Transcript for:
Ezekiel 47
Found the transcript but need the audio? View Episode
Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. We're gonna be in Ezekiel 47 tonight, and we're gonna pray, hoping with prayer. Be in prayer for Sally as she's battling cancer. Be in prayer for Mike Goodson as they're dialing in his meds from heart stint and some things and a pacemaker. And continue to pray for my dad. He's he might be released from hospice. I mean, we might actually see my dad be healed. That's it. It looks like he's being healed. It's it's amazing. And who else? I think that's I think we Sally for sure. So let's pray. Father, we come before you and we lift up Sally and James and just how just what they've already come through, Lord. And thank you for dialing in her diabetic medicines and all. And we lift up her cancer. We pray that that, Lord, you give the doctors wisdom and Sally and James wisdom and that you'd heal her body. Take away that cancer, Lord. We lift up Mike Goodson and pray you help him warm up and get everything dialed in and help him with his physical infirmity, the challenges he's had, be able to go to Jace's soccer game and things like that, so improve him, and continue to bless Jim as he's with us here tonight in the same sort of way with with dialing in his stuff, his new glasses and things like that. And thank you for Betty and Ray. We pray that you continue to heal Betty with and Ray with the virus they had and just watch over this flock, this group of people that we love, and, bring healing in your wings, Lord. Just bless tonight. We commit this bible study in your hands. Bless Rob and Vicky and Brandon. Thank you for opening their home in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. My life is in you, Lord. My strength is in you, Lord. My hope is in you, Lord. In you, it's in you. Well, my life is in you, Lord. My strength is you, In you, it's in you. Amen. There'd you go. Alright. Thank you. Okay. Ezekiel 47. Ezekiel 47. Now we we're gonna be looking at as we're looking at the first 13 verses first 12 verses, there's gonna be a description of a river that starts as a trickle out of the holy of holies in the new temple, and then it it begins to flow a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more and becomes a river. And the river goes down to the Dead Sea and it heals the Dead Sea, which is the saline solution is a six times greater than than normal or something like that. I got it here somewhere. Let's see. In event, it's nothing lives in it. In fact, if you go to the Dead Sea today, you can float. It's so thick with minerals, you know, the salt salt content and all. So God's gonna cause in Zechariah the Mount Of Olives to split, and when it splits, there's water that's gonna come. But in the millennium, there's gonna be water that originates, it emanates from the holy of holies. So as we look at this, we're looking at water, you know, typifying the holy spirit. We remember that Jesus said in John seven thirty seven and thirty eight, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink he that believes in me as the scripture said out of his belly shall flow torrents of living water. Right? And and so as the deer pants after the water brook, so pants my, you know, heart after thee, oh lord. Men, we we can live like like a an existence. It's like a desert, and we're searching as Jesus met the woman at the well in John four. He said he had water that she could drink of. She'd never thirst again. And so there's a spiritual thirst that God has made all of us with. So as we study this, we can see there's some literal things taking place. The Dead Sea is filled with fish, and all the different types of fish that the med Mediterranean Sea has are gonna be in the Dead Sea. There's gonna be trees that grow alongside the river, and the leaves on these trees are going to be for healing the people, healing of the nations, and and also fruit. They're gonna bear they're gonna bear fruit, these trees. I've often thought and I I know there's some logistic problems, but you see cities, you see counties, you see communities always planting trees. And I've often thought, you know, those trees look pretty, but they're not producing anything. You know? So I've always thought, like, walking down the street, if they lined them with cherry trees, you walk along and have some cherries. You know, in California, orange trees, avocado trees, up here apples. Why not apple trees everywhere? Why do you have to have them just in a certain grove or whatever thing? And it's probably the problem of picking up the rotted fruit. You know? Maybe it it gets bad or whatever. But my thought is that's God's idea is to have some trees that bear some fruit and some leaves that bear some some means of herbal, you know, healings and stuff. In California right now, when we were growing up, would be lemon trees, Orange County orange trees, avocado trees. There would be all different types of trees growing. So a lot of these houses have old growth fruit trees, and there's a little service that's going on in Huntington Beach. I I follow Huntington Beach where you can have this group of people come in and harvest the fruit that's on all your trees there. And then they take that and they make it available for people to eat, you know, for people to enjoy. And so maybe when we get more to famine conditions the municipalities that think, you know, would been a good idea if we'd had some chickens running around like in Hawaii and and had some more food producing. So anyway, the water, we need living water. And I just read where Zuckerberg is putting up one of those AI huge huge warehouses that they're building everywhere to track and trace and accumulate information in communities. And Bezo, a bunch of them are doing it, and they're they're thinking in terms of using small nuclear reactors like you used in the submarines to try and power these these things because in order to have a AI everywhere, they're gonna need to have these these stations, these places that accumulate information in each locale. And and they need energy, and they don't have enough energy. And you know what else they don't have? They don't have enough water because they have to cool everything. And so the the community that I was watching in Georgia is complaining that they got no water pressure. They got no water, and the water, if they do get it, it's bad because the whole Zuckerberg thing is, you know, stealing all the water. Well, you remember the children of Israel in the wilderness? Water is essential. We need water. Smite the rock. Jesus caused the water to flow out of the rock and Jesus is that rock and he's smitten once and now we just speak to the rock and that spiritual water, that spiritual nourishment. David described in the Psalms how after he'd sinned with Bathsheba and all how he was drying up on the inside, you know, like a potsherd all dried up and just yearning for spiritual nourishment, spiritual sustenance, know, water is essential. So in Genesis chapter two verse 10 through 14, God causes from the Garden of Eden a water, four different rivers, heads of rivers to spread out. And one of them is the Pishon, another one is the Gihon River, third one is the Tigris, and a fourth one the Euphrates. Today, was studying and I came across on Steve Quayle a video, and Rob alerted me to these guys last week. It's the first time I've seen them, but they're called expedition bible. And so this man and a partner and a son, they go over to these locations. They go over to the Middle East, to Iraq, the Garden Of Eden. Where was the Garden Of Eden? Many think that it was in the area of of Iraq. Where were these rivers? We can identify two, three of these rivers, but the Pishon, we can't identify anymore. So these guys go over to Saudi Arabia, and they're covering all the area of Saudi Arabia, and they're looking at the ravine. They've got Google Maps, and they're very good archaeologists in trying to, you know, determine where where this river that we don't have anymore, the Pishon, how big it was and all that. And it's much like a lot of the creation guys that go to the Grand Canyon and begin to look at Grand Lake up above and then how it bursts and it funneled and then carved out the Grand Canyon. These creation scientists and archaeologists and people like that, they scientifically, they they're able to validate what the bible is saying, and it helps a lot of people who are skeptics who pride themselves on being scientists. You know? I'm an archaeologist. Well, if you now the sad part about this is if you follow the Latter day Saints, they'll say that the Pichon River is in present day Louisiana. So that gets a little strange. Right? That a lot of it happened in The Americas, you know. So from an archaeological standpoint, you can't prove anything the Book of Mormon says. But if you go over to Israel and you go to Syria and Egypt and all these other places, like for instance, the chariots the chariots that the Egyptians used to try and come after Moses and the 2,000,000 people that are waiting there at the Red Sea. If you go on the Gulf Of Aqaba, there's videos that you can get where they show the remnants of circular wheels and stuff from the chariots and barnacles all over them and everything. So and the same is true in in Israel, in the Mideast, their Ephesus and all these places. They would build on what's called tells. So once once generation of people ceased to exist, they would just build on top of them. They'd scrape it and just build on top of them. So the archaeological spade can dig down in Israel and you'll find a coin, and that coin might have the head of a Roman, you know, governor. So it proves that what's written in the Bible that it was actually happening, you know, Caesar Augustus or whatever and Domitian and things like that. So the Bible is constantly being proven correct as a historical document from archaeologists and all and from creationists that that dig in. So anyway, these rivers, if we now so we start out in Genesis, now we go all the way into the book of Revelation chapter 22, and again there's river, you know, Revelation twenty two one and two. Bernie's gonna read it, and and there's also trees with leaves that heal, you know, and so you start out in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve have a tree and they're able to eat of it, and there's a tree of life, you're never gonna get old or whatever, and also another tree to test your love for God, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But so in the millennium you're gonna have this water source, these water sources that are healing. You're gonna have the fruit, you're gonna have the the leaves and such. So the people that are living during the millennium for a thousand years, you got Gentiles are gonna repopulate it, and they just eat real good food. No toxic food. You know? No toxic food from Bill Gates to kill you. You know? And so Bernie's gonna read Revelation 22. Twenty two? Twenty two one and two. Twenty two one and two. The river of life. The river of life. That reminds me of a song. Go ahead. Yeah. Like that. I got river of life flowing. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the lamb. In the middle of its street and on the other side of the river was the tree of life, which bore 12 fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. And there there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the lamb shall be in it, and its servants shall serve him. They shall see his face, and his name shall be on their foreheads. There shall be no night there. They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light, and they shall reign forever and ever. So we have the book of Genesis six thousand years ago. God made the earth in six twenty four hour days, and we we're in the church age. We're on the verge of going into the millennium, which is a thousand years rule and reign. Before that, we're raptured to heaven for about seven years during the tribulation period. And then after that millennium, Bernie just read in the eternal state, Revelation twenty one and twenty two, into eternity, there's a new heaven, new earth, new Jerusalem coming out from heaven. Jesus is gonna wipe out this earth. It's all gonna be burned up. So new heaven, new earth, new Jerusalem coming out of the sky, coming down, and still there's the water, there's the leaves, the trees, and people that are enjoying the new heaven and the new earth. That's an that's each the eternal state. That's that's beyond the millennium. So in the millennium, we look at it as the curse is reversed, but really in the millennium, there's gonna be a lot of evil. There'll be a lot of sin. Jesus can be rule and reign with the rod of righteousness and stopping it quick, But the real point in time where there isn't gonna be any more sin at all is Revelation twenty one and twenty two, the eternal state. Because in the millennium, you have gentiles that are repopulating the planet. And case in point, the devil is loosed at the end of the thousand years, and he enticed these people and they rebel against God, and he consumes them with fire. So it's just so interesting from beginning to end some of these truths that we're learning here tonight, how how they continue. Can I ask a question? Sure. I thought that the rivers you're talking about in Genesis when God created had those four rivers. So those have been destroyed in the flood. Is that correct? Like, along with the Garden Of Eden. So we wouldn't really know where it would be today. Right. We don't know where it is. We're speculating. They're they're they're speculating that now now you have three rivers that are still available, but they're looking at the general area, and most feel that the area of Iraq was probably the best choice of Right. Where the Garden Of Eden was. And then these guys are looking for the River Pishon. Right. And based upon the information they have, they're actually in Saudi Arabia in the video. I I didn't tell you the video, but you could watch the video searching for the Garden Of Eden Eden's Pishon, and it's by Expedition Bible. So now what they do is they take the technology today and they look for that river, but it's not a running river right now, but they see the river basin. And and then they're looking at words and and different locations. And and so it's and he'll say it. He's not he's not dogmatic like this is absolutely it. But a lot of times what pastor Chuck will do is when he goes to Israel, he'll say, for instance, where was the garden tomb? Right. The Catholics have their version. Right. And so you're going along the Via Dolorosa, and the Catholics will say, this is where Jesus was buried, and this is where, you know, he came out. And then pastor Chuck will take you over to another one, the garden tomb. And he'll say, now there's several different people that claim they have the garden tomb, and he'll say, this is the best one. This is the best, you know, the if you look at all the evidence, this is the best one. And then he'll explain why with Golgotha there and and the whole thing. So, yeah, you're right. A lot of it, you can't be dogmatic, but but you don't need to spiritualize it either. You know, it's a literal four literal rivers, you know, and what we're speaking of here is a literal river and the Dead Sea, a literal place that we know of today that needs some cleansing, you know, it needs some water. So in Matthew five verse six, Jesus said, blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. So there's a there's a thirst in each of us. So afterward he brought me again under the door of the house of and behold waters issued out from under the threshold. I've I used to do flood work and when people have broken pipes, waters would flow underneath the threshold. It would it would happen. And under the threshold of the house eastward for the forefront of the house stood toward the east and the waters came down from under from the side of the house. At the south side excuse me, stood toward the east and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house at the south side of the altar. Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward and led me about the way outside unto the out outer gate by way that looketh eastward and behold there ran out waters on the right side. And when the man that had the line in his hand went went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits and he brought me through the waters and the waters were ankle high, seven to 1,015 feet away from where it emanated from the holy of holies. So we would say this is a life comes from the throne of God, you know. This is emanated from the very throne of God and from the temple, not from a government, not from any kind of, you know, thing that man would make that would bring life, artificial intelligence, artificial everything the devil's gonna try and try and bring about but this is living water, this is true living water. And so it's to his ankles first of all. Again he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters and the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters were to the loins, to the hips. So you gotta have your hip waders on. And afterward he measured a thousand and it was a river that I could not pass over for the waters were risen waters to swim in a river that could not be passed over. And he said unto me son of man thou hast seen this. Have you seen this? Yeah, I see it. Then he brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the river. Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on one side and on the other. So the river, this huge river lined with trees. Then said he unto me, these waters issue out toward the East country and go out down onto the Arabah and go into the sea and bring forth brought forth under the sea, the waters shall be shall be healed. So this is the Jordan Valley, the Arabah area, the very of the desert. And the sea that he's speaking of here is the Dead Sea, as we said, is is dead, nothing nothing living in it. And it shall come to pass that everything that liveth which moveth wherever the rivers shall come shall live and there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these waters shall come there for they shall be healed and everything shall live where the river cometh. Everything's gonna start living prolific. I used to when I had a little garden, we'd put Miracle Gro. And you put miracle grow on the in the spreader and make your veggies and everything just really grow. Well, this water doesn't need miracle grow. It's a miracle itself. And everything it touches grows. And and it shall come to pass that the fishers that shall stand upon it from En Gedi even unto Eglium shall be a place where nets are spread forth nets. Their fish shall be according to the kinds as the fish of the great sea exceedingly many. But the miry places and the marshes shall not be healed, they shall be given to salt. And by the river upon the bank its banks and on this side and on that side shall grow all the trees for food whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall its fruit be consumed. It shall bring forth new fruit according to its months. Every month, new fruit, new fruit. Ain't that great? According to its months because their waters issued out of the sanctuary and its fruit shall be for food and its leaf for medicine. So no more airplanes flying over spraying toxic chemicals on all your gardens and and all the humans and all the everybody trying to destroy us and and ruin our immune system and all. God's the greatest environmentalist there ever was, there ever is. The great hunters and farmers are the greatest environmentalist ever because their whole life, their whole everything depends upon taking care of the environment. And and yet we have the pretenders, you know, the industrialists, you know, polluting everything, destroying everything, destroying the planet. And and that's that's not something that we as Christians, you know, mimic or emulate or whatever where we understand husbandry. We understand the importance of of taking care of what God has given us. And one of the most crucial, most essential things that we need is clean water. Right? Amen? Clean water. And water, you know, out of these plastic bottles, these plast the plastics in these bottles cause us guys when we're in our sixties to get prostate cancer. All the plastics. All the plastics we're consuming, all the toxicity, and men and women, all of everybody getting getting sick and even the water. We might think this is perfect water. We might think this is good water, but it might have just come from the sink and some guy put that label on it. You know? You don't know. And then and then in the state of Washington, they're they've got laws passed where they can cause your body to turn to liquid and allow the the pollution from the sewage, and they think they actually can clean that stuff up and make water out of it, drinking water, you know. It's you first. You first, Bill. I mean, I I want a well, and I want a well that springs up good water. You know? And I wanna be able to put it through a Berkey filter, and I wanna filter it a couple times before I drink it. So that's what's in this bottle right now, this water from home. But in case you want some perfect water, talk to my daughter, Britney. She gets you some perfect water. Alright. So this let's let's study this now. Let's let's look at this what the Lord will show us. So blessed is he blessed are all they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. So first of all, there's a thirst in our hearts for things to be done right. If you watch some of your kids, they hate when one kid gets an advantage over them, and they will fight, fight, fight for justice. You know, that's not fair. That's not fair. And we watch a world where I let people know life's not fair. It's a very unjust, unfair world we live in, and it's not gonna be right till we're with Jesus. But in any event, when you hunger and thirst after righteousness, you shall be filled in this kingdom. When the Lord comes, he's going to provide a righteous. He's gonna rule and reign with a rod of righteousness. But there is a deep thirst within us for things to be made right. We live in a very, very corrupt world and Jesus is the only answer to fill that thirst you have for things to be made right. Then we see that this water is emanating. It's it's the outsourcing from the very throne of God And we want to look at that. Joel three eighteen. Somebody have that? The Bible prophesied that this would take place, that this water would flow from the very throne of God. And then we're gonna have somebody look at Psalm 46 verse four. I'll take that. Okay. Psalm 36. I think Psalm thirty six five and Psalm forty six four. Who wants that? Zechariah thirteen one. Come on. Who wants that? Okay. Isaiah eleven nine. I'll do Isaiah eleven nine. Okay. Zechariah fourteen eight through 11. Okay. What is that? Zechariah 14. And I'm not saying these twice. Alright? Oh, pastor's in a mood. No. I'm just teasing. I'm just teasing. I'm just teasing. I'm very patient. Okay. Psalm forty two one. Forty two one. Okay. Jeremiah two thirteen. I'll do Jeremiah two thirteen. Who wants John 10 or John four ten through 14? Okay, Eddie. And let's see here. Habakkuk two fourteen. You must go to Calvary Paul's Bow. Steve's got that one. Okay. Romans eleven thirty three. I'll take that one. Okay. Romans 11. Isaiah sixty one three. Isaiah sixty one three. I'll take that one. Okay. So we're using the bible to teach the bible. Is that okay? Amen. Alright. Now I could write a book about this and tell you my opinion, but but as Debbie pointed out, it'd be just my opinion. So you gotta be a student of God's word and test the scriptures. You know? You gotta prove all things. Hold fast to that which is good. There you go. Joel three eighteen. K. And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord and shall water the Valley Of Shiloh. Amen. So has this ever happened before in Israel? No. It shall happen in that day. What day is he speaking of future? The kingdom age. And it's not symbolic. It's literal. Literally going to happen. K? And then we did Revelation twenty two one and two. We did Psalm seven thirty thirty seven thirty eight. We quoted that. We're looking at Psalm 36. It's hard to read my writing. Verse five? 36 verse five. 46 verse four. I got that one already. There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high. So king Hezekiah, Hezekiah's tunnel, he dug down and he brought in a water source into Jerusalem, I think, from the Gihon Springs. So when you put a siege upon a city and you remember, the major cities in antiquity in the Mideast were all built around rivers, right next to rivers. The city of Babylon had the Euphrates River there and and that's your water source. That's how you survive. And but Jerusalem is inland and doesn't have a river. So but there are springs. And and so the spring at Gihon, king Hezekiah built a tunnel and brought that water into the city. And if you go and visit Jerusalem today, you can see the the tunnel and the water in there and all. You can go visit that. But they brought water in, so if a siege did come upon the city, you know, you still had a water source. And so Psalm 36 verse five. And by mercy, our Lord, is in the heavens and thy faithfulness reaches to the clouds. That's probably not the right one, but that sounds a good that's a good one. How about 36 verse eight? Read my writing. They shall be be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. There it is. Drink of the river of your pleasures. Alright. Zechariah thirteen one. In that day, there shall be a fountain open to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. Praise the Lord. And we sing a song about a fountain of blood from Emmanuel's veins. Right? You know that song? There you go. That's it. Old timer. Amen. That must tie in with Zechariah thirteen one because that's the picture there. Right? Alright. And Isaiah eleven nine, the kingdom age, how's it described there, Vicky? Let me see. Come on. Okey dokey. Eleven nine. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the lord as the waters cover the sea. So there's a famine on the land for the word of God. We're in a time of apostasy, but in the kingdom age, the knowledge of the Lord's gonna cover the whole planet as the waters cover the sea. So Good job. The living water, and that's what we want. We wanna the Lord to give us the living water every time we open his word. We don't want a dry, dead, orthodox study of God's word. A whole lot of people will tell you they've read the Bible three times, but it doesn't come alive because they're not alive, because they're still dead. They're not born again. And so we want the richness of god's word, the life of the spirit, and for god to teach us. And let's see. Psalm forty two one. I got it. K. As the heart paneth after the water works, so paneth with my soul after thee, oh god. Maybe we can sing that song sometime, Rob, as a deer sometime. Yeah. And So do you guys do you guys hunger and thirst after righteousness? Do you thirst for god's word? Do you thirst to know god? Amen. Yes. I think you guys because you're here, that's that's why. Now how do you you know, we're salt and light. We're supposed to be salt and light. So if if I'm salty, maybe my walking relationship with the Lord can make people around me thirsty. Maybe they'll be thirsty for what we have, which is a relationship with Jesus. Now some people, the only thing they have a thirst for is alcohol. And I can't get them to thirst for Jesus. I can't get them to thirst they thirst for pleasure. They thirst for more of the world, but I can't get them to, as a priority, thirst for the Lord. When they do, boy, they're in church. Mhmm. They're opening the bible. They're serving the Lord because they thirst for the lord. And we're leaky vessels, you know, we're be being filled with the spirit, but we just want more. So a deer how often a day does a deer you know, as the deer pants after water brook, so pants my soul after thee, oh god. So you go to church and, oh, I just drank from drank from the it ran straight from the lord. Lord, minister to me. Well, tomorrow, you're be thirsty tomorrow? You're be thirsty on Tuesday? You mean or are you gonna wait to drink again next Sunday? You know? So it's it's a matter of thirst. It's a matter of appetite. What do you what do you crave? What do you want? I crave the word of God, and I wanna grow in the grace and knowledge of him. So Jeremiah two thirteen. For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. So here's the picture. The picture is limestone and you get these early in the latter rain. So you're living in a desert area and they may be a little bit away from the river and water sources. So what they would do is they would dig a cistern which is a hole in the ground and then they would dig it in such a way in a location that the the rain runoff water, that it doesn't just all run away, that it would go down into these big holes, these huge dugout limestone cisterns, you know, a place a reservoir of water. And rather than partaking of the Lord and living water, they would like the poor substitute of man's effort to fill that thirst. So they've dug out cisterns, broken cisterns, which can hold no water. So your whole effort is to try and satisfy your thirst, but you're trying to satisfy your thirst with human effort, religion maybe, and psychology and self helps and all these other things, but it doesn't satisfy the spiritual thirst that God has made each and every person with. A spiritual thirst that only the Holy Spirit can satisfy. Otherwise, your Thomas knows Mick Jagger. He couldn't get any satisfaction. Right, Thomas? Right. Right. And so the woman That's it, buddy. And the woman at Jacob's well, Jesus had a divine appointment with just one person and she's a Samaritan. John four ten through 13. Jesus answered and said unto her, if thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that sayest to thee give me to drink, Thou wouldest have asked of him and he would given thee living water. The woman say it unto him, sir, hast thou nothing to draw with and the well is deep? From whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob which gave us this well and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Amen. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Alright. So now how deep do you wanna go with Jesus? How deep? Over my head. You wanna go over your head, Thomas? Right. Over your head. I believe you I believe that's true. I don't believe he's he's exaggerating. Now you can go to the ankles with Jesus. Right? You look here and it says, and he brought me through the waters and the waters wrap my ankles. A whole lot of people just want Jesus at their ankles. Right? They they go to baby churches and they act like babies. They never grow. They never go deeper. They never go through the bible from Genesis to Revelation. They're content with just John three sixteen. I'm saved and my name's in the book of life, but I'm gonna live in the world. The world is more satisfying to me than Jesus. I only wanna go to the ankle level with Jesus. Well, how long have been a Christian? Well, I was baptized a Christian. I was raised in a Christian home and right there, red flag. Right there, you're like you're like, well, you know, you probably haven't been born again, have you? That's why you you're an ankle biter, you know. And again, he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters and brought me to the knees. When you're really interested in something, don't you devour the subject matter? You you if you're interested, whatever hobby you have let's let's take these guys. Let's beat up on the guys. They can't make it to church, but they love hunting. So how how many hunting shows do they watch to become prolific at hunting or fishing? How many shows? How many seminars? How many books? How many how many knives? How many guns? How many reloading things in the garage? How much effort's put into devouring their interest? Now he could also have a a bible with him. Right? He could have a bible with him. But see George's George's love for those hobbies is not at the expense of falling in love with Jesus. Right. He's at bible study. He's at church. He he makes time as a priority to get to know Jesus. So he's he's not in his priorities, the hunting, the guns, and all that, it's not his first love. It opens up conversations with a lot. Yes. It does. Because a lot of those guys need to know the lord. I think we also have a book out, the fisherman's bible. Oh, they got bible for gays. They got bible for everybody. Fisherman's bible. Okay. We'll we'll get that one. That's coming up. That's coming up. Alright. The warrior's bible. So you're at the ankles. And again he measured a thousand and he brought me through the waters and the waters were at the knees. So you look at the qualifications for a deacon or an elder, and one guy told me, it was kind of funny, he goes, I only wanna go as high as a deacon. I said, why is that? And he says, because it says not given to much wine. What? I still want the wine. I can still be a deacon if I'm not given to much wine. You know? But to be an elder, I I pastor or whatever, I I can't I can't mess with any of it, you know. So I don't wanna go as high as a deacon, you know, not giving them much wine. Alright. How about married to one wife? Yeah. How how about how about male? Female? No. Male. Husband of one wife. Oh. Well, how do they do that, you know? Because they're ankle biters. They don't know the word of God. So you got ankles, knees. Now you're gonna go to the hips. Man, half half my half my being. I'll give the lord half of me. Halfway. Thomas said he's gonna be swimming in it. Right? Over the top. And one of the things that happened to me when I began to develop this appetite and this thirst and the desire for the lord to know him is nobody, as I said many times, nobody called me up and said, hey. Why weren't you at church last week? And during the week, we can get really busy. We can get invited to a lot of good things. Family can invite you over on Sunday for a brunch, and they can invite you for Sunday dinner, and they can invite you to something really cool on a Wednesday or Thursday night. It's funny how all of this scheduling kind of conflicts with my bible study schedule. So being the stubborn man I am, I don't care if it's birthday. I don't care what it is. The priority is we'll go to your house after bible study or before bible study. So we would go over Marlene's house, Kathy's mom, and we might be having a nice lunch or something, whatever. And and then around 06:00, 06:30, we're packing the kids up, and they're like, where are you going? We're going to church. Well, you already went to church this morning. Well, we're going again. And we pack them up and we go. And they don't understand it. They they they can't understand that. And then we midweek, we've already been to a couple home bible studies. We're going to church again. They can't understand that. And after a while, they wanted to go to the church and see what it was about. And guess what? They got saved. And they they began to develop a thirst and a desire, and they didn't wanna miss church. They didn't wanna miss it. So in my household, it was never Kathy scheduling church. It was never Kathy saying, Rick, we're going to the bible study or we're going to the church we're going to church. It was always me. That's what god requires of men. You men aren't supposed to follow your wife's spiritual leadership. It needs to emanate from you. Mhmm. And then your and then your wife follows. She she she's in total agreement. But if you're not careful, you can make all kinds of excuses of why you can't make it to church. It's not a priority. And so for me, you know what I realized is my whole marriage and my family was based upon being spiritually nourished. If I didn't get the spiritual nourishment into my wife and into me and to my family, I knew I would backslide. I knew it. I knew there wasn't a chance for me to really be transformed and changed unless I was there feeding upon God's word, worshiping the Lord, having my family there worshiping the Lord. I knew there was no hope for me. And so it was a it was a desperation. It was a it was a means of, oh, I finally I finally know how. I know how now. And that is get to know Jesus. Just simply get to know Jesus. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these other things to be added onto you. It's not complicated. It's really pretty simple. And then as a Christian, each of us determines how deep we wanna go with the Lord. So there was a time where where we immediately began to buy books, buy commentaries, buy study helps. And we not only had Bibles, but then we had a Strong's Concordance, and we had treasure of scripture knowledge, and we had Warren Weirsby's commentary. It's a great commentary you guys could buy. And Thompson Chain reference bibles, and we began to accumulate a library because guys that love hunting accumulate. Right? Guys that love fishing, people that love sewing quilts, everybody starts to buy the things that make them better at what they are interested in. Right? Rob didn't just go out and build his first telescope, you know. He he started at the bottom, began to study, and then and then reached a place where, alright, I've conquered this, so I don't need to do this very much anymore. Right? And that's how a lot of our hobbies are. Bigger, better boats, bigger, better rods, you know, all that stuff. And so we began to develop a library, and in our living room, we had two big bookcases and a lot of Christian themes, you know, CS Lewis and screw tape letters and just everything that we could get our hands on to get to know Jesus better. And and then eventually, when I started to become a pastor, I going to school, I began to develop a library. And I would go to the there's a I forget the name of it. CBD, I think, Christian Bible Distributors. You can go to Christian Bible Distributors. You can go on there and buy a whole commentary set, expositor's bible commentaries. And I had huge long line and all the nice gold and all that. You know? And and then I buy this commentary set, this commentary set. And pretty soon, I had whole things filled, you know, with with books, reference books. And then when I start to study the bible, I have a book there and a book there and a book there and a book there. And it might take me forty hours, thirty eight, thirty thirty hours to get ready for a bible study like this. But I had the reference equipment and the reference tools, and I had teachers. Each one of those books is a teacher, and I'm learning from a teacher, and I'm listening to videos, and I'm watching videos, and I'm listening to tapes, and even today I listened to tapes and I watched videos today and I had commentaries. And now one of the most beautiful things that's happened is a digital library. Up above our garage we had a 750 square foot room above our garage and we had all the walls covered with bookshelves and all of our library that we built, not all of it, some of it was still in the house, the family type books. But Kathy went up there and she took all those books out of boxes and put them in my shelves for me, and then we had a huge timeline. I had this huge timeline that went around the top, and I could look time wise historically how things were happening. And and that was and it was so wonderful because I had a wood burning stove and I had a chair that kicked back, and I go up there and I just read. One time when I was when I got hurt, when I hurt my back, I got in a car accident when I came here, and they did an MRI on me, and they were gonna award me some money for my injury. And they the guy says, what do you like to do? And I said, I like to read. And he goes, don't you like to hike? And I go, well, I got this back injury. I really can't hike a whole lot. I can't do that. But I like to read. And we only wound up getting a paltry amount of money because I didn't take the bait and let them all know that I needed, you know, surgery to make me so I could walk to go hiking. But I could sit in a chair and read for twenty five years, which I did, and and I and I loved it. I mean, if you watch some of those Twilight Zone movies, there's a guy in there that's always wanted the time to be able to read and he finally the whole world ends and he's the only guy still alive and he found a library with all these books and he's finally got the time to read And then what happens? His glasses fall off his head, hit the ground, and break. He's in the twilight zone. Right? So I hope you're developing an appetite for the things of the Lord. There's no shortcut to growth and I'm trying to help people to grow. I'm trying to really help them to grow in the things of the Lord. And so we're watching a spiritual progress here. Ankle deep, knee high, hips and afterward he measured a thousand and it was a river that I could not pass over for the waters were risen, waters to swim in and a river that could not be crossed over. So now you're going deeper. You're going deeper and deeper into Jesus. Right? You know why I go over the head? I didn't ask you why. Because my name's Paul. You're gonna tell me anyway. Because my name's Paul. Okay. Alright. Here. Here's a microphone. Good lord. Okay. Alright. We love you, Thomas. Spiritual progress, depth. And so now you're in the water, you're over your head with Jesus, and our sufficiency is of Christ. Right? And now you're like Peter maybe, you wanna attempt something that's so great that it's bound to fail unless God's in it. Right? So you're gonna step out of the boat. You're try and walk on that water. Right? And all of us know what it is to fail and the wind and the waves come and Peter's in the, you know, in in the water there flailing away in a very short prayer, not a long eloquent prayer like Thomas. Lord save me real quick and short. Why? Because otherwise he'd drown. Right? But one of the things we can do as we desire to go deeper with Jesus is reach a place where we just find the flow. You find the flow of that river and you just flow with the holy spirit. You know what I mean? Find the flow. There's always gonna be a flow in your life. A flow that God's trying to help you to get in. And that's what it is to serve the Lord. You just get in the flow. Where's God going? Not God will you bless where I'm going and how much time in our life we spend trying to convince God that the direction we're going is a really good direction and I need you to bless the direction I'm wanting to go in. And the Lord says, why don't you go deeper with me? Focus on me and reach the place where you just I'll show you the flow. And and that's where the contentment is. That's where the blessing is. Just just stay in the flow. Don't fight the wind and the waves. Don't fight the you know, what's happening. Just trust the Lord and just go with the flow and allow that spiritual progress, that depth of relationship, that depth of understanding to continue. Kathy and I, when we're driving over here today, we were talking about how tragic it is when people have been married for forty some years, twenty five years, whatever, and and they wind up being seduced, they wind up being tricked, and they wind up destroying their marriage. And her comment was, Rick, they don't even know the person that they're going toward. They don't even know him. I mean, it's a surface relationship on the surface. And for a husband and wife, how do you even know this person that you're gonna date? If you go if you go online and you try to find somebody suitable for you, how do we even know them? How do you how can you even trust them? How do you have the time to get to know them? You know? And so a lot of it's a step of faith. I understand that. But after you've been married twenty five, thirty, forty years to divorce at that point, are you kidding me? You're gonna go out there now and you're gonna go in the sea of life and you're gonna try and find someone suitable for you? Who would have you? Who would even want you? What you've done is you've gone to great depth in your relationship with your spouse and she can even complete your sentences now. She can read your mind. She knows what you're she knows what you're thinking. Kathy tells me, Rick, I know you better than you know yourself. You know? Well, that's how our relationship with Jesus should be. We should be growing in-depth, and we should have memories. Kathy and I can go down memory road. We have memories together. We have things we've done. We've had children together. We're in high school together. There's a depth of relationship there that's intimate far greater than anybody else I know. Well, it needs to be that way with the Lord. You start out just being introduced to him, but you don't stop there. That's ankle level. That's when you're a babe, it's appropriate to be a babe. And then you grow a little bit and grow. So you you you you should always find a church that teaches the bible that helps you to grow. And and without that, I don't I don't know where I'd be today if it wasn't ongoing hunger and thirsting after the word of God and God's spirit and helping me. I mean, I need the Lord like like I just need him. I need them. And Kathy needs them. My family needs them. We all need them. And so no matter how much you study this book, you're never gonna exhaust it. No matter how long you've been a Christian, you're never gonna exhaust it. You're always gonna be able to go deeper and go further and further in that flow, the flow of the Holy Spirit. So be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be being filled with the Holy Spirit, a constant flow of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believes in me as the scripture has said, as his belly shall flow torrents of living water. And so the life of the spirit far superior the life of the flesh. And so evaluate your spiritual progress. Have you there there's no such thing also of being a neutral Christian. You're either growing or you're backsliding. No such thing as static state. And so be careful of being filled with pride and unaware you're unperceptibly of in the book of Hebrews, you're unperceptively drifting. It's like a ship that's not anchored and the rope has come off of the dock and and you don't feel it, but you're drifting. You're drifting away from the dock. You're drifting away from the captain of our faith, Jesus. And so he said unto me, son of man, hast thou we got Habakkuk two fourteen. Habakkuk two fourteen. Praise the Lord. And Romans eleven thirty three. Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out? So Paul prayed that I might know him, but look at the depth. You're mining you're mining the riches of Christ, and you can never reach the bottom. There's so much more as you get to learn, as you as you get to know him. And Paul Paul said his his whole gist in life was that I might know him and that knowing him that he might know the height, the width, the depth, you know, and it passes human knowledge. It it's it's a life of the spirit. And then Isaiah 61 verse three. To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness. So trees of righteous, the river is lined with trees. And in the kingdom, you're gonna be a tree of righteousness rooted in Christ, bearing fruit, bringing glory and honor unto him, and that that blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, you're gonna be a tree of righteousness. So on the side of the other, verse eight, then then said he unto me, waters issue out toward the East country and go down to the Arabah, the desert area, the Jordan Valley, and go into the sea and being brought forth into the sea, the water shall be healed. So this is the Dead Sea. This is the area of Sodom and Gomorrah, and it's a it's a desert. It's a wilderness, and it's gonna come to life. Portions of it are gonna come to life, especially the Dead Sea. And the River Jordan flows into the Dead Sea. And here's an here's an analogy for you. You as a Christian have a flow into your life and we need that flow of the spirit. You need a flow out of your life, service. Otherwise, you just take in and you become like Java the Hun, Java the Hun or whatever. No. You become like the Dead Sea. There's no flow, not no life. You're stagnant. You can be in a church that's stagnant, a church that's living in the past, very sterile, very legalistic, but no life of the spirit. The letter of the law kills, but the spirit gives life. So you want the life of the spirit. When we were down at the Roxy doing a lot of different steps of faith, different outreaches and things, one of the things I used to be able or I used to remind the parents that were angry at me I tried to explain to my grandkids the other day that we used to have a mosh pit. And what's a mosh pit? Well, a mosh pit, I found out, was the first two, three rows of the seats at the Roxy, the kids, the first few concerts ripping them out. And so we took those seats and we put them stored them away. So there was a space there up front where the kids would jump, and then they'd start passing their friends on their hands across the mosh pit. And and so now some of the other Calvary Chapel people, when Kathy and I, we go to pastors conferences, they heard about that, and they'd say, what is that really indignant? You know? Like, we're doing something evil. And I would remind them that a clean sterile barn bears no fruit, no reproduction. If you're going to birth, see the birthing, that water breaks. Excrement, other things come out. It's pretty messy. It's pretty smelly. It's pretty it it's not all pristine and clean and all that. And so it's a step of faith that with these kids and with the with the people that we we reached out to where they still got their awards. They still got their quirks. They still have their things going on. One other pastor said to me, we had a more of a of a Pentecostal kind of group come there to do some music, and they were doing a a thing where they jump. And I'm not into that because that's a lot of work, but I like to sit and close my eyes. So if you're a jumper, you jump, but leave me to sit and close my eyes. So anyway, they're jumping and all that and and the pastor guy says to me, what is that? And I said, well, Bill, I think it's fun. And that's it. That's it. You know? But we were always we were always having to explain ourselves to people. And and yet we didn't know what we were doing. We're just walking by faith, stepping out in faith, and we watched the Lord heal. I mean, you know, save a number of people and a lot of the kids and all. And and that was just trying to find the flow. Lord, where's the flow? How do we reach these kids? So it's come to pass that everything that liveth which moveth wherever the river shall come shall live and there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these waters shall come there for they shall be healed and everything shall live where the river cometh. And so no more toxic water. Jesus said in Matthew four nineteen, I'll make you fishers of men and the waters emanating from the temple, the holy spirit from God. And it says, and it shall come to pass that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Engellium and shall be a place to spread forth nets and their fish shall be according to their kinds as the fish of the great sea, exceedingly many. So when in John 21 when Jesus told the disciples the seven of them were fishermen, and after the resurrection they you know, he saw them, 11 of them there, 10 of them there, Thomas being absent, then eight days later Thomas being present, and so the eleventh because Judas was dead. And then Peter says, I'm going fishing. And so they went to the Lake Gennesaret, which is the Sea Of Galilee, and they're fishing, and they caught no fish. Well, way back in Matthew four nineteen, Jesus said, follow me and I'll make you fishers of men. Well, these guys are feeling a little dejected that at crunch time when Jesus was crucified, they all bailed. When the shepherd was smitten, the sheep scattered. So they're not thinking they can really do this, you know, without Jesus. He's not there with them. Right? And he said that he was gonna give them the promise of the father, the holy spirit to come upon them all, but that hadn't transpired yet. Right? Because they're gonna go in the upper room with a 120, and they're gonna wait ten more days after Jesus ascends the right hand of his father. Pentas 50. On the fiftieth day, the holy spirit's poured out the comforter that Jesus promised them, and that transformed and changed them. But at this point, they're going back to fishing. They're going back to what they know, their old jobs. And they they were impotent. They were broke. They they didn't have any fish. They fished all night, just like before. And so kind of a deja vu, he said, children, you caught any fish? No. Cast a net on the other side. And their nests were full of fishes, 153 fish just bursting, and they're bringing it to the shore and all. And so as you get into the flow and you operate in the power of the holy spirit and do what the lord tells you to do, your life is more fruitful. And these guys got the hint and and Jesus said point blank to Peter, do you love me more than these? And I'm thinking Peter is like, you know, I could go back to being a businessman. I got a house in the in Capernaum, you know, right near the Sea Of Galilee. I got a pretty good life as a fisherman. Got a wife and mother-in-law and things like that. And if I could get a 153 fish when I go fishing, man, I I can make a lot of money like that. You know? And do you love me more than these? Do you love me more than the greatest success in your particular profession? Lord, you know that I love you. And so three times the Lord's asked, one for each time that Peter denied that he even knew him, and he said, your your job description is to feed my lambs. Tend my sheep, feed my sheep, Peter. I'm not giving up on you. And so they took their nets and they laid them aside there. And notice it says kinds as the Great Sea. So the type of fish that are in the Mediterranean are now in the Dead Sea there, and they have water flowing in from the Jordan and water flowing in from this new source that's from emanating from the the very throne of God. But the miry places and the marshes shall not be healed. They shall be given to salt. So these inland areas, the untouched areas, this dead area and so why is that? Somebody wanna read second Peter two verse six and Revelation twenty two one. I'll take Revelation twenty two one. Well, we had Bernie read that one. Oh, that's Yeah. Second Peter two verse six. And turning and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into into ashes, condemn them with an overthrow, making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly. So it could be a reminder that this this dead area this dead area near where Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, a a reminder to these generations of what happens when you, you know, turn your back upon God and don't live for him. So so these miry places and the marshes shall not be healed. They shall be given to Saul. So now if we were to look at the water as what the Lord gives us as the gospel, and we go forth with the gospel, the gospel is able to bring forth fruitfulness as making us fishers of men as we go forth with the gospel. But there's going to be people and communities and places that reject the gospel and don't want anything to do with it, and they're gonna be left unhealed. They're gonna be left in a miry, decadent in their wickedness. And and that's the sadness of those that reject the gospel. So by the river upon its bank and on this side and on that side shall grow all trees for food whose leaf shall not fade neither shall its fruit be consumed. It shall bring forth new fruit according to its month and because their waters issued out of the sanctuary and its fruit shall be food and its leaf for medicine. So the healing of the herbs, the leaves there, the fruit to eat, and and we look at our life, how how rich our life is, how blessed our life is. Psalm one. Do you guys like Psalm one? Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the way of sinners. Go ahead. Keep going. But his delight is in the law of the Lord. And he shall be like. But the ungodly are not so. But I like this chapter and the wind. Driveth away. So there's that contrast there. The life of the spirit versus the life of the world, listening to the world. So we wanna listen to the Lord, and our life will be blessed. And and then he says, now he's gonna divide up the land. So if this is if this is symbolic, if we're an amillennialist, if we don't think there's a literal millennium, then what's the point of dividing up the land? Right? The land's being divided up to the 12 tribes. So thus saith the Lord God, this shall be the border of by which ye shall inherit in the land according to the 12 tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions. So in Numbers thirty four one through 15, Moses gives description of the area that the 12 tribes are going to divide up their land. But before that, in Genesis chapter 13 verse 15, God indicated to Abraham that he was gonna give this land to them as an inheritance. And then in in Genesis fifteen eighteen through 21, he reconfirmed that promise to Abraham. And and so In Genesis forty eight five and twenty two in first Chronicles fifteen one, Reuben, who had taken his father's concubine, was disinherited. And so and there's none for the Levites because the Lord's their portion. So Joseph had Ephraim and Manasseh, two kids, and so they're going to have that additional portion. And he shall inherit one as well as another concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it unto your fathers and also the land shall fall unto you for inheritance. So you have Abraham receiving a promise from God. Is God a liar? The immutability of God, it's impossible for God to lie. Right? God's not a liar. If he promised this land to Abraham and then he later in Genesis 26 verse three promised it to Isaac, not Ishmael. And then later in Genesis twenty eight thirteen, he promised this land to Jacob. And then in first Kings four verse 24, Solomon actually ruled and reigned over much of the land that was once promised even though later it became greatly reduced. The present land that Israel's in right now is greatly reduced to what these borders that we're gonna see here and which Solomon wants to rule and reign from. So it shall inherit it, one as as well as the other concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it unto your fathers, and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance, and this shall be the border of the land toward the north side from the Great Sea, the way of Hephlon as men go to ze Zedad. So from the Mediterranean, Ahemoth and Biryoth and Siberium, from the area of the Euphrates and that of Damascus, that of Syria, and of Lebanon. So the two portion presently that Israel doesn't have presently is the area of Lebanon is gonna be their part of their portion and the area of Syria, particularly by Damascus. Border of Damascus and the border of Hamath, Hazor, Hathakam, which is by the coast of of Huron, which is which is Lebanon. And he brought forth the sea shall be Hasanin in the border of Damascus in the North. And interesting about Damascus, Damascus is the oldest city of all antiquity. We keep hearing Damascus, Damascus, Damascus, Damascus, all through the Bible. From Genesis all the way into the millennium, we know there's a city in Syria called Damascus, and that's the city that the apostle Paul was headed toward when god arrested him on the way to Damascus to apprehend Christians. So the border and Psalm seventeen one says, Damascus can be made a ruinous heap, destroyed. That's one of the prophecies we're looking toward, but apparently, it's gonna be rebuilt and become a part of Israel. And the border from the sea shall be Hasanin and the border of Damascus and the north northward and the border of Hamath, and it's the north side. And the east side shall measure from Huron and the Damascus and from Gilead and from the land of Israel by the Jordan from the border unto the Eastern Sea, and this is the east side. So this is the area by the Dead Sea, and the Dead Sea is six times saltier than the ocean. Imagine that. Six times saltier than the salty ocean. And the south side southward from Tamar even to the water of the Meribah Kadesh, the river to the Great Sea, and this is the south side southward, so the Wadi Of Egypt all the way over to there. And then the west side also shall be to the Great Sea, the Mediterranean from the border, until a man come over against Hamath, this is the West side. And so shall ye divide the land unto you according to the tribes of Israel. And then there's something interesting here. If there's any strangers, if there's any Gentiles, and it shall come to pass that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you and to the aliens. So Israel was always instructed by God to be favorable towards strangers or aliens. And the reason he said this because they were strangers in the land of Egypt for four and thirty years. And so according to Exodus twenty two twenty one and Exodus 23 verse nine and many other verses, God's always had a heart for Israel to be a light unto the Gentiles. For them to be prideful and to think that Gentiles were only fuel for the fires of hell, that thought process, that prejudice that Jonah had toward the Assyrians didn't emanate from God. That's not from the heart of God. That's not who he is. His premise, his purpose was that Israel would be so blessed that the Messiah would come forth, and God told Abraham, from your loins, from your seed, all nations of the earth are gonna be blessed. He's the savior of the whole world, but God is using Israel to bring forth the Messiah that Israel would be a light unto the Gentiles. For God so loved the world, not just Israel. So the true Israel of God are those who believe, not by natural pedigree, but for those who believe the true Israel of God and Isaac shall thy seed be called. So God has this, he's not present he has this great love for every every ethnic group, group of people. The call goes out to whosoever will let him come. To male, female, barbarian, Scythian, bond or free, whosoever will, let them come to the cross and embrace Jesus. So in the millennium, divided by lot for an inheritance unto you and to the aliens that sojourn among you who shall beget children. So it's the Gentiles that come in off of the tribulation period. They make it through the tribulation period into the millennium, and these are the ones that have their human bodies and are having children. You and I are new glorified bodies. We're the church that's in the millennium. We rule and ring with Jesus as kings and priests. And then the nation of Israel, all of them are in the millennium, and all of the nation of Israel is saved. Every single one of them saved. And so they too, according to Jeremiah 31, have entered into an unconditional covenant into their new glorified bodies. And so it's the Gentiles that are repopulating, and and so these families, the nation of Israel, is to be kind to them and allow them, you know, a portion of land. So children among you, and they shall be unto you as born in the country and among the children of Israel, and they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. It shall come to pass that in what tribe the stranger sojourns? There shall he give him his his inheritance, saith the lord god. So you you got plenty of land. You got plenty of real estate. People talk about what's called overpopulation. Is there such a thing as overpopulation of the planet? Is there such a thing? No. Not true. Not true at all. If you look at all the great expanse of land that there aren't even people living on and you think in terms of the Lord using this living water to cause the desert to blossom and bloom and everything, and you see the the whole planet like the Garden of Eden. There's plenty of real estate, plenty of place to let somebody, you know, have a little little piece of it and a fig tree and a little house and all that. And so this whole idea is the that devil's idea, this idea of population reduction, which is what? Murder. Destroying people before they can come to Christ because the devil wants to take people to hell. So that's the whole elite globalist idea. The Degel report boasted that by 2025, the end of twenty twenty five, that America would go from 330,000,000 down to 90,000,000 people. So we got a few months left to see if that happens. But but every which way they can, they're trying to reduce the population with injections on babies, the whole thing. But in this situation, a child dies at 100 years old according to Isaiah chapter 65, Meaning, you have to tell your 100 years old to receive Christ or not. Those those Gentile offspring. And then if they don't, then that's where death comes in. So there's sin and death in the millennium, particularly among the the Gentiles, the strangers. So alright. So, Thomas, you have any more comments or questions or anything? I know you get And with a native. Right? That's true too. I don't think there's gonna be any of that during the millennium. Those cataclysmic events are gonna be over until the lord caused fire to come out of heaven to to consume to consume those rebels. Alright. We got one song to sing. Can anybody guess what it is? We could do two songs. What is it? I've got a river black. There it is. There you go. That woman can read my mind. We have depth. I've been with her five years now. She's listened to all my studies. Right? Does Rob know it? Yeah. I think I know. Does Thomas know it? Yeah. Do. Do you know all the other versions, all the parts that we do in Sunday school? I wanna see it going like this. Right. Spring up, oh, well. Yep. Alright. I wanna hear it all. Alright, Facebook. Here we go. Wow. That was good. As the deer panteth for You got the key? I have I have I have to add the music. Thomas got it. The deer panting for the water so my soul longeth after thee. Desire and thy long to worship you. Amen. Amen. Alright. One more. I've been redeemed. Thank you, Thomas. Thank you, Rob. Alright. You, Alright. Well, let's pray. Lord, we thank you for the joy. The Lord's our strength, and these Sunday school songs used to be sung by us adults, but we're just so prim and proper now. We can't do all that. But, Lord, it just floods our heart with joy, and I want our kids to know these songs. And grandkids and the new believers that are here, they didn't experience this. And, we just love singing. We love worshiping you. We love all the all the truths within the scriptures, Lord, that we bring to song. And, Lord, Lord, you're that river that that flows from our heart and life, and we have been redeemed. And we do pant after the as the deer pants out of the water brook, so pants our soul after you, Lord. So evermore, Lord, fill us overflowing with your love. Let our lives be an overflow of your spirit and the lives of others, Lord. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
About This Podcast
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.
