The episode delves into the intriguing story of Abraham as he navigates a severe famine, illustrating how God can turn challenging circumstances into blessings. Dr. David Spoon emphasizes that even when we make mistakes or act out of fear, God's grace remains steadfast, and He often uses our trials to bring about unexpected rewards. The narrative highlights Abraham's deceptive actions regarding his wife Sarah, and how, despite this, God protects him and ultimately blesses him abundantly. Spoon encourages listeners to recognize that God’s blessings are not contingent upon our perfection but are a reflection of His character and love. As the episode unfolds, listeners are reminded of the importance of faith and trust in God's plan, even amidst life's uncertainties.

David Spoon dives deep into the biblical narrative in Genesis, particularly focusing on the story of Abraham during a severe famine. The discussion elucidates how Abraham's decision to go to Egypt in search of sustenance not only reflects human instinct in times of crisis but also sets the stage for God's providential care. Spoon emphasizes that, despite Abraham's dubious choice to deceive Pharaoh by claiming Sarah as his sister, God remains steadfast in His promise to bless Abraham. This interplay of human frailty and divine faithfulness serves as a powerful reminder that even amidst our mistakes, God's grace abounds. Abraham's journey illustrates the notion that God can turn adverse circumstances, such as famine, into blessings, showcasing His sovereign ability to provide for those who trust in Him. As Spoon explores these themes, he encourages listeners to reflect on their own lives, recognizing that God's love and support persist even when they falter.

Takeaways:

• Abraham's journey to Egypt highlights how God can use difficult circumstances to bless His people.
• Despite Abraham's deception, God remained faithful, showing that His promises are unwavering.
• We should understand that our mistakes do not prevent God from blessing us abundantly.
• The story illustrates the importance of faith, even when we act imperfectly before God.
• God's grace is not based on our performance, but rather on His love and mercy.
• Prayer is a powerful tool, and God knows our needs even before we ask.

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It's marvelous, monumental, most fascinating, massively mind bending Monday as we join our hearts and minds as one, drawing closer to the king of kings and glorifying his name.

We are going to do over.

We've got to do a Timmy do over because we talked about it last week but never got to teach from it.

Timmy do over.

Back into Genesis, picking it up in chapter 12.

We start with verse 10 which states there was a severe famine in the land in chapter 12, verse 10 of Genesis.

So Abraham went down to Egypt to wait it out.

There was no food and Abraham figured, you know, best place to hang out is going to be down in Egypt because they'll have more food since there is no food around here.

Turns out that this was actually from the Lord, the famine.

I talked about this last week, but I didn't get into it and I'm getting into it this week.

The famine was used by God to bless Abraham.

Wow.

And they're traveling, moving along.

Abraham tells Sarah, hey, you're extremely beautiful woman and they're going to see you and say, hey, let's kill this guy and take the gal.

But instead, here's my plan.

I want you to tell them you're my sister.

To be straightforward about it.

Genesis 20 shows that they are in fact brother and sister, only half brother and sister.

So that said, Abraham's approach still was one of deception.

But in verse 17, it says, the Lord sent a terrible plague upon Pharaoh and his household because of Sarah, Abram's wife.

Wife.

God has a standard that will not be changed when his children are involved.

Even when they mess up, God will.

Protect them and judge those who come after them.

Pharaoh had no right to approach or try to claim Sarah because Sarah was not only married, but she also was a child of the most high God, just like you.

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It's so sweet.

Thank you, David.

Happy Monday.

Happy Monday to you, my friend.

As we will get into Jake's take later on and as will, we'll remind people that Friday is a modified day, which means we will not be airing.

There's a phenomenal sport events taking place during our time slot.

And we say amen.

Go anytime.

It's for a Texas team.

We're like, yay, Go.

Yay, go.

At least for the most part.

Say that.

I'll say it that way.

Is that what I'm supposed to say?

Additionally, so look it, we're gonna pray for like Keith Oakley in just a minute.

But I want you to know why you would reach out to us so you can see what's going on.

You can touch base with us through that email, through that text, through that phone number for us.

Myriad of reasons.

I will not be able to give you the best seasoning for a brisket.

Sorry, I can't do that.

I rely on my wife for that.

She is much wiser than I in those things.

I can't tell you how to dial the phone for pizza.

Usually it has to do with phone numbers.

But the bottom line is simply this.

If you've got something that you want to share because the Lord has blessed you or given you wisdom or insights, or you've got something that's on your heart and mind, and you know it's a blessing from the Lord, we encourage you to share it because it will reinforce it in your own life.

It will bless other people who will hear it.

But most importantly, it will glorify the.

Lord, that is number one.

Especially in lieu of Isaiah 43:7, which.

Teaches that we were created for the.

Glory of God, maybe you've got a prayer request.

Like I said, Keith Oakley needs some prayer.

We're going to pray for him in just a moment.

And you don't have to even share everything that's going on.

You know what?

It's an amazing thing about prayer.

God knows.

In fact, the scripture even says before.

You call, he will answer.

He knows what's going on, but he.

Still wants faith from his kids because that's the vehicle he's chosen for us to operate with him by.

People are like, well, I want proof.

Yeah, well, God wants faith.

You show him faith, he'll show you the proof.

Get it.

Additionally, you could have something you just want to share, something that's on your mind, your heart.

Maybe you've got a scripture, something taking place.

Cool.

Maybe you're feeling just optimistic.

I don't know.

Maybe you're feeling pessimistic.

I don't know.

Got something on your heart and mind.

Share it.

That's great.

We're not against politics.

We're just for advancing the kingdom of God and encouraging one another.

So that's where we kind of draw the line.

We'll do Bible trivia when we're done with this prayer for Keith, and then we'll see if you have Bible Bible trivia knowledge going on.

You have that opportunity as well.

But let's pray for Keith real quickly.

Father, we come before you right now and we just want to thank you and praise you for everything that's going on in our lives, even the things, Lord, that we don't understand.

Sometimes, Lord, we go through trials and we think, we know we don't.

We act like we do.

And sometimes we profess a faith but.

Don'T live strongly in it.

And so different things take place and we try to order it, we try to structure it instead of trusting.

Forgive us for those moments that we do that.

And, Lord, we lift up our brother Keith to you.

He loves you, Lord, and he's got.

Some issues that he needs help with.

And Lord, I am asking you to bring him the deliverance from his circumstance that he seeks from you.

I am asking you to pour your.

Spirit upon him, to comfort his mind and his heart, to give him confidence.

And to take out that spirit of.

Fear and to replace it with a heart of praise.

Put Lord God, a new song in his mouth.

Put his feet upon a rock and.

Let him sing that new song to.

You and glorify you.

Give him that which he requests.

He needs your help in a way that only you can help.

Please bring that help to him.

He's our brother.

We're asking for our family's sake.

Dad.

Take care of our brother.

Take care of Keith Oakley.

We pray in Jesus name.

Amen and amen.

Okey dokey artichokey.

Now, and you think, well, does that work?

Yes.

Does it work every time?

No.

How often does it work?

Don't know, don't care.

Just keep praying.

Cause that's what Jesus told us to do.

All right, let's see if we get this trivia question.

You guys should really know this.

Jesus said, you should love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind.

This is the first and great commandment.

And the second one is likened unto it.

What did he say the second commandment was?

If you think you know, you are welcome to give us a ringy dinghy.

Jesus said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind.

This is the first and great commandment.

And the second is likened unto it.

And then he said what the second one was.

What was it?

That is the question.

In the meantime, we will do our DNA.

DNA is the building blocks that we assert in our show.

Not the only DNA, but it's our DNA that we use on how to keep things going day by day, whether they're good, bad or indifferent.

D starts with Draw closer to the Lord.

Daily.

Daily.

So our new one is every day that has a vowel.

I like that one.

It's pretty good though, right?

You got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

Every day that has a vowel.

Got it right.

Cool.

That means spending time with the Lord.

It doesn't mean that you have to fill the air when you talk to the Lord.

I do want to say this.

Sometimes I get before the Lord and I pray.

And Psalm 46, 10 says, Be still and know that I am God.

There are times you come before the Lord's presence and you just say, lord, I just want to hear.

I just want to be here.

I just want to connect with you.

I just want to have fellowship with you.

And you don't have to keep filling the air for God to know that.

Or God to answer that prayer.

He knows you and he loves you and he chose you and he likes to hang out with you.

How about that?

Isn't that beautiful?

Draw closer to the Lord.

Especially when you get into James 4, 8.

Draw close to God and He will draw close to you.

He's just waiting.

He's just waiting for us.

D Draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or His words.

I have maintained this for quite some time.

I think most of you know by now.

But this is going to get worse.

And worse and tougher and tougher.

They're already trying in 10 different arenas.

And have done so, by the way, in Great Britain to make the Bible hate speech.

You don't like the fact that we believe the Word of God?

Tough.

The Word of God is our source.

The Word of God is our insight from God, our connection, our voice of.

Him to us, for us to know Him.

And if we get to know him and draw closer to him, then he even reveals other things to us.

But nothing outside of the Word.

Here is all I'm trying to say.

The Word of God is like a rock, a foundation by which we set our feet upon, and it keeps us steady.

Never be ashamed of what Jesus had to say.

And he is known as one of his titles, the Word of God.

Wow.

Never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

Jesus said, if you're ashamed of me and my words, I'll be ashamed of.

You when I come in.

Glory from the Father.

D Draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or His words.

A Always be ready.

To serve.

To serve.

Always be ready to serve.

What does that mean?

Let me think about this.

Always means always.

Okay.

Be ready.

Well, that means be ready.

And then to serve means that you are a vehicle, a vessel that God can use for people's sake, for whatever sake, for the kingdom's sake, whether you're speaking to people, praying for people, whatever the case may be.

You are a vessel ready to be used by the King of kings, by the Lord of Lords.

And you are connected and aware.

And you're not so selfish that all you're doing is thinking about you and your circumstances.

You're also thinking of others and how they are around you, not just on your side of how you're receiving it, but how other people are doing outside of you.

And when you do that, the Lord.

Takes up your cause on your behalf.

When you give of yourself to others.

The Lord gives of Himself to you.

That's the way to cover yourself.

It's so good.

D Draw closer to the Lord daily and never be ashamed of Jesus or his words.

A Always be ready to serve.

Here is, by the way, our trivia question.

When the lawyer asked Jesus what was the greatest commandment in the law, Jesus said, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind.

That's the first and great commandment.

The second is likened unto it.

Then what did he say?

What was the rest of it?

If you think you know, you got just a couple more minutes to reach out or text.

This is Genesis chapter 12.

And Genesis chapter 12.

We're basically, you know, we're picking it up at verse 10.

It says this.

At that time there was a severe famine in the land.

Did you know that there are times on earth that there are severe famines?

That is the case.

That is the truth.

Sometimes there are different things that take place.

Because once man introduced sin to the ecosystem, everything fell off balance.

Even nature itself, According to Romans 8, longs to be redeemed, which means that nature suffered because redemption is now necessary for nature.

I know people don't understand that, but that doesn't matter.

God's truth prevails.

And so nature itself has gone off balance, off shift, not in the right zone, looking for its own redemption.

Because, see, sin entered the world and from Sin came a lot of disasters.

Not just for humanity, but everything beneath humanity as well.

And there was a famine.

And let me say something to each and every one of you from a DAP point of view, dynamic application principle, a personalization point of view.

Did you know that there are times that you to go through different kinds of famine?

It's not unusual.

Maybe it's a famine for you're not able to hear.

You're not able to get into the same zone.

Maybe your fellowship starved, which happens to a lot of people and they don't even realize it.

Maybe you're really just hungry for more and you're not getting what you need to get.

You're not spending enough time with the Lord.

You're almost done depriving yourself of the.

Nutrients that come from God.

Famines take place.

But here's what I want you to hear.

Listen to this lesson.

God uses famines to bring about his purposes.

So just because you're in a famine scenario doesn't mean God hates you.

Because the Lord makes all things work together for good, even famines.

Wow.

Wow.

He's that powerful.

Yes.

When the lawyer asked Jesus what was the greatest commandment, Jesus said, you love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind.

That's the first and great commandment.

And the second is likened unto it.

What is it?

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Then Jesus said, on these two commandments.

Hang all the law and the prophets.

Wow.

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Guest today, Focus on the Family, trauma specialist Tim Sanford.

People as they try to sort this out, they go through this.

They go through maybe a litany or a list in their mind and try to evaluate, well, you know, is this, this and is this this and, and what you said right there is the key that the core of our strength, the core of our ability to go on yet for another day in the midst of what we would consider to be chaos, both socially, politically and in other realms is the Lord.

I mean, the Lord gives us the abyss.

Until he blows that trumpet, we are not done.

Exactly.

And that's where we come back to.

People ask me, well, again, the why, why, why questions that people all across the US Are asking in my best theological accurate answer I can give them is I don't know.

I don't stop there.

That is an accurate answer.

I finished my answer then by saying, here's what I do know.

I know that God is still on his throne.

I know that God knew what was going on.

I don't know why that.

Here's what I do know.

God is still a loving God.

He still is in charge.

Here's what I do know.

Here's what I do know.

Here's what I do know.

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Thank you for joining us here at Kaam 770, the truce station here in Texas.

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That fit as highly appropriate as there was a shooting in Wisconsin today at a Christian private school.

It shows you that we're still steeped.

This world is steeped in sin and deception and evil.

And the only answer is the Lord.

There is no other answer for, for anybody anywhere.

Everybody thinks, well, we'll curb it.

We'll curb it.

We're the ones that created it.

We need God to help.

That would be the way to approach it.

Okay, all right, all right.

So we are Going to still have our trivia question.

Let's see if you guys can get this.

This is not that difficult.

I cannot give you the Bible reference because it will give you who the person is.

But you got to work on it from this point of view.

To whom did Paul write?

From a child.

You.

You have known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Jesus Christ.

In fact, all scripture is given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction and righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Who did Paul write that to?

Your only hint.

I will give you this hint.

Think of individuals that Paul wrote to.

To whom did Paul write?

From a child.

You have known the Holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Get that?

Who did he write that to?

If you think you know.

Who did Paul write that to?

Or you can send an email.

Davidemousincrease.org now, we do have somebody.

I think they're ready.

Are they ready to answer the trivia question?

Yep.

Okay, let's go ahead and bring them on in.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

This is your little brother.

Hello, brother.

How are you?

I'm okay.

Okay.

All right.

I assume you heard what's going on.

So we just addressed that just a few seconds ago in regards to the school.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm making sure.

Okay.

Because.

Oh, no.

I mean, I just heard that news from you.

Yeah, it's.

It's sad.

It's sad, it's terrible.

And it's just.

It's.

It's not going to stop until the Lord comes back.

This world and this nation and everything about it is still steeped left to right in sin.

And that's not going to change because we're going to make it better because we're going to institute laws and so on and so forth.

It's not going to change because the problem, the origin of the problem is us.

And until the us part has changed, and I mean changed as in born again, it's not going to change.

So that's just going to stay in that steady place.

So let's set up on the Triv and then see how you're doing.

And what's Going on.

You ready for the triv?

Sure.

Okay, here we go, my brother.

It's simple.

To which individual did Paul write you from?

A child have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

That was Lois.

Son or grandson?

Timothy.

That is correct, Amanda.

You are right.

It was Timothy.

And that very next verse, after he went into that, he said to him, he said, all scripture is given by inspiration of God.

Profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction and righteousness.

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

It's what equips us, is knowing the word of God.

So that's a big key, especially understanding the tools and understanding that the word of God is a sword that helps us in the warfare.

So what's happening with you, my friend?

How are you?

How was your weekend?

Weekend was fantastic.

The weekend was fantastic.

Did you just say that?

Yes.

What?

That's very.

Well, praise the Lord for that.

That's great.

You had a great weekend.

God bless you.

That's awesome.

We celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary.

So it was fantastic.

Oh, congratulations on that.

Congratulations on your 17th wedding anniversary.

Excellent, Excellent, excellent, excellent.

So great.

Isn't that nice?

That's wonderful, brother.

Wonderful.

In the midst of all the sin in the world, there's still these moments where the grace of God shines bright.

And gives us something to see and to hope for.

Isn't that the truth?

All right.

What can we pray for you about?

Anything in particular?

Pray for he will release the cattle from his thousand hills.

Okay, got it.

This is how.

So sometimes when I pray, you know, when I'm wearing a financial crunch, too, as a ministry, one of the things that I say to the Lord is, you have a cattle on a thousand hill.

All I want are one male and one female.

That's all I want.

One male, one female.

Send them my way.

That's what I.

That's what I pray, that the Lord will bless you financially.

Okay.

Yes.

Let's pray.

Father, we come before you right now.

I lift up my brother to you, and I just know exactly where he's at.

I know exactly what's going on in his life.

I pray that you would bless him financially.

Lord, he doesn't want to use the money to play around.

He's not using it for anything like that.

He wants to use it for right purposes.

Being a good steward.

Enable him to be a steward by pouring out abundance upon him.

Lord, you can take the little that we have and make it much.

And you do that so often, and you get us through so many times.

But we need that, Lord.

We need that again in this broken world.

We need the grace, the mercy, and.

The generosity that comes from you.

And we know you love us.

You tell us so.

We're asking for you to pour it out upon us and put our brother.

In a good position so he too can give to others and be blessed from that.

Since it's more blessed to give than receive, we ask you to bless him in this process.

In Jesus name, amen and Amen.

Amen.

Hey, I have a quick theological question for you.

There are no such things as quick theological questions, but fire away.

Okay.

How do you know that Job went to a chiropractor?

How do I know that?

So theologically humorous.

How do I know that Job went to a chiropractor?

How do I know, Samson, that Job went to a chiropractor?

Yes.

I'm asking you how.

With me, but he seized me by the neck.

He seized me by the neck.

All right, there you go.

A chiropractic joke thrown into the show.

That's probably a first right there.

And it should be something that came from you.

Excellent, Job.

Well, I find somewhere that wasn't my.

Original, so that's still a good one.

I like it.

Good job, bro.

All right.

I love you.

I love you too, brother.

God bless you.

God bless.

Bye bye.

All right, here we go.

All right, I wanna do this little teaching, and we're gonna do a little bit, and then I'm get into it a lot in a lot more in a few seconds.

But here's what takes place for Abraham.

Abraham, what a great guy.

He just goes, where the Lord I'm going.

Yes, I'm using faith.

At that time, there was a severe famine in the land.

So Abraham went down to Egypt to wait it out.

As he was approaching the borders of Egypt, Abraham said to Sarai, you're a very beautiful woman.

Isn't that nice?

Saying to his wife, you're beautiful.

When the Egyptians see you, they will say, that is his wife.

Let's kill him, and then we can have her.

But if you say, you're my sister, then the Egyptians will treat me well because of their interest in you, and they will spare my life.

So without trying to justify Abraham, and I can't believe there's commentators that actually try to do this, which is really funny.

Every person who engages with God does really good in certain areas.

And really maybe not as good in other areas, we already know Abraham didn't do so great when he tried to produce the promise of God with Hagar.

We already know that.

No, try and make him better than he is.

He goes down to Egypt.

There's not the indication that the Lord sent him per se as much as he decided.

That's kind of a little bit of an issue.

I don't think it's that big a deal.

It's like, there's food over there.

Let's go there.

And so he's getting ready.

They're going to go into Egypt.

And he says to Sarah, who is his half sister, Genesis 20 makes that clear.

He says, you're beautiful.

I think that's very nice that he said that, because you're so beautiful, they're going to want to kill me.

So I have a better plan.

You just tell everybody you're my sister, you are my sister.

But you just tell them that.

And then they're going to treat me well because of their interest in you, and they'll spare my life.

So let's be forward about this, right?

There's a severe land.

Abraham goes down to Egypt to wait it out.

There's no food where he was.

He figured he might as well go to the best place where there's more food.

Turns out that this famine and this move in this direction turned out all to be from God, that that's where God was directing the overall circumstance.

Remember just last week on Friday, we talked about the fact that God, God sent the king of Israel before he was anointed King Saul.

He sent him out looking for donkeys.

But at the same time, he's telling Samuel, I'm sending you a king.

There's a divine perspective and there's a human perspective.

The human perspective is looking for donkeys.

The divine perspective, sending you a king.

And here it's Abraham's, like, there is.

No food around here.

Human perspective.

We're going to go over there, tell them I'm your brother, then they'll be really nice to me.

God's going from the divine perspective.

I'm going to bless Abraham because he believes me.

That's what's going on.

And the famine was actually used by God to pour it out on Abraham.

Now, you can't say that Abraham didn't use deception.

Of course he did.

But God didn't let anybody judge him because it's God's servant.

And God was going to handle that part of it.

Nobody else was going to touch it.

But God took the circumstance that was.

Which was bad.

Why?

It's a famine.

It's bad.

But God was going to use even the bad circumstance to become a blessing.

You go through all the psalms every time.

Sorrow in the nighttime, but joy comes in the morning.

Go through all the different things and you already know that God turns things around.

Well, there was a famine, and God was going to use the famine to be a bounty for Abraham.

Hey, I don't know if you know this or not, but famines are not supposed to be the place where you get a bounty.

But then again, when God's involved, he.

Can take anything, everything, anyone and everyone.

And turn it in whatever direction he desires.

And the famine became a source of blessing.

That is who you serve.

That is who loves you.

How about that?

Pretty good.

All right, we'll take a short break, then come back.

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Like any person spread searching for answers.

I too have wondered about him.

He has a weird sense of humor.

If people are seeking wisdom and insight from the great teachers around the world, would they go to David?

No, I don't think so.

Those big ears really don't help.

Will people enjoy his perspective on culture, politics, food, sports, and local and national news?

I don't know.

He's just a client.

Tune in to the David Spoon Experience on kaam.

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Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around.

Even under his wings, day and night, they never stopped saying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come.

And you're thinking, that's a great verse, Dave.

What does that got to do with Thanksgiving?

Right, because that doesn't have any application except for God is pictured here as always was, always is, and always will be.

And a person who is walking in the dynamic of continually giving thanks is looking at their past with Thanksgiving, is looking at their present with Thanksgiving, and is looking at their future with thanksgiving.

Because God has operated in the past, the present, and the future, and you have a past, a present and a future.

And when you look at your past and you operate with Thanksgiving, and you look at your present, and you operate with Thanksgiving, and you look at your future, and you operate with Thanksgiving, you're operating in those principles with God.

And if you look at your past with Thanksgiving, guess what?

You won't have.

You won't have bitterness.

And if you look at your present with Thanksgiving, guess what you're going to have a trusting and a confidence.

And if you look to your future with thanksgiving, guess what?

You're going to have a hope for a better tomorrow.

All these principles operate.

If you will continually walk in Thanksgiving on every aspect and element of your life, you won't be bitter.

You'll be trusting God and walking in confidence.

You'll be looking for a better devotion.

You'll be operating in the principle of faith.

You'll be honoring God, and you'll be setting yourself free in your partnership with God.

How can that be bad?

How can that be bad?

It blow my mind.

Crying out loud.

We should be thanking God for oh, but this terrible thing happened, but look how God brought you through it.

This terrible thing is happening, but look how God is bringing you through it.

Hey, when they start shooting Christians, look how God took you out and brought you to him.

How many think it's all you can't escape this.

If you look at your life with the continual feast of thanksgiving, you'll have a continual feast.

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Oh, welcome back to that David Spoon Experience.

Thank you for joining us here at KAAM 7.

6, the Truth Station here in Texas.

That's KA Men 770, the Truth Station here in Texas.

Here's your next trivia question.

A man said to Jesus, good Master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?

And he said to him, why do you call me good?

There is no one good.

But what did Jesus say there?

And he said to him, why call me good?

There is no one good.

But ta da.

Or you can send an email davidemustincrease.org now before we do that, I gotta send you up to the website.

And the reason I'm sending you up to the website is the same reason we do it on a pretty regular basis.

Our ministry for us at he must increase ministry in the David Spoon Experience.

We go through our biggest lull between December 15th and January, actually January 2nd.

That's just what happens.

I mean, we've been going through this for a while.

So we're in One of those lulls.

Don't you love it?

It's the same trial and test for me as it is for everybody else.

I mean, I go through the same thing.

So we're asking people if you're able to give, give, and if you can't give, please, please pray for us.

We're just in this zone about praying for new givers.

And maybe somebody that the Lord has blessed us maybe wants to pour that out on us.

We think that's important.

We like the ministry.

We want to keep doing it.

And in order to keep doing it, we need the help to do it.

So if you've never given before, pray about it.

You do not have to be guilted into it.

We absolutely hate that 100%.

We want you to give totally, not reluctantly, not under compulsion, because you want to and you want to do it as unto the Lord.

That's all.

That's it.

Nothing more.

So we'd ask you to check it out on our website if you're inclined to do that.

Check out hemustincrease.org prayer request.

Hemostincrease.org praise report.

Hemostincrease.org looking to give to this ministry.

Hemustincrease.org confused by what's happening right now.

Hemustincrease.org hemustincrease.org as a duly designated representative.

Of the city, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin.

Or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.

I like the fort with.

That's a great line.

All right, somebody is ready to answer the trivia question.

Let's send them on through.

Knock, knock.

This is David.

Who am I talking to?

This is Bobby.

Hi, Bobby, how are you?

I'm doing pretty good today.

I thought I'd get in a quick answer on the trivia.

I'm sitting at a.

At a restaurant.

Okay, let me get.

Let me set it up for you so that people don't look at you funny while you're.

While you're there.

Okay?

A man said to Jesus, good master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?

And he said, why do you call me good?

There's no one good but the Father in heaven.

That is correct, Amundo.

There is nobody good but God.

That's right.

Yes.

That's the way to do it.

Good job, Bobby.

I know you probably don't want to hang on too long.

Sometimes when I'm in the restaurant, people look at me like, hey, why you got that phone on?

Well, thank you.

You have a good day.

My throat's a little under the weather, but I'm feeling great.

Y'all have a good day, too, and have a merry Christmas.

God bless.

Thank you.

I'm gonna pray for you as you hang up.

I'm gonna pray for your throat, too.

Okay?

Thank you.

All right.

God bless you.

All right, Father, we just come before you right now.

We lift up Bobby to you right now.

We ask that you would bring healing to his throat.

He's got a little bit of a throat problem, Lord.

I know all about that.

Doesn't matter, Lord, you are able to heal.

It doesn't take anything.

Lord, we're asking you to bring your healing power into Bobby's throat so you can feel better.

Yes, he'll do all the things he's supposed to do, but, Lord, accelerate that healing and give him a break and let him enjoy the holiday season and just be at rest and at comfort.

And we lift him up to you and ask you to bless him where he is now and bless his next couple of weeks.

And we ask all of this not because any of us deserve it, but because you are awesome and generous.

We pray this in Jesus name, Amen and amen.

All right, before we get into any more teachings, we do have to do something that I'm sad to do, and that is Jake's take.

All right, Jake, what do we have from yesterday's gloomy rainy day?

Ah, we'll go ahead and start it off with.

We'll go and start it off with your Detroit Lions, David losing a good game overall to the Buffalo Bills.

And that ends the win streak for the Lions.

I.

I'm.

I know the Lions were on a pretty good win streak.

Had they only had one loss before yesterday, but correct lose their second game against the Buffalo Bills.

And it was a good game overall, though.

It was good.

And I was watching it and Noel and I were there and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to say and everybody's going to get mad at me, and that's all right.

But I said as soon as the very first set of downs took place and it was a three and out, I turned into.

And he said, they're going to lose.

They didn't even look like the team they did before.

I mean, you can just tell.

I just watch the Lions and you're.

Like, okay, we're getting this three.

That was three.

And I was terrible.

It was just like, you've got to be kidding.

And sure enough, the Bills are good, though.

The Bills are great.

They're one of the best teams in the league.

Yep.

No question about it.

And we could.

We could see those two teams again.

That's what I was going to say.

Yeah.

Maybe that was a little super bowl preview and, you know, we'll see it in February.

We'll see.

Yeah.

If it is, the Lions will win that one.

I promise.

That'll be.

I have very.

If that's a Super bowl matchup in February, I'll be pulling for Detroit.

Right.

Yeah.

Then the other thing is that Dallas won against a team that looked like they were playing Frisbee.

Yeah.

You know.

You know how in college football they have all their bowl games around this time?

That the Cowboys and Panthers yesterday was the toilet bowl.

That's.

That was the name of that.

I'm gonna give you a clap for that.

Hold on.

Hold on.

Golf clap for that.

That was hilarious.

Excellent.

Very, very good.

The Cowboys did get a good win, though.

They got a win.

You got to win.

A win is a win.

You got it.

Even I would have taken them.

You'll take them.

At this point in the season, you'll take them.

You take the win.

Win.

Congrats to the Cowboys for getting that win yesterday.

Pretty funny stuff.

All right.

All right, let's get back into our text now.

We're dealing with Abraham.

I got to be careful here, because some people, they read into this more than they should, and then other people don't read in or don't put into it what is in there.

We're going back to text.

Abraham says, you're a very beautiful woman to Sarah.

And this is Abram and Sarai.

So if you ever hear me say Abraham and Sarah, I'm not trying to do the scripture injustice.

I'm just so used to speaking to them as Abraham and Sarah.

So don't get all wigged out on that.

It says Abram says, look, they're gonna say, let's kill him.

Say, you're my sister.

But if you say, you're my sister, they'll treat me well.

Because they're interested in you.

Cause he's kind of figuring if they think of him as the brother, they can get an in with the sister.

Do you understand that?

I mean, I just want you to catch that little itty bitty thing there.

He's like, if you say, I'm your brother, they're going to treat me well.

And the reason is because.

Well, then if that's her brother and they treat him good, he would be able to speak to her on their behalf.

You get what's going on there.

That's what he's kind of formulating.

Then it takes.

Then this is what happens.

Verse 14.

Sure enough, when they arrived in Egypt, everyone spoke of her beauty.

When the palace officials saw her, they sang her her praises to the king.

Can we at least be honest?

Sarah must have been pretty good looking.

I mean, that's the truth.

They sang her praises to the king, the Pharaoh, and she was taken into his harem.

Then verse 16.

Pharaoh gave Abram many gifts because of her.

You see what God did, I know you see it.

That should never have happened.

Abraham probably shouldn't have gone down that road.

We'll talk about the judgment in just a second.

But what he did was he worked the system.

It's like, well, they are in fact brother and sister.

But to deny that she was his wife, that was deception.

So don't think it wasn't.

And you know, the Lord's not impressed with deception.

But it's God's job to judge his kids.

And he didn't really judge Abraham.

Some say, well, he judged him later on and did this.

It's like, meh, maybe.

But just like Abraham anticipated, they were amazed at how beautiful Sarah was.

And then Sarah, because she told them, abraham's her brother, they gave him all kinds of gifts.

They gave him finances and blessing.

It was a very smooth move.

He ended up receiving sheep and cattle and donkeys and male and female servants and camels.

And it's like.

And by the way, people are like, well, there weren't any camels back then.

There were for the Pharaohs.

Oh my goodness, those people are so stupid.

They're just not intellectual.

Doesn't matter.

The point is simply this.

God poured it out on Abraham through a famine.

He was going there to find food.

God was sending him over in that direction because God was going to pour out his blessing.

This is the beginning of Abraham's, let's just say, his plunder, so to speak, his blessings.

And what happens.

And what happens is so fascinating.

Listen to what happens in verse 17.

The Lord sent a terrible plague upon Pharaoh's household because of Sarah, Abram's wife.

So Pharaoh called for Abraham and accused him sharply.

What is this you've done to me?

He demanded.

Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?

Why were you willing to let me marry her, saying she was your sister, here is your wife.

Take her and be gone.

Verse 20.

Then Pharaoh then sent them out of the country.

Listen to this.

Under armed escort, Abraham and his wife with all their Household and their belongings.

What I'm trying to get us to get is we do not do everything perfect before the Lord.

Now, there are some times that we might be even a little conniving.

Come on.

Well, I'm not trying to do it wrong.

It's like, got it.

Okay, listen.

We try to do it right.

And if we fall into doing it wrong, the Lord knows, and the Lord will judge us.

And the Lord will handle that part of it.

But when God's children make a mistake, it's God's children that make the mistake.

He will do the judging.

In this case, God just used the circumstance to pour upon Abraham a blessing.

The reason I want to key in on this is because Abraham received such a blessing.

This is going to lead to him and lot separating because there's just.

They got so much stuff growing between them.

But God blessed him in the midst of that, in spite of the fact that he tried to pull a fast one.

I'm going to say something that is absolutely going to get people upset.

So I will say this.

Now, this is not a nugget for you to.

It's not a hill to die on.

It's not anything like that.

It's not a fellowship buster.

Nothing like that.

But as we look in Scripture, you can see that God, at different times, even when we've done something stupid, still.

Pulls us out of the mud.

And for whatever reason, outside of his generosity and his love and his graciousness.

And his mercy, just blesses us.

There are times even today, when I said to the Lord, you know, and I said it, and then I caught myself saying it, saying, I can't.

I just.

You're so gracious to me.

And in saying that to God, I.

Immediately said, I'm not worth it.

I couldn't earn it.

And it's like, that's so dumb, because.

You can't earn grace in the first place.

You can't earn that grace.

God is gracious because he's gracious, not because we're good.

He pours grace upon you and I, and in times, we not only could never deserve it ever, but at his.

Will and his desire.

And he might take something that just looks sloppy and choppy, like a famine, and turn it into an opportunity for us to be blessed.

And you'll never be able to justify it.

You'll never be able to understand it.

Theologically in the sense of, I can put this here.

I can put this here.

It always goes back to who God is and that we forget that sometimes.

He just pours it on us because he loves us in spite of the things that we think say or do.

So God sends a plague on Pharaoh.

If you're Pharaoh, you're probably thinking, this does not seem right.

Poor guy, right?

And Abraham's wife, he's like.

He's like.

Because he's got Abraham's wife.

And it's like he's got this standard God.

His standard is not going to be changed.

And his children are involved and they messed up, but God's protecting them and is judging those who are still coming after them.

Now, Pharaoh, it's true Pharaoh had no right to approach Sarah, but he was.

There was a deception going on.

But God is still going to bless Abraham because you want to know what I'm going to say it?

You're going to.

Abraham still has faith.

He still believes in God and has strong faith.

God's not going to take the promise away from Abraham and he judges Pharaoh for it.

And then it gets so bad that Pharaoh has an armed escort for Abraham.

To get out of it.

What I'm trying to communicate, doing a poor job in, but trying to tell you is God sometimes will take your circumstance where it looks like you've done something wrong or you're not doing it the best that you can.

And it doesn't mean that God still won't bless you, because he still blessed Abraham even though Abraham didn't handle it the best possible way.

And God will still bless you and I, not because we deserve it, but because he's God.

We didn't deserve Jesus.

We were enemies with God when Jesus came into the picture.

And he still, while we were enemies, blessed us with the sacrificial redemption of Jesus Christ.

If that's how God initially breaches into.

Our universe, by giving us Jesus when we're on the wrong side of things, then doesn't that passage come into play in Romans 8:32, when he says, if he gave us Jesus, how will he not, along with giving us Jesus, also.

Give us all things?

Romans 8:32.

He who did not spare his own.

Son, but delivered him up for us.

All, how shall he not, with him also freely give us all things?

You get blessed by the Lord, not.

Because you deserve it, but because of who he is.

And that takes faith to stand in that.

And that faith makes God smile.

It pleases him.

No, it's not a perfect walk on our end, but he is perfect as God on his end.

And we should just be thankful and grateful and appreciative that he takes our.

Mess and brings a miracle out of the mess.

That's how much he loves you.

He's not going to let it go.

He's not going to let you go, ever.

Get it?

Now that, that is a beautiful lesson.

Thank you for your grace and your mercy.

Lord God Almighty, King of the universe.

All right, folks, you've been listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on Kaam 770, the truth station here in Texas.

22 and a half hour break, then we'll come back.

More insanity with Spoonanity.

Talk to you then.

It may be false, but it feels the same.

So I punish myself.

I go down to the jail of my soul.

Stop that boy.

Don't let him know.

Stop that boy.

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