Genesis - Part 44 | Pastor Paul McGee

I'm not alone. As long as I got King Jesus, I'm

not alone. Yeah.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will

feel fear. No either.

For thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they

comfort me. The Bible says he's prepared a

table before us in the presence even of our enemies, Amen.

We are not alone tonight. Hallelujah is our strength.

Amen. Just a few announcements tonight

as you're standing. 26 this week is a master overflow rally in

New Castle IN anybody that desires to go to that Pastor

Anthony Wilkes will be ministering up there also the

28th right here on Sunday. And the PM evangelist Michael

Maupin is swinging by Amen for a night service with us.

He had an opening and place where he was preaching didn't

have a night service. So yes, he can swing by.

He said of course, Amen. Also coming into the month of

October, October the 2nd, which is a Thursday is the power hour

here at the church. What that is is prayer.

We have prayer here. The doors of the church are open

from 7:00 to 8:00 and people can come and go as they desire and

pray. So it's a time to come together

collectively. And while others are here

lifting up names maybe of family members or your church family or

your community just covers the gamut.

Amen. So you can come and be a part of

that. Also state this.

It's I say it's a little ways off, but not really it's close

on October the 11th is our annual chili supper and hayride

that takes place here at the church on that Saturday.

All right. And there's stuff up online

Facebook concerning that. So matter of fact, it'd be our

second annual cornhole tournament.

We got a list up on the bulletin board that if you're wanting to

be a part of that tournament, you and another individual and

put your names back there and there's a line for your team

name. All right, make a team and have

a little, you know, competition. There's trophies involved in a

small monetary gifting prize from that as well.

And so that's on October the 11th and that kind of

springboards us into a revival fall revival, the 12th through

the 15th. That's a Monday through a or

Sunday through Wednesday with brother Tyler and sister Kayla

Smith will be here each night. We'll be having service Sunday

morning, Sunday night, Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday

night, and for Tuesday and Wednesday night.

Amen. Succumb and be a part of that

Genesis chapter 24. Excited about what God did on

Genesis 24 · chapter mention

Sunday AM. Amber over here got refreshed

with the Holy Ghost and had spoken tongue since she was 13

on Sunday morning. And then on Sunday night, God

filled Brittany with the Holy Ghost.

We're excited about that, she attested to my wife.

That just kept happening on her drive home.

And folks, you know, that can happen anytime.

Homework, grocery store, your personal prayer closet, it don't

matter. It's always accessible wherever

you are, wherever you go. Amen.

And Brittany's going to be getting baptized on Sunday.

She wants to get baptized on Sunday.

So excited about that. Genesis 24, I'll read a few

verses of Scripture. Let you be seated.

The Bible says in verse #12 This is where we left off last week.

And he said, This is the servant of Abraham.

And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee,

send me good speed this day, and shew kindness into my master

Abraham. Behold, I stand here by the well

of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come out to

draw water. Let it come to pass that the

damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee

that I may drink, and she shall say, drink, and I will give thy

camels drink also. Let the same be she that thou

has appointed for thy servant Isaac, and thereby shall I know

that thou has shewed kindness unto my master.

We're talking about. There's a lot of stuff going to

talk about tonight. So I just put her under the the

umbrella of Behold the Bride, right, Because that's what we

have here with Rebecca, Amen. So just kind of put it under

that heading tonight Before I pray tonight, though, it's good

to see Dixie again. She was here Sunday night.

Good to see Dixie again, Amen. Of course, it's good to have

then Brittany and Josh and James and Winter and Searcy, Amen,

this evening. Glad to have all of them.

And so, and Speaking of that, Josh is here, but he's got to

leave for work at midnight. So he came home, took a nap so

he could be here at church. Isn't that honorable?

That's honorable. Let's pray that the Lord would

help us. Father, I love you tonight.

I thank you Lord for your word. Thank you Lord Jesus for your

mercy. I thank you Lord, for your

spirit. God it knows no bounds.

God it goes, Lord all places with us.

I pray God that you're able to help your people.

God open our mind and understanding.

We'll thank you and praise you God for each and everything that

you do. The name of Jesus Christ that I

pray Hallelujah and Amen. The church say Amen, Amen.

God bless you night you may be seated want the Lord to grant us

understanding here today. On that note, just real quickly

this is no one knows this but me.

I tried to dictate to my wife speech to text twice today and I

said what I wanted to say and it come up with some.

I mean I'm not talking about a little different.

I'm talking about like totally different than when I said I did

this a couple times and then realized Sister Asia, that my

dictation was set for Hebrew. And so I was speaking English

and it was it was trying to decipher my English as Hebrew

and Trent and it wasn't doing right.

So I had to hit it over to English because I got my

keyboard will do Hebrew or or English.

And so it wasn't translating at all at all.

We're looking at here chapter #24 just kind of give you just a

little quick backdrop for some that have been here.

This, this is the story of Abraham's servant finding a

bride for Isaac. And this is important because

Genesis enters a time whenever you read the book of Genesis,

there's a lot spoken about Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and

Joseph. And we've already looked a lot

in this series about Abraham. But things are about ready to

shift now over to his son music. And in order for them to shift,

he needs a bride to be able to reproduce and have his own

family. And so as we've looked at this

Abraham servant is on this. He's on this, this, this

mission, if you will, of finding a bride.

I don't know. I know if I was in issues, I

don't know if I would want to be responsible for finding someone

else's bride. But that's what this servant's

responsibility was. But he wasn't just sent with no

instruction. Abraham had told him and given

him clear instructions. But not only had he got

instructions for Abraham, we read in Scripture that that this

servant has also prayed to God. He's asked to God for for some

guidance in finding Isaac a wife.

And as a matter of fact, as we read this, the servant's prayer

is quite detailed and how he wants some confirmation that the

woman that he finds is the woman that should be Isaac's bride.

And so he asked even the Lord. He said, I want the process, I

want good speed. I want this to take place, you

know, quickly. And I want there to be kindness

and grace shown to my master Abraham, as you would respond to

my request. And so there are some parts of

this task of finding a wife for for Isaac, that the servant, of

course, was responsible for brother Pat.

He had to go, as Abraham said, to his kindred, and his family

had to be at the right place and the right family.

But there were other parts of this that God would have to

influence, that God would have to have a hand in.

And so while the the servant could position himself in the

land that was Abraham's family, a man where the women were out

of all these women, which woman is it going to be Lord?

And of all these women, which one is the one that I'll know is

the right one that will be the willing partner that will leave

her country, her place, and follow me back to where Isaac is

the promised land. And so it, it goes to show us

that the servants obedience alone just wasn't enough, but he

needed God's intervention as well.

We find that folks, a lot of times our own life, it doesn't

just take our, our obedience, it takes the intervention of God in

our life as well. And we live, we live sometimes

our Christian lives in that, in that tension of doing our part

faithfully, right? Doing our part faithfully, but

then also dependent upon the Lord to do what only the Lord

can do. And so we, we got to understand

that we, we, we must do what we can.

I have said this a lot, my Christian journey.

I must do what I can, but then I got to trust God for what I

cannot, right? But it's kind of a, a happy

sandwich, all right. Whenever you do what you do and

let God do what he can do, then marvelous things happen.

And so the servant is in Abraham's homeland.

Here, according to Scripture, he's even standing at the well

where women usually came to draw water.

So he's at the right place to meet some ladies.

He's right where he needs to be, even in the vicinity of being

able to meet some of Abraham's family.

But the servant begins to pray and he explains how, Lord, I'm

going to pray this prayer and I want to be able to recognize the

right woman. And it's important.

The servant does not pray vaguely.

The servant is pretty specific in his prayer.

Amen. It's pretty specific.

Matter of fact. Let me tell you, you can be

specific in your prayers. I know sometimes we pray in

generalities, you know this and that, but you can get specific

with God and God can answer specifically.

So there's nothing wrong with getting specific with God in

your prayers. I mean, list sometimes the

details and just watch the handiwork of God tick off some

of those things just identically to how you you have asked or

that you've implored him to do. And so there's no doubt whenever

God answers a specific prayer in a particular way, right, When

it's no generality, but the, the, the layers have been set of

what, what you're asking God and he does it, you know, without

doubts that God has answered your prayer.

And so this is how the servant has basically set up his prayer.

He is on a search for a woman of character, all right, for Isaac,

he is looking for a woman that is hospitable, right?

Because one thing, that's what Abraham has been this far in

this story. He's been very hospitable to

strangers. He has cared for them.

He has been kind to them. And so the servant is looking

for a woman that that's kind of compatible with that whole

family dynamic. And he's looking for a woman

that's willing to share her time and her energy, as we'll see

here in the scripture, because he will ask, he tells the Lord,

I'm going to ask for the a woman to drink and I want her.

Here's a specific prayer. I want her to agree to give me a

drink, but also then agreed to give my camels, which he had ten

of them drink also. And he says whatever woman

accepts this task, whatever woman does that, that way I'll

know that will be the one that God has appointed or has chosen

for Isaac. Now, listen, the servant's not

getting superstitious on us here.

He's just trying to use some mode of discernment.

I want to know that I know that this will be the right woman and

and he wanted more for Isaac and I know this is hard for us in

this generation to accept maybe sometimes, but he wanted more

for Isaac more than just a beautiful woman, more than just

a well to do off woman, right? He wanted a wife that was

suitable, right for for coming alongside Isaac and being a part

of God's covenant, right? He was looking for that type of

woman. And so with that, he was willing

to choose character. He was valuing character over

convenience. What do you mean by that?

I mean, he's already travelled about a month to get to where

he's at. That's not convenient.

But that character isn't always conveniently found.

He was looking for character. And so I know things don't

always happen like this, but while the servant was still

praying, the scripture tells us basically while the servant was

still praying, Rebecca came out of the city to draw water at the

well. Now it don't always happen like

that, but again, just because it don't always happen like that

doesn't mean it can't happen like that.

But it did while he's still praying, she comes out to draw

water to well, for that matter, the servant was in a position in

a place where where he, he saw it.

He he saw her coming, Amen. And he saw this thing

developing, Amen. And so I think it's important

that as we pray, to have faith that as we pray that God is

starting to answer. Listen, I know sometimes now I

know sometimes the answer is no, or sometimes the answer is wait.

But I think we can get into a posture where we begin to start

praying and saying, I believe the moment I start praying, God

is going to start to answer. However that answer is going to

develop or whatever the finality is.

But I know we have the assurance of Scripture.

He hears and he answers our prayers.

Amen. Even if they're delayed remain,

I'm going to remain faithful because God many times is

working behind the scenes that we, our eyes can't even see or

pick up on what God is already putting together people and

places and timing, all that little stuff.

And so in Scripture like verse #15 there's a little genealogy

given and that's really for us. Abraham isn't learning about

this right now, but we are. And what we're learning again is

that Rebecca is a part of Abraham's family.

So one of the things is being clicked off the list.

April 7 when you go to my Kindred, we we see that that the

servant is right where Abraham needed him to be.

Let's go on and look at verse #16 tonight and go forward just

a little bit. The Bible says and the damsel

was very fair. There you go.

The damsel was very fair to look upon a virgin.

Neither had any man known her. And she went down to the well

and filled her pitcher, and came up, and the servant ran to meet

her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of

thy pitcher. And she said, see what we're

seeing here is the plane out of the details of his prayer.

Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water.

He asked of her, of thy pitcher. And she said, drink, my Lord.

OK, that's good. I could see it in his mind.

Chained one thing. And she hasted and let down her

pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

And when he had done giving him drinks, she said, I will draw

water for thy camels also. He prayed specifically Brother

Trout, not just that she would give him drink when he asked,

but that she would offer without being asked of watering the

camels until they have done drinking.

Verse 19, Verse 20. And she hasted and emptied her

pitcher into the through and ran again into the well to draw

water and drew for all his camels.

That's 10 camels, folks. We'll talk about that in a bit.

And the man wondering, look at this, the servant is kind of

awestruck. The man wandering at her held

his peace, to wit, or to know whether the Lord had made his

journey prosperous or not. And it came to pass.

I'm going to read a few more verses, then we'll talk about

him. And it came to pass, as the

camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring in

the half of a shackle and weight, and two bracelets for

her hands of 10 shekels weight of gold.

He gave her items of gold and said, Whose daughter art thou?

Tell me, I pray thee, is there any room in my father's house

for us to lodge in? And she said to him, I am the

daughter. Here she goes with the genealogy

of Bethuel the son of Milka, which she bare unto no whore.

She said, moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender

enough, and room to lodge, You can come to the house.

And the man bowed down his head, and worship the Lord.

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my Master Abraham, who

have not left destitute my Master of his mercy and his

truth. I being in the way, the Lord led

me to the House of my Master's brethren, and the damsel ran and

told them of her mother's house, these things.

Now look at this again back to verse 16.

It tells us that the servant, of course, noted her appearance,

that she was very fair to look upon.

But I think it's even more important to understand that

before he ever saw her, that he prayed for guidance concerning

whoever it would be. He didn't pray for guidance

after he saw the knockout. No, he prayed for guidance and

then he just observed that that's a Fair Lady.

And that happened to be the one that answered the that was an

answer to the prayer that he prayed.

What I'm saying is his choice wasn't predicated upon her

appearance, wasn't just because of how she looked.

That's a great bonus that he needed a lady of character,

Amen. Because his prayer, he if if he

had not started with the prayer and with the guidance, looks

could have derailed him. Looks could have derailed him

from what was right. The Bible says in Proverbs 31

and verse 30 the the the the Proverbs 31 lady of the

Scripture says favor is deceitful and beauty is vain or

beauty is fleeting, it's fading. It can fool you, but a woman

that feareth the Lord character, she shall be praise.

So this woman, though he notes, says she's beautiful.

The Scripture tells us that no other man has known her.

She went down in verse 16 down into the well and came up out of

the well. In those days, wells typically

had a few steps that you had to go down in to to the brim of the

water and then hoist that water back up out of the well.

And so she comes with a a pitcher on her her shoulder and

she comes up out of the well whenever she agreed to give him

something to drink, she come up out of the well with a pitcher

of water and the Bible says that he ran to her.

Ask her the question. And if you read all the

scripture, because this whole prayer and this whole dynamic is

repeated more than once, that's the reason why it's 67.

And in today's world, I don't know what all this 6-7 Amen

stuff, 67 verses long. So once they would do this

nonetheless. We know that really Abraham is

just asking for a drink or a little bit of water.

He just wants a little bit of water.

But she acts without hesitation. She hastes and she gives him

more than a sip. That's right.

According to Scripture, she lets him drink till he's satisfied.

So she's going above and beyond even what he asked concerning

himself. And again, he didn't ask for her

to water the camels. She offered to water the camels.

Even in those days, it was almost expected for ladies at

the well to to give a traveler something to drink at the well

as they were traveling by. But it wasn't customary or

necessary for them to give their animals anything to drink.

So she's even going beyond what is customary and giving these

animals something to drink. Here's the interesting about

Rebecca. She could have been in her own

mind frame. I got my picture of water.

I've already been there this morning and got water.

I'm going there now and getting water, going to get water for my

household and go home and call it a day.

But Rebecca wasn't so wrapped up and just getting water for her

house so that she ignores the servant.

We're looking at someone that's not real selfish here, not real

self-centered here and to go above that of her own accord and

say, you know what, I'm sensitive to a need here.

He's got 10 camels. I'll water the camels also.

You must understand when Rebecca said she'd water the camels, she

had to know that the sacrifice that she just signed up for to

the servant and to all 10 camels, the Bible says in verse

19 till those camels were even done drinking.

Historically, they say at the end of the day it wasn't

anything for a camel to drink 25 to 30 gallons, a camel 25 to 30

gallons of water and the ancient water parts of that time were

typically held no more than 3 gallons of water.

If she had to bring three in a three gallon pitcher just for

one camel, 25 to 30 gallons, and she's bringing 250 to 300

gallons for 10 camels, that means she's making 80 to 100

trips down steps to at least the mouth of the well and back up

just to water the camels, scholar R Kent Hughes said.

He said a camel takes about 10 minutes to drink its full

complement or its full quantity of water.

He said that would mean Rebecca's laborers filled about

one 1 1/2 to 2 sweaty hours Going down to the well, back out

of the well, down to the well, back out of the well, down to

the well, back out of the well for someone she don't know, for

animals she has no connection to, Abraham says.

I think I got my lady because she has the spirit of sacrifice

in her life and she's going to marry a man that was supposed to

be a sacrifice. You want to talk about a match

made in heaven? He said this lady, she, she is

willing to give of herself sacrificially.

She's not self-centered, she's not selfish.

She's willing to do all this. She has a heart that portrays A

servant's heart and a servant's spirit.

She's not just worried about her own house.

So she's concerned. No, this I think I got.

And whenever you look in Scripture, you look at verses

like 16 and 1818 through 20, there are about about four

action or not 412 action verbs that are associated with

Rebecca. She's hastening, she's going,

he's being very quick, very diligent.

And all this really calls to mind Ethan.

Back whenever Abraham had special guests come to his

house, what was he doing? He was hastening.

He was being quick to be hospitable.

Man, there's just a family. There's a congealing here of a

family dynamic that that man, she would just look real good in

this family because that's how my master Abraham operated as

well. And so when Rebecca made this

offer, Amen unto the servant aware of the sacrifice that it

was going to require understanding she didn't

understand, but the servant understanding that her fervor

matched the fervor of the family matched the fervor of Abraham.

But notice here's she doing this and I know this would be this

would be hard for me being the man.

See this woman. Trip 39, trip 40.

The Bible says he's just over there.

He's not interrupting. It's not as low.

He's cutting to the chase for the Mason.

And at the 40th trip he says, hey, great job, we're good,

let's go on like I already know. No, the Bible says that he's

just kind of over there, No interruption.

He asked for good speed. Here's 880 to 100 trips taking

place. But he's not wanting to rush

things. He's not wanting to rush things.

He's not wanting to force anything.

Rebecca's running back and forth and he didn't stop her after so

many trips. What's what are you doing,

servant? He's he's like I've got to make

sure that God has made my journey prosperous because she

started, but will she finish? She started, she's committed.

Now I'm just going to sit over here and see if she keeps the

full commitment because my, my servant, my Isaac needs somebody

that will be committed, not just start well, but will finish

well. So the Bible says in Genesis 24

and verse 21, look at it says the man that's the servant

wondering at her held his peace to whip.

The word whip means no to know whether the Lord had made his

journey prosperous or not, because as he's seen, he's like

God's stealing the deal. God, God is answering my prayer

to the detail. Hey man, anybody that's going to

agree to water me, so to speak, and my camels and and and

Rebecca agreed. She kept her word just as she

promised. And he just has a wandering all

heart over here trip after trip after trip.

And maybe her steps slow brother Fred, my steps would have slowed

after 100 trips to the well. Maybe her steps had slowed.

But Even so she continued. Rebecca finish what she started.

And so the servant, though up to this point has said nothing to

her about his purpose. He did not come out of the chute

saying, will you give me something to drink because I

have a man I'd like you to marry.

He doesn't, He doesn't lead with that.

He has said nothing about his purpose.

And yet verse 22, he gives her items of gold, which almost is

some type of a payment, if you will, or kindness.

He shows her for the work that she has done.

But his prayer has been answered.

The guidelines given to him by Abraham and the prayer he has

prayed to God, they have been answered.

And so the servant teaches us just a few things here and that

we need to pray. You talk about this is marriage,

right? This is finding a mate, mate and

other things. There's nothing wrong with just

about praying about the ordinary matters of life.

Sometimes we think we only need to employ prayer whenever there

we need a miracle or something that's earth shaking.

No prayer is good for the ordinary things of life.

My Grandma McGee, she prayed for washing machines just so they're

hoping that they'd work again. Pray for animals.

Sometimes we might think that's comical, but just the ordinary

things of life. And so our prayers and the

answers to our prayers, though many times help us know whether

or not we need to proceed with some matters.

And that's what it was for Abraham's servant.

And notice what he did when he understood that God had answered

you look at it in verse 26 and 27.

He stopped, he bowed himself over, he worshipped, and he was

thankful to God for answering his prayer.

I think maybe that's a spot that we fell sometimes in that is

being thankful for the answer. Sometimes I just get busy with

right for a reason. I, I spill out all my prayers

and God comes through and I just live my life as though it was

owed to me. But I want to pause and

recognize God. This only happened because you,

you, you, you helped orchestrate this to happen.

And I, I want to be grateful. I'm going to be thankful that

you do hear and you do answer. I'm not, I'm not going to take

it for granted of what you've done right here.

Someone's Amen. All right, let's move on. 9 O

clock's coming. The baby's in the oven.

Verse #29 And Rebecca had a brother and his name was Laban,

right? Abraham wouldn't know if he

could come to the house. She says, yeah, we got straw, We

got provender, we got a place. Come on, you'll be no problem.

Rebecca had a brother, and his name was Laban.

And Laban ran out into the man unto the well.

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring in the bracelets,

these items that were given to his sister's hands.

And when he heard the words of Rebecca, his sister saying, Thus

spake the man unto me, that he came unto the man, and behold,

he stood by the camels at the well.

And he said, Come in, thou blessed the Lord, wherefore

standest thou without? For I have prepared the house

and room for the camels. And the man came into the house

and he ungirded his camels and gave strong preventer for the

camels and water to wash his feet and the men's feet that

were with him. Now it seems like here that

Rebecca's from a very hospitable family.

She's invited him. They've they've supplied things

for him. They make him comfortable.

Whenever she told her family about the man, the Bible says

that Laban went directly out to invite him in.

It even says that he had prepared the house.

He prepared the house for this guest and these tin camels and

everything that they would need. He, he offered water to to

Abraham and to his servants so that they could wash their feet,

which was a common, common hospitable trait there in the

Old Testament. Food was provided for them.

All these notable actions. However, Laban is a character

that's not just going to appear here, but he's going to appear

later in Scripture as well with Jacob.

And so as we look at Laban, we got to start questioning Laban's

late the purity of Laban's actions because the Bible

directs our attention to the fact that after Laban seemed the

gifts that his sister were given, that's whenever he went

into action. Oh, where'd you get that goat,

sis? Oh, from this man now at the

well, really point me in the direction, you know, and he's

going out there and he's making all these accommodations.

It's after he has heard this and he's heard about the entourage

of the camels kind of perks up really, you know, and he's going

out there. And so Laban saw this riches.

Laban saw the game and it gives us a little bit of a glimpse

into the character of Laban that we'll see even later in

scripture that will come to know in the story of Jacob later.

This is what the Scripture tells us, though in Proverbs with with

some wisdom it says in Proverbs 16 and verse 2, all the ways of

a man are clean in his own eyes, but the Lord way of the spirits,

another word for that word, spirits, is the Lord way of the

motives. See, some people do what they do

with the purity, intent, and heart, and other people do what

they do with altogether different motives.

Some people will help people because it's the right thing to

do. Some people will help people to

see, if you scratch my back, will you scratch?

Come on, come on. The motive.

And so we looked at the character, because character

isn't just about what we do, it's about what motivates us to

do what we do. So Laban will become known

later, and we'll get to it later in Scripture, but he'll become

known later. He, he's going to be known as

greedy, he's going to be known as opportunistic, he's going to

be known as manipulative. He he exploits Jacob later,

right his love that he had for Rachel and took advantage of him

for forcing him to work for 14 years.

Really, when it's all said and done for her, he he tries to

cling to to Jacob and and and his children, not allowing them

to leave. The Bible says he repeatedly

changed Jacob's wages. He's he's, he's greedy.

He's just got has to have a hand in something.

So a lot of times we see him using people for personal gain,

right? So, so here he is, he sees

Abraham's servant. He's thinking, well, what, what

type of potential, what type of material benefits could this

visit bring our family? Could this visit bring me?

Could this marriage arrangement? What could it do?

So who he truly is is revealed by what motivates him, which

totally contrasts his sister with the servant's heart.

Not interested in herself, interested in another.

Is everybody OK? We're marching on through here.

Chapter #24 verse 33. I'm going to read a little bit

and then then we'll, we'll probably skip some just because

Verses 42 through 48 in particular is a retelling of the

telling, is a retelling of the prayer retelling of what Abraham

is already experiencing this day.

And if someone's saying I can't believe they did that, listen,

I've stood around with some of y'all's conversations, having to

tell every detail of the story of the day.

So don't you be too heavy on my good old boy Abraham's servant.

You know? That's right, brother Fred,

feeling the preaching spirit. Come on, right then I just and

there was look at verse 33. This is Abraham at the house and

there was set meat before him to eat, but he said I will not eat

until I have told my Herod. Oh, that just hit me kind of

funny right now thinking about the details of some people's

story. Wait, let me tell you something.

And he said speak on. And he said I am Abraham's

servant. The Lord have blessed my master

greatly. He's become great.

We have given him flocks and herds, and I'm sure Laban is

leaning in on the edge of his seat, and silver and gold and

menservants and maidservants and camels and asses.

And Sarah, my master's wife, bear a son to my master when she

was old. And to him hath he given all

that he hath. Wait a minute, you say the son's

got it all? Yeah, OK, just want to make

sure. My master made me swear, saying,

thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the

Canaanites in whose land I dwell, But thou shalt go into my

father's house to my kindred and take a wife into my son.

I won't read all of it, folks. And I said into my master pre

adventure, the woman will not follow me.

And said unto me, The Lord before whom I walk will send his

Angel with thee, and prosper thy way, and thou shalt take a wife

for my son of my kindred of my father's house.

Then shalt thou be cleared from this, my oath, when thou comest

to my kindred. If they give not the one, thou

shalt be clear from my oath. And so he's going to continue to

talk then about the events of the day, the prayer that he

prayed, how his prayer was answered with Genesis 42 through

48. I want to pick back up in verse

47. And I asked her and said, whose

daughter art thou? Let's go on down to verse 49

even. And now if he will deal kindly

and truly with my master. So he's he's addressing them

all, told them the whole story, every detail.

He says, now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master,

tell me. If not, tell me that I may turn

to the right hand or to the left.

He's basically saying I want her as my Isaac's wife.

He says, and you got to let me know if you're going to allow

that, right? Yeah, let me know if you're

going to allow that. Let me just go on and read a few

more verses, four more verses. Then Laban and Beth, you

answered and said, the thing proceedeth from the Lord.

We cannot speak into thee, bad or good.

Behold, Rebecca is before thee. Take her and go and let her be

thy master son's wife, as the Lord has spoken.

And it came to pass that when Abraham's servant heard their

words, he worshipped the Lord. Here he goes again, bound

himself to the earth, and the servant brought forth jewels of

silver and jewels of gold and raiment.

I'm sure Laban's liking this and gave them to Rebecca, and he

gave also to her brother and to her mother.

Precious things. Now, again, the unsung, unsung

hero here is the servant of Abraham.

He's not going to allow anybody to deter him from his mission.

I'm not even going to eat. Wait a minute.

Let me tell you something, even after a long journey, I'm sure

he was hungry and wanted some food.

But he says, no, I, I got an errand here.

I need to, I need to tell you that the Lord has put me on,

that my master's put me on. And so he begins to talk about

all of the wealth. He begins to talk about all the

men servants and the maid servants and how all of that

stuff Isaac will inherit. And that I'm sure being

Rebecca's family, there's a certain amount of comfort to

that, right? They want to know that their

daughter is going to be well taken care of.

They want to know that she's coming from a finance going

going to perhaps a financially stable household.

All right. And I'm sure again that Laban

had his ears, ears peaked. But here was the caveat for

everything. All this wealth, all these men,

servants and maidservants that he shared with him.

Is this that she must be willing to follow me back to the

promised land? And if not, I'm free from what

I've been commissioned to do. So he retells his prayer and he

needed an answer from them. And he's basically tell them,

tell me, tell me whether yes, tell me whether no, I'll turn to

the left or the right. I need to know a yes or no.

You know what he's saying. I don't want to waste anybody's

time. I don't want to eat your food,

right? Just tell me a yes or no and we

can get this thing rolling. I just need to know.

And the Bible says that her family saw it as God's will.

That's what it says unto us. It says that they said that this

thing proceedeth from the Lord. They saw it as God's will.

They they in other words, they really didn't have anything to

say in the matter because God was already speaking through

what was done the way that the prayer into the detail that the

prayer was answered. We can't speak good or bad of

this. The the new English translation

says it like this. Our wishes are of no concern.

This thing's from God, man, I wish we could get to a spot like

that, that whenever we notice the handiwork of God, it's like,

you know what, my opinion really don't matter.

I mean, why does God need my endorsement?

He don't. And why, if I would think

differently, what competition is that to God?

It don't really matter. They said we're just we don't

can't say good or bad. This thing is from the Lord.

It's as the Lord have spoken, right?

They didn't really have something to decide because God

had already decided the handiwork and what God had

already done with the Aaron and with the answering the prayer.

And so here's the serving again. I love this guy, man.

He's bowing over, he's worshipping again.

He's thankful. He's thankful brother Trout to

the Lord because he recognizes this as an act of God.

And then he starts giving gifts. Rebecca, if you thought you got

something at the well, we'll, here's some more silver and

here's some more gold and here's some raiment.

And then to her brother and her mother, he's given them precious

things. I don't know what it is, but

precious, precious things he's given to them.

What I love about this, never long the way did the servant

ever try to influence his Rebecca's decision.

He's not trying to influence her decision because even after her

family's decision, that's when he lavishes the goods upon them.

He's lavishing upon Rebecca, maybe even some tokens of of

marriage. As I said, whenever she's going

to be taken from her family, there's going to be a void there

in her family of work and so on and so forth.

And so now the man eats and we look at verse 54 just one more

time. They did eat and drink the men

that were with him and tarried all night.

They rose up in the morning. He said, send me away into my

master, the servant saying, listen, you've noticed the hand

of God in this. I've noticed the hand of God in

this. Why Is there any reason to

delay? I got about a month's journey

back home. Let me take Rebecca and let's

go. Let me take her home to her

groom, Isaac. Everything will be fine.

I mean, her family's already agreed to let her leave this,

what the Bible says. And her brother and her mother,

verse 55 said let the damsel abide with us a few days at the

least 10 after that she shall go.

And he said to them, hinder me not seeing the Lord have

prospered my way, send me way that I may go to my master.

And they said we will call the damsel Rebecca and we'll inquire

at her mouth. Her family's requesting a few

more days. And they might have been doing

that, maybe thinking they need to do that for Rebecca.

I mean, this has been all kind of sudden.

Give her time to process this, you know what I'm saying?

Eat a lamb's leg and figure out whether or not she wants to go

back. Give her some time just to kind

of Mull things over. Let everything settle in her

heart and mind. You know what they said though?

Said we'll call Rebecca and we'll let her decide.

And whenever Rebecca was asked, will you go with this man, She

said I will go. She didn't need any more time.

She didn't need time to think it over.

She was willing and ready to go. I don't know, folks, and there's

no record of it in Scripture. There's no record in Scripture

that all the covenant promises that was given to Abraham and

Isaac were shared. We don't have no information of

that whatsoever, but we read in the scripture that whenever they

released Rebecca and that she would go in verse 60, the Bible

says they that is her mother and her brother blessed Rebecca and

said this is so interesting unto her.

Thou art our sister, be thou mother of thousands of millions,

and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

Again, we have no record that the servant has shared any of

the covenant promises that was for Abraham and Isaac with them.

Yet as Rebecca's leaving her own family is proclaiming blessing

upon her, let her be the mother of many children, and let her

possess the gate of her enemy, which means property and land.

That she possesses the gate. She has the city that the gate

belongs to. Let her have property that 100%

lines up with the covenant promise of Abraham and Isaac, of

their descendants being many, and of a land that was promised

unto them. Amen.

And then again, everybody doing okay.

Then again, we see a partnership.

This is interesting that this would show up again.

We just looked at this last week, the partnership between

God and Abraham, right? We've seen this last week, and

we see this again with Rebecca and the servant.

The Bible says in verse #61 And Rebecca arose at her damsels,

and they rode up on the camels and followed the man.

This is what I want you to look at.

And followed the man. And the servant took Rebecca and

went his way. Rebecca followed the man, it

says, and it says the servant took Rebecca.

One might sit there for a moment and say, which is it?

Did she follow him or was she taken?

But the answer is both. It is a partnership.

Again, Rebecca wants to go and he wants her to go, saying that

she followed him or that he took her.

Those are not forced activities. They are words of agreement.

She wants to go, so he takes her.

It's the same agreement that Abraham had.

He departed, but it all says that God took him though from

Herb Chaldis and I. I'll state it again.

I'll hit the little nail again. We need that type of partnership

with the Lord, Not just him, what He wants, but also our will

submitting to wanting to go. We'll follow and He'll take.

He'll take and we'll follow. There must be a partnership.

The Bible says in verse 62, we didn't all right, we are.

And the Isaac came from the way of the well of Lahai Roy, for he

dwelt in the South country. Now where Isaac is coming from,

it's interest because the same this Lahai Roy is the same well

Hadgar had been at whenever Sarah had dismissed her in

Genesis 16 and whenever God had told her you're going to have a

you're going to have a son Ishmael, the same well that she

was at where when she was feeling destitute and abandoned.

And in that episode when God spoke to her, no one else is out

there but her. So she knew God was speaking to

her that she exclaimed, thou God sees me.

And she named the well as much mean the well of the living one

who sees me. God saw her in her place of

destitute and abandonment alone. God sees me.

And now Isaac has just left that place.

The Bible says from that way from that place.

And God has saw him after the death of his mother, Sarah, and

is about ready to give him a wife for moving the promise of

God forward just a little bit more.

Verse #63 I know you folks are just amazed that we're doing

this. And Isaac went out to meditate

in the field at the evening tide, And he lifted up his eyes

and saw, and behold, the camels were coming.

And Rebecca lifted up her eyes when she saw Isaac.

She lighted off the camel. For she had said into the

servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to me?

Does she's not ever seen him. And the servant had said, It is

my master. Therefore she took a veil and

covered herself. And the servant told Isaac all

things that he had done. This is interesting because he

we don't have 20 more verses for him telling every detail.

It just wraps it up with see they learned, they learned.

No never mind. And Isaac brought her into his

mother's tent and took Rebecca and she became his wife.

And he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after

his mother's death. So here's Isaac.

He's out in the field. He's he's meditating, he's

praying in the field. He lifts up his eyes.

He noticed camels, which were a rarity, Domesticated camels was

a rarity for that day. So he knows those ain't

anybody's camels. Those are our camels.

And Rebecca, she sees him in the field as well.

And she jumps off her camel because it was, it was not

proper etiquette for a woman to be on a beast like that in the

presence of a strange man. So she gets off her camel.

The folks, you, you want to read your romance stuff and watch

your romance stuff. This is the most romantic.

You're saying, brother McGee, somebody riding a camel.

Seriously. No, this is the most romantic.

Look at verse 63. Look at it.

This is where the romance is. Isaac lifted up his eyes the

very next verse. Simultaneously, Rebecca lifted

up her eyes, and the two locked a glance in the direction of the

other. I mean, how much more romantic

can you get? He lifted up his eyes.

She lifted up her eyes. And chemistry.

Don't you find it all in the Bible?

There's murder mysteries, there's romance here.

It's all there. Amen.

So they locked glance and Rebecca's maybe assuming that it

is Isaac, but she wants to know for sure who this man is that's

approaching her again. She's never seen him before.

And notice what the servant says.

Abraham's servant, as it was from the beginning, says this is

my my master. That's interesting because in

the very beginning he was calling Abraham my master.

But again, it's just a little tip off for us.

Yeah, he's the son of Abraham, but there's not ready to come.

A shift of authority and covenant, promise and

responsibility right here from Abraham to Isaac, He says, yeah,

Yeah. My, my master, the one that's

going to be the carrier of the covenant, the new focal point

for the promise. The Bible says, here's Rebecca.

She veils herself. It's a sign of modesty.

It's a sign of reverence, a sign of betrothal.

Folks in that culture, unmarried woman would veil herself when

meeting her future husband. This is part personal why that

happens today even in our American weddings.

The Bible Amen and so without re entering the entire event again,

Scripture just kind of sums it all up.

But here Isaac takes his bride to be.

She's going to become his wife. The Bible says she became his

wife in verse 67. Sarah remember his his mom is

dead. Sarah is dead.

There's a void, and Isaac brings Rebecca into his mom's tent, in

essence, to fill that void. It it was more than just

bringing her in the tent, it was a proclamation that you're going

to become the new matriarch. You're going to become the new

woman of the Covenant of promise.

Alan P Ross said it like this. He said it's important to note

that Rebecca actually replaced Sarah by entering the tent of

Sarah. What's going on?

He's he's letting this lady know you're, you're now apart.

You're now connected to MyHeritage.

You're now connected to all the covenant promises that I have

been given. And between you and I, we have

this burden of responsibility of carrying them forward for the

next generation. And she became his wife and he

loved her, which is always a tremendous phrase to me, being

that they haven't ever seen each other.

She became his wife and then he loved her.

Because the day we talk about love as a fanciful feeling, but

love is really a decision. Love's really a decision.

He married her and then he just made a choice.

I love her. Going to continue to love her.

It's going to be mine. You can stand for me tonight.

Think about this for a moment. If Rebecca thought the gifts

that she was given at the well and at her house with something,

she's just married into all these men, servants, maid

servants, gold, silver, livestock left and right.

What that means is due to this marriage, she now possesses all

that Isaac possesses. In a moment.

I know that that was right. It's a lot.

It's a lot of verses. Sometimes narratives are just

like that. They just just a little

storyline there. But all that sets us up then for

a new couple that will monitor and sons that will be born from

their womb, right? And things that will come.

And it's all pushing this whole story of the Bible forward,

right? The story of the Bible being he

had a man and a woman, the beginning they failed.

And then he says, well, I'm going to make me a people.

That's going to be a treasure to myself.

And I'm going to start it with Abraham.

And we're starting to trace that forward.

That's where we're at. It's the story of the Bible next

week. I know folks, we've had Sarah

die. We've had Isaac be born, Isaac

be born, Sarah die. We've had a wedding.

We'll have another death next week.

Come with your funeral, clothes on the dirge, whatever.

We're going to say our last respects to Abraham, all right?

Amen. There's a lot of things that I

hope through this. There's some things we can take

home though, right? Being specific in our prayers,

Not trying to force God's will, but stand back and watch God's

will. I don't want to determine the

outcome. I want to verify the outcome

because of what I've prayed. Amen.

Hallelujah. I'm going to pray.

I know there's man, we're all giddy around here.

Baby Piper's going to be coming down the the finish line here.

Amen. I don't know if Brother Mason

over here can stand it. We already call him Elder Mason.

I don't know if he's ready to accept that grandfather Grandpa

Row or not, but it's coming. Amen.

God bless you tonight. I'm going to pray right now.

The Lord would help us this week.

Father, we need your help, God. We can't make it a day without

you, Lord, God, even our best efforts, Lord, would fall short.

We need you to walk alongside us and help us.

Give us direction and guidance from day-to-day.

I pray, Lord, let your hand, God, be up on your people, God.

Empower them, Lord, with faith to pray specific prayers and see

your handiwork, Lord, in answering those prayers, God, as

they have been prayed. I pray, O Lord, today, help us,

O Lord, today, God, to be propelled by the right motives,

not even pure motives, but the right motives.

I pray, O God, today, Lord, be with us this week.

God, keep everybody healthy. Lord, strengthen them.

Lord, let things go well, Lord, in this birth and delivery,

Lord, for Alex and grace, Lord, in the next Lord hours, Lord, I

pray in Jesus name and the church say Amen, Amen.

God bless you tonight. Jesus name shake a hand, Amen

this evening and we'll be back here on Sunday.

Amen.