Of course now we are going into Jacob's travel into getting himself a wife and we know that in
chapter 27 we have him subtly you know taking the promise, the birthright, the blessing from
his brother Esau by being a subtle person, a cunning individual and of course because of it
Esau wants to take his life, he wants to kill his brother and so Rebecca who is their mother
plots to essentially deliver him unto her brother and remain there in that land until Esau's anger
goes away and he no longer wants to kill him and so this is basically the result of trying to get
the right things the wrong way. It complicates situations right? You have a situation where
the promise is supposed to go to Isaac, it's supposed to go to him and it's going to go
but they feel like they need to do you know Isaac and his mother feel like they need to become cunning
and trying to you know construe the situation and conspire in order to receive the blessings of God
but you know at the end of the day we need to realize that if God wants us to have something
you know we're to be completely honest, we're to have integrity in how we do things
and then just have faith that God will come through right? Not be dishonest, not be liars,
not be individuals that lack integrity and go about things the wrong way, trying to get the
right things the right way instead of obtaining them in a wrongful manner. So now we have him
about to go to his uncle's land in order to obtain a wife. It says in verse number one
and Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him and sentenced him. Now shall
not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan arise, go to Pandanaram to the house of
Bethuel thy mother's father and take thee away from Thence of the daughter of Laban thy mother's
brother. So it seems as though Jacob has now accepted the fact that the blessing is officially going
to go to Isaac. Obviously he originally intended to bless his son Esau but instead it went to Isaac
and now he's kind of accepted this but he's adding some stipulations, he's adding some
conditions, he's saying look you're going to receive the blessing but I want to make sure
that you marry right. Don't get anybody from Canaan, don't get anybody from Canaan land,
make sure you get someone whom we approve as your parents and obviously in chapters prior to this
you have Esau marrying the daughters of the land and it specifically says in chapter 26 verse 34
Esau was 40 years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Birai the Hittite
and Bathshamath the daughter of Elon the Hittite which were a grief of mine unto Isaac
and to Rebekah and so you know the parents were definitely not happy about Esau first and foremost
being a polygamist but also marrying the daughters of Canaan obviously we know that Canaan those of
Canaan essentially picture the world those who are unregenerated those who are not God's people
and in fact they're really characterized by a lot of perversion wickedness idolatrous cultures
that you know have no part with God's people and so you know the principle that we can learn here
in Genesis 28 is that we need to adhere to the advice in the council and even the preferences
of our parents right specifically especially if they say hey you know find someone in church right
find someone of the house of God someone who is saved you know don't go out to Canaan land
to find a spouse there and you know sometimes Christians just don't listen to that you know you
may not you say well I don't really have a parent that puts that condition upon me yeah but the
Bible puts that condition upon you know right the Bible commands you to marry only believers be
not unequally yoked together with unbelievers the only people you should be marrying are those
in the Lord now obviously you have instances because people bring up well you know my spouse
was not saved but then later on they got saved and it ended up working out praise God for that right
but the exception proves the rule and it's kind of like playing Russian roulette at that point
where if you think well I'm going to find someone out in the world I'm going to get me a Canaanite
I'm going to get me a Judith I'm going to get somebody get someone out there you know on
Instagram or on social media and then through the process of time I'll be able to win them
over to the Lord yeah that's possible but that's a huge risk though okay you know it's
better to just get someone who is a believer pursue someone who is a believer and I would
even say this you know narrow it down a little bit okay you know because Jacob is not just like hey
you know don't go to Canaan he's like I want you to go specifically to pandan around he's very
specific of who he wants him to date and I would even say this you know marry a believer of course
that's like foundational right but you know you should probably marry like a fundamental
Baptist too okay you're like well you know as long as they just call themselves a Christian
yeah but you're in for a world of hurt if that's all if that's your preference if that's how low
your standard is you might be in the world of hurt because once you get married to this
person who claims to be a Christian and once you want to get serious about serving God
you start realizing that this person doesn't really believe the things that you believe
they're just Christian only name right or they're the kind of Christian that you know they
they're actually Catholic and they call themselves a Christian or you know they're a
Christian but they've delved into Mormonism or whatever or they might be a part of some
non-denom church that doesn't use the right Bible they don't believe in the right salvation
you know they have very loose standards and you know what that can cause a lot of problems in
a marriage it's very important that you find someone who has the same core values as you
and I've said this before obviously the person that you marry doesn't need to be perfect because
no one is but they got to be teachable right going in the right direction and so it's important
for you to you know stay off these dating websites or whatever you know Christian mingle or you
know in the new ip they there used to be something called the new ip singles and so you
know definitely don't go on there you know just do the old-fashioned meet someone in church
pray someone down and get her done amen instead of like well let me see who's compatible with me kjv
check you know soul winner check you know you gotta actually talk to people see them face to face
observe their character and see if you even like being around them okay but here's the thing
is just like well you know I know this one girl she goes to this Pentecostal church
I think it's a fantastic fit you know she's a Pentecostal yeah she's Pentecostal or whatever
yeah you may overlook that right now but six months from now when you're already married
one thing that's gonna bother you is the fact that she thinks she can lose your salvation
and you're gonna be like whoa what do you mean what do you mean you think that Jesus is
god the father what do you mean you think you could lose your salvation and you run into
all these doctrinal issues within marriage get someone from pandan around get someone from the
house of god you're like well this is this is problem though you know there's not enough people
in church you know well here's what i've learned over the years is that one of the reasons you
may feel as though there's not enough people in church to kind of mingle with and talk to
and find a spouse it's probably because you're just not ready okay because every single guy that
I've met that has gotten married you know they they found someone
I don't know how that works like you know they just talk to the guys they'll just say like I
met them in church or I met them in a different church or whatever another Baptist church just
ended up working out and so you know you have to pursue you got to pray it down but don't lower
your standards of what you're looking for in a Christian girl just because you're desperate
or something okay you know don't lower your standards and and think to yourself well
I'm just never going to get married well here's the thing I obviously am an advocate of you getting
married right you should it's what God's will is for mankind in general but here's the thing is
that don't be so desperate that you end up making the wrong decision and then it becomes the
right decision because you can't get divorced and then you're just miserable for the rest of
life okay because that is a real thing out there okay and so choose wisely but you know if you're
parent thank God if you have parents who are directing you that are helping you make the
right decision in that regard you know Jacob is telling excuse me Isaac is telling Jacob hey
go to Pandan Aram this is the kind of wife that I want you to marry and he's kind of like
implying don't be like Esau your brother who you know got Judith over here and you
got these women from the Canaanites and now they're a grief of mine you know to me and your mom
you know go to Pandan Aram and actually make us proud son okay and so you know and attached to
this he says in verse 3 God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that
thou may as be a multitude of people and give thee the blessing of Abraham to thee and to
thy seed with theme that thou may as inherit the land where and thou art a stranger
which God gave unto Abraham so he's kind of tying in this marriage to the fact that you know God's
blessing is going to come upon him that God had promised Abraham and of course his immediate
descendants regarding the land and how he's going to make of him a great nation now let me just
say one more thing before I move on from this again and that is that you know when I talk
about marriage obviously I'm referring to the fact that you know yes you should choose someone
from the house of God you should choose someone who's going in the right direction
you should do that and you're going to run into people who didn't do it that way
okay and they're going to be like look at me I'm fine but just remember this
the exception always proves the rule and you are you know rolling the dice if you choose to
marry someone even of a different denomination I'm just telling you right now it is a thing
and it you know I'm not saying that if you marry someone of a different denomination
they can't become and believe like you but here's the thing folks once that once you've tied the knot
once it's down you once you've already made the decision made the covenant before God
man you better pray a miracle that that person ends up adhering to the things that you believe
because it will be a cause for conflict later on I promise you that and you know what once
the honeymoon is over and you've been married for a couple of months and now it's just like
let's go to church and and she's like or he's like want to I want to go to my church
you know I want to go to the purple lights I want to go to the smoke and mirrors and the soft
preaching you're just like that's not what I'm about it's just like well it's too late that's
what that's what you got okay and so make sure you don't just jump into marriage
flippantly and not take it into consider like well I'm so I just want to get married
right now if I could just get married right now I get it okay because of that it sucks being
single I get it I was one single too I know okay so I'm not hating on the desire to want to get
married for sure it sucks to be single I get it and people are like no you know you should be
content where you're at I was content where I was at and I still thought it sucked to be
single okay I was like I'm content I'm serving the Lord but you know I want to get married
I get it but don't let that desperation cause you to make a really bad decision okay
and you know I'm not necessarily for and look I would never command us from the pulpit because
you are not my children but you know with my kids I will I will I don't I'm not an advocate for
overnight marriages you know it's just like we found each other's true love let's just get
married tomorrow you know it's just I'm not an advocate for it because I've just seen too many
people make that decision and then it ends up turning really bad in the long run because
they were hasty in their decision okay and so you know think it through pray through it get some
godly counsel don't allow your passions to get in the way of these things be mature about these things
and and you know you're like well you know in the new fb everyone just gets married right away
you know not necessarily okay not everyone has done that okay you might have heard of a couple
stories like that but not everyone has done it that way and even the people who have done it
that way my pastor friends who have done it that way they would even tell you that's probably not
the best option to do to just get married right away they would even tell you that they're the
exception to the rule and so you know if you're going to get married and you want to get married
amen to that you know but take your time okay now I get it some of you the clock is ticking
ticking I get it okay the clock is ticking you're like I don't know everything I'm just
going to go for whatever whatever looks at me cockeyed you know I'm just I'm just going to do it
you know I get it but I'm just I'm just trying to admonish you here that you know you don't
want to just make a hasty decision think it through pray through it gets know the individual
and you know live happily ever after after you feel like hey this is this is the one okay
so anyways the blessing is tied to him getting married to this individual says in verse 5 it says
Isaac sent away Jacob and he went to pandan aram until laban son of beth you will the Syrian
the brother of rebecca jacob and esau's mother when esau saw that isaac had blessed jacob
and sent him away to pandan aram to take him away from fence and that as he blessed him he gave
him a charge saying thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of canaan and that jacob obeyed his
father and his mother was gone to pandan aram and esau seen that the daughters of canaan pleased
not isaac his father then went esau unto ishmael and took unto the wives which he had mahalath
the daughter of ishmael abram's son the sister of neighbor joth to be his wife so what do
we have here we have esau's like oh maybe that's what i should have done but here's the thing this
is an example of doing something just it's a little too little too late okay in other words he's like
how can i recover the blessing from my father how can i get him to favor me oh i should have
married someone of god's people the people he charged me to go to instead of taking of the
women of canaan so he goes to the people of ishmael he takes into him a wife
mahalath and thinking that that's going to somehow give him favor with his father but again too
little too late you know accumulating another wife adding another wife is not going to help your
situation okay and you're like how do you know it didn't help the situation well this is the
last we hear about it we just hear him make this decision and that's it now look folks it's
important for us to obey our parents and do what our parents tell us to do and you know it's also
equally important to do what god commands us to do but we need to make sure that we're doing the things
for the right reasons too okay do things for the right reasons you know it's kind of too late
for you esau to get the blessing just be a good husband now to your wives you know do that
which is right at this moment and don't try to fix the situation that is already beyond recognition
it's already that ship has sailed okay you know and so the principle that we can learn there is that
if you've made irreparable damage in your relationships and times past you know instead
of trying to go back and constantly trying to fix that just make the right decisions from here
on out you understand you know and this could be applied in any area of life right sometimes
we're so fixated on trying to fix past situations past relationships and really it's kind of like a
waste of time you know we need to forget those things which are behind and press forward to
those things which are before and not try to like well let me see if I could just fix this
situation fix this relationship if it's beyond recognition just move forward okay it's it's
better to just invest your time and energy and making the right decisions from here on out
than to revisit the past past relationships past failures that you've made and try to fix that
situation it's just not worth it do right from here on out okay it says in verse 10 and jacob
went out from brashiba and went toward hayran and he lighted upon a certain place and tarried
there all night because the sun was set and he took up the stones of that place and put them for
his pillow and laid down in the place to sleep so you know jacob is by himself he doesn't have
his parents with them and obviously he's already older at this moment but he's isolated he's by
himself he's kind of got himself into a weird situation because he's conspiring with his mom
forcing him to leave his family leave his place of home to find a wife in a different land
and so he is about to sleep the guy doesn't even know how to put up a tent he grabs a stone in
order to use it as a pillow and this is where he begins to dream the dream he has the visions from
god because at the end of the day though jacob is a conniving person god still wants to use him
okay he still wants to use him he wants to preserve the promise through jacob but you know
shed a little of the old man and put on the new man and god has to work through him so
you know even though this wasn't originally god's will for him to go into hayran god's
going to use it to get it for good now if obviously spoiler alert we obviously know
what's going to happen here he gets defrauded majorly right with laban laban is like a really
bad you know father-in-law you know he's just he's conniving he's deceptive he conspires he tricks
jacob and it's like jacob gets a taste of his own medicine right you know he reaps what he sows
in other words and here's the thing folks is that you may have made a bad decision in the past
that is causing you to reap what you've sown but that doesn't mean that god can't work that together
for good because even though bad things are going to happen to jacob and he's going to be defrauded
and we're like really mad at laban we're like man this guy is a jerk this guy is so deceitful
i can't believe this guy you know he's not necessarily someone who we're a big fan of
you know god does use that to kind of refine jacob's character you know in order to make him
the kind of man that god wants him to be okay so we're together for good so all these things though
not and not initially god's will god ends up using it in a big way to teach jacob some important
principles it says in verse 12 and he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and the
top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of god ascending and descending upon it so
we have jacob having this dream he lays his head upon a stone and through this dream he views a
ladder that reaches unto heaven angels ascending and descending upon it now because you've read the
bible because you've read the new testament we obviously know who this is referring to the
ladder is jesus christ right and in fact in john chapter one and verse 51 jesus christ essentially
references this story and asserts that just as jacob saw that ladder you know the same thing with
jesus he they're going to see angels ascending and descending upon him why because jesus christ
is the ladder that reaches to heaven in other words he is the only way to heaven bible says he's the
way the truth and the life no man comes unto the father no man can reach the gates of heaven
without jesus so this is a beautiful picture of the lord jesus christ right that he is that
ladder that reaches unto heaven verse 13 says and behold the lord stood above it and said i am the
lord god of abraham thy father and the god of isaac the land wherein thou liest to thee will
i give it in to thy seed and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shall spread
abroad though to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in thee and in
thy seed shall all families of the earth be blessed now we see here in this chapter that isaac
confirms the promise to jacob but then god also confirms the promises to jacob as well he's
reinforcing what he's going to do through this dream it says in verse 15 behold i am with thee
and will keep thee in all places whether thou goest and will bring thee again into this land
for i will not leave thee until i have done that which i have spoken to the of and jacob
awaked out of his sleep and he said surely the lord is in this place and i knew it not
and he was afraid and said how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house of god
and this is the gate of heaven so this is a very profound passage of scripture and it's a
very profound statement by jacob because he realizes like i was in the presence of god
i saw the ladder and you know he was afraid right when he wakes he's just like he's
awakened out of like a like a nightmare not necessarily like a dream the way we think
it is the bible specifically says that he was fearing he was afraid and he specifically said
this place is dreadful now what does it mean when something is dreadful it means
it could have the connotation of being awesome it can have the connotation of being great
but it means that it causes dread fear right now this is important because of the fact that
this is completely the opposite of what people claim the presence of god is like today right
when people talk about the presence of god is just like i just feel his presence right now you
know i just feel enveloped in his love or something and obviously there probably are
instances where we feel that way when we're broken hearted but in general god's presence is dreadful
it's terrible the bible says right you know you would be afraid to be in the presence of god
that's literally what god's presence evokes in a person is dread it's like your heart drops
your stomach is in your throat you're just completely scared because god is someone who
is worthy to be feared he's not coming like a teddy bear he's not coming just you know soft spoken
he invokes fear and in fact this is something that the bible constantly talks about is having the
fear of god right he's fearful he is awesome he's dreadful he's terrible these are things
that he specifically says about himself okay and jacob realizes this he's like man i'm afraid
i'm in the presence of god i am afraid and he specifically says this is listen to this
the house of god later on he refers to it as bethel bethel is synonymous with the house of god
now here's a couple things that we can learn from this particular phrase here and this verse
regarding the house of god being dreadful you know obviously in the new testament the house of
god is church okay and in fact the bible specifically says that the church is the pillar
in ground of truth and it calls it the house of god and you know what church should be a
dreadful place as well okay in both ways if you think about it why because you know the house
of god should invoke you know that which is awe spiring for us to be in awe of the presence
of god and in fact when we meet together as a church guess what god is in this place as well
right go to matthew chapter 18 if you would matthew chapter 18 matthew chapter 18 here
this is a passage of scripture that deals primarily with the excommunication of a believer
for their trespasses against the brother and it specifically says in verse 15 more over if
thy brother trespassed against thee go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone
if he shall hear thee thou has gained thy brother but if you will not hear thee then take with the
one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established this is
basically saying you know if your brother offends you they've trespassed against you they've
sinned against you it's important for you to confront that person and reconcile the situation
so that you guys can be at peace with one another you know the bible tells us that we
should endeavor to keep the the the spirit of peace and the bond the the spirit of unity and the bond
of peace meaning that we should endeavor to be peacemakers amongst ourselves you know if you if
someone has offended you in church don't go and start gossiping about them don't start railing
and slandering that person you should go to that person and say hey you offended me bro
like you said this and i'm i'm greatly offended and i want you to apologize
to me for that and you know what that person is supposed to do i'm sorry
please forgive me you know and the bible says that we should forgive that person be ready to
forgive that individual this is how it should function in church right not clicking up together
and trying to accumulate people to be on your side to be against this person learn how to confront
people when they've transgressed against you and not just go around and be a little busy body
slandering that individual just go reconcile and gain your brother amen so he says at verse 16 but
if you will not hear the then take with the two or one or two more than in the mouth of two or three
witnesses every word may be established in other words if this person is like no i'm not asking
for forgiveness you know i'm not sorry i did that i'm not sorry i said that i'm not sorry
that i took that from you you know i'm not sorry for whatever then the responsibility
falls upon you to take another brother and confront that individual meaning that that other
individual should cause a little bit of peer pressure on that person to say hey you need to
like apologize to this person you need to make this situation right if they refuse to do that
verse 17 says and if he shall neglect to hear them tell it unto the church but if you neglect
to hear the church let him be into the as a heathen man and as a public and so in other
words if it gets all the way to the top to the pastor the pastor is supposed to
excommunicate this person because they're unrepentant of the transgression the trespass
against their brother and the bible says that once they're excommunicated they're unto us as a
heathen man and as a publican what does that tell you it means that we should treat them as an
unsafe person whether they're saved or not meaning that they we should have no dealings
with them we should be completely separated from their company verse 18 barely i say
into you whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever you
shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven again i say into you that if two of you shall
agree on earth as touching anything that they shall they shall ask it shall be done for them
of my father which is in heaven for where two or three are gathered together in my name
there am i in the midst of them so this is all in context of church meaning that as
we're gathered together here tonight hearing the preaching of god's word we are in agreement
of what the bible says therefore god's presence is in this place okay you know it's we don't need a
cathedral we don't need a fancy building we don't need a catholic tomb we don't need a tabernacle
we don't you know as long as we're gathered together a green with the word of god the
bible says that god's presence is here and you don't want you don't need to feel it either
right it's not something that has to be felt i feel like god's presence is here right you know
obviously you could potentially have that feeling you know but at the end of the day it's something
that you don't necessarily discern with your emotions you discern with your spirit that god's
presence is currently here because the preaching of god's word is being thundered forth okay so in
the house of god god's presence is there right we ever see you know that god is omnipresent
meaning that he is everywhere at all times his eyes run to and fro beholden the evil and the good
however god's presence especially in a special manner is in the house of god when his word is
being put forth according to matthew chapter 18 so when jacob said oh man this is a dreadful
place this is where god is his presence is here it's showing us that god's presence should be in
the house of god okay and you know it's not something we have to fabricate either with purple
lights smoking mirrors a band you know all these extra bells and whistles that try to basically
fabricate the feeling of god's presence being there god's presence should be discerned by
a spirit based upon the word of god right and so and you're like well how do i know that god's
presence is here like how would i be able to discern that god's presence is here well you know
obviously there's there's a variety of ways to do that one of which is the most obvious which
is the preaching of god's word but number two is the unity of the church is a demonstration
that god's presence is there because the spirit of god creates unity right when you find a church
where there's disunity there is discord there is infighting there is conflict between members
and other members between members and the pastor that demonstrates that the spirit of god is not
there you know because sometimes people will say well i know the spirit of god is not there
because the preaching is just so mean you know i just don't think god's presence i don't feel god's
presence well i don't think you even know what god's presence feels like because if you're basing it
off of how nice the preaching is you don't know what you're talking about because you know at
the end of the day if the word of god is being thundered forth the words that i speak
into you there are spirit and they are life the bible says you understand you know the flesh
prophet of nothing it is the spirit the quickness you know the spirit of god is discerned
by the preaching of god's word but it's also discerned by the unity of the people in the church
and look you know there's churches out there where you can literally go into that church
and you immediately discern the tension in that church where you're just like
i feel like there's like tension in here for some reason you know i sense tension i sense
division that's not on accident that's a supernatural thing that's taking place in
that church because there's disunity there you know how about this you know you know that the
presence of god is not there when the leader is involved in some sort of perversion or sin
you know he's rebelling against god he's involved in transgressions and sins you know there
is a atmosphere of tension that kind of demonstrates that god's spirit is not there
and you know i've had people tell me this where they went to like a church
and you know obviously later on they found out that the pastor was involved in some sort of sin
not reprobate stuff just like he's involved in sin unrepentant sin
and people afterwards said like i felt weird at that church i don't know i have to leave
i i felt like i wasn't learning there's something wrong there and i couldn't really
understand what it was and this person told me that after one service the pastor would stand in the back
and you know to to like greet the people and say goodbye and this person went up to the pastor and
said either there's something wrong with you or there's something wrong with me
i don't know what it is and this person didn't mean it in a disrespectful way
and in fact when this person said that she probably meant that there's something
more wrong with her than him but she said that like once she said that to him
he never stood back there ever again and of course this guy ended up getting found out that
he's involved in sin he's no longer a pastor and he's getting trolled by homos now okay
i had a secular job you know he's still on his phone too you know i don't know what he was doing
on his phone you know but you know this person said like oh afterwards it's like oh this is
this is wise because he's involved in sin there's like an atmosphere and she even described it
she said i feel like there's just like a dark cloud in the church and i just always thought it
was my my fault like it was something wrong with me which is why i just had to leave
because i felt like i had to just like get something right in my heart but it's not that it's just that
the spirit of god wasn't there sin was prevalent there you know the little leaven had leaven to
hold up it caused sin it caused division it caused railing it caused slander i mean there's
all types of problem in that church problems in that church therefore the spirit of god was not
there and so it's something that you can discern you know how do you know that the presence
of god is in that church i'll tell you how it invokes all not of the pastor but just of the church
in general right go to first king's chapter 10 let's go to first king's chapter 10 real quick
hold your place here in matthew meaning there's just like man you know this church is awesome
right it's just like the work of christ is being done here the preaching is great the
fellowship is awesome you know and and i just don't want to leave and you know we have people
like that here is just they just don't want to leave i'm not saying to go i'm saying like to go home
people just like being around each other the fellowship is great the unity is awesome the
food is great you know the coffee is good the the red bulls are great now i'm just kidding
you know the unity the fellowship is just fantastic and you know what there's no division
in the church it's like the spirit of god is there and i've had people come to this church
and say like man this is just so different here like the spirit is just different here right
and what is it it's god's spirit that's there and it reminds me of uh the queen who went to see
Solomon it says in first king's uh chapter 10 let's look down at verse number three it says in
Solomon told her all her questions there was not anything hid from the king which he told her
not and when the queen of sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom and the house that he had built
and the meat of his table and the sitting of his servants and the attendance of his ministers
and their apparel and their cup bears and as a scent by which he went up into the house of the lord
there was no more spirit in her so like she goes there and she's like man this place is awesome
like the ministers are awesome the singing is awesome the preaching is awesome the just
everything is just great there's no it's just like she's breathless she was left speechless right
says in verse six and she said to the king it was a true report that i heard in my own land of
thy accent of thy wisdom how be it i believe not the words until i came and my eyes had seen it
and behold the half was not told me thy wisdom and prosperity exceeded the fame which i heard
happy are thy men he says happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee
and that they hear thy wisdom blessed be the lord thy god which delighteth in thee to set
thee on the throne of israel and so forth you know it should be that people come to this church
and praise christ the way the queen of sheba prays Solomon because Solomon is a picture of Jesus
and may they say like this church is awesome like these people are actually happy
which by the way side note you know you come on Sunday morning put a smile on your face amen
stop looking like such a grump you know uh stop having the r face right
you know you guys know i'm i'm gonna leave out that middle middle letter there
i'll say the the rbf face which is the resting brat face i you thought i was gonna say that
got a resting brat face gotta make sure i just keep saying brat
you know you know get rid of that face come to the house of god with a smile on your face
so that when someone comes an unsafe person comes to our church
they're not lying look at this girl with this rbf face
you know or look at this girl why this guy got a rbf face on you know why is he like
man this place looks miserable you know actually have some joy about yourself
i'm not saying be fake but i'm saying you know be filled with the spirit
be happy to be in the house of god you know sing with your heart when you're in the house of god
you know sing the hymns the way you would sing your stupid drake song it's not better
sing you know the hymns the way you would sing you know whatever worldly song you're singing
in the shower in your car on the way over here
someone just gave himself a way
sing unto the lord as the way you would put passion into any other worldly song
or whatever it is that you do you know put some passion and zeal into
what you do here for the lord right why because you know we have the queen of sheba visiting
we have a lot of unsay people coming and you know they they heard about our church
they seen it on instagram and we want them to walk out saying like the half has not been told
like the preaching is great man just everyone is on board everyone is singing you know when you're singing
okay i'm not gonna i'm not gonna do a solo don't worry
you know don't be like and then when you finally catch eyes with me you're just like
like actually sing
like you know like lift up your voice like a trumpet
like you're loud everywhere else why aren't why aren't you loud when you sing
you yell at your husband you yell at your wife you yell at your kids you yell at your screen
you yell at your video game you know you do you you can raise your voice you're yelling at the
audience you're all my mexicans out there you know like actually sing unto the lord and you're like
oh i'm just so embarrassed or whatever but if you're doing it as unto christ why would you be embarrassed
you know i sit here and when i'm sitting here seeing i i've belted out as much as i can
because i want to encourage everyone else to sing out as well you know like well i just
don't want people to hear me you know what you should be concerned if god hears you
and he wants you to make that joyful noise okay and so you know how she says here in verse five
his assent by which he went up to the house of the lord there was no more spirit in hers like man
this place is not just a doctrinally sound church it's a church where people are actually
they have joy they're singing unto christ they're singing the hymns you know hymns get they
catch a bad rap and they're like well hymns are boring yeah because people sing them boringly
that's why because you sing them boringly that's why because you're boring when you sing hymns that's
why it probably sounds like that's other people you know because you're boring you know the the
the piano player and the orchestra they play their hearts out you know and i i appreciate brother
alex playing like a man you know i appreciate the the cello and the violinist and the the the
flute and you know the the the rock and roll guy here the brother chevy you know he gets into it you
know i think that's great i love when they're tearing up the strings and they're just putting
they're all into it and the song leaders up here you know now it's time for you to do your part
too amen and sing out so like the last song we sing tonight that's how it should be amen
a little song is it let's see i don't know if i know it oh come down foul perfect i know it
you know come down foul we all know it amen but the point that i'm making here is that when we
come to the house of god it should invoke all man that message was great man the hymns were great
man the people's attitude in the church was great people came to greet me you know they
didn't just stare at me they didn't just leave me alone they came to check on my salvation
they knew the bible too you know they were very friendly you know be a friendly person at church
don't be a weirdo okay you know you're like well i'm still kind of new you know why your news
because you haven't gone out to meet anybody else okay like actually get up and go like greet people
like well i've been coming here for so long and i still don't know their name because you don't
go ask them for their name go greet people meet people and uh you know have that spirit within
you have that joy have that cause people to be like man this place is awesome this place is awesome
and i'm thankful that like you know i've had people visit our church and even like my mom when she
when she started really coming you know she's just like i'm just like inspired by these young
guys who are just you know they're getting work done they're they're friendly they're singing
you know it causes all right this is the effect that we want to have here happy are thy men happy
are these thy servants but let me also say this you know when when jacob said this is a dreadful
place yeah we could apply it as in it invokes all but you know the house of god is a fearful place
too it should be a place where you would be afraid to be in if you're a wicked person
right number one if you're involved in like sin and you think you're just going to be able to like
covertly come to church involved in sin and no one find out be sure your sin will find you out
because the house of god is dreadful you know and here's the thing you know no one needs to gossip
to me about your sin i'll find out somehow or i won't find out i'll just preach against it and
you'll think that i found out because that happens too where i'm just like you know i'm going to
preach on this for some reason and then it's just the Lord's just like you're just telling me about
you know he's just showing me he's just like yeah you should preach on fortification preach
drunkenness and then i preach on people like oh man like how does he know you know how do you
know that i'm doing that i don't know but this is a dreadful place for you though it's a
dreadful place for people with unrepentant sin all right if you're a drunkard this is a dreadful
place for you because you're gonna get thrown out if you don't repent of that sin if you're a
fornicator this is a dreadful place for you to be in because god does not permit fornicators to
just stay in church unrepentant he wants them to get right with god it's a dreadful place
but you know it's also a dreadful place for just absolute reprobates and apostates too okay
you know if you are in our church and you hate me this is a dreadful place for you to be in
for more than one reason okay you know if you're just like oh i i'm attending that church secretly
and they don't know that i'm there you know this is a dreadful place for you to be in
because you could get found out at any moment and it happens all the time it's a dreadful place
for first of all it's a dreadful place because you might get found out but also it's a dreadful
place because of the fact that you have to listen to me even though you hate me and guess what i'm in
charge here that's even more dreadful for you so you have to listen to me preach to you for three
hours a week yell at you for three hours a week and you can't do anything about it
you're like oh man i'm just forced to be here sucks for you that sucks for you i'm just
forced to be here and i hate this place yeah it's dreadful huh sucks can't do anything about that
but you know there's people out there that exist like that they will literally come to a church
they hate the preacher they hate the doctrine they hate the church all you know they have to
anonymously comment online why because they are afraid of being found out
so you know if there's people out there like that who come to our church you know
sucks sucks to be you because it changes nothing here you are the one who has to like
sneakily go to facebook and just can you believe he said this i heard this on Sunday night
and i'll say it again and what are you gonna do about it nothing you can't do anything about it
i'll keep preaching against feminism i'll say that pedophiles deserve a bullet in the head
here let me clip farm real quick you know pedophiles deserve to be shot in the head
clip that
you know and what are you gonna do about it
it's like oh i'm gonna repost it please do so
do so you know just you know i got haters who who you know make clips for me
it changes nothing so it's a dreadful place for you to be in because you're actually spending gas to
come here you get dressed you gotta act you gotta play the part the entire time you gotta act like
you're a good christian you gotta act like you like me you gotta say hi to me you know you have
to greet me if i come to you if i want to conversate with you you're forced to do it
because you got to play the role that sucks for you but i'm not a fake person so it doesn't
suck for me i'm just like you know and you can post as many clips about my sermon as you want
it will never bother me it will never bother me you know yeah but we'll post it on the
nifb archives well here's the thing like the xnfb archives yeah do it post it everywhere
put it everywhere and you're like yeah but then you'll see it well i can't because i'm blocked so
i'm banned from from that group because i talked too much crap on there you know the house of god
is a dreadful place for someone who doesn't want to be in the house of god well i only go once a week
sucks for you sucks for you because you know what no amount of clips that are put out there will
ever determine what i preach and it never stopped me for preaching things you know there's a
clip that's that's circulating right now about me praying for john macArthur's death
even though he's already dead you know and people are like this clip is going around it's just like
sounds good sounds good oh i can't believe you said that and
believe it it's out there you'd be able to apologize and be like oh man i yeah i was a lot
younger back then ah bro that was like five years ago and my views have not changed you see you're
still praying for it no because he's already he's in hell already he's on it's mission accomplished
oh how can you say that about john macArthur oh how about because he was a damnedable heretic
who taught damnedable heresy who mocked the blood of jesus christ and said you have to repent
of your sins to be saved how about the fact that he's responsible for millions and millions
of people who are currently in hell right now how about that oh but he did so many great things
like what well just because you read his books just because you visited his church
he's a false prophet because anybody who teaches a false gospel is a cursed
oh man you're just gonna scare so many people away from the yeah i want this house to be dreadful
to people like that because that's exactly what the house of god is you know this is the exact
opposite of how churches are today they don't want it to be dreadful i want the house of god
to be dreadful i want people to be afraid to be involved in secret sin to be slanderers and
railers for fear that they might get kicked out they're gonna get called out it should be that way
and they're like oh man i'm never gonna go to your church yet because you're scared that's why
mission accomplished i will never go to your church yet because it's dreadful huh
it'll be dreadful to be in a church like this and be someone like you
but you know there's tons of people who still love to come to this church because it's not
dreadful to them you know the dread that they feel is just the awe they're just like this place is awesome
i love coming to the house of god i love fellowshiping with god's people you know
and so you know the house of god is a dreadful place to the infiltrator for sure
you know you're like is there an infiltrator i don't know maybe maybe not i don't know there
might be you know there might be an absolute infiltrator who hates everything we do here
and it's just like you're outnumbered buddy
and you better not slip up you better not slip up in conversation with me or with anybody else
you know you better watch yourself like man aren't you scaring your congregation no because if the
congregation is a righteous what do they have to be afraid of right you got nothing to be
scared of unless you're just an absolute wicked person then you then you do have a lot to be afraid of
be very afraid because it's a dreadful place go back to genesis
because it's how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house of god
this is the gate of heaven and then he says in verse 18 and jake up rose up early
in the morning and took the stone that he put they had put for his pillow and set it up for
a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it now this is amazing is it not because he says he
takes the stone he sets it up for a pillar and then he puts oil upon it now we obviously know
that the stone there can be you know it can be symbolic of the lord jesus christ
he is the stone which the builders rejected right but the bible also says in first peter chapter two
that ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house so as he's mentioning the house of god
he then states that he rises up early in the morning takes the stone that he had put his
put for his pillow and set it up for a pillar so what is the church made of it's made of
believers right you know thou are peter and upon this rock i will build my church
john the baptist said think not to say within yourselves we have abraham to our father
for god is able of these stones to raise up children unto abraham and these stones he probably
pointed to some legitimate physical stones but the idea here is that he's pointing to the
Gentile believers because who ends up being the seed of abraham and the new testament Gentiles
the lively stones that build up the spiritual house that become the pillars of the church right
but also the pillar there is significant because it's referring to the house of god in general
it's the pillar and ground of truth and lastly the last little element there is that it says
he set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it meaning that the house of god
is anointed with the spirit of god okay you know we are anointed by the spirit of god obviously we
have the spirit of god dwelling within us at the moment of salvation once you believe on Jesus
christ you're sealed with the holy spirit of promise unto the day of redemption he's sealed
there you know he will never leave thee nor forsake thee you have the spirit of god
eternally in you but here's the thing is that we as a church also need the spirit of god
to come upon us as well right meaning that we need the power of god okay why why so well because
of the fact that you know we have to win souls to christ the preaching of god's word has to be
thundered forth but also we need the spirit of god in order to just live godly lives
and this is just your weekly reminder that every morning when you wake up you should be praying
for god to fill you with the spirit pray for that when you wake up in the morning lord
help me to walk in the spirit to not fulfill the lust of the flesh help me to be filled with the
spirit because we often associate being filled with the spirit with boldness which is absolutely true
right we need the boldness we need to be able to thunder forth the word of god to stand on truth
but we just need to be filled with the spirit just to kind of just to live life to make the
proper decisions to discern to be the right type of husbands wives to fulfill responsibilities
at work you know before you go into work you should say lord please fill me with your spirit
help me to be filled with the spirit as i'm working today so i can be a hard honest worker i can be
a problem solver i can be an asset to this company because i'm filled with the spirit right hey
before you hit the gym ask god to fill you with the spirit hey man that's that that's a sure
thing anytime i go under the bar i always ask god to fill me with the spirit so that i'm able
to lift this weight up off my back and you're like oh that's silly yeah yeah to the person who
never asked for the filling of the spirit yeah but i rely upon the spirit for all things that's
how we ought to be we ought to live our lives endeavoring to walk in the spirit now obviously
i fail sometimes there's times when i don't ask that but in general my goal my target is to be
filled with the spirit to walk in the spirit in order to be used of god and you know i want
to be sensitive to the holy spirit to be able to discern things to make the right decisions
i have a lot of people i'm responsible for sermons that i have to preach but you know what the same
responsibility falls upon you as well okay you know you think yourself a lot why do i need
to be filled with the spirit i don't i'm not preaching god's word yeah but don't you counsel
people don't you give people advice right hopefully you know someone someone esteems you
hopefully maybe not i don't know you know you're gonna have someone who's gonna confide in you
and you know what like there's a funny rule out there right now where it's just like
you know this is me giving out advice you know that i will never follow or giving advice even
though my life is a complete mess right now but you know what we as god's people need to make
sure that we're filled with the spirit when we're speaking to others and advising them
in the areas of life if someone comes to you and says like hey what do you think about this
you should pray like lord fill them with your spirit helmet is say the right thing to this person
how many give the the the correct righteous counsel for this person and if you're drawing
a blank don't give advice you're like well i'm just gonna try it anyways marry her tomorrow
just you know elope you know just just just make the decision you know you should say
you know i don't really know i don't i can't answer that right now and so i need to get back to you
or i would recommend that you go to pastor okay and by the way don't just like flippantly give advice
either to someone just because you you want to be the one who like is responsible for their success
or something like that right like well i'm just gonna shoot it out there i'm just gonna give
him this person the advice i think this is the right thing to say you know you should be
convinced and it should be sound counsel and if you're unsure of what you're saying is correct
here's one of two things you should do one just don't say it and advise that person to go
go to someone else or give the advice and just be like but i don't know no give the advice and say
that's my opinion that's what i think you should do but i would recommend for you to
go talk to pastor or someone who is older someone who's experienced this just to make sure
that that's probably the correct thing for you to do you know just leave a big back door to say
don't be the ultimate authority here and be like yeah this is what definitely you should do
this is what i would do and i don't think you need to ask anybody else
you know give the advice if you think it's sound advice but if you're still unsure
then just say that's my opinion i'd recommend you go talk to someone else about it
but that's what i think you i should do and here's the thing if you say that
and the person comes to me and i give the same exact advice that you would give it actually
gives you more credibility because then that person is like oh dang that person was right
like dang geo actually knows what he was talking about like that's very shocking
i never would have expected that from geolania i guess he does know something
you know and then you accumulate more but what if you just give bad counsel
and you don't recommend for that person to go to someone more spiritual and then it ends
up being really bad it actually takes away from your credibility and it causes people to say
i'm never going to go back to that person to ask for advice again they gave me bad advice
the point that i'm making here is that the house of god must be anointed with oil all right
and you know what on sunday morning i'm praying for god to fill me with his spirit but you
should also be praying that god fills you with his spirit as well to listen to the sermon
you know the the song leaders often say you know give us spirit filled ears
that we may receive that what you would have for us today you know that's not just them you know
saying a cool little prayer or something like that it's a legitimate petition right like lord
we came all the way to the house of god we got ourselves up in the morning to come hear the
preaching of god's word like help me to receive something from this that i'm going to listen
to today how many have spirit filled ears he the half in here let him hear what the spirit say
unto the churches and so it's a very beautiful picture here of the house of god even in the new
testament that's made up of the stone which the builders rejected made up of lively stones
that are built up to a spiritual house referring to believers it's the pillar and ground of
truth and it's filled with anointing oil it is filled with the spirit okay verse 19 says
and he called the name of that place Bethel but the name of that city was called Luz at the first
and Jacob vowed a vow saying if god will be with me and will keep me this day that i go
and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on so that i come again to my father's house
and peace then shall the lord be my god and this stone which i have set for a pillar
shall be god's house and of all that thou shall give me i will surely give
the tenth unto thee so obviously jacob he's taken this serious he's not trying to be conniving anymore
he's not trying to be subtle he's trying to do things the honest way and he's saying like lord
i need you to preserve me and if you preserve me i will fulfill my end of my vow i'm going to
give a tenth unto you he's putting god to the test in this area right and so it's a great
story here to demonstrate that though jacob is a deceiver though he's a liar you know his bad
decisions have placed him in a situation where he's going to be forced to actually become a god person
okay to make the right decisions and it's kind of forcing him to be the right person
because he doesn't have rebecca his mom conspiring with god to you know do something
he he only has himself and only his his own integrity is the only thing that's going to be able to lead
him understand so you know it's important for us as christians to rely upon others but there's
going to come a time when you can't rely upon anybody and you have to make the right decision
yourself right you have to be the one who comes to church you have to be the one to read the
bible you have to be the one to do right even though no one is watching and you know what
you may not have your parents come your parents might not be in church well that means you need
to do right regardless of your parents are here regardless of your parents require for you to do
right or not you know you need to be like joseph who did write in egypt despite the fact that he
didn't have his parents with them be a righteous person everywhere you go be a righteous person
at your job be a righteous person when you go home don't be a hypocrite don't live a a double
life do that which is right in the sight of god and you know if you're placed in a situation like
jacob you know make that make not that valve but make the the statement like i'm going to serve you
i need you to show yourself strong on my behalf and you know i got no one else and so i need to
do right by myself let's pray father we thank you so much for this day thank you so much for
your word and for the story here lord i pray that you bless us lord and help us to recognize
that the house of god church should be a dreadful place it should invoke all but it should also
be a place that we would be afraid to come if we're not right with god and i pray that lord
you would help us to maintain that spirit here and if someone out there is standing in judgment
of that type of ministry then don't come may they never come to our church lord may they go
elsewhere where the house of god is not a dreadful place it's a place that where sin is allowed
sin abounds heresy is put forth lord but in this house your house lord may we honor and glorify
you by holding up these standards we love and we thank you pray this things in jesus name amen brother