WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:02.000 Joshua chapter 9 tonight. 00:00:02.080 --> 00:00:02.799 Would you turn there? 00:00:02.959 --> 00:00:05.040 Joshua chapter 9. 00:00:06.400 --> 00:00:07.599 Just leave those microphones. 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:09.199 I'll kick them over later, amen. 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:11.759 Joshua chapter 9. 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:17.359 And would you also pick up 2 Samuel 21? 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:22.320 I'll try to give you some of your time back tonight as I realize where we're at, and it's a moral weekend. 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:24.399 Maybe you can have some fellowship tonight with family. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:26.160 Joshua chapter 9. 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:27.839 2 Samuel 21. 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:32.399 You'll have to listen very carefully tonight to get the analogy of what I'm going to try to present. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:33.600 Joshua 9. 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:38.240 If you know anything about the uh Gibeonites, uh, we'll read about them just a little bit tonight. 00:00:38.399 --> 00:00:39.679 And I want to equate it to something. 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:43.200 Joshua chapter 9, would you look at verse 3? 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:45.439 Verse 3 of Joshua 9. 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.240 Holding your place in 2 Samuel 21. 00:00:49.280 --> 00:01:12.079 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon uh heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and Ai, they did work uh willily, if you would, wildily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old uh sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles old and rent, and bound up in old shoes and clouded upon their feet, and old garments upon them, and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy. 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.359 The Bible says they came to Joshua in verse 8. 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:16.799 Look what they say in verse 8. 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:19.519 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.640 And Joshua said to them, Whence are ye, and from whence come ye? 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:29.680 And they said unto him, From a far country, Thy servants are come, because of the name of the Lord thy God. 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:32.879 For we have heard the fame of him and all that he did in Egypt. 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:37.920 How he what he talks about in verse 10 is how they destroyed the Sihon and Og. 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:52.000 And they all go on down and say in verse 11, Wherefore our elders and our all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them and say unto them, We are, say it, your servants. 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:54.159 Therefore now make a league with us. 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:56.319 Now you know they deceived him. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:00.640 And verse 14, the the Israelites made a bad decision here. 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:03.200 They made a decision not to ask counsel of God. 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:11.599 And then they did enter into a league with these Gibeonites, and if you would, then they found out that the Gibeonites were next up on their list to destroy. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:14.240 Look, if you would, in verse 20. 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:15.360 Verse 20. 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:16.800 This we will do to them. 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:20.560 We will even, would you say the next three words with me? 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:21.919 Let them live. 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:23.919 Say it again, let them live. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.360 Remember, the Gibeonites said and came and said, We're your servants. 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.639 You know, the Gibeonites kind of figured this whole thing out and said, You know what? 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:32.000 We got a choice here. 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:42.319 We can either stay here and wait for them and die, or we can go and try to pretend that we're from afar away, and we can tell them we want to be their servants and live. 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.520 So they made this covenant and they let them live. 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:46.960 And look at verse 21. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.680 And the princes said unto them, Let them what? 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:50.560 Live. 00:02:50.800 --> 00:03:00.960 But let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes hath promised them. 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:01.840 Huh? 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:11.360 So they're going to live, and they're going to be servants, and they're going to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, and they're going to serve that congregation. 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.080 And look if you would, uh verse 24. 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:25.120 And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the Lord thy God commanded his servant, Moses, to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.439 Therefore, we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing. 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.759 And now, behold, we are in thine hand. 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.919 As it seemeth good and right unto thee, so do unto us, do. 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:41.439 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not. 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:49.199 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the what? 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:54.639 Altar of the Lord, even unto this day in the place which he should choose. 00:03:54.879 --> 00:04:08.400 They were about ready to be killed, if you would, by the Israelites, and they decided, we're going to go make a league if we can, and they were deceitful about it, and the children of Israel didn't inquire about what they should do, but they said, We're going to be your servants. 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:13.120 And the end result of this situation was the Gibeonites did live. 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:22.160 They became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord. 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:24.240 Now God took that pledge very seriously. 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:25.759 Look at 2 Samuel 21. 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:26.399 Stay with me. 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:28.720 2 Samuel chapter 21. 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:36.240 Hewers of wood, drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord. 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:43.680 2 Samuel 21, the Bible says in verse 1, there's a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, verse 1. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:46.959 And the Lord answered, It is for who? 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:51.519 Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:05:03.920 And the king called the Gibeonites and said unto them, Now the Gibbonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn unto them, and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and to Judah. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:17.279 You see, God honored the covenant that they made, even though it was done in an unusual fashion, God honored the covenant, and when Saul thought to break the covenant, God judged Israel and made them pay. 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:27.120 If you know the story, the Gimeonites say that what they were like is for, if you would, a restitution, seven men of the sons of Saul are delivered up and they hang them. 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:28.560 The idea is this, though. 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:42.959 Even though the league, the covenant, the agreement was made unusually, God made them stick to that covenant, and God made them hold up that agreement, and when it was broken by Saul, God judged them for that. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:47.920 They gave them their word, and God heard it, and God said, You're going to keep your word. 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:57.519 And the Gibeonites, who were going to die, they lived and became hewers of what? 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:04.800 Wood and drawers of for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord. 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:07.439 Look if you would back, and I should have had you stay there. 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:09.279 Look back at Joshua 9 real quick. 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:11.439 Back at Joshua 9 just for a moment. 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:14.639 And also, would you pick up 1 Samuel chapter 6? 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.439 Joshua 9 and 1 Samuel chapter 6. 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:18.560 Stay right with me tonight. 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:22.079 I don't think it'll be a long message, but I think you'll get the point in just a moment. 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.360 Joshua 9 and 1 Samuel chapter 6. 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.879 I want you to notice five cities in Joshua chapter 9, verse 17. 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:32.399 Five cities. 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:34.319 Joshua 9, verse 17. 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:38.959 And the children of Israel journeying and came unto their cities on the third day. 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.959 The third day they came into their cities, meaning the Gibeonites' cities. 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:49.279 Now their cities were Gibeon and Cherephath and Aberoth and Kirjath Jirim. 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:54.160 Hold your place there in Joshua chapter 9, real quick, and look at 1 Samuel 6. 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:56.240 1 Samuel 6, if you would. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:07.360 And in 1 Samuel 6, if you remember the message of last week, if you remember where the ark stayed for a long period of time, look at verse 20 of 1 Samuel chapter 6. 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:13.519 And the men of Beth Shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.279 And to whom shall he go up from us? 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:19.600 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjithiram. 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.399 It's one of the cities of the Gibeonites, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the Lord. 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:26.319 Come ye down and fetch it up to you. 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:41.279 And the men of Kirjith Jerem came and fetched up the ark of the Lord and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eliezer his son to keep the ark of the Lord, and it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjith Jerem that the time was long, for it was how long? 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:42.160 Twenty years. 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:43.120 Please look up here. 00:07:43.279 --> 00:07:45.439 The Gibeonites were supposed to die. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:50.399 It was an unusual way that they got their freedom and were allowed to live. 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:56.560 And after they were allowed to live, they said, We be thy servants, and they became hewers of what? 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:57.040 Say it. 00:07:57.279 --> 00:07:58.959 Wood, and drawers of what, say it? 00:07:59.120 --> 00:07:59.600 Water. 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:05.279 Unto the congregation of the household of the Lord, or unto the congregation and unto the altar. 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:19.759 Now, isn't that interesting that one of their cities, Kyrgyz Germ, for twenty years the ark abode there, and I guess as I read this thing, those Gibeonites who were supposed to die, they got to be hewers of what? 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:20.720 Wood. 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:25.040 And carriers of what? 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:26.160 Water. 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:35.840 Not only to the congregation, but to the altar of the Lord, and the ark of God abode there. 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:45.200 Look if you would a little bit further and go back to Joshua 9 with me and also pick up 1 Kings chapter 3. 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:46.559 Stay with me. 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:51.360 Hewers of wood and drawers of water. 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:56.559 In Joshua chapter 9, and also 1 Kings chapter 3. 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:59.360 You don't mind studying your Bible, do you? 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:04.320 There's no way to get to where I want to go without telling you a little bit about this. 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:08.480 In chapter 9 again, in verse 17, look at the cities. 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:11.679 And the children of Israel journeying and came into their cities on the third day. 00:09:11.840 --> 00:09:13.759 Now their cities were, what was the first one? 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:14.720 Gibeon. 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:18.159 Look if you would in 1 Kings chapter 3. 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.240 1 Kings chapter 3. 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:22.879 And notice verse 1. 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:31.120 Solomon is set up, if you would, he makes affinity with the king of Egypt, takes the daughter. 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.200 And uh look if you would down at verse 3. 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:40.720 And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statues of David his father. 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.320 Only he sacrificed and burnt incense is in high places. 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:50.639 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:56.000 A thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:57.440 Verse 5. 00:09:57.679 --> 00:09:58.399 Look at it. 00:09:58.639 --> 00:09:59.279 In where? 00:09:59.919 --> 00:10:00.639 In Gibeon. 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:01.840 The Lord appeared to who? 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:06.399 Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:16.320 Isn't that interesting that in one of the cities of the Gibeonites, one of the chief cities, Gibeon, Saul sacrifices, a great deal of burnt offerings, if you would. 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:21.039 And that night the Lord decides to appear to him right there at that altar. 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:25.039 Oh, by the way, the Gibeonites were still hewers of what, say it? 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:25.679 Wood. 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:26.879 And drawers of the what? 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:27.519 Of the water. 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:29.600 Not only to the congregation, but to the what? 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:30.960 The altar of the Lord. 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:40.000 And I'm going to say to you, I believe probably somewhere around that altar is where God must have appeared to Solomon and asked him that great question, What shall I give thee? 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:41.679 And Solomon gave that answer. 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:52.240 Isn't it interesting that the Gibeonites, even though they came in in an unusual way, they were allowed to let live, they became servants, they became hewers of wood and drawers of the water. 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:57.360 Not only did the congregation, but they were just happy to be alive, and they also served the altar of the Lord. 00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:59.120 You know, God's mercy is something. 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:00.799 And God's grace is something. 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:07.919 And God's way of dealing with things is really, when you look at it, it's just amazing what God can put together. 00:11:08.159 --> 00:11:10.879 Look, if you would at Matthew chapter 15. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:12.960 Matthew chapter 15. 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:15.919 And let me quickly give you an analogy. 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:24.159 Matthew chapter 15, and I think you'll see that it's not a perfect fit, but in similitude, I think you'll understand where I'm going. 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:27.840 Matthew 15, and would you also pick up Mark chapter 7? 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.480 Matthew 15 and Mark chapter 7. 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:32.799 And let's cross-reference a couple of scriptures here. 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:35.120 Matthew 15 and Mark chapter 7. 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:40.399 They were supposed to die, but they came and through an unusual way they were told that they could live. 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:42.159 And they said, We just want to be your servants. 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:44.080 And they said, All right, you will be our servants. 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:50.639 You're going to be a hewer of the wood, and you're going to be a drawer of the water, and you're going to serve the congregation and the altar of the Lord. 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:58.399 Not only did they serve that altar, they served in Gibeon, where Solomon sacrificed, and they served, if you would, uh, at Kyrgyz Jerem, where the ark came. 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:00.720 Now, if you would, look at Matthew chapter 15. 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:05.679 And notice, if you would, a verse of scripture, and uh I'll give you the lead into this. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.960 Jesus comes, and look if you would in verse 21. 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:12.240 Jesus went thence and departed the coast of Tyre and Sidon. 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:18.480 Behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coast and cried to him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David. 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:20.559 My daughter is grievously vexed with the devil. 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:22.480 But he answered her not a word. 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:25.039 Interesting. 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:28.159 Why wouldn't Jesus answer her? 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:33.200 And the disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away, for she crieth after us. 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:39.679 But he answered and said, and he's talking to the woman, and he says, This, I am not sent, but in the lost sheep of the house of who? 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:40.720 Israel. 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:44.639 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:49.840 But he answered and said, It's not meat to take the children's bread and cast it to what? 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:50.639 Dogs. 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:53.360 You ever study the word dogs in the Bible? 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:55.360 It's not a great term. 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:00.320 He said, I'm not going to give the children's bread and cast it to the dogs. 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:03.039 You know, the problem was she wasn't Jewish. 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:07.120 And she said, truth, Lord. 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:10.799 She didn't say it's not fair. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:15.440 She didn't say I thought God was a God of love. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:19.440 She just said truth, Lord. 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:21.840 I understand my place. 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:24.720 That's the truth, Lord. 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:30.399 Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table. 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:32.080 You know what she says? 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:32.879 Truth, Lord. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:40.639 I'm just a Gentile dog, and I don't deserve anything, but once the Israelites are done eating anything that falls to the bottom, I just want to eat it. 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:46.480 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, Oh woman, great is thy faith. 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:49.200 Be it unto thee even as thou wilt. 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.679 And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:53.919 Look, if you would at Mark chapter 7. 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:56.399 Mark chapter 7. 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.879 Mark chapter 7, if you would, look at the same story. 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:07.120 And he arises in verse 24 into the borders of Tyre and Zion. 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:11.919 And by the way, if you're tired of studying your Bible already, you need to start studying your Bible more during the week. 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:22.159 If my giving you a few scriptures tonight gets it to the place where you sit there and they're kind of doing this, and I haven't looked in the congregation to find out, then you're not in your Bible enough during the week. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:29.039 If asking you to flip to a couple of scriptures gets you all bored and discontented, you're not in your Bible enough in the week. 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:32.080 Just thought I'd throw that in. 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:34.320 Verse 25. 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:40.480 For a certain woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell at his feet. 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:41.759 The woman was a what? 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:42.240 Say it. 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:43.120 A Greek. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:46.240 By the way, that's a non-Jewish person. 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:47.840 That's a Gentile. 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:49.039 That's a dog. 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.159 Whoa, what do you mean, a dog? 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:53.759 According to the book, it's a dog. 00:14:54.799 --> 00:15:00.559 The woman was a Greek, a Siophonician by nation, and besought him that he would cast forth the devil out her daughter. 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:04.320 But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled. 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:08.799 For it's not meat to take the children's bread and to cast it under the dogs. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.519 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord. 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:15.279 Yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.240 And he had said unto her, For this saying, go thy way. 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.799 Thy daughter is gone, or the devil is gone out of thy daughter. 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:25.120 The idea is this she knew her place. 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:32.639 She knew that she was just a Gentile dog, and the first choice of God was the Israelites. 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:36.960 Look, if you would at Romans chapter 11 and pick up Acts chapter 10. 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:38.399 Romans chapter 11. 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:40.000 I hope your mind is starting to work. 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:44.720 Romans chapter 11 and Acts chapter 10. 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:49.600 Now, if you know anything about Romans 11, we Gentile dogs came in in an unusual way. 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:51.360 Is that right? 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:52.960 Come on, talk to me. 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:57.440 We Gentile dogs, I mean, we got in in kind of an unusual way. 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:00.399 You say, what do you mean, we Gentile dogs? 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:01.919 I wasn't born Jewish. 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:06.159 I'm not an Israelite per se. 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:08.559 Somebody says, well, what about since you've been born again? 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:14.159 I was born a Gentile dog, but I've been born again, and now by faith I'm a child of Israel. 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:14.799 Is that right? 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:17.200 But I was born a gentile dog. 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:19.600 And by the way, most of you were too. 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:24.960 Look at verse 7. 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:27.279 Verse 7 of Romans 11. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:28.399 What then? 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:29.919 Question mark. 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:32.799 Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for. 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:35.840 But the election have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:43.440 According to it written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear unto this day. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:44.639 What is that talking about? 00:16:44.879 --> 00:17:01.279 Israel had their opportunity, if you would, but because they were given, if you would, that spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and that their eyes were holding, the little God of this world probably blinded them, then God had a plan. 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:02.960 Verse 11. 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:08.480 I say then, have they, that's Israel, stumbled that they should fall. 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:09.920 God forbid. 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:16.160 But rather that through their Israel's fall, salvation has come to the Gentile dogs. 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:16.880 Amen? 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:20.720 For to provoke them, Israel, to jealousy. 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:26.000 You know, God's using us Gentile dogs to make Israel jealous. 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:30.240 And God's blessing our nation to make Israel jealous. 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:31.519 Is that right? 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:39.440 Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness? 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:41.119 For I speak to you who? 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:46.160 Gentiles, inasmuch as I am apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my office. 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.079 Look what he says in verse 25. 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:49.519 Verse 25. 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:59.279 I would not, brethren, talking to those ones that he's, if you would, an apostle to, the Gentiles, that you should be ignorant of this mystery. 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.720 That you should be wise in your own what? 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:03.680 Conceits. 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:06.319 Brethren, we better remember from whence we come. 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:08.160 We better remember how we got in. 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.240 We remember it's not of our own merit. 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:17.519 We better remember that it's just because, if you would, Israel rejected him that he turned to the Gentiles, us, to provoke them to jealousy. 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:20.640 It's an unusual way to get in, but it's a good way to get in. 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:27.519 Maybe it's not quite the same as the Gibeonites, but I may say this: as unusual as there was, we haven't been deceptive. 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:29.359 It wasn't something that God was fooled. 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:34.160 But God have an unusual way of putting it all together to give the Gentiles the opportunity. 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:41.440 And if all as we are ever is hewers of wood and drawers of water. 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:46.559 And we're servants to Israel in some way, shape, or form. 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:47.680 That's enough for me. 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:49.519 It's just good to be alive eternally. 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:50.160 Amen? 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:56.640 He says this that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:02.880 And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, there shall come out of Sion the what? 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:03.920 Deliverer. 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:07.599 And shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob, for this is my covenant to them. 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:12.880 When I shall take away their sins, Israel, as concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes. 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:17.359 But as touching the election, they are beloved for the Father's sakes. 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:21.680 For the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance. 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:24.400 Isn't it interesting the way we got in? 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:32.880 We got in kind of by default. 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:36.480 Now you say, no, God knew the plan. 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:39.599 I know God knew the plan from Alpha to Omega on the whole thing. 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:43.759 But as I read this thing, it looks like we kind of got in by default. 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:45.359 Kind of an unusual way. 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.880 You mean God didn't just just love the Gentiles? 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:49.599 Sure He did. 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.720 But if you would look at Acts chapter 11, or Acts chapter 10. 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:54.720 Stay with me. 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:56.480 Acts chapter 10. 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:07.200 It's kind of unusual the way this came about, if you know the story. 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:09.759 I don't know if you've read Acts chapter 10 in a while. 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:14.240 There's a devout centurion man named Cornelius. 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:15.759 And he's a what? 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:17.279 He's a Gentile. 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:18.880 He's of the Italian band. 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:23.279 And uh he goes up and he's fasting uh one day and he's praying. 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:26.960 And verse 3 of Acts chapter 10, he sees a vision. 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:31.440 About the ninth hour of the day, the angel of God coming into him and saying, Cornelius. 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:34.400 When he looked on him, he was afraid and said, What is it, Lord? 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:40.000 And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:49.519 He tells him to send some men to Joppa and to go down and see Peter down there, who's lodging at Simon, a tanner's house, if you know the story. 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:55.200 And so uh they take off and they head for the place where Peter is. 00:20:55.440 --> 00:21:04.720 And while they're on their way, verse 9, on the morrow as they went on their journey and drew nigh into the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour. 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:09.440 He became very hungry and would have eaten, but while he made ready, he fell into a trance. 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:21.839 And what he sees is the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descends, and there's a great sheet and four corners are let down in the earth, and on that sheet there's all manner of four-footed beasts and wild beasts and creeping things. 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:26.720 And verse 13, a voice comes to him and says, Rise, Peter, kill and eat. 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:31.039 And Peter said, Not so, Lord, for I've never eaten anything that is what? 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:33.279 Common or unclean. 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.920 A voice spake unto him again the second time, what God hath cleansed. 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:42.000 That call not thou common. 00:21:43.839 --> 00:21:45.359 This was done thrice. 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:46.880 Three times. 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:50.400 Kind of like when Peter denied him three times. 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:53.440 And the vessel was received up again into heaven. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:59.200 Now, while Peter doubted in himself with this vision, what is meaning? 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.920 There's the ones that Cornelius sent, and they knock on his door. 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:05.039 And look at verse 19. 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:05.680 Stay with me. 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:10.000 While Peter thought in the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee. 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:15.680 Arise, therefore, and get thee down and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent them. 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:22.160 So here's these three men show up that Cornelius, the Gentile, has sent according to God's plan. 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:23.920 Do you see how great God is? 00:22:24.319 --> 00:22:26.640 I mean, you read this thing, you say, Well, that's a nice story. 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:34.160 No, that's God working on one nation, and God working on another nation, and God's mercy and grace, and he's got a plan. 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:40.960 So they all go down and they go down to Cornelius' house. 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:42.720 And Peter's with them. 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:44.079 And verse 24. 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:49.759 And the Maurer, after they entered into Caesarea, and Cornelius waited for them and had called together his what? 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.240 His kinsmen and near friends. 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:59.359 And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius falls down, and he wants to worship him, and Peter says, Stand up, I myself also am a man. 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:00.319 Isn't that interesting? 00:23:00.480 --> 00:23:03.680 The first Pope saying, Stand up, don't fall down before me. 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:05.599 I myself also am a man. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:07.440 You read it right there, amen? 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:10.079 Didn't ask him to kiss his ring or anything, amen? 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:12.880 Come on. 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:17.440 Some of you are smiling too much right now. 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:20.160 And they talk with him and everything. 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:21.920 And verse 28, look at it. 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:22.799 Peter says this. 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:30.960 He said unto them, You know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company or come unto one of another nation. 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:35.039 But God hath showed me that I should not call who? 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:39.279 Any man common or unclean. 00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:43.440 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying as soon as I was sent for. 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:48.559 I ask, therefore, for what intent ye have sent for me? 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:49.839 Here's Peter. 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:57.519 Here's Peter, if you would, I believe the leader of the church of Antioch, certainly very, very Jewish. 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:00.720 And he's saying, All right, why am I here? 00:24:01.519 --> 00:24:03.119 Why have you sent for me? 00:24:03.359 --> 00:24:05.119 And Cornelius rehearses the matter. 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:07.519 He says, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour. 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:12.720 About the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and he says, A man stood before me in bright clothing. 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:16.799 Tells him his prayer is heard, and he tells him to send these men to Joppa. 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:22.720 And verse 33, immediately therefore I sent to thee, and thou hast well done that thou art come. 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:31.039 Now, therefore, are we all here present before God to hear all the things that are commanded thee of God? 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:32.240 Now please look up here. 00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:36.319 Here is Peter saying, Here I am, why did you send for me? 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:46.720 And here is Cornelius saying, Well, I was fasting, I was praying, a bright, shining man showed up to me and said, Send three guys and bring Peter down here. 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:53.039 And then Cornelius says, So we're here right now present to hear whatever you got to say to us. 00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:59.359 One is saying, uh, okay, what do you want from me? 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:00.480 Why am I here? 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:04.559 The other is saying, well, uh, what do you got to say to us? 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:06.319 Come on. 00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:07.200 Is that right? 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:10.640 And God's got the whole thing planned. 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:16.240 All Peter has to do is break through his prejudice and preach God's word. 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:25.119 Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. 00:25:25.519 --> 00:25:29.599 But every nation that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him. 00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:33.119 Somebody says, What about that country over there, you know, and all that? 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:40.960 The Bible says, every nation that feareth him, not Buddha, not some Muslim God, Mohammed. 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:45.279 Every nation that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him. 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:46.960 Somebody says, Well, what about those ones? 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:50.559 If they're worshiping some stone image, they're not fearing God. 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:52.400 Mark it down. 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.680 But every nation that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.920 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ. 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:03.119 And then he says in parentheses, he is Lord of all. 00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:14.319 And then he goes on to preach how Jesus uh, what he did, and how he was hanged, and how he rose again the third day and showed himself openly. 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:15.039 Huh. 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:18.880 And don't you know something interesting happened? 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:21.200 Verse 44. 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:25.359 While Peter yet spake these words. 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:30.160 By the way, in parentheses, to the Gentiles. 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:34.319 The Holy Ghost fell on them which heard the word. 00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:35.920 Huh? 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.079 Now Peter has to go back home. 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:48.480 And when he goes back home to verse 11 to Jerusalem, look what the first thing these Jewish people leaders say to him. 00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:49.599 Verse 2. 00:26:49.839 --> 00:27:01.839 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they were of the circumcision, that's Jewish, contended with him, saying, Thou wentest into men uncircumcised, Gentiles, and did east with them. 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:03.920 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning. 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:05.119 It spout in order. 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:09.599