1 00:00:06,529 --> 00:00:10,219 Those who labor among us in the Lord are worthy of double honor. 2 00:00:11,101 --> 00:00:14,598 In some of those translations, it goes on to just talk about those who sow 3 00:00:14,711 --> 00:00:18,449 into the kingdom, those who pour. And we have 4 00:00:18,882 --> 00:00:22,716 someone this morning that I would love for us to take 5 00:00:22,716 --> 00:00:26,229 just a moment and extend that 6 00:00:26,408 --> 00:00:29,179 Angie Beshearse, would you come up, please? 7 00:00:34,310 --> 00:00:34,403 Come on up. 8 00:00:53,657 --> 00:00:55,458 And we have a few more people who want 9 00:01:03,784 --> 00:01:07,466 to— July 19th marked 24 years 10 00:01:08,286 --> 00:01:12,080 for this woman of God to pour into 11 00:01:12,144 --> 00:01:14,914 this house. Come 12 00:01:16,170 --> 00:01:16,798 on, guys. 13 00:01:20,759 --> 00:01:24,078 And she has touched Every single one of these lives. 14 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:27,919 I'm gonna get out of the camera shot. You guys, come on over here and 15 00:01:27,919 --> 00:01:28,778 love on Miss Angie. 16 00:01:39,151 --> 00:01:42,532 Her fingerprints are all over this house. Her 17 00:01:42,532 --> 00:01:45,430 fingerprints are all over my life 18 00:01:46,316 --> 00:01:50,132 as a mother and grandmother. And 19 00:01:50,148 --> 00:01:53,475 her fingerprints are all over your lives. If you 20 00:01:53,540 --> 00:01:56,818 have been touched and ministered to 21 00:01:57,496 --> 00:02:00,995 by her ministry, would you stand and just let us know that for a 22 00:02:00,995 --> 00:02:01,358 minute? 23 00:02:13,330 --> 00:02:17,048 You guys, you 24 00:02:17,048 --> 00:02:18,195 wanna take that over to Miss Angie? 25 00:02:22,298 --> 00:02:25,504 If you brought something for Miss Angie, would you take it over to her? You, 26 00:02:26,039 --> 00:02:27,982 you just go right ahead and you go hug her. 27 00:02:30,910 --> 00:02:32,596 Michaela, I want to do something. 28 00:02:35,751 --> 00:02:36,179 You do? 29 00:02:47,157 --> 00:02:50,708 Angie, we are so grateful. We should have done this a week ago. 30 00:02:50,933 --> 00:02:54,049 We've been a little bit preoccupied, but we missed something extremely 31 00:02:54,307 --> 00:02:58,077 important, and we wanted it to be on a day where it was just about 32 00:02:58,109 --> 00:03:01,555 you and what you have poured. And we are so extremely 33 00:03:01,587 --> 00:03:05,194 grateful. If you decide to come back for 24 more, we will receive 34 00:03:05,372 --> 00:03:09,075 you with joy. But thank you so much. Can you all say 35 00:03:09,107 --> 00:03:10,375 thank you, Miss Angie? Yeah. 36 00:03:17,020 --> 00:03:20,512 Will you come and escort your mom? We're grateful. 37 00:03:20,759 --> 00:03:24,309 Thank you. Thank you, guys. No, 38 00:03:24,519 --> 00:03:27,924 actually, did you wanna say anything, Angie? I'll stand close and you can use my 39 00:03:27,940 --> 00:03:31,410 mic. Oh my gosh. I mean, this is my heart, my 40 00:03:31,475 --> 00:03:35,259 children. It's not been an easy decision to 41 00:03:35,259 --> 00:03:38,464 step away, but I just felt like that it was time. 42 00:03:38,593 --> 00:03:42,074 It's time for somebody else to step up and start getting their blessings. 43 00:03:42,138 --> 00:03:45,958 You know, yeah, our house is full, 44 00:03:46,023 --> 00:03:49,600 so it's— It's time for someone else to move on in. 45 00:03:49,873 --> 00:03:53,721 Amen. I'm thinking Liam. Hasn't he been like really close to you for 46 00:03:53,721 --> 00:03:57,394 a while? Yes, yes. I've had Liam serve here with me for 5 years and 47 00:03:57,426 --> 00:04:01,195 he still faithfully serves. Go Liam, woo-hoo! He's back 48 00:04:01,195 --> 00:04:04,258 there today. Thank you so much. Love you, honey. Love you. 49 00:04:05,028 --> 00:04:07,914 All right, guys, go to class. 50 00:04:08,652 --> 00:04:12,084 Wow! It's Move Up Sunday. You moved 51 00:04:12,084 --> 00:04:15,781 up. Go and enjoy your classes. Speaking 52 00:04:15,878 --> 00:04:17,560 of enjoying classes— 53 00:04:19,775 --> 00:04:23,344 Y'all are the best. 54 00:04:23,666 --> 00:04:27,274 Speaking of classes, this Wednesday— 55 00:04:27,419 --> 00:04:30,190 hi, honey. I love you. 56 00:04:31,350 --> 00:04:35,083 Bye, ladies. Hi, how are you? Talk amongst yourselves. 57 00:04:37,030 --> 00:04:39,964 Hi, Levi. Hi, guys! Thank you, 58 00:04:39,980 --> 00:04:41,020 Sandra. 59 00:04:43,652 --> 00:04:47,315 Whoo! How amazing to sow 60 00:04:47,444 --> 00:04:51,107 for 24 years in one house, and now she has 61 00:04:51,188 --> 00:04:53,019 like about that many grandchildren. 62 00:04:54,490 --> 00:04:57,173 You're welcome. 63 00:04:57,478 --> 00:05:00,917 You're welcome. Oh, 64 00:05:01,270 --> 00:05:04,312 God is faithful, amen? I am so 65 00:05:04,344 --> 00:05:08,026 excited about the Word that the Lord has today. I'm also excited about the Word 66 00:05:08,026 --> 00:05:11,764 that the Lord has Yes. This coming Wednesday night when 67 00:05:11,764 --> 00:05:15,580 we begin our midweek gatherings again. Pastor Jonathan has 68 00:05:15,692 --> 00:05:19,507 taken point on Wednesday nights. We will be meeting over in the 69 00:05:19,523 --> 00:05:23,274 fellowship hall at 6 o'clock. Kate and the cafe team 70 00:05:23,387 --> 00:05:26,817 will still be providing dinner, uh, come starting at 71 00:05:26,817 --> 00:05:30,601 5. So come and have dinner with us, then come in and, uh, get into 72 00:05:30,601 --> 00:05:34,448 the word with us. We'll be doing a series called Foundations, and, uh, 73 00:05:34,464 --> 00:05:38,263 it's Pastor Jonathan some of our other pastors and 74 00:05:38,375 --> 00:05:41,229 leaders in the house. It's gonna be a strong word. 75 00:05:42,303 --> 00:05:45,862 But then again, isn't God's Word always strong? So 76 00:05:46,214 --> 00:05:48,474 we are gonna jump into this. We had a 77 00:05:49,917 --> 00:05:53,604 couple of— well, actually, we had 6 weeks of worship 78 00:05:53,604 --> 00:05:57,291 anyway. Just because we're moving forward a little 79 00:05:57,291 --> 00:06:01,106 bit in this progression, that's still gonna be where we stand. 80 00:06:01,539 --> 00:06:05,130 That's still gonna be where we're living for a while, that we are 81 00:06:05,146 --> 00:06:06,845 going to worship him. Why? 82 00:06:08,994 --> 00:06:12,474 Amen. And he is good and he is faithful. And I 83 00:06:12,586 --> 00:06:16,115 intend— what I wanna do with you today is exactly what I did the first 84 00:06:16,115 --> 00:06:19,820 week I came down here and talked to you about worship anyway. 85 00:06:20,382 --> 00:06:23,638 The other thing that the Lord has shared with me in this season is 86 00:06:23,991 --> 00:06:26,750 something actually that my 87 00:06:27,439 --> 00:06:31,209 grandmother and grandfather and all of them poured into my life, and we're gonna 88 00:06:31,209 --> 00:06:34,433 get into that in a minute. But first, we'll just read a couple of scriptures. 89 00:06:34,497 --> 00:06:38,308 We're gonna be in Genesis 26. And today, we're gonna talk 90 00:06:38,373 --> 00:06:42,103 about digging another well. And for the sake of today, 91 00:06:43,223 --> 00:06:47,060 and for the sake of today's teaching, I want you to know that 92 00:06:47,060 --> 00:06:50,648 you are Isaac. Can you 93 00:06:50,648 --> 00:06:54,323 repeat that to me? I am— well, you're gonna say, you are 94 00:06:54,356 --> 00:06:57,805 Isaac, aren't you? We are 95 00:06:57,999 --> 00:07:01,761 Isaac today. We are Isaac. So when we 96 00:07:01,761 --> 00:07:05,478 get into the Word today in Genesis 26, When we're talking about 97 00:07:05,478 --> 00:07:09,103 Isaac, I'm talking about you. I'm talking about this house 98 00:07:09,103 --> 00:07:12,199 because why? Because Isaac was a child of promise. 99 00:07:13,578 --> 00:07:17,268 We are children of promise. We are children of his promise. 100 00:07:17,364 --> 00:07:20,893 And so as we get into the scriptures, and I'll tell you that because sometimes 101 00:07:21,374 --> 00:07:24,727 you can detach yourself from the Word and you're like, oh, that's this and this, 102 00:07:24,807 --> 00:07:28,592 this is— but let's bring it home today, okay? And 103 00:07:28,592 --> 00:07:32,105 when— so when I'm talking about Isaac and the stuff that Isaac's getting into, you, 104 00:07:32,910 --> 00:07:36,169 I want you to know that I'm talking to us because I believe this is 105 00:07:36,218 --> 00:07:39,896 where the Lord has taken us. And we're gonna start in Genesis 106 00:07:39,944 --> 00:07:43,234 26, and we're gonna skip— I'm just gonna read you a couple of verses and 107 00:07:43,234 --> 00:07:47,003 then we'll get in more. Isaac reopened the wells 108 00:07:47,341 --> 00:07:51,030 that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the 109 00:07:51,030 --> 00:07:54,399 Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. 110 00:07:56,090 --> 00:07:59,935 Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh 111 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,393 water there, but the herdsmen quarreled and said, The 112 00:08:03,393 --> 00:08:07,178 water is ours. Then they 113 00:08:07,178 --> 00:08:10,487 dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also. 114 00:08:11,194 --> 00:08:14,456 He moved on from there and dug another well, 115 00:08:15,227 --> 00:08:18,088 and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, 116 00:08:19,631 --> 00:08:23,343 saying, now the Lord has given us room, and we 117 00:08:23,343 --> 00:08:27,050 will flourish in the land. Father God, I 118 00:08:27,196 --> 00:08:30,557 thank you so much for your Word, and I thank you, Lord, how relevant your 119 00:08:30,671 --> 00:08:33,321 Word is, Father. It is so alive, and it really 120 00:08:35,112 --> 00:08:38,654 It reaches across thousands of years and speaks to 121 00:08:38,735 --> 00:08:42,298 us like a living thing. And so, 122 00:08:42,396 --> 00:08:46,133 Father, I pray that we hear you today, Father. I pray for a 123 00:08:46,133 --> 00:08:49,268 prophetic spirit in this house today, one that discerns, 124 00:08:50,020 --> 00:08:53,308 one that understands, one that grabs hold and 125 00:08:53,518 --> 00:08:57,281 listens to what the Holy Spirit has to say. Father, I 126 00:08:57,281 --> 00:09:00,794 pray that my stuff fall and yours stand. Teach us today, 127 00:09:01,509 --> 00:09:05,053 Lord. Amen. We want to learn from you. In Jesus' name, 128 00:09:05,971 --> 00:09:07,968 amen. Amen. 129 00:09:10,255 --> 00:09:13,950 In the same season that the Lord began to share with me to worship 130 00:09:13,950 --> 00:09:17,665 anyway, there was another word that he spoke to me, and I figured that he 131 00:09:17,681 --> 00:09:20,549 would release that in his timing. And that word was this: 132 00:09:21,401 --> 00:09:25,213 tend the wells. Tend the 133 00:09:25,229 --> 00:09:28,948 wells. Now, I'm a country girl. I grew up on a 134 00:09:28,948 --> 00:09:32,603 farm that had a well house, and we lived on well 135 00:09:32,795 --> 00:09:36,082 water, and it supplied us. And so I 136 00:09:36,162 --> 00:09:39,849 understand, I have a little bit of an understanding about a well 'cause we had 137 00:09:39,849 --> 00:09:43,087 one. And it didn't just take care of us, it took care of a lot 138 00:09:43,087 --> 00:09:46,565 of families around us as well. It did mean that when you 139 00:09:46,678 --> 00:09:50,124 got water in your drinking glass, sometimes it looked a little funny, I will say, 140 00:09:50,669 --> 00:09:54,516 but we knew how to tend the wells. And when my granny would send me 141 00:09:54,516 --> 00:09:58,043 out to the well house to get something, she would tell me 2 things. The 142 00:09:58,043 --> 00:10:01,673 first thing that would always come out And if you've ever had a well, you 143 00:10:01,723 --> 00:10:03,925 might know this one, watch for snakes. 144 00:10:05,718 --> 00:10:08,801 And I'm like, if there are snakes out there, I think you should be the 145 00:10:08,801 --> 00:10:12,175 one going. I've got my whole 146 00:10:12,390 --> 00:10:13,530 life in front of me. 147 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:20,788 Watch for snakes. Guys, wherever your water supply is, you 148 00:10:20,836 --> 00:10:24,038 gotta watch for snakes because it's an 149 00:10:24,087 --> 00:10:27,747 environment that the enemy loves. He 150 00:10:27,893 --> 00:10:31,541 loves to come for your water supply. And so you've 151 00:10:31,541 --> 00:10:35,382 gotta be very mindful when the enemy is trying to 152 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:39,057 attack your water source. The other thing that she would say, she'd say, now 153 00:10:39,121 --> 00:10:42,826 watch for snakes. And you're like, all right, fine, give me the 154 00:10:42,826 --> 00:10:46,585 gun. Anyway, and then she would say, protect 155 00:10:46,617 --> 00:10:49,270 the water. Remember, your dirt becomes our dirt. Yeah. 156 00:10:53,398 --> 00:10:57,104 Remember, your dirt becomes our dirt. Now, let me tell you what 157 00:10:57,104 --> 00:11:00,634 she meant by that. If I was careless and I just 158 00:11:00,634 --> 00:11:04,211 decided to fling that bucket out there however I wanted to, 159 00:11:04,628 --> 00:11:08,319 and it hit the dirt walls of that well house, every bit of 160 00:11:08,319 --> 00:11:12,073 that rock and dirt and mess and whatever might be crawling on the 161 00:11:12,089 --> 00:11:15,651 side of that, let's just put that out there, fell into the water. 162 00:11:16,581 --> 00:11:20,431 And it didn't just affect me. It affected everybody 163 00:11:21,013 --> 00:11:24,196 who drew from that well. And so we 164 00:11:24,988 --> 00:11:27,601 have to protect the water and remember 165 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,337 that our dirt, my dirt, becomes your dirt 166 00:11:32,884 --> 00:11:36,301 because the well that we draw from is a consistent well. 167 00:11:37,383 --> 00:11:40,678 So watch for snakes and protect the well. Because here's— 168 00:11:42,390 --> 00:11:46,222 let's see, the enemy's strategy isn't always confrontation, sometimes it's 169 00:11:46,222 --> 00:11:46,962 suffocation. Yes. 170 00:11:50,829 --> 00:11:53,366 And we begin to see that in the life of Isaac. 171 00:11:54,281 --> 00:11:57,958 Sometimes his goal is not— see, you 172 00:11:57,974 --> 00:12:01,763 can't stop the water in a well, but you 173 00:12:01,763 --> 00:12:05,585 can sure cover it up. That's right. You can sure contaminate the water 174 00:12:05,601 --> 00:12:08,780 until it's not usable. You can be careless 175 00:12:09,631 --> 00:12:13,393 in your life around the well to the point that My dirt 176 00:12:13,393 --> 00:12:17,080 becomes your dirt. We have to be careful 177 00:12:17,193 --> 00:12:20,524 with the water. The enemy's strategy— it says that they— 178 00:12:20,847 --> 00:12:23,996 that the Philistines did not want to go and fight, 179 00:12:24,626 --> 00:12:27,723 so what they did is they went and filled in the wells 180 00:12:28,191 --> 00:12:31,692 because they knew what the result of filling in the well would be. Now, what 181 00:12:31,692 --> 00:12:34,990 do I mean by filling in the well? I don't know. It might be offense. 182 00:12:35,070 --> 00:12:38,336 It might be anger. It might be a lot of 183 00:12:38,368 --> 00:12:42,188 distraction, busyness, a lot of things that cause 184 00:12:42,241 --> 00:12:45,780 us— Yeah. To stop accessing the supply. 185 00:12:47,347 --> 00:12:51,057 The supply doesn't change. The living water does 186 00:12:51,186 --> 00:12:54,456 not change. What we can change about it is the 187 00:12:54,536 --> 00:12:58,129 atmosphere that we create around that water. The enemy knew 188 00:12:58,564 --> 00:13:02,291 if he could keep them from accessing the wells, he could stop the 189 00:13:02,291 --> 00:13:05,890 life. He could stop the life, and that's why the battle is 190 00:13:05,987 --> 00:13:07,520 often waged at the wells. Yes. 191 00:13:11,133 --> 00:13:14,897 supply. Your supply. Are you drawing? 192 00:13:16,124 --> 00:13:19,772 Are you drinking deeply from that 193 00:13:19,772 --> 00:13:23,122 living water? The washing of the water of the 194 00:13:23,219 --> 00:13:26,875 Word of God. That is where our life is. That is what 195 00:13:26,875 --> 00:13:30,656 sustains us. That is what keeps us going. And if we get 196 00:13:30,656 --> 00:13:34,302 so distracted with the walls, and the wells, and the— 197 00:13:34,772 --> 00:13:38,095 and allow the water to become polluted, we stop drawing from it. 198 00:13:41,583 --> 00:13:45,282 Genesis asks the sobering question, so what happens when the wells get buried? 199 00:13:45,668 --> 00:13:49,513 And I put this out there because it becomes a checkpoint in our life, in 200 00:13:49,625 --> 00:13:53,140 my life, in the lives of this body, this church, these 201 00:13:53,253 --> 00:13:56,287 people. When the wells start— and you can look at it and go, 202 00:13:57,192 --> 00:14:00,377 okay, then maybe the well 203 00:14:01,137 --> 00:14:04,548 has been a little bit— I've not been accessing the 204 00:14:04,548 --> 00:14:07,858 water of the Word like I should. I haven't been accessing the living water. I've 205 00:14:07,875 --> 00:14:11,538 been a little bit careless with the well. And I think that's what Well, here's 206 00:14:11,538 --> 00:14:14,898 what happens. Families are left to wander in 207 00:14:14,995 --> 00:14:17,564 Genesis. Flocks begin to weaken. 208 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,822 Fruitfulness, fields begin to wither, and communities 209 00:14:23,082 --> 00:14:26,880 fade. And that is the goal, and was 210 00:14:26,993 --> 00:14:30,828 the goal, of the Philistines when they went and they began to fill in 211 00:14:31,346 --> 00:14:35,126 the wells of Abraham because they did not want that family 212 00:14:35,303 --> 00:14:38,876 to prosper. They did not want them to have the supply 213 00:14:39,166 --> 00:14:41,000 that they needed. And so the enemy began to 214 00:14:42,646 --> 00:14:45,312 cover up the wells and remove that supply. 215 00:14:46,660 --> 00:14:50,385 I love Isaac. You are Isaac. We 216 00:14:50,449 --> 00:14:54,270 are Isaac. I love what he does. It says that he was determined to 217 00:14:54,287 --> 00:14:57,835 go and reopen the wells of his father, right? And so the very 218 00:14:57,835 --> 00:15:01,656 first one he comes to is Essek. And Essek is 219 00:15:01,672 --> 00:15:05,268 a well, it says, that we read about. It says oppressive strife, injury, 220 00:15:05,365 --> 00:15:08,720 distress, or contention. The first well he comes to 221 00:15:09,138 --> 00:15:12,822 is a well of strife. Contention, 222 00:15:13,564 --> 00:15:17,211 somebody having a differing opinion, and there's Esau. And 223 00:15:17,211 --> 00:15:20,891 so he has this opportunity right there. He's looking at this and he's going, 224 00:15:20,924 --> 00:15:24,774 there's oppression, there's strife, there's injury. Because see, 225 00:15:25,149 --> 00:15:27,884 Isaac was hurt. Isaac. 226 00:15:29,395 --> 00:15:32,464 Isaac was hurt. Isaac had been wounded. 227 00:15:33,573 --> 00:15:36,241 And he could have easily 228 00:15:37,437 --> 00:15:41,134 Just stopped there and camped by that well. He could have 229 00:15:41,134 --> 00:15:44,878 decided, I— this was my father's well. I 230 00:15:45,151 --> 00:15:48,840 am going to camp right here. And he could have dug in 231 00:15:48,873 --> 00:15:52,645 his heels, and he could have gotten his people into a fight, and 232 00:15:52,661 --> 00:15:55,993 they could have fought the Philistines. And this 233 00:15:56,090 --> 00:15:58,987 oppression, strife, injury, 234 00:15:59,505 --> 00:16:03,292 distress, and contention, they could have camped right there. But 235 00:16:03,292 --> 00:16:07,076 Isaac didn't want that for his family. Isaac did not want 236 00:16:07,189 --> 00:16:10,892 that for his family. So Isaac makes the decision. He's like, we're not 237 00:16:10,892 --> 00:16:14,515 gonna camp here. We're not gonna live in this. And he moves 238 00:16:14,709 --> 00:16:18,026 forward. He makes a decision. And don't you know that your 239 00:16:18,026 --> 00:16:21,824 decision will cost you an action? He 240 00:16:21,824 --> 00:16:25,200 moves on and he goes to Sitnah. The next well that he goes to dig 241 00:16:25,264 --> 00:16:28,866 that was his father's is Sitnah, and it means hostility, enmity, and 242 00:16:29,042 --> 00:16:32,693 accusation. It has a 243 00:16:32,725 --> 00:16:36,097 root with the name Satan. Notice that, 244 00:16:36,354 --> 00:16:39,902 because it's filled with accusation. And accusation— 245 00:16:39,950 --> 00:16:43,467 who's the accuser of the brethren? That is 246 00:16:43,740 --> 00:16:46,742 literally what Satan means, the accuser of the brethren. 247 00:16:47,658 --> 00:16:51,126 So we see hostility, enmity, strife, 248 00:16:51,527 --> 00:16:55,092 and accusation. This well, another well. 249 00:16:55,767 --> 00:16:59,431 That he could have stayed right there if he had chosen 250 00:16:59,495 --> 00:17:03,127 to. But Isaac refused to stay trapped in perpetual conflict, 251 00:17:03,208 --> 00:17:06,601 bitterness, or accusation. He moved forward and 252 00:17:06,601 --> 00:17:08,979 simply dug another well. 253 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:13,768 Simply dug another well. I love that he has 254 00:17:13,881 --> 00:17:17,706 the heart and the fortitude to just go dig another 255 00:17:17,722 --> 00:17:21,354 well, because you will never reach the end— the next well if you are 256 00:17:21,354 --> 00:17:25,074 still fighting over the last one. That's right. You'll never reach the 257 00:17:25,074 --> 00:17:28,496 next if you stay camped somewhere that does not 258 00:17:29,299 --> 00:17:33,058 feed that water in you, that doesn't bring water to you. 259 00:17:33,492 --> 00:17:37,171 And so if Isaac had stayed there, he could have been stuck in 260 00:17:37,171 --> 00:17:40,962 that forever. He could have been stuck in that forever. Oh, 261 00:17:41,684 --> 00:17:44,383 but God. Oh, 262 00:17:45,058 --> 00:17:48,190 but God. In his faithfulness, 263 00:17:48,737 --> 00:17:52,319 Isaac chose not to stay there. He didn't want his family in 264 00:17:52,367 --> 00:17:56,188 that mess. He did not want the anger, and the frustration, and the 265 00:17:56,204 --> 00:17:59,961 accusation, and the strife. He did not want to send his 266 00:18:00,218 --> 00:18:04,007 family into battle. What he wanted was to 267 00:18:04,007 --> 00:18:07,362 find them a place of rest and peace. 268 00:18:07,924 --> 00:18:11,697 So he got up, he did the work, he gathered his family, and the next 269 00:18:11,697 --> 00:18:15,453 well that he went to was Rehoboth. 270 00:18:15,791 --> 00:18:18,906 A well of wide water. Wide open spaces 271 00:18:19,724 --> 00:18:23,000 and room to run. Room to run. 272 00:18:23,835 --> 00:18:27,528 Katie, you wanna sing Dixie Chicks right now, don't you? No, 273 00:18:28,090 --> 00:18:31,784 no. I know you. Wide open 274 00:18:31,784 --> 00:18:35,445 spaces, Rehoboth. The Lord has given 275 00:18:35,541 --> 00:18:38,014 us room to run, 276 00:18:38,993 --> 00:18:42,719 room to spread out. But he could not have reached that 277 00:18:42,847 --> 00:18:46,524 place if he had not moved on from 278 00:18:46,621 --> 00:18:50,262 the first 2 wells. And it would have been easy. Sometimes it's 279 00:18:50,390 --> 00:18:54,013 easy to just camp somewhere. But what if God 280 00:18:54,013 --> 00:18:57,604 has other plans? What if God has— I want 281 00:18:57,604 --> 00:19:01,275 that! Wide open spaces. The Lord has given 282 00:19:01,291 --> 00:19:04,673 us room, and we will flourish in the 283 00:19:04,673 --> 00:19:08,135 land. Isaac could have camped by any of those wells. 284 00:19:08,761 --> 00:19:12,415 He could have. It says he pitched his tent. He could have pitched his 285 00:19:12,592 --> 00:19:16,215 tent. Especially having come out of strife, 286 00:19:16,519 --> 00:19:20,272 having come out of that place of wounding and hurt, and 287 00:19:20,304 --> 00:19:23,714 anger, and frustration, don't you know that 288 00:19:23,763 --> 00:19:27,125 Rehoboth would have been so peaceful? 289 00:19:27,826 --> 00:19:30,461 It says, Rehoboth became a place of relief. 290 00:19:31,762 --> 00:19:35,329 Sometimes you just need relief, right? You've walked in high 291 00:19:35,554 --> 00:19:38,048 heels all day. I hear that people do that. 292 00:19:39,486 --> 00:19:43,124 You get home from work, you take off your work clothes, you put on something 293 00:19:43,205 --> 00:19:46,717 comfortable, you grab your sweatpants, you pile up on the 294 00:19:46,717 --> 00:19:49,768 sofa, or for me, go sit on the porch swing, and there's just like this— 295 00:19:49,768 --> 00:19:49,785 Ah! 296 00:19:54,241 --> 00:19:58,039 Yeah. And I believe that Isaac probably felt that because when he 297 00:19:58,039 --> 00:20:01,819 was living in the land of the Philistines, he had been very successful. He had 298 00:20:01,819 --> 00:20:05,506 been very full. He had been very blessed. And— but then 299 00:20:05,554 --> 00:20:09,354 he set on this journey that he did not anticipate, did not 300 00:20:09,354 --> 00:20:12,728 know that he was going to go on, and things just went from 301 00:20:12,792 --> 00:20:15,860 difficult to difficult-er, and— 302 00:20:16,824 --> 00:20:20,598 or more difficult. Difficult. And he could have stopped, but he didn't 303 00:20:20,614 --> 00:20:24,094 because God had a plan, and it became a place of relief for him. But 304 00:20:24,094 --> 00:20:27,737 here, guys, when your plans come to an end, God's purposes keep 305 00:20:27,737 --> 00:20:30,836 you moving forward. When your 306 00:20:31,430 --> 00:20:35,014 plan, what you thought was gonna happen, 307 00:20:35,608 --> 00:20:38,967 ends, it is God and his 308 00:20:39,143 --> 00:20:42,770 will and his purposes that keep us 309 00:20:42,802 --> 00:20:46,288 moving forward when we wanna camp by an old well. Amen? Amen. 310 00:20:46,963 --> 00:20:50,799 Amen. When we want to just stop, it is his purposes. And it was 311 00:20:50,975 --> 00:20:54,487 Isaac's heart to follow the leading of the Lord 312 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,528 and keep going. And if he hadn't done that, guys, if he 313 00:20:58,592 --> 00:21:02,344 had not done that, if he had just stopped in 314 00:21:02,376 --> 00:21:05,888 the wide open spaces, it would have been a completely different 315 00:21:05,904 --> 00:21:09,752 ballgame. But Isaac knew the Lord, and he 316 00:21:09,752 --> 00:21:12,991 knew the Lord's voice. And so he goes from 317 00:21:13,424 --> 00:21:16,546 Esau, To Sitnah, to Rehoboth, 318 00:21:18,028 --> 00:21:21,823 and then it says, from there he went up to Beersheba. From 319 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,588 there he went up to Beersheba. He moved beyond what was comfortable. 320 00:21:25,895 --> 00:21:29,498 He moved beyond what he thought, well, this is it. He moved 321 00:21:29,531 --> 00:21:32,874 forward because that was what God told him to do. 322 00:21:35,661 --> 00:21:39,407 So he built an altar there, and he called on the name of the 323 00:21:39,407 --> 00:21:42,807 Lord. Isaac's first move in 324 00:21:42,905 --> 00:21:46,131 Beersheba was not to build a house or reinforce his fences, 325 00:21:46,649 --> 00:21:50,368 but to build an altar. And see, 326 00:21:50,384 --> 00:21:54,127 when God is moving us forward, when God is calling us forward— and guys, 327 00:21:54,304 --> 00:21:57,775 this is so perfect in where the Lord has us in this 328 00:21:57,775 --> 00:22:01,615 season, because the very first thing that we have done is we 329 00:22:01,615 --> 00:22:04,845 have built an altar of worship. We have built a 330 00:22:04,926 --> 00:22:08,348 place to call on the name of the Lord. And that is 331 00:22:08,590 --> 00:22:12,313 priority one. It's so important for us to call on the name of the 332 00:22:12,393 --> 00:22:16,107 Lord, to know his blessing in the house, to know that 333 00:22:16,107 --> 00:22:19,790 it is him that calls us forward because 334 00:22:19,887 --> 00:22:23,188 he is, and he does, and he will continue. 335 00:22:23,689 --> 00:22:26,699 Our call should always be to worship first and then work. 336 00:22:27,882 --> 00:22:31,655 And then work. Let 337 00:22:31,655 --> 00:22:32,431 me read you something. 338 00:22:35,888 --> 00:22:39,605 Here's why Isaac needed to move out of his wide open 339 00:22:39,605 --> 00:22:43,305 spaces and follow the Lord. Chapter 26 of Genesis, verse 340 00:22:43,305 --> 00:22:47,098 26. Now, Abimelech was the king of the Philistines. 341 00:22:47,163 --> 00:22:50,650 He was one of the ones that were instrumental in making 342 00:22:50,843 --> 00:22:54,558 Isaac's life rough. And so Isaac 343 00:22:54,558 --> 00:22:58,098 had been hurt by their encounter and everything else that had 344 00:22:58,115 --> 00:23:01,606 happened. And it says, Isaac built an 345 00:23:01,606 --> 00:23:04,965 altar. There he called on the name of the Lord. I find this progression so 346 00:23:04,965 --> 00:23:08,700 important. He built an altar, he 347 00:23:08,764 --> 00:23:12,564 called on the name of the Lord, he blessed the Lord. And it says, meanwhile, 348 00:23:12,628 --> 00:23:15,786 Abimelech had come to him from Gerar. And it says— 349 00:23:17,181 --> 00:23:20,980 and Isaac says, why have you come to me since you were hostile 350 00:23:21,493 --> 00:23:24,732 toward me? And he says, down here 351 00:23:24,796 --> 00:23:28,211 on verse 28, 29, it says, 352 00:23:29,445 --> 00:23:33,165 Abimelech said, let us make a treaty with you that you will do us 353 00:23:33,277 --> 00:23:37,060 no harm, just as we did not you, but always treated 354 00:23:37,060 --> 00:23:40,754 you well. And now you are blessed by 355 00:23:40,754 --> 00:23:44,224 the Lord. Isaac then made a feast for them. 356 00:23:44,995 --> 00:23:48,546 For who? For his enemies. Isaac then made a 357 00:23:48,546 --> 00:23:51,470 feast for them, and they ate and drank. 358 00:23:52,562 --> 00:23:56,241 Early the next morning, the men swore an oath to 359 00:23:56,322 --> 00:23:59,422 each other. Then Isaac— then 360 00:23:59,615 --> 00:24:03,407 Isaac sent them on their way, and they 361 00:24:03,407 --> 00:24:06,977 left in peace. Why does that matter? 362 00:24:08,014 --> 00:24:11,450 Because verse 32 says, that 363 00:24:11,985 --> 00:24:15,638 day Isaac's servants came and 364 00:24:15,654 --> 00:24:19,064 told him, we've found water. 365 00:24:21,057 --> 00:24:24,188 The moment Isaac released the conflict, God released the provision. 366 00:24:25,269 --> 00:24:28,948 The moment Isaac released the conflict, God 367 00:24:28,980 --> 00:24:31,483 released the provision. The provision. 368 00:24:31,758 --> 00:24:35,482 That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had 369 00:24:35,482 --> 00:24:39,059 dug. They said, we've found water! And he called it 370 00:24:39,671 --> 00:24:43,120 Sheba. See, he moved out of the wide open 371 00:24:43,153 --> 00:24:46,618 spaces. He moved out of the comfortable place. He even moved out of his place 372 00:24:46,618 --> 00:24:50,064 of relief because God had more for him. 373 00:24:51,236 --> 00:24:55,080 And the more that he had for him was this: Sheba 374 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,896 is the well of the oath. It's the place where God 375 00:24:58,896 --> 00:25:02,611 reminded him of all of the promises that had been spoken. It's the 376 00:25:02,611 --> 00:25:06,149 place where his father had brought 7 lambs that brought peace. 377 00:25:06,472 --> 00:25:10,057 It's the place where he was reminded that the wells that he was 378 00:25:10,185 --> 00:25:14,025 attempting to re-dig were not the wells that the Lord wanted 379 00:25:14,025 --> 00:25:17,733 him to stay at. He wanted to take Isaac to the place of the promise. 380 00:25:19,593 --> 00:25:23,262 And see, you are children of promise. We are children of 381 00:25:23,262 --> 00:25:26,796 promise, and God is calling us into 382 00:25:27,182 --> 00:25:30,571 a different place. The progression of the wells is this, and you can check 383 00:25:30,941 --> 00:25:33,465 your heart. I've had to check my heart over and over. 384 00:25:35,237 --> 00:25:38,862 Distress and opposition, hostility 385 00:25:38,976 --> 00:25:42,737 and accusation, or forgiveness and 386 00:25:42,737 --> 00:25:46,301 relief. We can stop at any of 387 00:25:46,301 --> 00:25:49,348 them, or we can move toward the promise. Amen. 388 00:25:50,024 --> 00:25:53,752 that God has. Move toward the promise that God 389 00:25:53,769 --> 00:25:57,470 has. You know, in the beginning I shared with you the 390 00:25:57,551 --> 00:26:01,311 things that, that happen when the wells get stopped up, when the 391 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:05,023 wells get covered up, and, and, and we are not careful 392 00:26:05,313 --> 00:26:09,056 to tend the water. Things die and family 393 00:26:09,152 --> 00:26:12,912 scatters and there's not provision, all of those things. 394 00:26:13,265 --> 00:26:17,016 But Ezekiel 47, Ask the opposite and greater 395 00:26:17,016 --> 00:26:20,065 question. What happens when you open the wells? 396 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:25,297 Worship team? What happens when 397 00:26:25,329 --> 00:26:29,025 you open the wells? It says that the land 398 00:26:29,025 --> 00:26:32,427 begins to flourish. Provision 399 00:26:32,701 --> 00:26:36,183 multiplies. Fruit begins to 400 00:26:36,231 --> 00:26:39,358 grow. Healing arises. 401 00:26:41,147 --> 00:26:44,619 And dead things come alive. That's what I want. 402 00:26:44,683 --> 00:26:47,978 That's what I want, and that's what I 403 00:26:47,978 --> 00:26:51,368 believe that God has for us, Isaac. 404 00:26:52,260 --> 00:26:55,813 That's what I believe the Lord has for us, that there is 405 00:26:56,235 --> 00:26:59,618 a land that flourishes, provision that multiplies, 406 00:27:00,038 --> 00:27:03,650 fruit that grows, healing that arises, and 407 00:27:03,762 --> 00:27:07,255 dead things coming to life. Amen. That's what I 408 00:27:07,255 --> 00:27:10,916 believe. That's what I believe. See, sometimes 409 00:27:11,028 --> 00:27:14,304 faith wears work boots. It picks up a shovel and it keeps 410 00:27:14,625 --> 00:27:17,724 moving forward knowing that water 411 00:27:17,852 --> 00:27:21,690 awaits. Sometimes faith has to strap 412 00:27:21,690 --> 00:27:25,495 its boots on when it does not want to. It has to begin to 413 00:27:25,624 --> 00:27:28,819 grab a shovel and be willing to do the work that is 414 00:27:28,931 --> 00:27:32,530 necessary to move to the well of promise 415 00:27:32,921 --> 00:27:36,764 that God has. I don't want to camp by any of 416 00:27:36,764 --> 00:27:40,400 the other ones. I want his promises, 417 00:27:40,753 --> 00:27:44,578 and I want you to experience the promises 418 00:27:44,851 --> 00:27:48,613 that God has spoken over this house for as long as I 419 00:27:48,613 --> 00:27:50,897 have been here, since the 1900s. 420 00:27:54,403 --> 00:27:57,904 What do you want, Isaac? What do you want? 421 00:27:58,506 --> 00:28:00,820 Are you willing to put your boots on, 422 00:28:02,551 --> 00:28:05,108 tramp through some things that you might not have wanted to, 423 00:28:06,069 --> 00:28:08,594 forgive some people you might wanna be mad at, 424 00:28:10,450 --> 00:28:13,615 pick up the shovel, and begin to move 425 00:28:13,888 --> 00:28:17,240 forward to that place of 426 00:28:17,272 --> 00:28:20,542 promise? It is time 427 00:28:21,364 --> 00:28:24,667 to dig another well. It is 428 00:28:24,796 --> 00:28:28,505 time to dig another well. Now, that is 429 00:28:28,554 --> 00:28:32,238 not neglecting what he's told us before. I still 430 00:28:32,367 --> 00:28:35,836 believe part of this process is to worship 431 00:28:35,836 --> 00:28:39,548 anyway, to worship anyway. So here's what I believe we're going to do. 432 00:28:39,854 --> 00:28:43,376 Well, actually, here's what I know we're going to do. I'm going to 433 00:28:43,489 --> 00:28:47,146 join you again right here. And if 434 00:28:47,195 --> 00:28:50,177 you have camped by any other well, 435 00:28:51,260 --> 00:28:54,516 Except the one the Lord has called you to, we're going to come in and 436 00:28:54,516 --> 00:28:58,214 we're going to worship anyway. If you have been wounded, if you have 437 00:28:58,230 --> 00:29:02,000 been hurt, if you are carrying anger, if you are carrying frustration, 438 00:29:02,501 --> 00:29:05,187 understand that your dirt becomes our dirt. 439 00:29:06,934 --> 00:29:10,533 We want it gone for your sake. We want God 440 00:29:10,791 --> 00:29:14,439 to heal these places so that we can get 441 00:29:14,601 --> 00:29:18,427 to the wells That's what I believe. 442 00:29:18,877 --> 00:29:22,667 That's what I believe for all of us. So 443 00:29:23,855 --> 00:29:26,377 we removed 2 rows this morning for you. 444 00:29:27,629 --> 00:29:31,452 I'm gonna join you down here and we are gonna worship. And when 445 00:29:31,580 --> 00:29:34,904 we say dead things come alive, if this is your well, 446 00:29:35,499 --> 00:29:38,855 if this is your place, when we begin to get into these places— 447 00:29:39,433 --> 00:29:43,159 kids, young people— The young shall lead us. We need 448 00:29:43,207 --> 00:29:46,996 you to help us worship through this. Amen? Amen. So bring what you got, 449 00:29:47,542 --> 00:29:51,218 and we are going to worship anyway and watch God move us 450 00:29:51,636 --> 00:29:54,317 to the next well. Come on down, guys. Let's do this.