Episode Transcript
[00:00:05] Speaker A: A lot of the time on Saturday afternoon, I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to talk about the next Saturday.
So there are things that just materialize out of what I hope would be the leading of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes it feels like thin air. This is one of those things which is not an expected series, but nevertheless, I feel like we're doing this miniseries that maybe should be called Turning Things on Their Head.
Last week we looked at the wisdom of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in a brilliant insight where he teaches or taught about how we usually think about our faith in God. Right.
You remember this if you were here, how strong it is, how much do we trust him? Are we believing hard enough in God? But Rabbi Sacks pointed out the really remarkable thing is not so much our belief in God, but his belief in us.
God having faith in us, that the creator of the universe looks at you and me and believes in us, that he created us for greatness with this unshakable confidence in what we can become.
And that is a. That is a turning some thinking on its head to look at that. Because, you know, much of my life, well, some of my life where I went to church, I used to hear kind of a different story like that we're dirty rags and useless without Jesus doing everything for us. But the Torah says no to that. And as a matter of fact, Jesus says no to that.
He says no.
God believes in you. There's faith in your potential. You need to do something. So this week I thought we're meeting who. Who shows up in the Torah portion. He showed up last week at the very end. But who do we really meet this week?
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Avram.
[00:01:57] Speaker A: Who becomes Avraham. And so I thought, he's the father of faith.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: Let's do a case study.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: Let's look at how Abraham modeled faith.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: So we can learn to be a bit more like what we should be.
[00:02:12] Speaker A: Because nothing I implied last week was that we shouldn't have faith. We should have faith. We should. It's a very important element.
[00:02:20] Speaker B: And I mean, if he's the model.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: Then we should have faith like his, right?
[00:02:26] Speaker B: So the idea, if it's perfect faith.
[00:02:29] Speaker A: If anyone's gonna teach us what real.
[00:02:31] Speaker B: Faith looks like, it's the father of faith, Avraham.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: He's the gold standard. He's the one we should measure ourselves against. So this week, as we open our Torah to one of the most iconic word sets in the world of faith, it's the name of the Torah portion this week, it's Lechlecha.
Go forth, get Yourself out. Go from this place. That's what God says in Genesis 12. It's where we really meet. Abram, he says, go forth from your land, your birthplace, your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Okay, that's it.
And Abram, Avram's like, very simple and yet faith filled response is.
So Avram went.
[00:03:27] Speaker A: As the Lord had told him.
That's it. That's the story.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: That's faith, right?
That's faith. No hesitation, no negotiation, no Google maps, routes to check first, no budgeting.
[00:03:44] Speaker A: None of this.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Just faith. Pure, beautiful, unquestioning, rock solid Abrahamic faith on display.
[00:03:56] Speaker A: Unshakable.
[00:03:57] Speaker B: The faith that does not flinch when God says go.
[00:04:06] Speaker A: Except that. I'd like to turn that on its head as well, with your permission.
What if Abraham's faith wasn't quite as perfect as the opening scene suggests?
[00:04:26] Speaker B: And what if.
[00:04:26] Speaker A: And you'll have to stay with me to the end. What if it's actually really good news for you?
What if it could be the best news you've heard in a long time, especially if you're going through some type of difficult difficulty. What if Abraham's faith was beautiful? It was wonderful.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: It was wonderfully, beautifully, messily human.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: And that's not a criticism.
That is, this is the Torah's greatest gift to us, in my opinion, is.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: That it does not present us superhuman.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: Heroes that we can never relate to. These are stories of real people.
Some people hate the word stories when I say things are stories. These are the accounts, these are the narratives of people with real struggles and serving God. And some of you are predicting if.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: We'Re going to question Abraham's faith. You're already. You got it in your mind. You know where I'm going. Okay. He's going to talk about how he gave his wife over to Pharaoh. He didn't have faith that God was gonna protect him, so he gave Sarah over.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: No, it's much better than that. Trust me, you know me better than that. I wouldn't take the easy road on you.
Let me show you what I mean. Abraham leaves Haran at 75. God makes this incredible promise. You know it. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you, make your name great.
[00:06:00] Speaker B: By the way, side note, I told.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: You back when we did the baseless hatred series in week two, we talked about Genesis 12 and this anti Semitic, anti Jewish idea that's out there that says that that promise is not to Israel. I want to refresh that in your mind because those ideas still circulate it has nothing to do with this week's message. It could have, but baseless hatred. Week two speaks to the promise, the covenant promises of God through Abraham that extend to Israel. Now back to this.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: I will make you a great nation. I'll bless you.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: I'll make.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: That is a covenant, that is a purpose, that is a legacy. And Abraham takes it and goes with it. That's his famous faith. But as time passes.
[00:06:48] Speaker A: Something very human begins to happen.
If you have a text in front of you, you can look at Genesis 15. But we're now some years into Abraham's journey.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: He's had this very remarkable encounter with God getting these promises. He's also now gone in and, like, defeated these kings, and he's rescued Lot and he's met Melchizedek, right? He's had these incredible, profound spiritual moments. And God appears to him in a vision, and he says, do not be afraid, Avram Altera. Don't be afraid, Magain. I am your shield, and your reward will be very great. It's another promise.
[00:07:31] Speaker A: It's another assurance from God.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: And how does Abraham, the father of faith, respond?
My Lord God, what will you give me, seeing that I remain childless and the one in charge of my household is my slave?
That's his response.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Now, you have to catch that.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: You have to pay attention to that. That's actually not the voice of unshakeable faith.
The voice of unshakable faith says, as the young folks like to say, heard, I got it. God understood.
I see reward is coming. Let's go. That's not that.
This is the voice of a man who's maybe a little curious about how these promises are coming to be and wondering maybe you keep talking about making.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Me a great nation, God, but I.
[00:08:34] Speaker B: Don'T have a single child.
[00:08:36] Speaker A: What are we doing here exactly?
It's a fair question.
[00:08:42] Speaker B: But more than that, it is a human question.
It is a very human question. It's the question of someone who's been faithful, who's been obedient, who's done everything right, and yet is looking around at circumstances and thinking to themselves, hmm, this.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: Doesn'T actually add up exactly.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: In other words, I hear you, but.
[00:09:03] Speaker A: I'd like to know how.
And then, just a few verses later.
[00:09:10] Speaker B: God takes him outside, he shows him the stars, promises his descendants will be numerous. And after, After, Abraham believes it and it says it's credit to him as righteousness. That's good. That's one of those classic Abrahamic faith moments. But even after that, God says, I'm the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess. And Abraham says, what?
[00:09:37] Speaker A: How will I know I'll possess it?
[00:09:43] Speaker B: How shall I know? The Father of faith. He's asking for a little bit of evidence.
Maybe not certainty, but maybe something a little more than just the promise. Now, God responds beautifully. He doesn't rebuke Abraham. Instead, he leads them through this profound covenant between the parts where God's passing through the pieces. He's binding himself to this promise. Another incredibly powerful, powerful moment. Keep this in mind. Abraham is interacting with God.
How many of you have ever had that opportunity?
[00:10:24] Speaker A: I wish, I hope, I pray.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: But I want you to see what's happening.
Abraham is not actually living in some.
[00:10:32] Speaker A: State of perpetual, effortless faith.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: He's a man who believes without a doubt. But he also needs some reassurance. He needs to hear it again. Who? God shows up and says he needs God to say, I'm still here.
Yes, I'm still here.
[00:10:54] Speaker A: And then we come to Genesis 16, and things get even more complicated.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: Ten years have passed.
[00:11:00] Speaker A: God first called Avraham at 75. He's 85. There's no child.
Sarah comes to him with an idea, right?
What's her idea?
She can do it.
[00:11:14] Speaker B: I can't. I obviously am not the one.
Take Hagar.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Go sleep with her. Perhaps I can build a family through her. And here's what the text says.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: Avram listened to Sarai.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: Every wife is saying, you bet he did.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: We could give him credit for being.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Just, you know, the obedient husband. He's keeping his wife happy. Or we could be honest and say.
[00:11:42] Speaker B: What probably happened, that after 10 years of waiting, after all the promises that seemed to go nowhere, maybe Sarah had a point.
Maybe this was what God meant. Maybe promises of a son didn't have.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: To come through her.
Maybe there was another way.
[00:12:00] Speaker B: And I don't think that's a failure.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: But I think it's at least worth noting.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: So Ishmael is born.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: Abraham is 86.
[00:12:07] Speaker B: And for a while, maybe he thinks, okay, this is it. I got my boy.
This is how God's going to do it. But then we get to Genesis 17.
[00:12:18] Speaker A: And this is where it gets even more complicated.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: How old is Abraham now? He's 99. 24 years.
24 years.
13 years since Ishmael was born. And God shows up again, and he.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: Says, walk with me, dude.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: We got a plan here. Walk with me. Be blameless. I'll establish my covenant between me and you. And I will make you exceedingly numerous. He's still saying it 24 years later. Same promise.
[00:12:55] Speaker A: And the text tells us Avram fell on his face.
This is a moment of worship. It's a moment of reverence.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: This is the name change to amplify it. He's no longer Great Father. Now he's Avraham, father of many. And he has Ishmael.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: God establishes circumcision. It's a holy, powerful moment, this other covenant. And then God says something about Sarah. And he says, I will indeed bless her.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: I will give you a son by her.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: And you know what the Father of faith does?
[00:13:40] Speaker B: Thank you, Vayipol Avraham al Panavayitzhak.
You should recognize that last word. Yitzchak. What is that?
[00:13:53] Speaker A: That sounds like Isaac's name.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: He falls on his face. Vayi Pol.
Avraham al Panava. Yitzhak. He's praising God, right? He's saying, thank you, God, for my son Isaac.
When God says that about Sarah.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: What the Hebrew actually means is, he fell on his face and laughed.
It's not Isaac's name. It's the root. It's the word for laugh. Laughter, which is Isaac's name. But that's not what's going on.
[00:14:31] Speaker B: The Father of faith fell on his face and laughed.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: And I want you to get the picture in your mind.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: The man who left everything because God said, go. The man we're trying to emulate, he's 99, laying face down on the ground, and he's laughing.
Now, to be fair, Rashi, great commentator, says that Abraham's laughter was celebratory joy.
[00:14:57] Speaker A: That this is what it was, that.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: He was celebrating, understanding the unbelievable joy. And Rashi says it was Sarah's laughter.
[00:15:07] Speaker A: That was a real problem.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: Abraham was right. He was just so happy. And that's fine. Rashi's very smart. But guess what? Two Jews, three opinions.
I have my own.
And what is he thinking as he.
[00:15:25] Speaker A: Falls on his face laughing?
[00:15:27] Speaker B: The Torah tells us, can a child be born to a man 100 years old? Can Sarah bear a child at 90?
[00:15:37] Speaker A: And then this so beautifully human.
Avraham says to God, if only Ishmael might live under your blessing.
Now, again, some opinions suggest, this is Rahamim. This is the mercy of a father.
[00:15:59] Speaker B: Toward a beloved son. And that's very Abrahamic.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: He's looking out for Ishmael, right?
[00:16:04] Speaker B: It's very sweet and true.
[00:16:06] Speaker A: But again, let me propose something different.
What I hear, he's saying, couldn't Ishmael just.
Couldn't he just Be the one.
In other words, God.
I hear you.
I have heard you.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: I believe you. I really do.
[00:16:31] Speaker A: But it's been 24 years.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: I'm 99.
[00:16:36] Speaker A: Ishmael is real. He's my son.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: Can we just.
[00:16:43] Speaker A: Can this just be it?
Can we just call it good?
[00:16:47] Speaker B: I can stop waiting.
I can stop hoping for something that seems impossible.
And I'll be happy. Ishmael will be happy.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: This could be it.
It's a very honest moment. We're only in Genesis 17 and it's already this good.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: The test of faith and patience.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: Why am I showing you all this? Because I want to throw Abraham under the bus.
Of course I don't want to.
[00:17:22] Speaker B: I wouldn't be the first.
[00:17:23] Speaker A: Actually, Rambam did in some cases, and others have criticized some things.
[00:17:28] Speaker B: But that's not what I'm doing.
[00:17:29] Speaker A: I'm not trying to criticize the father of faith.
[00:17:31] Speaker B: I'm trying to show you that Abraham's greatness isn't that he had perfect, unwavering, never doubting faith. His gift of faith was that he kept pressing on even when he had questions. He kept moving forward. He kept believing. Even when it didn't make sense. He kept laugh. Or he kept going even when he wanted to. Just laugh.
When we talk about the 10 tests of Abraham, we usually talk about the very dramatic ones. Lech. Lecha, where God calls him to leave everything sacrificing. Isaac, certainly.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: But this is a test too.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: This. All of these things. Maybe it's one of the hardest of all of it. Because the question is not really just, can you have faith, Abraham?
The test is, will you have faith and patience?
[00:18:33] Speaker A: And you say, well, those are the same thing. No, they're not.
They're not, actually.
[00:18:39] Speaker B: Will you keep believing when God is.
[00:18:41] Speaker A: Taking his sweet time?
[00:18:42] Speaker B: Will you keep trusting when God is?
[00:18:45] Speaker A: When decades have elapsed and promises have not materialized?
[00:18:50] Speaker B: The phrase God is never late, but he rarely shows up early.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: We want him to. It's a cliche. We always want him to.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: If not early, at least when we want him to, right?
And Abraham lived in ways that are.
[00:19:08] Speaker A: Almost hard for us to comprehend.
[00:19:09] Speaker B: 24 years.
That is a long time.
People have been married for 24 years.
Kids. You have 24 year old kids. It's a long time to wait for anything, especially something so foundational to what.
[00:19:25] Speaker A: God had promised him.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: And in those 24 years, Abraham had doubts. He had moments falling on his face because it seemed impossible. He had moments where he decided, I'll just take it into my own hands. Because Obviously, you know, I don't know.
[00:19:43] Speaker A: What God's doing, but here's the key.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: He never walked away. He never stopped engaging, even in questions, even in doubts. I trust you. I believe you.
But it's hard to do that because.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: I don't see you moving.
[00:19:58] Speaker C: Really?
[00:20:02] Speaker B: I don't think he was shaking his fist at God. I think he was having a conversation with God because he trusted God, but.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: His trust was being stretched.
Now, that sounds just, oh, heretical, but it's in the Bible.
I think patience might be the most underrated character trait of Abraham. We can talk about his faith, and rightly so. But faith and patience, they go hand in hand. They're inseparable.
Faith, the kind of faith that changes your life, requires patience. Because it's very easy to have faith.
[00:20:42] Speaker B: On day one when God shows up.
[00:20:44] Speaker A: And runs through, walks through the parts.
[00:20:46] Speaker B: Or speaks to you and all these things and you have this incredible plan ahead of you. Yeah, let's do it. God. I'm on, I'm in board, I'm online. No, you know, the other way he shows up, it's easy to say when the year, when it's just beginning. But what about year 5? What about year 10? What about year, year 24?
[00:21:12] Speaker A: You've heard it, but it hasn't happened.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Now, maybe you've been praying for something. You have a family member whose transformation is much needed. It's been on for decades. Nothing's changed.
[00:21:24] Speaker A: Maybe you have a health struggle for years.
[00:21:27] Speaker B: You're tired of asking and hoping that.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: That'S going to change.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: And what about when the path forward isn't clear and you think you've done all the right things and it just keeps showing up with blockages?
[00:21:39] Speaker A: That's where Abraham's story needs to become our story, where the Torah's brutal honesty becomes our great encouragement. Because the father of faith, the friend of God, if he had struggles, if.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: He had doubts, if he wanted to.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: Take things into his own hands, then maybe it's okay that that happens to us too.
Because it does.
That's just the way of it.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: Maybe having questions is not a disqualification.
[00:22:08] Speaker A: From being people of faith.
Struggling is not failure.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: Wrestling with God, who would ever.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: Well, the name Israel has to do with wrestling with God.
But there is, as I told you last week, a God who believes in us. He understands us. He made us, he designed us.
[00:22:33] Speaker B: And here's what I love about the whole thing. God never rebukes Abraham.
He never gets mad about his questions. He never says, how dare you doubt me? Promises are off he never pulls back. He never takes away his presence. He just engages. He explains. He covenants, he reassures. He shows up again and again.
Not because Abraham has perfect faith, but because he doesn't have perfect faith.
[00:23:07] Speaker A: God knows we're human, and he understands for us, faith is not really like a light switch.
You can't just turn it on.
It's usually developed over time. Like any great skill. It's a journey. And are you ready for it? Go.
[00:23:25] Speaker B: God will allow it.
[00:23:28] Speaker A: And he will walk with you if you want him to.
So at the end of Genesis 17, Abraham has laughed. He suggested that maybe Ishmael could be the answer.
[00:23:37] Speaker B: And God says, nope, nope, it's going.
[00:23:41] Speaker A: To be through Sarah.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: And guess what? You know what your son's name's going to be?
[00:23:48] Speaker A: Yitzhak.
Laughter.
That's going to be your son's name.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: That's no slap.
[00:23:55] Speaker A: That's like, I see Abraham get up. Okay, we'll call him Laughter now. He also, Sarah has the same thing. We'll get to that next week.
[00:24:04] Speaker B: I'm gonna establish my covenant with him.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: And this is so beautiful, because Abraham.
[00:24:10] Speaker B: In his sensitivity, raised this question about Ishmael. What about him? What about him? Can't he just be God says so.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: Beautifully, I'll take care of him too. Don't worry about it. I hear you. I hear your voice. I hear what you're saying.
I'll take care of him too. That's the God that we serve.
So I'll bring this home for you, only to say this for those who are struggling or waiting.
Waiting for, you know, the healing, the recovery. You're waiting for restoration and relationship. You're waiting for a child. You're waiting for provision, for clarity.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: You're in a season where you think you're doing the right things.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Nothing's working out.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: You know what I would want to tell you?
It's okay.
[00:24:57] Speaker A: You can be in the place where Abraham, the father of faith, was when he was 99 years old. 24 years later, he had questions.
Can we talk about this God? That doesn't make you a failure. It makes you human.
But I also want you to see that, you know, Abraham waited those 24 years. He was born.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: He laughed. He laughed.
[00:25:22] Speaker A: And a year later, he was holding Isaac in his arms.
God does deliver.
It may not always be the way or when we think, but he does. And your struggle could be different. But the lesson is the same. Faith, patience, they are not separate virtues. They're the same. You can't have one without the other. And Both of them will be developed through the actual struggle and experience of waiting. I talked about this in the nine o' clock service. One of the translations of Lech Lecha, one of them is, go by yourself, Abraham.
Go by yourself.
That was a preparation for God telling him, abraham, there are a lot of tests coming your way, brother, but you can handle it. I'll be with you, but you're going to have to be the one who overcomes the challenges.
No one else can do it for you. And that's the same thing with you in whatever struggle or whatever thing it is that you're waiting for. But he was never alone. We know that. We know that God was there. He was faithful. And the same is true even when it doesn't feel like it for us. Nothing I can say to anyone can ever all of a sudden make you feel like God is close to you.
That's not something that I can do. But he is. And the journey can feel lonely sometimes. It can feel isolating, and everyone around you can have it together and you're struggling. But that's not the story. The story is. Faith is messy. Patience is hard.
[00:26:58] Speaker B: Walking with God sometimes is questioning and wrestling and sometimes even thinking it's impossible.
Nothing's impossible with God.
[00:27:10] Speaker A: People tell people when they're struggling.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: Side note, when someone's having a deep.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: Struggle in life or they're really, really hurting or suffering with something so deeply, do not give them a platitude like that.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: Don't say, nothing's impossible with God.
But that's true.
That is true. But I've seen so many times in 20 years of ministry where things don't go the way that people think they want them to go.
It's much better to say to someone like God and Abraham, I understand.
I wish I could give you an answer. I understand that you're struggling. But I'm here and I'll walk with you through it.
[00:28:05] Speaker A: That's so much better than a platitude for the strugglers, for all of us, actually.
It's okay if you don't have some superhuman, perfect, never questioning faith that you saw in the opening scenes of Abraham's story. That's not the whole story. That's not even the real story, actually.
You might find solace knowing you can have the faith that Abraham actually had and it can still be credited to you as righteousness. The faith that has some questions, that needs reassurance, that struggles with patience, that kept showing up, engaging even when trusting was hard. That's the faith you can actually have.
And alongside that, you develop this muscle of patience. That's what you do.
And what's remarkable is that later, when.
[00:29:09] Speaker B: Abraham would be put to the unbelievable.
[00:29:12] Speaker A: Test of the akedah, of the sacrifice, the binding of Isaac, now he doesn't question and he doesn't laugh.
And that's the faith that everyone pays attention to, right? That's why we see Abraham as this unbelievable pillar of faith.
[00:29:31] Speaker B: He could walk up there and do that.
But how many years were spent building.
[00:29:38] Speaker A: That kind of faith?
[00:29:40] Speaker B: How much reassuring from God did it take in Abraham's life for him to.
[00:29:45] Speaker A: Get to that place?
That's what you have to remember about Abraham's faith too, when it comes to your own.
[00:29:54] Speaker B: So when you need encouragement, I want.
[00:29:56] Speaker A: You to remember Abraham, not the superhero version that we imagine, but the real one.
Through all of that, became the model and the father of faith we set out to do today the study of the perfect model of faith.
Right?
[00:30:18] Speaker B: Let's look at Abraham and learn what.
[00:30:19] Speaker A: Real faith looks like. And here's what we discovered.
[00:30:22] Speaker B: The perfect model of faith is beautifully.
[00:30:25] Speaker A: Imperfect, just like us.
And so I hope that we can all work toward perfect faith and we.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: Can handle every circumstance and trial without ever asking a question.
[00:30:40] Speaker A: But until then, as God's created masterpiece, let's model the faith of our father Abraham.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: The real kind, the messy kind, is okay. The beautifully human, honest to God kind.
[00:30:54] Speaker A: Of faith that keeps walking even when the journey's long. May that be the kind of faith that we are building through this journey of incredible life with God.
Shabbat Shalom.
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