DAY 49 WHAT IF I LOSE IT ALL?

Welcome. I'm glad all y'all are here. Here we go. Day 49. BTW. Happy Friday. Whenever you're listening to it. Whatever the day is. Welcome. You made it. Another week. What if I lose it? What if the what if that what if the next step? What if the next step God asks you to take? What if the next step God asks you to take feels like losing the ground underneath your feet? Not because you hate God. Not because you don't believe. Not because you're trying to run. But because obedience is moving you away from what you know. Familiar place. A known rhythm. The life you finally you finally learned how to survive. Genesis 46 isn't just some old man taking a family trip. Let's run down to Egypt. Everybody jumping to pickup. Jacob is leaving the land of promise. This isn't a small detail. By the way, I hope y'all can hear me. Let me know. Music too loud? Mike not loud enough. Look, that's not a small detail. In the ancient Near Eastern world of Genesis, land is covenant, land is inheritance, land is future. Land is the visible sign that God keeps his word. And now God says, go down. Go down into Egypt. Go down into uncertainty. Go down into a place your descendants will one day need to be rescued from. Wow. Thanks. Thank you, Nicole. Look, that's the tension here. God, God isn't asking Jacob to choose between comfort and adventure. He's not a YouTuber, he's not a travel adventurer. He's not a digital nomad. Well, let's just see. You know where I've really wanted to go. This is where I really wanted to go. Let's see here. Turn your microphone up. Let's do this. There we go. Hopefully that's better. Let me let me know if this is too loud, not loud enough. Whatever it is, we can make adjustments. God isn't taking Jacob. Thank you, by the way, for that input. Moto Tripler, welcome. Listening through YouTube. The true word faith for life with Dr. Sean channel on YouTube. We have one on Rumble. Sean is spelled S-H-A-W-N. So God isn't God isn't giving some direction to Jacob that's light. Comfort and adventure. No, it's it's not a choice between that. God's asking Jacob to trust the promise giver more than the promised place. Come on. Some of us, some of us have been in that place. God's telling us something. God's telling us something. God starts moving in your life and you panic because the thing he asks you to release feels like the only safe thing you have left. But here is the truth. The unknown isn't stronger than God's covenant. We often think that. Egypt isn't stronger than God's promise, and your fear isn't stronger than the redemption of Yeshua. By the way, welcome to True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. I'm Dr. Sean. Regular dude. We're walking through the Bible in a year. Not just to cover chapters. We're not ticking boxes, but we're trying to understand the story of God in context and learn how to walk faithfully in real life. Look, I'm not a perfect person. I am I am beyond not perfect. If you've known me for four minutes, you know that is absolutely the case. If you know my past, you know I'm absolutely not fluffing up. I've learned a few things. I've studied a few things, and here I am. I don't think I'm all that, but I have a little bit, a little bit of knowledge that might just help you if you listen. I wrote a couple of books. The latest one is called True Word, Faith for Life. This book is written for the person who's tired of religious pieces, not Reese's pieces, religious pieces, tired of confusion and ready for God's word to make sense in real life. Not bending it, not changing it, not even reinterpreting it. Reading it through the ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context so you can know what it truly means. So here's a question for your heart today. It's a hard one. I figured Friday, why give you an easy one? What familiar place are you afraid to leave because you're not sure God will meet you in the unknown? What place are you you're afraid to leave it because you're not sure God will meet you there? And then the unknown places in between, you're not sure God's gonna be there. Genesis 46 comes after one of the most emotional turns in in Joseph's story. Jacob thought Joseph was dead. Can you imagine? Being a dad. For years he carried grief that was built on a lie. Then the news comes. Joseph is alive, not only alive, but ruling under Pharaoh in Egypt. What a juxtaposition. What a what? He what? The son Jacob mourned is the son God preserved. I mean, that is virtually inconceivable. The son, the brother sold, is the son positioned to keep the family alive. That's mercy. That's providence. That is stunning. But the next step isn't simple. Jacob has to go to, he has to go to Egypt. He has to go down to Egypt. Now, we we may hear that and think, well, of course he should go. His son's alive. There's food in Egypt. Why wouldn't he go? Why would he hesitate? But look, man, we have to slow down and read Genesis as covenant history, not just family drama. Jacob isn't leaving some random place. He's leaving Canaan. The land tied to God's promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God told Abraham that his seed would have land. His people would have land. God confirmed the promise to Isaac. He confirmed it again. God confirmed it again to Jacob. This land wasn't scenery. This land was covenant marker. So Jacob's journey to Egypt is filled with all kinds of tension. Yeah, Joseph for sure is there. Absolutely. Food is there, survival is there. But Egypt isn't the land of promise. Egypt is foreign, strange ground. Egypt is power. Egypt is empire. Egypt is a place of provision now. But it will become a place of opposition later. Jacob doesn't know the whole future the way we do as readers. Look, we can read back and go, they so stupid. They so stupid. How come they're doing all this? How come they're doing all this? They're crazy. Hey, listen, look out when we get into the New Testament. We ain't him out of Genesis. You wait till we get to the New Testament. There's a whole lot of people doing a whole lot of judging on the disciples and what they did and what they didn't do, what they knew and what they didn't know. They didn't have the book. We have the book and we still don't know. Come on. A little bit of humility. Egypt absolutely is a place of provision. Look, I'm hungry and there's food there. Didn't stay that way. And Jacob didn't know the whole story. We have the benefit of having the book. But he knows enough to be afraid. And God knows he's afraid. That's why God speaks. God knows you're afraid, and that's why he speaks. Genesis 46. It opens with Israel setting out on everything. He he sets out. Israel, they set out with everything they have. Setting out with everything he has. That wording matters. He isn't taking some weekend trip. He's moving his entire household. Have you ever thought of that? Have you ever thought of that? This is not some small thing. This is humongous. This is moving your entire household, which is enormous. He's moving his sons, his grandchildren, his possessions, his future. He comes to Beersheba and offers sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. Beersheba isn't some random geography on the GPS. This is patriarchal memory. Abraham had history there. Isaac had covenant encounters there. This is ground heavy with promise, heavy with family worship and calling. Before Jacob moves into the unknown, he stops any worships. That isn't some sort of biblical decoration. That's how covenant people move. They didn't enter into the unknown pretending that they weren't afraid. Or they were absolutely afraid. They worship. They seek God. They put fear into the presence of the one who made the promise. Then God speaks to Israel and Visions of the night. He says, Jacob, Jacob. And Jacob says, Here I am. Here I am. That response matters. It's availability, it's surrender, it's the posture of a servant before the voice of God. God says, I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation. Listen to that carefully. God doesn't say Egypt will be easy. Piece of cake down there. No problem. God also doesn't say, hey, you know what? You're going to understand every part of it. You're going to understand every part of this. No big deal. God also doesn't say nothing painful will ever happen there.

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God says, do not be afraid. And then he gives Jacob the reason. For there I will make you into a great nation. There. Not only here. There. Not only in the place that feels covenantal. There. Not only in the familiar land. There, in Egypt, in the unknown, in the place Jacob didn't choose, God will continue his promise. This is where Genesis 46 puts its finger right on our lives. We often think God's faithfulness is tied to the place where we first recognized it. A role, a season, a ministry, a relationship, a home, a routine, a version of life, we understand. And when God begins to move us, we feel we feel like we're we're maybe losing his promise. But sometimes we're not losing the promise. We're being asked to trust the God who made the promise. That's hard. Let's not make it sound easy. Let's not underplay that. Obedience can feel like grief. Obedience can feel like stepping off a ledge. Obedience can feel like packing up pieces of your life while your heart is asking, Lord, are you really in this? Are you really in this? And here's where we have to be real. Sometimes we don't stay because God told us to stay. Sometimes we stay because familiarity feels safer than faith. Sometimes we call fear wisdom. Sometimes we call control discernment. And sometimes we call comfort peace. But biblical peace, biblical peace isn't the absence of movement. Biblical shalom is ordered life under God. It's wholeness under his rule. It's the courage to walk when he speaks. It's not panic disguised as caution. It's not paralysis dressed up as patience. The question isn't, do I feel afraid? The question is, has God spoken and will I obey? Look, I get it. Things are scary. Especially when where you are, you've kind of got mastered, you've got it figured out. And where you are might not only be a physical location. Your physical location may not change. This may have to change. This may have to change. God may not be asking you or telling you to go anywhere. That change may be this. Do I feel afraid? Of course you do. The question is, has God spoken? And will I obey? The covenant promise is so intense. Then God says something even stronger. Are you ready? You may not even, you may not even know this. I myself will go down with you to Egypt and I will also bring you up again. I, this is God speaking. To Jacob or Israel, I myself will go down with you to Egypt and I will also bring you up again. I'm sending you in and I'm bringing you out. That line is the heart of this episode. I myself. I myself, the God of all creation, created all of this, heaven and earth. I myself will go down with you. Not I'll I'll send you instructions. I'll send a text later with instructions. Nope. Not scan this QR code. That'll give you some information. Not I will watch from a distance. Not I will meet you after you survive it. Nope. God himself says, I myself will go down with you. That's covenant presence. God doesn't merely give Jacob a destination, he gives him himself. And then he says, I will also bring you up again, down and up. That movement is huge, down into Egypt, up again into, up again by God's hand, up again into the covenant land, down by danger, up again by redemption, down into exile, up again by deliverance. This isn't just geography, this is the rhythm of redemption. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is entrapped in Canaan. There are no chains on God. There are no limits for God. He is sovereign in Egypt too. He isn't limited to the place where Jacob feels safe. He's not limited to the place where you feel safe. He's present in the place Jacob fears. And that means the unknown isn't empty. If God sends you, the unknown is not godless ground. It may be hard ground, it may be costly ground, it may be ground you wouldn't have chosen yourself, but it isn't abandoned ground. And this is where the story points us forward to Yeshua. Jesus. reveals his heart fully in Messiah. Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Messiah. Yeshua doesn't redeem us from a distance. He comes down to us, down into flesh, down into weakness, down into poverty, down into rejection, down into sorrow, down into suffering, down into the grave, and then God brings him up. Resurrection is the ultimate. I will bring you up again. Don't miss that. Don't miss that. Jacob goes down into Egypt with a promise. God will bring his people up with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. And all of that, all of that points toward the greater redemption that comes through Yeshua Hamashiach, Jesus the Messiah. He enters the unknown we couldn't survive on our own. He bears the sin we couldn't remove on our own. He enters the death we could never defeat on our own. He rises in victory. We couldn't manufacture that. So when we talk about stepping into the unknown, we're not talking about empty motivational courage. We are talking about covenant confidence anchored in redemption. The unknown is real, and it's scary. Loss is real. But Yeshua is more real. His cross is more real. His resurrection is more real. His presence is more real. His promise is more real. You're not walking toward an unknown savior. You are walking with the Redeemer who has already gone down into death and come up in victory. Glory to God. Thanks be to God. First, let's look at, I think it's three or four things. So what does obedience look like in Genesis 46? What does it look like? First, stop before you step. You might want to write these down. Number one is stop before you step. Jacob comes to Beersheba and worships. Before he moves deeper into the unknown, he brings the moment before God. Some of us need to stop reacting and start worshiping. Not because worship makes the decision easy. There's nothing easy about it. But because worship reorders your fear under God. Second. Second. Name what you're afraid to lose. Name what you're afraid to lose. Don't hide behind vague language. Don't hide behind that. Name it. The house, the role, the income, the relationship, the childhood, the routine, the version of yourself that people recognize. The place where you feel competent, the life you finally learned how to manage. Name it before God. Fear loses some of its power when it's brought into the light. Then I want you to ask, I want you to ask the hard question. Am I staying because God told me to stay, or because I'm afraid to trust him if he says go? That question itself, it'll cut right through a bunch of religious frog religious fog. Because not every door is obedience. Not every familiar place is faithfulness. But when God speaks, fear cannot be allowed to become your Lord. Fourth, take the next faithful step. Not the next dramatic step, not the big impressive, make a big statement about it step. The next faithful step. Make the call. Have the conversation. Tell the truth. Pack the box. Apply for the thing. Release the illusion of control. Ask for prayer. Say yes to the assignment. Say no to false safety. Walk with God into the place you cannot imagine without him. That's where he's sending us. Yeah, I wonder why I have for you today a challenge and a choice. Here's a challenge. Name the familiar place you've started treating like your savior. The routine, the relationship, the role, the income, the location, the plan, the version of life. You understand and then name it honestly. Then ask the question: Am I staying because God told me to stay? Or because I'm afraid to trust him if he says go. Listen, that's the second time you've heard that question in just about a couple of minutes. Maybe that question is important in your life. Maybe that question is what you need to hear and what you need to answer. The choice is clear. You can cling to familiar ground and call it wisdom, or you can obey the God who says, I will go down with you. But don't confuse fear with discernment. Don't confuse comfort with covenant. Don't confuse control with peace. The safest place in your life isn't the place you can explain. It's the place where God is with you. And in Messiah Yeshua, you aren't walking in Jesus Christ. You aren't walking towards some unknown savior. You're walking with the Redeemer who has already gone down into death and come up in victory. So take the next the next faithful step. Not because you see the whole road. I've been studying scripture at a doctoral level for, I don't know, decades. I still don't, I don't see the whole road. Prayer is not asking for an easy journey, it's asking for a strong back. And maybe today, the unknown you're facing, it isn't a move. It isn't a decision, a transition, or a new season. Maybe the unknown is surrendering your life to Yeshua, turning your life over to Jesus. Maybe you've been trying to stay in control because you're afraid of what God might ask of you. But hear me on this clearly. Yeshua isn't calling you into loss without redemption. He's calling you out of death and into life. He came down for you. He died for your sin and he rose again. And he's calling you. Not with the polished version of your life that you show to everyone else, but with the real thing. And if that's you, pray with me now. Seriously, whatever you're doing, stop and pray with me. Adonai. That's praying to God. That's his name. I come to you in the name of Yeshua. That's Jesus. I've sinned. I've tried to control my own life. I've trusted myself more than I've trusted you. But today I believe Yeshua came down for me. I believe he died for my sins. I believe he rose from the dead. I believe he is Lord. Forgive me, cleanse me, redeem me, make me new. I surrender my life to you. Teach me to follow you and give me courage to walk with you, even when I can't see the whole road. In Yeshua's name. Amen. Well, if you prayed that prayer, welcome to the family of God. You don't have to figure this all out by yourself. If you gave your life to Yeshua, or if you still have honest questions, which I don't blame you if you do, reach out to me. I couldn't have made it easier. True wordfaithforlife.com slash contact. I will personally, as soon as I receive your message, I will personally reach out to you. I'll help you with your next steps. Doesn't cost you anything. There's not some trick behind it. I get nothing. You know, I don't get a toaster every time somebody clicks on that. I just want to provide help. There's a bazillion resources there, they're offering. Jacob went down into Egypt. He had trembling hands and a covenant promise. He didn't carry the map. He carried the word of God. He didn't know every chapter. He knew the God who spoke, and that was enough. You may not know what the next season will demand of you. You may not know what obedience will cost. And you may not know what Egypt will feel like when you get there. But you can know this. God doesn't abandon his people in the unknown. And Yeshua has already gone deeper than your fear. Down into death. Up in resurrection, alive forever, faithful forever, present with his people forever. So don't worship the familiar. Don't bow to fear. Don't call control peace. Follow the Redeemer. He goes with you. And he knows how to bring his people up again. If this episode spoke to you in any way, if it spoke to the place where obedience feels scary, share it with someone who is standing at the edge of the unknown in their life. Someone who needs to hear that God's presence is safer than familiar ground. Someone needs to hear that. Until Sunday at 6 30 p.m. p.m. Eastern Standard Time. May Adam I bless you and keep you. May Adamai make his face to shine upon you and show you his grace. May Adonai lift up his face toward you and give you shalom. Shalom.