WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:09.000 Welcome Just hind Away Tagalog Sermon Podcast, your daily dose 2 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.919 of inspiring from heartfelt tagalog sermons from different pastors and 3 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:16.120 speakers all over the Philippines. We hope that this podcast 4 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:22.760 finds you in good shape. And now here's your message. 5 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:26.079 I'm changing and it's our second week. We're talking about 6 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:28.559 the life of Isaac. And when we look at the 7 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:30.719 life of Isaac, if you open your Bibles, when you 8 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:35.600 study it, you'll see that it's there's very little stories 9 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:40.640 about Isaac, very few, but his life is described as 10 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.000 a blessed life, just like Abram his father. His father 11 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:49.079 was he had so many extraordinary stories with God. But 12 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:52.439 at the same time you see this ordinary son, but 13 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:58.200 exceedingly blessed just the same. If there's something about Isaac 14 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:03.159 his son, it's his obedience to his father. It's the 15 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.760 mark of an obedient son. We talked about this last 16 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:10.079 week that when he was about to be sacrificed, he 17 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.280 was quiet me push up on my lad. He was 18 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:16.599 quiet to the point of death. He was already an adult, 19 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:21.239 but he was that kind of obedience son, obedient. And 20 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.760 when I was going through this preparing for the speech, 21 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:25.519 and this is what I realized when I was growing up, 22 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:37.640 I was not an obedient kids dino. I remember, as 23 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:40.760 some of you know, I was not born in the Philippines, 24 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:44.640 so indiepo of Filipino cities, and I was born in Bagya, Setino, 25 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:48.400 So life is different there. There's no taga log It's 26 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:53.599 English and our native language Ilokano. So I had this 27 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:56.840 yah yah when I was growing up. Her name's Yaya 28 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.840 Via and my parents married when they were young, and 29 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:03.879 so they had to leave me with my Lola Nola 30 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:08.159 in Bagyo with my Yaya Violetta. And I remember this vividly. 31 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:12.520 I was very disobedient to her. But you would understand 32 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:16.120 why every time a gliko, every time I would go 33 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:20.039 up the tree Paraunghi, I would do crazy things and 34 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.840 she would always remind me of this statement. Until now now, 35 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.680 Junta was a dream schoo at on statement Nan Yayao, 36 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:31.599 if you do not behave I will not eat you later. 37 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:45.000 Imagine I'm bilin an Yayao. But Diato, I don't know 38 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.759 how to follow her instructions. I was disobedient to her, 39 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.800 although she means well to me. Sharin Young, She's the 40 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.120 first person who actually taught me how to sing praises 41 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:02.080 young impact nan Yayao Sabina read your bye well pretty 42 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:07.400 pre pritty anyway. You know, I was a disobedient kid, 43 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:12.159 but I realized this that as soon as I learned more, 44 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.919 I grew up. I went to school. As soon as 45 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:19.520 we grow older, we learn more things, we become more disobedient. 46 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.599 Why there are a lot of reasons why we it's 47 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:25.400 hard for us to obey. I'm going to show you 48 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:27.879 this statement. I'm going to ask you to try to 49 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:33.000 answer this statement. It's hard to obey someone when bland? 50 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:36.240 Why is it hard to obey people when they ask 51 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:40.000 us to do something? For some, it would probably be 52 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:43.000 it's hard to obey because we know better than them. 53 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.319 Mahram Vazad in ghanan, why would you ask me to 54 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:51.120 do that? In dnaman ganyan yan. Yeah, For some, we 55 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.840 would say it's hard to obey because we do not understand. 56 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:58.479 That's acceptable. When we do not understand and somebody tells 57 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:01.319 us do this, why would they do that? You have 58 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:06.319 asked more questions to obey? Its hard for some? Their 59 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.840 answer to this statement is when they already made their 60 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:24.040 Decisionangan saying yea devasta decision. Now, yeah, Moha young pride, Pride. 61 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:31.000 It's very easy to see from above young humble, Ubas 62 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:42.079 Street Perry, Yuma Pride, Mochang passas, mohabam passas yeas all right. 63 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.240 It's hard to obey someone when we do not get 64 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.800 their instructions. That's why we read the fine print. We 65 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.560 want to know the entire story. But when it comes 66 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:56.160 to our faith in God, this is my question. When 67 00:04:56.199 --> 00:05:00.240 we talk about obedience to God, why is it hard 68 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:07.360 to obey bat young herab go in New Mancellitanampaninan, Why 69 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:10.160 is it hard to obey the very word of God? 70 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:15.240 We may actually have the same answer actually with what 71 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.199 we said a while ago, it might be the same. 72 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:21.319 But today, as I preach, I will not concentrate on 73 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:25.279 trying to answer the concerns or the how we think 74 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:29.120 on why we do not obey God and others. Today 75 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:31.920 I want to give you a picture of what it is. 76 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:37.240 What is a picture of a life that obeys God? 77 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:39.680 An you its you run on life that when you 78 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.040 obey God? What happens to us? Because when we show 79 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.000 you a picture of what it is to be obedient 80 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.519 to God, maybe the reasons that we gave will not 81 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.920 matter anymore. So if you're ready, please open your bibles 82 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:55.480 in Genesis chapter twenty six. Today we're going to go 83 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:58.639 through almost thirty three verses. It's a bit long, so 84 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:02.240 we're going to skip a few and as we go 85 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:04.680 through it, I just want you to have this heart 86 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:08.720 and this mind to say, Lord, speak to me today, Lord, 87 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:14.639 let your word minister to me. Oh behan Okay, as 88 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.360 you opened your bibles, can I ask everyone to bow 89 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:19.480 down their heads as we pray for the word. Lord, 90 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:22.360 Thank you that you are a God who speaks to 91 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.240 us Lord through your word. Lord. You said it even 92 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:27.319 in your word, that your word is alive and active, 93 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.560 that it can minister to us Lord wherever we are. 94 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.959 And so Lord, today, as you release your word to 95 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:39.040 your people, Lord, let it speak to them Kungnasa and Pusilla. Lord, 96 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.360 may my brothers and sisters, some of them might be 97 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:45.279 tired with the daily grind, even tired today because of 98 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.360 tomorrow Alam Danila and Gago with Nila next week. And 99 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:52.560 so Lord today give them rest. Lord, even for some 100 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:55.879 who are having a lot of doubts and questions about 101 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:58.240 who you are, if they can trust you, Lord, today, 102 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.839 that you will clarify that in their hearts. Lord, do 103 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:06.759 your work in us where we are in our lives today. 104 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:11.600 This we pray in Jesus name Amen. First one, chapter 105 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:15.079 twenty six. It says, now there was a famine in 106 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.279 the land, besides the former famine that was in the 107 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:22.319 days of Abraham and Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech, 108 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.439 king of the Philistines. We'll see here that there was 109 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:29.519 a famine. A famine was a time where you have 110 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:32.519 to live where you are. Why, because the land is 111 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:35.680 so dry. You can't plant. If you can't plant, there's 112 00:07:35.720 --> 00:07:38.279 no crops. What happens. You can't feed your cattle, You 113 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:43.600 can't feed your the sheep all that. What happens, they 114 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:47.879 get skinny and they die. No matter how rich you are, 115 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.759 how much cattle you have, which was the basis of 116 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:54.439 wealth during that time, if there is a famine, it 117 00:07:54.519 --> 00:07:57.920 can actually you can actually lose your wealth. You have 118 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:01.000 to understand that Isaac, as the son of Abraham, was 119 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:04.720 already rich. So brom Yam and a puni Isac. Why 120 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:09.639 because he is the chosen child of Abraham. All the 121 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:12.680 kids of Abraham binigen London and gifts before he died, 122 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:17.600 sa I gave them gifts, but only Isaap had the 123 00:08:17.759 --> 00:08:24.879 estate nakuhi isa he was that rich. But we'll also 124 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:29.800 realize that his wealth it can actually begune in a 125 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.799 span of months because of this famine. And so what 126 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:35.799 does he do. He now goes to a place called 127 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:41.080 Girar Young Girar is still part of the Promised Land. 128 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:45.519 It's still affected by the famine. It doesn't say why 129 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.080 he went to Girar all. It says that he was 130 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.440 now going to the king of the Philipstines Abimelet. We 131 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:55.360 don't know if he will ask permission to leave the country. 132 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:58.879 But the assumption is everyone during that time, in times 133 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:03.840 of famine would go to Egypt. Egypt was a place 134 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:08.159 where people would say it was what greener pastures not 135 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.759 an ignit wordne and why because there they can feed 136 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:18.559 all the the cattle pudi ohl it yumahananangayyat, nana, maga, cowsnila. 137 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.759 So the best place to go to now is Egypt. 138 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:27.080 It was a place that was not affected by the famine. 139 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:32.039 Think about it today, what is your Egypt? Meron Baayung 140 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:38.600 Egypt Napakmerian Kayum trial etoyung picture Nkita Greener pastures for 141 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.399 some note, when I was growing up, I think in 142 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:45.840 the eighties and nineties, the US was the greener pasture 143 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.840 for the Filipinos. I want to go to the United 144 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:55.600 States were and live there and say, hey, Joe, Union 145 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:59.120 dream not the ultimate dream. Now there are a lot 146 00:09:59.159 --> 00:10:04.039 of places that people consider greener pastures, the Middle East, Europe, 147 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:11.279 somewhere in Asia, anywhere that could increase the things that 148 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:14.320 we have a better future, and that is greener pastures. 149 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:17.559 And so now he goes to Garar. But it's he here. 150 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:20.879 It says the Lord appeared to him and said, do 151 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:24.960 not go down to Egypt. Dwell in the land of 152 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.559 which I shall tell you. Verse three. It says, stay 153 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:30.639 in the land for a while, and I will be 154 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:35.320 with you and I will bless you. God gives him 155 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:40.519 a specific command. What was the command stay in Garar? 156 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:45.320 For Isaac? I would probably ask, Lord, why would I stay? Well, 157 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:50.759 I'm famine and tito famine is lack cool kolang na coolong? Now, 158 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.559 oh Lord, why will I stay? Doesn't make sense? But 159 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.600 as God commands Isaac, there is a promise that goes 160 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.480 with it. It says for to you and your descendants, 161 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.919 I will give all these lands and will confirm the 162 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.080 oath I swore to your father Abraham verse four. I 163 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.879 will multiply your offsprings as the stars of dem And, and 164 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:13.080 I will give to your offsprings all these lands, and 165 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.840 in your offsprings all the nations of the earth will 166 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:22.879 be blessed. Is that a familiar promise from God? It 167 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:27.000 is because God gave that to Abraham before. When God 168 00:11:27.080 --> 00:11:30.399 gave the same promise to Abram, he now passes it 169 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:33.480 on to his son isa That's where we see that 170 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:36.559 the God that we have is multi generational, that he 171 00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:39.759 never changes hole you by on. When God promises us something, 172 00:11:40.159 --> 00:11:44.879 he will not change his mind with that promise. Pasuna 173 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:49.039 is a promise. Now explantionion by my promise, and kende magoula. 174 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:54.240 Indeedpad breaks our heart. But at the same time we 175 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:57.120 have to realize that the God that we worship, when 176 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:00.159 he gives a word, it will come to pass, and 177 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:04.279 it's for different generations to come. So what does Isaac 178 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:14.559 do verse six? He says he settles in ker Are, Okay, 179 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:18.600 he settles in Gerar. What happens? You know, when you 180 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:23.360 obey God, it doesn't promise you a storm proof as 181 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:27.399 storm free life Meron par In Dayama Trials Namaniere. Unfortunately, 182 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:29.679 for Isaac, as soon as obeyed the word of God, 183 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:34.519 what happens mehrong naging problem. So when he entered the 184 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:38.000 place and Sinabin as a wife Yaba, when the men 185 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:40.519 of the place ask him about his wife, he said, 186 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:44.559 she is my sister. For he feared to say my wife, 187 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:46.919 thinking lest the men of the place should kill me 188 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:52.799 because of the wife Rebecca, because she was attractive in appearance. 189 00:12:53.559 --> 00:12:58.039 What do we understand here? If Rebeccah is beautiful, Isaac 190 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:06.919 is ugly reconnect Sabina and CHARLESA. He feared his life? 191 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:11.679 Why during that time pag Meroom Culturally it was different 192 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:15.440 from where he was. And now he enters a different territory, 193 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:21.799 there's a king. So he feared Nomamataisha a wifebek wife. 194 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.919 So he decided to lie. Is it a familiar story? Yes? 195 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:31.679 Why because his father also did it three times? Next 196 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:37.720 Sabina Hindiko and Nisis Kapatid Cologne. If you were a 197 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:42.240 wife and your husband would ind how would you feel 198 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:55.200 Aba Aganon Kapatia Yah. So what happens a panic pussy 199 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:57.759 isa He didn't know what to do, so he lies. 200 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:02.440 He deceived the people of their are. You know, sometimes 201 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.519 when we obey God, there are times that we will 202 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:08.600 encounter things that we are that is beyond our control, 203 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:12.360 that makes us panic. And now what happens He does 204 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:16.480 it his own way. And you know, without a relationship 205 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:22.360 with Ameneum, they fought young in Mahaparaya Maha you abilly 206 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:25.759 Da kicks in. You know, we see here a man 207 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:28.600 who is not perfect if you think about it, still 208 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:33.159 lies fallen nature of man. When we panic, we do 209 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:38.039 crazy things. Now he lies to the people there. What 210 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:43.440 happens nela mang king when the king was actually watching them, 211 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:50.039 Isaac and Rebecca, which during that time indieganan relationship young 212 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.559 men with women, even their sister. And so now he 213 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:57.639 says he is not the sister. He is actual she 214 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.320 is actually the wife. So a bimiles, what is this 215 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:03.440 that you have done to us? One of the people 216 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:06.559 might easily have lain with your wife and you would 217 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:11.480 have brought guilt upon us. The guilt, young king, if 218 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.440 you were the king of that territory. There's a family 219 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.360 that you don't know that it's not your people who 220 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:21.159 goes to your territory. What would you do if you 221 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:31.039 ask me, I would punish them in town nilov Elian king, 222 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:42.200 the punishment should have been death with a gillette. But 223 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:44.440 you see here the response of the king was different. 224 00:15:44.799 --> 00:15:47.279 Verse eleven. So a bimleck warned all the people, saying, 225 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:51.799 whoever touches this man or his wife, sir, shall surely 226 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:56.360 be put to death. Why would that be? Imagine a 227 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:00.559 king would come up with the law. What's the law? 228 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:02.759 It was his final word when he says it, it 229 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:07.440 should be in place. Why would he give that statement 230 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.919 that whoever touches this man and woman will be put 231 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:16.039 to death? You know you would see here Pasi, God, 232 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:20.480 you orchestrate even that kind of favor we get, you 233 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:27.320 know God see isa obedient means a land. So what 234 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:30.279 would God do? God actually brought him back to his will. 235 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:34.039 God would actually bring us back. His favor is still 236 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.600 with us. He brings us back to where he wants 237 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:39.960 us to be. That is the grace of God. Imagine, no, 238 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:45.440 if because of this disobeying and mal isac panab lord, 239 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:51.240 I would hold the promise there gonna be bil That's 240 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:54.159 how gracious are God is He still brings us back 241 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:58.519 to where we should be. As we continue the story, 242 00:16:59.240 --> 00:17:01.000 this is what will really is that when we grow 243 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:06.720 in our faith, that obedience should be full, That obedience 244 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:11.960 should be following God how, by his command, the what, 245 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:17.359 by the way, how and when, even without knowing the why. 246 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:22.599 Sometimes we don't understand. But it's okay. What God is 247 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.039 after is our obedience. Sometimes we don't need to panic 248 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:28.440 for as long as we obey God, we don't need 249 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:31.839 to do it our way. Just like isa he lied. 250 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.799 You know, when we obey God, he will be with us, 251 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:39.480 and that's why he wants full obedience. Do you know 252 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:42.079 this that when we obey God and saying this Lord, 253 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:43.599 I will do that, but I will do it my 254 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:51.599 own way, that's still disobedience. Delayed obedience is also what disobedience. 255 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:55.400 As we grow in the faith, we will know that 256 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:58.759 when God asks us to do something, we need to 257 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:02.640 do it. As you continue the story, says verse twelve, 258 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:06.200 what does Isaac do in the land in Girar, Isaac 259 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:09.759 sod in the land and reap in the same year 260 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:15.400 a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him, and the man became 261 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:21.319 rich and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. Imagine, 262 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:27.079 in a place where nobody was planting famine, he continues 263 00:18:27.079 --> 00:18:30.759 to plant. God said, stay there, do what you need 264 00:18:30.799 --> 00:18:34.519 to do, do what you've been doing before. Stay there 265 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:39.279 in that land he plants and put resulta one hundred 266 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:44.119 fold that no famine can block the ways of God. 267 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.720 All he had to do was stay in Girar. He sowed, 268 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:54.680 he planted, everyone stopped planting. Imagine, not today will come 269 00:18:54.759 --> 00:19:00.640 up invest jhan sur yan malulukigajan. At the same time, 270 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:04.599 you're the only one who plants, and now there is 271 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:11.519 a yield one hundred food. One of the things that 272 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:16.359 I want to emphasize in today's preaching is this, What 273 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:21.359 did Isac do? He stayed, he planted. You know, that 274 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:24.319 was an easier route if you think about it, because 275 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.480 Egypt was a far place. He would travel everything with 276 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:31.319 his family Rena. That would be harder, that would be 277 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:34.599 so much effort. God wanted him to stay. What did 278 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:38.720 he do? He stayed, He planted. It was an ordinary 279 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:43.759 act of obedience. But look at the result that all 280 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:46.359 the ordinary acts of obedience, for as long as we 281 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:50.000 do it, what God tells us. What happens there is 282 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:54.200 an extraordinary result. Imagine, No, the things that we do 283 00:19:54.960 --> 00:19:58.200 that you know obana thin see good hum resulta indeed 284 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:02.519 of satin. There are things that we might be doing today. 285 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:05.359 Doesn't make sense? Lord, Why do you want me not 286 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:09.920 to resign now promote d Lahati in boom office but 287 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:16.400 in johannit or not promote day? Why do you want 288 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:19.640 me to stay? But God wants you to just be 289 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:23.000 diligent in what you're doing. Why because the result is 290 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:29.240 up to him. When we look at it, it's not 291 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:33.240 our part to do the heavy lifting. It's God's part 292 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:37.720 to do it for us. Sometimes, not to obey God 293 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:42.079 is harder for us. Why because we have so many questions. 294 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:47.279 But if we only knew God's plan for us, it 295 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:50.759 might be a different story. Imagine where you are today, 296 00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:55.039 God tells you to do it? Do you see that 297 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:59.920 there is a possibility of an extraordinary blessing that follows it? 298 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:04.720 Verse fourteen, It says he had possessions of flocks and 299 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:10.720 herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him 300 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:16.640 in Gitpu Mantaudna in Ghitzilla, with so much of his wealth, 301 00:21:16.680 --> 00:21:22.119 having a bageo Diamina. Nobody planted only him. Now he 302 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:26.200 has so much Latsila and Ghirap. He was blessed and 303 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:30.240 so nam git Pusilla verse fifteen. We'd see here that 304 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:32.559 the king or verse sixteen. The king goes to him 305 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:35.519 and says, go away from us, for you are such 306 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:39.559 a miightier than we. So Isaac departed from there and 307 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:43.160 encamped in the valley of Girar and settled there. He 308 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:46.880 was thrown away. He was he was asked to leave 309 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:51.039 them Domina. What did he do? He followed them, but 310 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:56.559 at the same time he still stayed in Ghirar insan. No, 311 00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:59.880 he will go through life like that means and Ti 312 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:05.279 named Tinata boy just like Isaac. He was driven away 313 00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:09.559 because of envy, because of pride of the king. Imagine 314 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:14.680 you're in BGC and the mayor says dialang, so blessed, 315 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:18.440 can I lily pat kita dun sabila sami peteros Imagine 316 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:24.119 no paran malelet this is what happened to him. So 317 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:28.720 Isaac departed and left the camp. Verse eighteen. Isaac dug 318 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:32.720 the wells. He needs water, So in that place he 319 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:35.160 had to dug the wells that his father dug before 320 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:38.359 Anengiaripo during the time when his father died. Well aana 321 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:44.000 water you well, they put loupaiung wells. So he dug 322 00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:49.599 it again. What happens uh? And he gave them the 323 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:52.839 name of this father that his father had given them. 324 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:56.079 Verse nineteen, when Isaac servants dug in the valley and 325 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:59.920 found there well off spring of water. Why is it 326 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.960 that every time Isaac would do something he was blessed. 327 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:07.559 Why because he obeyed the word of God. He stayed 328 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:09.759 in the land. So non do your favorite the lord. 329 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:12.920 So when he dug it ananyare the herdsman in Gerald 330 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:17.319 quarreled with him, and he said, this water is ours. 331 00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:25.720 So he called the name of the will Essex Sabinalla nasaknila. 332 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:33.319 You'm well, big glad. So he let that go. What 333 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:38.559 happens so Indiana can test Verse twenty one. They dug 334 00:23:38.599 --> 00:23:41.640 another well, and they quarreled over that. So he also 335 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:46.359 called its name Sidna chip In monopac In sami a 336 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:55.279 nakaba sabini isa. But again he lets it go. The 337 00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:59.000 third well, it says, and he moved from there and 338 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:02.799 dug another well. Scholars say that it was a long 339 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:06.440 walk until the border of Jerrar. Now he goes to 340 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:09.599 that end of that part, and they did not quarrel 341 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:14.559 over it. So he called the ReHO both saying, for now, 342 00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:17.559 the Lord that's made room for us, and we shall 343 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:22.240 be fruitful in the land. You know, a life of 344 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.839 obedience to God is marked by the favor of God. 345 00:24:27.359 --> 00:24:33.160 Imagine no kit they were using laws in their territory, 346 00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:36.680 and I meanto, what would God do? He would always 347 00:24:36.839 --> 00:24:43.920 make a room for asa. Think about it today. A 348 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:48.599 picture of a life in obedience to God is having 349 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:52.799 the favor of God. See Lord Ningo Magawana way for you. 350 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:56.279 He's the one orchestrating things. You need water, I will 351 00:24:56.559 --> 00:25:00.039 provide a well that has water. He will be I 352 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:02.039 want to move the parts for you. He will be 353 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:06.680 the one to open opportunities for you. Some of us 354 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:10.799 might be in a dead end situation. Buy on career, 355 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:15.160 contented on a landlord milan and ladders a Welanan promotion 356 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:19.400 for you. The thing that makes sense is to leave 357 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:22.559 the work look for a different job. But you know, 358 00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:26.240 if God favors upon you, he can actually make a 359 00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:31.240 position for you. He can make room for you, encouraging 360 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:37.559 beyond thank you so long. No, yess not really. If 361 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:41.359 you think about it, our obedience comes with the favor 362 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:47.359 of God. What does that mean in our life when 363 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:51.079 we will be God? In simple asks? What happens he's 364 00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:55.400 with us? I bang favor the Lord satin probably in 365 00:25:55.400 --> 00:26:07.640 our context and favors and connections some amendeba guys, Yeah, mikilala, comparico, mikilala, 366 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:16.599 comparigo sinushah in comparico na pinsanianito nah, happit bahindi major? 367 00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:23.039 Why we want favor? Why we want connections? Eto imagine this. 368 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:28.319 When we obey God, his favor comes with us. We 369 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:33.559 don't need human connections. It's the favor of God that 370 00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:36.160 comes with our obedience. What is the picture of the 371 00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:39.599 favor of God? In Verse twenty three says, for there 372 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:42.519 he went up to Birsheba, and the Lord appeared to 373 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:45.400 him the same night and said, I am the God 374 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:48.200 of Abram, your father. Fear not, for I am with you, 375 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:52.000 and I will bless you and multiply your offsprings for 376 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:55.880 my servant Abraham's sake. A picture of a life with 377 00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:59.839 the favor of the Lord is the presence of the Lord. 378 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:03.799 He showed up first time before he left for Girar. 379 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:07.000 When he got to Garar again he shows up during 380 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:11.079 the situation in the world. I'm going to tell you 381 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:14.039 something that you might not know, and I want you 382 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:16.720 to get this. I'm gonna say this very slowly. Ready 383 00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:24.640 in a brille Ready in a brille game. Nayow game 384 00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:28.559 nah alry ready one, two three. This is the word 385 00:27:28.599 --> 00:27:36.799 of God today for you. The Lord is always with you. 386 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:39.640 You know sometimes we forget that. Really, do you know 387 00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:46.839 that the Lord is with you anywhere? Everywhere in the 388 00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:52.400 heights and loss of life, he is with you. The 389 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:57.680 problem is, there are times you forget. You know how 390 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:00.000 I know that we forget that God is with us 391 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:08.640 when we do it our way? Experience can are you 392 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:13.359 think you know? The fact that you know that the 393 00:28:13.400 --> 00:28:17.599 presence of the Lord is with you will change your life. 394 00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:21.279 The one who can give you the best way to 395 00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:26.039 solve your problem is with you. Amen. I'm gonna say 396 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:32.640 it again. The Lord is with you in any time 397 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:39.799 in high Saint Loss, the Lord is with us in 398 00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:43.920 the times that we worship him, is with us even 399 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:48.519 the times that we do bad things. He's with us. 400 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:58.279 He knows, he knows us through and truth. I'm gona 401 00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:06.839