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00:00:03 everybody I I thought what I do today is uh I I'm going to do a shout out to all the non- Malaysians in our midst you know you're not Malaysian I hope I can I want to maybe start in canvas from here so from this side okay all right and as we move down to here we we have our sister morosan hi from Japan one row behind there brother Imran Pakistan and we have Pastor John the wife Grace and his lovely son jabz myanma one Ro behold there sister Kathy Philippines and her sister and I think sister Joy is here also from Philippines
00:00:56 I just want you to see where's Brother Richard from Ireland where's Brother Richard well Richard can you raise your hands okay we have our Irish brother here okay maybe he has at the back somewhere and then we have oh there we are oh Richard right at the back Richard raise your hands you see the guy in the white hand all right from Ireland yeah and we have of course Stefan from Switzerland and uh I don't know whether Jessica from Hong Kong is here we have a few of the Nations gathered with us and
00:01:23 we ask that you know today all you especially all you Chinese people try to say to high to someone not of your race you know because when you get to heaven the Nations will be gathered you cannot have all your Chinese people gathering in the ghetto all right so let's do that all right uh next week's sermon is up there uh we have William gal which is Edward G's son a guest speaker gueston the struggle of viian Brother John Lee will take us to the Theology of vacation or work and one of our newer speakers
00:01:56 coming up Victor on Happy are those who Delight in the law of the Lord wow so we getting all these new people coming up let's come before the Lord in prayer Lord we just uh come before you on this glorious day on a Sunday it is your day your kingdom your time your space we ask that we come in your power oh Lord we come in the anointing of the spirit and we come in word in spirit and in humility in Jesus name we say this amen all right uh one thing good about doing sermons back to back is that see
00:02:29 whether your remember last week's sermon or not so three of the hardest was to say what was it yes thank you very white I was wrong why is this so hard to say and if there's one thing that really I think y can take home is this statement you know if we are not able to understand why we are motivated to believe a certain truth or where our conviction comes from it is unlikely we will change change our mind and we saw this in oh sorry there Rafi just came me Rafi from Pakistan hello brother Rafi the brother Ahab malcol from Australia
00:03:09 I'm so sorry I miss out Malcolm okay so why and we saw in the earlier Genesis 25 we have the story of Isaac very determined to bless Esau against all all truth he wants to bless Esau why because he's influenced by two thing one he bias towards Esau as his favorite son one so there are things that affect your perception of Truth we believe what we want to believe instead of what we should believe number two the culture of the time is that the oldest son is always the one that gets the birthright truth is tribal of course
00:03:49 added into the de we are sinful and we find out that Esau himself cannot he likes to gratify himself immediately and sinful nature distorts the truth so we're going to really go on to that and in chapter 25 we look at the idea of the birthright let me explain a little bit and there's a little bit of play of the Hebrew here the Hebrew word for it is actually B and today we look at the blessing the blessing is barakah meaning the two chapters are tied last week we look at self-deception today we're going
00:04:24 to look at how deception works so we're going to see how you and I get Conn you and I get tricked and before all of you very smart people say oh we never get Conn before you be very surprised all right so let's go through it and we'll go through Genesis 27 the whole chapter on it and we start off with the chapter and it begins with setting the toone when Isaac was old his eyes were so weak he could no longer see he called for Esau his oldest son and said to him my son here I am he answered Isaac said I'm now an old man and don't
00:05:01 know the day of my death now then get your equipment your equipment B go out to the Open Country to hum some wild game for me prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat so that I might give to you my blessing before I die now this this is a real classic now Rebeca was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau the author is very deliberate but Esau left for the Open Country to hunt game and bringing back Rebecca said to her son Jacob you know where he's going with this right
00:05:29 he's trying to set the tone they're ping favorites look I overheard your father said to your brother Esau bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die now my son listen carefully and do what I tell you go out to the flock and bring me two Choice young goats so that I can prepare some tasty food for your father just the way he likes it then take it to your father to eat he may give you his Blessing before he dies you know the
00:06:00 word entrapment the wife of all people sets up a trap for the husband wow what happened to that fantastic marriage between Isaac and Rebecca at the oldest age the person you trust the most Conns you the narrative sets that up talk about a dysfunctional family talk about that all right so a way to a man's heart is through his stomach now if you look carefully at the text later on and you will find the word tasty food comes up I remember going through a Bible study with do Dr L fol he see look carefully it's almost like
00:06:40 sex you know tasty food so a way to a man's heart is through his stomach and not only his stomach his mind and his pants we won't go into detail into that now what is the author trying to tell you he's trying to tell you something very fundamental all of you say you understand but you do not internalize it say deception exploits your weakness the text sets that up he's blind and because he's blind Rebecca takes advantage of that that's the point of the text now I just list down a few here you throw a dot it will hit you one
00:07:22 of us all of us have one of this and more you're struggling with lonely you want a companion that person just wants your money simple as that let me give you a very disturbing story all right is very disturbing but it shows you we are not as smart as we think we are all right and this is Gloria Rose blankart and the mother didd blankart all right and she's apparently very sick she's been the hospital she's diagnosed in multiple things she needs to use a wheelchair uh she can't walk she has the intelligence
00:08:00 of a seven-year-old all sorts of things is a famous case she's so ill she gets donations from the Ronald McDonald House she gets donations from which or which Foundation from housing for Habitat she's been on programs the only problem is it's a lie it's a lie she's not sick at all the mother suffer something called the mon charson syndrome by proxy not going to go into that in detail is a form of mental illness where manchow syndrome is where I pretend to be sick to get attention so I can benefit from it I've
00:08:47 seen that in FBC you know people who tell you I'm very sick I can't do this I couldn't do it's not true but you do that so you can excuse yourself from doing lot of things manalon syndrome by proxy is you project that on your kid you know how you do that you intentionally make your kid sick and what she does is she poisons her kid with Roundup red poison small doses enough for her to exhibit that kind of symptoms and she's actually an assistant nurse and you know what's frightening she food doctors for
00:09:25 years she food all the doctors and she financially benefited from it why because there's one simple trigger we all have is called sympathy that's the weakness and you ask me in the church that's probably the most obvious thing someone give sympathy another guy giv sympathy and this story has a very tragic ending she ends up in jail the mother is dead you go figure that out all right let's move on Jacob said to Rebecca's mother but my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin what if my father touches me
00:10:07 I would appear to be tricking him that's true and will bring down a curse on myself rather a blessing the next statement I really love man all church leaders who listen to this his mother said to him my son notice repetition of this word uh let the curse fall on me for a very righteous just do what I say go and get them for me so he went and got them and brought them up to his mother she prepared some tasty food just the way his father liked it then Rebecca took the best clothes of Esa oldest son
00:10:38 which she had in the house put them on her younger son Jacob she also covered his hands and the smooth path of his necks with the goat skins then she handed over to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made he went to his father and said my father yes my son he answered who is it Jacob said to his father I'm isau your firstborn I've done that you have told me please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may give me your blessing Isaac asked his son how do you find it so quickly my son
00:11:11 you notice an emphasis and picking up the Lord your God gave me success he replied then Isaac said to Jacob come near so I can touch you my son to know that you really are my son isau or not Jacob went close to his father Isaac who touched him and said the voice is the voice of Jacob but the hands the hands of Esau close almost got it he did not recognize him for hands of Harry like that of his brother Esau so he proceeded bless him and he pauses are you really my son Esau he asks I am he replied then he said my
00:11:48 son bring me some of your game to eat so may give you my blessing Jacob brought it to him and the end he brought some wine he drank then his father Isaac said to him come here my son and kiss me so he went on and kiss him when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes he blessed him and said ah the smell of my son it's like the smell of a f that the Lord has blessed what's one word that's repeated again and again and again my son the alt is pushing something to you all right and you know how the entrapment works it's a very deviously
00:12:26 car carried out plot the mother understands or the wife the husband firstly his blind so cannot see one sense knocked out so let's work on touch let's work on taste let's work on smell taste tasty food Rebecca can cook exactly like Esau to pass off like Esau Touch covers all the things so that put go skin feels like Esau smell put on Esau's clothes she just cannot do sound five sensors four there 4 to one the trick is in now here's the second one now which we all underestimate now we know this in our
00:13:22 minds but not in our hearts and this one is very chilling deception weaponizes empathy you know in counseling empathy is the big word you know empathy is about knowing how someone feels and his pain how you go to that person understanding a person where their pain is but what we don't realize you can actually exploit that let me just read this to you empathy is typically viewed as a positive trait because allows people to treat each other with understanding kindness empathy allows us to notice others
00:14:01 feeling down let me just go to last end that same skill can be turned into a weapon of Deceit and manipulation I just give you a few lines you can read it on your own is on psychology today but just read what you see there and ask yourself the last time you told a lie we all lie right what do you do when you lie you size up that person first you know you look at a person you see where he believes you you understand him and then you lie you use empathy I'm going to show you a video how this works you know all
00:14:43 right let's see whether this works all right they ripped it right uh can we get it up it's not it's not in here shall we can you guys [Music] get who is it hi is estola home who's asking hi estola I'm Carlos hi I'm Carlos um I'm canvasing the neighborhood today and I'm really interested in what you and other people think about the proposal to arm teachers in the United States I'm wondering on a skill of one to 10 one meaning you disagree 10 meaning you agree completely how effective do you think arming teachers
00:15:22 would be in stopping school shootings I think it would be highly effective you could put me at a 10 oh a 10 okay um I would love to more about why you think it would be effective well I work at the high school down the street I've been a custodian there for 25 years oh the high school oh yeah certainly oh great I graduated from the high school oh great don't remember you maybe you've changed over the it's been many years ago okay awesome um yeah so I I've just seen a lot of things in how kids treat the
00:15:45 schools I've seen certain behaviors that are you know very questionable and you know I think arming teachers would certainly single out or prevent I should say any Lone Wolf who thought it would be a good idea to shoot up a hallway of student students and myself I I want myself protected as well right no I I completely agree I can't imagine working in a school in 2018 that sounds really scary and um thank you so much for the work that you do you're very welcome you know from my perspective as a student um
00:16:16 you know I think that I walking into a classroom uh with teachers who are armed I don't think I would feel safe I mean I remember watching some of my peers fight teachers I mean sometimes it almost got physical and I kept can imagine what would have happened in that situation if the teacher had had a gun I can that student would have sat down okay well maybe some of them would sit down but I think actually a lot of students would probably try to grab the gun away from the teacher and use it themselves you
00:16:42 know so I I honestly just don't think that having teachers be armed is actually going to be effective I don't know if you heard about the story of the teacher who actually walked out of her classroom and talked the student down from shooting the school did you hear about that nope enlightened me well you know she walked out of her classroom room she heard the gunshots and she could tell that the kid needed help and said the right things used the right tone and he said I need help and she actually convinced him to drop his gun
00:17:10 until the cops came you know and then they arrested him but I just thought that was really beautiful because it showed me that there are other ways to prevent these things from happening than just giving people more guns yeah but that was just one teacher yes it was just one teacher but I think other teachers were capable of doing it I I mean I don't know what do you think it would take for other teachers to be able to do that I don't know I I'm just thinking about you know some of my buddies who
00:17:35 are also custodians at the middle school down the street who lost their job last year because of budget cuts so I I know firsthand it takes money to invest in teachers to make them where they need to be you know um because teaching already is a hard job you know so it might take money but I don't know you know people don't necessarily pick up on how to support people in terms of crisis in in situations of Crisis that easily no I completely agree with with you I think we need like full funding for public
00:18:01 education and I also remember having one guidance counselor for like 500 students the guidance counselor didn't even know my name until senior year and that's because she was supposed to help me apply for college so I think we definitely need more guidance counselors in our schools right if young people walked into school feeling supported emotionally do you think that maybe less students would want to shoot up the school it's it's possible it's possible well you know I I I definitely think that we need to figure out other ways to
00:18:28 prevent these school shooting I definitely think we need to keep schools safe I think we need to keep people like you safe who are you know working really hard to keep our schools clean um but I do think there are other Solutions and I'd love to to think more with you about other ways to make that happen Okay well so uh now that we've had this conversation I'm wondering what you think again on a scale of one to 10 how effective do you think it would be to arm teachers to stop school shootings I
00:18:51 mean just based on this conversation I'm at a seven okay but until I see those changes where kids get supported you know I think it's totally fine that teachers should be armed in the meantime okay well I I completely understand where you're coming from and um thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me I really appreciated it thank you okay okay so let me tell you what they're doing right this is a technique called uh deep canvasing can we have the next slide up and you notice there are three
00:19:22 words they used in that thing connect airm Bridge connect airm Bridge that's empathy you know but what are they doing they are deconstructing her reasoning or her truth and then replacing her truth with another truth this is the art of persuasion instead of sing you and going bam you're wrong they teach you a technique to connect airm and Bridge with the aim to persuade you to change your mind and in America right now deep convening is everywhere they are teaching people in schools in town halls
00:20:07 in municipalities do you know who are the people who started this anyone here has done this research it is the Los Angeles Le gaspan LGBT leadership lab Center and deep canvasing is the technique responsible for Shifting the American mindsight on the gay agenda do you know the shift in the gay mindset in public opinion is the fastest shift in American history fastest unprecedented in the 1990s you go and do a poll on how many people will agree on the LGBT agenda and do it now unprecented in history they have shifted
00:20:58 it because they know empathy do not think we are that intelligent and this will come here if not for you guess what happens to your children when they go and study they will deconstruct your children's church beliefs and replace it systematically so think this true this one I love man Isaac asked his son how do you find it so quickly my son instead of answering it he shifts you know the Lord your God gave me success well very clever you know in business they call something called in in in nowadays in business economy a keyword
00:21:42 is called agility during our time about robustness now a business has be agile in a postco world and in a in a agile business economy there's one word they like to use you must learn to Pivot pivot I take it and I swing you know what she has what he has done is very clever no he basically sidetracks the entire argument and he basically shifts it to the arena which triggers the Father the Lord your God actually he doesn't answer the question at all have you picked that up it's the same with the gay issue Christians are arming
00:22:16 themselves on morality and going on the ground what the gay agenda does is that it shifts the argument from a moral argument to what to an inclusive argument and they will tell you don't you want eor right for you as a minority don't you want equal rights for people who are disabled don't you want equal rights for people of your faith don't you want equal rights for someone who is gay they basically shifted the argument from morality to another platform this is the world you live in and you know what's interesting about
00:22:48 this what Rebecca and Jacob are doing they are basically co-conspirators to Corning the father where have we heard this story before and what happens after this because of this jacob goes into Exile where have we heard the story of two people in collaboration going into sin and going into Exile this is the story of The Serpent and Edom Adam and Eve exactly the same template and a deception is the mirror story as Jacob goes into Exile into pamaran men and woman goes into Exile out of the garden and because they both use trickery think
00:23:34 about it all right so here's the third one deception uses truth as a base to tell lies the Lord your God that's very true right then after that they shift it now I want to pause on this uh and this is going to be very very insulting to some of you but let's let's save space again right which is the biggest group of people people that exploits the weaknesses of others weaponizes empathy and tells half truths before you jump out and say is the gay group is this is that let me tell you the biggest
00:24:13 group is the church have you looked at what they did just on the video doesn't it remind you of door too door evangelism I could come to you right now and sit there and say how are you married are you fine after a while Mary would like me then I will tell Mary Mary you need to fill in the blanks why do you think churches are so split because churches People Like Us can pray on your weaknesses because we can size you up then we can preach whatever you want here find the trigger button and then we'll grow at BC to mega church
00:25:01 who then I will be senior pastor then you better pay me a five figure salary now we trust our leaders W so s this church you know who the leaders were let me ask you a question now this from the heart every Sunday you come and you hear these sermons are you believing what the Bible says or you believing what the preacher says because if Mary trusts me right I can tell Mary I can say anything you need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit you are you're a you're a half class Christian if you're not fully
00:25:47 baptized you are not a you're not a real Christian I could do the reverse Mary speaking tongues as Seas I could do this to anybody because you trust the speaker the speaker can take any few verses connect the doors and you say oh yeah correct so what's your starting point your starting point is Never Trust the speaker yes never trust the speaker I could be a snake trust the Bible you're starting point is to trust scripture and by extension trust Jesus now here's where the Deception comes in you say with your mouth you
00:26:40 trust Jesus you say with your mouth you trust script uh scripture actually you need trust what the speaker says you know why because I be honest a lot of you too lazy to go back and read your Bible correct or not ah so how you know today I'm not you true or not now we will go and after Isaac finished blessing him Jacob has scely left his father's presence his brother Esau came in from the hunting he took prepared some tasty food brought it to his father then he say my father please set up and eat some a game so he may
00:27:17 give me a blessing his father Isaac asked who are you I am your son he answered your first isau now the the next two verses are some of the most painful verses in Genesis because very rarely repeated Isaac trembled violently that's that phrase is never used again in Genesis and he say who has it that hunted game and brought it to me I add it before you came and I blessed him and he adds a very strange verse and indeed he will be blessed why someone call you your take it back going slap your son and say you
00:27:54 real you cheated me when you divorce your wife bless is he says no I bless him is final no he will be blessed verse 34 is very painful you almost feel for the guy when is heard his father's word he burst out with a loud and bitter cry also not found again in Genesis he said father bless me me too my father those who don't understand English cist you understand the feel right but he he said your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing then Esau say isn't he rightly named Jacob this is the second time he
00:28:39 taking advantage me he took my birth right and now he's taken my blessing one more ple haven't you receive any blessing from me Isaac answered isau and this is a curse you know I made him Lord over you made all the relative servant sustaining with grain and wine what more can I possibly do for you my son and you feel his pain Esau said his father do you have only one blessing my father bless me too my father then Esau wept aloud you can feel the pain you know I'm innocent your youngest son your beep
00:29:11 youngest son cheated me twice you can feel it Isa held a grud against Jacob because of the blessing his father given him he said to himself the day of morning my father near I will kill my brother Jacob better than any K drama I tell you better than Penthouse no fight deception blinds you to spiritual recklessness now what do we mean by that you see Hebrews has an interesting take on this you know he say this in Hebrews chapter 12 make every effort to live in peace to everyone to be holy without
00:29:49 Holiness no one will see the law see to it and no one force of the grace of God and no Bitter Root grows up to cause trouble and defile many see that no one is sexually immoral and then it goes to the text all is Godless like Esau and it connects chapter 25 and 27 who for single male soul in inheritance right as the oldest son that's chapter 25 and then chapter 27 afterwards as you know when he wanted to inherit his Blessing he was rejected and why why could not the father say I made a mistake I want to
00:30:20 Avid the contract he doesn't even though he sto a blessing with tears he could not change what he has done now let me tell you common misreading of this the common misreading of it to read it like the way psychologists do there is there's root and there is fruit let me tell you what what people tend to do right is this all right I'm not saying it's wrong but it's not necessary what the text is saying you see Esau's perspective issue is my brother deceived me twice God's perspective issue you despise your birth right that's right
00:30:52 but what people like to say is like root and fruit the fruit is the the the the the bitterness you know it came from this that's partially true but that's not really what the text is saying let me tell you what the text is saying it literally means Bitter Root literally is about food you know it's about food you see the Hebrew writer is pulling to a text in Deuteronomy let me read it to you you yourself know how we lived in Egypt and how we passed through the countries on the way here you saw among them their this ible images of
00:31:29 Idols wood stone silver gold make sure there's no man or woman Clan A Tribe among you today whose heart turns away from The Lord of God to go and worship the gods of this nation and here's where it comes from make sure there's no root among you that produces such bitter poison that's where the text is coming from it isn't this psychological Idol about root and fruits is literally about a root which is bitter and this is the reasoning when such a person hears the words of this oath and they invoke a
00:32:00 blessing on themselves here's the deception I will be safe even though I persist in going my own way or I'm okay as a Christian I can keep on sinning I can come to FBC every Sunday and Monday to Friday I can live any way I like God loves me his grace with in me I can continue to do all those things no one knows they will bring disaster on the watered land as wi the dry this is the context you know what's the biggest deception the biggest deception for FBC is this as we grow is that you and I think you can
00:32:48 come here on Sunday just sit just listen enjoy the sermon fold your hands oh yeah very Chong ha at the speaker but okay killer give some money and do this year in year out and get away with it that's deception you see why is this a real point with me because FBC is growing you know do you know on a on a first Sundays are today because public holiday not people we hit about almost 600 550 online 200 we are 700 after while the elders will say fo y 700 strong Church War another 300 will become mega
00:33:43 church Temptation right then I'm tempted to preach you things that grow the church popular messages instead of telling you unpleasant things where you say wow this guy very offensive and then for you you think it's okay to be just one of the 700 to sit here and you are saved but it goes back to the question again do you despise your Birthright do you valuate what's the difference between Jacob and Esau Esau wants the blessings for personal gain but the blessing is the birthright the book is the Baraka the Baraka the B the
00:34:31 birthright gives you the blessing what is that let me go to the next Point all right I showed you just now few words I'm going to read it to you again I highlighted it you see the author repeats two words again and again and again you know my son is one the second is the word blessing it's all over the text you know he's trying to tell you that this is the key of the text all the way to the end what is the blessing let me break down the blessing to you there are three first verse 28 may God give you Heaven's due and Earth
00:35:11 riches and abundance of grain and new wine this is Blessing of fertility of the ground now the second one is interesting May Nations serve you people bow down to be Lord over your brothers hey brothers are you only one brother me the sons of your mother B bow down to you this is political Supremacy the first blessing is fertility of ground the Second Blessing is political uh Supremacy the third blessing is even more strange May those who curse you be cursed those who bless you be blessed where have you heard that
00:35:45 before that's abrahamic he is now not only blessing but the first born is the mediator of blessings and curses let's listen to the next one which he tells the curse or he gives to Esau his father Isaac answered him your dwelling will be away from the earth riches away from the door of Heaven above you will live by the sword you will serve your brother when you grow resters you will throw his y off your neck that means the chains he has bounded you blocked off that never happened Jacob runs when Jacob Miss Esau
00:36:22 again it is Jacob who bows down to Esau seven times and brings back the money and gives back to Esau none of this ever happened in the life of Jacob and Esau the prophecy is not about the brothers the prophecy is about two countries the kingdom of Inda Edom and the Kingdom of Israel and Edom will be subjugated to Israel Israel will take Adam Edom as a vessel State Edom will fight with Israel when Israel tries to pass through the you know Exodus what's called The King's Highway they will block them and finally
00:37:03 how would they troll off the Yoke they troll off the Yol during the reign of King jeom and when Babylon invades uh Judah Edom sites with them if you are familiar with this you go for tourism the City of Petra those who have gone there that's Edom is about two countries now where have you heard this all right later on he gives another blessing may God a mouy bless you make you fruitful increase your numbers until you become a community of people Nation may he give you and your descendant the blessing
00:37:37 given to Abraham so that you may take possession of the land you now recite the Foreigner land God gave to Abraham at this point you know what has happened Isaac has acknowledged and he said three words I am wrong he is saying Jacob deserved the blessing what happened because this story again the story of two brothers and two kingdoms and two lines that will lead to Jesus Christ where have we heard this story before we have heard this let me just tell you in Canan aable so here's the story God can even
00:38:18 use man's deception to ensure his will is done that's the main story and so can and Abel two brothers Jacob and isau two brothers two lines the seed of the woman it leads to Jesus Christ and what do we lean in Jesus we have the biggest deception in history the trial and out of that deception God brings about salvation for all of us so what's the big lesson here you see the story was given to the Jews in The Exodus time where they are running around around in circles they feel very depressed and the are
00:39:01 fighting them and God is trying to assure the Israelites even in your pilgrimage you've been Conn you've been tricked but I can even use these nasty things to bring about a blessing to you so here's the lesson to all of us you may have been Conn in your life you may have been deceived you may you may feel angry God is saying even out of that he came bring a blessing to you he can use that to bring a blessing now let me end with this question now all right and we going to end this as the challenge sometimes it is so difficult
00:39:45 to believe hard truths we rather believe lies and I want to I want to close that with you and I want to ask you of the three characters in the text who who do you identify with we start with Esau Esau has the victim mindset he is bitter know he only sees the pain he sees the pain he doesn't see anything else he says I'm being cheated and he blind to the fact that he never cared about his blessings I want to ask you whether that refers to some of you that means you have so much pain in your life so much struggles uh you come
00:40:27 to to church you sit in a corner because you build a wall and all you can think of is your struggles and your pains and every time we open the mouth it's just Y Yak y y y it doesn't enter you because the pain has become you and ask you whether God is speaking to you today and that will be a painful truth now how do you know if God is speaking to you now we look at the character of Isaac you know what Isaac did when he found out he was uh when Esau came in the text says Isaac trembled violently the Hebrew word was
00:41:05 he shook to his call why do you think Isaac trembled violently because he realized that he was being conned by Jacob no he realized God is telling him you made a mistake that's why when he says yes he will be blessed surely he will be blessed he shok violently because he heard the voice of God telling him you're wrong so today I'm asking you whether you hear that voice because you can leave the hall living any life you want what's the next closest thing to sing I was wrong I might be wrong but I'm probably
00:42:02 not now how do we know is an issue because of a church of our size how many of you are committed we're not asking you to be full-time workers we're just asking you to serve to love to be in a small group at least half of you are not so you can throw stones at me I say this from a place of love can I humbly tell you at least half of you here might be like Esa and today God is trying to violently shake you and if you hear that right now your mind is saying I might be wrong and the devil is telling you probably
00:42:52 not or God is saying you better change your life if not you have eaten a root of poison bitterness let's close in prayer I know this is a horrible sermon some people say why so depressing one but sometime you need to hear this because that's what scripture says it's a depressing text it's text about wife Corning a husband don't leave a lie and if as difficult as it is all we ask talk to us find a space tell us your struggles and let us together walk with you let us pray Lord God we come before you and
00:43:40 know sometimes scripture teaches us things we do not like to hear but let us not make light of our Birthright we say with our lips Jesus died for my sins and he's Lord and savior in reality we are God of our own life that is the biggest deception we can put on ourselves and if we are doing that we weep right now we weep we ask oh Lord you do like what you did towards Isaac and you shake us violently inside you shake us and Lord now we think of anything whether it was a fight we had with somebody whether we had disruptions in
00:44:24 our family the way we do business and any decision in which we said I'm right the other side is wrong Shake us violently Lord Shake us and in this quietness may God say this to you I was wrong and I repent and by the grace of God but the blood of the Lamb by the seed of the woman that gave me salvation forgive me God open my eyes that I can see truth I pick myself up for my Birthright is my blessing and I want to live a blessed life and we say this in Jesus name amen let us all arise response to the
00:45:21 god to this song Give Us Clean hand may this song be our commitment to our God [Music] again we bow our hearts we Bend our knees oh Spirit come made us [Music] humble we we turn our eyes from Evil things oh Lord we cast down our Idols Give Us Clean Hands give us pure hearts let us not lift our souls to another Give Us Clean Hands give us pure hearts let us God lift our souls to another oh God be a generation that se and seeks your face oh god of Jacob oh God let us be a generation that seeks and seeks your face oh God of
00:47:04 jcob we bow our hearts we Bend our knees oh Spirit come make us humble we turn our eyes from Evil things oh Lord we cast down our Idol Give Us Clean Hands give us pure hearts let us not lift our souls to another Give Us Clean Hands give us pure hearts let us not lift our souls to another oh God let us be a generation that se that seeks your face oh god of Jacob oh God let us be a generation that seeks that seeks your face oh god of [Music] Jacob yes Lord we ask that Lord Give Us Clean Hands Lord and we ask that
00:48:31 Lord you transform us and change our heart for you are our refuge our strength in you we ask that Lord you change and transform us Give Us Clean Hands give us pure hearts let us not lift up to another Give Us Clean Hands give us pure hearts let us not lift our souls to [Music] another For You are my will sing I lift my hands again I my hands to believe again you are my refuge you are my strength as I poured out my heart these things I remember you are faithful God [Music] forever Lord we ask Lord we ask that
00:50:11 blessings just fall upon this place oh Lord blessings of comfort that is our spiritual Birthright blessings of Grace blessings of forgiveness blessings of discernment oh lord for those here who are heavy laden and broken we ask oh lord your spirit just moves here Hallelujah Lord right now as we are standing we ask you to just unshackle your heart to receive blessings Lord Holy Spirit Come like your sh glory to just fill this Hall Lord Hallelujah Lord we ask we do not ask this for ourselves we do not ask
00:50:53 this to manipulate people we truly ask for an outpouring of power that people here will tremble and say ah Lord God you are in my midst Break Me Oh Lord fill me with your presence mow me Lord we are sinners we trick others and we are trick we corn others and we ourselves are corn Lord we have eaten of the root of bitterness and we repent let us value our spiritual birth right and be a blessing to the Nations they gathered around us as we close this service we ask again as you leave this Hall would you leave
00:51:35 and go back and pray and ask God to violently shake you so that you see Truth for the others would you stay back we are here the elders are here the pastors are here the sisters here let us just talk to you let us pray for you do not go on living life but live a life of Truth for truly the truth shall set you free and free indeed to live a life of Blessings Now May the god of Truth and Grace and power and anointing and the presence of the holy spirit so fill you here and for the rest of the week as you
00:52:27 go in the shakina glory of the Lord and God's people say amen God bless you all have a great week ahead service is over please stay back if you want to talk to us God bless all of you [Music]
