This sermon emphasizes the importance of fully trusting God and walking in faith, highlighting the consequences of moving in the flesh, such as scheming, manipulating, and putting others at risk. It discusses how faith can be strengthened through failure and the need to surrender all burdens to the Lord, trusting in His protection and provision even in the midst of crises.

To the Lord he knows God's made him a promise that he's going to be redeemed of the world He knows the devil can't kill him folks. I'll tell you devil can't kill you Since I've been in New York my life's been threatened at least five times and I walk this or occasionally I used to look back once in a while, but I Know devil can't kill me unless God has some reason God would have to have a reason for it I can't think of one right now Don't you offer me one either You see it's it's the person it's it's so Absolutely yielded into the hands of the father by faith to the sleep of faith. My God can do the impossible If I'm out of my job, I'm out of job My God knows that he's gonna take care of me and being able to go to sleep at night and just rest it's not the Francis gets up And everything's alright Zap you out of your problem No, no, no No It's the Christian that can come into the house and God walks the streets and everywhere else for the total peace of God My God can do the impossible. He might gods are delivered. God's going to keep me Hallelujah, the miracle was the man sleeping in the storm. God wants us to be able to sleep I mean the peace of God rest through the coming storms Whatever crisis it may be hallelujah Going down to Egypt is just saying Lord. I'll take it from here That's all it means Lord And you know what? You know what going down to Egypt means? It's the flesh presuming that it's made a mistake heard the wrong voice and gonna straighten it out I'm gonna straighten it out. I missed God. So I've got to go back and make it right Maybe I can hear better the next time And that that person usually doubts than everything God ever said to him And Abram leaves the path of faith and he gathers his brood together and he says we're getting out of here We can't make it here. I don't know how I got sidetracked. I must have heard the wrong voice now the good news is that Faith strong faith comes often through failure But I'll tell you there are consequences When we leave the path of faith and we move into the flesh Those who operate in the flesh gonna pay some pretty awful consequences Let me go over just a few of them. First of all when you leave the path of faith and Don't just commit it all to the Lord lay every burden on him. So I'm not handling this Lord. It's yours I'm not going to try to step at night and figure it out. I'm gonna do anything. It's yours I'm gonna pray and trust you. I know you're leading me you take over You get a call from somebody in the family and unloading problems on you you just said Lord, that's your problem I'm gonna seek you. I'm gonna worship you. That's your problem. I'm not taking it You if you want to keep taking all these problems on you, you're not gonna be able to walk in faith but you see The number one consequence of leaving the path of faith and moving in the flesh That you're going to have to start scheming and manipulating to survive Abraham Abram concocts a scheme for survival. He knows that these Egyptians are full of lust and that They they they had something of a lust toward fair Fair Fair women fair complected women and He strikes it he Concocts a scheme. He said now look you're very beautiful woman What 60 I like to like I said, I'd like to know what kind of face cream she uses I'm not trying to be facetious. But man, this is you look at this story She's in her 60s and Abraham's telling his wife these men are going to last after you they're going to go after You and and and they're going to kill me thinking or seeing me as your husband. So if you don't mind to save my life, I Want you to tell a white lie? I want you to tell him we're a brother and sister that way I'll not be killed Those who walk in flesh are very self-centered and very selfish because they're not trusting in God It's always me taking a look at looking out for number one. And so She must have a great love for this man to do this. What a great love. She must have had For Abram her son her husband, but you see the man or the woman who trust in God Believing the Lord for protection and for the impossible Doesn't need any human resources. They don't need to make excuses. They never have to manipulate They don't have to have a personal agenda because they're totally surrendered to the will and the purposes of God leave the results to him But see Abram is not at this point yet He'll get there eventually and become the father of faith because faith is coming out of failure now God's building something. So if if you've had your faith faltering and you've failed a lot take heart God's building something in you David remember ran from Saul Rather than to stay in the land and trust God who'd already delivered him from a bear a giant a lion and a whole host of enemy Philistines God had already proven himself and God had already told this man that he God would be a shield to all those who trust in him he had written this already and Yet he runs at the first threat from Saul and he runs down to Gath and King of Gath finds out that David is in the camp And he says go get him his soldiers get him and the word gets David you're going to be killed you're going to be assassinated because what you did to their giant and David panics. He's now an enemy territory. He's running. He's in the flesh now He's not trusting God with his life in his future. And now he's in the flesh. He's doing things his own way and he gets in a mess He's manipulating now. He's got to do something. He never thought he would ever do He pretends he's insane He starts babbling like a moron Spittles running down his beard he's clawing at everybody a Man of God I Can see his soldiers go home I King of Israel He's playing like a madman because you see when you're not walking in faith You have to pretend you're something you're not And do things that you'd never do you have to manipulate you have to scheme And David's manipulating he's scheming and they bring him to The king and he's wallowing on the floor. He's spitting. He's acting like a crazy man And King of Israel get him out of here. What do I want to do with a madman? When we don't trust God and Take matters in our own hands We come just the same place where we have to try to be something. We're not Jacob did the same thing With his mother Rebecca all his life He had to be taught by Rebecca what God told her when these two boys were still in her womb That the elder would serve the younger she had a promise that the birthright belong to Jacob and they waited for years and it didn't happen and Rebecca gets Nervous about it. She can't wait. She loses her faith And so does Jacob and so he tries to be somebody else pretends his own brother. He becomes a deceiver You remember this story how the mother wrapped wool on his arms to Mock to say that he's his hairy brother You see the manipulation and the scheming and being somebody you really aren't And I would tell you it took Jacob 20 years to get back on track to the faith walk 20 years Scheming till he came back to faith because you see when you get into flesh and get away from trusting God and obeying him his way You're going to thwart the purposes of God and you're going to have to go into another test. That is even worse Another consequence of not fully trusting God is that we literally put other people's lives at risk We mess up other people but by our unbelief Abram really put his wife life at risk Sure enough the princess of pharaoh seer and get the word to Pharaoh One of the historians said that Pharaoh had already sent a Contingent of his army to another nation where he had found word that there was a beautiful woman and he had killed a whole lot Of people just to get this woman And I don't know if Abraham was aware of that or not But sure enough word comes and she is taken Because she's they ask is this your wife didn't know this is my sister Is he your husband? Oh, this is my brother a half truth He Just hid the truth the full truth we're used to that today from the White House on down Human nature never changed as it And so she's taken away into Pharaoh's harem You understand the risk that this man took this man has been given a promise out of his minds would come Really is the Redeemer that all men should be blessed and some I believe Abram knew that Because about Jesus later said Abram saw his day He puts this woman at risk of Becoming Pharaoh's wife one of his wives and giving birth to a heathen child What a horrible risk that he put you so many people are hurt When a Husband or wife is not walking in faith But walking according to their own mind in their own will doing things their own way It's the same with the man or woman who's trying to establish their own righteousness Rather than walk and receiving the righteousness of Christ by faith trying to work in and in their efforts to try to be holy in Their own strength people are hurt everywhere Their standards are imposed on everybody Anyone else that's not living according to this standard. They're going to be walked over and choked and hurt and preached at You know God plagued Pharaoh's harem in his house in Such a way that he had to get to the bottom of and somehow they must have gotten it out of Sarai They must have gotten it out of Abram Somehow they got the word is because you have a woman of God Jehovah God and she's the cause of this Abram is called on the carpet said why didn't you tell us that this was your wife and he commanded his soldiers to take this man and this woman to the border and they were unceremoniously cast out of the land And I want you to know that the testimony of this man was absolutely ruined What kind of a God is this allows you to lie and put your wife at risk? Can you imagine what David did how he put to risk the honor of God how all of those in Gather said what kind of God that takes his heroes and after he's finished with them turns them over to madness And folks that's what happens when we walk in the flesh trying to see for own righteousness What kind of a God is this that a man can talk about holiness and try so hard be so mean Nobody meaner than anybody than anybody that one who's trying to establish his own righteousness his own way Outwardly every spine, but inside don't cross him. Don't cross him. You'll find he got a temper Or her whatever it may be You remember how Jacob manipulates And look at the hurt he causes He is cast off. He's cut off from his dying father his brother is driven to bitterness and Rebecca is robbed for 20 years of the fellowship of both sons She never lived to see her. She didn't see her grandchildren raised She wasn't there with her grandchildren. Oh, she paid a price. We hurt so many people There's so many so much damage done when we get out of the will of God and when we're not walking in faith And I've told you and with this I'm going to close I told you That we learn faith through failure I'll learn faith by making a fool out of myself