Deuteronomy Continued

Them what the is. So with that, what ended up

happening is Moses up on the mountain, and with Moses

up on the mountain, and he's actually getting the tables,

and he walks down Aaron, who is the assistant pastor,

has been listening to the people instead of listening to

the pastor, and instead of listening to God. Because at

that particular time, the relationship was established with Moses. The

Bible says it like this, with Moses, I speak face

face to face with Moses. I don't deal with Moses.

I don't deal with the leaders. I don't deal with

the preachers. I don't deal with the prophets. I don't

deal with the folk who are in a leadership like

I do the folk who are behind them. With them,

I have to speak face to face. So there is

a different relationship ship require of the prophet, of the priest,

of the teacher, of the preacher of the pastor. There's

a different relationship required. But then the people must have

an ear to hear what God is saying through their leader.

So it's Moses's job to lead them. Verse three. We're

in Deuteronomy chapter one, and it came to pass in

the fortieth year. This is the fortieth year, This is

the eleventh month, and this is the first day of

the month that Moses speaks unto the children of Israel,

according to all that the Lord had given him in

the Commandments. So here he's going to repeat what God

has already said, because God loves us so much that

he allows it to be on repeat, and he normally

repeats it if you didn't get it the first time.

So if you didn't get it the first time, because

according to scripture, we are responsible for what we hear.

As soon as we hear it. You don't have to

like it, but as soon as you hear it, you

become responsible for what you hear. Okay, So when he

speaks here in verse three, it would be good if

you had the handout, but you can write it into

your bible. He's not just talking about the ten Commandments.

He's also talking about the six hundred and thirteen laws.

It is believed that in the Torah, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,

numbers Deuteronomy that there are six hundred and thirteen laws

we must obey if we're going to be good Jewish Christians.

There's six hundred and thirteen laws. Some of them are repeated,

some of them are in the New Testament. They're written

in different forms. But we are responsible for the six

hundred and thirteen laws plus the ten Commandments. So to

be a good Christian, you're responsible for the law that

was given by Moses and the six hundred and thirteen

laws that were in the trough. Verse four says, and

he's slain Shaihan, the king of the Amorites, which dwelt

in hesbond and ours the king of Bashan, which dwelt

at Astra in Edra. So what he's telling them is

God has slain kings. God has taken down people. He

has opposed the enemy that is against us. So not

only has God given us food, not only has God

kept our clothes from wearing out forty years. Can you

imagine having a shirt for forty years, a pair of

shoes for forty years. So the clothes, the food, I

brought you out of bondage. I brought you out of

a troubled place. But even though he brought people out

of bondage, some people still love bondage. New Testament. Let's

bring it in a New Testament. New Testament. Say, some

people love darkness more than they love light. And that's

what it means, because the word Egypt means a dark place.

Egypt is a dark place. So I brought you out

of a dark place into a place of promise. And

some people were angry, because as much as some people

would rather be told for time to get up, some

people would rather not make a decision on what to eat.

They just have to eat what's sent in front of them.

Some people were happy being in bondage, but he's now

reminding them Verse four of chapter one, and then verse five.

On this side of Jordan, in the land of Moab,

began Moses to declare the law. So he began to

speak to them again, saying, this is what we gotta do.

Verse six, the Lord, our God spake unto us in horror.

Again horror is Mount Sinai, saying you have dwelt long

enough in this mountain, turn ye and take your journey

and go to the mount of the Emmorits. Now the

problem we're going to the mount of Ammorits. The problem

going in the plane is that in Emera, where the

Emmorites are, they're giants. We know this by looking at numbers,

because when the man of God sent out the twelve spies.

Only two spies came back and said, the Man of

God said, what do y'all want to do? Two spies says, sir,

let's go. We are well able to take it. And

they gave a good report. Their report was the grapes

are big as a person's head. The fruit that's in

that land is bigger than you can imagine. But it

was also noted that in that place there are giants.

We will see two sets of giants the annex, which

to some of us who have already studied numbers, becomes

very interesting because it is believed that they became giants

because angels mixed with men and produced a superior race. Okay,

so when we look at this and we began to

look at the fact that he's saying, I allowed you

to slaugh every enemy that was in front of you.

Thank you, Lord. That just hurt you. Excuse me, I

just heard the Lord say every enemy that's in front

of you, I'm going to allow them to be destroyed.

So you really, you really don't have any enemies because

God is handling your enemies. God is taking care of

the opposition that's in front of you. God, according to

the scriptures, will even make your enemies be at peace

with you, win your ways. Please God, Okay, I'm trying

not to holler, because right there I fell holler in

my spirit. I'm saying, this is teaching my life glory.

Bless your names. He says. God is going to handle

every just like he handled every enemy of Israel. He's

handling your enemies. You don't have to worry. You don't

have to get frustrated, you don't't have to get been

out of shape. God is handling your enemy. So verse seven,

let me get back to this. Why I go to

hollering and screaming in this out Okay, see, he says,

turn turn to you and take your journey and go

to the mount of the Amirits. Go to the place

because Ammorites. Where the Amorites are there much supply. So

God is trying to take us a place from a

place of nothingness to a place of great supplies. God's

trying to take us to a place where there is

stuff that you ain't never seen before, grapes as big

as your head. So there's this is the land of plenty,

a land of much supply. Into all the places now

they're unto in the plain, in the hills, and in

the vale, and in the south and in the seaside

to the land of the cana Knights. You should underline

cana Knights in your Bible, because the land of the

Cana Knights is the place of promise, and unto Lebelon

and unto the great river, the river euphrates east. So

this is Caina is the promised land. Caina is the

place where the amorits dwell. Caina is the place where

there's great supply. Cana is the place where God is

destroys all of the enemies. So verse eight says, behold,

I've set the land before you. Go in and possess

the land which the Lord swore unto your fathers. Let's

read it again. Behold, I have given it to you.

I placed it in your reach. It's right there, and

all you have to do is go in and possess it.

Don't look at the giants. Don't look at the tragic

stuff that you see. Don't look. One of the problems

in the Book of Numbers that they did was when

they came back to talk to the leader, they said,

but wait a minute, we are like grasshoppers to them.

You must be careful how you see yourself and in

this season, how you describe yourself to other folks. Sometimes

we demean ourself as a way of humbleness, but they

were not demeaning their self as a way of humbleness.

They were demeaning themselves, recognizing or now realizing that they

were limiting themselves. Don't limit the potential that God has

placed inside of you. You are I said it Sunday.

I'm gonna say it again out. You are greater than

you know. The hand of God is upon your life,

and with God you can do all things. So don't

minimize yourself. Don't limit yourself. The hand of God is

on your life. You are great, You are powerful. You

are anointed, and it does mean oh God, a pastor.

I don't get everything right. No, you and I get

everything right. But is still annointed? Pastor? I don't say

sometimes I don't know. I said, but you're still annointed

a pastor even with the fast I haven't been. I

gotta be honest with you, Pastor, I the struggle. No,

but you're still anointed. Understand the power that God has

placed inside of you. Saying verse eight I've said it

before you. It's right there, it's in your futh it's

right in hand. It's the same thing that I promised Abraham,

Isaac and Jacob. But Abraham, Isaac and Jacob die and

never get the promise. That's not gonna happen to us.

We must possess what God has promised for us. So

God has promised it not only to Abraham, but to

Abraham's seed. And we're the seed of Abraham. We are

the seed, the offspring of Abraham. Our fathers did not

possess the promise. But this is the generation of them

that seek Him, that seek His face. Oh, Jacob, this

is the generation that's gonna see the promise of God.

This is the generation that's going to have the blessings

of the Lord. This is the generation that will possess

what God says. This. This is the generation that's gonna

obey God and receive what God has promised. Verse nine says,

and I spake unto you at the time, saying I'm

not able to bear myself alone. Verse ten says the

Lord your God have multiplied you, and behold you are

as the stars in the heavens for a multitude So

this is the fulfillment of Genesis chapter twenty two and

verse seventeen. Because in Genesis chapter twenty two and seventeen,

the Lord tells, He tells Abraham, our father. He tells Abraham,

I'm gonna bless them that bless you. I'm gonna curse

them that curse you, he says to Abraham. And in

you does the whole nation. Twelve. I'm gonna multiply you

to the part that your children will not be number.

We are the fulfillment of Genesis chapter twenty two, verse seventeen.

And we are the fulfillment of Deuteronomy chapter one and ten.

We have now been multiplied so much so that there

are Christians Christians all over the world. So we have

been multiplied. So we see that what God says, he does.

So we see that what God says he does. So

we see that he is not a man that he

can tell a lie. Because whatever he says, it happens.

We can attest to the fact, and we are witnesses

to the fact that God has multiplied us verse eleven.

So the Lord, God of your fathers, make you a

thousand times so many more as you are, and bless

you So the Lord God make you a thousand times

so many more as you are, and bless you as

He has promised. That is the blessing that not only

goes to you, but it goes to your seed and

your seed seed, and your seed seed seed and your

seed seed. See, it's a perpetual blessing that whatever God

has for you is also being blessed to go through

your generations. And not only that, he says. Notice what

he says, and you should underline this in your Bible.

He says, so many more as you are, and bless you.

So God has blessed us with every spiritual gift. You

haven't even tried to do it yet, but God has

blessed you with every spiritual gift. You can speak in tongue,

you can cause miracles to happen. You can speak things

that are not and they must occur because God has

blessed you with every spiritual gifts. You can dream, you

can interpret your dreams. You can speak prophecy, and you

don't have the title of prophet because God has placed

on your life every spiritual gift. So Verse twelve says,

how can I myself alone bear your cumberance and your

burden and your strife. This is Moses asking the question.

So then he says in verse thirteen, take ye, wise men,

an understanding and known among your tries, and I will

make them rulers over you. This is where accountability and

stewardship is again introduced. God says to Moses, this is

a heavy task. This is a heavy burden. But place

leaders over every company of fifty. And when you place

leaders over the companies of fifty, then allow them to

go to their leaders. And Moses, you won't get burnt out,

you won't die before your time. You won't be worried

by the things that are happening, you won't be bogged down.

So he says to Moses, apart people who have accountability,

who are in good standings of stewardship, who have the

hand of God upon their lives, and allow them to

deal with the people, because we still have a great

task of people. Verse fourteen of chapter one says, and

ye answered me and said, the thing which thou has

spoken is good for us to do. So I took

the chiefs, the chief of your tribe, wise men. Every

leader ought to be a wise person and known. Every

leader ought to have it be known to have a

relationship with God and make them and made them heads

over you captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and

captains over fifty, and captains over ten, and officers among

your tribe. In other words, don't put yourself in a

place that you're gonna be worn out Verse sixteen. And

I charge your judges because at that time, the system

of dealing with stuff that was going on in the multitude,

God use judges. And that's why the book Judges is

in the Bible, because we go through a period where

the judges would handle the various situations that were happening

in the middle of the congregation. But then God fires

judges because the judges get out of place. But this

is where it was instituted. And I charge your judges

at the time, saying here are the causes between your

brotherren and judge righteously between every man and his brother

and the stranger that is with him. Verse seventeen says

you shall not respect persons in judgment. And God still

says the same thing to us today. We cannot be

respecters of person. But you said here the small situationations

as well as the great you should not be afraid

of the face of men. Just can't have any fear

when you're leading God's people. You have any fear when

you're dealing with God's people. For the judgment is God's for,

the judgment is God's for. You got to hear what

God is saying. The judgment is God's judgment. And the

cause that is too hard for you, then bring those

to me. This is Moses talking, and I will hear

it verse eighteen. And I will command you at the

time of all things you should wish, you should do

verse nineteen. And when we depart from horror, we went

through all the great and the terrible wilderness. You should

underline in your Bible wilderness. Just notice how he describes

it great and terrible, great and terrible, I will say now,

but talk about it later. The wildernness has great purpose

for every saint's life. Let me say that again. You

should write that down if you're taking notes. The wilderness

has great purpose for every person's life. And you should

know that Jesus went into the wildness. The Bible said

he was led by the spirit to go into the wilderness.

Moses goes into the wilderness before he ever gets with

the tender the visual now the tender of visual. So

the wilderness has a purpose. Jesus fasted for forty days

forty nights before going into the wilderness. Some of y'all died.

And I think we're only on day ten of our consecration,

twenty one day. Can you imagine if we was on

forty that's just a joke. Get upset, So you can

imagine that Jesus and forty days. And we know forty

because we understand numerology and we we embrace numerology. Forty

is preparation. So God was preparing Jesus for something. God

was preparing him for his next God was preparing him

for his assignment. But Moses fasting for forty days and

for forty night because God was preparing him for his assignment.

We see here the tuit andivisual have gone into a bond.

I'm out of bondage into the wilderness for forty days

because God was preparing them and getting something out of them.

Fasting is necessary to get something out and to get

something in the wilderness. He said, it's great and it's terrible.

It's great and it's terrible. And he says, which you

saw by the way of the mountain of the Emirates,

as the Lord our God commanded us, and we came

to there is kordh Sperana. Again. You should underline it

in your Bible and write a note, because Kordesshperana is

right on the threshing floor. It's a few steps in

the promised land. How many times is God going to

allow us to get right on the threshold of the

blessing and not take hold of it? How many times

will God allow you to get so close to the promise,

so close that you can almost feel it, taste it,

see it, smell it, but not possess it. Not too

many times will God allow that unless he cannot take

what's in us into the place that's promised for us. Okay,

So that's the only reason they prolonged their time. God

intended for them to get there earlier. It was God's plan,

it was God's purpose, it was God's doing. He had

set everything up for them to possess, to take a hold,

to lay hell of the promise. But they missed it,

messed it up, and could not lay whole of the promise. Okay.

So Verse twenty one says, behold the Lord has set

the land before thee go up and possess it. God

has placed it right. It's in front of you. It's

right there. It's right there. Can't you see it? It's

right there. Possess it, take hold of it, take charge

of what God has promised you. This is gonna sound

real crazy. You don't have to live in stress. You

don't have to live in strength. You don't have to

live and deny. You don't have to live in hurt.

You don't have to live in pain. God has already

given you a promise. And his promise has nothing to

do with the pain, the stress, to hurt, and all

of the agony that goes with your walk with God.

But we sometimes prolong it because there other dimensions of

God that we've got to learn, Other things about God.

We've got to see. So and he says verse twenty two,

Verse twenty one, Behold, the Lord, thy God has set

the land before thee go up and possess it. As

the Lord, God of our fathers have said, unto thee,

fear not neither be discouraged. Fear not neither be discouraged.

And you came near unto me verse twenty two. Every

one of you has said, we will send men before us,

and they shall search us out the land and bring

us word again. By what way we must go up,

and into what city we shall come. And that is

we see that in Numbers Chapter thirteen, verses one through

thirty three, when they already set the twelve spies out

to look at the land. But then some of them,

when they came back, received a negative report. Some of

them did not receive the good report. And the saying

pleased me, well, I took twelve men of you want

to be strived. And they turned and went into the

mountain and came into the valley of a skull and

searched it out. And they took of the fruit of

the land in their hands and brought it down unto us,

and brought us word again, and said, it is a

good land which the Lord, our God gives to us.

Notwithstanding you would not go up, but rebel against the

commandment of the Lord. Is he's talking about the people. Now,

you had the opportunity, but instead you heard the report

and you rebelled against the Lord. You had the privilege,

you were right there. God had us on the threshold

of our blessing. But you rebelled, and you rose up

against those that had been sent in the promised land,

and you rebel not against them, but against God. Verse

twenty seven is where we're stopping. Then we'll open the

line for questions. Verse twenty seventh saying, and you murmured.

You need to really highlight the word murmured. You need

to underline it. You need to in your notes rite murmur,

because you will see murmured in this chapter some sixteen times,

sixteen times. God has to deal with them murmuring. The

land is rich, the grapes are bigger than our head.

That's fruit over there, galore. They're giants over there. But

the provisions are great, and they start to murmur. They

start to complain. Murmur is listed some sixteen times sadly

in the scripture. Murmur is what keeps them from receiving

what God had. It's too hard, not clear. Well, God,

what are you really trying to say? Well, God, I

don't understand. Well God, what is it you want me

to see? Well God, I mean God, I mean God

is just me. They murmured. They came up with some

kind of reason for not possessing the promises of God

that he had already promised to them. He had kept

their clothes from wearing out for forty years. He had

giving them food. He gave them bread. He gave them

daily bread, the manner that they would eat. Manner is interpreted,

what is this? Manna was given to them for breakfast,

mana was given for lunch, man was given for dinner.

Then on the sixth day, the man was the only

day that they could keep the manner. Mana would not

last any other day, But on the sixth day you

could keep the manner to the seventh day, because he

did not allow mana to rain on the seventh day.

So he had fed them. When they got upset and said, Lord,

we're tired of eating bread, the Lord said, okay, you're

tired of eating bread. So you know what he did.

He allowed them just put your hand in the air

put out a quail. They gave them me, Lord, we

tired of quail. They murmured, they complained. They always got

to a place where they were not satisfied with the

blessings of God. They did not like to murmur means

to not like, to not consent, to not receive what

God is doing. God, I don't like bread God, I

don't like. I don't I'm tired of quail. I'm tired

of this. I'm tired of that. God, I'm tired of.

To murmur and complain means to denounce the provisions and

the blessings of God. To murmur is to say to God, God,

you are not taking good care of me. To murmur

is to say to God, God, I'm tired of you.

I'd rather have another God. God. To murmur to God

is to say to God, God, I don't like this

relationship with you. I was better off where I was.

And so he makes a big problem with murmuring because

the more they murmur, the more they complain. They were

saying to God. They were never at a place of contention.

They were never at a place of satisfaction. They will

never at a place of praise. They will never at

a place of thank you. They will never at a

place of giving God glory. They will never at a

place of saying, God, I thank you because I don't

have to be woke up every morning, and God, I

thank you because I don't have to eat what's placed

in front of me, and God, I don't have to

go to work and make bricks out of straw. The

murmuring said to God, God, you are not good enough.

That's what murmuring mean. So in verse twenty seven is

where we stopped. He wants us to know their murmuring

came across as their hating God. God. We hate you.

I hate you for the life that I have. I

hate you for how you allow me to go through

unborn through God. I hate the path You've chosen for me. God,

I hate the journey you placed me on. That's what

murmuring says to God. When we complain, when we look

back and we desire Egypt morning, we desire freedom. We're

saying to God, you should have left me in sin.

You should have left me in my gang banging days.

You should have left me in my hormone the days

you should have left me. Way back then, I was

having more fun as a sinner than I'm having being saved.

So I'm trying to try trying to put in your

spirit what murmuring says, because if that's anything we got

to get out of these lessons is we've got to

cease from our murmuring. We're at the seven forty five.

You can open the lines, you can open your you

can unmute yourself questions. I think if you're looking in

the those of you who have the capabilities to go

to chet, she has placed basically everything I said, She's

placed it in the check. So you can go over

there and you can get the notes. If you're not

writing notes, you can actually also copy them and paste

them into another document on your computer if you're on

a computer. But they are there questions, go ahead.

Okay, bishop, so so in verse twenty six when in okay,

in verse twenty five, the spies go out verse twenty six,

and they come back and they say how good the

land is and everything?

So is it?

In verse twenty six when it says you would not

go up, does.

That mean that the people refused.

To follow the people to follow the spies into the

land to fight for the land.

They rebelled because if you remember, there were there were

there was a spy from all twelve tribes. Five spies

came back and talked about the giants. Let me put

it like this, Five spies came and talked about the challenges.

Only two talked about the victories. Five spies came back

and talked about their being giants and how we need

to be a friend, and how we need to be careful,

and uh, they're bigger than we are. Two spies came

back and say, yeah, they're giants out there, but we

can take them. It's the difference between being optimistic and pessimistic.

As Christians, we should be optimistic. If God said do it,

you shouldn't have. I can't do it because it was

in front of me. And and you will find that

there are a lot of pessimistic Christians who are scared,

who are fearful, who take thought for their lives, who

take thought for what they're gonna eat or drink, who

don't believe God, who's scared to believe God. But God

is saying to us, no, no, if I tell you

to do it, do it. If I tell you to

go outside right now, stand on your head and you're

gonna get a blessing, you better know the blessing is coming.

That's the difference. I'm trying to make it so plain

to you that you gotta obey what God says. He's saying,

God is given to us this land. But y'all got

fearful because of the report. And that's also where in

Isaiah fifty three Isaiah writes, whose report are you gonna believe?

Who gonna believe the report of the Lord, because most

people believe the report of everybody else without believe in

God to do what he says. I've seen him do

too many things not to believe them. I'm crazy enough

to believe he can heal any manner of sickness and disease.

That's right. Other questions, Okay, this is my last question.

I don't.

Go ahead.

Okay, So are the people afraid to fight? Or is

it just the the egypt mindset?

The Egyptian mindset is the same mindset many of us have.

We want God to give it to us without a stress.

We don't want to go through nothing. If God want

me to have it, he can just go. He's just

gonna drop it on me. It's not that easy. If

you're going to have it, the enemy is going to

oppose you. But if the enemy oppose you, you got

to know well enough that if the enemy is opposing you,

he's opposing you because he doesn't want you to get

to something. He's trying to keep you from getting it.

He knows something you don't know. He's peaued your file,

he's already looked ahead of you. So so nothing's going

to come easy. That's not that's not our application. Nothing

is going to come to you easy. You have to

fight for whatever. You have to fight for your sanity,

you have to fight for your peace, you have to

fight to keep it. So it's not not an easy tag.

They just believe those upspies instead of thinking, Okay, I'm

gonna have to go through something to get it. Nothing,

nothing in your life is gonna be easy.

Okay, all right, I got a question, yes, sir, oh, okay,

So you're talking about the murmuring and complaining. At what

point it just for a real world application. At what

point is that you go from just going through a

storm or going through you know, the heaviness of dealing

with something, to now it is an actual form of

murmuring and complaint.

Any statement or anything we do or say that a

curses God. And I use that phrase a curse is

God is hitting below the belt. And sometimes when you're talking,

you'll shake yourself and you realize, wait a minute, I

just said God can't wait a minute. I just the

way I act, it is like God can't do this.

So anytime that we start we hit below the belt.

Whenever we bring God into accusation, we bring God into

a cursing. We act like God can't do something, and

we act like God won't do something. If God tells

you go outside walk on the snow, God ain't gonna

do that. That's murmuring because you're going against what God says.

Anytime we're being disobedient, anytime we're not adhering to what

God has said, we are murmuring. We're complaining, and sometimes

we do it without opening our mouth. God ain't gonna

do that. Now, God, God, if you really want me

to do this, take my Bible and turn it around

seven times and let it let it flip seven times. God,

if you really want me to do that when I

wake up in the morning, and let that be scripture.

We have to be very careful. It's like that phrase,

there's a thin line between love and hate. There's a

thin line between murmuring and obeying God. I would say,

like the old mothers used to say, you just need

obey God. If he says do it, do it. I'm

not gonna I'm not gonna come in with any commentation,

commentary or any kind of doubt I'm just gonna do it.

God tells me go down town tomorrow and preach at

the bus stop. Guess what I'm gonna do. I ain't

gonna say, Well, Lord is cold. That's murmuring, Lord is cold. Lord.

Ain't nobody gonna be there? Lord, I don't know what

the schedule is. Lord. All that's murmuring God. Well, Lord,

is anybody gonna listen to me? God, I'm gonna look stupid.

That's murmuring God. I'm gonna be out there by myself. God. Well, God,

if I go out well out a microphone, all of

that is that is auder line murmuring. Okay, I'm not

obeying God or taking him at his word. He has

kept us, he has fed us. He didn't let allow

our clothes to wear out. And their problem is they

start going back to serving idol gods. There were three

thousand and five hundred idol gods. They wanted the God

that they could touch, that they could see, that they

could feel. They wanted to be like everybody else. And

God says, no, I want to be your kings of kings,

your Lord, Lord, I want to be your God. That's

the problem with Israel today. God, wanted to be their king,

but they said no, we want a Physican king. They

picked Sault. They picked Sault. They've been in trouble every since.

We got to learn how to lean towards the spirit

and not towards the flesh. The spirit the flesh were

fasten because we're trying to get away from flesh into spirit.

We're spending time with God because we're trying to get

away from flesh into the spirit. We're praying because if

you if you just not eating and not fast not

reading no more scripture than you know to read, you're

just not eating. We're fasting so we can spend more

time with God. We're fasting because after speaking to God,

I gotta allow him to speak back to me, Lord,

what are you saying? How many times in a real

relationship it goes both ways. If me and my wife

I do all the talking, she never answered me. That's

gonna be a short relationship. But I'm speaking to God. Now, God,

what are you saying to me? And He will tell

you we'll take this off. We get rid of this.

You need to leave Johnny. You don't need to be

with And that's what we're afraid of. So most of us, murmur,

make excuses because we're afraid of what God's gonna tell

us to do. Because he will tell you to do

some things that will hurt temporarily, but in the long

run you will see the blessing of God. Other questions

which she got time for too more.

If anybody else got a question, oh a little bit,

is it not a reasonable a reasonable response? If the

Lord did say, all right, go down the street and

preach at the bus stop, is it not a reasonable

question to be like, Lord, it's cold? Is that not

like a reasonable response? Not that you're murmuring, complaining, but

it's just Lord is cold. I mean, like, did I

hear like.

He knew it was cold when he told you to

do it. He already knew it was cold. He look,

he allows the weather to go for so he already

knew it was cold. So yeah, that that is unreasonable

to even add, Oh, Lord, you know it's cold. Put

your head on, get you a cold, put you some

long drawls on, whatever you got to go out there

and do what he says. We're trying to obey God

in every sense of the word. I would tell you

what David said. He says it is better to obey

than to sacrifice. But he says that rebellion is as

the sin of witchcraft, and really that's you rebelling against

God because you're not obeying him. So yes, it is

that detrimental, It is that important. It is that you know,

some of us will be a whole lot further if

we just obey God. He wants to be a part

of your relationship. He wants to be a part of

your marriage. He wants to be a part of your

your dating, he wants to be a part of your ideas.

He wants to be a part of everything in your life.

But we we box him out and we figure, okay, God,

you can deal with this, but don't deal with this part.

So yes, it's unreasonable to tell a little it's cold.

He knew what's cold when he told you, okay, understood,

understood that ain't beat you up. All right, We got

time for maybe one more question, maybe two. That didn't

take as long as I thought. It's also, yes, ampossible.

I was looking at this at the scripture at nineteen

when it says we went through the great and we

went through the turn fine wilderness. We can have it

good and then we can face our position the next

So with that, how because some people don't like going.

Through well, the wilderness was not intended. They were only

supposed to be there eleven days. They made it hard.

But no, but I wish I could get the saints

to a point that we realize all of us went

through COVID. Yes, all of us went through other things

that were devastating. But think about how good God was.

Because some folks died in COVID, he didn't some of

us caught it. Some of us had it three or

four times and didn't even know we had it. Some

of them didn't take the test. But look at how God.

There can be a famine in the land, that can

be fol folks that are hunger, but God does not

allow us to be hungry. Even in the wilderness. God

takes good care of us. And that's what I wish

I could get people to see that. That that's why

it doesn't matter who's in the White House who takes over,

because God still gonna take care of his children. God

still gonna take care of his people. That the clothes

didn't wear out, same shirt for forty years, same pass

to walking in the wilderness, but he let no holes

get in them. Nobody had wisdom doctor shouls. He kept

their feet good, he kept everything, He kept them healthy,

he kept them wealthy. Some of them might have been overweight,

but but he didn't let hold on. My hip is hurt.

He kept them healed. He did all of that for

them in the wilderness. And that is a testament to

us that if God could take care of them, no

matter what's about to come next year, the year after,

the next ten years, God all it rains on the

just as well as the unjust, but God takes care

of us. I'm about to holler again. I can get

me to holler. Not gonna holler, because when you think

about the fact that God he takes good everybody should

really say that to yourself. He takes good care of me.

I don't always get but I think I should have

or may not have everything I think I won't, But

sometimes He knows that what I want, what I need,

He has taken great care of me. And that's and

that's what that verse is trying to convey, trying to

convey to them Gods, Hey, y'all black folk. God been

good to y'all. Mm hm, God has God has preserved

you God has kept you. And when you look at

the fact that he's kept you and all that he's

done for you, But we spend the time thinking about

what he's done, what has happened, instead of all the

good stuff he's done. Kept me from getting the cold,

kept me from getting the flu, kept me from dying.

Folk are dying right now in the hospital, respiratory problem.

But he's keeping it from us. Yes, it's only the

grace and the mercy of God. You keep it. Eating

with strength, You're faster, and he feels weak because you

ain't eating sugar, and you ain't eating cake, and you

ain't eating all that stuff. So your body is going

through rejection because your body has been used to having

junk food when you want it. Now you're trying to

bring your boy in this subjection. So you you suffering.

You I'm about to die. No, you're not about to die.

Our God takes good care of us, but he wants

disciplined lives. He wants dedicated people. We got