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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Battle for Freedom. Welcome everyone. I'm your host Watson Prenat
from Battle for Freedom on Modro Fiber Radio. I appreciate
you for joining and being part of the program. I
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after the break. So hanging there. We have a lot
of fun and a lot a lot to do, and
this is this is going to be pretty cool. Thank
you very much. Everyone. Seems like it's been forever since
I've seen you have been on PTO, and honestly, this
is the first time in a long time I've been
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so disconnected from everything, and in light of today's topic,
it actually kind of feels good as I reflect back
on a topical will be going over in Genesis forty
three and how important it is for us to literally
I almost like it's like a nightmare. And there are
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times that we just need to disconnect, we really need
to disconnect, and I haven't done that in a long time,
especially during vacation. I haven't done that in a very
very long time. So I'm hoping that in the midst
of this we can all grow. Genesis forty three is
where we're going to be. I see in the timeline,
I see Leap, I see John Klatt over there in
the timeline. I haven't checked rumble Verse yet, but I'm
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sure some of the really cool people that I know
are hanging out in that zone over there as well too,
and I'll give them a shout out shortly. Let's see
no one yet, no messages yet. That's perfectly fine. We
will get to them there. But today, today we're looking
at this whole idea of Genesis. Genesis forty three, Nightmare
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Part two, Nightmare Day two. Last week was Nightmare Day one,
where it was they were starving, they had to send
the boys down to Egypt to basically get food. And
this is the second round where we're going to revisit
this and this is the whole issue of separation anxiety. Now,
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this is gonna be this is gonna be very interesting
when we watch just one because of the fact that
one of the biggest things that we're so used to
for so long is the things in our lives, the activity,
the people, the places that get their tentacles into us emotionally, physically, psychologically, spiritually,
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in so many different ways. And it's very interesting. My
wife said something yesterday, there's one intimate moment where we
were when we were courting, and she replicated something that
I did. And it's amazing because of the fact that
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she said, she said, you know, we had more fun
out in the parking lot of the church just being
goofy than we did actually within inside the church, inside
the building. And I had to think about it. I
was like, you know what, that's that's actually true because
it wasn't It wasn't a passion of love. It was
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a passion of it was a passion of labor of
things that we were forced into inside the church. That
and now again a lot of you are gonna keep
thinking like I'm anti church. I'm not anti church. We
have just we've created an institution that we've been doing
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things for so long that we've removed a key feature,
a key point of what our faith is supposed to
be about. It literally, ignoring Torah is the biggest reason
why most of the church looks in the shape in
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the shape that it does. Right now, I'm not saying
following Torah it makes you perfect, but we have had
no structure. We have just this loosey goosey mentality in
Churchianity for so long that's what That's the reason why
I call it Churchianity, is that a Christianity, Churchianity, and
as that is to tainted Christianity, that without having torah
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end and a lot of people when you hear they
hear you talking about all of a sudden people struggling
to separate themselves from culture and so many different things
because it's what they've always done and to do anything
different is it's alarming, it's scary, and they don't want
to entertain it. And prayerfully, prayerfully, as we get into
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this today, we can set people free because it's the
tentacles are big, the tentacles are bad. It's a psychle
I want to one of my friends called called certain
certain people's psychological vampires, psychological vampires. And there are psychological
vampires that we experience in life, and we don't want
to change what we're doing. So prayerfully in the midst
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of all this in our discussion today, ooh ooh, this
is a good one from lep Yeah, this is good
from le Pier. Check this out. Established religions frequently miss
the real message from on high. Yes, it really does,
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it really does. This week he'll be talking about this
Sunday at twelve pm Eastern Standard time, he'll be talking
about Easter. Now it'll be interesting, is that you're talking
about Ishtar because this this weekend comes Passover. And I
tell you, I really wish that the church could get
away from the term Easter and just move over to Passover.
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But and if they're going to keep calling it Easter,
just called it Ishtar. It's real, nabe because there's no
there's no boddies. There's no buddies in the resurrection. There's
nobody's laying eggs in the resurrection. Because I have a
friend who's a farmer and he's had buddies. And guess what,
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every time this one that came out out, it wasn't
a Cadbury bunny it was it was a It was
a rough Bundy putting out a bunny. So, uh, the
fact that we're still holding go out to the bunnies,
bunnies and men in rents, red suits. Yeah, let's let's
move on to the scripture passage for today and go
from there because it's straight crazy. Don't be afraid, for
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I'm with you. Don't be distressed, for I'm your God.
I give you strength. I give you help. I support
you with my victorious right hand. Not supposed to be
spiritual starvation, Yuh, I guess it could be spiritual starvation.
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It's more supposed to actually supposed to be uh, separation anxiety.
That's what the term on the bottom should be. I
guess it could be spiritual starvation as well too, though,
because of the fact that if we've not been fed right,
you know what, you know, how we feel and how
anxious we get when we're we're not fed properly. I
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need already eat? Did I have enough to eat? This
something wrong with me? You know, and not recognizing it.
Not because if it's an intentional fast, but we get
anxious when when our bodies starts throwing up alarms and
everything like that. And our body has been trained and
tricked to throw up alarms, you know that because of
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when we break culture, when we break what society has done,
our body gets used to, you know, certain things, certain patterns,
certain behaviors, just like when it comes into fasting. Yes,
initially your body is like screaming, like what what insane
things going on here? I heard from another show I
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listened to yesterday, not on the mojor fiber radio network.
Definitely not on the Moji Fiber radio network. But they
were talking about there is a solution about fasting. There's
a plant based system for fasting, so you don't have
to fast. That doesn't make any sense. The intention of
fasting is to separate ourselves from the things that don't
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that that that consume our body and break and get
us dependent on other things rather than Lord is trying
to build us back up by breaking us down. So
now there's this plant based system that you could take
to fast, but you're not fasting. You're still consuming. But
it's fasting, isn't it. The purpose of fasting to eliminate,
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not add eliminate. And when they tell you when when
spirituality is given to you, where you are adding stuff
that you're not supposed to a surprise, what I heard
that you say, like you're promoting fasting, like consuming, you're
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supposed to be fasting, And it's because of the fact
that people lose it when they're not eating. It completely
defeats the purpose of circumventing fasting taking shortcuts. I'm fasting. Oh,
I'm successfully fasting. No, you're not. Just look consuming. Sorry,
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just at peeve, Hey, Hey, Larry, thank you for joining
being part of the program over there on the rumble verse.
But it's just this passes. Don't be afraid, for I
am with you. Don't be distressed, for I am your God.
I give you strength, I give you help. I support
you with my victorious right hand. I tell you The
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reason why I say this and the separation anxiety is,
you know, the one thing, the one person that we're
we've never really been taught to fear losing that experience
or that connection with him, is the Lord. I don't
I yahweh. It's like when when Yeshua said, eloi, eloi,
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Lama Sabathani, he said, my God, my God, why have
you forsaken me? It was. The idea is that for
some particular period of time, it may may have been
an infantismal amount of time, there was a brief separation
between the Lord, between the son and the father because
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he took on sin for us, and for one particular moment,
one particular I don't know. It could have been half
a second, ten seconds, I don't know how long it
was for some strange reason, for some strange reason, he
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was disconnected. But how many of us could literally say,
if we were robbed from the presence of the Lord,
we would freak out. We freak out where we miss
our exit on the highway, we freak out when we
miss we miss a meal, we freak out worrying about work,
we freak out about all the different things that are
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out there. But we've never gotten to the point where
we're saying, oh my goodness, Lord, I didn't spend time
with you. I haven't prayed to you, I haven't talked
to you, I haven't served you, I haven't communed with you.
We've not been taught that. We've been taught to fear
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losing everything else. Let's get into this scripture passage. Now
we're dealing with part two. Joseph and fam. They're they're
dealing with this whole idea of Joseph and fam They
have to they have to deal with the whole idea
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of they're hungry again. They're hungry again, and Joseph wants
to deal with this thing here. This is forty three,
verse one. But the family was severe in the land.
So when they had eaten up the grain which they
had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them
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go again by us, by us a little food. Who'd
have said to him? The man expressly warned us, you
will not see my face unless your brother is with you.
If you will send our brother with us, we will
go down and buy food. But if you will not
send us, send him, we will not go down. For
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the man said to us, you will not see my
face unless your brother is with you. There's a predicament.
They've exhausted the first result that they got the resources
that they received from the last time. And you know what,
it's almost kind of like us when we're living from
paycheck to paycheck. Joseph living, I mean, do yotv. But
Yakov is living from paycheck to paycheck. He's living from
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paycheck to paycheck. And I'll tell you something too. What's
really interesting. It's Joseph who heard from the Lord at
least eight to ten years prior about the famine hitting
the land, and he had a connection with the Lord
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to be prepared to do what's necessary. And honestly, this
is a point of conviction because if Yakakov and his
brothers were doing what they were supposed to, if they
were connected with the Lord like their brother Joseph was,
they probably too should have been preparing for the worst
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case there. We never know if they didn't receive the
same message or not. It was providentially set up that
he would be the one who would save them. But
this does speak a lot, though. When God could be
talking and he that the Lord, the Lord says, my sheep,
hear my voice. When the Lord speaks his sheep here,
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he doesn't have to be millions and millions of miles away,
and they all don't have to be in the same room.
He could be saying the same exact thing. And the
question is are we listening? Are we his sheep? Are
we following him? Is he our good shepherd? We have
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to ask ourselves this. But he says, you will not
see my face unless your brother's with you. So we
have a predicament. They're hungry, they exhausted their resources. He's living,
he's eating from paycheck to paycheck, and he has nothing
to do. He has nothing to provide for his family.
No matter what. I don't even know if the brothers
are making an effort to grow anything in the land. Anyway,
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there's a famine. They're hungry, and so now what happens.
Israel said, why do you bring such trouble my way
by telling the man you had another brother, they answered.
The man kept questioning us about ourselves and about our kinsmen.
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He asked, is your father still alive? Do you have
another brother? And we answered, according to the literal meaning
of his questions, how are we to know that he
would say, bring your brother down? So now it's separation
anxiety has a tendency to spill out shed on other people.
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Let's borrow that term. Separation anxiety has an ability to
shed on other people right now. And I had a
really good conversation with the chief yesterday about this was
the whole idea that you know. We talked about the
separation anxiety and the inappropriateness of Yaako's affections, his deep
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affections for Rachel and her sons, as though the other
ten didn't exist. And so what happens is because of
the spoiled nature and because of him, him having this
horrible disposition and this blind sided life, that he neglected
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his responsibilities to make certain. That is why otherwise were
taken care of. It's not like the others didn't exist,
but for some strange reason, Yaakov is running about in
this this this depressed disposition as though his other ten
sons don't exist, and his other three wives don't exist,
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his first wife Leah, and the other and the two
slave women. Because Rachel's gone now Joseph, and Joseph's gone,
and now his only thing now that he's heasy he's
distraught about, is that, Benjamin. And so when you sit
there and look at this too, because if they did
what they did to Joseph, because he got all the attention,
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and because y'all Kove couldn't discern to recognize what he
was doing as a father was wrong, a leader of
the household was wrong. What do you think he did next?
I mean, wouldn't one dare to think, with his possessive
hand on Benjamin that he was then now turning Benjamin
into the same spoiled child that he did with his brother,
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With his older brother, any seed of Rachel would get
unfavorable treat you know, get too favorable treatment. So what
what kind of stress and everything like that you think
they would have been presented for the situation of the brothers?
Here we go again. Do we have to throw this
one into a cistern? Do we have to throw this
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one into Do we have to throw this one into
whatever because the because I'm sure a word got back.
I'm sure word got back to Yahaka. Of what happened
to is what happened to his older brother. Two and
two finally came together, but instead of making the decision
to start and treating all of his sons faithfully are
the same, he creates more animosity. And so not only
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is that when I say about the separation, anxiety now
being shedding, Benjaman has to worry about his life. And
now the brothers are like, Hey, the king asked us
a question. We answered in truth. We didn't lie to him.
We didn't bear false witness. Are the accounts of our lives?
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What you have time to lie? When you're hungry? We
answer truthfully. We had no idea that this would be
the response that he would do. We see how now
you know the sons are frustrated because he's like, hey,
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this is life. We're hungry. We're doing what you told us.
We went down to get the food. You told us
to go down there. Fortunately they did. They didn't go
eve on them and say, I mean Adams said, the
wife you provided for me, she see she liked she
gave it to me. Well, you see how you see
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how the distraught being so distraught, having being being so obsessed,
that's the word that she said, so obsessed, unhealthily obsessed
with anything Rachel had made yah had blinded Yahagove, had
blinded Yagakov to his true role as a leader, as
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a father and a leader of his home. Because look
at the look at look at the progression of how
these thing's happened. Look who answers you whould have said
to his father, to Israel, his father, send the boy
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with me, and we will make preparations and leave so
that we may stay alive and not die. Both we
and you and also are little ones. Father. We need
to eat, We need to do what is necessary. Get this.
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But again it's this is the thing about this, so
interesting about this. You have to you have to pay
attention selfishness versus salvation. It's very interesting that the fourth
child is the one speaking up. Now. We don't know
if Reuven had lost sight and face with the father
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because of the fact that you remember, I think it
was in the last chapter where he told the father
exactly what's going on? Father? Didn't one here, Oh he's
not going on when you slept with my wife. You
slept with one of my wives. And now you're telling
me that I gotta give up my son. You didn't
do a good job as oldest son, pray protected protecting
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the other one. So you you so yr Hudah Judah,
the the one whom the Savior comes through. He speaks
up and says, we're gonna save each other. Let me
go down with the boy, he says, I myself will
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guarantee his safety. You can hold me responsible if I
fail to bring him to you and present him to
your face. Let me blame the parent, blame, bear the
blame forever. Except for our lengthy delay, we wouldn't have been.
We have been there, We have been there by now
again by now. I love this though. This is it's
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the it's this, it's it's the message of salvation. I
myself will guarantee his safety. You can hold me responsible,
Let me blame bear the blame forever. But see, here's
the good. Here's the here's the joy in that is
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that instead of us experiencing blame forever, in the presence
of the Lord, he took on our sin that we
would be redeemed and restored to the Lord Yehudah, the
of the of the line of Yehudah, our Savior, died
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in our stead to take away that forever blame for
us setting up a model, a model of It's just
a beautiful picture. See again, stop read is or stop
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stop stop being keep fighting left I'll get that one
on the other side of the blade. Break stop being
stop being fooled. That Torah isn't important to read. Stop
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calling it the Old Testament, well to not. Don't call
it the Old Testament, don't call it the New Testament.
Just read his word. The fact that they're creating these
two well one one's about a promise. No no, no, no,
he was not. He was thirteen as her. He was
thirteen eight. He's the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. She
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was the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He has not changed.
He even said, I'm not here to abolish my word.
I'm not here to abolish Torah. I'm here to fulfill it.
I'm here to live it out and show it to you.
It can be done. We get rid of the religiosity
surrounding it. It can be done. Not the perfection, but
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it can be done. Only the Lord can do it.
To perfection because he was not stained by sin except
at the moment of hour of dying in our stad.
Just very interesting, it's very very interesting. If you have
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time to this few minutes, I can start it finally, relenting,
their father answered to them, If that's how, if that's
how it is, do this, Take in your account containers
some of the land's best products and give and bring
the man a gift some healing resin, a little honey,
aromatic gum, opium, mustachio nuts and almonds. Take twice the
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amount of money with you and return the money that
came back with you in your packs. It could be
it could have been an oversight. Yes, And take your
brother to and get ready and go to the man.
So finally the hunger that was setting in probably enough
growling stomachs, and yehudah trying to remind him your fact.
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You're fixated on one child. You're fixated on one child,
and it's you, me and our kids, our family, our
whole tribe, our whole family. And you're ready to cough
it all up for one person, for one person. You're
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blinding yourself from doing what's necessary. Your Yaakov made Benjamin
an idol like he made Joseph and Rachel, And now
it seems like he's finally relenting, that common sense is
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finally sitting in. And it's a shame. It's a shame
that he didn't see this any sooner. And I think
that sometimes the Lord is trying to show us what
are you? What are you in the midst right now
of holding on to so hard, so long that you
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refuse to see, you're dying inside outside, spiritually, emotionally, physically
because you suffer or I suffer separation anxiety. Let's do this,
Let's go to a break. I'll talk to you, beautiful
people on the flip side someone first one, how abouts
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are those who reject the advice of the wicked, don't
stand the way of sinners, or sit where the scoffers sit.
I love this because it's basically saying that the person
does not want to associate with wickedness in any way,
from hearing, standing near, associating, nor being comfortable enough to
rest in its presence. First two says their delight is
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innatternized Torah on his tor They meditate day and night.
In other words, they love the teachings of God. And
this is what they think about day and night. They
are like trees planted by His streams. They bear their
fruit in season. They are leaves, never wither. Everything they
do succeeds. First tree is basically hinting that there's life
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in them, and it's not murky, stagnant water that passes
by them or fills them. It's flowing, life giving, clean water.
But verse four says not so the wicked, who are
like chaff driven by the wind. Chaff. It's a substitute
or it looks like or an imitation of wheat that
has no substance and has no value, and it's easily manipulated.
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For this reason, the wicked won't stand up to the judgment,
nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous. In
other words, there is no hope for those who reject
the teachings of Adeni, who reject his tora. They will
not be able to stand, even though they think that
their gods, the lord of creation, will humble them Verse six.
For Adenai watches over the way of the righteous, but
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the way of the wicked is doomed. In other words,
if our goal is to reject Adenni, his teachings, his Torah,
his rule his order. That means that we will suffer
the consequences of living in no order and complete chaos,
facing his wrath for eternity. Why because we rejected his truth,
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triggering change heartbeat at a time. Battle for Freedom Welcome
back everyone. I'm your host Watson premiated from Battle for
Freedom and Moto Fiber Radio, and I thank you for
joining and being part of the program. Today we're talking
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about separation, anxiety, and just going over what God's word
has to say. And this is forty three and I'm
looking forward to us really growing and learning. I know
this week is, this weekend is about a lot of
Christian It's all about Christian activities. This is yesterday was
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considered you no, it was a good Friday. Let's say
it's good Friday. Yesterday was the day that we was
it called Mandy Thursday, whatever the term was back then.
And then we ran into this situation where we had
the people think about Easter eggs so much. So, honestly,
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I'm gonna share this funny this funny part. This is
a funny joke by lep oh No I'm not left
by John Klatt is what he said, which is hilarious.
The best part of Easter the day after all the
Easter Easter candy goes on sale. It's funny and it's
sad at the same time, because that's what it has
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become down to, the day after Christmas the sales, everything
on discount, the day after Valentine's Day, everything on discount,
the day after Easter, everything on discount. It's all the
and and the worst part about it, though, is literally
the candy, the sugar and all this junk that we've
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been consuming for so long in this time of passover,
from passover to passover, of trying to observe it the
way that it is prescribed in the Word of God
in Torah. One of the things we have to get
get rid of is yeast. So so we eat unleavened bread.
Thank you Lisa for joining being part of the program.
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So we eat unleavened bread. So you know, you have
the matza, you have the you have the matza, or
you know the mansa crackers. You you we have had
different versions of that. There are other different ways to
make h yeastless breads and consume that, or useless foods
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to consume that. But it's the idea of depriving oneself
of those things that we have grown used to consuming
on a daily basis and letting those things go. I
mean one of the ones that I definitely love having
and I haven't had in a while. I literally almost poured.
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really good job. So uh, I'm enjoying my tumblr. It's
had a lot of tea, coffee, milk, kambcha, well not
kimbuchi yet, but he will have kimbcha. But this this
idea of separating ourselves from the things that we're used
to and honestly, to tell you the truth between between
matsa and and being on the carn for diet and no,
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I don't even want to call it the carnivore diet anymore.
Eat naturally, eating naturally. Uh it it has been has
been great. Oh, please consider this, separate yourself from a
lot of this stuff that we were doing, and we'd
go from here. So Joseph finally lets the sun go.
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So we're at this point now where he does what's necessary,
he lets his son go, and what's really key is
what's going to transpire here. Let's see. Yep, that's that
one there, So I believe that was well, yeah, let's go,
here's continue. So it's a point of trust when he
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finally let go of his son. Finally, is this point
where he's it starts with trusting the Lord. This whole week,
no yeast, no communication. You know, literally, this is the
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first vacation in a long time where I have not
checked back. And this is the first time ever I've
not checked back with work. I've never separated myself from work, never,
And what worse, for so long, I never took enough vacations.
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My family didn't know what it was like for me
to be separated from work because I was constantly at work.
We have been taught to be so dependent on things
and not trust the Lord. We've forgotten how to live
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Trust the Lord. Trust the Lord. So he says, may
else should I give you favor in the man's sight,
so that he will release to you your older your
other brother, as well as Bingamin. As for me, if
I must lose my children, lose them, I will. The
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men took that gift, and they took twice the money
with them and Bingamin. They prepared, they and they prepared.
Then they prepared, went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
This is the thing about it. It's like we had
to get to the point where we're starving twice and
in your selfishness, in your selfishness, you've relied on your strength.
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You've relied on your stuff. Look at all the gifts
that were prepared. So it's not like they didn't have
things in the land that they couldn't use. They could
have bartered and traded with other people. Idea. But if you,
if you still think about this, think of all the
different things. Go back to that verse for a second.
Here he said, go get containing some of the land's
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best products and bring a man a gift, some healing resin,
a little honey, aromatic gum, opium, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
So he still had stuff. And finally he had relented.
He relented and gave up. And now it's the point
of trust. He's like, you know what, I've been trusting
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on myself for so long. I've been trying. I've been
holding onto things for so long. Finally I'm letting. I'm
letting go. And may may the Lord give you favor.
May the Lord bless your steps as you go. This
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is something interesting, is that it gets to that point
for us as well, that when we let go of
all the different things, all the customs, all the everything,
you wouldn't believe the amount of freedom there is in
not being governed by tradition, be governed by his word
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and not tradition. And tradition is what puts all these
holidays and all these other things that make them more
important than our relationship with the Lord. And it makes
us think that we're busy doing something when we're in bondage.
We're not free. Lord, forgive us, Lord forgive us. We
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just don't. We just don't let go. When Yoseph saw
Benghamann with them, he said to his he said to
his household manager, take the men inside the house, kill
the animals, and prepare the meal. Meet. These men will
dine with me at noon the mandated, Yoseph ordered and
brought the men into Joseph's house preparing a feast. I mean, seriously,
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when you think about it right now, as we fasted
from things, whether as through lent, forty days of from
some forty days of lent and giving up what we do,
and you know, and then all of a sudden we
get all excited. I remember one time I was, I'm
so dub I fasted Eminem's peanut Eminem's because I love
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me some chocolate and some M and ms, And I
fasted Eminem's literally thinking I was doing something spiritual by
giving up chocolate for Lent, like that was some huge
sacrifice to the Lord.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
Shame, shame, shame.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
I literally thought I was doing something giving up lent.
My wife said something yesterday too. Even atheists celebrate Christian holidays,
So what does that tell you? What does that tell you?
Even when atheists celebrate our holiday, people who want nothing
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to do, but they'll enjoy the privileges, the breaks, the
sales and everything like that, we get. Because we'll enjoy
the holiday. Atheists, the agnostics and people of other religions
they'll still celebrate at all, and we fit. We get
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ourselves ready for that feast. Oh, we've been we've been
chopping down, we've been giving that stuff up. We're gonna
gorge on that stuff that we we got. We're going
to gorge on the stuff that we gave up for lent,
the stuff that we fasted. We're gonna consume like there's
no tomorrow because we deprived ourselves. But when when we're
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not in control of the Lord's preparing the real feast
for us, we have no clue what's to come. The
Lord is the one preparing the feast. When we have
been faithful to his word and faithful to what he
has told us to do, he is preparing the feast.
He is preparing the feast. See, we're waiting till Sunday
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to celebrate the resurrection. Understand that the resurrection happened on Passover,
but not Star not Sunday morning, late Saturday evening, which
would have constituted Sunday morning, because customs were because of custom,
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because we don't because we don't understand Hebrew custom, and
because we haven't studied to see and understand that the
day starts at sunset, not at sunrise. The next day
starts at sunset. Saturday evening. It's just Lord, forgive us,
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Lord forgive us. We've just been doing this wrong, and
it's time to be free. It's time for us to
be free, because the Lord has a feast for us.
And if we will wake up and see what he's
trying to get us to do, you'd see so much more.
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There's a lot here in this particular one, so let
me bring up and it's too much for me to
see you on that small, tiny screen. Eighteen all right.
Upon being ushered inside Yoseph house, the men became fearful.
They said, it is because of the money that was
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returning our packs the first time that we have been
brought inside, so that he can use it as an
excuse to attack us, take us as slaves, and seize
our doggies too. I'm sorry, I'm ready to guess again,
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but I'm literally reading this for the first time. Do
you recognize what they just said is what they did
to their brother so he can attack us, take us
as slaves and seize our donkeys too, attack us, attack him,
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sell them as a slave, and take his coveted coat. Literally,
they oh, this is so beautiful, This is so beautiful.
Speaker 5 (46:34):
Feeling a lot of conviction.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Because they know it, because literally they're inside the home
of the man that they did wrong.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
And they're basically confessing to the crime. So they approached
the manager of YOSEFH. Sousehold and spoke to him at
the entrance of the house. Please, my lord, please. The
first time we indeed came down to buy food. But
when we got to camp, we opened our packs and
there were are there inside our backs was each man's money,
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a full amount.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
I mean, you know what I mean. It's like how
much money did they make? How much money did they
make in selling Joseph to to the coyotes? The slave
traders at each one of them probably got that same
amount of money back. See, and they divvied up that
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money amongst the ten of them, right, they divvied that
money up against a ten of them. They got that
back and more. Oh, we have brought uh and the
open our packs to their side was each man's money,
the full amount. We have brought it back with us. Moreover,
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we have brought down other money to buy food. Have
no idea who putting the money in our packs. Stop worrying,
you replied, don't be afraid. You're a god and the
God of your father put put treasure in your packs.
As for the money, I was the one who received it.
Then he's brought out. He brought him Chimen out to them.
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It as there's so much conviction about what they did.
They're confessing to a crime, not realizing the person that
they did wrong, the person who was screwed over by them,
is based there in his home and finding favor. It's
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just it's just funny. Oh, we started reading his word.
It says so much the point of humility. The man
brought brought the men into Josef's house and gave them
water and washed their feet and buy them for their donkeys,
and they got their gifts ready for Yoseh's arrival at noon.
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But they had heard that they were going to eat
a meal there. When Joseph arrived home, they went to
the house and presented him with gifts that they had
brought him, brought with him and prostrated themselves before him
on the ground. Feeling what he said was going to happen,
they would be bowing to him. They came with a gift.
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They came with a gift to Joseph, And I think
that's the funny part about it too, is we sometimes
believe that we can, in fear, we come before the
Lord to bring a gift before him, not realizing that
he is a bigger and greater gift for us, a feast,
a feast for us if we would just repent and obey.
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We thought we were bringing something to them. Yeah, he
wants humility, and literally, when you think about it, there's
nothing of humility about what we're doing in our activities.
I've been there, I've been I've been doing it for
far too long. Folks, the customs, the rituals, a lot
of the activities that make it seem like we're actually
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doing something from the Lord, and He's like, you don't
want to hear folks, depart from me, you workers of iniquity.
I never knew you. He brought, He brought his son,
He brought their brother out. The man brought you know,
he basically brought their brother out, the one who was
put in prison in their stead, the one who had
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a shorter sentence, a shorter sentence in prison than their
brother did, that they had forsaken all those years prior.
It is this point of humility that God has to
humble us. He has to humble a bunch of us
right now. He asked them a point of grace. He
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asked them how they were, how they were, how they were,
and inquired, is your father well, the old man of
whom you spoke is he's still alive? He answered, your servant,
our father as well. Yes, he is still alive. As
they bowed in respect, he looked up and saw Bingham
and his brother, his mother's son, and he said, is
this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?
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Spoke to me and added, May God be good to you,
my son. May God be good to you if you
experienced what I have experienced at the hands of these others.
May God be good to you. Mayat Or and I
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show you favor and kindness in the midst of their treachery.
Even as he asks about the well being of his father,
you know, I'm sure that he has a great affection
for his father, who spoiled him. And maybe in this time,
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as Joseph was separated from his father, Yaakov, his mother's gone,
his father's gone, his family's gone. He's in the land
of slavery, soon to be slavery for his people. That
he was separated from that that that that bad relationship
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he had with his father, and now grace is about
to be bestowed upon them again. Judgment could be he
has every right to judge them for what he has done,
but he hadn't. This is just this is just beautiful
when we see how this is rolling itself out. May
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God be good to you, my son. It's God who
has been good, good Friday, all these different things that
we put up in and again we don't realize how
good God was and is and always will be when
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we read the accounts that He provided for us in Torah,
before we get to the Ten Commandments, before we get
to the ceremonial laws, before we get to the dietary laws,
before we get to the sacrificial teachings and everything like that.
So much truth in here about the goodness of who
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God is. And again I reiterate, if you call yourself
follower of the Lord, and you continue to reiterate there
is no grace in the Old Testament, You're not we're
not Christians, we're not followers of the Lord. You cannot say,
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you cannot continue to reiterate that there's no grace in
the Old Testament, and to knock Oh, you cannot say
continue to say it, because if you do, it shows
your biblical ignorance and literacy inability to read his word,
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because the Old Testament is lathered with grace. Oh, you're
going to fixate on a couple of passages. Hey, that's
the problem of going with themed themed Churchianity or Themianity,
that we only use certain points in the Word to
focus on these are the highlights of what we should
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follow in our faith, rather than everything from beginning to end. Oh,
we're just gonna celebrate the birth. We're just gonna celebrate
the resurrection. We're only gonna celebrate. No, it's it's bigger
than just those two days. Yes, are those critical moments. Yes,
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but there's also borders. Any person willing to sit there
and live in communities and abide by hr ways and
you can't abide by Torah, shame on you. You can
abide by speed limits, you could abide by state laws,
county laws, federal laws, international laws. But you don't want,
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you don't want to follow the teachings of Torah. Shame
on you. I'm a good person. I'm doing do what
you're told according to whom which But there's so many riches,
and there's so many illusions of of of success. In
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following the world, it gives me a more immediate result
of joy and fulfillment and satisfaction. I can see him
to do that because they've been good to me, and
I'm not ready to give up what the world's been
given to me. I'm not ready to give up the holidays.
I'm not getting rid of, give up the customs. I'm
not ready to give up anything. I so be it.
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Thing Gills have hurried out because these feelings, because his
feelings towards his brother were so strong that he wanted
to cry. He went into his bedroom and there he wept,
and he washed his face and came out. But he
controlled himself as he gave the order to serve the meal.
This is the point of indication. This is the point
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of vindication. Yes, his father wrongly, his father wrongly spoiled him.
But now he's vindicated, and he is he is encouraged too.
Why because all the wrath that their brother had, all
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the wrath that their brothers had for his father's spoiling
of Joseph, fell on him. He bore all the wrath.
His brother still alive now Granted, we don't know what
condition Benjamin was in. We don't know if there was
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any hazing or whatever was going on, but seeing his
younger brother made him emotional because he wondered whether or not.
And I'm we're gonna move into this in the next verse,
but something was happening here. We're gonna look at this
a little bit more. He felt vindicated. Served the meal.
My brother's alive. I'm emotional. Everything I've gone into welled
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up inside. They served him by himself, the brothers by themselves,
and the Egyptians included at the and the Egyptians included
at the meal by themselves. Egyptians don't eat with Hebrews
because that is abhorrent to them. So they sat there
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facing him, the first born. And it's hilarious that they
had this disposition towards Joseph, towards the Hebrews, not realizing
they're eating with the hebrew because it was abhorrent to him.
So they were facing him, the first born in the
place of honor, the youngest in the last place, and
the men expressed their amazement to each other. Each was
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given his serving there in front of him. The Benjamin's
portion was five times as large as any of theirs,
So they drank and enjoyed themselves with him. The fact
that Benjamin's portion was five times higher like it makes
me wonder if they were you know, he wasn't malnourished,
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or he wasn't as healthy as he could have been.
No matter what his father tried to do to cover,
you know, to coddle him, it didn't work. And so
he needed to be restored because Joseph probably Yoseph probably
thought properly they mistreated me. They definitely mistreated my brother
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by all because of their fathers separation, anxiety, and his
over idolization of Rachel. Joseph and Bingjamin. And the Lord
is calling us right now. What things are we holding
on too much that we're unwilling to let go? He
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is our savior, He's our Lord. Make him the king
over everything,