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Genesis chapter 20 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 20, let us pray. Our Father, God of all creation,
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  Lord Jesus Christ, Yahweh, everlasting Hashem, I don't I
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  Early on, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the God of the
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  universe, the God of all matter, the God of everything seen and
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  unseen. God, we lay ourselves prostate
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  before you. Lord, we are asking for you to
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  envelope us, God, for you to completely ravage us, God to
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  indwell us. Fill us today, Holy Spirit, I
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  pray you give us the mind of Christ to day.
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  Let us see this world all around us the way that you do.
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  God, break our hearts for what breaks yours.
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  Give us the depths and the heights of your emotions and
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  your intellect, God, and your reasoning, Lord, and the things
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  that you've planned for this life.
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  God, I pray for all prophecy to come to fruition.
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  Lord, I pray that we'll see the Spirit and the bride crying out
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  God day and night saying come, Lord, come, Yeshua, come,
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  Maranatha, come. Yes, Father, we love you.
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  Lord, we press towards Zion, we press towards Jerusalem, we
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  press towards your holy place. Father, I pray that Jesus Christ
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  will come and take up residence. Lord, I pray that all the
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  nations around the globe will flow into Jerusalem, Lord, and
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  then we will all see our Savior seated, Lord, in the Millennial
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  temple. God, I pray that you'll continue
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  to fuel us, God. Purge us, Father, from all the
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  draws. Lord, continue to allow us to
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  live out your purposes and plans for such a time as this for
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  right now. God, we pray for righteous
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  judges and righteous leaders. God, to rise up in this hour.
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  Lord, I pray against the apostasy of the church.
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  God, the gates of hell will not prevail against the church.
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  And so, God, we stand upon the chief cornerstone, the solid
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  rock of Yeshua. We stand upon your eternal words
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  spoken long ago, God, that are reverberating even today in the
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  rafters. Lord, I pray that we'll continue
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  to meditate upon your face. Meditate upon your ways.
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  God, I pray that you'll continue to help us to know that you're
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  near, that you're fighting our battles, that God, you are our
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  everything. Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
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  today, and forever and ever. God, we get out of our own way,
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  we get out of our own intellect. God, we get out of our own
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  feelings and emotions and reasoning.
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  God and we laid down all of our own preconceived notions of how
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  this life should go. God, we let go of fear and
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  timidity. God, we let go of self
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  righteousness. God, we let go of all of our
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  religious vanity. God, we let go of all of our
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  filthy rags. Lord, and we take up the cross.
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  We lock eyes with you. Find us in the harvest.
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  God, for you are holy, You are worthy.
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  You're the only one who is deserving of all of our worship.
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  Well, we give you adoration. We give you all of ourselves,
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  every single molecule, every breath, every cell, God
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  pulsating towards you. You are life, you are breath,
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  and you are the reason that we live.
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  So God, I pray you come and get your glory.
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  God, come and teach us your eternal past.
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  Lord, raise up leaders unto yourself.
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  God, I pray for generational blessings upon this house.
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  God, I pray you'll form a protection, a hedge of
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  protection. God, send the angelic host, God,
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  to protect this house. God, I pray for family.
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  God, I pray for marriages. Lord, I pray for the sanctity of
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  life. Father, I pray that you'll
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  continue, Lord, to propel us into greater measures of who you
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  are. We love you, we love you.
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  King of Kings and Lord of the Lords, we love you.
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  It's spirit to Santa, we love you.
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  I deny we love you, Elohim, and it's in your holy and precious
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  and powerful name, Jesus Christ, that I pray.
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And Abraham journeyed from there toward the S country and dwelled
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  between Kedestian sure and sojourned and Garrard.
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  So here we're going to see Abraham's lapse of judgement,
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  his reasoning come to a faulty ledge where he falls off into
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  self protection and moralism. And he's trying to explain away
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  the things of God and he's trying to protect his own skin.
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  Verse 2 and Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, she's my sister
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  and Abimelech king of Garar sent and took Sarah.
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  So here look at how this timeline, this divine timeline
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  has been playing out. God appeared to Abraham told him
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  that in one year space he was going to have a child.
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  Abraham tried to say, yes, let it be so with Ishmael, and he
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  said, no, it'll be your own child.
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  And then the three visitors come, and they announced to him
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  that he's going to have a child in nine months from that time.
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  And that is whenever he went and saw the destruction of Sodom and
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  Gomorrah and perhaps the burning sulfur and all of the smoke
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  rising from that place drove him away from where he was dwelling
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  and into Garrar. And look at how this would have
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  been in the three months time span before Isaac was within the
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  womb of Sarah. This would have been in the in
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  the one to three month period, right before the nine month
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  period. And so here you can see that
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  this timeline fits dynamically into the storyline.
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  And how in the world did Abraham think it was OK to lie about the
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  very one that would house the ancestor of the Messiah, the
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  lineage that Jesus Christ would be born into?
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  And this Abimelech, he made a grave error by taking this most
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  wonderfully protected, divinely anointed woman who is about to
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  have a miraculous birth. And at 90 years old, she is, it
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  is impossible physically for her to be able to have this child.
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  And perhaps they had heard all of it.
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  They had spoken with God and with Jesus, the Christophany
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  there in the land. And then somehow in some way, in
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  the same ways that we do, we forget the promises of God and
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  we start operating within our own senses.
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  And it is ridiculous when you look back with the 2020 eye view
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  and you see how incredibly incompetent we are of ever
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  living up to the standards that God sets forth.
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  And thank God for the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  Thank God for faith. Thank God for grace.
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  Thank God for covenant blessings of God upon His people.
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  Thank God for election, and thank God for predestination.
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  Thank God that He chose us, friends, and He is driving us
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  and He is actually leading us into greater measures of
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  Himself. He's the one who is allowing us
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  to draw a very next breath. Verse 3 But God came to
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  Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are
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  but a dead man for the woman which you have taken.
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  She's a man's wife. So not only is she a man's wife,
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  but she's actually housing the seed that the Messiah would come
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  through the seed of promise. Verse 4.
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  But Abimelech had not come near her, and he said, Lord, will you
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  slay also a righteous nation? So look at how God can deal with
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  the Pagan leader. Look at how God can intervene
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  even within the Pagan constructs.
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  God is unlimited. He can break in anywhere that he
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  pleases. He's not limited friends.
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  Verse 5 said he not unto me. She's my sister, and she even
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  she herself said he's my brother.
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  In the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I
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  done this. So look at how Abimelech, he's
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  speaking with God in terms of righteousness.
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  He's done nothing wrong. And he's saying, look, I have
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  practice integrity. I've not laid with this woman.
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  God forgive us. 6 And God said to him in a dream, yeah, I know
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  that you did this in the integrity of your heart, for I
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  also withheld you from sinning against me.
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  Therefore I suffered you not to touch her.
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  God divinely protected Sarah during this time. 7 Now
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  therefore restore the man, his wife, for he's a prophet, and he
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  shall pray for you, and you shall live.
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  And if you restore her, not know that you, you shall surely die.
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  You and all that is yours. So here God is dealing with
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  Abimelech, and he's telling him that he still thinks of Abraham
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  as a prophet. And somehow, someway, the one
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  that is done wrong is supposed to pray for the one that is done
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  right. And look at how you can see the
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  way that God moves and operates. He is unlike anything in our
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  imagination. Look at how God's promises
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  prevent veil even within the failures of His elect.
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  What an amazing and beautiful thought, friends.
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  And here Abimelech is speaking with the one true living God.
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  There is no other God outside of the God of Abraham.
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  And look at how God still deals with Abraham with favor.
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  And he's telling Abimelech, let her go, or you will suffer. 8
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  Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and he called
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  all his servants and told all the things in their ears.
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  And the men were so afraid. They were trying to figure out
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  why they were experiencing the barrenness in the land.
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  They were trying to figure out why there was a heavy hand upon
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  them. And Abimelech found out in a
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  dream through the one true living God, the God of Abraham,
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  why he was experiencing all of the things that were happening
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  in the land. And now his men are so, so
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  afraid of the one true, living God. 9 And Abimelech called
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  Abraham, and said to him, What? What have you done to us?
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  And what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and
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  on my Kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds unto me that
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  ought not to be done. Look at how Abraham's being
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  rebuked by a Pagan leader. And this is what happens,
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  friends, even those of us in the Christian walk, in the Christian
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  life, when we don't live up to the way that God would have us
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  to live our lives in front of those that are lost.
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  Even the lost will correct us along the way and tell us that
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  we are not acting in accordance to what we say that we believe.
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  And this is the principles of God.
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  He brings us back, friends. He brings us back to the
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  Father's house when we're out wallowing in the pig pen. 10 An
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  Abimelech son said unto Abraham, What you see, in doing this
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  thing that you have done, he says, What are you aiming at
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  telling me that she's your sister, when she's really your
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  wife and you serve the one true living God?
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  Abraham? 11 And Abraham said, Because I
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  thought, surely the fear of God's not in this place, and
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  they will slay me for my wife's sake.
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  So here he adds insult to injury.
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  Friends here, Abimelech's trying to rebuke him.
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  And what does Abraham do? He goes even further down the
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  spiral, and he turns it around, and he blames it on Abimelech in
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  his wicked Kingdom. 12 And yet indeed she is my sister.
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  She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of
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  my mother, and she became my wife.
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  And now he's trying to go even further down the sin cycle,
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  friends. He's throwing it on her that she
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  actually is his sister, that he didn't lie.
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  And you can tell that even a half truth is a full lie.
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  Friends. 13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander
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  from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is your
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  kindness which you shall show to me at every place we shall come
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  say of me, He's my brother. Now he's throwing it off on God,
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  he's thrown it off on Abimelech, he's thrown it off on Sarah.
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  Now he's throwing it off on God, and saying, God has caused me to
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  wander, and that is why I have to behave in this way.
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  And he has taken no responsibility.
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  And thank God that the covenant promises are not dependent upon
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  human intellect and human behavior.
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  And all of your righteousness is filthy rags before a holy God,
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  friend. 14 And Abimelech took sheep and ox and men servants,
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  and women servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored
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  him Sarah's wife. So here Abimelech tries to make
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  it right. He tries not only to give him
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  back his wife, but he also gives him back some riches in payment
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  for the time that she has spent away from him. 15 And Abimelech
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  said, Behold, my land is before you, dwell where it pleases you.
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  What kindness this Pagan king is shown to the father of faith. 16
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  And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I've given your brother 1000
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  pieces of silver. Behold, he is to you a covering
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  of the eyes, and to all that are with you, and with all other.
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  Thus she was reproved. So here with a sense of irony,
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  Abimelech goes to Sarah and says Here, Behold your brother that
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  she told me about, He does not refer to Abraham as her husband.
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  And this was tongue in cheek. 17 So Abraham prayed to God, and
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  God healed Abimelech, his wife, his maid, servants, and they
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  bore children. So you can see the problem that
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  was happening in the land was the Baroness and Abraham needed
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  to pray for Abimelech. And you can see the synergy of
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  God working amongst Abraham and he is covering over his mistakes
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  and still using him mightily to do the work of God in the land.
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  We'll end on 18. For the Lord had fast closed up
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  the wombs of the House of Abimelech because of Sarah,
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  Abraham's wife. So look at how even with age,
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  even with promise, even with being on the cusp of a mighty
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  act of God, we can still have failure, friends.
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  And you can see that humanity is flawed, but God's promises will
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  prevail even in our deprivation. What an amazing promise that
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  God's purposes are not contingent upon our behavior.
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  What an amazing promise, friends, that God can break in
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  anywhere that he pleases, and he can even use a Pagan king like
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  he did with Pharaoh and like he did here with Abimelech to get
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  us back on track. I love God, I hope you do, and I
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  hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. We can see that age doesn't
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  automatically sanctify us, that we have to continue to stay in
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  the vein. Get in the river and don't get
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  out. Stay in the flow of the Holy
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  Spirit within your life and allow Him to take you deeper.
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  Allow Him to allow you to send to new heights of His love and
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  His mercy and His grace. And He will continue to reveal
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  more and more and more facets of who He is.
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  But if you operate in spiritual pride and superiority, the
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  little bit that you have will be taken from you.
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  Stay rooted and grounded in God's Word.
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  Never get out of it. Stay in it for the rest of your
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  life and you will see the rewards at the end.
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  You will see the sanctification at the end.
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  But if you think that you know enough to get by and you step
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  out, the very moment that you try to use, the very moment that
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  you try to teach, the very moment that you try to operate
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  within what you think you know, you will find frustration when
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  you leave the fold. Friends, that is the reality of
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  the God that we serve. Stay in it.
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  Do not leave it. Don't use it for selfish vanity
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  and self gain. God is not to be put in a box.
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  God is not to be used for profit.
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  He is the God who is the great. I am the only uncreated who
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  spoke it all into existence. Worship him, creation.
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  He is worthy of it. Stay blessed up.
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  I love you, God loves you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow.