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Ezekiel 45
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You heal her of her cancer. And, Lord, I pray you continue to work on Mike Goodson, that he get all dialed in and and be able to go see Jayce's soccer game. And thank you for what you brought him through in the last couple weeks and encourage Shannon. And, Lord, thank you for what you're doing with my dad. Thank you for all the people praying for my dad and that he's recovering. He's doing better and better. And we lift up the Dinsmore's, Lord, with Mark's mother, Lord on the verge of going to see you. We just pray you give everybody wisdom, your perfect will be done, and that you heal Mark and Shelley and Diane, Lord, and just so much physical infirmity that they have to fight fight through, Lord. And so, Lord, we pray for your healing touch upon their hearts and minds, your healing touch upon their bodies. And, bless, we pray. Bless them, Lord. And we ask this in Jesus name. Amen. I Alright. Thanks, Ralph. That song is applicable to what we're studying tonight during the millennial reign of Jesus. Right? The whole earth is filled with the glory of the Lord. Right? Yes. Yes. And we're looking forward to that. Do you guys think that's a literal period of time? Right. Yep. And why is that? Because God said it. God said it? Yeah. We'd have to we'd have to wipe out a whole lot of scriptures. Jeremiah three eighteen, Malachi thirteen thirty four, Isaiah sixty six eighteen to 23, Zechariah fourteen six to 21. We'd have to wipe out Isaiah 11. We'd have to wipe out Isaiah two. All the different Old Testament passages speak of a kingdom age, and we're not there yet. And as we look at the Old Testament, we can interpret the New Testament as far as Revelation chapter 26 times. We're told that there's a a millennium or a thousand years rule and reign of Jesus upon the earth. And so don't wanna get caught up in replacement theology. What's replacement theology? The church replacing Israel. Is there anywhere in the Bible that says that the church has replaced Israel? No. Contrary to that. Right? Paul makes it real clear. Romans nine, ten, and 11. Israel's past election, Israel's present rejection, Israel's future restoration. So I don't know how they deal with that. They skip all that. He's he's dealing with the gospel. People say, just preach the gospel. Well, Paul lays out his theme in Romans one, of the gospel, one sixteen and seventeen, the priority to the Jew, and, the just shall live by faith. And then he goes through and explains his gospel, and then he, comes up with the question in chapter nine, you know, as he gets through chapter eight, chapter nine, you know, what about the Jew? And so he begins to explain to the person's wondering about the nation of Israel, their past election, their present rejection, and chapter 11, their future restoration. Then he comes in chapter 12 with the application for you and I, how we should respond to the gospel. So there is no gospel without the nation of Israel because God would be a liar then. You can't you can't dissect and say, we just believe in John three sixteen and that's the gospel. Well, what about Israel? What about the kingdom age? What about all the prophecies that need to be fulfilled? You can't just take one portion and call that the good news and make God out to be a liar. The volume of the book is written about Jesus. Jesus said search search the scriptures and them you think you have eternal life, but they are they which testify of me. So there's no gospel without the second coming of Jesus. Why aren't the churches preaching the second coming of Jesus? It's bizarre for people to think they're already in the millennium and that they're going to usher in the kingdom age and prosperity up ahead, the golden age. It's it's absurd. So some of them are going back to history, which is a time, a period of time called the Dark Ages when Augustine, as a result of Catholicism, began to teach a lot of aberrant doctrine that connected with the church. And then later, in that dark ages, we had the Protestant Reformation with Martin Luther. But he he hung his hat on the just shall live by faith, the gospel message, but he also was antisemitic, and much of it having to do with Augustine and his influence. And so you see in the eighteen hundreds more and more of the Protestant pastors and students of the Bible beginning to come back to the apostolic age of the study of scripture, the study of prophecy, and could see that the apostles all talk of a pre tribulation rapture. Jesus spoke of a pre tribulation rapture and and also of a kingdom age. And so we're in much better place to take the bible literally from Genesis to Revelation. It's a much better hermeneutic, a much better it's the only right way. Absolutely the only right way. It's heretical to do anything but take the bible literally. So it's not me that says this. The bible says it. Okay. So Ezekiel 45, father, we pray that you help us understand what's written here. A lot of it is difficult, and I pray, father, that you would teach us by the power of your holy spirit as we get a glimpse of the fourth temple period area up ahead during the millennial rule and reign of Jesus. Israel born again. Israel according to Jeremiah 31, an unconditional covenant that they enter into. And they're in the land, they're entering into all the promises that you've given them. Our Lord Jesus is ruling and reigning from Jerusalem, Mount Zion. The earth has has gone over some restoration as a result of the cataclysm of the tribulation period. And in the church, we're ruling and reigning according to Revelation five verse 10 as kings and priests, Lord. There are tribulation saints there. There are gentiles who believe, who come in as a result of the sheep goat judgment and also as a result of, well, the sheep goat judgment, lord, as you allow the believing gentiles that get through the tribulation period to enter into the millennium and they are having children. They're having kiddos, and and some of them believe and some don't. But all of us are believers, Lord, and we're perfected in you. And we pray that you just help us continue to be able to study and to glean and to learn all that's a great future, great hope in front of us, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. If I had to hope in these politicians and these pastors and these false prophets and all these knuckleheads on YouTube that we're entering into a golden age, I would be very depressed if I had to put my hope and trust in them. But since I read the bible and I know that all of this is gonna end very badly, When I say this, I mean the times of the gentiles entering into the tribulation period, the seventieth seven of Daniel, a time Jesus said that the earth, the world has never seen or will ever see again. It's so cataclysmic. So I'd rather take it there and know that the only hope is the return of Jesus. To set up his kingdom is the only hope. There's no way that mankind's gonna be able to overcome the demonic activity that's going to take place and also the wrath of God being poured out on a Christ rejecting world during the seven year tribulation period. There's no way Elon Musk or any of them are going to be able to come up with ideas or a means of alleviating that suffering and alleviating that wrath of God. Not building bunkers underground, not building rail systems underground. Revelation six tells me that the whole earth is shaken and those those guys that go underground, the deep underground military bunkers with all the food that they're recalling and setting up and getting ready to go underground. See, it makes sense, doesn't it? Cause Revelation six says they can't hide from the wrath of the lamb. The wrath of the lamb is found and there's no escape. No escape except Jesus. That's your only escape. So I I read this and I look at his future. This is exciting. This is very exciting. And I and I have a future even beyond this. And what's that called? The eternal state. Revelation twenty one and twenty two. Right? So this thousand year rule and reign has an end. The devil is loosed at the end and he tempts the people that are repopulating the planet, the Gentile believers and and unbelievers that are on the planet. And and they try to overthrow the lord. They get their armies together to come against him, And then he sends fire down and barbecues him and that's the that's the last act, the last part of the millennium. And then we enter into a time where there's a new heaven and a new earth. And Peter tells us how his present earth ends fire, destroyed by fire, completely destroyed by fire and a new heaven, a new earth prepared by the Lord coming out of heaven down to the earth and a new Jerusalem and you and I ruling and reigning with Jesus and entering into the ages to come according to Ephesians two verse seven. He's gonna continue to pour out his kindness upon us. That's a great future and I hope I have. That's that's something I don't have to trust in horses or chariots or the military or man or politicians. And one of the greatest deceivers that the world is ever gonna see is the Antichrist that's going to come along and deceive the nations and deceive the nation of Israel into thinking that he's the Messiah, that he's the one that can fix everything. He's gonna start out as a peace a peace dude, you know. Alright. So chapter 45 verse one. This is the lord's portion of the land. And as I told Vicky earlier, you know, we have the devil who's a counterfeit, and the counterfeit effort right now is to build smart cities. And smart cities are surveillance cities. All of the lampposts and everything got cameras in them, and the low flying satellites that Elon Musk has put out there are able to in Revelation chapter 11, when the two witnesses are killed and everybody's able to watch them drop dead in the street for three and a half days, Everybody's gonna be able to look on their phone and all around the world with these low flying satellites, everyone's gonna be able to see those guys there. The antichrist, the devil, is not omniscient, can't see everything, you know, all at once. They don't know everything all at once. Omniscience is knowing everything. Nor are they omnipresent. They can't be everywhere all at once. Nor are they omnipotent, all powerful. So they use technology and that technology allows the world to see what's going on. And yet our lord, he sees everything because because because he's god, because he's the holy spirit and the holy spirit's everywhere. So anyway, in their counterfeit, they're gonna try and build a utopia. They're gonna try and build a golden age on the earth here. And part of that has to do with smart cities, fifteen minute cities where people will get into their condos, their apartments, stack and pack as their design, bring them all in and stack and pack them. And and so as we're here looking in chapter 45, we have the originator where the devil got his idea, and that's the lord god, and it's Jerusalem. And there are it's the temple, and then you've got houses and everything built here. So there it's a holy city, not a smart city, a holy city with the Lord, his presence there. The priests are gonna live there near the temple, and David as prince is gonna be near the temple, but he's gonna have an outlying area, a strip of land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. And when we think in terms of the prince according to Ezekiel 34 verse 24, the prince is not the lord Jesus, the prince is David. And David as prince and the lord Jesus as king of kings and lord of lords ruling and reigning. And part of that you can see another proof text here where in verse 22 and upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering. If that's Jesus, that can't be Jesus. There's no sin offering for the prince if he's Jesus. But if he's David, then the sin offering is offered as a memorial, excuse me, of the importance of Jesus being the lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. As moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, You you shall offer no an oblation unto the lord, a holy portion of the land. Someone's trying to get me. The length shall be the length of the the land. The length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds and and the breadth shall be 10,000. And so about 8.3 miles long and about 6.6 miles wide, and and that's if a reed is like 10 foot. So these these dimensions are really hard to deal with because of us not knowing exactly what a reed is, what a homer is, what the different weights and measurements that are here, it's difficult to lay out. So anyway, 8.3 miles miles long, 6.6 miles wide. Of this there shall be for the sanctuary 500 in length with 500 in breadth square from roundabout and the 50 cubits roundabout for the open space. And so there's a lot of good good commentators and people that have put up videos in regard to this, and I alluded to this when we first start in chapter 40 that I gave you a a video, a three d dimension of the that somebody's developed of the temple, the messianic temple, and so pretty amazing to go look at that. And so I wish we had the ability to do that here much easier. And of the measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand and the breadth of a 10,000 and it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests. Priests, plural. And so the priests are gonna have, houses. Kathy last week said, god, we don't get a house. Yeah. You get a house if you rule and reign with the lord as as kings and priests, and there's gonna be houses that are near the temple where the priests are gonna hang out. So the ministers of the sanctuary who shall come near to the minister to minister unto the lord and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. So they're gonna be very close by. They're not gonna be able to or not have to, you know, fly. Right now it's a little difficult to get an airplane. Right? Difficult to run around like the Jetsons or whatever. Walking, rail, bicycle. You're gonna live nearby, just walk over there to do your duty. And so the five and twenty thousand of length and the 10,000 of breadth also all the Levites, the ministers of the house have for them. So this is the Lord's district, the lord's district for the priests. These are holy cities. Half for them themselves for a possession for 20 chambers. So you've got the Levitical priesthood, remember the sons of Zadok, they're gonna rule and reign and serve directly for the Lord as we saw that and learned that. And ye shall appoint the possession of the city 5,000 broad and five and twenty thousand long alongside of the oblation of the holy portion it shall be for the whole house of Israel. So there's gonna be area here for the whole house of Israel, 1.7 miles wide, 8.3 long, and it's gonna be near Jerusalem for the house of Israel. So Vicky was getting the various tribes and listed the names of those tribes, but the house of Israel is gonna have a portion of inheritance, a portion of land near Jerusalem, and he's laying that out. And so literal exact details. Pardon me? Up. Okay. She has a picture up. Okay. And she's hanging out. And that helps. So that'll help. And a trip to Israel presently would be very helpful for us as we read through the New Testament, as we see where Jesus walking in the Galilee area. And it really pastor Chuck used to say it's equivalent to two years in bible college, the amount of depth, you know, that your understanding of the area. So that'd be very fun to to go there. There are guys that come to churches and they'll set up a, you know, like a model of the temple area. They'll also send up a model of Moses with the tabernacle, and you'll be able to walk through the tabernacle and get a kind of feel of the dimensions and the size and the whole thing. So there are ministries that do that, but with with the media that we have now, a lot of it can be seen, you know, on YouTube and such. There's people that post these things. Alright. So so the portion of portion shall be for the prince. So who's the prince? And how do we know that? Ezekiel thirty four twenty four and twenty five. Somebody wanna read that? Yeah. You got Ezekiel 44 verse three. Make sure that people understand that. The prince. The prince shall sit in it. So how did David become the prince? Why David? That is the Davidic covenant. Right. Wanna go to second Samuel chapter seven? Pardon me? What was the Ezekiel scripture? Thirty twenty four? Twenty four. Yep. Second Samuel 21. Second Samuel seven? Second Samuel chapter seven. So the backdrop of this is the nation of Israel is enjoying a theocracy. And during the millennium, the kingdom age is gonna be a theocratic government, meaning Jesus, god, is going to rule and reign over men, Personally be there. At the end of the time of the book of Judges so when Moses is with the children of Israel, there's a theocracy. The Shekinah glory of god would lead them out of Egypt and a pillar of fire by by night, a cloud by day, and protecting them and all. And at the end of the four hundred and thirty years of the time of the judges, there's a tragedy in that the children of Israel were looking at Samuel, the last judge, the first prophet of the nation of Israel. And they looked at Samuel's sons, and they didn't want his sons to take Samuel's place. So they instructed they let Samuel know that we want to have a king. We want to be like all the other nations. Now think of how unique you are. You've got god, you know, in a theocratic form of government over you, and he's extending part of his reign of government through these through these judges, but he's still he's still the one ruling and reigning. And and so Samuel gets bummed out by this, the lord indicates to Samuel, Samuel, they haven't rejected you. They've rejected me. So the lord says, alright. I'm gonna give you a king, and this king is gonna be typified by, you know, what human beings are looking for. You know? And so king Saul, a head taller than everybody else, and he starts out okay, but he wasn't a man after god's own heart. He compromised a whole lot. And, there came a point in time where king Saul disobeyed the lord and obedience is better than sacrifice, Samuel told king Saul, and that the kingdom was stripped from him and that the lord was going to raise up a king after his own heart. Six guys later, brothers of David and all, finally comes to the ruddy red haired guy, the shepherd boy, which was the lowliest menial job in the culture. He wasn't even allowed to be in the army to go and fight against Goliath and all. And but he did come back and he did slay the giant. But as far as looking for a king, David didn't know. Samuel went. Samuel didn't know. And then the lord indicated that David is the king. So David's ruled and reigned, and God's given him victory. And in second Samuel chapter seven, it came to pass when the king sat in the house and the Lord had given him rest round about from all of his enemies. And the king said unto Nathan the prophet, see now I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains. So that all they had was the the tabernacle. And Nathan said to the king, go do all that is in thine heart for the lord is with thee. And it came to pass that night that the word of the lord came unto Nathan saying, go and tell my servant David, thus saith the lord, shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in? You know, David, can you build a house that can even contain me? Heavens of heavens can't contain me, you know. And whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt even to this day but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. And you know Abraham and Sarah were looking for a city whose builder and maker is God and they pitched tents everywhere they went and they didn't buy a piece of real estate or build a house, know, and where pilgrims and sojourners just passing through is how they live life. And that's a good way to live, not putting a whole lot of stock on holding on to this world so tightly. And you got to have a loose grip on this world. So they walked in the tent and tabernacle and all the places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel spoke I a word with any of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people Israel saying why build ye not me a house of cedar? So God's not worried. He's not worried about he doesn't have a house of cedar. Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David thus saith the Lord of hosts I took thee from the sheep coat from following the sheep to be ruler over my people over Israel. Jesus was a carpenter from Nazareth but he's also the good shepherd, the great shepherd, the chief shepherd. Right? And and it's interesting that David is a shepherd. Abraham was a shepherd. Moses was a shepherd. It's a good good occupation. The Lord teaching you how to how to look after sheep and preparing you for looking after god's people. And Jesus said, not little flock for it's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom and so the inheritance. So now therefore shalt thou say unto my servant David thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcove from following the sheep to be ruler over my people over Israel. That's a big jump. That's a huge jump. And and I was with thee wherever thou went and have cut off all your enemies out of your sight. So David doesn't have the Philistines. None of them are he's got peace in the land. He's he's enjoying all that God's given him. I cut off all your enemies out of the out of your sight and made thee a great name like under the name of great men who are in the earth. Moreover, I will appoint a palace for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in the place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them anymore as formerly. So God's given land to the nation of Israel. And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people, so the time of the book of judges, Israel have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the lord tells thee that he will make thee a house. So David, I'm gonna make you a house. And what he's referring to here is a dynasty. This is the Davidic covenant. The messiah is going to come forth from the loins of of David. And it's not just the babe of Bethlehem, it's pointing to the future as we're finding out. It's pointing to the future during the time of the millennium. And when thy days be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with your fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thine own body and I will establish his kingdom. Speaking of Jesus, the Messiah is going to come out of you, David. He shall build a house for my name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. So the house that's being built in the millennium, God's building it. God's building this house in the millennium, and his throne, Jesus is ruling and reigning from Mount Zion, from Jerusalem. And how long? Forever. Forever. You ever watched the Forever. The Sandlot? There you go. Forever. Yeah. I will be his father and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men. And but my mercy shall not depart away from him as I took it from Saul. So he's speaking of David. As I took it from Saul whom I put away before thee. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee. Thy throne shall be established forever. According to all these words and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David. Then went king David in and sat before the lord and he said, who am I, o lord god, And what is my house that thou hast brought me this far?' And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God, but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come and in this manner of man, o lord god. And what can David anymore and and what can David anymore unto thee for thou lord god knowest thy servant for thy word's sake and according to thine own heart hast thou done all these great things to make thy servant know them. For thy word's sake, God's word, the immutability of God's word is impossible for God to lie. Wherefore thou art great, o lord god, for there is none like thee, neither is there any god besides thee according to all that we have heard with our ears. And what nation in the earth is like your people even like Israel whom god went to redeem for a, you know, for a people to himself? And so we're gonna we're going to look at the feast of Passover, which is a feast of redemption when God redeemed the nation of Israel out of Egypt. Right? With the with the Passover lamb. Jesus is the lamb of god who takes away the sins of the world. For a people to himself and to make him a name and to do for you great things and awe inspiring for thy land before thy people which thou redeemeth to thee from Egypt from the nations and their gods. So the Passover celebration, the feast was to commemorate and remind the children of Israel that God redeemed them, that he created them, and he purchased them out of slavery, out of bondage. And you and I as Christians, we've been purchased out of slavery, of bondage with the redemption, the price of God's only begotten son, his precious blood. For thou wast confirmed to thyself, thy people Israel, to be a people unto thee forever. So a people unto thee for go ahead. Say it. Forever. Forever. No replacement theology. Church doesn't replace. Church does not replace Israel. Thy people forever. The Philistines are not his people forever. The Amalekites are not his people forever. The Midianites are not his people forever. Israel. In the Abrahamic covenant God promised that he'd bring forth the people. The reason he'd bring forth the people is to bring forth the Messiah. That in your seed, seed singular, the Messiah, all nations of the earth would be blessed. And so this covenant that God had given to Abraham and now to David, the the kingly covenant. For thou hast confirmed to thy people Israel to be a people unto thee forever and thou, o lord, are become their god. And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant concerning his house establish it forever and do as thou hast said. So it's really good just to remind God of his promises and say Lord do as you promised. Just do as you said. And let thy name be magnified. I want to magnify God's name forever saying, the Lord of hosts is the God over Israel and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee. For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel has revealed to thy servant saying, I will build thee a house, therefore has thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. And now, O Lord God, thou art that God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant. Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant that it may continue forever before thee. For thou, oh lord god, has spoken it. With thy blessing, let the house of thy servant be blessed forever. So David David came to the understanding that, David, you're gonna build me a house, but your your hands are too bloody. I'm gonna build you a house. I'm gonna build you a dynasty. The messiah is gonna come forth from your loins, and here we are looking at the millennial rule and reign, and David's gonna rule and reign as a prince over the nation of Israel during that during that period of time. So verse seven, and a portion shall be for the prince in the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion and the possession of the city before the oblation of the holy portion and before the possession of the city from the West side westward and from the east eastward, and the link shall correspond to one of the portions from the west border under the east border. So he's gonna get a strip of land and 8.3 square cube in the land shall be his possession in Israel, and my prince shall be no more oppressed, my people and the rest of the land shall they give, to the house of Israel according to their tribes. So Vicky has a list of the tribes. Chapter 46 we'll see that. So prince David, his portion from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, a strip of land, and and now we see his duties. What are the duties of David? His priestly duties like nacho. No. The kingly duties. So thus saith the lord god, let us suffice you all princes of Israel, remove violence. So part of what's happening here is he's describing a a the kingdom age, the way David's supposed to rule. And now as Ezekiel's teaching the remnant of people, he's teaching the leadership, the government and all of Israel of their corruption and don't don't live that way. You guys need to change the way. Like, you have unjust weights and you're you're taxing people. And, you know, the time of Christ when Jesus was there, you know, they were making merchandise of the people. They were extorting the people at the various feasts and all. They were changing the coinage and and charging exorbitant prices for the people to come and to worship the lord. And Jesus threw over the money changers tables and said, my father's house a house of prayer you made it a den of thieves. And so this corruption within the political and the religious form of leadership was such that God is here showing and the kingdom age isn't going to be like that. Everything's going to be done decently in order and equitable and right and righteous because he's ruling and reigning with a rod of righteousness. So they need to take inventory here and we look to Jesus as our example. We don't look to pastors or priests or anybody else. He's the example and we're to live holy lives and which means set apart for him. So thus saith the Lord God, let it suffice you, O princes of Israel, remove violence and spoil and execute justice and righteousness. Take away your exactions from my people, saith the lord god. So it's a rebuke through Ezekiel here to the leadership of Israel that was overtaxing the people And you need to repent and quit doing that because that doesn't that isn't God's intention in raising you up to lead the nation of Israel, nor is it gonna be a practice that's gonna be perpetuated in the millennium because Jesus can rule and reign and also David is prince and so no more greed. You shall have just balances and just ephah and a just a bath. And so the ephah and the bath shall be of one measure and the bath may be contained the tenth part of a homer and the eefah on the tenth part of a homer the measure of it shall be according to the homer. So a is like 50 gallons and so part of the Department of Weights and Measures have you ever had the Department of Weights and Measures come to your facility? They used to And they they would make sure that your scale that says this is a pound, that they would put a real pound there and see if it was. So the Department of Weights and Measures is really needed at the gas pump. So it used to be you go measure grain, you measure meal, you measure your food out, you go to the butcher. And when I go to Sweeney's, they charge me by the you know, they put it on the scale. And I don't know if their scale is just weights and measures or not, but the food sure tastes good so I don't argue. And but at the gas pump, I might be trying to put a gallon of diesel in my truck and I might be getting just a little bit less than a gallon for the price that I'm paying. Right? So the owner could make a lot more money, a lot more profit by having unjust weights and measures of of a gallon of fuel that's coming into my vehicle. And I have no way of of knowing. Right? How do how would I know? So so that was the importance of just weights and measures. Don't want to be ripping people off and and so the shekel shall be 20 geras. So an ounce of silver, I want an ounce of silver, I want an ounce of gold, and it needs to be according to the proper weight and measures. So during the millennial kingdom the people that are exchanging currency or purchasing things can be assured that they're going to have just weights and measures. And 15 shekel shall beer manna many. So honest standards. Do you think that there's honest standards being implemented among our politicians, the senate? How how do they go into office, you know, working as a bartender making $80 a year and then in a few years be worth like 12,000,000. How's that happen? Shenanigans. Yeah. Whole lotta Lie of the hand. So if I'm working in the Department of Defense and I'm in a meeting and I know based upon that meeting that the government's going to purchase something that the the contractor Raytheon has, then if I'm a smart person in the government, I should go over and invest some money in Raytheon because I know the next two, three, four years that our government's gonna spend x amount of dollars on some sort of weaponry that Raytheon won the contract. That's a big way that the politicians insider trading, the way that they inflate their their wealth is because they have inside information of which way the, you know, the spending is gonna go. And so that's how they do it. And you and I, you know, they they don't get there by making their $200 a year like their salary is, you know, or whatever it is. Apparently, they just gave themselves a raise too. I did hear from Whitney Webb today that the reason Elon Musk she called me direct. It's just, you know, The way that I said that, it kinda sound like it. I watched the video. And and she said the reason Elon Musk came into Trump's cabinet and began to do the doge thing is because he was given access to the treasury, all the codes, because the platform that our government wants to use is the ex platform that Elon has. So when we move in the direction of a digital currency, everybody's social security, everybody's payments, they had to go look at presently what all the codes are and how these checks and everything are distributed to everybody, and they had to get all that information to be able to have x be able to be the platform. So you got PayPal and Palantir and all these other different types of platforms. And And he was a part of PayPal also. Elon Musk was a a partner in that. So according to her, she's saying that's the reason he was there with his with his tech giants, tech guys, the gurus, everybody go in there and get all the all that stuff ready for when they go digital. Now is that gonna be equitable? Is that gonna be a good thing? I don't know. But we weren't told that, were we? So and Brit Gillette said that in Europe right now, they're introducing a digital euro. They're gonna get rid of all cash in Europe. And he described it as a means of creating chaos so they can roll out even more dominating and controlling mechanism that they want, you know, eventually the global currency. So in the shekel shall be 20 geras, 20 shekels, 5 and 20 shekels, 15 shekels shall be your mani, mani. So honest standards. This is the oblation that ye shall offer the sixth part of an ephah of wheat and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley. Now if all of this was just allegorical and symbolic, when does it apply? If it doesn't apply in the millennium, when does it apply? What's the application? How do you, you know, how do you do David's not on the throne. Jesus isn't ruling and reigning yet. Right? So right now, we're in the kingdom age like these guys say. Where's David ruling and reigning? Where's Jesus ruling and reigning from Jerusalem? He's not. So how do you spiritualize that? Oh, he's reigning in our hearts. Oh, in our hearts. So these just weights and measures are in our hearts. Right? It's not literal. Right? In my heart, I think everyone's doing right. No. What's the heart? What's Jeremiah seventeen nine say about the heart? Wicked. Desperately wicked. Who can know it? Yeah. Deceitful above all things. What's the most deceitful thing on the planet? My heart. The heart of man. Deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? Only God can know it. Right? He knows it. And he still loves me. He knows my heart and he still loves me. And Kathy still loves me? Because god put a love in her heart for me. Homer of wheat and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath of the core which is a homer a 10 baths for 10 baths are a homer. Whatever. In verse fifteen, one two hundredth in verse fifteen, and one lamb out of the flock out of two hundredth, so one two hundredth out of the fat pastures of Israel. So the children of Israel are going to be farmers. They're going to have fat lambs, fat lambs, and God's going to cause their herds to increase and grow and one guy is going to have 200 lambs out there. And so on one lamb out of the flock, out of 200 out of the flock fat pastures of Israel for a meal offering and for a burnt offering and for a peace offering to make reconciliation for them saith the Lord God. So during the time of their festivals if they're going to bring a lamb, it's only one out of 200 prescribed. So you guys get to keep a 199 of them and you bring one to the festival. So if you're gonna come celebrate the festival of Passover or Tabernacles or the New Year, you're not gonna come empty handed. You're gonna bring animals for sacrifice, and these animals for sacrifice are gonna be a means of memorial reminding you of the necessity of the cross, the necessity of Jesus going to the cross to redeem us. It's tragic if you're a Jew today and you celebrate the Passover or the great day of atonement or tabernacles or any of the feasts if if you or re inaugurate in the during the tribulation period. So you're gonna start them up. You're gonna get the ashes, the red heifer, and you're gonna start up the, you know, Judaism. It's really sad to not know what it all means and who it's referring to, what it's referring. Jesus is the key. He's the one that unlocks all that truth. But you reject Jesus, you know, as I said earlier, you think you have eternal life, you know, search the scriptures and they are they which testify of me. The volume of the book is written of Jesus. Everything fits when you see when when John the Baptist says, behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. If you're a Jew and you're celebrating Passover and that little lamb has been killed and you take that blood and you put it on the doorpost and lintel and all that, do you get the meaning? The angel of death is passing over that house. Right? And so it's more than a Passover he takes away the sins of the world, no longer just passing over. And so these guys are going to be looking back commemorating Christ in the feast. And the feasts also allow a means of fellowship. People are going to be able to come together for fellowship. So when we partake a communion, if we were to have an agape feast and partake of the bread and the cup and then afterwards have a the fellowship hall, we go and we eat together, we're commemorating the body and the blood of Jesus being broken. His prayer in John 17 that we'd be one. And and we look at the let's say we take and we we celebrate the resurrection resurrection Sunday, and we also do a study on the Passover to understand the importance of Jesus as the lamb of God taking away the sins of the world. And so it speaks of redemption, his blood being poured out to redeem us from our sin. And so there's great types, there's great symbolism, and these festivals were the shadow, but Christ is the substance. He's the fulfillment. He's the one behind he's the one that this is what it means. And when you lock him in, when you factor him in, then all of a sudden it comes to life. Know? You're not just going to when I was a Catholic as a kid, none of it made any sense to me. It was just rote. It was just religion. But if I'd have known Jesus, you know, if I'd have known him and had a relationship with him, then I might have been able to connect some of the dots from a spiritual standpoint. And so it comes to life. It comes to life when you know Jesus. The bible comes to life. Some people say, I've read the bible twice. Really? From gen yeah. I've read it twice. Do you understand what you're reading? No. I don't understand it. And that's because you don't know Jesus. His word is spirit. So he gives this oblation for the prince in Israel. So the the worship the worship, there's a cost to worship and the folks are gonna come and they're gonna bring sacrifices. And and it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offering and the meal offering and the drink offering and the feasts and in the new moons and in the Sabbaths and all solemnities of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering and the meal offering and the burnt offering and the peace offering to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. So atonement, the great day of atonement of woman, the great the kephar, the day of Yom Kippur, they're going to make this in commemoration of but they're not going to have the great day of atonement in this sense, as in the old. But the prince's part as he participates, as he gets all this ready. Now there's three feasts that are they are gonna have and one is the first month Nisan. It's the New Year feast. And then in verse 21 to 24, the Passover feast. And then in verse 25, the Feast of Tabernacles. So three feasts here that are gonna are gonna be inaugurated. So thus saith the Lord God in the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary. So you're gonna April 1 is what we would call it. You're gonna cleanse the sanctuary and get it ready for the time of feasting. And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put it upon the post of the house and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar and upon the post of the gate of the inner court. And so the purpose of this is for purification, to purify the sanctuary. And remember these are there are people during the millennium that are going to sin so it would be it would be a part of they're gonna have to come by faith the same way as in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, we always come by grace through faith. But as far as sanctifying them and keeping them pure so that they can have fellowship, they have a means of of doing this. And the and the sanctifying that that what you're teaching people is that god is holy and that and that there's a that man is sinful, and you're gonna be speaking of, well, who bridged the gap? How are we going to ever be able to have fellowship with a holy God? And it gives you opportunity as a means of a memorial to explain how Jesus, the blood of Jesus Christ God's son, continually cleanses a man of all unrighteousness. So you're going to be able to, again, as a memorial. And we looked last week at the purposes of the kingdom system. Number one was as a memorial. Number two is a means of fellowship for the saints, first John one nine. Number three is ritual, a ritual cleansing. And number four, a theocracy, the blessing of a theocracy. So as we get down to the feast of tabernacles, the we're reminded that the blessing comes by obedience because if you're disobedient, then according to Zechariah fourteen sixteen through 19, these Gentile peoples that are living on the planet each year they have to come to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast of tabernacles. If they don't make the trip like Jesus did when he was 12 years old, his family's, you know, going to celebrate Passover. And if you don't go for the feast of tabernacles then you're not gonna have any rain falling upon your land. You're gonna plagues are gonna break out. So part of the reason of these feasts is if you want God's blessing then you participate in the means of obedience. And so your faith is going to be seen in obedience. Faith without works is dead. We say we believe. Well, we're going to be able to prove that we believe by our actions. So it doesn't save us. The actions don't save us, but the actions are the fruit of our profession of faith. Right? So we people can see that, hey, he really believes. He repented of his sins. And to thou shalt thou do, the seventh day of the month. So you're gonna do it for the seventh day for seven days. For everyone that heareth and for him that is simple shall you reconcile the house. So what's that mean? It means it means that you're gonna have people that are sinning and unbeknownst to them they're sinning. They're simple. They're not aware of their sins. So you're gonna do it in such a way because they're they've erred, they've sinned, and they're not aware of us. So we would call the sins of ignorance. Have you committed sins of ignorance? I sin every day. I sin every moment. And when I'm around Kathy it's really apparent what a sinner I am because she's the holy spirit, man. God, give me a good one. I'll tell you. And so there's sins of ignorance. I remember a guy told me that if I didn't go into the ministry, it's easy for people to tell you and put head trips on you because they're unwilling to pay the price. Mhmm. But his thought process was there's sins of omission. What's that mean? Sins of omission. You should be doing something. You're not doing it. Right? And there's sins of commission. Right? I went and robbed a bank. That's a sin of commission. I I I did it. Then there's sins of omission. I might have a responsibility as a divorced father, and I need to pay child support, and I'm not paying child support. That's a sin of omission. I'm not holding up my responsibility. Right? And my kids are gonna suffer. So and then there's other things in our walking relationship with the Lord where this guy put this on me was and it happened all, like, at the same time this head trips were coming on me. I was trying to figure out where I fit within the body of Christ because I wanted to serve the Lord, but I didn't know where or how or what my gifts were and all that thing. And and he had me teach his bible study at his house that we were attending, and I didn't volunteer. He signed me up. He said, Rick, you're gonna teach us. Said, okay. So I did my best to study, and I prepared, and then I went and I and I taught it. And I'd never taught a, you know, home bible study before. And then he let me do it again and and a little bit more. And so he came to me, and I had a nice little business and Kathy and I were very happy. But there was something missing in my heart. There was something that wasn't fulfilling me entirely, but I just didn't know. Previous to that, went to the bible college for two months, but the lord shut the door on me on that. So anyway his sin of omission that I was committing, he said to me, God's called you to be a pastor. He's given you a gift and if you don't use it, it's a sin of omission. So if I were to try to apply that I could maybe look at Matthew 25 and I could take the investment that the Lord's made in my life, the gifts he's given me, and I bury it. I just bury it. Or I could take that gift and try and reinvest it in the lives of others. Try to use it in such a way that people are edified, built up, strengthened, and get to know Jesus better. And so we stepped out in faith to try and see if this guy was correct or not. And then my brother-in-law came along at the same time, and he's a little while after that, and he said, god's called you to be a pastor, and you're not obeying him. And you need to you know, basically, need to obey them. So, anyway, two head trips. Now neither one of them went out and left everything to go plant a church, but I did. And and Kathy and I did. And so it's been a really exciting adventure, but it's very exciting to find out what your gift is and where you fit within the body. And God doesn't want you to do somebody else's gift. When you discover your gift, maybe maybe your gifting is that of a mother or that of a father. Huge gifting. And obviously, as a father, Kathy, mother, so we had that part down, had a family. Your occupation sometimes might coincide or maybe not. But god's given gifts to everyone in the body of Christ. We have at least one gift of the spirit to be used in the body of Christ to benefit, to build up people within the body of Christ. And and so it's it's exciting when when you do that. Now I I don't know how long I was going along in sins of ignorance not knowing what my gift was, a sin of omission, but I was trying to teach Sunday school. I was trying to discover where I fit within the body. And now sins of omission, sins of ignorance, what are some other ways that we sin ignorantly or omit responsibility? Can I put a trip on people that if they don't go to church, they're sending a a Is that a sin of commission? Omission? So what if you're a mom and dad and you're you're omitting, you're neglecting raising your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? You're just neglecting a sin of omission. You're not doing what you're supposed to do. Now these kids belong to the Lord. Right? Mhmm. The children belong to the Lord. They're on loan to us. They're on loan. Right? They're a gift from the Lord. Now he's entrusting you and I as parents that we will and now look at look at the Jews. Look at the way their family was structured. Look at the way as a community, the word of god was fed to them with all these festivals. Every hey, kids. We're gonna go camping this weekend. We're gonna go to the feast of tabernacles. Oh, great. You know? Now you get to go there and you get to look up at this at the stars, and the parents are supposed to instruct to you what it was like when the children of Israel walked out of Israel. I mean, walked out of Egypt. What it was like for them to wander, you know, and to live in tents. You know what I mean? And the feast of Passover. Alright kids, go down to the barn and pick a little lamb that we're gonna sacrifice and give to God. What? You know what? And how how striking it would be to be at the temple if you're a city boy like me and to see the priest take and slice the the neck, you know, of that little lamb. It's unspotted, unblemished, didn't do anything wrong. Why? Why would you why would you slay that, you know, that lamb? So the parents need to have an answer. They need to explain the redemption. Do they have enough knowledge to explain, you know, the truth of redemption that it's a type, that it's a figure of Jesus when he's going to be the lamb of God and give his life and be sacrificed for each of us. If the person's a believer and they have faith, I mean, I could see Abraham able to do that. Right? But let's go all the way back to Genesis. Let's go all the way to Genesis when when and remember we're asking the question, do animals talk? Do you think animals talk in the garden? The serpent did. The serpent spoke to Eve. Right? And he's a bad dude. I think all the animals talk to Adam and Eve. Right? It wasn't a curse yet. So anyway, the serpent's deceiving Eve. They're able to eat of all the trees in the garden except for the tree of knowledge and good and evil. Right? And the serpent comes along hath God said and deceives Eve. Adam transgressed meaning he knew it was wrong and stepped over the line. So you got sin which is missing the mark. Hers is a sin of ignorance. Right? She she's ignorant. She's deceived. And and Adam was commissioned to transgression stepping over the line. And thereafter, they try to cover that nakedness with fig leaves, which is a picture of self effort, a religious self effort to cover that sin. And God rejected their religious self effort. Right? Can't be good enough to get into heaven. Can't be good enough. All our righteousness is as filthy rags before God. And you could try to be righteous in all points and be guilty in one, you're guilty of the whole. So they didn't have the Mosaic Law yet, but what they did have is the power of choice as free moral agents agency. And for that love relationship between Adam and Eve and God to be meaningful, he gave them free moral agency, and they chose to rebel against god. So they Adam forfeited federal headship over the earth and to the usurper, to the liturgy god of this world, to the devil. But the next scene is Adam and Eve wearing coats of skins. Coats of skins came as a result of the shedding of blood. Up to that point nothing had died. No death. Now something has to be killed, something died, and they saw their nakedness. They are no longer clothed in light, in purity, in holiness. So in their sinful condition, god gave them coats of skins. And he told them in Genesis three fifteen that the virgin born son of god, the seed of the woman that is healed be bruised, but that he would one day crush the serpent's head at the cross of Calvary. Right? So they had the gospel preached unto them. And then they went forth from there and they taught their boys, Cain and Abel. And Cain and Abel heard the story of the cross. Right? They heard the story of the importance of a blood sacrifice. And so then the lord did not receive Cain's offering of grains and baskets and all that of fruits and stuff, but he did receive Abel's offering. Abel offered a lamb. So Abel brought his offering by faith looking future that one day god would offer his only begotten son. Time of Abraham, the gospel is before preached unto Abraham. Genesis 22, the picture is God the father offering his only begotten son. And and so way back within the garden, Cain and Abel had a decision to make of how they were to worship God, and Cain chose the work of his hands. Abel chose to take a lamb and by faith offer this lamb, you know, unto god. And so it was volitional And the ignorance of Cain, he wasn't ignorant. He he volitionally did it. God gave him a chance to repent. Sin's crouching at the door. And then he goes and he and he kills his brother. He kills his brother because he's jealous of his brother and angry at his brother. So sins of ignorance. But God let him know from the very beginning prescribed way that he wanted to be worshipped. And without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sins or forgiving of sins. And it's impossible that the blood of bulls and bullocks could take away sin, so God offered his only begotten son as the one who would take away the sins of the world. So they're gonna look back upon this as a memorial, and there's gonna be sins of ignorance covered in this. And so a lot of times when I pray, I say, Lord, forgive me of all my sins. I don't know each one. Lord, forgive me today of all my sins and trespasses against you. Lord, wash and cleanse me of all unrighteousness, Lord. And then there's specific things I'll I'll ask him forgiveness for, but I try to cover the whole sphere of whatever there might be that would be hindering fellowship. And typically, the holy spirit will bring conviction for something the lord really wants me to address. And so it's it's not really like, hey, I didn't know. I didn't know. No. The Holy Spirit will convict and but we also recognize our sinful condition, and so Lord wash and cleanse us of all unrighteousness. It's acknowledging God's holy and that we're sinners. He says verse 21, in the first month in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days, unleavened bread shall be eaten. What day was Jesus crucified? Passover. Crucified on the Passover. Right? Isn't that amazing? How many people do you think the light bulb went on and they got it? They're celebrating Passover. Right? How many people go to church and the light bulb isn't going on? They don't get it. I mean, being born again is huge. I mean, it's paramount. There's no way to know God without being born again. Nicodemus, he came at night, he knew that Jesus was good. Nicodemus didn't understand the importance of being born again. And you're a ruler of Israel and you don't know this Nicodemus? Right? Jesus is telling them. And then he likens it to a birth. Right? You need to be born of the water and the spirit. The water is the natural birth and then being born of the spirit is to be born again, born from above. The holy spirit live and dwell within you Nicodemus. And so, and you're a ruler in Israel and you don't know this, how many religious people how many Christians or people that call themselves Christians don't know Jesus don't know him. Matthew seven he said away from me I never knew you you that practice iniquity. Brandon thinks it's 2.1 of those that profess to be Christians that are the narrow number. Isn't it 2.123. 2.3%. He's a numbers guy. So out of all those that profess, the road is narrow and Jesus said few there be that find it and that narrowness and that few is very narrow, not just broad is the way that leads to destruction many go in there at, narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few very, very few 2.3% according to Brandon. So it's mind boggling for people to be religious their whole life and to one day hear Jesus say away from me I never knew you. Isn't that mind boggling? Think of all the different religions out there and they don't know the true living God. Their whole life religious gone a false way, a false system. And here the Lord uses Passover, the last of the plagues against Egypt. Right? And Moses is told to tell each each of the families to kill a little lamb and to take the blood and to put it on the door in the shape of a cross and that when the angel of death passes over the firstborn son of each home wouldn't die. Pharaoh's firstborn son died. Right? You know, groaning all over Egypt, you know, of babies, of children, you know, that were dying. And and so the angel of death would pass over that house and so year after year after year, the Jews are celebrating Passover, and they don't get it. They don't see the connection. As John the Baptist said, behold the lamb of god who takes away the sins of the world. And John John saw the connection. And so here they're celebrating Passover and the feast of unleavened bread. And so what's leaven represent? Sin. And what's yeast? How does yeast work when you're making bread? Puffs it up. Yeast is corruption. Right? Puffing up is pride. So the Lord wants you to get all the yeast out of your house. Right? All the corruption, all the and make the unleavened bread. And so and they're to eat that for seven days and shall be eaten. And they have a little bit of bitter herbs that they do and a few other things to try and make the picture come clear, but we celebrate resurrection Sunday. And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering. And so remember if if as some commentators say that the prince is Jesus, it's not Jesus. This is David because Jesus has no sin. He doesn't need to prepare a sin offering for himself and for the people. Right? But David is going to prepare for himself and for the people And again it's memorial. It's not that David needs to be forgiven of his sins again. He's in a perfect body. He's living according to Jeremiah 31, an unconditional covenant. God's written his law within his heart and and so he's perfected. But as a memorial, looking back to the cross and because of sin. So you're trying to teach a lesson to the Gentiles that are repopulating the planet. You're trying to teach a lesson to Gentiles that don't have saving faith yet. And you're trying to draw the those who do believe as a means of remembrance to the importance of the cross and a reminder of God's love for them. Because this doing remembrance of me we can during a thousand year period of time we might we might kind of shirk it off and not appreciate it as much. So but I'm sure we do. I'm sure we do appreciate. And seven days of the feast he shall prepare burnt offering to the lord even a bullock and seven rams without blemish daily, the seven days of a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. And so that's the feast of the Passover. And he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hint of oil for the ephah. And now we come to the third feast as the feast of tabernacles. And in the seventh month, in the nineteenth day of the month, shall he do likewise in the feast of the seven days according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, according to the meal offering, and according to the oil. And so this is the feast of tabernacles do do the same way, and we see that this is according to Zechariah fourteen six through 19 they're to obey. This is a means of of fellowship with God. It says a memorial. It's for fellowship with God. It's for a ritual cleansing and a theocratic means of receiving the blessing of God as seen in your obedience. Alright. Any other questions about this? Anybody need prayer? We're just praying for Sally again. Pray for Sally again? Okay. Yeah. Keep praying for Sally. Never stop. Who else? The Dinsmore's? Yeah. Mike Goodson. Mike Goodson? Shannon needs prayer. The last two Mother's Day, she's now everybody have a good Mother's Day, all you moms? Yeah. I hope so. Pray pray that Father's Day would bring me lots of beef ribs. You know? Now we get to focus on Father's Day with all this with all this feasting here. I'm really starting to think about Father's Day. Can I have a nice T bone or Nope? Ribs. Coming in, John? Nope. Fred Flintstone ribs for Father's Day. Ribs. Ribs, baby. No rib eye. Ribs. Beef ribs. Alright. Who wants to pray for everybody? This is your chance if you need prayer. Anybody need prayer? Pray for my dad. I I pray. I'm I'm asking. God is god is healing him. I talked to him today. He said he doesn't have any pain at his appendix, that he's able to eat, that he's getting around on the wheelchair, that he has a rehab person coming to help him get strong enough to walk, and he's looking forward to going to an assisted living place. And so he's in you know, they put him in what do you call that? Hospice. Put him in hospice. That's where you expire. But Shannon Goodson told me that she worked as a hospice nurse, and a lot of people that go to the hospice nurse, they don't all die. A lot of them recover and get to, you know, go to assisted living care and be restored. So so anyway, that that to me is an ongoing miracle with my dad. I talked to him on the way here. The Dinsmore is overwhelmed. Pray for Mark's mom. God's will be done. That's how they wanna pray. And so anybody wanna pray? Oh, and pray for pray for Vicky's shoulder. How do we forget that? She's got a really, really ruined or or injured shoulder. So pray that the inflammation go down. It's locked up. They talk about how shoulders can get locked, and so pray for her shoulder. Pray for Terry? For what? Everything. Everything. Okay. Anybody wanna pray? Steve, do you wanna come in and pray? Of course. Don't know if I can remember all those names. Know? Sounds good. Alright. Alright. So I'll go ahead and pray. It means more anyway when I pray. So Oh my god. Was trying to give you a chance. Come on. It's like it's like, hey. I'm sick. I I gotta have pastor Rick pray for me. That's right. What what do you think it means more if I pray for you? You know? But I did the same thing when my daughter Jessica had kyphosis on her back. It was curved. I was so convinced if I could get pastor Chuck to pray for her, her spine would straighten out. Anyway Is her spine straight out? I can't tell you. Father, we come before you, Lord, and we thank you that we all have access to your throne of grace to find help, to find grace and mercy in our time of need, that there's one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, and that you ever live to make intercession for us. You're praying for us even now. And before we even verbalize these prayers, Lord, you're already praying on our behalf. So, Lord, we look at the privilege of prayer tonight, and we lift up these loved ones unto you as we intercede. And we don't know how it all works, Lord, but we know it does. We know it it's prescribed. You said to ask to seek to knock. Keep asking. Keep seeking. Keep knocking. And so Lord we appeal to you tonight and we ask that you would heal Mike Goodson, that you continue to heal him, help him to be warm, help his metabolism, help him to eat food that helps him build up muscle and get stronger again. And be with Shannon, give her the the patience and the peace and all that she needs to be the caregiver there at home. Bless them mightily. Lift up Terri, all of her unspoken requests, things that, you know, that she has going on. I just pray you bless Terri and Bernie, and we lift up the Dinsmores. We pray for their continued health, restoration of health. We lift up mama Dinsmore, Mark's mom, and we pray for her, Lord, if it's her time to go home to be with you. We pray that precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. And, lord, we just pray that she'd be carried by the angels into your presence. Be absent body be present with the lord, that you comfort Mark's heart and Shelley's heart and her children's heart as grandma's going on on ahead to heaven. And an undergird and strengthen Mark and Shelley, heal their bodies as they wrestle with so much and with Diane, Mark's sister. And Lord, lift up Vicky's shoulder. We pray that you'd heal her shoulder, you'd touch her body, help it to flow properly, take away the inflammation, and remove the stress, the tension of the muscles behind her neck and her shoulders and all the stuff that she's got going on and just release her Lord. Help the chiropractic care to get all the nerves and everything to fire properly and to heal that shoulder Lord. We lift up Sally and Lord we pray for Sally and we thank you for the miracle of healing in her life, the the things that you're doing, the progress that she's making, and the godly man that you've made her husband, that of James, Lord. And we pray that you continue to undergird and strengthen James and comfort his heart. Give him your peace that surpasses all understanding, Lord, that would guard his heart and mind. Pray that you give the doctors wisdom and help and anoint and empower the doctors and the nurses to do absolutely what you desire them to do, Lord, as your sovereign, you're in control, you're the great physician. And we pray that Sally would be able to be moved from the ICU to a room that James can stay with her all night long as she continues to progress, as she continues to heal, that she can eat well and drink well and get rid of that sodium levels, bring those down and everything to be dialed in for her Lord. And so Sally, my dad, Mike, the Dinsmores, Vicky, Terry, and all the unspoken requests, everyone else that's here. Lord, I lift up my daughter Jessica since I have this opportunity for people that love us, who will remember Jessica to pray for her. And Lord, we we pray for Jessica that she had a horrible Mother's Day yesterday, That she just really ate it. She was hating herself. That she was depressed. That she had discouraged. That she just realized what a sinner she is. And that her only escape is to cry out to you Lord asking for forgiveness and that only you can restore her. And so Lord, I pray that you'd send give her over to the Satan, Lord. Give her over to Satan, that he would he would crush her, Lord. He would just crush every every lie, every manipulation. I don't want her to be comfortable any longer in her sin Lord. Make her very uncomfortable that she would speed up the time Lord of coming to repentance. You give people space for repentance Lord. And this girl is approaching 43 years old Lord. She knows better. And Lord I pray that she'd call her mom and wish her mama a happy Mother's Day Lord. I pray that she'd get right with you. Help her, Lord, I pray. And help Germ also. Help him to refrain from drinking and everything that just trips them up, Lord. I pray they get right with you. Deliver them, Lord, from the wiles of the wicked one. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
