this is a big one does god change his mind well god doesn't change his mind just out of
the blue and just wake him say ah i think i'm not going to bless them anymore and
just destroy them no you change god's mind that's how it happens the people change god's mind
god had determined number one spoken it to abraham to start with they are going to bondage 400 years
he told abraham the children of israel i will bring them out establish them in their own land
moses is carrying the people three and a half million jews out from egypt
they're a miserable bunch god says to moses come up here moses has to climb an entire mountain
to get to god i don't know how many days it took him but he climbed
got to god and god said to him get down because the people that you brought out of of egypt
have done such and such and such and now i'm going to kill them okay he's changed his mind
moses stands you for him and says okay god let me just explain something to you
your enemy is going to say he couldn't do it
okay and by the way god these are your people and he and he give he intercedes
and says to god you cannot do this and he actually said to moses get out of my way because moses had
the promise the point i'm trying to make is god at that point the people had caused him to change his
mind although he didn't moses got him to stop so there you already see within god's nature that he
he has feelings he's moved by faith he's he's he doesn't like unbelief he's it puts him off
i can go on and on and on but people say well you prophesied
that something would happen at a certain time and it didn't happen
now circumstances can change the situation the reason i'm saying this is because
god has to hasten or slow down because of time and space and because of people's decisions
god said to joshua he said the amalekites came and they attacked the poorest and
the weakest of people as israel was traveling through wasted their time
because they attacked the stragglers the people that were behind the weak ones therefore i will
destroy the amalekites write this down put it in the book of remembrance i will totally annihilate
and wipe out the amalekites i'm not going to do today but i'm going to wipe them out for doing
what they did by slowing the people down remember god has said to abraham 400 years so god has to
deal with people with their own world the rebellion attacks from the amalekites slowing
the children of israel down moses is on the mountain aaron's holding up his arm while he
holds up his arm if they win when um his arm gets tied his arms get tied they start losing
the battle did god plan that no so god has to adjust things because he put man in time and space
and relies on man to obey him to walk by faith to do what he tells them to do and where they don't
it adjusts the schedule so the children of israel he had to hasten all of them and but he said am i
going to waste my time now joshua and moses by by destroying their malachods i'll do it one day but
write it down in the book of remembrance so i can remember many years later hundreds of years later
god chooses a king his name is saul saul is a benjamite lost his father's uh stock and
he's trying to find it he's in trouble his father's donkeys are lost and he says let's
go to the prophet prophet samuel samuel will tell us what to do about our father's donkeys
guest samuel gives him an offering samuel says i want you to have dinner with me tonight
i'm going to speak to you because you have been chosen as the king of israel
saul says no no no no i'm a vengeance least family cannot accept this thank you
very much now samuel lester set him on a course to convince him tells him that he's going to go
on the way he's going to meet some people going to give him bread give him wine he's going to
go to the holy of god see the fullest he's there and everything and he tells him that
that's going to convince you to become the king now we see a little bit of time problem here
now let's remember something god has a schedule within time and space people disobey people decide
no i'm not going to do it jonah i want you to go to nineveh there's a timeline here boy he says no
lord sorry i'm on a boat i'm going the opposite way what does god have to do now well god should
just kill him just kill him no god says chase is after him there's tumultuous things that happen
there's a storm eventually john is thrown into the to see this huge whale for whatever it was
swallows him spits it think about this for a minute all of this because jonah just decided
i don't want to do this now god has to adjust and work in so that it's in his schedule okay
so things change they don't happen exactly at the time that he wants it to even though he predicted
that now speak to a man about intentions let's get back to saul saul samuel says to saul by the way
i've chosen you for one thing you are going to destroy and utterly wipe out the amalekites
guess what you're going to fulfill what i told joshua guess what saul does samuel tells him god
says wipe out everything livestock kings children wives the whole lot for what they did to my people
guess what happens everybody's expecting saul to do it saul doesn't he keeps the best
of of of the malachites spares them spares the king spares the livestock spit and and sam against
he says what's going on he said well i i kept them and i you know and wanted to offer them to the
lord and here we have a problem their malachites were not wiped out there's a prophetic word i'm
giving you today that did not come to pass because at the end of saul's life he's in a battlefield
he's dying on the battlefield david is waiting one side to hear what's happened
he's protected to jonathan and saul he's his beloved friend jonathan who he covenanted with
he was worried about king saul and a man comes to tell him guess what i did the job saul is dead and
david is so upset he weeps cries and then he comes and washes his face says okay what happened
he said i'd i took his life because he wanted me to do and he says david says who are you he says
i am an amalekite the very thing that saul spared killed him and took his life but the
point i'm trying to make is this god told joshua i'm going to like them wipe them out he didn't
he did not because of soul disobedience so and the thing that you need to understand is
that god's intentions are not always his actions simply because of people they will their desires
get in their way i could tell you so much more about god changing his mind
but i'm gonna prove it to you out of the bible and maybe it'll stop people's
calling people false prophets as quickly as they do when you understand that god has to
work in a timetable and they're people that he's got to deal with for him to get it done
in first samuel chapter chapter 2 it's about the pro the priest eli and the priest eli
has a situation where he's lost control he is the high priest that's been chosen since the time
of aaron and god had given them a promise that their family would carry the priesthood forever
listen to this eli has sons who are out of control
eli is overweight i'm not saying that's wrong but he has completely lost his desires his inspiration
to do what is right to do his job as a priest so a prophet comes to him and says to
eli who has been promised that he is family aaron's family they would carry the priesthood
forever or until you know christ comes this is what the prophet says to him did i not clearly
reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in egypt in pharaoh's house does not did
i not choose him out of all the tribes of israel to be my priest this is this is aaron and his sons
to offer upon my altar to burn incense to where and he fought before me and did not give to the
house of your father all the offerings of the children of israel made by fire
why did you kick it my sacrifice and my offering please hear that why did you kick at my sacrifice
and my offering which i have commanded in my dwelling place and honor your sons more than me
i have all teaching on how the sons kicked at the offering they caused people to hate the offering
and make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of israel
now please look at this and don't ever say again unless you know that that purpose that person that
is a prophet is willfully trying to lead you away from the lord god of israel that's what
a false prophet is don't say it again unless you understand verse 30 of first samuel chapter 2 this
is what the prophet tells samuel of eli therefore the lord god of israel says i said indeed in other
words god says i did say that your house and the house of your father would walk before me forever
but now the lord says far be it from me i've changed my mind for those who honor me i will
honor and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed he says now i will raise up for myself
a faithful priest you shall do according to what is in my heart my mind and i will build him a sure
house and he will walk before me as my anointed forever guess what it's there in your bible if
you believe it the bible says he changed his mind eli and his sons and his house changed god's mind
now i could go on and on and on remember something when the lord says i'm going to do some it is in
his intention i'll finish with this it was god's intention when he said to isaiah there was a
king by the name of hezekiah and in those days hezekiah was sick and near to death
isaiah the prophet gets a word from the lord and goes to hezekiah the king and says thus says the
lord set your house in order for you shall die and not live hey god just said that to the one
of the greatest prophets that ever existed that prophesied virgin birth emmanuel and jesus christ
tells a king you will surely die and not live so then hezekiah turns his face towards the wall
and prays to god and weeps and god goes back to isaiah when isaiah is actually leaving and
he's gone through the middle court and says return and tell isaiah the leader of my people thus says
the lord the god if you're david i've heard your prayers i've seen your tears i'll heal you on the
third day go to the hospital and i'll add to your years 15 years he changes his mind good or bad
my point is this i'm not saying that you to accommodate a false prophet
if a false if a prophet tries to direct the people away from the lord's the laws of god they are
false prophets there are some people that there are false prophets that teach that you can sin you
can do what you like there'll be no problem with you could do whatever you feel like doing because
grace will cover you to me that's people leading them away from the laws of god and the and and
they are false prophets so it's not necessarily what is predicted that makes you a false prophet
god intends let's say hannah's doing the questions today just say hannah i said to hannah you know
what i've got a spare call uh it's i've got the keys i'll give them to you in five days from now
i promise you you can have the the truck that i have that's paid off you have to pay a cent for it
i will give it you hannah knows me she knows my character based on her knowing me and
understanding and and um that i'll do it says yes and she'll tell people without having the actual
keys and the car i have received a promise that i've got a car and i've actually got it
five days comes i call hannah i said to him listen i leave a voice message i've got the
keys the car is clean it's yours hannah is at home she says you know what i'm so sick
of this i don't have anything to do i don't want to call she decides that she doesn't want the car
was i wrong no my intentions were right but i couldn't fulfill my intentions therefore my
action contradicted my intentions not because of me because of her so i intend to do something god
when he prophesies speaks says something it's his intention he'll even say it will come to
pass because he sees it as done but if the people change their mind god has to then make adjustments
to the timing look he promised the people of israel they would be in their land and they
decided to come with ten spies and say we don't believe we can take this land those ten spies
decided made a decision in god's heart and god said okay and they wondered for another 45 years
please understand that god has to work with you in order for that word to come to pass
and he can change his mind or at least you can