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#10133 - A Bride Is Chosen For The Son - Genesis 24:1-26 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Now, here's Pastor Ed to take us into our study.
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Amen. Take your Bibles and open them
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to Genesis chapter 24. So we start a new chapter
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Genesis chapter 24. I've entitled our Bible study a
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bride is chosen for the Sun. A bride is chosen for the Sun.
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As we've learned before the Bible is filled with typology
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types, and pictures, portraits, and symbols.
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They're all pointing to Jesus revelation.
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In terms of Messiah of his work, his love and his Redemption and
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it was Augustine. That first said, the Old
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Testament is in the New Testament, concealed.
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The New Testament is in the Old Testament revealed.
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It was his way of saying, look for Jesus.
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As you read through the Old Testament, Jesus would say in
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Luke 24:44 and then he said to them, these are the words which
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I spoke Talk to you while. I was still with you, that all
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things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses
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and the prophets and the, Psalms concerning me, Hebrews chapter
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10 and verse 7, then I said, behold, I have come in the
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volume of the book. It is written of me to do your
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Will O God types pictures symbols already in chapter 22.
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We Begin the most powerful picture of Jesus.
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In all the Bible, the Father Abraham takes his son.
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His only son is unique son. Isaac up to Mount Moriah to
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offer as a sacrifice and obedience.
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To God, this would be the very place that Jesus would sacrifice
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his own life and shed his blood for the Forgiveness of sins.
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Then, in chapter 23, we read of Sarah dying was buried.
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Isaac after the sacrifice as the sun came to live in his father's
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house, and Sarah, his mom dies. Sarah, now represents to us and
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added. Type the nation of Israel in
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this family. The sun is offered up in chapter
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22. She was put away soon after the
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death and resurrection of Jesus, the Jewish system would be put
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away politically and religiously.
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Now, as we come to chapter 24, the sun is offered Sarah's put
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away. The very next thing we have is a
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bride chosen for the Sun for Isaac.
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Isaac a picture. Jesus is waiting for his bride.
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After the Jewish nation is set aside a new person, comes on the
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stage, the bride biblically, that's us, the bride of Christ,
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then we'll get to chapter 25 and at Abraham's suddenly has a wife
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again, Israel is back in communion with the Father which
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we studied in depth Romans chapter 9, chapter 10.
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And chapter 11 Israel set aside but God is not done with Israel.
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He will then, during the last seven years of human history, we
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know that as the Great Tribulation period, God will
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turn his attention once again to the nation of Israel.
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After the Rapture of the church symbols and types and pictures
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are very important as you're reading through the Bible.
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It's important that you recognize at least in the very
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minimum No, the true stories. No, the life of Abraham, there's
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much to be learned about Abraham, the father of Faith,
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the friend of God. But there's always a deeper
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thing God's doing under the surface, pointing forward to the
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coming of Messiah. With that in mind, chapter 24,
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the longest chapter in the book of Genesis, and it's a major
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break in the second division of Genesis.
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If you're taking notes, we learn in the beginning.
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Beginning of our study that you could divide Genesis into two
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sections, primarily the first part.
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Chapters 1 through 11 covered for great events.
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The Creation, The Fall, the flood and the Tower of Babel,
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the second part of Genesis chapters. 12 through 50 covers
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for people, Abraham, Isaac. Jacob, and Joseph, who gets most
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of the attention toward the end of Genesis.
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As Abraham begins to fade out. And we'll turn our attention to
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Isaac. In this chapter, looking at his
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miraculous birth, his marriage and his death, as we continue
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forward. Longest chapter in Genesis why
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Because this is what human history is all about chapter 24.
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God the Father Gathering a bride out of all Humanity for the son
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speaks of his redemption in his love.
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You could summarize in One Way, chapter 24 of Genesis with John
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chapter 3 in the New Testament, verse 16, the God so loved the
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world that he gave his only begotten son, so that whoever
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would believe in him would not perish, but have everlasting
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life. God.
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Gathering a bride for the Sun. The church.
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It's almost like the Holy Spirit saying in chapter 24 to pause,
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pay close attention. He wants you to take that long
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lingering, look at his great love for you.
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No matter what you walked in with today.
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What you tune the radio on what you're carrying around?
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What baggage, you have or layer upon layer, upon layer of issues
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and hardship and concerns and worries and doubts.
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Pause and consider the Eternal work of God as demonstrated in a
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flawed family. Anything we learn with Abraham
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is the god uses flawed men. Anything we learn with Sarah, is
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that God uses flawed women and and flawed families.
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I know there's much to be said in our culture today about
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dysfunctional families and immediately, as you think of
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that word, you begin to think. Well, I have a dysfunctional
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family. I mean, we grew up in a
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dysfunctional family, but let me let you in, on a little secret,
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we all grew up in dysfunctional, families, as good as some of you
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had it, we could compare our families, of course, some of you
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had great families. Some not so much but all have
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been touched by the dysfunction of sin as Good.
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As anyone ever experienced it, it couldn't be the best because
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of sin and as bad as some of you did experience.
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And I'm sorry for the pain that you experienced, and endured in
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the family, you grew up in. It's because of the grace of God
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that it wasn't worse. They got protected you and
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guarded you from things that could have been even worse.
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Let's jump in. And notice the first few verses
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we're only going to tackle the first half because there's a
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verse in the second half of this chapter that I didn't want to
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gloss over. I want to spend a whole week on
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it, and I'll show you toward the end here.
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First one now, Abraham was old well, advanced in age and the
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Lord, Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things.
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If you're taking notes Abraham's about 140 years old, I would say
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that qualifies for well advanced in age 140 years old, Isaac, his
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son is around 40. And yes, he's been blessed and
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all things, this man that took the step of Faith, to leave his
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homeland in chapter 12, Has been blessed in all things.
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His life of blessing has been. Such a great source of
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encouragement, for all of us. And we are experiencing the
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Overflow of the blessings in Abraham's life.
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Even now thousands of years later, I would say that's a
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blessed man that your life continues, we would use the
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phrase today that the legacy of your life continues to bless
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many others. After you're gone that your
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testimony and the power of your life.
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That's where Abraham is not only in the spiritual realm but
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physically he's very blessed. He's very wealthy, very rich.
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Any possessions that he's honored god with a good Steward
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of everything that God has entrusted to him.
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It's important to remember that to whom much is given much is
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required and to whom the person that is faithful with even the
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little will be given more and that's where Abraham is.
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He's been given more and more. Why?
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Because he deserves it. Not at all, but the same reason
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you and I have anything, it's by the grace of God.
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It's by his faithfulness and his goodness.
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Yes. Here he is at the end of his
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life toward the end of his life verse 2.
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It says so Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house who
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ruled over all that he had? Please put your hand under my
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thigh. That's an interesting request,
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get to it in a moment. I'll make you swear by the Lord,
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the god of Heaven, and the god of Earth that you will not take
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a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites
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among whom I dwell. But you shall go to my country
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and to my Kindred and take a wife for my son.
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Isaac, I want to make a covenant with you.
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As you search. I have a job for you servant and
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by the way he's unnamed here but most likely this is his key
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servant Eliezer. We're introduced to him back in
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chapter 15, very significant in the typology as well but he
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calls his servant over and says we need to make a covenant, the
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Covenant of having a Under the thigh was an intimate commitment
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of just a way to show, in ancient days of your commitment
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to keep a promise. We don't do that anymore.
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These days. It's a handshake or a signing a
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contract. It's very similar here in the
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ancient days. It wasn't a weird thing,
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although it might seem at its face but customary and normal
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and very important, it was showed a sign that what they
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were about to agree upon was very important and required more
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than just your word. There Was An Intimate connection
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and here's the agreement that he's asking a servant to make.
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Don't take a wife for my son from among the Canaanites that
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cannot happen. I want you to find a wife for my
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son, from my own Hometown, for my own people.
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Not among the Canaanites. Why a wife from his people.
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That's a good question. Well, we know that God didn't
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want the Bloodlines mixed for messiah.
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That's the simple answer. It's also a demonstration of
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Abraham's Faith here. Abraham would have if Abraham
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would have had a wife from the Canaanites, it would have gained
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him more wealth in an alliance with the people of the land.
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It would have Barry been a very if he was a wheeler-dealer.
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Like a lot was, this would have been a very strategic thing for
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him to do. Not acting in faith, looking to
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the Future, not trusting in God. But rather looking at the
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present and how can I secure my future for my family, for my son
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and for my Heritage in this land, this land of promise, for
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the future. What if God doesn't and what
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about? He could have said, I want you
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to find a wife. I'll just, we'll have an
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alignment find the most profitable, you know, most
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wealthy King, and we'll align ourselves and have a future here
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among the lamb, but God had already promised.
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Him a future. So he had a greater promise than
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an alliance could ever have. But avoiding the Canaanites was
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also practically, there's a spiritual reason.
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There's a faith. Reason, there's also a practical
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reason. The Canaanites were Wicked
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people. They were corrupt idolatrous and
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it's like Abraham saying, I don't want my son and his family
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corrupted by the sinful practices, I don't want him to
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be torn down by the world that's around us and it was very
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serious to Father Abraham. As it is with our father, the
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admonition against being unequally yoked stands today.
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We get the phrase unequally yoked from the New Covenant from
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the New Testament. It's very important.
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You understand that being choosing to be unequally yoked
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will cause you great pain and great sorrow.
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I noticed something else here with this is may be overlooked.
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But remember the ages Abraham's 140 years old.
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Isaac is 40 years old and Isaac is yielding to the wisdom of his
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dad. Abraham still has a great
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influence in his son's life. Even at age 40, Isaac respects
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his dad, he respects his dad in Finding a wife for him.
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For the customs of the day, for the leadership of his dad.
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He has great influence, not because he forced it upon him,
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not because he demanded it, but because I believe Isaac has seen
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enough of his Abraham's genuineness and enough of his
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dad's faith. He saw a few failures along the
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way, I'm sure as well, but he saw enough of his genuineness
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and faith. That there's an admiration
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admiration for his dad and his dad's opinion still matters and
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still means something to him. Even at 40 years old, Isaac will
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learn from his personality as it's revealed was a settled
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contemplative, kind of, man, he's a man.
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We find meditating praying in the field, sitting by a well.
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Well, Isaac was born to parents much, much later.
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His parents were very old. I would say having a kid at a
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hundred years old, very old. The homeless quieter.
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Wasn't a lot of activity with children and babies.
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It was a much quieter home that he grew up in and
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personality-wise even later in chapter 24, when his wife has
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brought, when we read of Rebecca coming to Isaac, he takes her
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into his mother's tent and he loves her and she gives him
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peace. It was very good chance.
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He's still mourning, the death of his mom.
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Isaac is that tender deep contemplative man as he is
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revealed. The scriptures.
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Let's review where we are with the types so you can follow
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along as we continue in the rest of the chapter.
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So far, we've learned, Abraham is a type of God, the Father,
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Isaac represents, Jesus, the son.
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Now, we have someone new mentioned just in these first
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few verses and that is Abraham's servant, Eliezer Eliezer, his
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name means, God is my help. Eliezer, the servant is a
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picture and a type of the Holy Spirit.
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He's mentioned earlier in chapter 15, we don't really know
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for sure if that's who this servant is.
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There's a good chance. The key relationship that he has
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the most important task Eliezer being the chief servant you can
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make a strong case that it's Eliezer here.
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But why isn't he named? If it is Eliezer we already have
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met his name. What would be a good reason for
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him, not being named? Well, I suggest to you that this
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has everything to do with what Jesus said in the typology.
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He about the Holy Spirit, hold your place in Genesis turn over
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to John chapter 16. Now John chapter 16 God weaving
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together, these things in the teachings of Jesus.
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When you get there, look at verse 13 with me.
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As the ministry of the holy spirit is described and this is
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very important to recognize. I think why Eliezer isn't named
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here. Verse 13, John 16.
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However, when he the spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you
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into all Truth for. He will not speak on his own
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authority, but whatever. He hears he will speak and he
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will tell you of things. Is to come notice the key
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Ministry of the holy spirit. In verse 14, don't miss this.
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He will glorify me for. He will take of what is mine and
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declare it to you. The primary Ministry of the holy
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spirit is to glorify Jesus Christ.
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It is not to draw attention to himself, it's not to whip the
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church up into a frenzy, so the church gets all the attention
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them, true Ministry of the Holy Spirit, A point to Jesus.
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So when the spirit is moving in a church, moving in a Believers
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life, moving in a family. When there's a wave of power
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from the Holy Spirit, active, when the spirit and viral
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inspires Revival, the talk in the language during that time,
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will not be about the spirit and the focus will not surround the
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spirit. The attention won't be on the
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Holy Spirit, but a true move of the Holy Spirit, you know, it's
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from God. God and, you know, the spirit is
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in the midst of it. When all the attention is on
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Jesus, Not on the move of the spirit, this servant being
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unnamed. Well, Isaac and the bride are on
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display in the story. The focus is on the sun waiting
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for his bride. It's not about Eleazar.
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He is a key. He is a key player in this but
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it's not about him. The title of my Bible study,
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isn't the servant. They go get too bright for the
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sun. That's watch the servant.
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That's be faithful like the servant this Bible study in its
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typology. This chapter is all about the
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son who's waiting for his bride. Eleazar is used now to gather as
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we'll see more elements. It's such a neat thing, verse 5
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and the servant said to him, perhaps the woman will not be
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willing to follow me to this land.
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Must They take your son back to the land from which you came and
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Abraham said to him beware it's the next warning.
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Number one don't get a wife from the Canaanites and number to be
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aware that you do not take my son back there.
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The Lord God Of Heaven who took me from my father's house and
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from the land of my Kindred and who spoke to me and swore to me
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saying, to your descendants, I give you this land, he will send
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his Angel before you, you shall take a wife for my son from
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there. And if the woman is not willing
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mark, this, if the woman is not willing to follow you, then
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you'll be released from this old only.
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Don't take my son back there, so the servant put his hand under
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the thigh of a Abraham as master and swore to him concerning this
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matter. This was a big task for Eliezer
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for the servant, it's a step of a faith and obedience for him
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to. This is what happens when you
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hang around, men and women of Faith you watch and you're
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involved in their steps of faith, God is going to move upon
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you to also take steps of Faith. You are inspired by the people.
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You hang out with Both positive and negative.
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The Bible warns us evil conduct company corrupts.
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Good habits, but men and women of faith.
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When you're surrounded with men and women of Faith, men, and
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women of the word, men and women of prayer, you know, what
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happens to you, you start praying, you start stepping out
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in faith, you start dreaming big for God.
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You find yourself filled with obedience Eliezer, being close
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to the man of faith is now given his own step of faith and
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obedience. Obedience and he was thinking
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about it as Abraham spoke. Should I take Isaac there?
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This is like a, this is impossible.
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Maybe if I took him there we can stand over to the side and he
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can look for the one that he's attracted to.
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What am I supposed to do? And he speaks up.
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No, is given the answer twice Abraham says no Isaac is in the
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land of promise. Representing the children of
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Israel here and he's not leaving it, ever it belongs to the Jus
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This Land Of Promise, he don't take him out and we're here
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right now and it hasn't been conquered yet.
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The Canaanites, fill the land. Don't take away from the
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Canaanites. Isaac.
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Still going to stay, Jesus himself, came and walked Among
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Us. It's one of the greatest things
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to think of the condescension of Jesus, the Eternal Son of God to
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draw near to you and me. He lived among us became one of
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us fully God and fully man, Isaac's in the land of promise.
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He's not going to lead it ever. God will be with you, Abraham
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says you'll find a wife. This is a 500-mile journey.
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That would take anywhere from a month and a half to two months.
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It's a long journey. But Abraham's Faith at this
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point, has grown, and grown, he is completely confident.
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That the servant will succeed with any of the concerns that
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his servant has. He releases his servant, but he
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sends them expect, he sends Eliezer expecting a wife to
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return. Abraham's 140 years old.
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And by the time you're 140 years old, your faith has grown over
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the years. And it reminded me of what a
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blessing, it is to hang around with saints that have been
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walking with the Lord, a lot longer than I have.
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They have a greater level of faith.
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I love to hear their stories, their faith stories, their
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failure stories. If you're born again and you're
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only a couple weeks in the Lord or a couple years in the Lord,
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it will not be difficult for you to find men and women that are
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ten years ahead of you. 20 years ahead of you and you can tell
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that you can ask them when you see them.
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When you meet them, tell me your story.
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Give me the details. Is there anything in your life
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that you overcame? And you can almost hear them.
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Say, sit down, son. Do I have a story to share with
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you by the time Abraham's 140? I don't believe and because we
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don't have them recorded that he's making the kind of sinful
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mistakes he made in his youth. We never again, read of him.
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Of course, in chapter 4. We wouldn't read that art
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chapter 24, because Sarah and I was already passed on into
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eternity but we don't read of him.
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Mistreating Sarah, we don't hear eat of that again.
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Those were youthful mistakes. In proportion, to his years of
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age. Those were youthful mistakes.
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And that can, as you continue to grow in faith surrounding
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yourself with men and women women of wisdom and experience.
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The rub off on you. There's another thing I want you
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to notice here, it's why we're taking our time in the first
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half. Go back to verse 8 with me.
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The holy spirit is going to find a bride for the sun waiting back
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with his father. And verse 8, says, if the woman
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is not willing to follow you, then you're released just don't
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take my son back there. If the woman that is the woman,
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that is the Angel of the Lord has gone before you.
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You're going to be fine, you're going to find her.
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She's not willing. Don't force her to come back,
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step back for the typology. Holy Spirit, going into the
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world to draw a bride. The church.
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Search for the sun. If you're not willing, God will
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not force you. No one comes into the kingdom
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forced. If you're not willing to repent
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of your sins today, God will not force you.
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We will not force. You, we went off, find you, and
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take your arm and twist it behind, and make you believe.
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We see this typology already like don't bring to, she doesn't
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want to come. She doesn't have to come.
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The Holy Spirit symbolized. By the servant here, will never
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Force someone to believe in Jesus.
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It will not be against your will.
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It won't be a surprise one day, you wake up.
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Oh no, I'm a Believer. It will be in cooperation with
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the Free Will that God has given to you.
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The Holy Spirit, Will plead with you, the Holy Spirit, Will
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convict you of sin. The holy spirit will draw you.
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The holy spirit will send people into your life.
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The gospel will be shared books will show up.
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Up, people will be praying for you.
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New people coming into work other people.
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There will be a lot of work of the Holy Spirit around you.
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As you recall the work of the holy spirit, that is with every
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human being in the world today is the holy spirit is with every
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single human being pleading, convicting drawing, but he won't
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Force you. Nobody is forced to follow
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Jesus. I know sometimes we wish he
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would part of our prayer. We get a little aggressive in
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our prayers and we're like that persistent Widow.
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Just knock knock knock talking won't stop, but he won't.
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He won't. See you.
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It's a decision. You need to make a decision.
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You may need to make tonight. Now, right now is this airing on
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the radio or online? It's a day of salvation.
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God is knocking on your heart asking you to open up.
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But he won't force himself through the door.
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So much typology pick up in verse 10 now.
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Then the servant took 10 of his master's camels.
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By the way, camels, were very rare to own during the time of
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Abraham, the fact that he had just could give up 10.
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Of them means Abraham was extremely wealthy.
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So he takes ten camels, he departs, for all his master's
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goods were in his hand. He arose and went Mesopotamia to
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the city of nahor and he made his camels kneel down outside
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the city of by a well of water at evening time.
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I'm the time when the women go out to draw water and then he
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said O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please give him me.
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Success this day and show kindness to my master Abraham
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behold I stand Here by The, Well of water that the daughters of
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men of the city are coming out to draw water.
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Now, let it be verse 14. That the young woman to whom I
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say, please let down your picture that I'm a drink and she
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says drink and I'll also give your camels a drink.
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Let her be the one to whom you have appointed for your servant
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Isaac and by this I'll know that you have shown kindness to my
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master. Two months of travel very
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uncomfortable on camels and a camel Caravan.
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He's had a lot of time to think about this.
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I believe you still concerned, but his concern now isn't to
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Abraham. He can't ask Abraham anything,
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he takes it to the Lord. He takes his concerns of the
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Lord, two months. He still sees.
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He's laying it before. You could even say like Gideon.
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He's laying a fleece before the Lord.
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And he's very precise. A god follows through on this.
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This would show that it is indeed.
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God working behind the scenes. This 500-mile journey.
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To where you're reading. You want to be a little careful
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because in between verses 10 and 11, the servant took the
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Masters. He arose and went, by the time
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verse 11 in between those two verses is two months time,
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500-mile Journey on camels. Careful reading of the scripture
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is important. Some of the lot has happened in
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between verses 10 and 11 and he speaks this prayer.
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Oh, god of my O Lord. God of my master, please give me
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success and he lays out before. God, all of these signs, he
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wants to see a sign. He wants to see something if the
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woman comes offers some water for his 10 camos.
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She's got to be the one. This would be no, easy task.
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As one commentator said this request that he made toward God
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would test Rebecca. We end up knowing it's Rebecca
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and a few verses but it would test the woman's kindness.
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Hospitality her industry and her willingness to help a stranger.
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There were parts of this. Whether he knew it or not, that
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would help confirm that. She was the one.
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He lays it before, the Lord, verse 15 and it happened before
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he had finished speaking. That behold, Rebekah who was
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born to Bethel son of milcah, the wife of nahor, Abraham's
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brother, came out with her picture on her shoulder.
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We looked at the Word suddenly in light of the conversion of
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Saul of Tarsus in Acts chapter 9.
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Suddenly suddenly quick on your way.
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Got my whole mind made up saw has a no Entourage.
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He's going to destroy the church in Damascus.
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The whole church is scared. Everything's there waiting for
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him to arrive and then suddenly Everything Changes.
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Well, this is the same with the servant.
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This is something that God does quite frequently.
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You're going and you're going and you're going even maybe to
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the point where you're given up. I don't know if it's ever going
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to change, you've come to settle that.
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This is the newness of life. You haven't given up completely,
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you love God, you trust God. But the eagerness of maybe it'll
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be today, maybe it'll be today, maybe it'll be this week, maybe
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two, maybe it'll be this year, maybe it'll be another 10 years,
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maybe it'll be, maybe it'll be before, you know it.
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You've Lost That urgency, that God could work in any moment.
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Is it gets heavy and it gets hard.
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Here's a prayer that even I have it marked and under I have an
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underlying and highlighted before he had finished.
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Speaking, God did The Impossible before it was even done some
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suggest that says he said, but it doesn't say that he said
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where other people could hear him.
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And so, some have suggested, this was one of those prayers,
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like Nehemiah just under his breath.
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You ever pray like that. Just a few little under your
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bread. Nobody knows.
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Saying it out loud. We pray out loud.
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When We Gather here, but many of our prayers, just under our
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breath, and our minds, nobody hears them, but God does.
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And before he's even done before he speaking, even if he speaking
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out loud out of his mouth, but very quiet.
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God, suddenly behold. There's Rebecca and verse 16,
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the woman was, very beautiful to behold.
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This is not just outward. Beauty, this Hebrew word can
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also refer to a, you know, Unique quality about her, not
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just physical Beauty. She was a virgin, which could be
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a word translated the Hebrew, young woman, but also a physical
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virgin where it says, no man had known her.
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And she went down to the well. Filled her picture and came up
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the servant random M and said, please, let me drink a little
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water from your picture. Now, he's putting his prayer to
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the test. He put his prayer to the test.
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Rebecca shows up. He's moving toward her matching,
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as we've learned in previous studies are all coming together.
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Matching. God does his part, man, has his
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part. Now he's stepping out on, even
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his prayer, he sees Rebecca catches her his attention, he
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goes over to her ring runs to her and her answer in verse 18
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must have just warmed his heart. I bet his heart's all beating
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and he's all nervous. And what is the I hope this all
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that's happening with him. It's happened so quickly in
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answer to his prayer before he's even done speaking and she says
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drink my Lord and she hastened and let her pitcher down to her
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hand and gave him a drink. And when she had finished giving
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him a Drink. She said, I'll draw water for
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your camels. Also.
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Until they finish drinking. And she hasten and empty your
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picture into the trough. Ran back to the well, to draw
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water and Drew for all his camels.
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There's a couple of ways of looking, at the, well, a camel
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could drink 25 gallons of water or more, and they estimate
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between 25 and 50 gallons. When we go to Israel, one of our
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stops on the tour is in the ghetto.
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And in megiddo, we have a cistern that would be typical at
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least in the first century, and all the way back into the time
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of Solomon still there, where it was a very large water reservoir
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that had stairs to go down into it, you would go down the
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stairs, get your water and come back up, back out, and she would
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have a large vase on her. A huge container on her
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shoulder. And you can imagine if that was
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the kind of Well, this was a very industrious woman.
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That offered herself to serve another type of well would have
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been a large opening where you could take down and you could
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put the picture down or another container and pull it back up
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and fill your picture. Either way, this is a lot of
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work for a long time for someone.
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She doesn't even know and God has been working on her
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developing her into the woman that she is even in preparing
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her for this visit. And this unknown man that needs
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help with his camels. Notice in verse 20 21 the man
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wandering. NG at her.
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How would you feel? We read into the scriptures and
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it all comes together and everything's fine, but what if
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it was you would you stand there wondering like what is going on
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here? This is amazing.
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I cannot believe this in my mind, I tried to create a
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scenario that would absolutely. No, I would know that.
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I know that, I know that I know and it's happening right before
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him and he's wondering, I think I do more than wandering knowing
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me. I'd probably do a little
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doubting too. I don't know, I'm not sure did.
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She was at all the camels? And okay, let me count.
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One, two, three, four, five. Hey, Dad did that.
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Is that one satisfied? Because she looks very that cam
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over there looks very upset that you get like just but notice
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he's wondering he goes he remains silent to know whether
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the Lord has made his journey prosperous or not.
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He's waiting from a were waiting for a word from the Lord.
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So it was when the camels are finished drinking.
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Being the man took a golden nose ring, weighing it.
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Half a shekel two bracelets for her wrist, Wayne 10 shekels of
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gold and said whose daughter are you?
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That's the key question, isn't it whose daughter are you?
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Tell me please is there room in your father's house for us to
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Lodge? So she said to him, I'm the
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daughter of bethuel milk, a son whom she bore Dan a whore.
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Moreover she said to him we have both straw and feet enough and
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room to Lodge. Then the man bowed down his head
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and Worship the Lord. I think you would too they
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worship and adoration just shocked of how fast God could
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work. How thorough he could work, how
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good and gracious, he was This servant, Who Loved Abraham loved
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his son. Wanted to be faithful went on
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this journey of Faith, two months month and a half two
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months of thinking about it. 500 miles up and down on a camel.
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Walking alongside the camel sleeping outside two and a half
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months of this arriving finally, it all comes together so quickly
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and he worships What a remarkable time in the life of
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Abraham's life is Faith rubs off and everyone around them.
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And it's worth reminding us again today, your spiritual life
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matters to you and to others your spiritual health, your
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spiritual commitment, your abiding life in Christ affects
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this church family. It affects us as a community of
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Believers, it affects our city that affects our community.
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It affects this metro area where Witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea
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Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth, your spiritual
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life, whether you've ever thought about it or not
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missionaries around the world depend upon your spiritual life.
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As each month, they receive financial support from this
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church and many other churches. Each month, they are praying for
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us. Praying for the health of our
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church praying. When they say the health of when
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I say the health of their Church, he's praying for your
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health and my help spiritually that we would live lives of
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obedience and surrender that we would be faithful and taking our
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Steps of Faith following the Lord.
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I wonder although no missionaries ever told me this,
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but I wonder how many missionaries are praying.
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I pray for the men and women of Calvary in Aurora to be faithful
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in their giving of ties and offerings.
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His ass to the giving of the ties and offerings.
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That are missionaries, are supported and where they're able
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to do the work that they're doing in Italy, or in Uganda, or
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in South Africa. Your spiritual health matters.
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Now, one more thing before we head out and then I'll show you
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just where we're going to pick up next time in verse 22, when
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he realizes that, this is the bride.
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What does he do? He gives gifts Eliezer the
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servant a type in a picture of the Holy Spirit.
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When he gathers, the bride, when you become a part of the body of
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Christ, when you become a part of the bride of Christ.
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What does the Holy Spirit give you?
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Gifts, Ephesians chapter 4. First Corinthians chapter 12,
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Romans chapter 12. God gives forth gifts to you
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through the Holy Spirit. And the typology is this
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continues, the servant, he rejoices, he worships a response
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to answered prayer, a response to Steps of Faith, a response to
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the presence of God. Even after this journey, no
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longer under the covering of Pam distant from him.
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Now he's living out his life of faith and God meets him there,
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and that's his response. Worship as we've learned, and
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we're learning creates an atmosphere.
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But our response are our worship is a response to all that God
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has done even on our worst days. But on our best days, we come
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and we die to ourselves and we'll respond to the goodness of
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God. Whose the same today yesterday
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today and forever, God is worthy of our worship.
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No matter what we've carried into the room today.
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God is worthy of our worship. No matter what the circumstances
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of our life might be God is worthy of our worship.
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Whether we had a great week or a horrible week, or scary week or
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a confident week, whether we were obedient whether we Read
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our Bible or prayed. God is worthy of our worship.
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He's worthy of our submission. He's worthy of our receiving of
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the gifts in relationship to the work of the Holy Spirit.
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She says in verse 27, he said blessed be the Lord.
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God of my master Abraham who has not forsaken his mercy and his
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truth toward my master and this is the phrase we're going to
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focus on as we finish the rest of the chapter next time.
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Ask for me, being on the way, the Lord led me to the house of
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my Master's Brethren. So the young woman ran told her
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these things to her mother's house.
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So, they're young woman, young woman, ran and told those of her
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mother's. House these things.
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Mark, this this is one of the passages as I've shared before
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my Bible, That's Green. This is a life verse for
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Ministry and serving God. As for me, he says, being on the
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way, the Lord led me. What is the way, the way of
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obedience surrender, faith. When I'm on the way the Lord
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leads When I'm on the way, he gives you take the first step,
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he gives the second step and the third step, if he gave all of
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the steps, some of you would never go.
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If he told you, what, awaited, you a year or two, or five years
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down the road, it may so undermine your faith of today,
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you just have a little Mustard Seed, Faith to take the first
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step. Just a little mustard seed to
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take the first step, but if you knew everything that you were
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going to face that Mustard Seed would be wiped away, its mustard
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seed upon Mustard Seed, its faithfulness of God although he
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went and obedience to Abraham he is now living the fruit.
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The servant living the fruit of his faith.
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He is living the fruit of his faith and there's so much more
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that awaits us. Read the rest of the chapter and
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meditate on this phrase. Ask for me being on the way.
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The Lord led me some of you need to get on the way.
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I often will refer to that as stop sitting on your hands,
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doing nothing for the Lord, you got to get on the way.
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This is God's will for your life.
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Get on the way. What?
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He's how he's made you how he's gifted you.
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What direction? Somebody may have given you a
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little small prayer under your breath.
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Get on the way. Open yourself to be used by God.
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Begin to pray. These bold prayers, laying it
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before him. And give God a chance to reveal
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himself in a special way. Father, I thank you for the
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truth here in this section Eliezer such an encouragement
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Abraham, Isaac. Now, Rebecca, Who's just a
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uniqueness about her Abraham is a blessed man.
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Surrounded by unique women. That reflected Your Glory.
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Women, who trusted you God. Who as in the Proverbs were
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industrious and kind and hospitable.
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Who were willing to serve and go out of their way.
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With care and concern for those that are around them, including
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a stranger. And father in these last days.
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I'm encouraged by sweats so much is in your scriptures.
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So much as foretold of what we now get to live out in the New
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Covenant. And I just pray God that we
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would not take it for granted, forgive us.
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For taking these matters for granted.
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But also we thank you for revealing these such things.
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This typology and pictures all throughout the Bible being
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reminded today. Of the person in the work of
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you. Holy Spirit, not drawing
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attention to yourself. But always pointing to Jesus,
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always testifying of Jesus, always guiding us into truth.
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Gifting us, enabling us empowering us.
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We give you glory and I And honor.
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Thank you God for suddenly bringing about change.
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We pray for that Sudden Change. We pray God for that sudden
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healing. We pray for that sudden
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encouragement. We pray today for that sudden
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Clarity we prayed for that sudden Financial provision.
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We pray God for that sudden sudden sudden work as you've
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been with us all along. Thank you.
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God, in the When it's obvious, we choose to thank you when it's
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quiet, We Praise You. In The Light and we praise you.
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When it's dark, we trust you. God, even if it's just a little
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mustard, see we trust you. And we pray for you.
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Overpowering anointing of your spirit Upon Us in Jesus name.
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