Battle4Freedom-20250618 - Remembering grace - Strolls and Memory Lane - Battle4Freedom

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Triggering change one heartbeat at a time. Battle for Freedom.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Welcome everyone.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
I'm your host, Watson Prenam from Battle Freedom on Mojo
Fiber Radio. I appreciate every last one of you as
we get into another broadcast of Battle Freedom and hopefully
everything is going to be playing wealth and fine and
we shouldn't have any problems today. Thank you so much
for joining being part of the program. And today we're
going to be in Genesis forty six. But before we
get into that, let's do a couple more things here

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get my brain wrapped around that whole particular passage and
we go from there. Today there's going to be too

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many screens up here, but what you can do is
you can find you can follow if you want to
on through your own Bible. I'm reading from the complete
Jewish Bible, and I hope that this will work for
you and you shouldn't have any problems, and go from there.
So let's see what do we have here.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
We have.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
We have one verse I want to go through first,
and that is that is Jenesis. No, no, no, it's Isaiah. Actually,
so let's go to following the way of your judgments.
We put our hope in you. The desire of our

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soul is to remember you and your name. And I
love this because of the fact that one of the
things that's really interesting is this is today's broadcast is
about this whole idea of memory and just kind of
strolling going down memory lane because of the fact that
we tend to forget over time where our blessings come

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from our stability and so much more and honestly and
even instability, there are many blessings because we're not dealing
with a lot of drama. So we're remembering grace, remembering
grace strolls and memory lane. And the reason why I
was again I was looking at Genesis forty eight is
we're getting to the close of the life of Yakov,

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of Jacob, who's called whose name was become Israel. We
see that, we see that this grace those in God's life. Now, granted,
did he do things right? No, he didn't do things
right all the time, and it's very sad because of

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the fact that it negatively impacted his way of leading
his family and doing things the right way way. Thanks John,
thanks for joining being part of the program. Appreciate appreciate you.
So as we sit here and as we see here
and we work through this, I think that we get
to this point where Joseph oh Yatakov gets to this

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point where he's just he's starting to remember again, I
didn't care for how he spoiled, spoiled his wife, his
second wife Lee, and practically ignored his first wife and
everyone else. But everything was about Rachel and the kids.
And so I think he's getting towards the end where

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he still has a little favoritism. But I think that
the Lord is breaking through that rough exterior. So it says, again,
following the way of your judgments, we put our hope
in you. The desire of all of our soul, the
desire of all our soul is to remember you and
your name. And I think that this would be the

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desire for all of us because of the fact that
again the Lord is good, and we can admit that
that's the truth of how he's been treating us.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Through and through regardless. So let's just scopy your.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Link here and awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome sauce that's coming in.
So we're gonna go so and I'm not gonna have
all the scripture verses up, but I'm gonna leave this
one up as I go through this particular passage because
of the fact that go through this book of Genesis,
because of the fact that I love I love how
this is going to just encourage us in light of

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who the Lord is and his consistent love and mercy
and grace. Okay, so let's start with verse one, and
this is again dealing with This is again dealing with
Genesis forty apologize, just trying to make sure that I
get all the places notified that you can leave comments
and go from there. Genesis forty eight, verse one. A

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while later, someone told Yoseph that his father was ill.
Now we already know the relationship that these two have
there is it's a very unique relationship that they have
because of his obsession with joseph mother Rachel. He took
with him his son's vanassa. And if I am Yakakov

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was told, here comes your son Joseph Israel gathered his
strength and sat up in bed. It's very interesting. It's
very interesting the difference.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I know.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
I wonder why Moses flips between one moment saying Yakakov
was told it's interesting. So the direction is when people
are speaking to him, he's Yakov. When he's addressed, his
name is is Israel. I'll worked that through another time,
and saw sorry. Israel gathered his strength and sat up

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in bed. Yakov said to Joseph, else should I appear
to me at Luz in the land of Cannon Cannon
can na'anken canna' there it is, and blessed blessed me,
saying to me, I will make you fruitful and numerous.
I will make you a group of people's and I

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will give you this land to your descendants to possess forever. Now,
your two sons, who are born to you in the
land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt,
are mine. If Rame and Manassa will be as much
as mine as Reuven and Shimun are. The children born
to you after them will be yours. But for the

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purposes of inheritance, they are to be counted with the
older brothers.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
So this is.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Again, this seems to go against will be normal? Is
this still part of his at the end? The Lord
does what he sees fit and he permits. There are
saying certain things that he permits. I was trying to
make sense of this because of the fact that why

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is he getting possessive about his grandchildren? But he's using
it for a purpose, for the purpose of inheritance. Because remember,
as you have the twelve tribes, and all of a
sudden you turn around and you well, I'm sitting here
thinking about it now, Okay, the other twelve tribes Levi
did not get land because they were the priests. They

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did not get land. And then you turn around and
you watched where Joseph. Joseph he's in Egypt, so that's
where his land is. It's almost like his identity is
in Egypt, always far and away from his father. But
his grandchildren, He's like, Okay, these are mine, these are

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my children, these are my first the first two fruits
that you had, they belong to me almost like the
life that I the life that I had missed with you,
is not going to be replaced. I'm gonna be living
vicariously through your grandchildren or you your descent, your descendants
will be blessed through your descendants.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I'm just I'm working through this. But it's just this
is not we all belied the same. But that wasn't
supposed to be the verse there. But I'll fix it later.
But it's just this whole idea of He says, el
should I appear to me and lose. And it's funny
because I'll have to find out what the word lose
means in Egypt. But when I think of lose from

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Hispanis from Spanish it means light. So if the same,
if the names are the same, it would be very
interesting if it also met light here in in this
So it stuck out to me. But he says, I
will make you fruitful and numerous. I was having a
conversation with Chief about this, where it just felt like

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for me it was it was is It wasn't Israel,
it was Jitsuk Isaac. His life just seemed didn't seem
like it was very fruitful. But as I look at
the life of Yakakov, it definitely was. Despite his bad
parenting skills in his obsession with Rachel, he was blessed.

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There's more to the story about him in his life,
his struggles with God, his challenges. I mean the unfortunate
model he set up that the church wrongly uses because
Yakakov Jacob's life is not the model of what we
should use and to define what man, how a man
should be. He pursued Rachel for twenty years. That's not

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Bible that that unfortunately has but what has been used
that we have changed culture. We have ruined men, we
have ruined family, we ruined society because we've made the
man the chaser. And that's not the way it's supposed
to be. It's not he's the only model you'll see
where's he's chasing the woman. He's working for the woman.

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Every other person the situation has been set up that
the woman, the bride has been presented, is a pipe
price paid. The bride is presented to the husband, but
not not him going chasing after her. In every case
where there was a chase or a pursuit, there was
always a problem. Remember the other you remember the other
pursuit was David and Bathsheba, and we know how that

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ended up.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Oh yeah, but they had the smartest kid, the smartest
man on earth.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, yeah, wrong, just because some positive things came out
of wrong doesn't make wrong right. But I think this
is really cool because we said we look at how
the Lord is. It's like he's waking him up. He's like,
you know what, hey carry, thank you for joining and
being part of the program. It's interesting because again as

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we say whim, we look at these again. I'm just
loving this first second here with the idea that the
Lord came to him, the Lord, the Lord came to him.
I think that the idea of this too is that
we sometimes feel like we're the ones who are coming

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to God bringing him something, but when the good when
done the right way, he's always coming to us to
enlighten us and bless us. And he says he came
to the land in Kana and blessed me, saying I
will make you fruitful and numerous. So he's going to
take his sons. So you turn around and look again.

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As I was saying earlier, LEVI doesn't get land. So
we were down to eleven. But I believe that Joseph
is basically, I mean, Yahkov is basically saying, Joseph, your
land is going to go to one of your descendants,
and the other descendant will take the land that could
have gone to Levi, so that the now you have

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the twelve twelve tribes. Twelve tribes. Again, this is just
speculation on my part. I'm not saying this is the
gospel truth. But at the same time too, here we
can look and appreciate just reading what the Word says
and spend more time in this, not in the twelve
subjects that we're told the only things we can focus

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on in Churchianity, but read the God's word, read his word,
and just wonder through and see what things He's established
at Leasta. Thanks for joining and being part of the program.
But this is just beautiful to see how the Lord's
doing this verse seven. Now, as for me, when I
came from Paddan, Rachel died suddenly as we were traveling

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through the land of Kenna a while we were still
some distance from Frod, so I buried her there on
the way to Frod, also known as bait Leckham. It's
interesting because of the fact that again here it is
with his he has to talk about Rachel. He's talking

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to Rachel's son as they're having this discussion. Now, I
don't know if people kept things back from him to
know because he made wonder what happened to my mom
or whatever? I don't know. Yeah, it was in the
land of Canaan son cannot on. So the thing is

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so he's maybe backfilling him on the story of what
happened with his mother, filling in the gaps. I don't know,
but it's very interesting that again, I think this is
the I think this is the last time Rachel's mentioned,
but I'll take a look and we'll go from there.
Might be in next and forty nine for a brief second,

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but I think the goal here is too. I think
we're finally coming to a close that that Yako is
probably getting into the right frame of mind. But it's
like he said, he's just like, I want to give
you a backfill on what your mom died. I buried her.
She's and now basically saying this is the land where

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she is. So if he ever wanted to go back
and figure out where your mom was, you know, hey,
there you go, you'll you'll you'll find out. Actually he
should have known too though, because she had she had uh,
she had yeah, and she died. Yeah that was yeah,
that was way back, so he would.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Have known that. Yeah, sorry, I apologize.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
It's been some hongs as those chapters on the birth,
the birthing process, and the birth the baby mam and drama.
I just want to make certain that we uh we
don't forget that, oh my good baby velve drama.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, it's so serious, baby Alba drava with Joseph. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Go verse eight, chapter forty eight. Then Israel noticed Joseph's
sons and asked, who are these? Joseph answered his father,
these are They are my sons whom God has given me.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Here.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeahcle replied I want you to bring them here to
me so that I can bless them. Now, this is
interesting because of the fact that sometimes it's weird on
these weird questions like okay, you wanted me to bring
my sons, I'm bringing them and you're asking me who
are these? Maybe it's just this means of trying to

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try to go over and above, because seriously, when you
think about it, Joseph saved his father and the family.
Yoseph saved his father and the family, And it's very
interesting the way that this has a goal gone down
because of the fact that it should have been the
father blessing Yoseph and so much more, but Joseph, Yachtkove,

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blessing Yoseph. But now the roles have been reversed. And
I sometimes wonder, because everything just seems out of order
because of his obsession with Rachel, how things would have
been different had he chosen a different path. How different
would it have been if he had shown balance and

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restrained when he was basically blessing, blessing his son, you know,
and raising his family. Would it have would there have
been a different outcome? And honestly, as we sit there,
I'm not gonna lie to you. Looking at the life
of Yatakov and how he obsessed over Rachel, how he

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assessed over Joseph and Benjamin, it maybe it made me
have to do the introspection myself to ask do I
show any obsession or favoritism to any of my children?
And I do the best that I can to balance
that out and make certain that they all receive the same.
And sometimes someone might need a little bit more affection,

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but that does not mean that I love that child more.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
The Lord.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
There in the next two months, they're all gaining one
year and one's going to be a teenager. I'm not
putting my head in shade or scared or nervousness. It's
just I just can't believe the Lord as giving me.
Thank you, Lap, thank you for joining. I just I'm

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just so grateful for the Lord and that the beautiful
children He's given me, it's just amazing.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
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think you'll enjoy him. He's really good. So I'm going
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the word and listen, listen, enjoy.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Can continue with this, but.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
I just I just marvel at I'm appreciative that the
Bible doesn't show you perfect characters and humanity. Actually, we
continue to see their fallenness, how flawed they are, and
our need for out of and eye to bless us,
for the Lord, for Yahweh to choose to bless us.

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We need this more than ever. Let's talking about summer Soltie.
This summer solstice, this Sunday at twelve pm from standard
time on eat you a peach on rumble. But yeah,
so here is this, this fixation, and so now he says,
these are my chill, my sons. And now Israel's eyes
now here's where.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Like fatherlike son. Check this out. This is crazy.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Now Israel's eyes were dim with age so that he
couldnt see. If you've been on this journey with me,
several months ago, we were reading the story of of
Esau and Yahago and it was the time for the blessing.

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Yesa mean yahakove not y'alla cove is yitzak Israel. I
mean Isaac was going to He favored Esau over he
favorite over Yahakov. And Rebecca was like no, no, no, no, because

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the blessing. Remember Esau sold his sold his birthright for
a bowl of soup, So that means that the blessing
goes to yah to Yaakov, not Esau. And remember that
whole situation where Rebecca helped helped Yaakov appear as Esau.

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And because his eyes were dim, and again Chief and
I were talking about this, is it possible? Is it
possible that for seeing this passage you get just seeing
the correlation. Just it makes me chuckle, as we say,

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when we look at this where you have the the
the favoritism blinding people affecting our sight twice. Now with
Yitzak he favored Esau, with Yakov he favored Joseph, and

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both of them in their old age. Because again this
is the second time that I can recall in pat
and scripture where you have a person who's blinded in
their old age after long living. So as we sit
here and we look at this, we have to start
asking ourselves what what are the scenarios or what are

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the what are the similarities that brings about the same situation.
And both of them are guilty of favoritism, would we
not agree they both were blinded by their favoritism. So
that so that towards the end, but this story, this
story about the blessing and being slack in eyes, this

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will be very interesting here at verse ten, Now Israel's
eyes were dim with age, so then.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
To so.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
That he cannot see Joseph brought his sons near to him,
and he kissed them and embraced them. Israel said to Joseph,
I never expected to see you, see even you again,
when God has allowed me to see your children too.
Yoseph brought them out from between his legs and prostrated

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himself on the ground. So this is an endearing moment.
This is an endearing moment where the son he missed
his father. There's so much time to catch up on,
you know, It's like, oh, where did the years go?
Because remember when he finally moved to Egypt, Joseph, Joseph

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only had seventeen years with his dad, so it's only
about seventeen years that he lived in Egypt. It doesn't
account for all the time that was lost. Is his
his being betrayed by his brothers, sold into slavery, a
slave to Potiphar's wife uh uh, sexually assaulted by the

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the his Potiphar's wife wrongly accused when he did he
didn't do, He wasn't guilty. I mean, that's a lot
of time. And then to all those years after, you know,
even sharing the the the dreams of the two men
in jail. Then turn around and wait however long, and

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then Pharaoh has his dream and he can finally come
out of the ashes and give an interpretation and then
save Egypt. Save Egypt, because remember there were seven good
years that they were going to be saving up, and
then there would be the seven years of famine, of
which so it was about nine years after he gave

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that interpretation to he gave that interpretation to Joseph that
the I mean to Pharaoh that he finally would see
his father. So this is very very very interesting as
we see how all this stuff is unfolded, very powerful.
Shout out to you Larry over there in the rubble verse,

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thank you for joining it being.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Part of the program.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Then Joseph, Yoseph took them both if i Am in
his right hand and hand toward Israel's left and and
Manassa in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and
brought them near to him and put them on put
his left hand wait, wait, and put his uh Tim

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but Israel. Israel put out his right hand and laid
it on the head of the younger one if I
Am and put his left hand on the head of Manassa.
Intentionally crawl lost his hands even though Manassa was for
the firstborn, so his sight was lost or his vision

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wasn't as good as it needed to be. But this
is where it's very interesting. See when his father was
blessing him. It was accidental. He had his apprehensions. He
could feel the skin was completely different, but the smell,
I mean, there were so many different. The voice he
knew is like, that's not he saw his voice. The

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skin he could feel some of the smooth skin, but
then there were parts where he felt the animal's skin.
The High des put on him to give the impression
that he had hairy skin like his brother Esau. This
time he has even though he's lost his sight, he

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still has other senses, which is very very interesting when
I make the comparison between him and his father, because
his father lost his sight, and even though he had
all the other skills and he did not pay attention

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to the other senses that should have told him there
was a switcher rue going on here, whereas in this situation.
This is very powerful because of the fact that in
this situation he doesn't have the eyesight, all the other
senses are heightened. And I think that this is probably
when he's kind of like remembering during his blessing situation.

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Now here comes all these years later, all these years later,
on another blessing where he's going to do what his
father did to him and his brother. He's now going
to do to his two grandchildren, and he has his
faculties about him because he knows what's about to happen here.
Let's do this before I continue. Let's go to a break, folks,

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and what we'll do is we will we will continue
this when we get back. But it's just it's this
idea of remembering grace because again, even that situation of
him being blessed above his brother, I think it's something
that I think it's something that I think we take

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for granted when God chooses to bless us. I think
we take we we we we churching and he's fur
was so easy for us to assume, Oh yeah, the
Lord loves me, uh see, because we take so much
confidence in the pep rally preaching God before you, who

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could be against you? Though I walk through the values
shadow of death. I mean, all these different things of
the like cliches. But do we really get to a
spirit of really being appreciative of what the Lord has
done this or do we just go through the motions
were driven by holidays, We're driven by all these other

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different events. But for some strange reason, when it comes
to remembering, taking the time to remember what the Lord
has done.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
We don't. We don't. It's very sad. I'm hoping that
will change in the way that we do this. Okay,
where did you go? Saw someone? First one? How abouts?

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Are those who reject the advice of the wicked don't
stand on 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

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delight is inn aturnized Torah on his tour. 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, there leaves never wither.
Everything they do succeeds first trees, basically hinting that there's

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life 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

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it's easily manipulated. 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 Adenine, who reject
his tor They will not be able to stand, even
though they think that their gods, the Lord of creation,
will humble them Verse six. For Ada and I watch

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us over the way of the righteous, but the way
of the wicked is doomed. In other words, if our
goal is to reject Ada and I his teachings, his Torah,
his rule, his order, that means that we will suffer
the consequences of living in no order and complete chaos,

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facing his wrath for eternity. Why because we rejected his truth?
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Welcome back everyone. I'm your host, Watson Prenat from out
of for Freedom. If you want to interact, you go
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Battle for Freedom. Leave a comment and I'll do my
best to catch what you say. And again, I really
appreciate you spending the time with me here as we
continue to go through the word. I mean, it's just

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amazing as we sit here just talking about remembering Grace,
strolls and memory Lane, We're just looking at this whole
idea of the fact that God has always been faithful.
This is Isaiah twenty six eight. Following the way of
your judgments. We put our hoping you. The desire of
our soul is to remember you and your name. I

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love this because of the fact that what the prophet
is writing here is every decision, every decision, every boundary
that the Lord establishes is correct. See what we don't
seem to understand is Torah establishes boundaries. And one of

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the dangers that we have in here is that if
we don't, if we don't have boundaries the Word to
tell us about the sin that we commit and how
we violate his law, we violate his teaching, we violate
what his word says. So then what is it, Paul says,

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I if I did not have the word, if I
did not have Torah, I would not know what sin is. See,
it's I think we spend so much time in relationships
focusing on the highs that were so nervous about the lows,
the challenges, the stress points that we may face in

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our lives and in our marriages and in our relationships
and with kids and everything like that. That because again,
when I was sitting here talking about I'm about to
have a teenager and wasn't saying it in dread, It's
just I'm shocked. I'm not I'm humbled that God would
would let me see another time because I have a
twenty five year old soon to be twenty six year old,

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but now to see another child become a teenager. And
it's humbling because of the fact that.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
He didn't have to.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
He did not have he did not have to let
me see this. I wanted a relationship. I wanted to
be married again. But it's not like I deserve to
be married again. I just wanted to be married again.
The Lord he brought me a bride. It brought me
three beautiful princesses, and and they It's humbling because of

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the fact that I know there are people who want
to have kids and want to have a family, and yeah,
have we had our challenges, Yes, we have had our challenges.
We we and we've grown through them. I think that's
that's the part about it I think that I love
and more so more so is if we we just
lived within the boundaries that the Lord had established, life
would be so much easier. Not perfect, but it would

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flow much better because we would put stuff in perspective
understanding those boundaries, you know, and so we you know,
put like this, these are judgments that these are judgments
that we do appreciate. Think about when you were riding

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on the driving on a highway on a road, and
you know those little small guard rails that they put
up made like it's like usually really thick steels, maybe
about two three feet off the floor. And I remember
one time I was driving in Indianapolis and I was
coming down Kestl Road fifty sixth Street, and it was snowing,

(34:51):
and I wasn't going too fast, but I remember my
car sliding off the road and in to a pilot.
Now that was fortified by the guardrails. Now, if the
guardrails weren't there, I would have slid slid off the

(35:11):
road into a ditch. So I appreciate those boundaries that
was set up for us. And I'm sure that there
are times that we've been in precarious situations and what
was the saving grace in our lives was the fact
that they were boundaries that kept us from going further
and we needed to farther, further, further, whatever words you

(35:32):
want to use, I'm certain that we were all appreciative
of those boundaries. Thank you for joining Brenda. I think
we were all appreciative of those boundaries that the Lord
had established to keep us from going over, from dying.
It's but it sometimes we don't appreciate those boundaries until

(35:58):
we're in precarious situations. And at that point, if we
have the right sense of us, we recognize what the
Lord has done for us to save us and spare
us by having those boundaries to protect us.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yeah, like better.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yet, even when we look at you, you go into
a factory or you go into some science area and
you have the radiation symbol, it says, don't go beyond
this point. Have the You have the signs on the
fences basically saying it's electrified, the defence is live. These

(36:36):
are the boundaries that protects us from potential danger, if
not death. So why is it that we can appreciate
those simple boundaries that are established in life, but we
can't appreciate the boundaries that the Lord has established in
his word. Because Churchyanity says, grace, grace, grace, hyper grace,

(36:59):
hyper race, hyper grace. Just let people do whatever they
want to do, and we just show we can just
continue to figive them over and over and over and
over and over again. That's not a relationship. That's abuse,
that stupidity. Because if I don't have to worry about
offending you because you will always forgive me, then what advantage?

(37:20):
What purpose is there for me to actually be honorable
in my life with you if I know you'll always
forgive me. It's kind of like our government where we
tell them to stop spending, but they're like, yeah, we'll
stop spending, but just give us more money, and we
don't stop it. They keep raising, they keep yeah, just

(37:40):
like the insanity of them continuing to raise the debt
ceiling in our literally that's the perfect example for you
right there on what what hyper grace looks like? They
keep raising the debt ceiling in this country, a government
spending is out of control. The value of our dollar
is next to nothing because of the fact of the

(38:03):
overspending and the uncontrolled spending of our government, including the
people as well. Too ridiculous debt, right, and so we
realize that that much debt is not sustainable, that kind
of living is not sustainable. Sooner or later things are
going to burst and bust. So that's why we have

(38:27):
those boundaries. No, No, if I sit your credit card
limit at three hundred dollars, don't try and spend four,
especially if you don't have the money to pay for
the four. I was speaking to a lot of people,
myself included. H So I just love it, he remembers,

(38:56):
he appreciates them, He appreciates the boundaries that the Lord
is this say abolished, and he says, the desire of
all our soul is to remember you and your name,
to remember you. It starts with you, Lord, your name,
and what comes with your name, honor, reverence, respect, submission,

(39:17):
that we submit, we honor him, we revere him, we
submit to him, we respect him. That's well, that's when
when we're in that perspective, in that state of mind,
myself included, things become much more learer than we ever
could imagine. Praise you Lord, thank you for your love

(39:39):
and immersing your grace. So let's get back to this
particular passage and where we were before we went to
the break, because we're at the point where ya I'll
Goov intentionally switches hands between the sons of Joseph if
i Am and Vanassa, and he's about to bless them,
kind of like what happened with him between him and Well.

(40:02):
He saw I wasn't there to miss see the blessing,
because if he was there, he would have interfered. Then
he blessed Joseph, the God in whose presence my father's
Avraham and Yitsak lived. See earlier he mentioned el should

(40:24):
I he spent. He's mentioning the Lord more now than
in all times before. But this is key because he's
getting to this end of his life and he's recognizing
I need to remember where I came from this passage.
The desire of all our soul is to remember you

(40:44):
and your name, the God in whose presence my father's
Avraham and Yitzak lived, the God who has been my
own shepherd all my life, long day long, all my
life long to this day, the Angel who has rescued
me from all harm, blessed these boys. He's calling out

(41:10):
to the Lord. He's calling out to the Lord. May
they remember who I am and what I stand for.
And likewise my father's Avraham and Yetsigh who they were
and what they stood for. And may they grow into

(41:32):
teeming multitudes on the earth. Oh my goodness, I mean
this is this is when you know we hit the
point of maturity. Okay, that when we get to the
point of we recognize where we came from. It sets

(41:54):
everything the right way. You remember what in church unity,
where we love quoting more than anything else. We love
quoting Romans Chapter Romans chapter twelve, verses one and two.
And I want to make sure I'm want to read
this the correct way so that I'm not reading out
of it. And again, I'm going to be doing this
from and we can doing this from the complete Jewish Bible.

(42:20):
I exhort you, therefore, brothers, in view of God's mercies,
to offer yourselves as a sacrifice, living and set apart
for God. This will please him. It is the logical
temple worship for you. In other words, do not let
yourselves be conformed to the standards of Olam jasse. Instead
keep yourself, keep letting yourselves be transformed by the renewing

(42:41):
of your minds, so that you will know what God
wants and will agree that he what he wants is good, satisfying,
and able to succeed. For I'm telling every single one
of you, through the grace that has been given to me,
not to engage in exaggerated ideas about your own eport Instead,
develop a sober estimate of yourself based on the standards. Uh. Yeah,

(43:09):
let me make sure that I get this old one
correct though. Yeah. In other words, yeah, the verse three
of us. Sorry, go no, let me continue with verse three.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
I like this.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
I'm telling you, every single one of you that, through
the grace that has been given to me, not to
have exaggerate ideas about your own importance. Instead, develop a
sober estimate of yourself based on the standard which God
has given to each of you, namely trust. And that
standard of trust faith comes in from where from Torah,

(43:44):
from having from having his word. It gives the guidelines
by where we should, how we how, where and how
and why we should live. For why for his glory,
where in His presence which we cannot escape what the
boundaries that are given to us in Torah, what family
should look like, what marriage should look like, what servitude

(44:07):
should look like before him, what worship should look like?
How to deal with sticky situations in community relations and
family relations? How do you deal with those different things?
All established in His word? And we don't need we
don't need counselors. We don't need biblical counselors. We need

(44:29):
people who have to be willing to read his word,
seriously read his word. I think that the reason why
we're failing in so many different areas is because we
just stopped reading his word. He's this statement, but beneath
the scripture, he's always been faithful. Yes he has, because
the fact that the answers have been there, it drives

(44:51):
me up the wall. As I continue to read his
word and I'm seeing it, I'm finding these things that
are been in there. For twenty nine and a half years,
I did not see it. All the systematic theology I've
taught on Sunday mornings and Children's Church and VBS and
and and Bible studies and everything and preaching. Seeing things

(45:12):
now I haven't seen for twenty nine and a half years,
and it's just is mind blowing. Mind blowing. Lord, thank

(45:36):
you for immersing your race at least twenty eight twenty
nine years, no longer than that, Yeah, Lord, Verse forty

(46:01):
or seventeen. When Yoso saw that his father was laying
his right hand on your Friam's head, it displeased him,
and he lifted up his father's hand to remove it
from your fram's head and place it and place it
instead on Manassa's head. Yoso said to his father, don't

(46:22):
do it that way, my father, for this one is
the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
You know.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
It's funny because as things are coming back to his
memory of how things are done, especially this blessing point.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
I wonder if.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
If y'all go with Jacob with those it's easy for
you to remember his name that way. I wonder if
he ever had a conversation with his kids about how
this whole thing went down with his father and his brother.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
As you said it.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Hearing you watch this, I think sometimes if we're not
given context, because I think that if he knew the
story about how things went down with his brother, If
he knew, I think that the response would have been
completely different, that there'd been a point of like, oh Lord, wow,

(47:27):
because I think a little bit of the Egyptian culture
and extra culture came into Joseph's mind because but the
Lord has a final say on this. But the father
had refused. But his father refused and said, I know that, son,

(47:48):
my son, I know it. He too will become a people,
and he too will be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother
will be greater than he, and his descendants will grow
into many nations. Because becomes full circle in his life.

(48:17):
He realizes that God had sovereignly allowed him to receive
the blessing from his father come full circle. He realized
that the sovereign God that blessed him. Remember earlier in
the passage, he says, God has blessed me to not
only let me see you, but see your grandchildren. I

(48:38):
recognize I'm in this position right now that I can
see you, whom I love with everything I have, but
not only to see you once again, but to see
your grandchildren, to know, not to know that not only
have you lived, but you've pro created and created my posterity.

(49:00):
So I'm going to go back to the initial phase
of my blessing. The initial phase of my blessing by
my father. And remember that moment, and I'm going to
repeat it now because he's always He's always been faithful, folks.

(49:29):
I mean again, this is only forty eight chapters. And
mind you, there were no chapters in the Bible. But
let's just work with what we have forty eight chapters
in And for those who keep saying there's no grace
in the Old Testament in the Tanakh, you're not reading
the Bible. I mean, this is amazing, This is this

(49:57):
is this is like, this is like a love story.
I know I've always used the phrase that the Bible
was God's sixty six love letters to his people. But man,
every verse, every word, every chapter, every sentence, every punctuation

(50:17):
is his love letter to us. I love how this
just goes so verse twenty. Then he added to this
blessing on them that day, Israel will not speak of
you in their own blessings by saying, may God make

(50:38):
you like you. Israel will speak of you on in
their own blessings by saying, may God make you like
if I am and Manassa. Does he put if I
Am ahead of Manassa same way the Lord put Jacob

(50:59):
Israel before Esau. He's recognizing I will follow suit to
my sovereign Lord Elsha dying, I will follow him. Ugh,
I mean is this. I'm glad my audio is working
clean so you can hear me. But this, if this

(51:20):
doesn't touch you, this doesn't make you cry of the
goodness of who the lord is. I just don't know,
because this is like one of those, you know, choking moments,
because this is just phenomenal on what he does. Verse
twenty one, chapter forty eight. Israel Than said to Joseph,

(51:43):
you see that I'm dying, But God will be with
you and will bring you back to the land of
your ancestors wherever. I am giving to you a chech
a shechham a shoulder, a ridge, shoulder ridge share city
of Shechem, more than to your brothers. I captured it

(52:05):
from the emery, from the emory with the sword, my
sword mbow.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
Not reading up on the.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Any kind of what is it called, whether you have
the stories, the kind of parallel or kind of you
a little bit definition of the passage that's going on.
But just from my take on looking at this, this
is definitely an emotional moment. This is definitely an emotional

(52:43):
moment for both of them, father and son, and how
old Joseph was when his father was reunited to him,
all the lost years, all the time that his father
could have comforted him, we're lost. And he's like, you

(53:04):
know what, I have a city I'm going to give
to you. I have a place I want you to have.
It's it's just, it's just yours. It's a place where
you'll be consoled. Is a place where you will be
able to recover and when times are not great, well,

(53:24):
this is where I want you.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
This is for you.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
This is the least I can give you. Interesting he
gets us, he gets a city, when his sons get
land and territories, he still blesses him before he before
he closes out. Following the way of your judgments, we

(53:51):
put our hope in you. The desire of all our
soul is to remember you and your name, Isaiah twenty
six eight. You know, as we sit here we look
at this whole idea of remembering grace, strolls and memory lane.
I'm praying for you and for me that we have

(54:12):
more strolls down memory lane to remember the goodness of
the Lord in our lives. I want, we need to
remove ourselves from the busyness of church yanity. I know,
even as we get into the summer months, what's gonna
be really big now is BBS churches changing their whole

(54:32):
outfit to create an environment where kids can feel welcome,
enjoy themselves, and potentially they bring their encourage their families
to join church.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
That's going on.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
I've done that, I've participated, and I've been part of
it for eons. Sadly, I'm not gonna I'm gonna I'm
not gonna lie to you that because I didn't have
Torah saying the right place boundaries of my life. I
look at all that stuff that i'd done as loss,

(55:11):
as nothing. Given the fact that the who I know
who was in my heart, who I was behind closed doors,
behind closed minds, far from hearing ears, I know that
Torah wasn't guiding and who that person was. When I

(55:33):
was doing the introspectionist I was looking in the mirror,
I wasn't liking who I saw. I mean, please stop,
stop the fanfare, stop all the stuff that we do
just to because it's always what we've always done, that

(55:54):
whole what always we's always done, What's the phrase the
definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting different results. We look for bigger crowds,
We look for bigger it's the same mechanical stuff that
we do over and over again, and and it's it's

(56:17):
it's not even structured by God. It's structured by man.
It's structured by man. It's not structured by God. It's
not bringing Oh, these kids are coming to know the Lord. No,
they're making an emotional plea. They're making an emotional plea
because they had sugar and candy and and and they
had balloons and face painting and and and running around

(56:40):
like like crazy. I'm not saying that there wasn't a
point of conversion, but we we we are horrible in Churchianity,
men's conferences, women's conferences, VBS, and everything else like this
of spiritual abandonment. We we go from high experience to

(57:04):
high experience looking for how we can have a highlight
in our ministries and the things that we do to
make everyone look like, hey, look we're doing something for
the Lord. But what's our follow up? What's our follow through?
How do we disciple these individuals to make certain that
what took what was, what took place, stayed rooted, and

(57:27):
they didn't choke and die away. The church is the
church is bringing about more of the bad soils of
the parable of the four soils because of church yanity.
Because we don't have boundaries, we don't have torah. And

(57:47):
I know that you don't want to hear this. I
know you're like, oh, no.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
No, my church.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
We've preached word blah blah blah blah. If the word
is is devoid of torah, if the word is devoid
of the Oh, we're not doing sacrifice. Why do you
have to always go to the sacrifices? Why do you
have to do We're not doing this or are you
gonna do this? Like literally, you go to the you
go to the most obscure passages to reject having boundaries.

(58:19):
It says more about you rejecting the truth and rejecting
his word than it is about me proposing that we
consider to look at what Jesus you're shurea well, your
should it never abolished your shoe, it never ended. So
your choice you either continue the cycle of rebellion and

(58:45):
regret where you start the cycle of repentance and restoration.
The choice is yours. Finally, following the way of your judgments,
we put our hope in you. The desire of all
our soul is to remember.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
You and your name. Take care, and God bless Brad.
Stags and daily emotions have past, and I'm out.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
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