Promised Land 1/18/26

[SPEAKER_00]: This one through seven.

[SPEAKER_00]: Genesis chapter 12 verses one through seven.

Genesis 12 · chapter mention

[SPEAKER_00]: And once you turn to Genesis chapter 12 verse one through seven, if you could please stand onto the reading of God's Word.

Genesis 12 · chapter mention

[SPEAKER_00]: I know only I don't read this many, this many verses are these many verses, but I know it's a long stand.

[SPEAKER_00]: but we'll do our best.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, Genesis chapter 12 verse 1 through seven says, that the Lord said to Abraham, go from your country, your family, and your father's house.

Genesis 12:1

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's say that again, now the Lord said to Abraham, there's nothing what the Abraham just gets.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do we have to get there, get later?

[SPEAKER_00]: Go from your country, your family, and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

[SPEAKER_00]: First two, I will make of you a great nation.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will bless them who bless you and curse him who curse you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in you, all families of the earth will be blessed.

[SPEAKER_00]: So Abraham departed as a Lord had spoken to him and lot went with him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Abraham was 75 years old when he departed from Aaron, Abraham took Sarah his wife, a lot his brother son, and all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the people that they had acquired in Aaron, and they set out

[SPEAKER_00]: for the land of Canaan.

[SPEAKER_00]: They came to the land of Canaan.

[SPEAKER_00]: When Abraham passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Mora, the Canaanites were in the land at that time.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord appeared to Abraham and said, to your descendants, I will give this land.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he built an altar to the Lord who had appeared to him.

[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the reading of this word, and

[SPEAKER_00]: 25 years ago, 25 years ago, this very week, I was very blessed.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was January the 13th, actually, that seven of us from the church, of the moment of truth, Bible Baptist Church, seven members went on a trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: We left on a trip on the 13th of January.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was a strange day because the day went very,

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, long and weird.

[SPEAKER_00]: By the time we landed, it was the 14th, the 14th of January.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then we landed in Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: The long story to that, I won't go into it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we got to Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: And by the time we woke up, it was the 15th.

[SPEAKER_00]: When we went to our motel and everything.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was wonderful.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was 24 years old I had hair.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you're 24, you feel like you have a long, long time in life, you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: At least most people do it either way, it was a wonderful trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: We spent a week in Israel and three days in Rome.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was wonderful wonderful trip that being said, it was as much as I love room and I did loved it.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot in Israel too that I really loved.

[SPEAKER_00]: I loved every bit of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: God bless the so much.

[SPEAKER_00]: I loved that trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was a wonderful trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: I learned so much.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wish I could go back in time.

[SPEAKER_00]: and T.C.

[SPEAKER_00]: is 24 year old made the stuff that I know now about the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I could do that, I knew something, but I know about maybe 25% then what I know now, it would even better.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that being said, I loved it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was a wonderful, wonderful trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: For of us,

[SPEAKER_00]: Four of us that are that went then are still alive.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, one of them they would have come today, sister Patrick Bradshaw, what they would have come today because of her health, however, there are three of us here today, my mother, Shirley Cooves, myself and sister Barbara Beggs who's visiting and so glad to have you here.

[SPEAKER_00]: We were on that trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I didn't really know sister Barbara Beggs, very well on that trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was a little concerned.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'll go ahead and tell this story.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was a little concerned about her because I didn't know her very well.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't admit her a couple times here at the church and I was a little concerned because my father always said there's always one person on the trip that's a little different.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's what he said.

[SPEAKER_00]: And she was.

[SPEAKER_00]: We were concerned because the playing let let it a certain time.

[SPEAKER_00]: And her car broke down on the way to the airport.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we didn't know that, because it's not back like now, we haven't had cell phone in all.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, we didn't know where she was.

[SPEAKER_00]: My father loved her to death, but he could worry.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he was back and forth, worrying.

[SPEAKER_00]: She got there right in time, thank you, Lord, but we were so concerned and there's a lot of things to have on the trip that made me laugh for her so much and I realized all I mean right away that we were I was just going to get along with her and I can't believe it's been 25 years have been so good for him as a bar, but I'm so glad to have you here today.

[SPEAKER_00]: of us standing there in front of the garden too.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to take a look at that before you leave, either way we were so glad to be there.

[SPEAKER_00]: So glad to be there.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not here to talk about how great we are that we were got to go because that's not the case.

[SPEAKER_00]: Three of the people.

[SPEAKER_00]: who went are with the Lord God today.

[SPEAKER_00]: My father, my grandmother, my aunt, Latana.

[SPEAKER_00]: But there's many of wonderful things that we got there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some of these things, they're all out here in front of us.

[SPEAKER_00]: The things that are in front of us today came from that trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: And one thing this here came at least one came from another trip from my father and mother got to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that being said,

[SPEAKER_00]: we were very, very blessed.

[SPEAKER_00]: When we went there on the 15th to the 21st, we went to a few things, and I'm just going to mention a few of this, not all of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's just too many things to mention.

[SPEAKER_00]: However, I'm going to mention a few.

[SPEAKER_00]: On the 15th to the 21st, we went to the Sea of Galilee, to Copernan, to River Jordan, to the Mount of the Attitudes, to Bethlehem, to the Church of the

[SPEAKER_00]: We went to the Policillum.

[SPEAKER_00]: We went to St. Peter of Galacentu, which by the way, St. Peter is the place where Jesus was held captive, and he had been beaten there.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, on top of that little dome there, they had this little rooster windmill, our wind, let me call it, wind, I can't think of anything called it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, when what will me, anyway, what they have there is they also have these steps where they believe Jesus Christ walked on him and a mother had fallen and and blood there.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember her saying that maybe maybe just maybe today I've fell in blood with Jesus blood.

[SPEAKER_00]: I remember her saying that either way it's very interesting place not only that we also got to go to the church to get somebody.

[SPEAKER_00]: They believe that might have been where Jesus had been killed.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're not as happy sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: The other place they believe it could have been was the garden tomb.

[SPEAKER_00]: I personally, it was a place we don't know for sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, we went to the Dead Sea.

[SPEAKER_00]: We went to Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: We went to the Mount Carmel.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're from there.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can see the valley of Jizreal.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was where they believed the Armageddon is going to happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: We went to Lazarus' tomb, we went to Jerusalem, of course.

[SPEAKER_00]: We went to the room of the last supper and many, many other things.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was very, very blessed to see those things.

[SPEAKER_00]: However, the most important thing,

[SPEAKER_00]: is that when we were there, we were in the promised land.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's titled today's serving the promised land.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when we say those things, we talk about all the cool things we got to see, it is very nice.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's wonderful.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that's not necessarily the promised land that we're going to talk about today.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are going to talk about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about all the wonderful things and why it's a promise saying, in fact, we just spoke about some of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: The promised land,

[SPEAKER_00]: was promised to Abraham, whose original name was Abraham, which we just saw, and his family lying.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Israelites, the Hebrews, the Jewish, the Jews.

[SPEAKER_00]: They have all these names, all being the same thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we read about some, but just now, as I said, in Genesis 12 verse 1 through 7, we just read that.

Genesis 12:1–7

[SPEAKER_00]: But there's other things that this speaks about.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's read Genesis chapter 26, verse 3.

Genesis 26:3

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, we saw that God had promised that to Abraham.

[SPEAKER_00]: but he also promised it, by the way, it's promised in several places there, where it was promised again, it almost like a reassurance to Abraham because it had been a while.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then it was a while again.

[SPEAKER_00]: He had to reassure it to Abraham and to Sarah and all the, I promised it to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when God says it, it's guaranteed.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he says it also to his son Isaac in Genesis chapter 26 verse 3, he says, so, during in this land,

Genesis 26:3

[SPEAKER_00]: and will bless you, where I will give to you and all your descendants, all these lands.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham, your father.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll folks now move on to Genesis 28, 13.

[SPEAKER_00]: God is no longer speaking to Isaac.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's now speaking to Jacob, who by the way,

[SPEAKER_00]: The name that God gave Jacob later on is Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: We get the name of the land.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the moment, and I know you've heard of this.

[SPEAKER_00]: This moment when God is saying this is Jacob's latter.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is before Jacob wrestled, that's by the way, when he wrestled with pre-incarnate Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's when he gets the name Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: But this is before all that.

[SPEAKER_00]: This in fact is even before he meets his wife.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is before he meets

[SPEAKER_00]: meets all of them and goes into that land.

[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, just just as 2018, the Lord stood above it and said, I and the Lord God of Abraham, your father and the God of Isaac, the land on which you lie to you, will I give it and to your descendants?

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the promised land.

[SPEAKER_00]: He promised it to Abraham.

[SPEAKER_00]: He promised it to Isaac to Jacob.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is why so often in the Word of God, you hear the promised land and he's so often mentions Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, over and over again.

[SPEAKER_00]: These were promised to that wonderful family.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now we hear the promised land so often.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why is it so coveted?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why is it so coveted?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me just tell you a story.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's coveted because it's a good land.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fertile land.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is good for agriculture, for shepherding.

[SPEAKER_00]: The mountains are on the north of Galilee.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then all let me tell you about Galilee.

[SPEAKER_00]: With the sea of Galilee we call it.

[SPEAKER_00]: The sea of Galilee is like a fresh water lake.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fresh water lake.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is so pretty.

[SPEAKER_00]: When we got there, it is so pretty.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, one of the things that you'll see here, and you can come up here and look at this when you're done today, there's this wonderful little map that I bought on the sort of boat when he's on the sea valley, and I'm getting to get it framed.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to put it up here at the church.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the wonderful thing about that wonderful, wonderful lake, which what it is, that lake is surrounded

[SPEAKER_00]: all around it, wonderful miracles happen in Jesus would go there and he would preach to everyone and why.

[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, that's where he called the disciples.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, around those mountains, when you talk, there's echo.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was like an epitheter, a God-made epitheter, and when he was there, we always think about, oh, salt water, no, no, no, no, no, it's fresh water.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was so

[SPEAKER_00]: And I got to tell you it was one of the most beautiful things to see being there was you could almost just feel the power but there's there's fish all over the place one thing I kept here and now I'm not saying was like this then, but it wasn't 2001 when I was there 25 years ago you can hear a boom, boom they're bringing it up.

[SPEAKER_00]: fish from the bottom, so they kept catching them.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that is a land that has almost every kind of fish you could think of and they kept on catching them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what else they would do in the morning and sister bar of mom could tell you this would be true.

[SPEAKER_00]: They would give you fresh fish even for breakfast along with other things.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Cole fish.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'll be honest with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I looked at that and I said, that is not necessarily what I would call frosted flakes.

[SPEAKER_00]: However, I did have one for breakfast one time because I thought if it's good for turning the tiger it's good for me, but I will also tell you this.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not used to it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I did not say it's good.

[SPEAKER_00]: It did however it did however.

[SPEAKER_00]: it wasn't the worst.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I was saying.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that being said, it was a wonderful thing to see that that is the land that God made.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now why because of all that God made?

[SPEAKER_00]: Not only did we have all that, but you also have in that land, you have the river Jordan, you also have the dead sea, and in the dead sea, they have all this salt.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's so much salt, they notice it's known as curing salt, because people use it for medication.

[SPEAKER_00]: They use it for other things.

[SPEAKER_00]: There has been people who were there.

[SPEAKER_00]: they were putting on that salt on him with mud and everything else to help their skin and can't you tell?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, but anyway, it was a wonderful, wonderful experience.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I say this too, that land was chosen by God for his children, his reliance.

[SPEAKER_00]: those who fall in.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why will we get to that?

[SPEAKER_00]: It was promised to them that people are still fighting over that land this day.

[SPEAKER_00]: But when I got there, I was amazed because I looked around and I saw all this fruit and all this wonderful stuff and there's I huge stock of a man that's all over the place on different trees, you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the amazing thing to me was they said to me, they said not just to mean with all of us, they said it's it's it's a drought.

[SPEAKER_00]: I drought.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yet,

[SPEAKER_00]: The bananas were huge and all the fruit was huge and it's supposed to be a drought, but the strawberries were huge.

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, that is a fertile land that gives you so much bigger than you've ever seen.

[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't believe it and that was a drought.

[SPEAKER_00]: I hate to see what it's not, I wouldn't hate to see it, but if that's a drought, I try to imagine what it would be like when it's not a drought.

[SPEAKER_00]: There was so much wonderful fruit.

[SPEAKER_00]: I never seen bananas at bigger my entire life.

[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I'm gonna tell you, King Kong would have loved it there.

[SPEAKER_00]: That being said, you know that that is a beautiful land.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's made perfect for all the things that God, that's why he promised it to them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm gonna move on to Promised Land,

[SPEAKER_00]: had been reminded because we know that Jacob and all them people did stay in Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: They had left and they lived in Egypt for a very long time.

[SPEAKER_00]: How long?

[SPEAKER_00]: How long did they stay away 400 years, over 400 years?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because the Israelites, the Hebrews, had lived in Egypt for 400 years as slaves, slave labor in Egypt.

[SPEAKER_00]: We already know about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the problem of Sam was reminded to Moses into the Israelites.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so therefore, we see, and I'm going to do my best to read everything I can.

[SPEAKER_00]: We see that in Leviticus chapter 20, verse 24, listen what the Lord God says to the Levites.

Leviticus 20:24

[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, two Moses here, because most of the one that wrote it down,

[SPEAKER_00]: God reminds him of the promise land and the promise he'd give him to them.

[SPEAKER_00]: God says this in Leviticus chapter 20 verse 24, but I have said to you, you shall inherit their land and I will give it to you to possess it.

Leviticus 20:24

[SPEAKER_00]: I land that flows with milk and honey.

[SPEAKER_00]: I in the Lord your God who has separated you from other peoples.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was still be given back to them.

[SPEAKER_00]: God even reminds them of the borders.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm gonna do my best to read this.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is quite a bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a number 34.

[SPEAKER_00]: Number 34.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the only reason why I thought of reading this is number 34 versus one through 12.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he's why I wanted to read this to you, so you can see the borders.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I don't, that's fine, but you'll see that God had the borders always, to where the land was.

[SPEAKER_00]: God says in number 34, one through 12, and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, command the children of Israel and say to them, when you are going to the land of Canaan, this is the land that will fall to you for it inheritance, the land of Canaan with his borders.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then your south side will be from the wilderness of Zen, along the Board of Eden, and your south border will be the end of the Dead Sea to the east, and your border will turn from the south to the ancient Akrabim and continue to Zen.

[SPEAKER_00]: And to the end, we'll be from the south of Kadesh, Barnia, then it will continue to hezaradar and pass on to Azman.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the border will be the circle around Azman to the Berkaviji, and the end of it will be the Mediterranean Sea from the eastern, or to the western border, you will have the Mediterranean Sea and its coastline.

[SPEAKER_00]: This will be your Western border.

[SPEAKER_00]: This will be your Northern border for the Mediterranean Sea.

[SPEAKER_00]: You will mark a line from Mount Hoor, from Mount Hoor, you will mark a line of your border to liberal Hamath and its limits of the border to be Zedad and your border will go on to Zifran.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the limits will be from Hazar N on this will be your northern border and you will mark a line is verse 30 by the way, you will mark a line or student verse 10, you will mark a line and your eastern border from Hazar N on to Sheffam.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the border will go down from Sheffam to Ribla.

[SPEAKER_00]: on the east side at A and the border, excuse me, and the border will go down and we'll reach the side of the sea of Kinerith to the east and the border will go down to the Jordan and the limits of it will be at the Dead Sea and this will be your land and it's borders all around.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now,

[SPEAKER_00]: Why did I take the time to read all of that?

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a lot to read.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why, why, why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I want you to see, it is not the Hebrew people.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is not the Jewish people.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is not the Israelites.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the people living now there that said, I'm taking this in this.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not that

[SPEAKER_00]: God said it.

[SPEAKER_00]: God said it.

[SPEAKER_00]: God marked the land.

[SPEAKER_00]: God made the marks.

[SPEAKER_00]: God made the measurements.

[SPEAKER_00]: God said it's from here to here from there to there.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the land that I am giving unto you.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's the Lord God who took the measurement.

[SPEAKER_00]: So to speak, the ruler.

[SPEAKER_00]: So to speak.

[SPEAKER_00]: And said this is where it's at from here to here from there to there.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every bit of it was from God.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's from who?

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: We see a number 13 one through two.

[SPEAKER_00]: What does he say in number 13 one through two?

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't worry.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to read more from that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know you want me to.

[SPEAKER_00]: Number 13 one through two.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, sin men.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we need to say this.

[SPEAKER_00]: In number 13, one through two, and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, sin men that they may explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel, of every tribe of their fathers you will send a man, each one achieve among them.

[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, 12 went down to spy on Canaan.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, before we go any further, let's not go to number 13.

[SPEAKER_00]: we see on verses 26 through 29, we see what they said.

[SPEAKER_00]: As they recurrent, it says this, in verse 26, and they recurrent and came to Moses, and to Aaron and all the assembly of the children of Israel and to the wilderness of Aaron, to Kadesh and they brought back war to them, and the entire assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they reported to them, we came to the land where you sent us

[SPEAKER_00]: Now folks, they don't mean literally, milk and honey.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's saying it's a very fruitful land, and honey is dripping because we can feed our people.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anymore, anyway, it says, and this is the fruit of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of grapes, a lot of grapes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, however, the people are strong, and I listen to this, however, the people are strong that dwell in the land.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the cities are fortified.

[SPEAKER_00]: That means they have forts and armies.

[SPEAKER_00]: And are very great.

[SPEAKER_00]: And also, we saw the children of Annek there.

[SPEAKER_00]: And what does that mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: that means that they're giants, they're huge people, okay?

[SPEAKER_00]: The amount of Christ dwell in the land of the negive and the hit types and the jibby sites and the MRIs dwell in the mountains and the canyons dwell by the sea and by the edge of the Jordan.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were terrified because there's a lot of armies around.

[SPEAKER_00]: Armies are all hate God and worship false gods and worship demonic beings and some are giants, big folk.

[SPEAKER_00]: that's all true.

[SPEAKER_00]: But guess what?

[SPEAKER_00]: God is bigger than them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they were putting the faith on what they saw not what was, which is God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's read now on chapter 14 and it goes on talk about something Caleb said, but we're not going to go on that we're going on what Caleb and Joshua said, which is chapter 14 versus six through nine.

Isaiah 14 · chapter mention

[SPEAKER_00]: Joshua, the son of none,

[SPEAKER_00]: No, we're not saying his mom was a nun.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're not saying that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, Joshua, the son of nun, and Caleb, the son of Jeff and Jeff and her, from the ones who explored the land, those are two of them, tore their clothes and they spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel saying, the land which we passed through to explore, it is very, very good land.

[SPEAKER_00]: If the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land.

[SPEAKER_00]: And give it to us, the land with flows with milk and honey only do not rebel against the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nor fear the people of the land because they are bread for us.

[SPEAKER_00]: You hear that?

[SPEAKER_00]: They are bread for us.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's going to destroy him.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he says.

[SPEAKER_00]: Their defense is gone from them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the Lord is with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do not fear them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing is greater than God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Joshua and Caleb knew it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, folks, you know what happens.

[SPEAKER_00]: What happens is

[SPEAKER_00]: because of the doubt that they had in God's power, every one of those people that doubt a God had to walk for 40 years until they died.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Joshua and Caleb didn't, they continued to walk, but they also lived in all the children lived, that the future generation lived, but it goes on to say in Joshua chapter one,

[SPEAKER_00]: verses 13, verse 13, Joshua 1 13, it says, remember the word that Moses, the servant of the Lord commanded you said, the Lord, your God has given you a place for rest and will give you this land.

[SPEAKER_00]: God had made a vow of this promise land.

[SPEAKER_00]: And even though it wasn't given to that generation because of their doubt in the Lord God, this land would be theirs.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, Joshua chapter 5 verse 6,

Joshua 5:6

[SPEAKER_00]: It says this, Joshua 5, 6, the children of Israel had traveled for 40 years in the wilderness until all the people, the men of fighting age who came out of Egypt had died.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because they did not obey the Lord, the Lord has swore not to let them see the land that he has swore into their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with what?

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a didn't, Joshua chapter six.

[SPEAKER_00]: Joshua chapter six verse one through five.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of my favorites.

[SPEAKER_00]: Before I go here, you ever heard of the land of Jericho?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we went to Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of the things I really, really, really wanted to do is go to the land of Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: My grandfather wanted to go on that trip and he didn't get to he passed away on, not quite a year before the trip.

[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things he wanted to see was a land of Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wanted to see that so, so bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I know it exists.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, there's something that when you get to see it with your own physical eyes, he said, it makes it seem even also more real.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's something about grabbing hold us up tangible.

[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever gone to a museum and seen something that you know it's real?

[SPEAKER_00]: I one time went to a museum and I looked up and I, I've been looking around all day, longs, 1990.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was looking around all day, long.

[SPEAKER_00]: And suddenly, I saw it's beautiful rock and tear.

[SPEAKER_00]: Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful tear.

[SPEAKER_00]: And suddenly, I realized it was bloodstained all through it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I realized that, what, what?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I realized that was the bloodstained of Abraham Lincoln.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that was real.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I've seen it since then, they moved it to the place where he had been shot at the theater.

[SPEAKER_00]: We already knew it existed.

[SPEAKER_00]: We knew that, but when you see it, when you really see it, it really hit your heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: Same about being there.

[SPEAKER_00]: We wanted to go to Jericho, but when we went on that trip, said no, we found out because the opening of some casinos and things, we were going to get to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was so disappointed, all of a sudden,

[SPEAKER_00]: something changed on that day.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we got to go, and there's only a couple of buses that got to go, we got to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when we went, we were so excited, went to Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you've seen on the movies and things.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they talked about the walls of Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you've seen where they had the walls of Jericho explode on different books, actually.

[SPEAKER_00]: You've had other ones you see the walls of Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, boom, it falls over.

[SPEAKER_00]: You've seen all that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not what happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you go there, you see that the walls of Jericho,

[SPEAKER_00]: The thing about it is there's been so many people trying to make so many, let's just say it excuses, our reasonings.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they built it on a faulty land and all that stuff, that how come it's still for so long without that problem?

[SPEAKER_00]: You hear all these things, but folks, use the thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: God lets them dig up bits of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But every time they try to unding the whole thing, guess what happens?

[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, if you think back in me further, you see, I got to go to where Jericho happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got to see it, thank you Lord God for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the beautiful thing about it is, so when people say, I don't believe it's ever there, I've seen people on Facebook all the time, there's no proof of the Bible, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, it's real, it's real just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it's not real.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when you do get to see it, there's still people make excuses.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I came back from that trip and I spoke about things I saw, you know what, even Christians, folks even Christians, are you sure you saw what you saw?

[SPEAKER_00]: I kid you not.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you sure you saw what you saw?

[SPEAKER_00]: They said it about where I saw Jesus died.

[SPEAKER_00]: They said they said it were about the lands where he walked.

[SPEAKER_00]: They said it about Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you sure you saw what you saw?

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know that.

[SPEAKER_00]: These are Christians.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now think about the laws.

[SPEAKER_00]: They do the same thing to this very day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hello.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we went to Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: Got to go to Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I was so excited to go to Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when we got there, we saw those walls.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's read about Jericho.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says in chapter six of Joshua, verse one, once your five is off, we're going to read.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now Jericho was tightly secured before the children

[SPEAKER_00]: There was no one leaving or entering, and the Lord said to Joshua, see, I have given Jericho its king and mighty men of valor into your hand, all the men of fighting age shall march around the city, circle the city once for this, do this for six days, and

[SPEAKER_00]: He says, circle this, do this for six days, seven priests shall carry seven rams, horn, trumpets before the ark.

[SPEAKER_00]: On the seventh day, march around the city seven times with the priest blowing the trumpets.

[SPEAKER_00]: when they blow a long blast on the ram's horn, and when you hear the trumpet sound, all the people shout, allow battle cry.

[SPEAKER_00]: The walls of the city will fall down, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so Joshua, he summoned them.

[SPEAKER_00]: He told them what the Lord God said.

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, that battle happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: It did happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: They went around for six days going around the world.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just like God said, don't you know, they saw that Ark of the Covenant.

[SPEAKER_00]: They saw the men, the seven men with the trumpets go around and they laughed at them and they thought they was stupid and everything else.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just like they knew it, you right now laughing at you.

[SPEAKER_00]: It worked.

[SPEAKER_00]: laughing at you with your family, you knew it was laughing at you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here laughing at you on Facebook, online,

[SPEAKER_00]: But when that seventh day came, when they went around seven times, those walls came a tumbling down and they did it that.

[SPEAKER_00]: They came a tumbling down and Ben Joshua made it about the battle of Jericho, but really it was God who did in the Lord brought it down.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it says this in Joshua 21, I got to read this to you, Joshua 21, verse 43 through 45.

Joshua 21:43–45

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord gave Israel, say it again, Joshua 21, 43 through 45.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord gave Israel all the land that He swore to give to their fathers.

[SPEAKER_00]: He took possession, they took possession of it, and lived in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord gave them rest all around according to all that He swore to their fathers.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not a man among their enemies stood before them, and the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not a single word of all the good things that the Lord

[SPEAKER_00]: had spoken to the children of Israel failed.

[SPEAKER_00]: They all came to pass.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to look at the promise land again.

[SPEAKER_00]: That promise land.

[SPEAKER_00]: We knew the under the second king by my king David.

[SPEAKER_00]: It grew.

[SPEAKER_00]: Under his son, Solomon, it grew, but not in a good way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because

[SPEAKER_00]: whenever he grew that kingdom, it kind of like had scoliosis.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had that bad backbone because it was, under false gods.

[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, I'm not mocking anyone in a scoliosis.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm simply saying that it split the kingdom.

[SPEAKER_00]: And for over 70 years, the kingdom split, but God had made a promise of vow.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it would come back together.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I'm going to read you just a few here.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to try to finish it up here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's read Jeremiah 30, verse 3.

Jeremiah 30:3

[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremiah 30, verse 3.

Jeremiah 30:3

[SPEAKER_00]: And while you're looking at that up,

[SPEAKER_00]: And that is, there was no way.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way on Dodge Green Earth that I could go through every single wonderful promised land verse, because I've got to look at them.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's over 100 in 70 verses about the promised land of the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I just went through half, no, I'm joking.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I'm joking.

[SPEAKER_00]: But Jeremiah 30, verse 3, for surely the days are coming, says the Lord, when I restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, the Lord says, I will cause him to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

Jeremiah 30:3

[SPEAKER_00]: He said a lot of other verses.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said one in his Ezekiel.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said one really great one in Amis.

[SPEAKER_00]: back, I'll read that one to you, Amos chapter 9 verse 15, I will plant them upon their land, and no more will they be uprooted out of their land, which I gave them, that was to me, which I have given them, the Lord your God has spoken, that not gonna be uprooted and not ever again, Psalm 122 verse 6, Davis says this, and I want you to remember this,

Amos 9:15 Psalms 122:6

[SPEAKER_00]: They hate the Jewish, they hate those Hebrews.

[SPEAKER_00]: They say this, they say stuff against some all time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, you know it's true, you've seen it online, you've seen it on CNN, if you watch that, you've seen it on those networks, you've seen always putting that stuff down.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're always talking against the Jewish, putting down the Hebrews, putting down people all the time, call them hateful names, which is forespoken in the Word of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: They hate their guts and liver, listen, what it says here.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says in Psalm 122 verse 6, David speaking about Jerusalem, it says pray for the peace of Jerusalem, may they prosper who love you, David says about Jerusalem.

Psalms 122:6

[SPEAKER_00]: You may not have seen it, this is my father's tie, it was, and it says,

[SPEAKER_00]: for the pay for the piece of Jerusalem.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I wore this tie because what we're speaking about today.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're to pray for Jerusalem.

[SPEAKER_00]: When people like Tucker Carlson, who I used to like, and I'm not saying I don't like anywhere, I don't like him much, but I pray for him all the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: But people who try to speak against Israel,

[SPEAKER_00]: They're done.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're stupid.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're stupid when they're going against Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying Israel's always right, but God's always right.

[SPEAKER_00]: People make mistakes all the time, but God doesn't, we do.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we need to pray for those people to get right with God.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I got a couple of things for you to go away.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get the Leviticus.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go to Leviticus chapter 25, first one through two and then verse 23, because way to you see this.

Leviticus 25 · chapter mention

[SPEAKER_00]: Leviticus is

[SPEAKER_00]: chapter 25, verse one or two.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had to read this part before I get to the great verse of verse 23.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so Levit just 25 one or two, then the Lord spoke to Moses, on Mount Sinai, we know what Mount Nadiah is, where he got to think of Manus, saying,

[SPEAKER_00]: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them when you come into the land that I give you so we see He's given in the land.

[SPEAKER_00]: The land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: So right away I want you to see He's the Lord speaking, not Moses.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's speaking that He's giving in the land.

[SPEAKER_00]: But listen to the beautiful verse of Leviticus 2523 and I must admit to you I've never seen this verse at least I've read through but I never cut on to this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen what it says.

[SPEAKER_00]: verse 23 of chapter 25 of Leviticus.

[SPEAKER_00]: The land shall not be permanently sold for the land is mine.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who's land is it?

[SPEAKER_00]: God's land.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not the Jewish.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not

[SPEAKER_00]: not those Israelites, not the Hebrews, it's Gaza and it goes on to say, for you are foreigners and sojourners, sojourners with me, it's Gaza land.

[SPEAKER_00]: People are attacking Gaza land, people are insulting God.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're wanting to destroy his land, but folks, they're not going to the final battle will happen there in our beginning.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's going to be this way.

[SPEAKER_00]: God said it's going to be this way.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said a lot of other things.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to get into it, but I want to mention it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to mention it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, the Promised Land belongs to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: We just saw that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was given to Abraham and his family because why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because they're better people?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, because they're a better race.

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because of Abraham's family.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because Abraham's faith in God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because Abraham's faith, that's why.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got a couple of great verses for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 413, Romans 413 says it was not through the law that Abraham and his descendants received the promise that he would be the heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of verses I looked up this week.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even going to name him before you

[SPEAKER_00]: how the Jews fill out a faith, talking about Judaism, how they didn't follow the Messiah.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even Jesus mentions it, but it also says they're gonna turn around.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna turn around.

[SPEAKER_00]: But let's now go to Hebrews chapter 11.

Hebrews 11 · chapter mention

[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna go to Hebrews 11, verse 1 through 3.

Hebrews 11:1–3

[SPEAKER_00]: And then, 8 through 16.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then 39 through 40.

[SPEAKER_00]: But don't worry, let's just go with Hebrews 11, 1 through 3.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews 11 1 through 3 says, now faith is the substance of things hope for the evidence of things not seen for by it the men of old obtained a good report by faith we understand that the universe was framed by the word of God so that the things that are seen were not made out of things which are visible.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's go on to verse 8 through 16.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this, by faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he would later receive as an inheritance.

[SPEAKER_00]: He went out not knowing where he was going.

[SPEAKER_00]: By faith he dwelt in the promised land.

[SPEAKER_00]: as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise for he was looking for a city which was foundation, excuse me, which has foundations whose builder and maker is God.

[SPEAKER_00]: By faith, Sarah herself also received the ability to conceive seed,

[SPEAKER_00]: and she bore a child when she was past the age.

[SPEAKER_00]: But excuse me, because she, she judged him faithful who had promised.

[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, from one man who was as good as dead, sprang so many, a multitude as the stars of the sky and innumerable as the sand by the sea shore.

[SPEAKER_00]: These all died in faith, not having received the promises that having seen them from afar were assured of them embraced them and confess that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Those who say sustains declare plainly that they are looking for a homeland, and certainly, if they had been thinking of the country out of which they came, they might have had the opportunity to return, but they desired a better country that is a heavenly one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God for he has prepared a city for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is all by faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: God prepared a place for them by faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we see, and chapter 11, verse 39 through 40, it says, these all have obtained a due report through faith, but they did not receive the promise.

[SPEAKER_00]: For God provided something better for us that with us, they would be made perfect.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Promised Land, the Promised Land.

[SPEAKER_00]: We look at the Promised Land so often as people do on a map.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the Promised Land is not on a map, not really.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've been blessed.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was very blessed to get to go on that trip, to Israel, to Jerusalem.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was very blessed.

[SPEAKER_00]: But folks, that is not the true Promised Land.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the Promised Land of history.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a promise saying where we got to go and see the place that Jesus walked and praise God for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But that's not the true promise land.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is a promise land that is wonderful to get to visit and someday you will.

[SPEAKER_00]: You will.

[SPEAKER_00]: I promise to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: You will.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about going on a plane trip, but you will get to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: I promise to Jesus, you'll get to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: However, listen to this now.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Promised Land, the new Promised Land, now is Jesus himself.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is the Promised Land.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is the kingdom of heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is the Promised Land.

[SPEAKER_00]: God proof of that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Several proofs for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's take a look at him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look at Belatians chapter 3 verse 16.

[SPEAKER_00]: Galatians 3 16.

[SPEAKER_00]: What does Jesus say?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'll get to that, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: But Galatians 3 16, let's go to Paul said.

[SPEAKER_00]: In Galatians chapter 3 verse 16.

Galatians 3:16

[SPEAKER_00]: Now the promises were made to Abraham and his seed.

[SPEAKER_00]: He does not say, and to seeds, meaning many, but and your seed, meaning one, who is Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: John 1836, let's see what Jesus has to say about this.

[SPEAKER_00]: John 1836, Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of this world.

[SPEAKER_00]: My kingdom, if my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight that I would not be handed over to the Jews, but now my kingdom is not from here.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have a kingdom to go to.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have a home to go to.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have a promise land to go to.

[SPEAKER_00]: when you go to heaven, you're gonna go into the promise land.

[SPEAKER_00]: Pastor, are you saying that the promise land is Jesus himself as sure?

[SPEAKER_00]: It is.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you saying his heaven?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sure it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: The only way in to heaven is through Jesus, who is the promise land.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's also in heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's just a spiritual thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a physical thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: The promise land is.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's something else too.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's something else too.

[SPEAKER_00]: The promise land is also the kingdom of eternity.

[SPEAKER_00]: that God is making, that God is made, and when we come back with Jesus, you will see Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of my favorite places we got to go to was Mount Carmel.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, maybe you're not aware of Mount Carmel.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when a first said, you're going to Mount Carmel, I'll admit to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would thought of the little, uh, Titi Royal Commercials, a kid.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember that little Titi Royal of the world we might need to do to me?

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought of to be like a mountain of Carmel, it's not.

[SPEAKER_00]: But Mount Carmel is beautiful.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you're going to talk to that mountain.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when you're sitting on top, first of all, that's the mountain, really.

[SPEAKER_00]: Elijah.

[SPEAKER_00]: promised and prayed to God and on top of there, that's where the fire came down.

[SPEAKER_00]: And all of that in the rain came later, remember?

[SPEAKER_00]: But on top of that mountain, you look over and you can see where the land is where Armageddon's gonna happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is a beautiful promise.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so looking on Mount Carmel, I saw that there's gonna be a big battle there.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna happen folks, it's a promise.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I can't remember, and I kept looking up.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure where the picture went, but I took a bazillion pictures, that's a couple of the few of my dad put it in a frame, all the pictures together, and it was in that room for a while.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would say he had that copy now, but the beautiful thing is that one day, you're gonna put it in a problem, saying, because you're gonna come out of the clouds on a horse.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love horses, does that mean to my name and love horses?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna be on a horse.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to all follow Jesus as he's on that white horse.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're coming to the Promised Land.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes, you are.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you say, I will never get to go to Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, you will.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you'll get to before you leave this world.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you most definitely are going to go to the Promised Land.

[SPEAKER_00]: Most definitely.

[SPEAKER_00]: And more importantly, God is going to rebuild the Promised Land wherever he makes the new earth.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to go into all the things that's spoken of.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Isaiah talks about it in chapter two.

[SPEAKER_00]: He talks about the new Jerusalem, the new Judah.

[SPEAKER_00]: It talks about that in Isaiah chapter two, verse one and two.

[SPEAKER_00]: It talks about the Lord shall build the new Israel, the new Jerusalem.

[SPEAKER_00]: He talks about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But as I said before, over 170 times the Scriptures in the Bible, we talk about the promise and the covenant of Israel to the children of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's you.

[SPEAKER_00]: You may say, but I'm not Jewish.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to be Jewish.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're saved by the blood of Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: You are going to that promise land.

[SPEAKER_00]: And right now that promise land lives in you, you're going, and it's in you.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as I've closed today, I want you to remember tonight is you closed your eyes.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can remember that you're not only going to the promise

[SPEAKER_00]: You have exactly what so many people didn't get to see, but they've gotten to see it now, and they'll see it again because of faith.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have faith in the promise and himself, Jesus.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as I close with this scripture, I want to listen, because this is your future.

[SPEAKER_00]: And listen to it now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's close with Revelation 21, one, three, four.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is John speaking.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth.

[SPEAKER_00]: For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no more sea.

[SPEAKER_00]: I, John, saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem.

[SPEAKER_00]: Looking down out of heaven from God, prepared is a bride adorned for her husband.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, look, the tabernacle of God is with men,

[SPEAKER_00]: they shall be His people and God Himself will be with Him and be their God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this verse four.

[SPEAKER_00]: God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes.

[SPEAKER_00]: There shall be no more death.

[SPEAKER_00]: Neither shall there be any more sorrow, no crying, nor pain.

[SPEAKER_00]: For the form of things have passed away.

[SPEAKER_00]: You think of that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a beautiful promise land.

[SPEAKER_00]: God says it is guaranteed, the promised land that He's bringing.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's about prayer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Dear precious Heavenly Father, we thank you for your promises.

[SPEAKER_00]: We thank you for the land that you are giving to us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Lord God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so very, very much.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray if they're beating one here today who doubts their salvation, let this be the day they come forward.

[SPEAKER_00]: who feels led Lord God to come forward to you for whatever reason.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray this be the day they do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But what I pray if they're being one here who's struggling or God and they feel that they don't deserve the promise of you.

[SPEAKER_00]: What I pray, Lord God, that you will help them help them more Jesus Christ to be a abundantly clear Lord Jesus, that you love them, no matter what.

[SPEAKER_00]: But when I pray that we be strong and courageous to follow you always, I know what I pray that we will take your promise home with us today and always keep with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remembering this, that we are with you always, and you always with us.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus must holy person name, I pray these things.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Would you open your hammer notes, please to number 316, and stand with me?