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1/4 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Maranatha Shabiba Conference 2019) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Let's play one more time as we enter into the word of God and
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  see what he has in store for us. Father.
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  Right now we choose to lift our hearts to you.
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  As we sang, You have given us new mercies this morning.
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  Lord, we ask that you would bless us with an intensification
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  with your presence. Lord, that you would take this
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  word, your word and drive it deep into our hearts Lord.
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  We pray that every man. Would disappear except Christ.
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  Jesus, Lord, that he would be seen.
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  Loved adored exalted and lifted High.
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  Take your word, Lord. As we heard yesterday.
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  And make it come. And manifest in our flesh in our
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  lives. Lord remove any confusion
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  distraction coming. And visit our hearts again.
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  We ask these things in Jesus name.
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  Amen. As we scale through the
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  scriptures, we realize that there are a number of titles
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  that God reveals to his people throughout the generations.
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  These various badges that God carries Reveal.
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  Something about both his attributes who he is and his
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  ability what he's able to do. These things are found in his
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  name alone. Nevermind in his actions.
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  And as his people, we find ourselves in prayer and worship
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  identifying and relating to God with various names.
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  Do we not? Holy an anointed one Redeemer.
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  Son of God, Son of Man, King of Kings, Lord of lords, healer,
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  great physician Prince of Peace. and we thank God for that
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  because we benefit from understanding who he is through
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  these names, his name reveals who he is, and yet They might
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  context. At least there is one title that
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  God gives of himself, that you don't really hear often.
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  It's not really said in prayer, sometimes maybe in songs, we may
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  be here it in Bible study, But it's a name of God nonetheless
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  and it's found in the book of Exodus chapter 3 verse 6.
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  It's a title that God gives himself very early in the Bible
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  at a very crucial time in Redemptive history to a very
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  important figure, amongst God's roster of servants.
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  God says in Exodus 3 Verse 6 to Moses, And he said, I am the god
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  of your father, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and
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  the god of Jacob and Moses. Hid his face for, he was afraid
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  to look at God. This is a reference that God
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  gives himself. This is a title that God of
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  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and God in his wisdom.
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  Amongst all the other things that he couldn't reveal himself
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  with he chooses to expose himself to reveal himself, To
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  Moses in this matter. I am the god of your father's
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  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And here's the question, why?
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  What is that name? Even mean, what significance
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  does that have? Well this morning I believe it
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  has three at least three significant Revelations, about
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  who God is. Number one, it reveals something
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  that we saying that God is a faithful God.
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  He's a promise keeping God. See when God chooses to reveal
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  himself this way to Moses, it was at a specific time.
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  Moses was going to be chosen to be a vessel to go and deliver
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  the people of Israel from Egypt and for hundreds of years that
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  people were what suffering under Affliction from an oppressor.
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  And it was at this moment that God chooses to use a man to
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  deliver as an extension of his grace.
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  And this is what he's saying to Moses.
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  I've made a promise. Many years ago.
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  To Abraham and I passed that promise down to Isaac.
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  And I passed that promise down to Jacob and my promise can be
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  summarized in this, I promise to make a people and I promise to
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  take that people to birth a nation and to bring them into a
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  land and to inhabit that land, that's what my promise is.
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  And though, I've said it many years ago, and though, it seems
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  like I've been silent. I've now come to manifest the
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  reality of my faithfulness. And that's why you look at verse
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  15 here, When God tells Moses again to go to the people with
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  this name in mind, he says, look, God also said to Moses say
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  this to the people. I'm not just saying this to you,
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  Moses. I'm not just telling you that I
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  am the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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  I'm telling you to go tell the entire nation that I am the god
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  of your father's, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and
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  the god of Jacob. He has sent me to you.
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  After 400 years. This is when God chooses to
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  reveal himself this way and this is how we understand what this
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  name means for us. When God Says something, he
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  means it. He is immutable.
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  He is unchanging. He's unwavering.
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  If God said it in his word, he has no intention nor does he
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  even have the ability because he's not a man that can lie to
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  change his mind on what he said. So every time I come to this
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  word, I can trust that what he said, he's going to keep who he
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  says he is. He is what he will do in the
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  future. He's gonna do now.
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  I thank God for that because just like the Israelites I can
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  be going through so much. And yet trust that he's the god
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  of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I said something before and I'm
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  going to make it happen. So guess what?
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  If Jesus said he's coming back, he's coming back.
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  If Jesus says that he's going to redeem us and bring us to a
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  place that he's preparing for us, he's going to bring us to
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  that place that he has prepared for us if he's gonna wipe out
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  everything else so that he can establish his kingdom, guess
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  what? He's going to do it.
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  Well, it seems like it's kind of quiet.
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  Seems like nothing's really happening based on that promise
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  like the Israelis hundreds of years.
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  Where's This Promise? Keeping God.
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  But just like Moses, he will show up.
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  And he will keep his word. That's true in a corporate
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  level. That's true for his program for
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  the universe and that's true for you.
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  And I as individuals God is a promise keeping God I can trust
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  in him, I can lean on him. I can take this word and know
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  that it is true forever but it doesn't just end there Jesus
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  quotes. This verse which reveals the
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  second point of what this title means about, God, I would
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  encourage you to turn to Matthew 24:32 and see what Jesus says
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  here. The context is this you had a
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  group of liberal religious, people called the Sadducees.
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  They didn't like Miracles and Supernatural stuff and believe
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  that there is a resurrection and that were angels and Spirits
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  now. No, no.
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  That's All foolishness and so in an attempt to try to trick
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  Jesus, never a good idea by the way.
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  They approached him and they try to create the scenario.
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  To try to stump him in his understanding of the
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  Resurrection. And Jesus replies in Matthew 22
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  32. He says and as for the
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  resurrection of the Dead, have you not read?
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  He's tiny Sadducees. Have you not read?
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  What was said to you by God and he quotes Exodus 36.
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  I am the god of Abraham and the god of Isaac, and the god of
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  Jacob. He is not a god of the dead, but
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  of the living. Now, Jesus is a wise teacher,
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  and a wise, evangelist, the Sadducees did not believe in any
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  other books, except for the first five, books of the Bible.
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  Jesus could have quoted a lot of books, a lot of verses, from the
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  prophets to prove the resurrection, but he knew that
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  they did not hold to Daniel, They did not hold to Isaiah
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  only, the first five books. So, Jesus in his wisdom quotes
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  from Exodus and proves the resurrection from The Exodus.
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  but I love this, he says Have you not read?
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  What was said to you? Now if we can put up, Mark
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  12:26, this is the same story told in a different way with
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  different wording and see what Jesus says in Mark 12 26.
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  And it's very important because it tells us something about the
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  power of the word of God. He says, and as for the dead
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  being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses in the
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  passage about the Bush? How God spoke to him?
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  Saying the same thing. So in Matthew he says, listen
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  have you not read? What was said to you?
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  In Mark. He says, have you not read?
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  What was said to him? Now we read Exodus, we realized
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  that that Revelation that God gave was for Moses, it wasn't to
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  the Sadducees that such as didn't even come to existence
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  for hundreds. I mean hundreds of years but yet
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  Jesus says, have you not read? What was said to you?
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  You know what that tells me about the Bible.
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  You know what that tells me about the stories that we read,
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  you know, what it tells us about everything that's in Scripture
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  that even though he said it to another person, even though he
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  said, another time he had us in mind.
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  He had us in mind, he wants to speak to you.
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  And to me through Leviticus, he wants to speak to you to me, as
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  he spoke to Moses and spoke to Samuel, and spoke to Jeremiah.
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  He wants to speak to us when he speaks to them.
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  Everything in the word of God has intended for us as well.
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  It's not just a historical thing that we study Lord.
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  What are you saying to me? And so when he says, have you
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  not read? What was said to you, that God
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  is the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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  I'm not just saying that to Moses.
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  I'm saying it to Maranatha 2019 to every single person in this
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  place. So now I got to know what that
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  means and in the context here, Jesus quotes this title, to
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  prove something about God's power.
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  He says it reads the really carefully.
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  I am present tense the god of Abraham not.
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  I was I am right now. To say that Abraham, Isaac and
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  Jacob, their bodies might be dead, but their Spirits are
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  alive and they're with me. They're with me because I'm not
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  the god of the dead, I'm the god of the living, their bodies are
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  waiting to be resurrected, but they are with me right now.
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  because that is the reality of our existence that when we
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  escaped these bodies, we will be in the presence of God or in the
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  place where God is Not and he's saying this to prove the
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  resurrection, but this title means something for us that if
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  you raised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he's going to raise me.
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  That if they are in the presence of God when they gave their last
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  breath, I will be in the presence of God when I give my
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  last breath and you read in the Book of Matthew.
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  Even earlier, he talks about two, destinations for two groups
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  of people, and he says, people from the East and the west north
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  and south, they will come and they will be gathered.
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  And they will be in the Kingdom of Heaven doing what sitting at
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  a table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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  Imagine what that's going to be like part of Heaven is going to
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  be sitting down with these guys. Part of the experience of
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  glories that the Bible studies that we have.
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  And even the session right now we're going to be able to hear
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  about the faithfulness of God from Abraham's own lives.
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  We're going to be able to talk about the goodness of God from
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  Isaac's on mouth. We're going to hear about God's
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  perseverance and his patience with us through Jacob.
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  I'm not the god of the Dead on the god of the living.
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  And he quotes that title to say life is coming to you.
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  Life doesn't end here. Life's not finished here.
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  There's a place where you're going to come.
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  There's a place where I'm going to take you to, where you will
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  be in my presence forever. Lastly, I think this is very
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  important and this is the main point of the whole conference.
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  The whole conference is going to be centered around the god of
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  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But here's the last point, he is
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  the god who works in and through different people As glorious as
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  these truths are that, God is the promise, keeping God that
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  God is the resurrector. If there's still some other
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  component to this title, that is more relational than we think.
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  He is the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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  And God chooses to identify himself with each of them.
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  You know, Abraham, Isaac. And Jacob could have taken up
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  three verses 44 versus pops. To say and Abraham begat, Isaac,
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  Isaac, begat, Jacob, and the seed passed down.
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  It could have just been a genealogy thing.
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  But you know what? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob take
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  up most of the Book of Genesis Why?
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  And what we see there is that God walks with them and got
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  talks with them and God leads them, and God promise, and God
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  disciplines, and God test them individually.
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  Because forgot to say, I'm the god of Abraham, Isaac, and
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  Jacob, God is The God Who says, I'm personal.
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  I'm not just the God for Christians.
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  I'm not just a god of the Bible. I'm your God.
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  I'm your friend. I'm your protector.
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  I'm Your Leader. I'm your sanctifier.
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  And so, we understand something about the personality of God.
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  We understand something about the relationship that he longs
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  to have with us as individuals. And as much as these men have
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  something in common, they are very much different.
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  Think about Abraham. Abraham had a father named Tara
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  Abraham grew up in a place called earlier the Chaldeans.
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  And Abraham perhaps we didn't realize this was not a man that
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  was faithful to the Living. God, all his life.
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  He lived in a pagan land and Abraham who we call.
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  The father of Faith was actually a worshipper of false gods.
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  That is Not Mere opinion. That is not speculation here.
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  This verse when Joshua preaches to his people, look what he says
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  about Abraham and Joshua 24:2, just listen.
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  It says in Joshua said to all the people thus says the Lord
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  the god of Israel long ago, your father's live, beyond the
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  Euphrates Tara, the father of Abraham, and of nahor, and they
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  served other gods. So we have this understand that
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  Abraham just pops on the scene and God calls him, because he
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  was faithful know when God found Abraham, when Abraham lived,
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  most of his life. It was actually and idolatry.
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  Living for and worshipping other deities.
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  Other than the true and living God.
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  And we understand from Genesis 12, that God calls this man,
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  clearly at the age of 75. He not only caused him but he
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  uses them in a mighty and glorious way.
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  And here's how we understand something about Abraham.
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  God, being the god of Abraham tells me this tells us this that
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  if you've lived most of your life, most of your existence for
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  yourself in your sin worshipping, even false god
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  including yourself God is able to redeem you, God is able to
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  renew you and God is able to empower you.
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  For the rest of your life. And God can flip the script no
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  matter how long you live to the human, I like Abraham.
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  You might have wasted your existence for the most part but
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  when I hear that God is the god of Abraham.
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  What I hear is that God is a God that can redeem anybody because
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  it's never too late and not just redeem that but have a plan for
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  them. For the rest of their lives.
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  God is the god of the one who can save you.
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  Even if you're dying in your body, Is that you?
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  You feel like you've wasted most of your teenage years.
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  Do you feel like you've wasted your high school years, you're
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  wasting your college Years? Do you feel like, now, you are
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  just Awakening to the reality. Oh yeah, life is beyond the gods
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  that I've created in my life. The things that I've pursued and
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  worshipped God tells us through this title that he could save,
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  you redeem, you renew, you restore, you and do things
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  through you that you never thought you can imagine.
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  If he did it for Abraham, you can do it for you.
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  But it's not just the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac.
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  And that's different because the god of Isaac concerning.
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  Isaac is much different than Abraham.
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  Isaac didn't grow up in a pagan land.
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  Isaac isn't one that we hear that was worshipping false gods.
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  Isaac was somebody that grew up in a household of faith Shirley
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  Isaac heard the stories from his father, Abraham.
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  From his mother, Sarah the faithfulness of God.
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  Surely Isaac. When he came to that epic scene
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  in Genesis 22, when he was willing to lay down his own
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  life, on the altar, realize the intervention of God and even
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  himself. Got a glimpse of a gospel when
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  God provided a substitute for his own life.
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  He heard it. He seen it.
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  He smelted. He was in that environment.
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  His whole life. Isaac in our context is the kid
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  that grew up in the Christian home.
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  He's the one since birth new about truth.
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  But he's also the god of Isaac, you realize that, right?
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  Because you read Isaac's life and you realize that Isaac
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  experiences something of the goodness of God that God still
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  calls Isaac even though Isaac was so familiar with God, that
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  Isaac didn't have this radical shift this, this transformation
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  that he lived for idols and he lived in a pagan land, God calls
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  him out of that land to an unknown.
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  And no Isaac, just grew up in it.
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  Yeah. God still says I'm going to
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  expose and reveal my goodness to you my Mercy, to you, my plans
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  for you and through you. I still have a plan for The
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  Isaacs. The Isaacs are not outside of my
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  ability and my willingness in my wanting to show myself strong to
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  them. He's the god of God of Isaac,
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  which tells me something. Listen.
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  If you probably majority of the place in this place, grew up in
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  a Christian home with faithful parents.
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  You might think that there is no plan, there might be no
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  testimony. There might be no ability to
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  relate to God. I mean, I've heard it over and
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  over again. I haven't experienced God's love
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  like that drug dealer. Did or that gang member did?
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  I haven't experienced the goodness of God, because I
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  didn't experience Darkness or I wasn't so filthy and sent to
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  know the Redemptive power of his blood and so they get bored.
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  And they just kind of cruise through life normally, but
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  brothers and sisters realize, he's also the god of Isaac.
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  And he shows himself to Isaac and he reveals himself to us.
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  He speaks to Isaac the same way, he spoke to Abraham, and Jacob.
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  So, you and I must never believe that.
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  Just because I might have grown up in the certain context that I
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  cannot know, God, the same way Abraham did, or Jacob did.
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  But he's also the god of Jacob. Jacob is interesting.
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  Because Jacob, like Isaac grew up in that Household of Faith.
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  He had believing parents. I mean, Isaac knew the goodness
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  of God. He had his wife in a miraculous
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  fashion. He seen God bless him abundantly
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  even right after he came out of backsliding, Genesis 26.
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  But Jacob was different than Isaac in this.
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  That we are introduced to him in a very negative light.
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  Then when Jacob steps on the scene with his brother, Esau,
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  both of them. Are incomplete rebellion and
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  contradiction to what their conviction should have.
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  Been. So how are we introduced to
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  Jacob? Well, he lives up to his name.
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  He's a trickster. He's a deceiver.
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  He's a liar, he's a manipulator. And he eventually has to leave
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  home because of his own sin and he's found in a Wilderness and
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  he's found really in a mess for a good portion of his life.
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  And Jacob speaks something about the one who grew up in a house
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  where he's heard the Bible stories.
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  He's went to Sunday school. He fell asleep in the youth
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  meetings. He was dragged to conferences.
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  And when he wanted to have his way, he would try to have his
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  way. It was all about the flash.
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  It was all about mine, the name. Jacob, as we're going to find
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  out this, not just mean deceiver.
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  It means he'll grab her. You know what Jacob was.
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  He was a grabber. I want this.
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  This is mine. I want that.
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  That is mine. I want Her.
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  She's Mine. I want the blessing.
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  It's mine. I grab.
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  I grab. I grab.
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  It's about me. It's not about giving it's not
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  about dying to self is not about extending though it's about how
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  much can I gather in for myself? That's Jacob.
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  And a lot of people in Christian households live just like that.
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  I want to live for me, never mind the glory of God. yet God,
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  Is the god of Jacobs. So as much as Jacob, try to do
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  it, his own way. You see God chasing after Jacob.
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  And as much as Jacob lived. To really bring shame to the
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  name. God says, you know, Jacob as
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  much as you think that you're going to do this your own way
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  and you think that you've messed up to a degree, where it's
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  unredeemable? I'm going to Seoul radically
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  shift you. I'm in a sobre que Jacob, I'm
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  going to so reveal myself to you that.
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  I will literally physically change the way you walk.
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  For the rest of his life, he would limp as a testimony of how
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  God can change Jacobs into Israel's.
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  And so, you have people. Unfortunately, Christian parents
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  that approach and say my son is not living.
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  According to how we taught him. My daughter is not living.
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  According to way, we've raised her up.
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  They're Grabbers, they're living for self.
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  They have their own Ambitions. They have their own Pursuits.
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  And yet, here's a message of hope.
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  He's the god of Jacobs. So what do we understand when
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  God says, I am the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, the
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  god of Jacob. This is what we understand.
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  Whether you've lived most of your life herself living in
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  idolatry living in sin. God can save you, change, you,
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  and use you, whether you grew up in a household of faith, you
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  don't have this radical story. And you feel as though you need
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  that to know God in a special way, he's the god of Isaac's and
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  he wants to speak to you and reveal himself to you just like
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  the Abraham. Or whether you're like Jacob.
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  You hear it, you know, it you understand it.
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  You just haven't had an encounter with God yet.
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  God is the god of Jacob, and he is so patient.
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  So loving so forgiving, and he is so jealous for his glory.
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  Do you know that he wants to use you in a way that it will
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  display his manifest love? It's amazing.
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  How God says, I am the god of Jacob even after his name is
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  changed to Israel, he still chooses to identify himself with
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  Jacob. As much as these men were
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  different. And that's the point of this
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  conference. We're going to explore in
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  different sessions, these men and how God dealt with them
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  differently. What principles they offer us
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  through their lives. God has a commentary about all
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  three men. It is astounding.
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  What he says about these three men in the New Testament It's
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  actually shattering how God actually comments on their
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  lives. This is one to really highlight
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  that's in Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11.
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  Verse 16. Now when you understand the
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  context you realize that he just finished speaking about Abraham,
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  Isaac and Jacob And he says this in verse 16.
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  He says, but as it is, they Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they
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  desire a better country. That is a Heavenly one.
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  Now, listen to what God says about them.
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  Please pay attention to this. Therefore, God is not ashamed to
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  be called their God. For, he has prepared for them a
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  city. God is not ashamed to be called
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  their God. now, I look at that verse and I say praise God but I
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  look at that verse also and I say, oh God, Because for God to
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  be able to say, I'm not ashamed to be called their God implies
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  that he can be ashamed to be called.
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  Someone's God. I don't want to be one where God
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  says, mmm. Yeah, he calls me Lord.
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  Yeah, he says I'm God. Oh, but Abraham all.
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  I miss God. I'm his Lord.
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  I'm his master. Well, what about him?
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  Yeah, I don't know how this works, really?
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  I'm trying to fit this into my own theology, but I understand
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  from The Book of Proverbs that even an Earthly father, if
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  you've read Proverbs carefully, there are many instructions
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  given for a son, not to bring shame to their father, for their
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  daughter. Not to bring reproach to her
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  mother. Here's the reality.
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  If we are all believers in this place, we are all children of
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  God. We are all adopted.
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  We Are All in the Family by the grace and the Lord of ours
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  saving sold. He is the one that can redeem us
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  and bring us to that place. Yes by his finished work but We
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  have to understand that even in an Earthly setting in a familiar
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  setting that children relate to their parents differently and
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  parents relate to their children differently.
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  So when it says about these three men that he's not ashamed
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  to be called their God, my question is why what did Abraham
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  Isaac? And Jacob have forgot to say,
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  I'm their God. And I will declare and he
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  declared it through his word. Was it because of their spotless
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  lies? Was it because of their
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  consistent faithfulness? Was it because of their absence
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  of failure? Because I read Abraham, Isaac
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  and Jacob. And guess what?
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  I see failure. Moments where they stepped out
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  of faith more than once. I mean you hear the audible
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  voice of God, the audible voice of God and your select.
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  Yeah. Hey God still says, I'm not a
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  shame. I mean, what was it, was it
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  their gifting was at their abilities.
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  What was it for God to say? My heart is stirred towards
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  these meant to say, I'm their God.
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  It's right there in the verse. It says here, but as it is, they
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  desire. So wasn't even necessarily about
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  what they did is about what they had in their hearts.
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  All this is powerful Listen to this God's Delight in his heart
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  listen God's Delight in his heart towards these men was
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  provoked by the desire in their hearts.
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  What move God's heart to the light in these men was when he
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  Zoom past through the failure. He Zoom pass through the moral
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  failure. He all these things, all these
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  mistakes, all these hiccups, he Zoom past all of that and he
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  looks into the hearts and he saw something in each of them, they
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  desire. What do they desire?
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  A better country? What they lived for.
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  What provoked them, the Throne of their affections.
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  Their Throne of their Ambitions with something Beyond this life.
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  It was nothing of this world, it was nothing that was found here
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  even when they were called to live in a place where they don't
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  even know really down deep inside.
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  They wanted something Beyond they wanted the Abode of God,
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  they wanted to be in his presence, they wanted to be
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  where he was, they wanted something that was otherworldly
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  and this move God's heart to say though.
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  You see these distractions and though you see the land, and
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  though you've been blessed with many flocks and let em all these
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  things. Peace with your enemies, you
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  still have a desire. Other than these things.
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  And so, I'm not ashamed to be called your God.
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  So for me to move into that favor for me to move into that
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  position with God, where he can look at me, says I'm not ashamed
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  to be called as God, in 2019 is all found and what I truly want
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  in this life. What do I want?
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  What's really in my desires? I mean, listen, if we just open
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  your heart even this morning and we look inside and see, what are
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  your Joys and what are your Pursuits and what really brings
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  Glee to you? What would it be?
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  Is it? Well this and that.
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  Well listen what's at stake? Here is the smile of God.
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  What's at stake? Here, is God being able to look
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  over you and be able to, I Love The Book of Job because Satan
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  doesn't introduce job to God. God introduces job to Satan,
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  just have you seen him? He's blessed, he's rich, but he
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  fears me. Yeah.
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  But because he loves the stuff that you give him touch his
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  stuff. Let me up the anti touch his
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  body. And watch.
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  And I think I mean you read in Isaiah even where Abraham is
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  referred to as a friend of God. All of that.
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  Is found in the central truth. Found in Hebrews 11 16, they
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  desired. A better country.
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  Because it speaks about their desire for him.
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  And that's why David was a man after God's heart.
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  He failed, he royally messed up, no pun intended.
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  He got, it can still identify him that way.
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  And then you look at Saul who messed up not to the degree that
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  David that in my opinion and God says, get rid of him.
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  Why? Desire.
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  Saul wanted position, David wanted presents.
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  It's all about desire. And as we walk in that desire
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  and we fall and we fail, there's no shame.
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  And my whole life, I've heard of understand and never be ashamed
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  of God. Don't ever be ashamed of the
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  Gospel, don't ever be ashamed of the truth of the scriptures, but
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  I have very rarely heard that concept of God.
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  Not being a shitting me. Oh, thank God.
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  That positionally in Christ. We Are All Sons and Daughters.
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  Thank God for that. But practically relationally
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  experientially Lord. Look into my heart.
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  Do you see what you want to see? Lord.
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  Look past my failures. Forgive me look past my
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  inconsistencies, look past my fault.
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  Look past, the thoughts that come in and crash sometimes
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  against this one thing I have Lord and see all of it through
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  this lens. I desire you about everything.
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  I desire a better country. I'm not bound to this world.
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  I'm, I'm a soldier and I live in tenza.
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  I'm not I'm not stuck here. Lord, I need you.
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  I want you. And God can look down and say I
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  found one, I'm not ashamed to call his God.
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  I want that more than anything. I want that commentary of my
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  life more than anything. Forget anything else?
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  Forget the praise of, man. Forget the titles.
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  Forget the forget it for God to say hi.
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  That desire that he has in his heart.
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  Moves my heart. This is one in whom I can say, I
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  miss God. I'm his Lord, I'm his master, we
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  should be able to unassuming Lisa, he's my God, he's my Lord,
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  he's my master, we should Proclaim that from the rooftops,
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  but for God, to save from heaven, Down on the Earth.
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  Say, that's my son. That's my daughter.
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  Look at the desire in her heart. Look at all the things that come
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  their way. Look at all the other Christians
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  distracted with money. And all this otherworldly stuff,
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  but him, I'm is God. Just going to end it there.
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  Because I think that's enough for us to be able to say, Lord
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  do something in me. When you and I hear that God is
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  the god of Abraham. Isaac.
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  And Jacob. What we hear is this, he's the
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  promise keeper. If he said it, he means it.
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  He is the resurrector the same way that they are right now in
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  the presence of God and their bodies are awaiting to be
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  glorified. So you and I have hope to
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  realize that when we pass from this life, to the next, we will
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  fellowship with these men. And we will be able to hear from
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  their own mouths. Over some dinner, how good God
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  is. But we also hear this, he is a
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  god that is relational and he works in each and every single
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  one of us and no matter where we come from.
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  No matter what. We've grown up in no matter
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  what, we've made his mistakes, God is still able to do
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  something in and through us. And ultimately, they all have
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  this. One thing in common though, they
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  were all unique. I'm not ashamed to be called
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  their God because they have a desire.
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  For my presence. My kingdom, my will That's what
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  God wants to be able to say about all of us.
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  I think God it's not about performance.
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  I thank God that he doesn't keep record of my wrong.
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  I thank God that his smile is not based necessarily.
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  On this or that, but he looks deep inside.
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  And he sees the desire. And that moves his heart.
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  Can we see him this morning and thank you for such a wonderful?
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  God, we are praying to, in a moment, the god of Abraham,
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  Isaac, and Jacob. Let's pray, just meditate on
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  these truths before we do so corporately.
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  Lord, we recognize you this morning as the god of Abraham,
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  Isaac, and Jacob. With thank you that your
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  personal. That you want to walk with each
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  of us. You want to talk to each of us.
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  You want to reveal yourself uniquely and individually Teach
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  of us. Lord, we pray that.
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  If there are any people in here, that might be any one of those,
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  they can relate to any one of those people that you would make
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  yourself known. Now they can see that, no matter
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  where I am right now, God is still willing to relate to me.
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  The father even now we pray for this corporate desire that you
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  would be able to save this place over each person.
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  I'm not ashamed. To be called their God.
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  Because they desire. Better country.
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  Lord, you call us to set our minds on the things above.
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  You call us to set our affections on you Above All
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  Things. So right now we pray that you
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  would do that work in each heart.
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  That every heart would be able to confidently display, the
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  desire for greater things in you.
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  And that would be the very thing that moves your heart towards
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  us. But we praise you, we worship
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  you invited this title that you've given to us.
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  In Jesus name, amen.