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Genesis chapter 46, and so obviously we're continuing on the story with Joseph, his brethren, and now this is really where they're all coming into Egypt. So this is kind of, if you really think about it, this is a monumental moment because this is when all of Israel is going into Egypt and then you know what happens when you get into Exodus with all the children being in Egypt. So this is the start of them being in Egypt is right here in chapter 46. And so we see that here that it starts off with actually Jacob or God talking to Jacob. He goes to Beersheba and verse one it says, And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel and the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt for I will there make of thee a great nation. And I will go down with thee into Egypt and I will also surely bring thee up again. And Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. So what we see here actually is something that God has already told Jacob about as far as what he's doing here. He's actually confirming something that he already said to Jacob. Go back to Genesis chapter 28. This is where he, Jacob's ladder, right? He has that vision in Bethel. And what's interesting about this is that, what I'm going to show you here is that there's a promise that was made to Abraham, to Isaac, and then to Jacob. And it's confirmed unto Jacob here right before he goes into Egypt. And it's going to be important because I'm going to show you why that's important that this is happening right as he's going into Egypt because of something that's said in Galatians. But Genesis chapter 28 and verse 10 says, Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all night because the sun was set. And he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed and behold a ladder set up set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. Behold the Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac. The land wherein thou liest to thee will I give it and to thy seed and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed and behold I am with thee and I and will keep thee in all places where thou goest and will bring thee again into this land for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. Now obviously we know that promise to thy seed and we I preach a whole sermon on the seed right that's talking about Christ but that promise that all the nations is going to be blessed through him but at that verse 15 it says I and I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whether thou goest and will bring thee again into this place. It's exactly pretty much what he says here in Beersheba where he does these sacrifices and God is talking to him in a vision. What's interesting is that when when God says this to Isaac he's in Beersheba and so but you say why is that important why why are you even bringing this up because go to Galatians chapter three Galatians chapter three and I think I touched on this a little bit when I was going through the age of the earth like calculating the age of the earth because people will say that the children of Israel were not in Egypt for 430 years and so that's where they get a messed up age of the earth you know they're really a lot of times it comes down to the fact that they just wanted to be six thousand years like they have this cute little doctrine of where like the earth you know there's six thousand years of history Jesus comes back and then there's a thousand year reign you have the seven thousand total years of history it just doesn't work out okay so this wouldn't this wouldn't even fix that you know like even if you were just if you were to say well you know 430 years is from Abraham on that still wouldn't fix the problem of how many years and all that stuff that they so they have to like tweak other things and try to there's they're trying to fit a square peg into it round holes what they're trying to do but Galatians 3 this is why I'm bringing this up Galatians chapter 3 and verse 16 it says now to Abraham it's his seed where the promise is made he saith not into seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed which is Christ so we saw that that's what we're dealing with here with with Jacob but it says in this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God and Christ the law which was 430 years after cannot this and all that it should make the promise of none effect so what they do here is they say well the promises were made to Abraham into his seed and therefore when he made that promise to Abraham that's the 430 year where you start off the 430 years until Moses in the law do you see what they're saying there but what you have to understand is that he made that that promise to Abraham then he made it to Isaac and then he confirmed it actually to Jacob and you say well you know you're kind of just saying that well actually the bible says that so go to first chronicles chapter 16 this is also found in psalm 105 so first chronicles 16 is actually you know a psalm and so at least part of the chapter is a psalm that's actually psalm 105 so this actually in chapter 46 is where I believe this this covenant's being confirmed unto Jacob because it was said to him already remember he remember he promised Abraham and then he what confirmed it by an oath to Abraham so what do you do with Jacob he promised it to Abraham but then he confirmed it by you know he confirmed it to I'm sorry to Jacob he said he promised it to Jacob but then he confirms it right before he goes into Egypt okay so first chronicles chapter 16 and verse 15 verse 15 there and this again you can find this in psalm 105 I think verse 8 starting around there but it says be mindful always of his covenant the word which he commanded to a thousand generations even of the covenant which he made with Abraham and of his oath unto Isaac and hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant saying unto thee are saying unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance when you were but few even a few and strangers in it to notice that it was it was given to Abraham but and then it was given to Isaac as an oath but then it was confirmed unto Jacob okay so when you're looking in galatians and it says it says that it was confirmed of God and Christ that's talking about to Jacob okay and so that's why 430 years after fits you say well why is that a big deal why is why are you trying to fit that because the bible actually states that they were sojourning in Egypt for 430 years it wouldn't make sense if Abraham if that was talking about back when Abraham was given that promise because they weren't sojourning in Egypt for those you know before for any time at that point they were in Canaan they were sojourning they were sojourning in Canaan and it's not until this point that they're actually in Egypt so it wouldn't make sense and it would actually contradict scripture go to Exodus chapter 12 Exodus chapter 12 actually what the bible's going to teach is that they were in Egypt for 430 years to the day to the day the exact same day that they went in is the exact same day 430 years after they came out that's how precise it is this isn't like about 430 years this is to the day and so in Exodus chapter 12 verse 40 it says Exodus 12 verse 40 it says now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelled in Egypt was 430 years and it came to pass at the end of the 430 years even the self same day it came to pass that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt you see how they'd have to fit a square peg into a round hole when you start saying well actually that 400 years started with Abraham and then you know they were only in Egypt for like 200 and some years or 300 or something like that this also wouldn't make sense because it talks about the fact that they were going to be evil inflicted for 400 years right so if you go back to Abraham and let's say you go back all the way to where he came out of his country then where where is this for how were they afflicted for 400 years you say well where's that go to Genesis chapter 15. Genesis 15. Genesis 15 in verse 13. Genesis 15 verse 13 it says and he said unto Abram know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them and they shall afflict them 400 years and also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge and afterwards shall they come out with great substance so notice that God is predicting you know obviously foretelling the fact they're going to go into this land it doesn't say Egypt in this in this passage but it is foretelling that and that not only are they going to be evil inflicted for 400 years but they're going to come out with great substance why because they spoiled the Egyptians when they went out they didn't go out empty-handed well it also says this in uh in Acts chapter 7 talking about that Acts chapter 7 verse 6 the same thing it says and God spake unto on this wise that his seed sojourn in a strange land that they should bring them into bondage and entreat them evil 400 years okay now what it comes down to is the fact that they were so journeyed for 430 years but they didn't just they didn't start getting evil and treated the moment they walked into Egypt so what that tells me is that there's a 30-year period of where it was nice it was nice and you know when they go in there and they're in Goshen and they're they're being shepherds and all this stuff the interesting part about it so Jacob dies he he actually dies uh 17 years in okay so he's there when no evil and treatments being done but Joseph lives till he's 110 okay and so he's at this point when they're going in there he would be 32 years old right because they're two years of famine he was 30 years old when he stood before Pharaoh and so um you know he's there for like 48 years like after they're starting to get evil and treated but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's like exactly 400 years you know sometimes it is you know I didn't say the self-same day you know when it says self-same day you know 430 years I'm taking that to the T but all I have to say is that it's it may be more like a frog in hot water or warm water you know where it's kind of getting worse worse worse worse worse until the very end when you're in Moses day where it's just like rigor and so I think it kind of it wasn't just like boom 30 years in they're like all right it's time for you to be our slaves you know what I mean it's I think it was kind of starting at that point and then it started getting worse and then if you remember in Exodus it says that there was a pharaoh that knew not Joseph and then so obviously Joseph had died and it was someone that didn't know who Joseph was and then it really started getting bad so but all I have to say is that that's how you answer the Galatians 3 because they're gonna say well you know this is you know they'll point to that but it all just makes sense when you realize that it was that covenant was confirmed unto Jacob and it was actually confirmed here in Genesis chapter 46 and so in Genesis 46 he's on his way to Egypt okay so you know that when they go in there that's to the self-same day self-same day 430 years later they're all coming out okay and so I just wanted to just kind of put that to bed that's more so when you're dealing with timelines and you're dealing with the age of the earth and stuff like that but that just I mean when someone starts telling me that they weren't in Egypt for 400 years that just boggles my mind because it talks about them being evil and treated for 400 years talks about them being in there for 430 years and you know sometimes you just look at the simplest answer and maybe that one verse in Galatians you're not understanding completely and so it's interesting that he gave that covenant to him via law and it says that the covenant was confirmed in God of Christ for you know and then the law 430 years after I mean it seems to match up perfectly with first chronicle 16 and psalm 105 on the fact that it was confirmed unto Jacob 430 years after we got the law and you know that's the history but going back to Genesis chapter 46. Genesis 46 in verse 5 there Jacob's leaving Beersheba and he's coming in to Egypt with all his his family so in verse 5 there says Jacob rose up from Beersheba and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him and they took their cattle and their goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan and came into Egypt Jacob and all his seed with him and his sons and his son's sons with him his daughters and his son's daughters and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt so he's bringing everybody in everybody's you know there's no doubt that this is all of Israel coming in and so you know like I said before when you're talking about that he'd be like well Israel wasn't there Israel's a man by the way and then he has all his sons I mean Joseph was there for a little while right he was sold into Egypt but no one else was there for that whole time so that whole thing just doesn't make sense but so they're all coming in there and then it goes through all this all the sons of the different people or his his sons and then their sons and daughters and stuff like that and you know I'm not really going to go into all this stuff because a lot of these things are just more like a genealogy and and just dealing with them it talks about Judah's sons Ur and Onan and you know obviously we know they died in Genesis 38 and so it kind of mentions them but it mentions that they died so obviously they weren't coming into Egypt with them they were already gone but something interesting I want to show you and not to get controversial on you or anything like that but something that's that's interesting is go down to verse 23 with the sons of Dan verse 23 it says and the sons of Dan who shim notice that there's only one now obviously I don't believe the Bible is in error you know the one thing I want to point out here and is is is there's obviously a big you know dispute or I guess you know just different thoughts as far as requirements for a pastor okay and I personally believe that if if someone had one child they could be considered a pastor okay and but now here's the thing I personally wouldn't ordain somebody that only had one child okay but I want to give you this example here as far as the fact that he's talking about sons plural but there's only one when you look at Titus it says if any man if any be blamed as the husband one wife having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly and it talks about you know having faithful children ruling your house well and all that stuff so obviously I believe that that needs to be there but at the same time think about this the way you ask this question if I said to you let's say you only had one child and I said do you have any children what would be your answer and if I asked a yes or no question do you have any children I didn't ask you how many children you had I just said do you have any children would you say no if you only had one no most people would say yes I have children I have one child right because you have to think about if it would let's say for example that it is the case that you could have one child or many children but you at least have to have some some children right how would you word that would you say you know husband one wife having a faithful child or children is the way you'd have to word that if you're going to be very specific on the fact that you can have one and not multiple and so all that to say is that when I I've looked through this okay I just want because obviously I'm not I'm not ready to ordain somebody right now so it's not like this is a big issue or a big you know thing that I'm worried about right now but I do look into this because I want to make sure that um that I'm doing things right but also you know uh the the idea is that if let's say you you found you knew a pastor that only had one child the difference is that I do not I would not look at them be like they're rebelling against God in the scriptures does that make sense and so that's that's where I draw the line personally now they don't have any children I don't see how they could be a pastor because you know you need to have some kind of you know it does say to have children okay so I'm not I'm not taking out that they have children but if they had one I personally would not be like that guy's not officially a pastor or I would negate the fact that he's a pastor now I personally just because when I had two children just the difference that it has and just as a you know when you're looking at when I look at ordaining somebody what you have to understand is that when I ordain somebody I have to be comfortable that they are prepared does that make sense and when you look at those requirements what are you looking at it's more so the fact that I'm not laying my hands suddenly on anybody that I'm not partaker of their sins right so it's more so on me than I'm looking hey I want them to have multiple children because that's a good test to know hey this person is ready or you know you think about well how blameless do they have to be and a lot of that stuff's subjective right when you think about them being blameless you know having hospitality giving the hospitality a lover of good men you know all that stuff that a lot of that's subjective but a lot of that is more so on the person that's ordaining them to say okay this person is ready and here's all the reasons why I think that person is ready and so I personally would want someone to have multiple children just because I think that that will that that'll tell me more so that they're ready to handle a church okay and so but I do want to show you that because first of all that's not a contradiction in the bible you know the fact that it says sons what you have to understand is when you say like you know the sons of you know so and so the sons of so and so it'd be like how many sons do you have and you're like well I have one you know it's not that it's wrong to say that because obviously it's not wrong to say that and so anyway that's more of a controversial topic you know I get pitchforks later but you know I'm not on my main channel so no one will probably see it anyway but all that to say is that you know I've definitely run into people that have had one one child this isn't me condoning Doka okay by the way because Doka's an idiot okay he's a false prophet you know I don't like Doka because he's a flat earther and he believes that you know say people are going to hell or something like that you know the guy is a heretic okay so but all I have to say is that let's say I met somebody that was a soul winner you know they had the right gospel and they only had one child and would I consider them not officially in a pastor that's where I personally wouldn't be like that person's not a pastor they're not fit to be a pastor I wouldn't personally do that I'd be just like you know I was I would support them and so that's my personal take you know as far as how and listen if you want to support if you don't want to support them then that's your that you know I'm not forcing you to support somebody or not support somebody but that's my reasons why because I do think that the way it words that in Titus and First Timothy is more of a catch-all for children but it doesn't necessarily like negate someone that just has one okay there's a whole other argument too is like what if you have adopted children you know are they not your children if they're adopted and I'm not here to say whether I would or not okay I personally on under influences that if you don't have biological children then you know maybe God didn't want you to be a pastor okay listen being a pastor is not the only thing you can do and it's not like you know I'm automatically gonna get like more rewards in heaven because I'm the pastor okay it's just the fact that there's different things that we do and it's not like I'm above you and like spirituality because I'm the pastor and all this stuff so you got to understand that that you know not everybody's meant to be a pastor but it doesn't mean that you're like a lower Christian because of it and I think people get that idea that it's like well you know if I want to be the highest Christian that I can be then I need to be a pastor well the Apostle Paul wasn't he was not a pastor so you know you're gonna be evangelist and you can do all that stuff and and you know so people need to get that out of their mind because if I didn't have biological children I personally wouldn't have started the church and when I was sent out I actually had conversations with my pastor about being sent out and he actually was comfortable with sending me out with only one child and I wasn't comfortable and and you know we didn't fight about it or anything like that but I was just like no I want to have two children I want to make sure that I'm prepared as much as possible and I even had discussions with different pastor friends like Pastor Anderson and stuff like that because when I when we got pregnant or we Holly got pregnant with our second you know I talked to him because I said you know should I wait a little longer you know like because there's a lot of questions there when it comes to this when it comes to like being ready to pastor you know like how old should your children be should I wait longer and the way I look at those requirements is more so than the fact that I don't think that I don't think it's wrong if they're really young but I think that Pastor Huggins you know when he when he ordained me now God bless him for ordaining me was taking more of a risk when my children are younger that I'm going to do good does that make sense whereas if you have older children it's kind of like you you see it right there right you see like they're being they're getting saved you know all this other stuff so you kind of have a little more to kind of grasp onto that hey it's not a big risk for me to put my hands on this person okay and so anyway all I have to say is that there's some gray areas with that type of stuff and I just want you to know where I stand on that so if someone if there's a pastor out there there's only one child I don't hate I'm not against them because of that okay I'm against them because they're flat earth and you know and that Christians are going to hell you know that that's why I'm against the certain pastors and stuff like that so anyway side note but when when I was studying that out I did see this in here and I was kind of like oh that's interesting that it uses a plural with sons and there's only one and so I can see that being applied and Titus as well where he's saying plural but one would apply like if you said I have I have children but you only have one I don't think you're lying okay anyway so off that subject so go back to Genesis chapter 46 and Genesis 46 it goes through this whole list but in the end it's telling us how many people were coming into Egypt with Joseph or with Jacob and so and this number is going to be confirmed in Exodus as well but there's 70 people 70 people that are of the out of loins of Jacob or of his house of his house and you know and so it's interesting how this number works because when you add it up what it says here notice in verse 26 it says all the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt which came out of his loins besides Jacob's sons wives all the souls were three score and six and the sons of Joseph which were born him in Egypt were two souls all the souls of the house of David which came into Egypt were three score and ten that's interesting because it says three score and six and this is three score and ten and he's saying well where's the other four coming from you know and this is a good question I'm not saying that I have the definitive answer on this but I want to show you first of all that he's not counting Joseph and his children because sometimes it can be a little confusing on how it says that go to Exodus chapter one because notice he's saying who came into Egypt well Joseph and his children were already there okay and so obviously they're of his loins but they're not counting them as far as them coming in to Egypt and so in Exodus chapter one and verse one it says now these are the names of the children of Israel which came into Egypt every man in his household came with Jacob Reuben Simeon Levi and Judah Issachar Zebulun and and Benjamin Dan and Naphtali Gad and Asher and all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were 70 souls for Joseph was in Egypt already so it's very clear that Joseph's not in that number okay and in in in Genesis chapter 46 you know it sounds like his his sons aren't in that number either right because it talks about they were born with born him in Egypt were two souls but it's making that point because when you read the list of sons up above you're going to come out with more does that make sense you're going to come out with more than what they're showing there and so but you may ask yourself you know what is that how do you get that that number from 66 to 70 well it could be the fact that you're talking about you know his wives or the wives that came in but in Exodus chapter one and verse five it says and all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were 70 souls so what what my theory is is the fact that there was unborn children that were coming through there and you know coming into Egypt and so there are people coming in but there's actually more souls there than that we're actually walking into Egypt okay and one thing is and I didn't I didn't really get a chance to really but Zara it doesn't say he has any sons you know and so like what you have to understand is this isn't the end of all their lives okay so some of these people may not be done having children and therefore their wives could have very well been with child as they were going in okay and so think about if you had four pregnant you know there's four pregnant women coming in with you well there's 66 that are walking in and there's 70 souls that are actually coming in okay because there is a soul and the unborn child so that's my theory on that as far as why there's that difference in number why then all of a sudden because it makes it sound like when you're reading it you're kind of like well is he adding in Joseph and his two sons well then that would be three well 66 plus three would be 69 so where's the extra person you know or where's the extra one to get 70 you know unless you add in Jacob into that but that kind of wouldn't make sense if it's out of the loins of Jacob and he's in that number okay so all that says that that's my theory that's my theory on it as far as the fact that you know some of those weren't born yet it also talks about daughters and the only daughter that's mentioned is Dinah that could also be the fact that it's using plurality when it's talking about sons and daughters and you know we just saw that Dan only had one son but it said sons so that's my theory on that but it's kind of like you read through that sometimes you add those things up and you're like this doesn't this doesn't what are they talking about why is it different that's my thought I think that there's there was pregnant women coming in there if it's the wives it's like four wives for you know 10 sons you know like what happened to all their wives did they all die and they're all like widowers you know like that to me is kind of strange you know that all the wives are gone if they were then lumped in because you can't look at that way it's 66 and then they're like all you know all the house of Jacob was you know 70 but when you look at Exodus it's very clear it's those that came out of the loins so anyway you can if you have a different theory as far as why that number is different let me know obviously the Bible's perfect so it's not that the Bible's wrong on that it's just the fact that you know there's a reason why there's more than actually walked in so but going back to Genesis 46 there we see here in verse 28 that Jacob sends Judah to Joseph basically to declare hey we're here you know show us where to go how to get the Goshen and verse 28 it says and he sent Judah before him unto Joseph to direct his face in the Goshen and they came into the land of Goshen and Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father to Goshen and presented himself unto him and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while and so I see this also you remember we're talking about Judah stepped up to the plate Judah was you know he said you know let the lad go with his brethren and I'll stay for the lad you know basically I can't go to my father without the lad and he took his the lad's place so to speak but we also see here that who does Jacob trust to send unto Joseph Judah Judah prevailed above his brethren we saw that in first chronicles five I know I went through this many times you don't have to turn there but it talks about the fact that now the sons of Reuben or the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel for he was the firstborn but for as much as he defiled his father's bed his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the the son of Israel and the genealogy is not reckoned after birthright so the genealogy went to Judah but why it says for Judah prevailed above his brethren and of him came the chief ruler but the birthright was Joseph so he was the chief ruler among his brethren you know he was the guy you know if Jacob was going to send them into battle so to speak Judah was the one that was going to go and this doesn't stop here because when they get out of Egypt and they go into the promised land and in the book of Judges when that horrific story where the Benjamites weren't were letting the sons of Eliel stay there and all that stuff who went up first Judah Judah was pretty much the powerhouse you know as far as tribes in Israel and so obviously that's where Jesus came out he came out of the line of the tribe of Judah and so but going up but you got to understand too that this meeting here sometimes you read over this but you got to really kind of put yourself into the the spot of Joseph and Jacob okay this is where they meet after 15 years and so you know you can kind of over read it but just imagine the emotions that are going on when Joseph sees Jacob but more importantly I would say is when Jacob sees Joseph go back to Genesis chapter 37 because you got to understand the mindset that Jacob was in when he thought his son was dead and it'd be kind of like you know my friend Wes who passed away back in 2008 it'd be like if he just walked through the door right now and be like you know what I didn't actually die you know that would be insane do you realize how because that's been 10 years well yeah 10 years ago that that happened and so imagine this is 15 years that's about five years from now that you thought someone was dead you know or you know like you think it's a loved one that you've lost and it was just like you let's say they died and you never saw their body it was just understood that they died and then like they walked in and they're like hey I'm still alive could you imagine what that would be like and just like the emotions and just how happy it would be to see that person but you were just the emotions would just be crazy just imagine how why and it says that he wept on his neck a good while okay so don't over read that because that you can just imagine how much he missed his son how much joseph missed his father I mean they had a close relationship before he was thrown into the pit and so that that's something you got to kind of think about in verse 31 of genesis 37 it says and they took joseph's coat and killed a kid of the goats and dipped the coat in the blood and they sent the coat of many colors and they brought it to their father and said this have we found know now whether it be thy son's coat or no and he knew it and said it is my son's coat an evil beast had devoured him joseph is without doubt rent in pieces and jacob rent his clothes and put sack cloth upon his loins and mourn for his son many days and all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him but he refused to be comforted and he said for I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning thus his father wept for him so notice the just just how much you know that hit him hard obviously to lose his son his son was only 17 years old when that happened so i mean uh you just imagine like a teenager and losing a teenager and then 15 years later finding out that he's actually alive so imagine like seeing like your child like a teenager and then you see him later and they're like a full adult right he's like 32 years old he's like my age now you know i'm 33 but you know that that would be the difference as far as like if my dad hadn't seen me since i was 17 and then i then i saw him after 15 years and so notice in verse 30 of genesis 46 it says in israel said unto joseph now let me die since i have seen thy face because thou art yet alive and so he's basically like i can die happy now that was pretty much what he's saying and so obviously the joy that israel has to see his son alive and you can imagine he's not only alive but he's like ruling and reigning in in egypt and so the joy i'm sure he has for his son and and to see him and so you know that that's that's just sometimes we over read stuff or we read past stuff really quickly um and imagine if he did that when you're when you read about jesus and you think about when it when it reads about jesus wept think about that whole situation and just the emotions you know you're thinking about your savior weeping for you like he cares for you sometimes i think we don't think about that i mean he did go to hell for us and died for us and rose again a third day but do you ever think about the fact that he actually cares enough that he would cry for you if you're going through trouble or if you're if you're really struggling through something and you know that's the kind of savior that we have and we need to sometimes just kind of step back and sometimes we're just reading we're reading and listen i'm for you just blasting through the bible and reading it to get get through and get your bible reading in but sometimes we need to step back and realize that even in a couple words there can be a lot going on and something that we really need to kind of sit back and kind of really think about what's going on in that situation and so uh but but going back to genesis chapter 46 at the end of this chapter here it's interesting about uh about where they they put the children of israel because the way it's worded here is like pharaoh is like we're going to give you the best part of the land but then it's like but that's where the egyptians don't want to be what i see this as is like uh wanting to live in the city or wanting to live in the country you know and and the egyptians you gotta understand that egyptians it's like that that's like new york city pretty much i mean if you think about egypt was the powerhouse of the world at the time and so the egyptians are wanting to be in the city they don't want to be out in the fields right and so they're getting the best of land it'd be kind of like if you were talking about well what what's better downtown new york or the rolling hills of west virginia i'm going to say the rolling hills of west virginia okay because it's more it's beautiful it's clean you know and then you go to new york city and listen i haven't been to new york city so don't judge me on like hating something that i haven't been to but i've been to cities before okay and it's one city is the same as another you know they're all like just jam-packed it's dirty you know all this other stuff and listen i'm not even talking about san francisco you know i'm sure that that would go into the books but all i have to say is that you can see the mentality of israel and they're like shepherds and they're abiding in the fields and all that but then the egyptians which is more like city you know city people okay and i'm not against city people but what i'm saying is that that we i preached on this before when i was talking about the tower babel and how god doesn't like when people congregate that close together okay and he's constantly trying to pull people out of that and everybody's just like oh we're overpopulated so like no move you have eight and a half million people in that little city you know like a little crammed city of new york and you know the whole state of new york can just be populated by those people but that's usually where wickedness dwells is where people are congregated close together like that and so the mentality of being being a city person is not usually a good mentality now am i for going into a city and living in a city so that you can reach a lot of people yes i am i'm all for that um you know i'm not i'm not saying that i want to go move out into listen i like canadian valley but i couldn't live there you know even if i worked remotely it's just there's not enough people to reach okay to be honest you know i i would i before reach like that it'd be more populated where we're at okay and where we're at with these three counties that we're trying to hit there's about a quarter of a million people in these three counties but honestly i'd be for more than that you know and but the thing is is if if i was going for that and saying hey nothing less than a million then west virginia is done because the whole state of west virginia is 1.8 million people the whole state okay and so all that to say is that the mentality of the egyptians you see that here because notice what it says in uh in verse 30 it says and israel said unto joseph now let let me or i'm sorry in verse 31 verse 31 it says and joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house i will go up and show pharaoh and say unto him my brethren in my father's house which were in the land of canin are come unto me and the men are shepherds for their trade hath been to feed cattle and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have and it shall come to pass when pharaoh shall call you and shall say what is your occupation that you shall say thy servants trade have been about cattle from our youth even until now both we and all also our fathers that you may dwell in the land of goshen for for every shepherd is an abomination unto the egyptians that's interesting that that says that right um remember they wouldn't eat with the hebrews because they were an abomination uh unto them and all that but it's interesting that they say shepherds are an abomination i see this mentality with blue-collar jobs you know like you know the white-collar crowd is just like oh you know that's just an abomination to be a plumber electrician or a carpenter or something like that and they look down on those jobs and it looks like they look down on people that keep cattle you know it's like it's beneath them right and so that's the mentality i see with the egyptians is like it's beneath us to eat with these people they're a bunch of shepherds you know and so we should never have that mentality but what's interesting about this is that you know the bible teaches that that jesus christ is a shepherd that the lord is a shepherd and not only that but who leads the churches pastors okay what is a pastor a shepherd it's just another word for shepherd okay obviously i'm not the chief shepherd but jesus christ is called the chief shepherd the good shepherd and the great shepherd and so i want to show you this passage but psalm 23 is the famous passage the lord is my shepherd i shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters so the lord is called the shepherd and it says that every shepherd is an abomination to the egyptians isn't that interesting and obviously what's what's egypt usually like and done to the world now it's it's it's like and done to the iron furnace you know obviously we see the allegory with them coming out of egypt is like being pulled out of the pits of hell they they get saved by the blood they go underneath the you know the cloud baptized through the red sea they're in the world you know the wilderness is also a picture of the world but egypt is always like don't go back into egypt you know it's like constantly like don't go back to egypt don't lean on egypt what's that talking about come out from among them and the lord you know don't go back into the world and they kept going wanting to go back to the world right they kept wanting to go back to egypt they're like oh we had food back in egypt we had this back in egypt and they're constantly wanting to go back to it and so uh the world hates shepherds the world today hates pastors and they hate the chief shepherd but i want to show you those passages you know just so you know i'm not lying to you that it does call them the good shepherd the great shepherd and the chief shepherd but in john 10 go to john 10 that's obviously the famous passage of jesus being the good shepherd and here's the thing i i think i hit this you know on another sermon but in proverbs 29 the last verse in proverbs 29 it says an unjust man is an abomination to the just and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked so you know the world's going to hate the righteous you know like the the unrighteous is going to hate the righteous and the righteous are going to hate the unrighteous when it comes to the the things that they do right and so uh there's no marvel but you see that dichotomy when they go in there you see that whole atmosphere as far as the egyptians they detest shepherds you know and you know honestly the shepherds should to test you know whatever the occupation of those egyptians are when it comes to what they do right you think about like all the idol worship that they do and all these different things and stuff like that listen there's a lot of uh there's a lot of jobs that are not honest okay when it comes to uh jobs that are not uh you know like what is it physical like a physical job right most most blue collar type jobs are just honest jobs right not all of them right but but i would say you know most most blue collar jobs like being a plumber electrician or or putting things together like let's say my grandpa grandpa worked at ford and put together cars and stuff like there's nothing wrong with that like those are all honest like you know manual labor jobs working in a mine doing these different things and most of those things are pretty honest type of jobs but when you get into the white collar realm there's a lot of shady type of stuff that goes on think of like investors and you think of bankers okay don't get me started with the bankers and all the jujury i mean usury and so you get all that and you get all this stuff that's like just dishonest they're trying to manipulate people they're scam artists all this stuff that's out there to make easy money and it's based off of ripping people off and so i see that kind of like where the these the israelites are coming in they're just hard working guys that are just keeping the sheep keeping cattle you know just simple type of job and that's detestable to them but what are their jobs you know what are they doing to make money and a lot of times when it comes especially big cities listen new york city is is is where like the capital of all this stuff goes down when it comes to the federal reserve when it comes to all this shady stuff it's done internationally the un's there all this stuff is there in new york city and new york city is like the big i mean it's a big apple but it's like the big headquarters of of america obviously dc is like the capital but you want to know what's really running things it's it's going on in new york city and so i kind of see that that same image here when you go into egypt and you get just got our hard-working guys are like we'll give you the best of the land we'll give you the fields and all this stuff over here but that's where you want to be okay you want to be over here where it's just honest work it's honest work and you're not in the midst of the belly of the beast so to speak okay so you know and listen i know pastors that are in big cities and stuff like that but they're not in the belly of the beast does that make sense like they're they're they're in there winning people to christ but they're not of that city does that make sense they're not of it they're not like a part of it listen no one would say that pastor anderson's a part of phoenix right they're not giving him the keys to the city anytime soon right and so listen the senators all right the congressman was down there like you know protesting his church okay so he's not he's not exactly welcome you know by the elites and by the the town so to speak when i'm talking about the town talking about the officials and all that stuff so but anyway in john chapter 10 in verse 11 we're talking about jesus being the good shepherd it says i am the good shepherd in verse 11 the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep verse 14 i am the good shepherd and i know my sheep and am known of mine and so we we know the whole passage with my sheep hear my voice and i know them and i give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish and i shall any man pluck them out of my hand and so this is a famous passage dealing with the good shepherd go to hebrews chapter 13 hebrews chapter 13 i'm going to show you where he's called the great shepherd the great shepherd so in hebrews chapter 13 verse 20 it says now the god of peace that brought again from the dead our lord jesus christ or our lord jesus that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant make you perfect in every good work work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through jesus christ to whom be glory forever and ever amen i love this verse because not only does it call him the great shepherd of the sheep but it also talks about through the blood of the what everlasting covenant everlasting covenant put that in your pipe and smoke it zionists but that's talking about the new testament it's talking about the new covenant so he's the great shepherd he's the good shepherd it also talks about how he's the shepherd of our souls go to first peter chapter two first peter chapter two and notice what it couples shepherd with here okay because you're going to really see you know why what the title of the leader of the church is you know as far as the the spiritual leader who's uh you know the elder the bishop we're going to see that here it says in verse 25 it says for ye whereas sheep going astray but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of your souls so now you can kind of see you know like why why why would you call me the pastor because i'm the bishop i'm the overseer see pastor bishop elder all three things that you could call the person that's that's the pastor right you know it but they all three have different uh aspects to them does it make sense pastor what's that mean that means they're the shepherd right they're feeding the flock they're watching over the flock but then you have overseer what does that mean you're kind of like the boss so to speak the overseer the officer so to speak of the you know the church but then you have elder what does that imply not a novice it doesn't necessarily i don't have to be an elder like an elderly person okay elder is implying that you're spiritually an elder meaning you're spiritually uh you know not a novice you you've uh you've matured right you're a mature christian mature spiritually so all three of those terms you can you call me an elder but i'd rather you not because of the mormons okay so but it's not wrong okay it's biblical term this they call me an elder it's biblical call me a bishop but then again you know you see you say why why do we say pastor because you have the catholics and you have the mormons and you know there's nothing wrong with those terms if someone called me bishop i'm not against them i think it's a biblical term but if you started going around bishop robinson over here to be like are you going to a catholic church what's going on you know and if you call me elder to be like you know where's your name tag and where's your bicycle so you know that that's you know kind of why you know we use the term pastor but that's also a biblical term it uses the term pastor and jeremiah talks about the pastors but it's synonymous with shepherds okay but first peter chapter five i'm going to show you why i think it's you know it's a biblical thing if you wanted to call me the shepherd of the church it wouldn't be wrong but jesus christ is the chief shepherd okay this is where you know we're independent but christ is the head of the church okay i'm the pastor but he's really the chief pastor he is the overall pastor of this church okay he's the head not me but um but we are what you would call like an under shepherd okay or an under pastor if you want to call it that but in verse uh one of chapter five it says the elders which are among you i exhort who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of christ and also partake of the glory that shall be revealed you know what that tells me is that that peter was a pastor okay when it's saying elder here it's not saying old people okay it's saying the elders which are among you i exhort who am also an elder so he's saying there's pastors that are among you and i'm also one and then he's going to go into what pastor should do it says in verse two it says feed the flock of god which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind neither as being lords over god's heritage but being in samples to the flock and when the chief shepherd shall appear you shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away so do you see how this works jesus christ is the chief shepherd but all of us you know we're shepherds we're pastors but but we're under him okay so he we're all i'm ultimately taking my orders from the lord jesus christ and he's the chief it's kind of like if you were working for a job and let's say that the manager above you was doing wrong and telling you to do wrong what are you gonna do i'm gonna go up to the highest level right you're gonna take that complaint up higher and because that person up higher is gonna get that other person in check right so that's the way it worked right if i was pat you know if i said something that was completely wrong from what the bible says you don't follow me then you know i'm the pastor of the church but ultimately this is the chief shepherd okay and so uh that's why we're not a cult you know because because the bible is actually the final authority the bible is the chief shepherd and this goes into the aspects of what a shepherd should do as far as a pastor and the fact that we need to feed the flock of god we need to take the oversight but not by constraint we need to do it uh willingly and we need to not do it for filthy lucre right i'm doing it because i want to do it because you know i know it needs to be done and i want to i want to do the job you know but it's not for money you know trust me i did not start this church because i wanted to become rich okay um and so that's the idea though but do you see pastors that do that you see pastors that that are doing it for filthy lucre and they're keeping they're keeping their preaching down here on the bottom shelf and they're and they're not preaching hard sermons why because they want to make sure they have their salary and not just the salary but enough to where they can have their bmw and their you know you're like no way no way yes there's tons of pastors that do that and saved ones at that i'm not just talking about joel osteen or you know td jakes you know that all all the heretics out there obviously those people are unsaved and obviously they're going to want the money but saved pastors can get into that type of stuff where they're just like uh i forget who it was but there was someone that was saying that that there's pastors out there that say that and maybe i forget you can tell me who told me this but there's pastors that believe that the pastor should get paid double whatever the highest paid person in the church is and so their argument with that i think i think anyway would be the fact that the the elders that rule well are are worthy of double honor okay but do you see that's that's doing it for filthy lugar my friends okay because that is not the case you know it's not like the pastor deserves to be paid more than anybody else in the church that's ridiculous okay so obviously you know this isn't a whole sermon on pastors and what they should or shouldn't be but i want you to see that so when you have them going into egypt and the egyptians you know they're an abomination to the egyptians just know that that's going to be the case in this world listen your pastor is never going to be popular in this world and if i am you probably need to find a different church that's what i that's that's what it's saying here that if i start getting popular in this area or if i start you know like if the world starts loving me if if if if cnn starts like reporting good things about this church know that we've gone off the rails okay and so you know that's that's something that you just need to expect and know to be the case they hated the lord jesus christ and he was the good shepherd he was the chief shepherd he was the great shepherd he is the lord that's our shepherd that we shall not want and he'll lead us on the green pastures okay and so if they hated the lord jesus and crucified him what more will they do with the pastors that aren't the lord jesus right i'm not the son of god you know i but so if they called the master of the house beelzebub what more shall they call his children or them in the household and so i thought that was interesting i think there's a good link to that as far as dealing with churches these days and listen if they hate me they're going to hate you too okay so don't think that you know like oh you know the pastor's taking it all listen you know you're guilty by association you're here with me so we're all in it together obviously but all that to say is that the world's going to hate us we're an abomination to the world so be it so be it that's that's a badge of honor my friends that tells me something that tells me that we're doing something right if the world loved us then we would be of the world and that's not the way that it should be we all we all need to be separate of this world and we need to be an abomination unto this world and that's what the bible teaches so but there's definitely a interesting chapter obviously when we get into chapter 47 we're going to be going a little further with that where they actually go into Goshen and so uh let's end with a word of prayer dear heavenly father we thank you for this evening and pray that you'd be with us as we go home and and also with baptism lord just pray that you bless there and and lord we just thank you and we just want to thank you especially with thanksgiving coming up we thank you for everything that you've given us especially eternal life and lord we love you and pray all this in jesus christ name amen