All right, let's do a study I want to do tonight that I hope will be a blessing for all of us because when you get in on salvation, we got in for a whole lot more than we could ever think or bargain for. And so turn with me to Exodus chapter three. And this is a great chapter where we know that Moses encounters God at the burning bush. And when he's in the midst of the encounter, one of the first things Moses wants to know is verse 13, and Moses said unto God, behold, when I come unto the children of Israel and shall say unto them, the God of your fathers hath sent me unto you, they shall say to me, what is his name? What shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I am that I am. And he said, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am hath sent me unto you. God said moreover unto Moses thou shalt thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel the Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob have sent me unto you this is my name forever and this is my memorial unto all generations So God gives his name, and in this long name of his, he ends with a portion where he attaches his name to the names of three men. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. And he says in that 15th verse, this is my name forever. This is my memorial unto all generations. And what he's doing is he's linking himself up with mortals. He's linking himself up with three people. And this particular name is so precious, not only to God, but to his son, Jesus, that when he is here in the New Testament in Matthew chapter 22 and Luke chapter 20, he refers to the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. All right, so what I wanna do is I wanna take a look at that name, and I wanna look at it historically, I wanna look at it spiritually, and then really where I think it's gonna open up some thoughts that you're gonna go home with and consider for a while, I wanna look at it doctrinally, because God's got something in here. First off, historically, it's just very simply a picture of God entering into a relationship with three people whom he found to have an heart inclined toward him. And we were discussing this today and there's a verse in Ecclesiastes talks about when the tree falls, it either falls to the north or to the south. And the north would be toward heaven and the south would be toward hell. And the point is this, God wants to know which way your heart is inclined. God wants your heart to be inclined toward him and his truth in the north. That's his real desire. And for those that meet that desire, He will enter into relationship and covenant with you. And you can receive a great gift that we talked about the other night, the new birth. These men were inclined toward God. And what you go back in history, if you take a look at them and you study them, you learn some things about these men. And at the time here, I wanna try and move along quickly. You study the man Abraham, who's the first one, who's the friend. And if you go with to chapter 12 of Genesis, we'll try and do quickly. I'll try and keep it to a minimum of verses for you. But Genesis chapter 12, when the Lord God calls Abram into this land that he knows not of, and he takes him through it, it says in verse 7, and the Lord appeared unto Abram and said, unto thy seed will I give this land. And there builded he an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him. And if you begin to look at the chapters in Genesis that focus on the life of Abraham, you will find him in the 13th chapter, in other chapters, in the 22nd chapter, the great high water mark where he takes his son up there. You will find him building altars to God. This kind of became the pattern of his life. Building an altar, a place, a memorial, a consecrating place, a place where he could fall on his face and worship God. And historically Abraham becomes the man who builds altars and he's associated with worship. Now he has a couple of sons and the one is his beloved son who is Isaac and Isaac comes on the scene and turned to Genesis chapter 24 And what we learn about Isaac as we follow him through his life, he's consecrated to God as was his father. He loves the God of heaven and earth. He desires to commune with God. And in this 24th chapter, where his father sends forth someone to get him a bride, they're bringing the bride back to him. Verse 62, end of the chapter. and they're bringing the bride back, and it says, and Isaac came from the way of the well Lehi Roy, for he dwelt in the South country. And you read about him here, and then in the next chapter, in the 18th, and the 19th, and the 21st, and the 22nd, and the 32nd, and the 33rd verse, you read about this man digging wells. And he was a man that is associated with wells. And wells are a place where you get fresh water. And of course, fresh water is needed for his work as a shepherd, but fresh water is also needed for the refreshment of his soul. And we learn in the New Testament that water is a picture of the Word of God. And he was thirsting, if you will, spiritually for the word of God. And he's a man associated with water and the word. And the next one that comes along, Isaac has two boys. The first born isn't interested, but the second born is interested. And when we follow his life, this man Jacob, we find everywhere he goes, he keeps flocks and cattle. And you can read in the 29th chapter about him keeping flocks and cattle. You read in the 30th chapter about him doing that. In the 31st chapter, and he's busy taking care of cattle and sheep, and cattle and sheep. And he's a shepherd, and he's a man who is about the business of work. And so the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob historically picked a man that liked to build altars, a man that liked to dig wells, and a man that liked to do the work of a shepherd and take care of flocks and cattle, historically. Now spiritually, you see a beautiful portrait here. And it's a portrait of a Christian or the church in her mission. And the mission of a church, you say, I'm looking for a good church. Are you looking for a good church? This is the kind of church you want, the kind of church where the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob is comfortable. Where will he be comfortable? A place where the worship of the Savior is going on. A place where the Savior is exalted in worship. Very, very important. Here's the problem I've observed in Christianity since I've been in it. You know, we get saved, amen? Best thing you ever did. And then after that, we begin pursuing Christianity in a way that is pleasing and comfortable to us. And this applies to all of us because Jeremiah 17, 9 applies to all of us. Our heart is deceitful. And I wish what happened when we got saved, when God would remove the old heart and put just a new one in there. But unfortunately what he does is like puts us on bypass. And so I got my heart and I got the new heart. And they go back and forth. And it depends on what day and what mood I'm in as to which one's doing the pumping and which one is doing the directing. And when mine is doing the pumping and the directing, it's a little deceitful. And I speak now to those of you who are ministers in a pulpit. One of the mistakes I find is that we begin to look at this book only for ourself and only for the flock. And I'll hear messages, and this is sad, but one of the things I learned early on, when I was first saved, I went to one of those Rick Warren churches. Don't pick on me, I didn't know any better. I was an agnostic. I just came out and ended up in a Rick Warren church. Rick wasn't there, but one of his disciples was, and they were teaching in that manner and that method, and one of the ways that they taught was the messages were basically about a self and psychology. And so we used to hear all these messages about, you're wonderful, God loves you, you're great, you can whistle through life, I mean, and just take care of self and have a good time and enjoy it. You're okay, we're okay, everyone's okay, we're now we're saved, and go enjoy it. It was that type of a thing. They didn't preach much about the Savior. They had a lot of grace, but not truth. So finally, I learned that the King James Bible is the word of God. Then somebody told me, you know there are churches where they actually use a King James Bible. I said, really? Where? They said, well, there's one in Rochester about 60 miles away from where you live. I said to my wife, I'm going to go there. So I'm driving an hour to go to church, and they actually have a King James Bible. And they got the truth. And I love it. And they're preaching the truth. Not a lot of grace, but a lot of truth. And they also were talking about you, about how you were a rotten, no good, lousy sinner. And instead of puffing you up, they were beating you down. And that type of thing was going, but again, there wasn't a lot of the Savior there. So I said to the Lord, we've got to find a church where there's grace and truth, where they have the book and they know grace. But not only that, even that's not enough of it. We don't exalt the Savior. We don't talk about Jesus Christ. He is the beginning. He is the end. He's the alpha. He's the omega. He is the source and the continuing giver of grace. Everything we do is through him and by him and for him. The God of Abraham, Abraham worshiped. God. And we need to, when we look in this book, stop looking all the time for self, and how about looking for God? And looking for the Savior. Good for worship. Of course, Isaac was one that was at the well. He was not only at the well for himself, he was at the well for others. And what you need at a church is not only one where the Savior is exalted, but where the word is being applied in a manner that the people are being watered and the saints are being edified. And that's very important also. So you want to have the right worship where God is exalted, and you want to have the right ministry of the word where the people are built up, the edify to build, an edifice, you build something up. You want to build people up. It works kind of like this. Here's how it works. This book is our spiritual nutrition. And just like in the real world when I would, you had me here once teach on the Bible and health. And I tried to explain to you, God made these foods and in these foods he packed all the nutrients that are needed. I mean there are the necessary essential amino acids, there are the essential fatty acids, yes you need them, every cell membrane is built of fat, you need the right fatty acids. There are the essential carbohydrates for fuel, there are the essential minerals and vitamins. And they're all in there. And if you give the right amount of food, without even understanding what you're eating, you're getting fed. And what needs to be done with the Word of God, it needs to be ministered spiritually to people. Even if you don't understand it, it builds your faith. Faith is what you're going to live by. The just shall live by faith, not necessarily by understanding. There's things I read in the book, I don't get them either. As a preacher, I have to preach passages I don't fully understand sometimes. I say, look, I don't get all of this. Let's get what we can. Let me minister this entire meal to you. There may be some vitamins in here none of us get, but we're gonna get them spiritually so God can build our faith. So you need the worship like Abraham had, but you also need the word ministered so that you can be built up. Very important. And then the last thing we see, of course, is we see Jacob, who's a man that kept the flocks, he kept the cattle, and he went about work. He went about the work. Now, he went about the work of the ministry. There were rings and speckled and all kinds of cattle out there, but he didn't Pay no attention to them. He took care of them. The work of the ministry then is we go, Abraham is the upward look. Isaac is the inward look. Jacob is the outward look. We gotta go out. We gotta reach these people. The work of the ministry predominantly is out there. Those folks are lost. We saw the numbers yesterday. It's a pretty safe bet. A safe bet, you meet someone, he's lost. So the work of the ministry is us very carefully with grace and gently shining our light, the light of the Word of God to make sure they get an opportunity to intermeddle with the Word of God so they can make a personal decision. The work of the ministry, very important. So we understand historically, we understand spiritually. And I got that for many years. And it makes for good preaching and good teaching. And a good preacher could turn this into an hour message. I'm not a good preacher. But, I'm a terrible preacher, I can think. So I started thinking and then the Lord showed me, but there's more to this as to why I chose these three names. And what happened to me is over the years I began to observe myself and other Christians. And I began to observe that we're really not close to what God wants us to be. I began to hear the lament of Christians, and I hear it all the time, and you may have lamented the same way. You know, I just wish I could get closer to God. I just wish that I could really worship God. I'd love an encounter with God and worship with God. And I started filing these things away and thinking about them and wondering, what are we missing? What's wrong? And then people began to teach me about the plan of the ages and what God has in store for us in the future. And I began reading about the New Jerusalem. And I started to get this longing for the New Jerusalem. My wife, she longs for the millennium. I long for the New Jerusalem. She likes the flowers and the thought of the millennium and the summer and the low humidity and no bugs and all the perennials and all the annuals blooming. She likes that concept. Me, you know, I'd like to pave everything over in concrete and brick. So I'm longing for the New Jerusalem, and I'm thinking, I don't want to go through the Millennium. Just skip that thing. Can't we just skip over to the New Jerusalem? Folks, the New Jerusalem is really going to be terrific. I mean, you got your mansion, you got no taxes, you're at ease. I mean, I like that. The Millennium's going to be work. I've read about it. I don't want to go through that. I want to go to the New Jerusalem. And so I was, I don't want to go through it. Nonetheless. So I began thinking about this and then the Lord said, it's the three names, son. It's the three names. The three names doctrinally are a picture. He is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob. And it's a plan as to what he is going to perfect in you as to what he's begun. And he is going to take you through those three stages backwards. He's going to do it from the ground up. And here's how it works. So now I'm not going to be so preachy. It's going to be kind of ad-lib talking to you and thinking through this so you can take it back. The study of the name begins to give you the clues. Let me give you the name. Go to Genesis 25 verse 27. And the boys grew, this is Jacob and Esau. And Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field, and Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents. And Jacob is a plain man dwelling in tents. I just gotta stop for one second. This is an aside, so I'm gonna go to the side burner while I keep this on the front burner. You know, the King James Bible is God's Bible. One of the reasons you know is because James is the English equivalent of the word Jacob. Jacob gets all the promises of Abraham and Isaac. And Jacob becomes James. And notice, Jacob was a plain man. You know the root of the word English is a combination of two words? The Hebrew word ish. You know what that word means? It means man. And the Hebrew letters for Engel mean plain. So Jacob, James was a plain man, was English. That's a portrait right there of how the King James Bible gonna be in English. It's hidden in there. It's just a little thing. Get back to the message. Yeah. Anyways, back to the message. Here is the point. Jacob is a plain man dwelling in tents. Tents. Tents is a picture of 2nd Corinthians chapter 5. I understand historically, but spiritually, it's a picture of 2nd Corinthians chapter 5, verse 1, for we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, our earthly house of this tabernacle, he's speaking of his body, the tabernacle was a tent. Jacob, the Jacobian life, is a picture of God doing the work in your life, in this present world, in this tent, to get you to do the work of the ministry. Jacob was associated with work. God wants to get the work of the ministry done. Your Jacobian life, God's got three lives he's gonna work with you on. This life, this is your mortal life, this is your decade-long experience, okay? Some people, four decades, some five, some six, some seven, get real lucky, maybe eight or nine decades, and that's it. And in this tent, what God wants to do is get the work of the ministry done with you. That's his real desire. Now is the time. Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation. There's going to come a time where the rapture's going to occur and nobody else can be part of the Bride of Christ. Do you understand that? After that, you can't be part of the Bride of Christ. That's it. When the rapture happens, the door is shut. That's it. The church is completed. The only hope anyone has for being part of the Bride of Christ is right here, right now. God wants in this tent to work the Jacobian experience with you to take make you a worker to go after those ring and Speckled and spotted sheep out there and get them and learn get them to learn the truth. That's your Jacobian existence Then the next one is Isaac now his very name as the preacher told you the other night is is to laugh and and I was looking at some verses that come together here, and this might take a little running in the Bible for you, but it would be Genesis chapter 21 and verse 6. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. And then later on when the boys grown that's that's his name that's given to him or when he's born now in Luke chapter 6 it tells in in two verses particularly verse 21 we'll catch up with you took God a while to teach this to me so forgive me if I'm slow teaching it to you but it's something for you to go home and think about and Jesus lifted up his eyes to the disciples and he said, blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh. And then in the great Psalm, we know Psalm 126, where it talks about going forth bearing precious seed and weeping, we bring in our sheaves with rejoicing. And in that very Psalm 126 in verse two, it says, then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing. And the Isaac experience is the millennium. And the Isaac experience is God's gonna work a second work with you. Now this is real important and it's why God isn't up. It's why when John was on the Isle of Patmos and he got a vision. and he saw a vision of the Ancient of Days in his glorified, you know, full manifestation. He wasn't sitting there biting his nails because the truth of the matter is if God, if I were God and I had to look down at Christianity for the last 2,000 years and the majority of Christians who haven't served at all and haven't done anything and haven't done any of the work of the ministry, I'd be biting my nails and instead of having white hair, I'd be bald. But God was very cool and calm watching all the disobedience going on in his children And the Jacobian experience, why? Because now comes the Isaac experience, which is the millennium. And in the millennium, it's not decades long, it's centuries long. And in the millennium, what he's going to do is he's going to get an opportunity during the millennium to teach you not only to hear the Word, but to do the Word. The Lord is not going to be short-circuited by disobedient Christians. And by the way, this is why the millennium is so important, because I'll just quickly kick it to the third level, which is Abraham is worship. That's what the new Jerusalem is about. And one of the reasons when I kept asking the Lord, I said, why do we have to go through the millennium? He said, because son, you're not ready to go in front of my father. And if we're honest with ourselves, none of us is ready to go before the Father. You know, you see that scene in Revelation 4 where the real worship occurs in heaven up in the New Jerusalem. And you see that scene and those folks are down on their face going, holy, holy, holy. And if I'm honest with myself, I don't know if I've had five seconds of that experience in my life. Even in the best church services, my mind drifts. Sometimes my stomach grumbles. Things happen, even I don't quite get it spiritually and mentally, and that's why I need the millennial experience where Jesus Christ, for 1,000 years, I'll take you some verses. Go to Isaiah 54. Isaiah 54. Sing, O barren, that it's not barren. Break forth into singing. And here it is, thy maker is thine husband, and the Lord of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole earth shall he be called. And here he is, and here's what he says in verse 13. And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord. And the millennial experience is finally the opportunity for God to collect all of his kids, who in this past century have been in a lot of churches with false Bibles, under a lot of goofy teaching, have no concept what the word of God is. If you query, I remember I was at a pastor's conference when I was first saved, Rick Warren type church, and those pastors didn't even know the 12 minor prophets. Matter of fact, one of them, queried the other one and said, well, I found this in the book of Hezekiah. And the other guy said, well, I'll look that up when I get home tonight. There is no book of Hezekiah. But that pastor didn't know that. Now, I'm not doubting his salvation. You don't need to know the Bible or even which Bible to be saved. You need to know Jesus Christ. The King James Bible, although God uses it to save you, that's not what saves you. It's Jesus Christ that saves you. And so there's a lot of confused people, and this book is too precious to God. You say, well, I'm going to have the mind of Christ when you get raptured. Yeah, sure. You're going to have the mind of Christ like he did as a child, and you're going to have to grow in wisdom for a thousand years, and everyone's going to be taught of God. And a thousand years just about lines up with a thousand chapters, and he's getting an opportunity to teach you. And when you're done with a thousand years under the teaching of Jesus Christ, you will know this book to such a manner that he says, now I can present you to my father. Time for the Abraham experience. Now you're ready to worship properly, because now you know this book. Now this word is such a part of you. So that's what the millennium is here for. It's Jesus' opportunity to get a second chance with all of us. See, that's what the book of Jonah is about. Jonah, you remember that story about that guy? Go to Nineveh, Jonah. I'm not going to Nineveh. I don't want to go to Nineveh. I want to go to the local bar. I want, you know, whatever. I'm not going to Nineveh, not me. So what does God do with him in chapter two? He kills him. He kills him. But then he resurrects him. And when he resurrects him, now he's resurrected. Now what am I going to do? Go to Nineveh. What do you think disobedient Christians are going to happen to them when they get resurrected at the beginning of the millennium? Lord's going to say, they're going to say, Hey, Jesus, I'm with you. I'm going to be in Jerusalem. He says, yeah, you're worth. I am. You're on planet earth. But remember, I told you to go to South lions and preach. Do you remember, remember I told you to go Amherst, New York. Remember I told you to preach in Toledo and you didn't want to do that before I resurrected you. Guess what you get to do now. Go, go preach. And so what's going to happen, instead of being in Jerusalem with Jesus, you're going to go back and do the assignment you skipped. Look, you can't beat God on this deal. Jesus said in Matthew 24, we started this morning, he called the millennium summer. Summer is nigh. All right. When I was a kid, we used to go to school and you had the fall semester and then you had the spring semester. And if you're a good boy, you passed and you got summer vacation. But let's say you didn't study and you failed. You know what? You went to summer school. Well, you think you're going to beat Jesus? Now, the deal with us is we go to school for nine months, we get three off. If we serve now for 20 years, we get 1,000 off. And if you don't, you get an opportunity to serve. Does this make sense? Am I making sense? Everyone's looking at me like a tree full of owls. I apologize. Maybe it's me. I could be wrong on these things. This is just the way I see it, as I think. I don't think the Lord's as dumb as we think He is. And He's going to get an opportunity to put this book into us and to let us not only hear it, but to make us do it. And when He's here, He'll be ruling with a rod of iron. You know, right now, I don't know the will of God. I don't know the will of God. Well, when He's standing in front of you, you're going to know what the will is. You'll have no doubts about it. And you're going to do what he says for a thousand years. Now I'll tell you, I think, uh, first off he's fair. And I, and I remember from reading the book of Ezekiel chapters 40 through 48, which I don't fully understand, but this much I can get out of them. The millennial set up when he gives the 30,000 square miles to the nation and he lays out the land and all that, and he's got the Holy area for the priests and here's the bridegroom and he's there. and his bride, most of his bride will be with him, some of the bride, sometimes the bride gets a spread on her, and some's gonna be spread around the world doing things, but he's gonna reestablish the Levitical law, and part of the Levitical law is called the Jubilee. And so I think what he's gonna do, if I can just train to think with him, probably what he'll do is, let's say you were a disobedient Christian, he saved you 20 years before the rapture, And you got on fire for two weeks, and then after that your girlfriend got you out of church, and you did whatever you wanted. You know, the usual things. And you got back on the motorcycle, or whatever it is, and you get away, and you don't serve for the 20 years, and then he resurrects you in the millennium. Probably what he does is he says, okay, get to work where I tell you. And then at the time of the jubilee after 49 years, he looks at your report card and then he makes a decision as to whether you're doing okay or you're not doing okay. I think he's very reasonable and 49 years is two to one and maybe it'll take two jubilees before and then he'll say, okay, your things are okay. You can come back to Jerusalem with me, but you're going to be learning and serving in the millennium. Now, another thing about the millennium, is I believe what he's going to do is restore the conditions of the garden. And my wife wanted me to put this up here for those of you that came yesterday. Can I erase it and show you something? Then I won't, okay. I do this mentally, okay. Yeah, yeah, we'll do it again. For those of you who've studied seven dispensations, and God works in seven, it's his number. The candlestick gives you a picture of the seven dispensations. I remember when I first learned about it in 96, I was thinking, and I kept thinking, it's a picture of birds in formation, in a V formation, and then I saw the candlestick, I said, no, it's the candlestick, that's what it is, dispensation one, two, three, four stands alone, on which the others hang, five, six, and seven. And innocence in the garden, and then of course you've got conscience, and then you've got the human government, then you've got the promise to Abraham, which is unconditional, and everything hangs on the promise. And then you've got the Mosaic law to Moses, then you've got the dispensation of the church, a grace for Orin, and then you finally got the millennium, And you can see how they tie together. But anyways, the one I want to look at is this one. Innocence in the garden. This is a mirror image. And so God, what he'll do is he'll restore the earth. He'll take the tip off the axis. Instead of right now, it's tipped at 23 degrees, which is the number of death. But once you straighten that thing out, any scientist will tell you, If you straighten that thing out, all the various climate areas go away, and everything becomes temperate all across the whole earth, and you don't have an arctic region. And so it'll be glorious. The whole earth will have a carrying capacity, I did the math one day, of about 170 to 200 billion people. So you can fulfill the promise in Deuteronomy chapter one, where he'll multiply the Jews times 1,000, there'll be 15 billion Jews. There'll be ministers to the nations, each one of them ministering to about 20 people, so you can do the math. And you're gonna have the whole earth filled, and he's got this whole thing, during the millennial period. But not only that, he's going to restore what human beings were like in the garden. Now, the best I can tell from the way human beings were like in the garden is a Bible. One thing I know for sure is in Genesis chapter 5, they're all living to close to a thousand years. And that's promised in Ecclesiastes and Isaiah, that he's going to restore to a thousand years. So the lifespan expands. We were talking this morning about the science as to how he's going to do that by increasing the partial pressure of oxygen, increasing the carbon dioxide. Yes, increased carbon dioxide is good to a point. Right now it's 0.039%. It'll be 0.074% like it used to be. And this is all going to help and all these things. So he increases the lifespan to 1,000. The next thing he does, is he increases our size to what we used to be. Right now we're little, but he doesn't despise a day of small things, but we used to be giants. Genesis chapter six. How big's a giant? Six cubits. That's, what's his name? Goliath. Now think about it. Adam was six cubits tall. He was innocent. If he obeyed God, he would have gone from innocent to righteous. That's why Jesus asked this question, can you add a cubit to your stature? He wasn't kidding. Six is the number of man, okay? By the way, it is. I don't know if you've ever studied biochemistry, but the key element that makes up man is carbon. Dimitri Mendeleev, when he was putting together the periodic table in the 1800s, he was a Christian, and although they only had a few elements, he said, you know what, God's the God of order, and he put that table together and left like most of it blank. He said, when the elements are found, they'll fit, and they did. And if you go through that period, it's true, this is true, and the periodic table, and element number six is carbon, and guess what? Carbon has six neutrons, six protons, six electrons. Here's the number of man. Okay, now I know the verse means more than that, but that's just a little thing to show you. Carbon is the key element that makes us up. And they were big. They were six cubits. Had he obeyed, he would have gone from innocence to righteous. God would have added a cubit to him. He'd have gone from a young man to a full-grown adult and righteous at seven cubits tall. So when we get back, we're not gonna be little dinks anymore. Our new body's gonna be bigger like it used to be. And not only that, not only did he shorten our lifespan and shorten our size, he shrunk our IQ. And neuroanatomically, only 10% of our brain gets used. So our average IQ is about 100. Do you know what IQ is? It's a term that means intelligence quotient. It's a very difficult thing to test on adults. It's best tested on younger children. Probably the age of 10 is a good time to do it. And what you do is around a 10-year-old child, what you do is you give them the work of different age children and see what they can complete and understand. And if a 10-year-old can do 10, then he's got an IQ of 10 over 10 times 100, 100. But if you can do the work of, let's say, a 15-year-old, then 15 over 10 times 100, 150 IQ. If you can do the work of a 7-year-old, then he's got an IQ of 70. And it kind of works out that our IQ average is at 100, and the standard deviation is about 14 points. By the way, they won't allow this stuff to be taught anymore in the schools, but I went to school a long time ago. I went to school in the last century, medical school. In 1974, I started. The original work done, which was done in the 50s and 60s, but now the political correct cut has thrown it out, with intelligence quotients, is they tested like various ethnic groups. And guess who the smartest ethnic group is? The Jews. Those are God's physical children, so he gives them physical gifts. And their IQ, I think the average Jewish IQ is 128. It's like two standard deviations to the right. And then the next smartest group was the Shemite Orientals, which are about 120. And then the Japhethian, that's us. We're somewhere around 100 or whatever. But they're bright. Now, but the reality is, if you've looked at this book carefully, I'm talking a King James Bible. And you've read it, and I have many times. And you've read the writings of other men who've read it and claim to understand it, and they partially do. My observation is they got maybe about 8 to 10 percent of this book down. And I'm talking, I've read the best. I mean, I'm a reader. That's what I do. And I don't hold anything against them. It's not their fault. We're just not ready. Our brain's not big enough to handle this book. And so, odds are, not only does he take the lifespan and he takes the size, he also takes the IQ and makes it higher, so that we can finally begin to study this book and understand the riches of the depth and the wisdom that God has put inside this book, all in preparation for when it's done to bring us up and say, okay, now you can meet my father. Folks, I don't think there's any chance we're gonna be meeting God the Father until this millennium is done. And you get a small picture of that in Revelation 6. What happens to souls separated from bodies? They're stuck under the altar. I mean, yeah, we're with God under the altar. You got any dead relatives who knew Christ? They're under the altar right now. They're under the altar. They're not getting up there. They're not ready. None of us are ready. I'm not ready to go up there. I need a lot of training, about a thousand years. So the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob doctrinally is a picture of how he's got to work with us through three periods of working because he does everything in threes. And this Jacobian experience is really the smallest of the experiences. And even if you mess up, like Jonah, you're going to get your second chance. You're going to be doing a little extra credit work in the millennium because you'll not only be taking classes, you can't, like a kid that goes to school and his parents can't pay for him with an inheritance, he's got to work too. You're on a work-study program and you've got to go to school and do the work where God told you to do the work for the beginning of the millennium. That's kind of the way I see it. I think I'm done. So it's just stuff to go home and think about. This thing that we got in on is a lot bigger than we think about. And there's much more to it than we think about. And make it practical. Don't beat yourself or anyone else up. Now, sometime you'll beat yourself up. Boy, I'm not worshiping enough. Boy, I'm not doing this. Boy, I don't feel close enough to God. This is your Jacobian experience. All the Lord really wants out of you. Now, don't get me wrong. He wants you to read your Bible, but you're only gonna read it like a child. You're only gonna get as much out of it as you can, and you don't need to get that much out. How much do you really need to know to go witness to someone? Let's be honest. You know what you need to know? That you got saved. All you really need is a testimony. John chapter four, and many believe because of the word of the woman. that he told her everything that happened in her life. What? Testimony's good enough for me. Your testimony's powerful. That's the work of the ministry. You get a few basic verses together. There's a little more work of the ministry. You've got tracts. Folks, we live in the era of tracts. You don't have to know any Bible. You can hand a tract out to someone, and that tract will do plenty of speaking. This is our Jacobian experience. What I don't want is the devil to put a burden on you, and he will. My observation, and I'm an observer, in my profession, The watchword for anesthesiology is vigilance. Our job was to be watchers. We had to watch everything in the operating room. The surgeon, his job was just to focus on what he was operating on. It was my job to watch everything else. I had to make sure the fluids were taken care of, the blood was taken care of, that the place was clean, that the supply, all these things I had to watch. I had to watch the heart rate, the blood pressure. That was all our job, is watch, watch, watch, watch, watch. Had to keep an eye on everything. You know, when we put people to sleep, we just don't put them to sleep. You understand that, don't you? I mean, there's levels of sleep. There's natural sleep. Then you drink a little booze, you've got a booze sleep. It's a little harder to wake the guy up, you know. You put a little Valium, that's a little more. But then you got a level called coma. That's what an anesthesiologist does. We induce coma. It's induced coma. Why is that? People don't respond well to scalpels. Even in their sleep, they don't. And surgeons don't like when patients move. So our job is to put them in a coma, so deep a coma, that when I worked and I did lots of eye surgery with eye surgeons, and they open that eye and they take that scalpel and they plunge into that eye, that person better not blink or move. That's the depth of the coma you gotta put them in. Now there is one deeper level of sleep, it's called death, and Jesus talked about that. And I used to tell the students, The families don't like it when you go that deep. You gotta know where to stop so you can bring them back. But my job was to observe. And since I've been a Christian, I've been observing. And here's an observation I've made in the last 20 years, because I've only been saved 20 years. I'm just a kid. And my observation is this. It's kind of like World War II. In World War II, when it first began, the whole world was at war. They had U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean. They had problems on the European front. They had problems on the Russian front, they got the Japanese on the Pacific, just everywhere there was battles going on. But then as the 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, by the time you get to the end of 1944, early 1945, you've got pretty much everything under control except for the Japanese islands. And now we're able to marshal all our forces against just this one little area. that's what's happening with the devil today in that when it started he was fighting everywhere but now he's wiped out just about everything that calls itself Christian and all that's left is the few of us on these little islands holding a King James Bible and he's marshaled all our forces against all his forces against us and I'm watching King James Bible churches getting battered and beaten and things happening And one of the ways he beat up on you is making you think you're not the Christian God wants you to be. And you tell him, so what? You're not the angel God wants you to be. Look. But when you have this understanding, No, when you have this understanding of the threefold work, it takes some pressure off you. All God's asking you to do now is the simplicity of going forth and giving the truth to someone else. I want to study and learn my Bible. You can to a point, but how much can a five-year-old learn about neurosurgery? I mean, we used to do tours on bring kids to work day, and little kids coming through, and I got a big Draeger anesthesia machine, they don't know what they're doing with it. I can show them a few basic things. The real teaching will be when the Lord teaches us, and when He teaches us, there won't be any more of these divisions. Well, Dr. So-and-so says this, and Dr. So-and-so says that. Well, Dr. Jesus says that, and that ends it. And not only that, our minds will be able to get it, and it's all in preparation for the final worship. Amen? Amen.