Living In Egypt Without Losing Canaan | Pastor Paul McGee

He lives, he lives, he lives Amen and because he does the old

hymns as I can face Amen tomorrow as a result of that

Amen don't want to go Amen without him.

Moses said Lord, we we don't want to go up hit her except

thou go with us, Amen except thou go with us.

And so I want him to be with me. I need him in my today, thankful

that he was in my yesterday, but I need him for my tomorrow,

Amen, as well. Hallelujah.

We're going to be turning to what?

You got it. Let's stand tonight, Amen.

We'll be turning to Genesis, the glory.

Amen, Hallelujah. You know, I'm going to be

reading from 2 chapters tonight, both from the book of Genesis,

Genesis chapter #45 matter of fact, you might as well just

just let your Bible lay open to the book of Genesis tonight.

Amen. Genesis 45.

Amen. I'm going to read a verse there

and also be reading from verse 46 or chapter 46.

And brother Zach, if you don't mind, I'm going to be grabbing

verse 1/2 just for out of out of here to be get started.

I know it's somewhere in that list of scriptures later as

well, but let's just touch it. Let's just give it a kiss here

right as we get started. OK, Amen.

Genesis chapter 45 and verse #20 Amen.

Genesis 45 · chapter mention

We'll read here this evening. This is all the story of Jacob

and Joseph and those 12 tribes or 12 brothers of, of sons

rather of Jacob. And just kind of set the thing

because I know we're kind of jumping into a story here, but

Joseph has been gone for many years, as you know.

He's went through being sowed into the slavery, been in the

the pit, so to speak. He's been in prison and he's

arose now to second command of Israel.

Famine is in the land, right? The brothers are coming to get

grain. They've come back for the second

time to get grain. Joseph has revealed himself to

his brothers. And so now he wants everybody to

come to Egypt. All right, So that's the staging

of everything. And so this is this what I'm

going to read to you is what Egypt what Egypt said.

This is what Pharaoh said concerning going and get Jacob

and the others and bringing their families.

He said in verse 20, and we'll look at other verses of this and

more of this will make sense as we go along.

But this is what Egypt said of everything that that you bring

your little ones, your family, he said in verse 20.

Also regard not your. Stuff.

For the good of all, the land of Egypt is yours.

In chapter #46 we're going to read what Jacob actually did.

All right, verse one. I'm just go grab just a little

bit there from verse one, brother Alex tonight.

And Israel. Israel is Jacob, remember his

name was changed. And Israel, chapter 46, verse

one. And Israel took his journey with

all that he had. Look at verse number six.

And they took their cattle and their goods, which they had

gotten in the land of Canaan and came to Egypt.

Jacob and all his seed with him, his sons, his son's sons with

him, his daughters, his son's daughters, and all his seed he

brought with him into Egypt. So I want you to see two things

here. Egypt says don't regard your

stuff. That's what it was told to

Jacob. But Jacob, when the trip

actually came to be, took all that he had.

Because the only way to survive in Egypt is not letting go of

some of the things that you have from the promise.

And for a little while tonight, I want to minister this Living

in Egypt without losing Canaan. Amen.

Living in Egypt without losing Canaan.

Can we pray right now Father, I thank you Lord for your spirit

that we have felt and experienced God in this place

today I pray O God emboldened us Lord, through your word and by

your word God let it be words of life.

Scripture says it is the Lord it's words of instruction.

I pray God you're able to captivate our minds right now.

Help us God lend a ear to what heaven may say Lord tonight

through his word God open myself to it.

I need to hear from heaven personally tonight, God, for my

own life and my walk and I'll praise you and I thank you Lord,

for what you'll do in Jesus name that I pray in the church say

Amen, Amen. God bless you tonight in Jesus

name. You might want to turn over to

John chapter 17 here this evening.

John 17 · chapter mention

I ask you the question tonight, how, how do you maintain or how

do we maintain a biblical identity and biblical scruples?

Without assimilating to the environment in which we live, is

is isolation. The answer is adopting the

worldview of our surroundings. Is that the best course of

action for us? In other words, how can we best

be in the world and impact our world?

Without becoming like the world, Jesus gave us the answer in his

High Priestly prayer in John chapter 17.

John 17 · chapter mention

You can look through that chapter as I'm talking to you

tonight, but Jesus is praying of this prayer.

It is His flesh that is crying out, if you will, to the Spirit.

He's testified that He walked in His earthly ministry and in His

earthly ministry He made it His mode of operation of trying to

give glory unto God and make God's glory evident in the earth

in which he was living. And he even speaks to God in no

uncertain terms that God, I made your name known to your

disciples. I made your name known unto the

world. And Jesus even says at a certain

spot, he says, now I'm going to give to this world and these

people and those ones that I've rubbed shoulders with God, I'm

to give them things that I have received from you.

You'll begin to read in the Scripture, like verse #9 that

the Bible says that as Jesus prays, he prays for them,

Speaking of his disciples. And this is kind of weird and

awkward really for us. Says that he prayed for them and

not the world, and that that almost takes us back a few

steps, you know, for him to pray for his disciples and not for

the world. That seems a little peculiar,

but His prayer was for those that would still yet be

remaining in the world. After He had ascended, after He

had translated from glory to glory, so to speak, and was no

longer in the world, He was offering up a prayer for those

that would still be in the world.

And His prayer was this, you see it in verse #11 He was praying

that those that were still yet in the world, namely His

disciples, that they would be kept.

The Bible says right that they would be kept.

He he seemed it seemed odd again that he would pray for them and

not the world, but he's praying that his disciples would be

kept. But the world, if you understand

this, the reason why he's doing this is because the world would

be left without hope. All right, without hope

concerning the message right concerning someone pointing them

to the Lord if it had not been for the disciples being kept and

keeping the name and propagating the name, fulfilling their

mission on the earth. Then as Jesus's hands and feet.

So he says I'm going away, but I still need a representation in

the earth. And so I'm going to pray for

them that they would be kept and that they would propagate your

name everywhere they go, and that they would keep.

They were to be the agents of change in the New Testament

Scripture, in the New Testament world, just as Jesus had been in

his earthly ministry. As a matter of fact, as Jesus

contemplates his ascension, his believers, he remember he said I

am the light of the world. But then he changes and tells

them you are the light of the world.

You're going to be the agents of change in this world.

And so I need them to be kept, and I need them to also keep

their association and their identity with me and with my

message and with my concepts. And so why?

So that they could influence the world in which they are living.

Notice what the Scripture says Jesus even says here in John 17.

He says, I gave them the word Lord that you gave me.

I gave them the same word, the same word that I had, I gave to

them. And I want them to tell others

about that word in their ministries as I did in my

ministries. He wanted them to know you can't

propagate or tell another gospel for that matter.

Even the apostle Paul said there's not another gospel, He

said, So I want them to say the same things that I said.

They need to be pan handlers, if you will, of the same message,

the same word. And Jesus is quite direct.

Look at verse #14 He said they are not of the world, just as

I'm not of the world. And he said in verse #15 so

Lord, don't take them out of the world, right?

He says they're not of it, but don't take them out of it.

Verse 18 even tells us He says I've sent them into the world

and it's this otherworldliness aspect of the disciples that he

wanted to use for the world's advantage.

There's something even similar that's spoken in the New

Testament scripture. The apostle Paul is, is being

rebuked in certain terms by the apostle Peter.

The Jews, of course, had this idea that that that to be

Christian, you had to be Jewish. There was an idea of that

floating down around in their age.

To be Christian, you had to be Jewish.

And and that's what was being towed to the Gentiles.

But that wasn't true. But but the that idea was being

shared. And here's what what what Peter

said to the apostle Paul in Galatians 214, he says, But when

I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth

of the Gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou being a

Jew liveth after the manner of Gentiles and not as do the Jews,

why compel us, thou the Gentiles to live as the Jews?

In other words, Paul told Peter, if this idea that everybody's

trying to sell that you got to be a Jew, a man in order to be a

Christian, he says, then why are you living like a Gentile, a man

trying to convince them to be a Jew?

He said, how can you convince a Gentile to live like a Jew when

you're not even practicing a Jewish type of practice

yourself? He he was just basically

pointing out that's absurd. That's ridiculous.

Why would a Gentile want to be a part of something that you you

don't even practice? That's what he was saying.

Paul was arguing that it really, though, wasn't about being

Jewish, but about being Christian.

But the essence, if I can say tonight, the essence of the

argument is applicable even for our life today.

Let me just put it another way. If a Christian behaves like

everybody else, how can you persuade someone that's not a

Christian to live a Christian life as being the best way to

live if you don't live in yourself?

That's absurd. Yeah.

I mean, it would be like standing on the soapbox saying

this is the best life there is living, giving testimony to it.

Yeah, over in the private sectors of my life and maybe

when I thought no one else would see her know, living not like

that. What type of message am I

sending? Is it the best life or is it it?

Is it the greatest thing that happened to me or is it not?

So you must understand, and I think it's important to look at

this tonight, that Jesus does not transition to praying for

those that would believe upon his disciples word or the world.

He did not transition to praying for the world until he had

finished praying for his disciples.

And it was purposeful. He said I want them to be one

with me as I am with God. What are you talking?

About. In other words, I want them to

be 1 not in the sense of being, you know, if you will, me in

essence, but I want them to identify with me.

I want them to be a oneness there.

I don't want that. I want this oneness to be that.

There's no variance in their mode of life compared to my mode

of life. He wanted them to be one as I

am, He said, with my Father, because that flesh that Jesus

had in his earthly ministry, the Bible says that Jesus did the

will and the dictates of his Father.

Anything that he was did, it's what his Father or the Spirit

wanted that flesh to do. He says I want that type of

oneness for my disciples. They're not living to the beat

of their own drum, but the beat of my drama is the rhythm that's

in their mind. It's the rhythm that's in their

talk. It's the rhythm that's in their

steps. I want them to have oneness like

we have oneness. I Hey man, he desired that.

Someone say glory. So, Joseph, you'll just have

here you go walk with me. Are you happy?

I mean, you're gonna have just walk with me here for a little

while tonight because Joseph has revealed himself to his brothers

and he has requested them. Joseph has requested.

He said, guys, go back, Terry, not don't lose time in doing

this. I need you to go get dad.

I need you to go make sure all the families are gathered

together. Come back to Egypt.

All right, because there's still several years of famine that's

left. I believe there was five years

of famine that was left. He says you need to go get them.

And whenever they go to their dad, of course, their dad.

The last time that he knew to his own assumption by the

evidence of the bloody coat that was presented to him, his

assumption was Joe Joseph is dead.

So now to hear that Joseph is alive brings great joy into his

life and in his heart. After assuming that his son had

been dead, he is now overjoyed. But listen to me.

Though that may be the case, Jacob still approaches this

decision with some care. Because before he'll ultimately

embark on this trip to Egypt, the Bible says on his way he

stops by a place called Beersheba.

And he's going to out for sacrifices to God there.

And he's going to, if you will, converse with God there.

Amen. And this is reasonable because

he is moving from Canaan to Egypt.

Someone say glory I, I please, please understand me.

Whenever we talk about the Pharaoh Amen, that Joseph knew

and the Pharaoh that we would know when the children of Israel

was delivered from bondage. We're talking about two

different Pharaohs. I understand that I get that

they they've not yet had the 400 years of bondage Amen, in Israel

or anything like that. But what we must realize that

could be going through Jacob's mind is this.

I've had some ancestors that's already had some.

Dealings. With Egypt his dad did, his

grandfather did. The Bible says no sooner than

Abraham and Sarah made their trek from Earth Chaldees to

Haran to the land, a promise that there was famine in the

land. And what did they do?

They went down into Egypt and it was their visit to Egypt that

secured them a little handmaid by the name of Hagar that they

acquired from that trip to Egypt that would later become a player

in their impatience while they waited for the promise of God to

come to fruition in their life. And Abraham's union with that

Egyptian handmaid would produce something in their family that

would later. Mock and despise the promised

child, Isaac. And so Jacob, as he's thinking

about going down in Egypt, he says, I know that my grandfather

went down in Egypt. And so I got to make sure this

is going to be the right option because he went down there and

got something that helped produce something in his life

that despised the promise that God.

So I got to consider real well about this trip to Egypt and I

got to think here he said, my dad Bible says that Isaac in his

lifetime likewise was a famine. And guess what?

He made plans to do what his dad had done.

He's going to go down into Egypt, escape, so to speak, like

his father Abraham. But the Bible tells us in

Genesis 26 that God appeared unto Isaac and told him, don't

go down into Egypt. And as a result of all this, we

see where. Isaac stayed.

In a time of famine in Gharar, a barren, desolate place, that God

caused Isaac to reap a harvest during the famine in a in a

barren place a hundredfold that year, and that Isaac grew in his

livestock and his herd and his cattle, and that he waxed right

in. The Bible says he became very

great. He had great store no doubt

Jacob is thinking about. One of them went to Egypt, they

picked up something that brought hurt to the family.

One was told not to go down to Egypt and was blessed for

staying where they were. So what is a guy to do?

What does it got to do when you have that type of history in

your family? Not go because of what happened

to Abraham and Isaac. How could how could Jacob still

go and still make it? How can he go and not lose

someone? Say man, oh God, like I got a

long walk to go here. Walk with me.

Hello, Amen. Egypt was sometimes called the

land of him because the descendants of Ham had settled

that particular city. We know the character of Ham.

We know the character of that son, a man of Noah, as it was

brought to light. He was the one that uncovered,

or if you will, brought to light, the drunken, naked state

of his father in his tent. Ham was the one that exploited

his father's moment of weakness. And so no doubt Jacob was

wondering, should I subject my family to a place whose founder,

a man and family origin, Amen, has a story of of lighting to

exploit another person's week. Is that what I should expose my

family to? And yet, whenever Jacob went to

Beersheba and Genesis 46, God's word to him was this.

He said, Jacob, do not fear going down into Egypt.

He even said, Jacob, I'm going to go with you into Egypt.

He even said Jacob there in that place I'm going to make a view

of great nation in Egypt. Look at Genesis 46 two through

4. You can read it with me and God

spake into Israel the visions of the night and said Jacob, Jacob

and he said, here I am. And he said I am God the God of

thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt,

for I will there make thee of a great nation.

I will go with thee into Egypt, and I will also surely bring the

up again, and Joseph shall be put his hand upon thy.

My eyes, what you understand tonight that there are two

different standards. Someone hear me.

There are two different standards for living in Egypt.

You have Egypt standard and then you had God's people standard.

Egypt standard for living in Egypt is this.

Don't worry about anything else. We'll provide for you what you

need. Don't worry about anything else.

We got the best that the world has to offer right here in

Egypt. You just adopt what we have.

You take what we have. You live with what we have and

don't you worry about anything else.

That is the standard of Egypt for living in Egypt for for

God's people, though it is quite different and quite contrary to

that for God's people is this. I might live in Egypt, I might

have my housing in Egypt, I might be located in Egypt, but

I'm going to take with me everything that's in the land of

promise, everything that's associated with God and about

God I'm going to surround my life with to be a.

So it's Amen. Note.

Note. Now, Joseph, after he revealed

himself to his brothers and learned that his father was

still alive, he urged them to come to Egypt.

I want you to notice what Joseph.

Says the Joseph that survived the slavery and the pit and

being lied on in that land. Man that said, I can't sleep

with Potiphar's wife because that would be against God,

right? No law yet and established the

man that did all this stuff. Here's what he says in Genesis

45. These are Joseph's words and

verse 9. He's having these words be taken

by his brothers, to be taken to his father.

Hasty, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith the

son, thy son Joseph, God hath made me Lord of all Egypt.

Calm down unto me and tarry. Look at verse 10.

And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be

nearer to me, thou and thy children, and thy children's

children, and thy flocks and thy herds, and.

All that thou hath, Joseph's words was to daddy.

You come, but you come with everything you got.

Look now, if you will at Genesis 45, I'm telling you, I got a lot

of Bible tonight. You won't be able to leave and

say he didn't say anything about the Bible.

Genesis 45 and verse 17, this is Egypt's standard.

This is Pharaoh's words. Look at it.

Verse 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren,

this do ye laid your beast, and go get you out unto the land of

Canaan, and take your father and your households, and coming to

me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye

shall eat the fat of the lamb. Now art thou commanded this?

Do ye take you wagons? How the land of Egypt for your

little ones, for your wives, and bring your father.

And come and this is my text. And also regard not your stuff.

For the good of all. The land of Egypt is yours.

Let me break it down with some other translations.

That whole idea also regard not your stuff.

Other translations say it like this.

Don't worry about your stuff. You can leave your stuff behind.

You don't have to bring all of your things from your country.

Do not concerned about that stuff, never mind those things.

Give no thought to them. Someone say Amen, Amen.

It was as though Egypt was saying don't worry about your

stuff because we can replace your stuff with what we have.

We can replace your stuff with what we got.

It's no different than what Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and

Daniel face when they were taken in captivity and they were

trying to put. Their names upon them, and put

their influence on them, and their education in them to serve

a certain purpose. But Daniel and those boys,

before they ever arrived in that exile had already determined in

their heart, we're not going to eat the King's meat.

What are you saying? We got some stuff too.

We so it's Amen. And so chapter 46 then opens

with those words I read in my text and Israel.

Jacob then took his journey with all that he.

Had of course. God's going to tell Jacob don't

fear going to Egypt because he already knew.

When Jacob left his homeland before he got to bear Sheba, he

was already bringing everything he had.

Someone hear me right now. He already knew it.

He's going to tell no doubt Jacob that I'm going to go with

him because he was already taking all the goods that he had

obtaining with him. He's going to tell him no doubt,

but there's going to be increase and there's going to be overflow

because he not just had son and daughter and herds and flocks.

He had all that he. Had All right.

Come on. Yes, Sir, The only successful

way to live in Egypt is to live there with the goods that you've

gotten from your promise. Now, this may seem weird because

they're headed to Egypt, particularly the land of Goshen.

The Bible says Jacob's face is directed toward that location.

And by Pharaoh's own admission, I won't go there because I

don't. You love the Bible, don't you?

Genesis 47 and 6 for a reference.

Even by Pharaoh's own omission, Brother Reese, Pharaoh said that

Goshen was the best of the land of Egypt.

And so if Goshen is the best that Egypt has to offer, why

would you need anything else? Because the best that Egypt has

to offer still tales compared to the goods you've gotten from the

land. A promise.

It may be Egypt's best, but it's not Canaan's goods.

Look, now we got to follow this. I still got a lot of preaching

to. Do Genesis 46 and verse 32.

Now this is what Joseph is going to say to Pharaoh.

Dad's come, everybody's come. This is his speech now that he's

prepared for Pharaoh. Look at this now, Genesis 46 and

verse 32. This is what Joseph's telling

Pharaoh. The men are shepherds for their

trade, have been to feed cattle and they have brought their

flocks and their herds. Look at this now and all that

they have. They're going to be located in

Goshen. But Alex, the best that Egypt

has. They're thankful for the food,

no doubt from Egypt in this time a famine.

But I imagine maybe in the back of Pharaoh's mind he's thinking,

I told them not to worry about their stuff, but they've brought

all that they have. There's some aspects of the

promised land that they have brought with them because there

are some things that Egypt wouldn't have a suitable

substitute for. I don't know if I'm talking to

anybody tonight. That's OK.

I preach to myself. Amen.

It's important to make our stance, ladies and gentlemen,

Amen. And Joseph followed through.

He just didn't say. That's what I plan on telling

Pharaoh if you look up. Chapter 47 and verse one, the

Bible says that he addresses Pharaoh.

The moment that he's addressing it takes record and he says all

that they have are come out Amen of the land of Canaan.

He actually told Pharaoh everything that they got has

come out of the land of Canaan. They were in Egypt, if I could

say, but they were not of Egypt. God sent them there and God was

going to keep them from evil there.

They were in in just a a foreign land, Amen.

But they kept the goods and the sense of their promised land.

Some of Joseph's brothers, about five of them, were presented

before Pharaoh, the Scripture says, and they even stood before

Pharaoh and stated their position, and their position

supported that they had brought. All they said, for we here is

our purpose. We are here to sojourn in the

land that we have come. You must understand very well

what they're meaning by when they say we have come to

sojourn. That means simply this.

We've come to do well here for a time.

We come to do well here temporarily.

We come to come here just for a little space of time.

A sojourner is someone that has no rights of citizenship.

In other words, we're. In Egypt.

But we're not taking up citizenship in Egypt.

We're just here for a space of time.

We're just here temporary. We're just here for a moment.

Halo Noble Koshaya I'll tell you why.

I'm not going to adopt the best thing that Egypt has for me,

because Egypt's not my home. Egypt is not my residency, it's

not where I dwell. I'm a sojourner, I'm a Pilgrim,

I'm a stranger. I'm just here for a moment, and

in a moment I could be translated this.

We bring all we had because we're living for a different

world, we're living for a different country.

They had the testimony of their great grandfather Abraham, that

the writers of Hebrews says that they confessed.

They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims ought the

earth, and so ought we be. Honey, if you do do the math and

the measurement, 70 years here compared to eternity after

death, you tell me where the big rocks should go first.

Peter 211 says Peter's right. He says, dearly beloved, he

said, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, He says, abstain

from fleshly lust, which war against the soul.

You know Peter, he's he's calling something back to their

minds. He's calling, he's, he's saying,

you've gotten too comfortable, he said.

But I beseech you as a stranger in Pilgrim, I'm calling you back

to what you really are. This earth is not yours.

The pleasures of this place are not yours.

The best? The rest of this place is not

yours. You're a Pilgrim and a stranger.

You have no citizenship here. He's trying to call something

back in their life, and so he admonishes them.

Abstain from the fleshly lust. Don't entangle yourself and the

affections of earthly things. Don't entangle yourself and the

affections of this world. I know you've got access to the

best that need to pass, but this isn't home to you.

You're a sojourner. This is temporary.

You're waiting. Sometimes the old preachers

preach at funerals. We're just waiting to give our.

Halle over here and our Luluya over there.

Jacob took all he had because in the land of Goshen he was going

to create a little Canaan. Someone say, man, let me bring

it to you from a different perspective years ago.

I love listening to Ted Radio Hour published by National

Public Radio. It's a podcast you can listen to

if you want to. Got a lot of sometimes

meaningless information and stuff, and that's the type of

person I am. I heard a podcast there called

It Takes Time and where's one part of the podcast that

interested me enough actually did look up a Ted talk that the

lady had given called Living on Two Planets.

Her name is Nagine Cox, she's an operations energy engineer at

the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles, CA.

Her job is to manage and to keep touch and base with some of the

Rovers that have been sent to Mars.

Just nerd out with me for a moment.

Now, the difficulty in this Sister Grace's there's a group

of engineers and scientists that for a 90 day mission was going

to be communicating back and forth with this Rover.

It's not like you could have a joystick on Earth and control

the Rover in Mars. Distance is too far.

At night the robot would go to sleep and recharge its

batteries. Don't we all need that?

It would go to sleep and recharge its batteries on Mars.

And as it did that, it would send data back from the previous

day to these scientists and engineers.

They would get record of what the robot had done with the

Rover done upon Mars. And based upon that, then they

would, through their their computer programming and

everything, send new information about what it wanted, what they

wanted it to do the next day. And so in order to keep this

constantly going for 90 days, so why the robot was sleeping, they

had to be awake doing all the calculations and mutations for

this. Now herein lies the problem,

Brother Reese. A Mars day is not the same

length as a Earth Day. A Mars day is called a soul.

A Mars day is 24 hours and 40 minutes long.

Our Earth Day, in case you don't know, is a 24 hour day.

But in order to have everything delivered so that when that

robot woke up at 9:30 in the morning on Mars and would later

go to sleep at 5:30 at night on Mars.

In order to keep In Sync after that first day, all of those

group of people that was working on that Mars project had to come

to work 40 minutes later every day because it's 40 minutes

longer at Mars. I'll just hold after a period of

time After doing that for so many days, they're getting up in

the middle of the night Earth time just to stay on Mars.

It got so overwhelming that someone said one day we.

Need to do. XYZ tomorrow and she looked back

at them and said, you mean tomorrow, tomorrow or Mars

tomorrow? And so this differences of

attending to a place that was far away and not presently

living there. Then brother Alex Mason begin to

change their language when they started talking about today that

man Earth Day. But if they were talking about a

Mars today, they would call it a two soul.

If they were talking about yesterday on Mars, they talked

about yester. Soul.

And they were talking about tomorrow on Mars.

They talked about next or so or so Morrow.

They used that language so they could keep track of are you

talking about the Earth or are you talking about what we're

involved in on Mars? It got so dynamic.

They actually had a watch maker make a watch that would keep

Mars time. It was waited a little bit more

so it'd be a little slower, so that they could look down at

their hand and see a watch that Toad Earth time and a watch that

Toad Mars time. Someone say, man, they did this

for 90 days, 90 days, getting up during the middle of the night

every day, 40 minutes later just to correspond with what was

going on. Mars.

Hey, man. Because say she said this.

She says in reality, we were living on.

Earth, but we were on a Mars watch.

Hallelujah, she's saying. We were working on Mars.

Amen. But we were living on the Earth.

We were attempted toward Mars, but we were living on Earth.

We were focused on Mars, but we were living on Earth.

And he, she said the greatest challenge was this Amen.

Working and looking and focusing on a place that didn't

correspond where we lived. So it's Amen.

So it began to affect their language.

And so they developed another language and culture to be able

to understand one another. As a matter of fact, those that

were in that group, in sciences engineers that were working on

that, they even came up with the nomenclature of calling

themselves Martians and everybody else Earthlings

because they were on a time that was different from the land they

were living in. I don't know if anybody

understands, but I'm preaching right now.

They were living on a time different Amen than what they

were looking forward to. This is the testimony of those

that were working in the program.

They started to say, you know what?

We feel somewhat separated from the Earthlings here because our

lives. Are so consumed with what's

going on up there. We feel a little disenfranchised

and different from anybody else around here because they're not

on our time. They don't have the same focus

that we have or I'm about ready to have a fit here.

They begin to admit that they felt somewhat separated from

everybody else because, in a literal fashion, they were

living for a different. World and a different time.

I'm not making this stuff up, folks.

I'll give you the resources you can go to and listen to it for

yourself. They even said this.

They said the more we focus on Mars, the more we lost track of

the world we were living in. They said they did in such a way

that whenever they were at work, because it happened to be night

at Mars that time and daylight at work, they would pull the

blinds, put the foil up because they wanted the semblance that

they were at Mars, that it's dark, it's night, right time.

So we don't want what's going on in this world to affect what

we're trying to perceive in the other world that we're.

I would to God that some of us could blind some things of the

real world in our life so we could keep the attention, the

focus, the heartbeat, the language, the time, the urgency

of that place that. Because if you didn't keep a set

pattern of language and a set pattern of lifestyle and a set

pattern Amen of what you were attentive to, you could get

confused about what world you were trying to live in.

They ended up saying Brother Fred, There's so many of them

that talked about it. They ended up said that our our

consumption of that 90 days with Mars didn't just impact us, it

impacted everybody that lived in our household.

There are pictures, I've seen them.

There was some fathers that had their wives working in that

thing and however they arranged it, they had a job that had

different shifts and they switched.

They were taking their kids to the beach in the wee hours of

the morning. They got pictures of it because

they were living on Mars. Time I'm going to take, Jacob

says. I'm going to take everything I

got from the Promise. And my sons and my daughters and

my livestock, They're all going to.

We going to be in Egypt, but we're not going to be of Egypt.

We're going to have a culture there, but it won't be an

Egyptian culture. We're going to have a language

there. But it's not going to be the

Egyptian language. We're going to have a practice

there, but it will not be all of the concerns of where we're

living. Y'all doing all right?

We'll bring something else to you for the sake of

understanding. You go to New York City today.

Some have been. You go to Chicago today.

There's going to be areas in those cities.

They're going to be called Chinatown, Little Italy, Korean

town. They exist in those places.

Why? Because there's groups of

people, immigrants that came to America and they wanted a space

that they could live in, work in and preserve their culture in

and preserve their identity. In so much so that buildings

that are in those etched out areas of Chinatown and such

reflect. What buildings might be like in

China, the architecture, even the art in those places are

reflective of their homeland. In those in those neighborhoods,

those little enclaves, if you will, the people, they even have

language schools that teach the mother language of their

country. They're in America, but they're

keeping their children familiar with the language of their

homeland. In those places.

They have places of worship that are designated to the gods that

they would worship in China or the gods that they would worship

in Italy. They have cultural festivals

that don't mean anything nor are celebrated in America, but they

celebrated in that space because they're trying to keep an

identity. What they've done is created a

community that connects them to their heritage.

What they're saying, we might be in America, but we're going to

keep to our roots. I'm Korean.

The food I eat is Korean. The language I speak is Korean.

The festival and community that I have is Korean.

I'm in America. Red, white and blue, but I got

some tenants of MyHeritage. That are not compromisable.

You're not getting it yet. Let's go a little deeper.

How many here has ever been to a zoo?

Anybody been to a zoo? No.

We need to get up. A trip to Miska Park.

Me. Maybe not right now.

All right. Not right now, Tracy, Not right

now. OK.

You go to a zoo and the habitat for each animal in that zoo

differs one from the other. They all do not have these

identical same habitats for each animal.

The reason being these zoologists understand in order

for that animal to thrive in a place that isn't home, we got to

make a habitat that's familiar to home.

Someone hear me right now. They understand having a habitat

that's familiar to home is going to help this animal's

well-being. It's even going to help their

health. It's going to help some of their

natural behaviors. If they have a space though,

it's not the safari of Africa. If they have a space that

mirrors the safari of Africa right here in this zoo.

Depending upon the certain specifications and species of

the animals, it may differ because some animals might be

prone to being climbers, other animals might be prone to being

swimmers, other animals might be prone to be burrowers.

And as a result of that, they're going to make that habitat,

Amen, that will match what they are prone to.

There's going to be ropes and there's going to be trees in the

habitat for monkeys. So they can still.

Climb and swing from 1:00 to another if you go over to where

the Penguins. And the polar bears are.

The temperature is probably going to be vastly different

than what it will be for other habitats, but they're trying to

keep a means of normalcy for their life in a strange land.

Their surroundings are there to make to support Hey man and

promote what each native animal does and where they are from.

I'm a sojourner. I've just made a habitat here

below. It mirrors heaven.

It mirrors the tenants of heaven.

It mirrors the dynamics of He Who.

Sits on that throne because the only way I've learned to be able

to survive here is to have a little heaven down here.

I've understood if we need to understand as a church, the only

way we're going to be able to survive in this whole world if

this place we call the church has a touch of heaven on it, as

if you will likeness of heaven on it.

I'm living in Egypt without losing Canaan.

Everybody doing OK? There you go.

Hee Haw, Hee Haw. It's what we're doing here

below. We're trying to navigate a

temporal dwelling while we're holding on to eternal promise.

And so the balance is trying to stay in the world without the

world getting in me. And Jacob understood isolation

wasn't the answer. What Isaac did, Isolation wasn't

the answer. And he understood also that

assimilating, adopting his surroundings of Egypt wasn't the

answer. So he understood if he was to be

an agent of change, the only thing he could do is work toward

heaven while he was living on earth.

Stay with me. I'll close.

I'm surprised I got through all this this quickly.

I know you might not think it's quick, but it was to me.

So what you're saying the night pastor, I'm saying this, listen

to me. Here's my advice to you.

You need to take all you have, your faith, your values, your

testimony. You need to take all you have

wherever you go below here. You need to take all you have,

not just your children or your family.

You need to take all that you have.

And so the question then I posed to you tonight is this, are you

living as a sojourner in this world or have you grown too

comfortable with Egypt? See, because that can easily

happen. Naomi went down into Moab.

She was just going to sojourn there.

Ten years even pass. She's without husband, without

two sons. Now.

Her temporary stay turned into a little bit longer stay and

things started to be subtracted from her life until finally she

says, you know, I'll go back to Bethlehem, Judah.

So you got to be careful that the sojourning doesn't turn into

a residence. Listen, I know we all, you know,

we're in this world day, man, you know, don't be a renter, you

know, invest in something you can own.

Listen, whenever it comes to spiritual things in this world,

just be it. Just be a renter because the

place that you're living isn't worth you investing your money

and your goods. There's some things that people

rent. Oh, Lord help.

And I know sometimes you got to make do what you got to do.

But if they would give me the option to buy, I would say no

thank you because I'm not willing to invest what I got

into this. I know you say it's the best you

got, but see, I'm not from this country.

I'm. Not from this country.

You think it's the best because this is all you've been exposed

to. But I've been exposed to

something better than your best. I'm not from this country.

You don't know what I've been exposed to.

You don't know what I've felt. You don't know what I've tasted.

You don't know what I've handled.

You sing those songs. This whole world is not my home.

I'm just passing through. I'll stand for Jesus and let the

world go by. I wouldn't take nothing for my

journey now. I got to make it to heaven

somehow. We got to set our affections on

the things that are. We got to abstain from the

earthly lust. We don't need to get entangled

in that. I beseech you, as Peter did

those, he said. Ye are pilgrims and strangers,

Fred. Tomorrow I'm going to get up and

I'm going to carry all the goods that I have of Canaan into my

workplace. I'm going to get up tomorrow and

I'm going to carry all the goods that I have amid and among my

lost family. I'm going to get up tomorrow and

I'm going to carry all the goods that I have of the promise into

my community. Because we need to be creating a

little heaven, little pockets of the Kingdom influence within

this world. Each one of our life should then

be a testimony that while they're living here, they don't

belong here.

I can imagine maybe some of those Egyptians where they just

don't keep things like we keep things.

They don't say things like we say things.

They the affairs of their life and the way in which they act

are different than what we do. Thank God.

If you want everything that Egypt has to offer, then live.

Just live like Egypt. But if you want everything that

Heaven has to offer, keep the right times and keep them

separate. I feel the Holy Ghost.

It would be wise for us tonight to flood these altars with

lifted voices and lifted hands and say, God, I know where my

feet are presently seated. I know where my feet are

presently planted. But I got a heart.

I got a mind that stuck up on the affections for things that

are. Above God, oh God, it's that

place above that has dictated my culture.

It's that place above that's dictated my language.

It's that place above God. I'm not on the same time, folks,

do you understand? We're not on the same time.

There is a timetable that is ticking.

We're not on the same time. There's.

People with their head. In the sand, thinking all the

time of the world is before them, but there's somebody that

has a pulse of heaven time saying, you know what,

something's going on there, something's happening there,

something's about right. We got to live in Egypt with how

losing Canaan come on, somebody, somebody needs to talk with God.

If somebody's been getting confused which world on what

planet they're living on, it's time to get it straight.

It's time to get it straight. In our hearts.

Straight in our minds. We need to come to terms with

it. I've taken everything.

I've taken everything. I've taken everything that God's

promised me and given to me. I'm not relinquishing anything.

I'm not trading Egypt for anything.

No, no, no. Keep going to keep what I got.

I'm going to keep what he's touched me with.