Through the Great times and the Hard times God provides for all our needs. Just maybe not in the way we expect. God is faithful in his promises.
“Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.” So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together. Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” So he said, “Here I am.” And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.” Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”” (Genesis 22:1–18, NKJV)
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Ever now Right
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I was really sad this morning I actually um I have not been able to find my Bible my like bible that I’ve had for like 20 years And uh but God really put something in my heart He said he said is it is it that book or is it my words Is it my words that matter
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And I was like you’re right you’re right I I I was upset about something that’s that’s sometimes we we do that where we we focus on something This is not what I’m teaching about today but just something God put in my heart It’s the words and in the word that are the most important So um I love if you want to follow along with me in the word if you don’t know words we’re gonna be in Genesis chapter 22 Uh for those that don’t know me I am the youth pastor here at Live Springs
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Me and my wife and family have been here over about 2.5 years I have been blessed and honored to be able to serve the youth Um They’re an incredible group if you haven’t got to meet them I appreciate them Yesterday We went and I went with the boys and we yelled and screamed a lot from a little horse today I was like oh I I’ll be fine tomorrow and I still had a ball with them and
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they’re an incredible blessing to me and and my wife and it’s been an absolute honor to serve them And I feel honored to be here before you today Let’s pray and we’re going to get into the word
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Lord
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You are great Lord And on this day where we celebrate your holy spirit falling Lord as we look at the beginning of your promises Lord I just pray that you would just instill in us your spirit So we have an incredible understanding and you give each of us the thing that we need Lord that your word would provide that living water to each of our individual souls today For us as time as we are in your word in Jesus name Amen
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So again Genesis chapter 22 we’re gonna be in verse one and I’ll give you a little bit of an where we’re at in the word here We’re we’re we’re gonna be going through Abraham this morning And Abraham was given a great promise by God He was given an incredible promise that he would have a son
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and his son’s name would be Isaac and Isaac would be the pillar of of Children and Children and Children There’d be more than the stars in the sky the sand on the ocean There’d be so many Children
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and Abraham and Sarah struggled and struggled to even have a child
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But this promise was strong And then God gave them this beautiful baby boy Isaac and we pick up here after his birth And we see in chapter 22 verse one now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham Now the funny thing is is God made Abraham wait 100 years to have a child You think that would have been enough of a test in his life and the fortitude of who he was
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But God is continuing to test him
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My uncle used to be an aerospace engineer and uh we talked about this that the concept of what they would do and how they would test things And I said doesn’t it hurt when you like watch a rocket go up into space and then it just blows up like all that hard work He’s like yeah years and years of work and he worked on fuel cells So we actually built the actual fuel systems for all these different planes
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And he said yeah but in order for us to get higher in order for us to go farther in order for us to be able to have it go you know the big idea go to Mars or whatever that they wanted to do with it we had to make it explode At some point we had to test testing led to the further it allowed it to go farther
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without testing There would never be us getting out of the atmosphere We would have never got there Sometimes we look at testing in our life and we look at this trial that God’s gonna put on Abraham and boy is it a big one We look at that testing and we we think to ourselves I don’t wanna be tested Lord stop leave me alone I’ve had enough
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But God is always testing us for the further the further men of the kingdom the further men of your families he’s always testing us so that we would be ready for something incredible He’s getting Abraham ready for something incredible Testing also shows God our faithfulness
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by testing We believe if those scientists they are putting the rockets together and they’re building them And as my uncle was building the fuel cells if he didn’t believe in the guys building the rockets
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why would he put his best into the field cells If he didn’t believe that they could get where they needed to go why would you even do the work
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There has to be a belief
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that everyone has got the same motivation the same further We all want to go to the same place It’s very much like the body of Christ We are all tested at different times and different places you might be in a really good spot right now today and you be like no God’s just blessing my life Everything is great I’m just living in his his glory and kingdom the spirits upon me And then your neighbor might be like today is a terrible day I didn’t want to get out of bed I really thought about just laying there for another hour
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If you’re either side of theirs maybe in between they’re all good places to be
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one or the other is not bad God just might have you in a test You might be pushing towards something great He’s preparing you or he’s testing you for something further And so Abraham he’s getting ready to test here and he says to him Abraham
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now I love throughout the Bible You see the the men that truly believe in the promises of God their response is usually the exact same thing and this exact same sentence is uttered so many times and it’s here I am
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It’s not oh I’m not ready to wake up today or oh I got a lot going on maybe next Tuesday God we’ll we’ll talk then
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you know what This month is really packed I’m looking at my schedule My planner is very full I can’t fit you in
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No it’s here I am I’m ready
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as Christians This should be the strive of our heart Our heart should be that here I am on the day of Pentecost When the Holy Spirit came down They were all ready as one accord They were ready Praising God saying here we are we’re ready God we’ve been waiting You said you were gonna send the Holy Spirit You said you were gonna spend send something amazing We’re ready Here we are
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God does not want to give you these gifts until you What
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want them
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Oh I I you know God hasn’t blessed me with the ability to preach He hasn’t blessed me with discernment or he hasn’t given me the spirit of prayer or I’m not one of those warriors that can just pray for two hours straight
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Have you asked God for that gift Have you sought after Him and said here I am Lord please give me this gift
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God wants us to be a people that respond to Him in readiness prepared
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because we believe in His promises Abraham was promised great things and because of that promise because of His belief he knows God will provide He knows that God will fulfill the things he promised as Christians we have been promised a great many things We’ve been promised heaven One day
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we’ve been promised the fulfilling and infilling of the Holy Spirit here on earth as we seek after God Why not So that we can be something great But that God would be glorified The Holy Spirit is descending upon us and His people is so that God can be lifted up
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That is the promise God has given us when people say well I’m just looking forward to heaven That’s you know what I got left
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That’s that’s you know that’s the thing
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And I’m like well that’s kind of missing an entire promise of God You’re missing a massive promise which is that on this earth on this plane
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you are to fulfill the great commission You are to make sure that all nations go and make disciples of all not who you want it to be All that is your your the the fulfillment that you need to do The thing that God has called you to do He gives you the power
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but it’s not just waiting for heaven one day and waiting for that to come it will come
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it’ll come exactly when it’s supposed to come for you until then it is our job as believers to say here I am
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And God says to Him take now in verse two your son your only son Isaac
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Now I know the scholars in here are like wait a minute He has two sons He had Ishmael yes but Ishmael was not what God had called him to Ishmael was of the flesh Ishmael was not the promise God had made to Abraham It was a carnal thought process of God’s promises It was not God’s promise is Isaiah
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He was the promised son Isaac was the promised son
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not Ishmael and God reminded Him no the promise I made to you was about Sarah your wife and that she would have this son and he would be the promised one And so he reminds him your only son Isaac whom you love
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I’ve looked OK And I’m pretty positive on this and the scholars afterwards you can get me on this if I’m wrong This is the first mention of love in the Bible
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It is the actual first time the word love I went through several different versions and it’s the first time it pops up which is really interesting It’s not about a wife right I I I it’s it’s about the love of a father to a son It’s really interesting The first time God references love is in a father son relationship We’re gonna get back to why That’s super important in a moment He says your son whom you love
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and go to the land of Mariah and offer him there as a burnt offering One of the mountains on which I shall tell you He’s like go I’m gonna tell you the mountain you just need to go So Abraham rose early in the morning saddled his donkey took the two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and he split the wood for the burnt offering and a rose and went to the place in which God had told him
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Now for the English majors in here that was a lot of ans in one sentence Come on you you might have thought about it
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This is actually a Hebrew aspect of telling a story It’s purposeful It’s not bad grammar It actually is an intent The intent is that it is one action
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And what I mean is is that everything he does So I’m gonna read it one more time It’s one action There’s not a thought of doubt in Abraham’s head He is one full swoop going through this motion There’s no stopping There’s no oh what is the other thing I have to do No he does it all at once And so the writer writes it in a way that you understand that this is one action Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with him
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and he and he split the wood for the birds offering and a rose and went to the place which God had told him one action
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Uh I used to be a wrestler I played basketball and wrestled when I was growing up My dad was an absolute world class wrestler an incredible wrestler He understood how to teach how to wrestling
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and and like uh and we’re collegian wrestling particularly little Greco I did but mostly Collegian wrestling But my dad taught me from a young man how to handle myself and how to wrestle And you know he’d always joke you gotta learn how to wrestle just like Jacob did with God And it was important that he I understood how to defend myself but my dad taught me well how to wrestle But I remember my sophomore year and I was going into a wrestling match against a guy that was highly rated
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and my dad my coach was on the mat with me and he looked me in the eyes and he’s like son this is the match where your tenaciousness you’re never giving up you’re always moving is going to pay off He’s like this is the moment you are not better than him
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but you’re not gonna stop and he will quit
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He’s like just fight and sure enough 2nd 1st period he got a couple points on me I was losing second period a couple more points I was losing And then when we got to the final period my dad looked at me and he said now he’s tired You’re not
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he’s like you don’t quit
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You keep going you keep fighting no matter what And I remember it I got in there and I threw him on his back and I pinned him to the ground
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My dad got up and was like see
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it wasn’t about being better It wasn’t about being the best at anything It’s about never stopping
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My dad gave me a promise He he reminded me of who I was and who God made me It’s funny
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Oh my dad was dying He looked at me and he said son
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I want you to always remember this the way that you wrestled is the way you pursue God
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tenacious You don’t give up you keep fighting every inch
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He’s like you do that with your life
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Anything’s possible with God in you God will use you and do miracles in your life You will see great things He said I gave up but you won’t
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I I stopped but you won’t
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fight on be tenacious because you know God gave you a promise He gave you Great great hope
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I get asked a lot like man you just keep going and you keep moving and I just you’re constantly doing things and I exhaust my wife a lot believe me Um because we do I mean we’re just constantly moving and going I’m with the youth group or Tuesday nights or whatever I’m doing But I I I don’t I want it to be one action
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I look at this passage where Abraham is given a promise by God God tells him what to do next and he just goes
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there’s no quit there’s no let up It’s just on and on and on And I could say Abraham is being tenacious He’s getting in there
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It doesn’t matter He’s going to keep fighting
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the promise that God is going to give him right now And or that I should say the mission that he gives him is horrific
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but it does not change his motivation it does not change that He knows the promises of God and what he’s going to fight for
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And then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place off Far Abraham said to his young men stay here with the donkey the lad and I will go yonder and worship and we will come back
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we go back up to verse two God asked him to sacrifice his son
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as a burnt offering Now the law really wasn’t established at this time that would come years later with Moses and and the levitical law And so it was a little wonky at best at this point But but he knew that he needed to burn a lamb or a goat or a ram And that would be his sacrifice to God And so he kind of had that that thought process But I want to remind everybody which is really important
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Two verses that I think really stand out for me in Leviticus It says for the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls For it is the blood that makes atonement for sins the blood the blood It was a key factor And then we announce of Leviticus 17 11 for the note takers in Hebrews uh 9 22
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Paul furthers this thought process and he says and according and according to the law almost all things are purified with blood and without the shedding of blood There’s no remission for sin We just took communion right And the blood the the you know the grape juice we drink represents Jesus blood shed
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Abraham knows that the bird offering that blood that he would shed was an atonement for sin And God has asked asked him not to sacrifice a lamb or a ram but he asked him to sacrifice his only son
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yet
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Abraham presses on
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He doesn’t stop He stays diligent to the task God has for him
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But when we read that passage what does he say to the young man He says stay with the donkey the lad and I will go yonder we’re gonna go and worship
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which is true
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And even more trees said we will come back
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Abraham believed God’s promise which is that no matter what his son Isaac was going to be the seed of the nations that that he knew the promise that one day the savior would come through that line and he didn’t fully understand it but he knew God’s promises and he believed it and no matter what he truly believes that his son will come back
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I can only imagine at this point from the moment he leaves to the third day he gets up there All he can think about All he can imagine is that his son is dead
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but he can’t wait for his son to come back alive again
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You can’t imagine I can’t imagine
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leading my child to their death
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with diligence
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I would think I would be
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stomping my feet like God I don’t wanna go This is not me I can’t do this
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I can’t imagine anybody having this This is great incredible faith but his faith is not that he’s gonna lose his son And I think that’s key here He’s not actually worried about losing his son
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because of the promises of God
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Imagine if we held onto the promises of God that way or no matter what gets in our way no matter what principality stands in front of us or powers of this earth And we say I don’t care because I know God made a promise to me
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Either more people will come to Christ and have salvation because what I’m doing or I’m gonna be in heaven with my God
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one way or the other
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I am going to do what God has called me to
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because I believe
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because the promises God puts before me are a guarantee God will provide
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He always dies
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He wants to provide for us And when we give everything we have to Him and to His cause and to the things that He has called upon us he will always provide
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So Abraham in verse six took the wood of the burn offering laid it on Isaac his son
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The picture here And I really want you to see this is our really first picture Not the only one of God representing Abraham And Isaac representing Jesus Christ
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It’s a picture the wood was laid on him What did they do to Jesus as he was as he was being walked they made him carry the cross
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and then they nailed into it
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The wood was laid on Isaac
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I still think in some ways it was like OK I can’t really restrain him So I’m just gonna pile the wood on top of him Like I mean I can imagine And the crazy thing is Isaac is not going anywhere How many of us in Isaac’s shoes would be like
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you know straight up bugs bunny and just out of there right Like just disappear
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We would be gone Dad’s crazy
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I can’t be here anymore I’m not doing this
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Isaac is not fighting his dad
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He’s like ok
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and he took fires hand and a knife and the two of them went together
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he made him carry the wood where up the hill up the hill But Isaac spoke to Abraham’s father and said
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and he does question my father
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here I am my son
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And he said look the fire in the wood But where is the lamb for the bird offering Where is our sacrifice Dad
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He gets it
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Isaac knows Isaac knows something is up Maybe he doesn’t know the extent of what is up but he knows something’s up
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and he kind of just said hey
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and Abraham said my son God will provide for himself The lamb for a bird offering
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I don’t know if Abraham understood how prophetic he was being
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or if he just was just talking to his son But either way
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for himself
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God will provide
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man Did God provide
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Yeah And the story he provides
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But this is a shadow of things to come
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You know when you’re watching a movie and you’re like wait I think they just tipped us off at the end of the movie Right It’s like a foreshadowing of what’s to come and they’re trying to be sly about it And you’re like oh that was a little overt I totally know the ending now
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and then you’re right at the end and you’re like I knew it see the whole time I knew what was gonna happen I told you I probably do this too much to my wife honestly But
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it’s a foreshadowing You’re seeing Jesus painted for not just them but for generations to see what was gonna come
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what God was providing what God intended
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he intended for Isaac to represent him He intended for Abra Abraham to represent God himself They could see what was to come It’s incredible how often God
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makes promises to His people fulfills those promises over and over and over again Yet his people fall away
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Yet we fall away
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when we give our heart to Jesus
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it’s about setting ourselves in a path to just continue to move to never stop
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I joke probably far too often that I’m a shark
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that God has made me a shark And I and I I I’ve like he’s put it in my mind and if you know anything about sharks they can’t stop swimming because if they stop swimming they what
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they die
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And God put in my heart
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never stop
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Uh my pastor when I was growing up one of my pastors when I was in in college uh Chuck Smith
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said to me
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I’m not gonna stop until I die
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He was in his eighties at the time and he was like no no no seriously though like I can’t like I I legitimately think if I stop teaching the word of God I will just fall over and die I think it’s the only thing preserving me at this point in my life And of course in his class we all laughed and there’s like probably about 60 kids in that class and we’re all just you know giggling and laughing about it But he was serious as all day
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and he he taught up till the day he died
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He taught on a Sunday and he died on a Tuesday
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His life was just dedicated to the gospel
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And I’ll hear you know I’m I’m too young I hear that a lot from the youth I’m too young to preach the gospel I’m too young to understand these things No you’re not
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I hear I’m too old My years are passed I you know I’m just gonna retire and go off into the sunset and you know no no that’s not what God called God didn’t say that God I don’t see the retirement clause anywhere in the Bible if you found it totally let me know about it
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God calls us to always be running always be moving always be pursuing him
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And honestly
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I don’t see a reason not to
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your joy your joy will be fulfilled in the Lord your days will be lifted up and glorified in the Lord You will not have a better existence on this planet
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without Jesus Christ in your life moving you and guiding you through everything
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I’ve done it the other way it’s not fulfilling And if you’ve done it the other way you know what I mean
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I always pray for the youth that they would never have to experience that that they would only have days and nights of seeking God and everything that their life from now until the end would just be dedicated to Christ But I’ll tell you every single one of you today you can fulfill that in your own life You do not have to stop just like Abraham You can go and and and and and
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doesn’t need you don’t need a period There just keep going right till the period drops and it’s done
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God wants you to seek Him in this way He wants you to say here I am and then follow through
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follow through with every calling that He’s given You follow through with every step
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that He has on your path
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So they went up together and they came to the place first nine which God had told them and Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood Again Isaac
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understands not running
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talk about a parent
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teaching the promises of God
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Talk about you know every time I read through this passage it’s always like and I’ve I’ve heard so many people preach and like Abraham’s great faith no doubt 100% But it rarely do you see this perspective of Isaac like
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not only does he trust his dad because he sees God in everything that his dad is doing he sees the the the man that is faithful He sees the promises of God Isaac understands God will provide
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and Isaac is ok if it’s him
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oh
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Paul said to be martyred
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was an incredible thing to lose your life For Christ
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was an incredible thing
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Isaac didn’t even know that he didn’t know the promises we have and he was ready
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dad
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go for it
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Talk about such great faith I don’t know if you know my you know for the humans in the Bible I don’t know if there’s such great faith as these two in a moment
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Two people interacting at such a high faith level In God’s promises and understanding He’ll provide in sync
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as a dad to imagine
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that moment is horrifying But to I mean how proud would you be of your child to be that faithful
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They have much faith to God that they’re willing to Just sure
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I’m ready
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Go for it Dad
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That’s incredible faith and an incredible relationship I pray one day that me and my girls they have that much faith in me as a dad
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that when I say hey you know what this is what God wants for your life And I really think you should follow it if they listen knowing that it’s coming from God and hopefully not from me I hope that they can see that and they can respond in like
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parents raise your Children to understand the promises of God
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And it’s it’s two fold not just the promises
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but that God provides in the promises Pastor Mike shared last week that he got to share with Halle about some really tough times that they went through but he had never shared with her before That’s important Why Because not only did she see it but she understands it Now there are lessons that are ingrained in us as people I watched my parents struggle in poverty at times I watched them
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rise above it through Jesus Christ I watched them have joy and love for each other no matter what happened
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Because God was providing and pushing them through that provisional state of our lives Parents teach your Children about the past Show them how God provided for you Not just today but how you got Maybe it’s how you own your house Now I was touching talking with the mother of one of the youth And she said to me I don’t think he appreciates our house I don’t think he appreciates what we do for him
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And I said well have you told him how you got your house Have you told him how you got the house that got you the house Have you told them how you got the house that got you to the house that got you the house because they’re like four houses down And she’s like no
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I was like do you believe God blessed you with all this She’s like absolutely I said why haven’t you shared that with them
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It is our responsibility as parents to teach them about the promises and the provision of God
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Why is the Old Testament so important I really believe it’s so that we understand people’s lives and how they were given an opportunity to follow God how they fell how they succeeded but more than anything how God made promises to them and then kept those promises He told Samson that he would destroy the Philistines through him
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But Samson did everything wrong everything wrong The man is like a key building block of how to fail even though God’s giving you power
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yet
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God still put him in a moment where he could still use the power of God and crush the walls and the whole building comes down on them It definitely was not God’s plan for Samson’s life I can tell you that
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but God will still use us through our failures and His promises will be kept regardless of you I can tell you that
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He will provide regardless of the mistakes you make regardless of your trip falls regardless of you Not saying here I am He will still provide and sharing those stories to the next generation
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are incredibly important There’s a reason right now they’re trying to get rid of the past They’re trying to eradicate the past They’re trying to eradicate the Bible because it teaches of the promises of God and it teaches what happens Our founding fathers on Memorial Day they fought and it we we really celebrate all the men that fought for us but we’re celebrating all those days
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deaths and those deaths were so that we as a nation could celebrate God freely could worship God freely That’s why we left We didn’t have war after war after war so that we could you know celebrate sexuality We we did it so that we could celebrate the freedom to worship God That’s why we did it That’s why we left England
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It’s about freedom to worship Jesus
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and we’ve squandered that by not teaching about it by not sharing about it by not instilling it In this next generation God has put a call on my life to instill that in the next generation It is my calling that He has given to my heart Sometimes you adults get to experience it as well
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but it is the calling God has given my life because they are so important to our future parents teach them
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God will provide
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he will use you to build up that generation All is not lost as long as we have hope in Jesus Christ
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And we know we know God won already
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We know the ending
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All is not lost And if you came in here today and I I sense at least one of you did and you feel lost today your hope is in Jesus Stop looking at the world stop looking at the situations of your life Fix your eyes on Jesus Christ put your eyes on Him He’s made a promise to die and he fulfilled that he made a promise that he would rise again and he fulfilled that Focus on that
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all is one
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not lost It’s one now It’s just our responsibility like Paul revere to ride on our horses and tell everybody he has risen
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He’s risen
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It’s important And we see here then it came to the place which God had told them and he builds the altar
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and Abraham stretched out his his hand in verse 10 And he took the knife to slay his son
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to fulfill what God had asked of his life He said God I’m here and now he’s at the exact moment he is ready to kill his only son that he loved Isaac
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But the angel of Lord called to him from heaven and said Abraham Abraham
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I love again Here I am
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probably more enthusiastic than the first time I can imagine He’s like oh here I am Here I am Lord Yes
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Right That reaction is probably very different than the first time
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Bit of relief Probably
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hoping God’s gonna say what he wants him to say right now
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didn’t mean he’s not ready
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but maybe relieved
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And God said do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him for now I know that you fear God
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since you have not withheld your son your only son from me
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you are willing to give everything you are willing to sacrifice everything
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you don’t need to do it
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I will do it
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As he said to his son earlier God will provide for himself or God will provide himself There’s a lot of people that believe that four was kind of added to make better context in the English And some of the Hebrew God will provide himself
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himself a sacrifice
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and that he intended to do
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And then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked and there behind him was a ram a mill caught in the thicket by its horns So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for the burn offering instead of his son
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Yes In the moment God provided a sacrifice very specific
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But this was really about God revealing some deep prophecy to us all It was about Him telling the Children of Israel for generations that we told this story 1,001,000 times
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I will always provide the sacrifice I’m not gonna make you sacrifice your Children That is what the false gods do They make you sacrifice your Children
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If you don’t believe the gender dysphoria stuff going on in our our climate is not false God worship You haven’t read the Bible well enough because it is they are sacrificing our Children to false gods They’re manipulating them into believing false things about themselves and about this world
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And they’re trying to rip the promises of God from them Every young lady that is manipulated into removing who she is and who God created her is having life stolen from her
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She is no longer able to bear Children and to be able to do one of God’s greatest commandments is
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go for the multiply
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A promise is stolen from a young woman When this happens
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a young man not being able to be a father and raise and rear Children on the way they ought to be raised in Christ
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He’s stealing the leaders the strong men from among our Children It’s purposeful
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It’s satanic it is not of God
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we have to recognize this and we have to call it out when we see it
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I can’t promise the next 10 15 20 years are going to be just amazing They might get really bad
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I don’t know
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Definitely not a fortune teller
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Definitely not seeing visions of the future
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but I could tell you God won already
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If you if you read the book of judges it’s like this the whole book just up and down God saving them then betraying God God saving them then betraying God They just keep forgetting and forgetting and forgetting
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We could be on either of those slopes Who knows This could be a time where we’re just as a nation walking away from God and we could have a great revival We have an incredible revival and I truly in my heart believe that’s what God’s doing
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And this could be the worst It gets it could get a bit worse and it might but it is your responsibility to stand up to God’s call It is your responsibility to receive the power of the Holy Spirit by crying out for it Here I am Lord
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on Pentecost today If you have not had that call in your life of the Holy Spirit and you have not cried out to God for it Today is the day if you want his power and you want to change this world for him cry out Lord Here I am It’s that simple God doesn’t need some eloquent speech from you Here I am You don’t need the right words ever
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Here I am Lord I want your power
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I want who you are
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Abraham called the name of the place the Lord will provide
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and the amount of the Lord it shall be provided
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as Christians as those that believe in Jesus Christ you will be provided for
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Will it be the way you want to be provided for Probably not you probably have a complete I know I have my entire life Don’t fully understand it most of the time But
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you know what God always provides
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somehow some way
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I have such great faith now that He does
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in John 1 29 John the baptist
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looked out and saw Jesus walking and he said
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Jesus coming to him He said behold the lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world
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Provision
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the ultimate provision God will provide Jesus God will provide the Holy Spirit
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It’s all you need
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These two simple things in your life will be the things you need to have provision in your life
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I pray that we would be like Abraham and in everything God gives us we would say this is the thing Lord provided this car is the thing Lord the Lord provided this house
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this church
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these walls
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I don’t know how many of you do this I I a lot of times when I’m sitting in the pew and I’m listening to the message and I look up at the ceilings Uh They’re just incredible It’s it’s really it’s striking And when you’re in here a lot it’s kind of easy to forget how beautiful
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God gave the men the handiwork to build it God provided the wood and the knowledge and the lumber to build something so incredible
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This place is called God will provide
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He’s always provided You might worry what if what if we don’t have enough We will God will provide
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stop worrying about God providing allow Him to provide in your life Allow Him to give those things to you Allow Him to give you the spirit allow Him to give it financially Allow it to put you in a position where you can foster your Children in that manner Allow God to provide trust in the promises of God and He will make everything around you The Lord will provide
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you have to trust and believe that fully in your heart
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Finishing here Then the angel of the Lord called Abraham a second time out of heaven and said by myself I have sworn says the Lord because you have done this thing and not withheld your only son in a blessing I will bless you
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and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven as the sand in which the sea shore and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies
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in all your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed my voice
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Works are not required for salvation
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but works
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are the outpouring of your just over joy and abundance of the provision of God
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You can’t stop
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You just you can’t because you just wanna give back you you like there’s nothing I could do
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when I when I when people say oh you’re doing so much like you know like it’s OK you don’t have to do And I’m like I just got to do more I got to I don’t know how but I want to do more because I can’t ever do enough
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I can’t I can’t do enough for what he’s done for me It’ll never fell it will always fell in comparison for his sacrifice It’ll always fell in comparison to God’s sacrifice of his son Him sitting up there and saying OK now it’s time for the proverbial knife to go through my son I give up my son I instead of Abraham my son watching him die on the cross watching him bleed for us
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I can’t ever make that up My works mean nothing compared to his incredible sacrifice His provision I only do it because I have to because I I just am compelled to say here I am
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I love him so much I just want him to know that I’ll do anything and everything it takes
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God has changed me
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so radically
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he’s provided for me So radically in my life
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that I can’t help
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but do everything I can to run after him
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He’s so good
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My life is better in every single way My relationship with my wife
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is incredible because of the love of my Lord
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Seeing her burn with passion for God is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever experienced
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Her desire to worship to serve the young ladies
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I cannot be filled with more joy than these things that God has provided me
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I am telling you my story today
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So that just like I’m saying you should tell your kids I’m telling you God made promises to me as a young fifth grader He said to me
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let no one despise your youth
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go go
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And though I failed a lot
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I won’t again I will sit on the promises of God I’m gonna sin we all sin But I’m not going to stop
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I’m not gonna stop loving him and running after him and giving him everything He made a promise to me and he has kept it He’s kept every single one He said I promise you I’ll give you the love of your life as a romantic My mom will tell you
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He gave me the love of my life even though I balked at it even though I pushed at it I tried to push it away He provided
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I always wanted beautiful Children and I always wanted them to love the Lord
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Gosh my little Claire
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You know where you know
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she loves Jesus with this little she’s with this neighbor that wants to play with her all the time And he came over yesterday and he knocks on the door and she’s like oh my gosh Hi Hi Hi Hi You know and they’re sitting playing and he’s telling her about this book he’s reading and she’s like oh
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oh let me show you a book I have So she runs inside and I’m like what is she grabbing And I really had no idea She comes out with her Bible
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Have you read this before And he’s like no
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she’s like let me teach you about Jesus And I sat on my porch
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and my daughter read this young man the story of Jesus Christ
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this little Bible and he sat there for
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10 minutes and I didn’t want to interrupt I just
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I just sat you know I’m I’m ok Thank you bless you
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I
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there’s just there’s just no joy
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The king surpassed that God provided that
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he made promises and he provided
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If you’re not walking with him right now
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walk with him it’ll be beautiful
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He’s gonna give you things that just blow your mind You’ll never thought was possible Walk in him serve him
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give him everything and he will keep his promises to you And honestly he’ll provide let’s pray
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Lord
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Thank you for being the one that supplies the provision always and forever Lord you said why would you doubt that we would be fed because you feed the birds
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Look they don’t starve
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whether it be the simple things in our life or the the incredibly hard things Lord you want to provide for us Your people
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bring on the provision Lord bring it Lord we cry out to you Here we are as one accord Here we are Lord Please provide provide the opportunity to serve provide the opportunity to witness provide the opportunity to fill your house to create more houses to you Lord To
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create more places of worship Lord fulfill cause an overflowing of your holy spirit today to come on the people that we would praise you that we would worship you and that we would be your Children forever Lord thank you father for such amazing gifts We love you our precious precious savior Jesus Amen
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Thank you so much I just I appreciate all of you and your love and support and everything that I’m doing And I just pray that you have a blessed day today Tell the stories to your families Praise Jesus Have a good one
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Oh yes Uh If you need prayer I’d like everybody that wants to come in The pastors want to come up and prayer team to come up And if you need prayer we’d love to pray with you today From the smallest thing to the biggest thing healing Holy Spirit He found my bible
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Where was it
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God will provide I’ve had this Bible since I was I wanna say my mom and dad got it for me when I was like 13 or 14 and I’m 40 So just
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oh no it is
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Oh no Every page is oh no it’s not It’s it’s a disheveled bible and I can’t give it up So there you go Uh But anyways if you need prayer come up