WEBVTT 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:04.799 Romans chapter 11 and 1 Timothy chapter 1. 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:16.160 And I'm going to uh give you, if you would, a brief introduction, and then bear it out just a little bit, and then uh close it with some thoughts that'll make some sense. 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:17.359 So follow with me. 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:19.280 We'll be out of here in good order tonight. 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:23.280 1 Timothy chapter 1 and Romans chapter 11. 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:25.120 1 Timothy chapter 1. 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:29.280 Look, if you would at verse 15, brethren, verse 15. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:39.840 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save who? 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:40.799 Sinners. 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:44.320 I want you to focus on the next five words. 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.399 He says this of whom I am what? 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:49.280 Chief. 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:50.719 Who's speaking here? 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:51.520 Paul. 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.520 And he says, I just want everybody to know that I'm a chief sinner. 00:00:55.679 --> 00:00:59.920 That means I'm not just a sinner, but I'm one of the leaders, if you would. 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:02.479 Notice what he says about himself in verse 12. 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:03.600 Verse 12. 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:10.319 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.079 He was put there, who was before a blasphemer. 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:15.680 Who's he talking about? 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:16.640 Himself. 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:18.959 And a persecutor and injurus. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:20.560 Remember, he killed Christians. 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.599 But I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:31.040 You know it's interesting that God put him in the ministry, appointed him a ministry, even though he had done all those things before. 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:32.879 God's grace is sufficient. 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.200 But he says, who I am chief. 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.319 Now with that in mind, look at Romans chapter 11. 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:40.239 Romans chapter 11. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:43.680 Watch this statement now. 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:53.439 Even though Paul knew that he was a chief sinner, even though he knew that he used to kill Christians and was injure us, look what he says in Romans chapter 11. 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:55.920 And notice what he says in verse 13. 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:57.439 Verse 13. 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:59.359 For I speak to you who? 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:00.000 Talk to me. 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:04.879 Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles. 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:06.400 The next four words. 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.120 I magnify mine. 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.080 He didn't say I magnify myself. 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:15.520 He said, I magnify my what? 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:16.080 Office. 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:17.439 What office was he given? 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:21.919 The office of being the apostle to the Gentiles, appointed by God. 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.800 If you remember in the book of Acts, he was called a chosen vessel. 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:30.319 And my point in this is simply to say this. 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:32.639 Paul didn't say I magnify myself. 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:34.000 He said, you know what I'm doing? 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:36.000 I magnify my office. 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.879 If you look at me, I'm a chief sinner, he said. 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:40.319 Here's what I did before. 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:46.960 But God put me, God placed me in this ministry, and I'm going to magnify the office that He's given me. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:48.319 Office. 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:51.520 Look it up sometimes in Webster's 1828. 00:02:51.599 --> 00:03:00.719 It'll say this in one of the different definitions: a duty or charge of trust of a sacred nature conferred by God Himself. 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:02.080 Let me say it again. 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.080 A duty or charge or trust. 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:13.919 God entrusted Paul with this office of the put him in that office as the apostle to the Gentiles, and it's conferred by God Himself. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:15.199 Now, statement. 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:18.080 Husband is an office. 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:21.120 Is that right? 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:24.560 Wife is an office. 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:35.280 It's a position, it's a duty, it's a charge that God Himself appoints. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:38.080 Father is an office. 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:41.680 Mother is an office. 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:43.199 Amen? 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:55.680 Hey, you know there's a lot in here about, for example, husbands, if we don't honor our wife in her office, 1 Peter says our prayers are hindered. 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:56.960 Yes, sir. 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.039 Come on, say amen, guys. 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:08.319 The Bible says if we don't honor that office and the person in that office, that it could hinder our prayer life. 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:11.919 The wife is supposed to reverence the husband. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:20.639 Hey, I read in there that the children are supposed to honor father and mother, and it'll affect the days that they're living. 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:22.879 Is that right? 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:27.040 Now, I don't know about you, but I'm still a child to my mother. 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.879 Now, my dad's already passed away, but my mother's still alive. 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:37.600 It's important for me to still honor that office. 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:40.879 Amen? 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:46.319 I don't care if you're 50 and your mom and dad's still living, there's still an office to honor. 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:48.399 Amen? 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:49.600 Come on. 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:51.920 You say, but there's mitigating circumstances. 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:53.680 Stay with me and I'll address that. 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:58.240 Look at 2 Chronicles 26 and 1 Samuel 13. 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:01.439 2 Chronicles 26 and 1 Samuel 13. 00:05:01.519 --> 00:05:06.480 An office, a duty or charge or trust that's conferred by God Himself. 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:10.720 When we talk about these offices that he sets up and ordains. 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:17.439 Let me show you something now and give you an important aspect to this idea of office. 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:19.519 2 Chronicles 26. 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:24.800 And notice if you would, in verse number 16. 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:26.000 Verse 16. 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:28.720 And with this idea of office, look at verse 16. 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:33.519 But when he, this is Uzziah, when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:40.399 He transgressed against the Lord and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense. 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:42.000 Now, mark it down there. 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.279 Uzziah was the king, but he wasn't a priest. 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:47.199 Let me say it again. 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:49.680 He was the king, but he wasn't the high priest. 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:56.959 His office was that of a king, but he had no right to invade the office of the priest there and burn incense. 00:05:57.920 --> 00:05:58.560 Amen? 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:00.399 What are you saying? 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:05.360 I'm saying that Uzziah was not appointed by God to be a priest. 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:08.480 He was appointed to be king, but not priest. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:15.839 Verse 17, and Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord that were valiant men. 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:17.680 By the way, they're valiant men. 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:20.480 All the priests at that time weren't wimps, amen. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.160 Says they were valiant men, and they withstood Uzziah the king. 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.160 What do you mean they withstood Uzziah? 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.600 Because Uzziah was entering into an office that wasn't his. 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:34.879 He didn't have that charge, he didn't have that duty, and they went in after him, amen. 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:44.560 And said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priest, the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense. 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:45.839 Go out of the sanctuary. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:47.199 You know what they're saying? 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:49.040 King, get out of here. 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:51.279 You're not supposed to be here. 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:53.839 This is not your office. 00:06:55.040 --> 00:06:56.720 For thou hast trespassed. 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:57.680 You know what that means? 00:06:57.839 --> 00:06:59.600 You're sinning, buddy. 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.600 Neither shall it be for thine honor from the Lord God. 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:04.959 Then Uzziah was what? 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:05.439 Say it. 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:06.000 Wrath. 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:08.959 He was angry, had a censor in his hand to burn incense. 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:14.560 And while he was wroth with the priest, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead. 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.360 You mark it down, that's God's judgment right there. 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:22.959 Before the priest of the house of the Lord from beside the incense altar. 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:24.399 What happened? 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:25.839 They looked upon him. 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:29.120 When they saw he was leprous, they threw him out. 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:30.319 Now, statement. 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:36.480 It was because he was not appointed to that office, and he tried to enter in of his own will. 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:39.120 Come on, talk to me. 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.720 He tried to enter in of his own will. 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:46.639 God didn't honor it. 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.279 Look if you would at 1 Samuel 13. 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:51.519 1 Samuel 13, are you thinking? 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:52.560 Come on. 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.360 1 Samuel say, I don't know how this will apply to me. 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:56.000 Stay with me. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:56.720 Stay with me. 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:58.240 1 Samuel 13. 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:03.439 Look if you would at verse 8. 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:05.199 Verse 8. 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:07.199 Oh, 1 Samuel 13. 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.920 Saul was told by Samuel to tarry in Gilgal and wait for him. 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:12.639 Verse 8. 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:17.839 And he that saw tarried seven days according to the set time that Samuel had appointed. 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:25.120 But Samuel came not to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him, and Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me and peace offerings. 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:28.480 And he that saw offered the burnt offering. 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.279 Mark it down, he entered into the priest's office. 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:33.600 He wasn't supposed to do that. 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:35.519 He wasn't ordained to do that. 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:37.200 He wasn't appointed to do that. 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:38.480 He was out of office. 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.840 And it came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of the offering, the burnt offering, Samuel came. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:45.919 You say, Well, nothing happened to him. 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:49.519 Samuel says to him later, What did you do? 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:51.360 He says, I forced myself. 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:52.960 And look at verse 13. 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:56.720 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done what? 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:57.279 Say it. 00:08:57.440 --> 00:08:58.240 Foolishly. 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:07.919 Thou hast not kept the command of the Lord thy God that he commanded to be thee, for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever, and he goes on to pronounce the judgment. 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:09.679 The idea is this, brethren. 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:21.679 These offices that God set up, these positions, these appointments, if you would, that God sets and appoints people to different places. 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.879 We need not take those things lightly. 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:30.480 We need to not take the office of wife lightly. 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.120 We need not to take the office of husband lightly. 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.039 As unto the husband, or if you are a husband. 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:43.919 Father, mother, ministry leader. 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:50.399 We ought to not take these offices lightly, and we ought to not take lightly those that are in those offices. 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:08.559 And Anijah set himself up to be king, and he got Joab together, and he got Abiathar, and he got a few together, and they gathered around, they blew the trumpet. 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.519 Blow the trumpet all you want, gather as many as you want. 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:14.559 God didn't appoint him to be successor to David. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.759 He tried to set himself up as king. 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:18.399 Is that right? 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:19.120 Yes or no? 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:23.600 If he would have got everybody, he still wasn't anointed of God to do it. 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:32.639 He ended up in great trouble with God and also Solomon. 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:45.519 We um we really sometimes need to look upon each other's offices and respect it. 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:58.240 For example, I as a pastor need to totally respect the office of whoever it is that's the head of your home. 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:13.679 If it's a man, a husband, then I need to totally respect his office and not intrude thereupon unless invited. 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:16.159 Say amen. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.120 You see, I have influence, but I have no control. 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:23.200 I don't want control. 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:28.320 I only want as much influence as is necessary. 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:37.200 But you know, if you're a man, you're the head of your home, and you ought to act accordingly in your office. 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:40.639 And I respect that office as pastor. 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:42.799 Amen? 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:55.120 Now, if there's a single parent off you in a situation where the mother or the wife, the the the female is the head of the home, then I respect her appropriately so also. 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:09.679 Hey, I ought to respect, you know, when there's children involved, if there's a father and a mother, I ought to respect that office of father and mother. 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:18.159 Now, if some kids come running by and bumps into me and, you know, is arrogant, and I might correct the child. 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:25.039 But I need to be careful about respecting the office of mother and father. 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:28.000 Amen? 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:30.399 You say, why are you saying all this? 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:31.919 Well, there's a couple reasons. 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:33.200 School's coming. 00:12:35.919 --> 00:12:42.639 And there needs to be mutual respect for the office of father and mother and teacher. 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:46.879 There ought to be mutual respect. 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.159 We're all in this together, and the children ought to not be in the middle. 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:57.039 Nothing worse than two offices fighting each other. 00:12:57.279 --> 00:13:03.360 Nothing worse than an office of a father and an office of a mother at each other and the children in the middle. 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:11.440 Amen. 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:14.879 Look at number 16. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:16.240 Stay with me. 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:18.080 Number 16. 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:25.519 And I speak to myself tonight also, brethren. 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:27.919 Numbers 16. 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:37.679 Notice this situation here, which you already know, but in this idea of the offices that people hold, appointed by God, charged by God. 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:40.000 Numbers 16, look at verse 3. 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:42.080 You've read it, but maybe not in a while. 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:43.279 Verse 3. 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:46.480 And they gathered themselves together against who? 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:47.919 Moses and against who? 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:48.480 Say it. 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:48.960 Aaron. 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:49.360 Who? 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.200 It was Korah and Datham and Biram. 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.120 And they gathered a bunch of people together, and they came at Moses and Aaron. 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:56.240 And they said, You know what? 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:58.240 Y'all take too much upon you. 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.399 Seeing all the congregation is holy, every one of them. 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:04.159 And the Lord is among them. 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:10.480 Wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord. 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:14.080 They said, Hey, Moses and Aaron, you're just like us. 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:16.399 Why are you taking this upon yourself? 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.840 And why are you making yourself to be what you are? 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:22.639 Everybody's the same here. 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:26.639 That's a pretty strong indictment. 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.279 They said, You're doing this yourself, Moses. 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.759 God didn't appoint you, and you're just like the rest of us. 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:40.879 Now, hold your place in Numbers 16 and look at Numbers 12. 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:47.919 Same thing really that Miriam and Aaron said about Moses. 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.679 Aaron's getting a taste of his own medicine later, amen. 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:54.720 Numbers chapter 12, look at verse 2. 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:56.080 Miriam and Aaron. 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:01.919 And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:05.440 Hath he not spoken also by us? 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.240 That's brother and sister, renowned in the congregation. 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:14.399 Aaron's the high priest, and they're saying, What are you doing, Moses? 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:19.840 Why do you think you're some? 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:25.360 Oh, by the way, verse 2, and the Lord heard it. 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:34.879 You know, brethren, the Lord does hear everything we say about other people in offices. 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:40.159 Husband, the Lord hears everything you say about your wife. 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:42.000 Wife? 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:44.960 God hears everything you say about your husband. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.399 Now you know God wasn't happy with that. 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:56.879 And Miriam ended up with leprosy. 00:15:56.960 --> 00:15:59.200 Somebody said, why didn't Aaron end up with it? 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:01.440 Because Aaron was the high priest. 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:06.720 If he would have had leprosy, they didn't have a high priest. 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:08.240 He was done. 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:11.759 I think it hurt Aaron more to see his sister get it. 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:18.000 But here's old Aaron. 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:19.840 Now focus on Aaron just for a moment. 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:25.279 Here's old Aaron chiding against Moses, saying, Who has the God just spoken by you? 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:30.159 And then here he is four chapters later in number 16, and now he's the victim. 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:36.879 Now they're saying about Moses and Aaron, y'all take too much on yourself. 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:39.519 Look at Numbers 16, look at verse 12, brethren. 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:40.240 Verse 12. 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:41.279 Are you with me tonight? 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:42.000 Yes, sir. 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:46.559 You see, brethren, we want God's favor on what we're doing in our church. 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:49.279 We want God's favor on what we're doing in our home. 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:50.159 Please look up here. 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:54.559 I'm not talking about anybody lifted up tonight on a pedestal. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:55.519 Come on. 00:16:55.759 --> 00:17:06.880 I'm talking about us as Christians down here as a local New Testament church honoring each other rightfully so in the offices that God's given us, so God's pleased. 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:12.880 We want God's favor. 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:13.920 We want God's blessing. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.200 We want God's power. 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:19.519 And our children are listening to what we're saying. 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:27.759 Verse 12, and Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, which said. 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:29.440 Who said? 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:33.200 Well, Dathan and Abiram, we will not come up. 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:34.640 Verse 13. 00:17:34.880 --> 00:17:40.319 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of the land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:42.640 Oh man, there's a great attitude going on here. 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:46.960 There's a very positive attitude there, O Dathan Obari. 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.119 Yeah, we know you just brought us out here to kill us. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:50.319 What do you mean to kill you? 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:51.519 Didn't you see the manna? 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:52.720 Didn't you see the quail? 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:54.160 Didn't you see the Red Sea part? 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:56.319 What do you mean I come out here to kill you? 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:05.039 Man, you don't you I had it pretty good back in Egypt, boys. 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:12.640 You think I decided to do all this? 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:15.839 Just because I chose to do it? 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:18.000 You think I willed this? 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:21.039 You think I willed the water to come out of the rock? 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:31.359 Except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us. 00:18:31.440 --> 00:18:34.160 They're saying, You've made yourself, Moses. 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:36.319 You talk about twisted. 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:40.480 And God heard the whole thing. 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:44.480 God calls them out later and says, Alright. 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:46.079 Go ahead, Moses. 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:47.200 Set it up. 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:53.920 Tell them if they die the natural death that I'm not in it, but if I do something they've never seen before and open up the ground, just go ahead. 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.200 As soon as you say that, Moses, the ground's coming open. 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:07.279 So Moses gets up and pronounces judgment, and while he was yet speaking, the words are just spoken, the earth shakes, the ground cleaves asunder, and down they go. 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:12.960 Depends on which side you're on, amen. 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:18.319 As a leader, I say, the will of the Lord be done. 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:25.440 Thank God for grace, though. 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:31.680 Because either side you stand on, you read the Old Testament, it's good to be living in the New Testament, amen. 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:38.799 But he doesn't stop there because he's only now taken care of vindicating Moses. 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:43.119 Remember, the attack wasn't just on Moses, but it was also against Aaron. 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:46.319 So in number 17, he vindicates Aaron. 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:52.880 And he gets out the situation with the rods, and he said, Everybody bring the rods in verse 3. 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:56.720 And thou shalt write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi. 00:19:56.880 --> 00:19:58.079 And he takes them all on Aaron. 00:19:58.240 --> 00:19:59.519 And brethren, please look up Aaron. 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:00.880 These are dead branches. 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.920 These are rods, these are cut-off ends and everything. 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:05.200 And you know what happens? 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:06.960 God vindicates it in verse 8. 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:13.759 And it came to pass that on the morrow Moses went to the tabernacle of witness, and behold, the rod of Aaron from the house of Levi was what? 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:14.880 Budded. 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:17.599 Life sprang forth from that rod. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.240 Bloomed blossoms and yielded almonds. 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:23.839 Wasn't that something? 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:32.160 So God authorized and vindicated whom he had chosen. 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:35.519 I want to make a statement, I want you to listen. 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:43.039 I realize this. 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:46.480 Wife, husband, father, mother, whatever the office. 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:47.599 Pastor. 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:52.880 Not always does the person do right. 00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:00.960 Not always does the person of that office do right. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:07.279 But what we have to decide is this. 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:22.079 Even though the person may come up short or have some problems, do we still honor the office and the person that God appointed to? 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:23.359 Let me show you. 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:24.880 Look at 1 Samuel 24. 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:26.000 Stay with me. 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:28.319 1 Samuel 24. 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:36.079 This has nothing to do with anything that I want personally, other than God's blessing on our church. 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:40.880 1 Samuel 24, illustrations. 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:46.079 1 Samuel 24, you know, David and Saul. 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:50.480 David has the opportunity as he's hiding in a cave, Saul comes in. 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:51.440 Verse 5. 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:55.039 And it came to pass afterwards, after what? 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:56.079 Verse 4. 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:06.319 And the man of David said unto him, Behold, the day of which the Lord set Unto thee, behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good in thee. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:10.720 Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily. 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:14.559 And it came to pass afterward that David's heart smote him. 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:16.720 Because he had cut off Saul's skirt. 00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:17.839 Please look up here. 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:21.759 I think David had lost some respect for Saul. 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:24.000 Why? 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:32.400 Hey, Saul had appointed him as a leader in the armies, and then because Saul got jealous of him, he demoted him. 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:44.000 He jerked David around a little bit with the situation with who was going to get the daughter, and he just was continually at David through a javelin at him, did all kinds of things. 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:48.960 I really think David's respect for Saul was somewhat diminished. 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:58.559 But when he cut off his skirt, David's heart smote him because Saul was still in an office that God had appointed. 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:06.880 And that's why he says, next, verse 9, and he said to his men, the Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the Lord's anointed. 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:12.319 To stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord. 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:13.359 You know what he's saying? 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:16.160 You know what, my heart smote me because God chose him? 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:27.519 Let me ask you a question. 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:29.759 Look up here, please. 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:31.920 Did God choose your wife? 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:39.200 Or you say you don't want to know what she's done. 00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:41.200 Did God choose your wife? 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:44.960 Honor her office. 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:45.839 That's right. 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:49.119 And in doing so, you honor her. 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:52.400 God choose your husband. 00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:56.880 You say, this is totally confusing. 00:23:57.119 --> 00:23:57.759 Stay with me. 00:23:57.839 --> 00:23:58.960 I'll clear it up. 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.400 There ought to be a certain respect for the office. 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:07.200 Well, do you know what he did? 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:07.759 Yeah. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:09.680 But I know what Saul did too. 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:13.119 And David was a man after God's own heart. 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:19.519 Now the thoughts come running through. 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:24.319 Well, you know, what if he puts a gun to your head and I understand all that. 00:24:31.119 --> 00:24:34.480 Look at 1 Samuel 25, go over one. 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:42.880 And let me just show you, ladies, so you understand. 00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:49.200 Abigail is the wife of Nabal. 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:54.400 Nabal had hired out David's men and refused to pay. 00:24:55.839 --> 00:25:01.839 David came to get payment, and the men go back and say he's not going to pay. 00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:10.319 When Abigail hears it, he makes haste in verse 18, and she takes all that David needs and goes to him. 00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:14.319 Now, one of the things you need to know about her husband is verse 17. 00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:23.680 Now, therefore, know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil's determined against our master, that's Nabel, and against all his household, that's all of them. 00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:25.599 For he is such a man of belile. 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:28.480 Look at it, that a man cannot speak to him. 00:25:28.640 --> 00:25:29.759 You know what that says right there? 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:30.559 Mark it down? 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:32.640 Nab won't take correction. 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:37.680 He won't listen to anybody's correction. 00:25:38.559 --> 00:25:39.279 Do you hear me? 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:43.359 Nobody can tell him what to do. 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:49.519 So Abigail goes down to David, and look what she says in verse 25. 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:59.920 Let not my Lord, she's talking to David here, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal. 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:02.960 For as his name is, so is he. 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:10.240 Now, mark it down, Abigail does not have a whole lot of respect for Nabal. 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:16.640 You say, how do you know that? 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:18.079 Read the statement. 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.519 For as his name is, so is he. 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:30.880 Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:41.839 Oh, it's a hard thing. 00:26:43.039 --> 00:26:52.079 When you're in a situation that you know you're supposed to honor the office, but you lose respect for the person in it. 00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:04.079