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Genesis chapter 17 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 17, Let us pray. Our Father, Lord of all, the
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  Lord of everything, the entire earth, everything is under your
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  full control, Lord. Everything is in complete
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  subjection to your power, Your word.
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  God, we are so thankful that we can know you and be known by you
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  that we are attached to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
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  the God of Israel. We thank you, Father, for for
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  revealing yourself to us. We thank you, God, that you have
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  searched us. Lord, pull out all the iniquity
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  and the dross, all of the imperfections.
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  God, I pray that we can be holy as you are.
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  Holy Father, I pray for our family.
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  I pray for our loved ones. God, I pray for our nation.
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  God, I pray, Lord, in the mighty name of Jesus, for revival to
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  break out upon this entire globe, every continent, every
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  people group. God bring them into the fold.
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  Lord. I pray that you will help us
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  Lord to be your hands and feet. Help us to know that you are for
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  us and not against us Lord, and that you are fighting our
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  battles. God, I pray that you will help
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  us to walk in our bridal identity.
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  Help us to have the peace God, as our minds are stayed upon
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  you. Lord, You are no respecter of
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  persons. God, you call all unto yourself
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  all people groups. Lord, I thank you God that you
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  have helped us to understand who you are.
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  The great I am the creator of everything seen and unseen by
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  the blood of Jesus Christ. We come into the holiest of holy
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  places. You RIP the veil from top to
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  bottom so that we can come in and dine and Sup with you.
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  Father. You lead us, God, and the quiet
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  places and the still small places.
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  God, I thank you, God, that You are near to us.
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  I thank you that You have spoken to us through Your revealed
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  word. I thank you God for salvation
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  and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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  I thank you God, that you have given us power from on high,
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  Lord, to see this world all around us the way that you do.
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  Father, unstop our ears, take the blinders off God, and help
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  us to come in and to see you rightly high and lifted up.
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  Lord, we look upon you. Lord, we receive our salvation.
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  Thank you Jesus, thank you God Almighty, let your words jump
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  off the page. God, give us sound doctrine and
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  sound theology. God, I pray that you will bind
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  the enemy from off of this time. God, give us the freedom that
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  comes from the Holy Spirit's presence.
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  Thank you Father, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I pray,
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  And when Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and
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  said to him, I am the Almighty God, walk before me and you be
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  perfect. It's the same mandate that He
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  places upon your life and upon my life, believer.
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  He tells us to be holy because He is holy.
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  And here we can see this long time of Abram waiting upon the
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  promise of God. He told him that he would be a
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  father of the nations. And now we can see that he's
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  been waiting for so long. He's already moved in
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  disobedience down into Egypt. He's already moved in
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  disobedience by having relations with Hagar and having Ishmael.
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  And God had had a plan for him. And here we can see that he's 99
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  years old. He had had the call to leave the
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  UR, the Chaldees, and go in to the Promised Land at 75.
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  And here we are at 99 and he's still trying to figure this
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  thing out and he's waiting upon God.
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  And God is so incredibly, wonderfully present in his life.
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  And he shows up and speaks to him and tells him to walk in his
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  ways and to be perfect in his ways.
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  And it is the same mandate that you and I have.
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  We can be holy because He is holy. 2 and I will make my
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  covenant between me and you and will multiply you exceedingly.
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  So Abram is going to become Abraham, the father of many
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  nations, and God is going to make a covenant and he's going
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  to swear by no other higher authority than himself, and He's
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  not even going to ask Abram to sign the agreement.
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  God swears by His own self because there is no one higher.
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  Verse 3 And Abram fell on his face and God talked with him,
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  saying, just by the way, that is the only appropriate response.
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  When God's Shekinah glory comes in the room, you cannot even
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  minister. It is to fall like a dead man on
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  your face, and he is the only one that can gird up your loin,
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  so that you can stand in his presence.
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  For As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you
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  shall be a father of many nations.
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  So Abram is about to become Abraham. 5 Neither shall your
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  name anymore be called Abram, for your name shall be called
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  Abraham, father of many nations, because I have made you so.
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  That is God's promise to Abraham.
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  He told him to go outside and look at the stars, and he would
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  have more descendants than the stars in the sky or the grains
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  of sand on the seashore. Think about it, friends, what a
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  promise. And here this fatherless man,
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  this childless man is wondering how it could be so.
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  And he tried to outpace God by having a child with Hagar.
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  And now you can see God's going to make good on his promise from
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  so long ago. And we need the ability to wait.
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  Well, we cannot outpace God. We do not need to be found the
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  people who accept God's word. And then we go and try to
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  manufacture it ourselves. Far be it from us to ever be
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  those people. 6 And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I
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  will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you.
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  So not only will he have children, friends, but nations
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  will come out of this nation. And we see that Israel, the God
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  of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the God of Israel, friends, we can
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  see that they are the light unto the world, that they are meant
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  to point all nations unto Yahweh everlasting.
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  He revealed himself unto Abraham.
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  Abraham was in the earth, the Chaldees, probably an idol
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  worshipper, and God called him out to the one true living God,
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  the Creator of everything seen and unseen, the only uncreated.
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  Every other God is an idol and that is what you need to
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  understand. The fact that we can even know
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  Him and be known by Him and that we can even have a relationship
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  with God through Jesus Christ is remarkable.
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  It is miraculous in the complete sense of it all when you sit and
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  really ponder upon it. Friends, it is incredibly
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  blessed to know Him and to be known by Him, and you do not
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  want to be those who stand before God and give him your
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  pedigree. And he says, depart from me, for
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  I never knew you. 7 And I will establish my covenant between me
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  and you, your seed after you in their generations, for an
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  everlasting covenant to be a God unto you, and your seed after
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  you. So God is promising that he's
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  never going to leave them, never going to forsake him.
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  And that doesn't mean that they will not be disciplined,
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  friends. God disciplines those that he
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  loves. Never forget that.
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  And just because they know Yahweh doesn't mean that they
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  are completely innocent friends. They have to give an account for
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  the things that they do. And we cannot move in spiritual
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  superiority thinking that anything and everything that we
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  do is blessed and covered. Friends, we need to know that
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  there is for sure going to have to come and answering for the
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  actions that we do while we are in the fold friends, and that is
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  a hard lesson for many. We cannot just be like the
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  Israelites who say we have the temple of the Lord and think
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  that the promised land was never going to be invaded because God
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  will send you into captivity if you do not adhere to what He
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  wants from you and it will be for a lesson and He'll never
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  leave you or forsake you. And all the wrath of God was
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  satisfied at the cross of Christ.
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  Praise God, Hallelujah and Amen. But God can use it without
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  excusing it. And you will have to give an
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  account, Friends. 8 And I will give unto you, and after your
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  seed, after you, the land wherein you are a stranger, all
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  the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I
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  will be their God. So here you can see that the
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  land of Israel is for a perpetual blessing, a covenant
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  that God has made with the ethnic Jews friend there.
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  It is their rightful place, and it is where Jesus Christ will
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  literally and geographically rule from for the thousand year
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  reign. 9 And God said unto Abraham, You shall keep my
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  covenant there for you, your seed after you in their
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  generation. So here we can see that God is
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  going to enact the circumcision as a sign of the covenant,
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  friends, and God knows what he's doing.
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  And this is a wonderful advancement in the scientific
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  community to keep the disease away, friends.
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  And God knows what he's doing. 10 This is my covenant, which
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  you shall keep between me and you, your seed.
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  After you, every man child living among you shall be
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  circumcised. So here we can see that this is
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  a wonderful sign. And not only does it have a
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  spiritual connotation, but it also has the physical health
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  benefits as well. 11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of
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  your foreskin, and it shall be a token of the covenant between me
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  and you. So God here he tells Abraham
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  that every single person who is in his household should be
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  circumcised. 12 And he that is 8 days old shall be circumcised
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  among you, every man child in your generations, he that is
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  born in the house or bought with money of any stranger which is
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  not of your seed. So here you can see that it also
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  goes out towards those that are underneath the umbrella of the
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  banner of Yahweh, all those who come into the fold.
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  This is for anyone who has called themselves by the name of
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  the Lord. And you can see here that God is
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  serious about it. And we also know that in the New
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  Testament, Paul is going to explain this and he's going to
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  tell us that it is the circumcision of the heart post
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  the cross of Christ. And that is what we need.
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  We need the foreskin of our heart to be sized, and the
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  unregenerated man to become renewed and regenerated, and to
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  put on the new man. 13 He that is born in your house, and he
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  that is bought with your money must needs be circumcised, and
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  my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
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  covenant. So God here he gives them a sign
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  that he is their God, and that they are his people. 14 And the
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  uncircumcised man, whose flesh of his foreskin is not
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  circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
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  He has broken my covenant. So here this is a New Testament
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  thought, that the unregenerated man will not be passed over in
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  the day of judgment. 15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai
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  your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall
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  be her name. So here we can see that the
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  promise concerning Isaac in the line of Christ is about to be
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  revealed. 16 And I will bless her, and give you a son also of
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  her. Yeah, I will bless her, and she
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  shall be a mother of nations, kings of people shall be of her.
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  So here comes the line of Christ through Sarah. 17 Then Abraham
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  fell upon his face, and laughed, and said, In his heart, shall a
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  child be born unto him that is 100 years old?
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  And shall Sarah, that is 90 years old bear with man?
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  This is impossible. But nothing is impossible for
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  our God. You must have the faith of a
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  child. You must believe that God can
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  literally do anything. He is not limited, and you
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  cannot put him into a box. 18 And Abraham said unto God, Oh,
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  that Ishmael might live before you.
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  So here he's trying to put God in a box.
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  Let's see what God says. 19 And God said, Sarah, your wife shall
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  bear you a son indeed, and you shall call his name Isaac, And I
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  will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant,
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  and with his seed after him. So you can see here the son of
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  promise. You can see that Isaac is
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  laughter. And we see that not only did
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  Abraham laugh within himself, but Sarah later is going to
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  laugh because it is ridiculous. Friends, this notion of these
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  elderly people being able to actually conceive and actually
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  live through the pregnancy and the birth of a child.
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  But to God, nothing is impossible.
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  And unless you have that faith, then you will doubt all of the
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  miraculous things within the Bible and the things happening
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  all around you. And you will try to relegate
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  them to any kind of supernatural.
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  You'll try to relegate them to all kinds of the metaphysical.
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  You'll try to relegate them into explaining them away by science
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  and all the things that happen. And we must have the faith of a
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  child and believe that Daddy can do anything, and our daddy is
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  stronger than yours. 20 And that's for Ishmael.
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  I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him and
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  will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. 12
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  Princess shall he have, and I will make him a great nation.
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  Is this not what we have seen? God could have done away with
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  him a long time ago, but he has a plan for that nation, friends,
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  and we do not need to be hateful towards our Muslim brothers.
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  We need to understand that it is not people who are the problem,
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  it is the Spirit behind them. And God has a wonderful plan for
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  them and for that nation, and He has allowed them to be fruitful
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  and to multiply. And he's visiting them in dreams
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  and visions, friends, and he's bringing many into the fold. 21
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  But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall
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  bear to you at this set time next year.
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  So he gives him an entire calendar and tells him that he
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  will mark his promise by the fact that he is going to
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  foreshore 100% have a son born unto him one year from this
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  visitation from God. 22 And he left off talking with him, and
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  God went up from Abraham. What an amazing thought that God
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  has come and he has actually taken up residence, and he is
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  talking with Abraham. 23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son,
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  and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought
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  with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and
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  he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the self same
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  day as God had said unto him. Radical obedience.
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  That is what God calls for. We cannot drag our feet when God
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  speaks a very specific word unto us.
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  We need immediate radical obedience, friends, and that is
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  what Abraham has displayed here. Imagine the bloody mess of this
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  scene. 24. At Abraham was 99 years old when
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  he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25.
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  In Ishmael his son was 13 years old when he was circumcised in
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  the flesh of his foreskin. What complete trust this little
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  boy has with his father to allow this?
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  26 The self same day was Abraham circumcised and Ishmael his son
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  will end on 27th and all the men of his house born in the house
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  and bought with money of the stranger were circumcised with
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  him, not one left off. What a scene can you even
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  imagine? Our God is a mighty God.
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  He wanted them and He wants us to be circumcised.
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  For them it was the foreskin, for us it is the heart and it
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  shows that we belong to Him and we are called by His name.
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  We are Christian little Christ. What an amazing book that we
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  hold in our hands. It's alive and active and it's
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  reading you as you read it. And don't take my word for it,
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  just take a look. It's in the book.
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  There's a rainbow above his throne.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  word. I know I sure have.
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  Praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. So does God be blessed today.
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  See you back here tomorrow. God bless you.