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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Really, the real ar Bernard is on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Did you say that real Rabernard is on Instagram to
be six, get the al Airbernardista in Instagram.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
You mean every other Thursday at three pm Eastern time.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We can catch the real ar Bernard live on Instagram. Yes,
Join ar Bernard on Instagram live every other Thursday at
three pm Eastern The Bible says that no scripture is
of any private interpretation, so you cannot extract the text
(00:37):
and decide to make it what you wanted to say.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Welcome to aar Bernard Ministries. You were about to hear
from ar Bernard, one of today's most influential voices in ministry,
a best selling author and charismatic teacher of spirit led truth.
Today's thought provoking message and captivating word will empower you spiritually,
inform you intellectually, and motivate you with renewed strength to
stand boldly in your purpose and live out your faith
(01:02):
in today's ever changing culture. Tune in and join us
now for a ar Bernard.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I want to pick up where we left off last week.
How many of were here at last week? We had
a masterclass last week. We're not going to tell you
what that's about you have to be there, but it's
what I do when there's three feet of snow and
you still make it to church. Of course, you know
the snow didn't show up. But I want to continue
(01:30):
in the vein of our theme this year of divine Providence.
We've looked back on some of the stories of the
Old Testament, looking at Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca Jacob.
Today I want to look at the story of Joseph,
(01:50):
put a bit of a different lens on it, but
overall we want to see and observe God's divine hand providence,
divine providence, and I separate that because providence literally means foresight,
so things can be providential, decisions can be providential, events
(02:13):
can be providential. But I'm talking about divine providence. God's guiding,
providing for, and sustaining his creation, especially humanity and uniquely
those who are in a very special relationship with Him
(02:33):
through the Lord Jesus Christ. Providence is that overarching theme
that we can trust in that can give us peace
in spite of circumstances and situations. In Romans fifteen four,
we can turn to it, and I'm going to ease
back for whatever things were written before the new King
(02:55):
James version were written for our learning. So these things
are written so that we can learn there are lessons
to be learned from the lives of these individuals who
are recorded in scripture. They're written for our learning that
we through the patience and what comfort of the scriptures
(03:15):
might have hope, And last week we talked about the
emotional effects of hope and how it allows us to
experience creative vision. It motivates the will. Hope makes healing
take place a lot faster than when there is no hope,
and we're looking for healing, so it gives us hope.
(03:38):
So we reflect on these stories. The story of Joseph
begins in Genesis chapter thirty seven, and it unfolds in
an interesting way because Joseph is the favored sun of
(04:01):
several sons of Jacob. I said several. So that tests
you to see how many of you know? How many
sons Jacob had? Anybody you know? Twelve? Right, amen, Never forget.
Someone was naming the twelve disciples, and they said Matthew, Mark, Luke, Joseph.
(04:23):
But in our text, the story opens with Joseph being
the favorite son of his father Jacob. You read verse
two in chapter thirty seven when you get some time.
It says that Joseph would run back and tell his
father all the things that his brothers were doing. In
(04:43):
other words, Joseph was a snitch. His father loved the
fact that Joseph was his eyes and ears and would
come back and report to him. Also, the relationship that
Jacob had with Joseph's mother made Joseph special in Jacob's eyes. Unfortunately,
it's problematic when a parent is responsible for sibling rivalry,
(05:08):
and indeed Jacob was responsible for some of the tension
that existed between his sons and Joseph. He even made
Joseph a coat of many colors, and it was symbolic
of honor and elevation of respect within the family unit,
to be observed and appreciated by all onlookers. Joseph grew
(05:36):
discovered that he had a gift of interpreting dreams as
well as dreaming. In fact, his brothers called him the dreamer.
He had a dream that his entire family bowed before
him in honor, respect, and submission, and even his father,
Jacob had a problem with that one. The resentment grew
(06:00):
until his brothers plotted to kill him. That's tough when
you get on your siblings' nerves that bad that they
want to take you out. So they decided that they
would get Joseph away privately and drop him in a cistern,
(06:22):
which is essentially a tank of water tank dug into
the ground, and leave him there. And that way they
wouldn't have to kill him. In fact, in one verse
it said, after all, he's our brother, so you're not
gonna kill him. You're not gonna leave him to die.
How wonderful, how warm and loving. But while they were
(06:45):
in the process of that, a band of ishmael heights
came and they decided, you know what, let's sell him
as a slave to the ishmael Ice. If you know
any history, you'll know the name Ishmael goes back to Abraham,
so essentially they were related. So israelights by Joseph and
(07:06):
take him as a slave to Egypt. It is there
in Egypt that a man named Potiphar, who was a
government official of Pharaoh, purchases Joseph takes him into his household. Joseph,
through hard work integrity, showed a sense of responsibility that
(07:29):
Potiphar could trust him, and as a result, Potiphar made
him his personal assistant and put him in charge of
everything in his household except his wife. So Joseph continued
to flourish in that household. But Potiphar's wife had a
fame for young, well built, handsome, foreign, exotic men, so
(08:04):
she decided that she would approach him and asked him
if he would lie with her. I loved that language,
he refused, maintaining his integrity. The Laudian's commentary. There, okay,
(08:27):
but you know how sin is. It'll come back knocking
at your door daily. In fact, no, Sin doesn't knock.
And someone asked me, how do you know the difference
between the devil and Holy Spirit? I said, well, the
Holy spirit knocks, the devil leans on the doorbell. And
she did pursue him for several days, and of course,
(08:47):
like a woman rejected, she became angry, resentful, and the
same passion to have him turn to destroy him. I'm
just looking at the look on the look on the
faces of the guys in here, No commentary, just looking.
So she sets him up, and in an altercation where
(09:12):
she becomes aggressive, he flees. He runs, leaving his coat
of many colors behind as evidence that he was there,
and of course she seizes it. She screams that he
tried to rape her and his coat was evidence against him.
Potiphar is outraged. All the things are against Joseph. Joseph
(09:36):
ends up in prison, demoted, and while in prison, Joseph
continues out of his character to work hard, do the
right thing, operate in integrity, and his value is once
again realized by the chief jailer, who now elevates Joseph
to a place of responsibility and leadership in that jail. Meanwhile,
(10:01):
two other government officials of Pharaoh end up in trouble
with Pharaoh and he sends them to prison, to the
very prison that Joseph has the oversight. They have dreams.
Joseph interprets the dreams. Joseph's reputation continues to increase. He's elevated.
(10:26):
Pharaoh has a dream. Joseph's reputation reaches Pharaoh, and of
course Joseph interprets, and sure enough, within a process of time,
Joseph is elevated to oversee the entire economy of Egypt. Wow. Impressive. Now,
(10:52):
how you interpret Joseph's story can vary depending upon the
lens that you use to look at it. And it
brings us to a word that I want to share
with you. It's the word hermeneutic. Hermenutic is a fancy word.
It's used theologically mostly, but it can be used in
a very practical sense because in situations of high level importance,
(11:16):
I function in what is called a hermautic of suspicion.
It simply means you are guilty until proven innocent, because
you have to be cautious at high levels of responsibility
and influence. Amen Hermaenutic simply means a methodology or principles
of interpretation. How you interpret something, what method you use,
(11:42):
the principles you use. So hermautic has to do with interpretation.
Biblical hermeneutic has to do with the methodology that you
employ to interpret scripture or to interpret the stories that
come from scripture. There are seven principles for biblical hermeneutic.
I'm not going to give them to you today, but
(12:04):
at least you know there are seven of them. I
will at another date. And that's important because the Bible
says that no scripture is of any private interpretation, so
you cannot extract the text and decide to make it
what you want it to say. There has to be
consistency in your interpretation of scripture and application of scripture
(12:28):
so that it matches up against the testing of other texts.
That's important. But the reality is that you can take
something and misuse it and abuse it amen. That's why
the Bible says woe unto those who use the Word
of God deceitfully. In other words, take it and its
(12:52):
authority and manipulate it in order to use it against
someone or against even a group of people. I was
doing an interview at WABC Radio with a professor from
Moody Bible School this past week, and we were talking
about the church as a social cultural institution and the
(13:14):
responsibility of the church to better the quality of life
not only in the people who attend that church, but
in the community that that church impacts. Somehow, we ended
up talking about this issue of hermaenutic, and he asked
me concerning the history of Christianity and Evangelicalism this country,
(13:38):
and I said, one of the issues that I have
with that history is a hermautic of segregation, and hermautic
of segregation simply says that we interpret scripture to support
segregation of people, whether by race or class, ethnicity, or
some other distinction. I said, I have a problem with
(14:00):
the herminutic in terms of sin and its doctrine, because
if you see sin only in terms of the individual
and individual transformation and fail to see how sin has
a societal impact through systems and structures and institutions, then
you'll only deal with the individual and think that that's
(14:23):
where you should stop, which allows systems and structures and
institutions to continue to perpetuate conditions that are negative within
a society. Sin can be ecclesial when it gets into
the church and church leaders who violate their calling by
(14:44):
engaging in behavior or conduct or activities that are diametrically
appalled to the moral standard that they're supposed to appall.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So hermoneutic is critical.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's how you interpret. Someone said that men and women
speak the same language but interpret things differently. How true
that can be sometimes because whenever that's Karen and I,
we're in a place of tension. Relational tension sounds nice
when you put it like that, right, We were having
an argument, so relational tension, and she was upset with me,
(15:29):
that emotion would become the lens that would filter whatever
I said or did. So simple statement or a simple
question like how are you doing? What do you mean
by that? Turn your neighbors say, he's talking about somebody
you know, it takes on new meaning because of how
(15:50):
it's being interpreted. Stories in scripture are interpreted. They can
be true to their texts, to their context. Liked the
Exodus story, which was about the children of Israel's deliverance
from Egypt right and their journey across the Red Sea
out into wilderness. But the Exodus story was also used
(16:13):
by African Americans to deal with the context here in
America with regard to slavery and there earned interpretation of
that text allowed them to make it their own and
believe that God desired them too to experience liberation and
freedom from that condition, and it fuelled their resistance against
(16:39):
systems of oppression within American society and brought the kind
of change that America needed. It was because they saw
that story personalized that When I was in South Africa
during apartheid as well as post apartheid, but during apartheid,
the South Africans, persons of color and South African blacks.
(17:03):
They looked across the ocean to America and African American experience,
and also drew from that story of the exodus. Immigrants
from Europe who came to America looked at the text
in Deuteronomy where it talked about processes of immigration, and
they associated themselves with that immigration experience and that became
(17:26):
their story, and that hermineutic helped to liberate them and
helped them resist some of the systemic things that were
happening in the nation as they sought to assimilate into
American society. So hermineutic, how you interpret things, it's critical.
And so it is with the story of Joseph, because
(17:47):
you could interpret the story as a story about how persistence, integrity, resilience,
and hard work can elevate you in life no matter
what context you're placed in. That's one lens amen And
(18:12):
is that a reasonable interpretation of that? Absolutely, he was up,
he was down family issues, even though he was responsible
for some of those family issues because Joseph had a
very naive arrogance about him, so he started stuff. Jacob
(18:36):
was guilty of showing favoritism, which provoked as other children
to resentment. So It's a solid story if we look
at it in terms of hard work, resilience, and integrity.
But I want to put a different lens on it
(18:56):
for the simple reason is that there are three phrases
within chapter thirty nine that creates attention. We're gonna look
at those verses, but first let me talk about tension,
because a few weeks ago we talked about the tension
(19:16):
between the ideal and the reality, the tension between a
promise that God gives you and the reality of daily life. Amen.
So God gave Abraham and a promise of land descendants
and that he would be elevated to a place where
(19:38):
one of those descendants would be a blessing to all
nations of the earth. Powerful. But they couldn't have any children.
They were barren. That was the reality. So you understand
whenever God gives you a promise, he starts stuff because
that promise puts you in attention between the beauty, the wonder,
(19:59):
the glory of that promise and the reality of circumstances
and situations that can be diametrically opposed to that promise.
You told me this, but I'm experiencing this. So they
give you three definitions of tension. Number one, A place
(20:20):
of mental and emotional stress. How many know of mental
and emotional stress absolutely, and they work together because remember,
whatever the mind cannot contain, it imposes on the body.
So quite often what you experienced physically is a result
(20:42):
of what you've been experiencing mentally. It creates stress, a
place of tension. In my hermeneutic of this message and
this meeting, you got a lot, you got a live amen.
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Really, the real ar Bernard is on Instagram?
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Did you say that real Rabernard is on Instagram to
be six, get the al Airbernardista in Instagram.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
You mean every other Thursday at three pm Eastern time.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We can catch the real ar Bernard live on Instagram. Yes,
Join ar Bernard on Instagram live every other Thursday at
three pm Eastern The Bible says that no scripture is
of any private interpretation, so you cannot extract the text
(00:37):
and decide to make it what you wanted to say.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Welcome to aar Bernard Ministries. You were about to hear
from ar Bernard, one of today's most influential voices in ministry,
a best selling author and charismatic teacher of spirit led truth.
Today's thought provoking message and captivating word will empower you spiritually,
inform you intellectually, and motivate you with renewed strength to
stand boldly in your purpose and live out your faith
(01:02):
in today's ever changing culture. Tune in and join us
now for a ar Bernard.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I want to pick up where we left off last week.
How many of were here at last week? We had
a masterclass last week. We're not going to tell you
what that's about you have to be there, but it's
what I do when there's three feet of snow and
you still make it to church. Of course, you know
the snow didn't show up. But I want to continue
(01:30):
in the vein of our theme this year of divine Providence.
We've looked back on some of the stories of the
Old Testament, looking at Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca Jacob.
Today I want to look at the story of Joseph,
(01:50):
put a bit of a different lens on it, but
overall we want to see and observe God's divine hand providence,
divine providence, and I separate that because providence literally means foresight,
so things can be providential, decisions can be providential, events
(02:13):
can be providential. But I'm talking about divine providence. God's guiding,
providing for, and sustaining his creation, especially humanity and uniquely
those who are in a very special relationship with Him
(02:33):
through the Lord Jesus Christ. Providence is that overarching theme
that we can trust in that can give us peace
in spite of circumstances and situations. In Romans fifteen four,
we can turn to it, and I'm going to ease
back for whatever things were written before the new King
(02:55):
James version were written for our learning. So these things
are written so that we can learn there are lessons
to be learned from the lives of these individuals who
are recorded in scripture. They're written for our learning that
we through the patience and what comfort of the scriptures
(03:15):
might have hope, And last week we talked about the
emotional effects of hope and how it allows us to
experience creative vision. It motivates the will. Hope makes healing
take place a lot faster than when there is no hope,
and we're looking for healing, so it gives us hope.
(03:38):
So we reflect on these stories. The story of Joseph
begins in Genesis chapter thirty seven, and it unfolds in
an interesting way because Joseph is the favored sun of
(04:01):
several sons of Jacob. I said several. So that tests
you to see how many of you know? How many
sons Jacob had? Anybody you know? Twelve? Right, amen, Never forget.
Someone was naming the twelve disciples, and they said Matthew, Mark, Luke, Joseph.
(04:23):
But in our text, the story opens with Joseph being
the favorite son of his father Jacob. You read verse
two in chapter thirty seven when you get some time.
It says that Joseph would run back and tell his
father all the things that his brothers were doing. In
(04:43):
other words, Joseph was a snitch. His father loved the
fact that Joseph was his eyes and ears and would
come back and report to him. Also, the relationship that
Jacob had with Joseph's mother made Joseph special in Jacob's eyes. Unfortunately,
it's problematic when a parent is responsible for sibling rivalry,
(05:08):
and indeed Jacob was responsible for some of the tension
that existed between his sons and Joseph. He even made
Joseph a coat of many colors, and it was symbolic
of honor and elevation of respect within the family unit,
to be observed and appreciated by all onlookers. Joseph grew
(05:36):
discovered that he had a gift of interpreting dreams as
well as dreaming. In fact, his brothers called him the dreamer.
He had a dream that his entire family bowed before
him in honor, respect, and submission, and even his father,
Jacob had a problem with that one. The resentment grew
(06:00):
until his brothers plotted to kill him. That's tough when
you get on your siblings' nerves that bad that they
want to take you out. So they decided that they
would get Joseph away privately and drop him in a cistern,
(06:22):
which is essentially a tank of water tank dug into
the ground, and leave him there. And that way they
wouldn't have to kill him. In fact, in one verse
it said, after all, he's our brother, so you're not
gonna kill him. You're not gonna leave him to die.
How wonderful, how warm and loving. But while they were
(06:45):
in the process of that, a band of ishmael heights
came and they decided, you know what, let's sell him
as a slave to the ishmael Ice. If you know
any history, you'll know the name Ishmael goes back to Abraham,
so essentially they were related. So israelights by Joseph and
(07:06):
take him as a slave to Egypt. It is there
in Egypt that a man named Potiphar, who was a
government official of Pharaoh, purchases Joseph takes him into his household. Joseph,
through hard work integrity, showed a sense of responsibility that
(07:29):
Potiphar could trust him, and as a result, Potiphar made
him his personal assistant and put him in charge of
everything in his household except his wife. So Joseph continued
to flourish in that household. But Potiphar's wife had a
fame for young, well built, handsome, foreign, exotic men, so
(08:04):
she decided that she would approach him and asked him
if he would lie with her. I loved that language,
he refused, maintaining his integrity. The Laudian's commentary. There, okay,
(08:27):
but you know how sin is. It'll come back knocking
at your door daily. In fact, no, Sin doesn't knock.
And someone asked me, how do you know the difference
between the devil and Holy Spirit? I said, well, the
Holy spirit knocks, the devil leans on the doorbell. And
she did pursue him for several days, and of course,
(08:47):
like a woman rejected, she became angry, resentful, and the
same passion to have him turn to destroy him. I'm
just looking at the look on the look on the
faces of the guys in here, No commentary, just looking.
So she sets him up, and in an altercation where
(09:12):
she becomes aggressive, he flees. He runs, leaving his coat
of many colors behind as evidence that he was there,
and of course she seizes it. She screams that he
tried to rape her and his coat was evidence against him.
Potiphar is outraged. All the things are against Joseph. Joseph
(09:36):
ends up in prison, demoted, and while in prison, Joseph
continues out of his character to work hard, do the
right thing, operate in integrity, and his value is once
again realized by the chief jailer, who now elevates Joseph
to a place of responsibility and leadership in that jail. Meanwhile,
(10:01):
two other government officials of Pharaoh end up in trouble
with Pharaoh and he sends them to prison, to the
very prison that Joseph has the oversight. They have dreams.
Joseph interprets the dreams. Joseph's reputation continues to increase. He's elevated.
(10:26):
Pharaoh has a dream. Joseph's reputation reaches Pharaoh, and of
course Joseph interprets, and sure enough, within a process of time,
Joseph is elevated to oversee the entire economy of Egypt. Wow. Impressive. Now,
(10:52):
how you interpret Joseph's story can vary depending upon the
lens that you use to look at it. And it
brings us to a word that I want to share
with you. It's the word hermeneutic. Hermenutic is a fancy word.
It's used theologically mostly, but it can be used in
a very practical sense because in situations of high level importance,
(11:16):
I function in what is called a hermautic of suspicion.
It simply means you are guilty until proven innocent, because
you have to be cautious at high levels of responsibility
and influence. Amen Hermaenutic simply means a methodology or principles
of interpretation. How you interpret something, what method you use,
(11:42):
the principles you use. So hermautic has to do with interpretation.
Biblical hermeneutic has to do with the methodology that you
employ to interpret scripture or to interpret the stories that
come from scripture. There are seven principles for biblical hermeneutic.
I'm not going to give them to you today, but
(12:04):
at least you know there are seven of them. I
will at another date. And that's important because the Bible
says that no scripture is of any private interpretation, so
you cannot extract the text and decide to make it
what you want it to say. There has to be
consistency in your interpretation of scripture and application of scripture
(12:28):
so that it matches up against the testing of other texts.
That's important. But the reality is that you can take
something and misuse it and abuse it amen. That's why
the Bible says woe unto those who use the Word
of God deceitfully. In other words, take it and its
(12:52):
authority and manipulate it in order to use it against
someone or against even a group of people. I was
doing an interview at WABC Radio with a professor from
Moody Bible School this past week, and we were talking
about the church as a social cultural institution and the
(13:14):
responsibility of the church to better the quality of life
not only in the people who attend that church, but
in the community that that church impacts. Somehow, we ended
up talking about this issue of hermaenutic, and he asked
me concerning the history of Christianity and Evangelicalism this country,
(13:38):
and I said, one of the issues that I have
with that history is a hermautic of segregation, and hermautic
of segregation simply says that we interpret scripture to support
segregation of people, whether by race or class, ethnicity, or
some other distinction. I said, I have a problem with
(14:00):
the herminutic in terms of sin and its doctrine, because
if you see sin only in terms of the individual
and individual transformation and fail to see how sin has
a societal impact through systems and structures and institutions, then
you'll only deal with the individual and think that that's
(14:23):
where you should stop, which allows systems and structures and
institutions to continue to perpetuate conditions that are negative within
a society. Sin can be ecclesial when it gets into
the church and church leaders who violate their calling by
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engaging in behavior or conduct or activities that are diametrically
appalled to the moral standard that they're supposed to appall.
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
So hermoneutic is critical.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
It's how you interpret. Someone said that men and women
speak the same language but interpret things differently. How true
that can be sometimes because whenever that's Karen and I,
we're in a place of tension. Relational tension sounds nice
when you put it like that, right, We were having
an argument, so relational tension, and she was upset with me,
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that emotion would become the lens that would filter whatever
I said or did. So simple statement or a simple
question like how are you doing? What do you mean
by that? Turn your neighbors say, he's talking about somebody
you know, it takes on new meaning because of how
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it's being interpreted. Stories in scripture are interpreted. They can
be true to their texts, to their context. Liked the
Exodus story, which was about the children of Israel's deliverance
from Egypt right and their journey across the Red Sea
out into wilderness. But the Exodus story was also used
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by African Americans to deal with the context here in
America with regard to slavery and there earned interpretation of
that text allowed them to make it their own and
believe that God desired them too to experience liberation and
freedom from that condition, and it fuelled their resistance against
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systems of oppression within American society and brought the kind
of change that America needed. It was because they saw
that story personalized that When I was in South Africa
during apartheid as well as post apartheid, but during apartheid,
the South Africans, persons of color and South African blacks.
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They looked across the ocean to America and African American experience,
and also drew from that story of the exodus. Immigrants
from Europe who came to America looked at the text
in Deuteronomy where it talked about processes of immigration, and
they associated themselves with that immigration experience and that became
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their story, and that hermineutic helped to liberate them and
helped them resist some of the systemic things that were
happening in the nation as they sought to assimilate into
American society. So hermineutic, how you interpret things, it's critical.
And so it is with the story of Joseph, because
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you could interpret the story as a story about how persistence, integrity, resilience,
and hard work can elevate you in life no matter
what context you're placed in. That's one lens amen And
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is that a reasonable interpretation of that? Absolutely, he was up,
he was down family issues, even though he was responsible
for some of those family issues because Joseph had a
very naive arrogance about him, so he started stuff. Jacob
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was guilty of showing favoritism, which provoked as other children
to resentment. So It's a solid story if we look
at it in terms of hard work, resilience, and integrity.
But I want to put a different lens on it
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for the simple reason is that there are three phrases
within chapter thirty nine that creates attention. We're gonna look
at those verses, but first let me talk about tension,
because a few weeks ago we talked about the tension
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between the ideal and the reality, the tension between a
promise that God gives you and the reality of daily life. Amen.
So God gave Abraham and a promise of land descendants
and that he would be elevated to a place where
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one of those descendants would be a blessing to all
nations of the earth. Powerful. But they couldn't have any children.
They were barren. That was the reality. So you understand
whenever God gives you a promise, he starts stuff because
that promise puts you in attention between the beauty, the wonder,
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the glory of that promise and the reality of circumstances
and situations that can be diametrically opposed to that promise.
You told me this, but I'm experiencing this. So they
give you three definitions of tension. Number one, A place
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of mental and emotional stress. How many know of mental
and emotional stress absolutely, and they work together because remember,
whatever the mind cannot contain, it imposes on the body.
So quite often what you experienced physically is a result
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of what you've been experiencing mentally. It creates stress, a
place of tension. In my hermeneutic of this message and
this meeting, you got a lot, you got a live amen.
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