Preparing for what is ahead...
Just learned about the life of worship chapter of Genesis beginning with 16 in the NIV. Here's what you'll find. Then they moved on from Bethel, while they were still some distance from Africa. Rachel begin to give birth and had great difficulty as she wasn't having great difficulty than childbirth. The Midwife don't respond cuz you have another son. I miss you breathing that, but she was dying. She name his phone been on. His father named him Benjamin. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Everett that. Is that the ham? I have that in the abbreviation or a quote over to Jacobs medical pillow and the way to Israel moved on again then pitched Dispensary on makeup. While Israel was living in that region and Winnie and I'm stuck with his father compromise and be loyal and get more heard of it. The baby had 12 sons the song of Neil Ruben. The first born of Jacob Simeon. Levi's June issue card and Zebulon the song Breaking with Joseph and Benjamin The song of Rachel and nestled on the songs of the new deal from Jazz and passion for the sons of Jacob who were born in Iran and North 27th. And Jacob came home to his father Isaac and memorable near kitten, April. And then she is well, and Isaac 180 years and then he breathed his last And died and was buried and was gathered to his people old and full of New Year's. And his son, he saw and Jacob buried him standing.
Next Sunday. We're celebrating fathers day that we move away from closing out of this 35th champion boat on Sunday morning to that, I could change. Ur life around around his worship. One under the instructions of the Lord, with the clothes were on his own desire to remember and remember God or to memorialize the encounter with God and you can tell me what's going on. What was Unforgettable, so much. Jacob to be Old Orchard, set up on telephone
But you'll see the photo. I saw that supposed to kind of thing where I want to dress this morning for the transforming power of worship.
What I would like to talk about it. And saying that it's the worship. That's preparing us for what an idiot. I think about that there's a couple things that come to my mind as we are making ready here and they are trying to bring myself back together for Sanctuary worship and getting back about the task of ministry. Although we've been staying connected to virtually. But now as we transition and we come acrossed it and we make this turn will getting myself back in the position. And it seems that many people are to have, the commons Community to the cause of worship. For very simple reason. That is funny because all of us can remember that when things begin to settle down and we became so, we kind of got used to kind of being away or out of the presence of the Lord.
You didn't have to get up and go anywhere. I can you put a little background and whatever and we can lay in our bed and enjoy the word. But there is something God gave us to continue to happen for us because there are many people who have long can just enjoy the word of the Lord. But for one reason or another when I do, I think it's a blessing to be today.
In the warship. And one of those verses about work about being in the presence of the Lord is upon us with being prepared by the word of the presence of the Lord. Let me see. I was thinking back very quickly to you know, when Jesus said to his disciples when they will in the garden and he turned and said to be on my way to watch and pray that you enter not into temptation and what you just was calling him into was a type of meditation and reflection or and when he was talking about where is a focus on God, and he was pretty simple. He said that you enter not into temptation, that means that there's something wrong or something right corner and you need to be ready. You know what it's going to be ready, is that you are reflecting on God, so that he can ready, you, you know, to respond correctly to work.
Is my mom around the corner? Be this first reaction was the fight with hearing. That Jesus comes. Supreme Court, tell you how many times that we have heard from different individuals is not. We ourselves saying it was just the other day when we heard the word of the Living God and All the sudden we experienced that very thing, we encounter someone else who was going through something and we say, you should have heard the last one of them are coming to the presence of God. Is that didn't charge us for what is ahead and you would think that is an option or what it will if God is directing our path, okay? And he is he is shadowing Us in protecting us through his instructor word. Then it's it's it's crippling When we miss the worship, look it up, but it's just one of them. And so, we just want to be mindful. And so now, as we could read it to Jessie reyez, we've already said Jacobs experience. He was. He was mocking his encounter with God by building altars and which were significant the various and Sundry events that brought him and that God brought him through to bringing him on his path, on his quest going to Mesopotamia to home of his uncle lading. Having delivered him from a laibon later wrath from his brother. Esau, who could have been, but God preserve him to do something. And God certainly brings us through some things, he brought them through the land of Canaan, the cause of the, the treacherous Act of his son, who murdered the city or Village, 4 and Joseph Jacobs fear. Was that the Crayons around? Then we're going to come after them because of what they did. But God took again that God brings us to something, he brought us into something. We are just about to pass the Midway threshold and yet we're still alive. I wanted to say that. God has blessed us and I know people say, I don't know, I don't know why but
That over the years while over these past couple years while we were going through, we heard so many people that lost so much. but it ought to be noted that even in spite of, What others lost. Be careful.
And it's one of those kind of times where you can say, you know who you are with, thank God for putting you do bread on my table clothes on my back.
We would watch the news and people were crying saying, I don't know how much longer I'm going to be in my house. I don't know where my next for my child's next meal is coming. I'm just trying to just try and do it. Get you in the mind frame of that, that that warship has become a part of our stability is because we know to go to the Lord, we know to call upon his name and we know that he has and what what is that relevant experiencing a decrease, their many believers who has experience at the end roofing materials.
Set a reminder. So I think I did say that it on Father's Day. I almost at the number. Now, it's a one at one time. We were, we were the numbers of lives being lost, the number of cases the number of hospitalization, the number, what's the phone number for the United States but people still. Still got sick. People still lost loved ones. I'm just saying, you know, it'll be worth something. But here we are still standing. And I have to say clothes in my right mind, we're still blessed and that too. I said earlier, I don't think that we would trying to be spayed who was social distancing, I think there were thousands of people who were in the same way that we were lost their lives. Anyway,
I think God has a hole is not everything to do with the fact that here we are today sitting in his presence.
Praise give God the glory. But I'm saying that Jacob has stolen reminded us of our limitations as individuals, but he has reminded us about house. Faithful, God in disposing versus of the 35th chapter of Genesis, we are wrapping up the life of Jacob. I've already told you what his life is interacting with God. Teaching him and change it again. And so the fact of the matter is that all of what God has brought him to up to this day, Has been preparation for the next things are ahead of me. Jacob is about to experience some things about the first time that he has not encountered before. Let's look at the first thing. the first thing that we see that work, you're prepared, Jacob, Paul, the pain of loss of life,
Rachel dies in childbirth.
And we only have to remember that. Rachel was his favorite love Rachel, he preferred. Rachel Rachel was the one that motivated him to labor for 14 years with Leo. Rachel did something to him. We have no indication whatsoever as we were you through text unless I'm missing something that Rachel's trouble with some kind of deal and it was if anyone has some kind of you know it would be okay fragile. She was carrying the traveling, could have taken a toll on her that she is in labor. and as a result, I'm delivering the second son, John, is that?
Midwives who sang to her. And I don't despair. But you have remembered Rachel and Rachel became pregnant and gave birth to her first son. She said in her prayer and a declaration, she said, kiss me, I'm not. So God, answers prayer years later, he gives her another son. And the Midwife is telling, Rachel find joy that God has given you. Another son in the middle of pain in the middle of adversity. Find joy in the fact that God has given you another song according to your to your prayer and ends, that we can see God at work in the middle of discomfort, in the middle of typical dish in the middle of Trying times, it's the Midwife who surpluses but that God is answering or has answered your prayers, okay? Okay. What's the different station that are taking place? that Jacob realizes and sees the first, we understand that one of the, the nurses or the Servants of his mother, has somehow another joined, Joseph, I think of camp and she dies, and that's one thing but his wife
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Call Jacob dedicate themselves and poured out recall, free on the pillow committed himself to God. I believe that in his Worship, in his stand, in the presence of the Lord, that it's okay to put a Blues in the life of a loved one.
What time is it difficult to embrace the loss of this? That, and the other button? Paris away at you. But it is because we embraced by God and we dare and bring him back, that will be okay. We don't lose sale in her breathing Last Breath. She give the Sun the man been on Earth. I mean, he is a child of my sorrow. Meaning that it is a regretful time and she wants to put that name on their son, but I think that warship does also not only does it prepare us for the pain the line but that it gives us New Perspective. Okay. Jacob could have said, yeah, let's let's go with that himself. How much about name change? It would be in water, it would be natural that he would signal us that don't do that. This Toll Tag him with that man name of Sorrow connection.
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Just a little like that. What are you saying? Sometimes become what people name. We become what people associate with us, brother, man, who God has called.
I said to come in somebody's door mat because that's the way they were.
That we have become an interactive, a part of them life doesn't Define us.
Do the Fine By God's call in your life. So Jacob could say I know something about wearing, man The time of the leper was known as Simon the leper. But he was here I would think that that time of may have said, calling me that I was But now I'm here to make sense of it at some of us have never lived in the eyes of others. Have never lived past the name, but other people have given up. So I sold the, whatever the see the liar, the drunk that does, the dope addict and whatever. That means, Define by what other people called.
Asking him, what is your name? You'll remember that we walk to that. Jacob said, humbly and you know the deal with humility that my name is is Dental cuz I see where you get into who do, I ask for see myself as beat. I'm so so, I don't know. I saw him so so and so's problem. Who do you call? When you can see that you're not what people say about you. You're not, you don't have to stay that way. Because God is able, not just to change your name in sound button. Top of us was Jacob, the trickster the healed where I am. I am, I am instrumental in the power of God in him, a child of sorrow. But let's talk about his mind and how we label one. Another people who used to say you know you ain't never be you, you heard the story you just like someone so you do all the time again that way.
Measure up to anything. I'm not your mouth to hear anything because of the expectation. But Jacob has been connected with He knew how to look at a bag of dark Bleak situation and have a positive perspective on Africa. tell me, the day we look around and we will phone to see the worst But what you are hanging out and worship with the Lord, you learn. How is she doing, okay? And be able to deal with the pain and losing life. But even in that dog food situation, he's going to have a better perspective and that's because of his interaction with God.
if we do close to God, we'd stayed in the proximity of worship being Word program, Whatever it may be that God does something else for us? We talked about how life changes unexpectedly. There's always ups and downs in life Dominion system are. Oh, is that an ROTC? If it ain't one thing, it's another. But God is greater than the issues around the corner, be unknown as we would. The song writer says, you know, how do you know? I don't know what's going to happen in so many words about tomorrow. I don't know about tomorrow and then I just live from day to day that you do but I know who holds the future.
And here we find but not only experience pain. And have now the right perspective but Portia teaches us how to deal with Robert tomorrow.
You and I hear Jesus speaking clearly tomorrow, right?
Tomorrow, I'm holding up loud and clear that that Jacob has learned how to walk with. He has learned how to be close with God, pictures of God and because he is, he is, he is, he is enjoying on the worship and the the proximity of God. He knows how to deal with these unexpected ones. There is some, hope he will that happen in his own house. Israel moved on again Beyond Mikko Edgar. And while Israel was living in that region. Ruben, who is the firstborn who went in and slept with his father coffee buying dealer and is Royersford.
Look at this thing. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm mindful about word. This wasn't himself, but it was a power-play in 2nd. Samuel Absalom does the same thing against David. Something in the power play to assert yourself as head of the family.
What do you do? What do you do? When when when women eat you and you and you're trying to your trying to safeguard your own family was on the outside? If you got, he will working on the inside or something. It's awesome. When you come in and close your doors and lock your door, and everybody is well, but he has whole nother thing that's in, or behind your closed or evil is running rampant. What do you do? It was something that would cause you to lose your mama.
He was a man who has been disrespected only was it a Jacob is getting old some say that it was also an attempt to defile we lie, so that she would not qualified to become the wife of Joseph because she was the hand serving of Rachel and she would have been competing with his mom, who is Liam. So, whatever the reason is, it was wrong. Inside of his house and the text just Thomas, just do. It says and this will hurt about Gizmo.
He has to deal with. People saving, thank God that I've been born again.
Put the call. Jacob wasn't wrong. And God was speaking into his little eyes. I wish you could see yourself. Now, to say it is important for me to stay connected with God, because God is always speaking in my life, that God is speaking in my life. God is preparing me here. ASAP in Psalms 73 who talks about how he almost kind of Baxley. It, you've heard me talk about that many times before he just the reason was because I was looking at how the wicked will just get away with stuff. Is it hot my foot? It almost slept meaning. I almost back to sleep. But the rescue was he says, but until I came into the house of the Lord says what he means is that he stop reflecting on the physical thing. It's always packed on the things he came into the presence of the Lord, and remember it on hers or word of the Lord reminded him. What happens to the wicked? the point is, is that it's in his warship perspective and so as we get ready and we are turning back, Play back to bring ourselves into the presence of Lord of the Lord because life keeps happening. And there will always be some ups and downs.
There will always be a charge for us to have a right perspective.
Always external with people.
Family-oriented. But if we keep is a present. Okay, some people say, you know why we should have a weekly prayer meeting. It makes sense, why we are to be doing in the word of God daily devotion to work, to prepare us for what we always end up making a mess. So the final thing as for what's ahead by way of a painting, the mosque of life and giving us the suspected, when will face with a choice and then helping us to deal with Remind me to worship the last 27. Jacob came home to his father's house come home. And then look at verse 28, it seems perfect timing because Isaac is that you live 280. G has 29 News Live. I need on Jacob to be a druggie if you have ordained him to step up into the place of his father. I n g. That's so much turmoil that's around them. But when you are in the presence of God. Already you for the chain other, people may not be, I'll come to embrace that, you don't. Everybody doesn't have to know, it's good if they do, but everybody doesn't have to know. Nobody. Just have to believe what you believe. In order for you to act on it, in order for you to love it, okay? I'll call to believe what you are saying.
Okay, Jacob comes home and he has. First of all, there is finally DJ years later. That is, you remember, when Jake started out Isaac was saying, I'm old in age and I don't know how many more years and still alive to assume his rightful role as plan of the Did God. Give Isaac. Peace. Okay.
But he's handsome. Tragic death. He just died peacefully in his sleep in together with his people were.
Give me. He enjoyed his life. His life was filled with the promise of God. He experienced God's blessing and now Jacob comes home. And here's The Clincher. It says, and his sons Esau and Jacob Perry in South Carolina E song who he feared? We're having stole his Birthright from his home to Mesopotamia. He saw who he feared meeting again on his way back home, who God preserve him from and he was still doubtful about, Esau sincerity about being at peace with him so much that instead of going back when he saw, he was a cecum. But now because he has learned so much. He's able to be a teacher. Even with a brother to take his life.
Over the burial site of their father Worship in peace, not on what God gives us. The mindset to settle things at home that we have seen in scripture. Give, where am I?
But Jacob goes home and finds the longest breath and then it's to our worship and I'm convention go virtual daily prayer prayer line. Sunday morning preaching. Midweek Bible study. In the presence of God, he prepares us. Open WhatsApp. Today I can only hope that the message has been found in your ear reminds you. Yeah, I can remember but I know for a fact that God speaks it to my future. But I know for the goddess spoke to me through one of those men, you mentioned in the car with you as we go forward and began to collect, I seldom come out to come back into the house warship to continue lifting up, the name of the law. Can you inject in the claim and his Ward to the heart of the minds of Akira that you would make yourself a man of God, that you wouldn't, The Comeback devoted worship worship for a new one. One of the main benefits not only lifting to avoid, it is not only that you're communing with God, for that. It is important to you. Preparing you for, what the hell. That's why I didn't pray for the name of Jesus Christ. We think you again for the life of Jacob, even at this, pivotal point in his life, will remind you gathering in your present. Being in your presence. Constantly interacting with you throughout the various events and places of our lives but it is worth the doing because it put the unknowns in the line. We are sure that life is filled with ups and downs but now we recognize God's that you who are omnipotent knows all things everywhere that all time and having all power that speak into my life today. In preparing us for tomorrow.
Knowing who you are that you truly order our steps today. Every weekend over joy in an hour cuz I was speaking in Christ. Jesus name we pray and we ask it all all the saints of God said. Amen.