you're saying
Lord I want that in my life.
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The objective is the
Bible study is not to say.
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Now go and do it.
Is that what it is?
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That's the old
convent. Yes we'll do.
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We'll now be men.
We'll now watch brave heart.
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We'll now buy a sword
and we'll now chop off
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each other's heads in
grunt and scratch our armpits.
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No. That is the world's
concepts of masculinity.
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We need gentlemen in
Christ, sharp thinkers,
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competent leaders,
wise man, energetic,
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capable, strong men.
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Do you want to be
this kind of men in Christ?
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Do you want to
resolve today in your hearts?
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I pray that today is the
beginning of this resolve.
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Amen. That is you deserving.
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I am asking you
to stand up as a man
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on your two manly feet
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to bow your manly
heads to pray with me.
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Father in heaven,
the potential for men
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has not been reached yet.
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Father forgive us
have mercy upon us,
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may your blood cover us.
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But father we also
say have mercy upon us
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as you had mercy on Lot.
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Father we are being
attacked by the devil.
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We are being attacked
physically in our bodies.
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We are being
attacked psychologically
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in our minds, in
our imaginations.
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We are being attacked socially
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in our Churches
and in our families.
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Lord, may every man in this room
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be an open conduit to
the blessings of heaven
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that will
overflow to our spouses,
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to our
children, to our siblings,
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our parents, our neighborhoods,
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our churches, and to this world,
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may we fulfill the original
intact you had for Abraham,
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to bless all the
nations of the world.
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We ask for this
important blessing,
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humbly in Jesus name, Amen.
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