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Genesis chapter 26 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 26 Let us pray our Father who is in heaven, the
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  God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel.
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  Lord, we thank you for another day to come and to worship you
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  in spirit and truth. God, we draw near to you.
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  We ask that you will draw near unto us.
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  God, let us since your presence. Father, I pray that we can grab
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  a hold of the hem of your garment.
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  Let the train of your robe filled the temple.
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  God, we cry out, holy, holy, holy are you Lord God Almighty.
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  We thank you God for giving us a reason to live.
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  We thank you God for removing the suicidal spirit.
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  We thank you God for removing the detrimental self harm
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  spirit. God, I pray that you'll help us
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  Lord to walk in the bridal identity that you have for us.
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  God, let us not be crushed by the weight of all of the things
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  that are coming against us. Lord, I pray you can be our rear
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  guard in our side guard. God, I pray you'll guard us from
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  the front, top, and bottom. Send your angelic host, Lord, to
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  encamp around us. Form a hedge of protection
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  around this house and around this ministry.
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  God, I pray for healing for our bodies and minds.
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  God, I pray that you'll be well pleased by the reading of the
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  text today. God, we're not here for any
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  other reason but to honor you. Lord, you are our everything.
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  You are high and lifted up. Lord, you are seated, and God,
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  you're working mightily in our midst.
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  I thank you, God, for clearing the air.
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  I thank you, God, for binding the enemy.
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  Father, I thank you, God, for giving us the ability to hear
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  you, to see you, to sense you. Thank you God for your
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  scriptures. Thank you God for the church.
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  We know that the gates of hell will not prevail against us.
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  So, Lord, come and have your way come inhabit us, Father.
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  Lord, I pray that you will gird up our loin so we can stand in
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  your holy presence. Father, we come into the holiest
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  of holy places. God, we want to see you.
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  We want to see you rightly. We want to see you, Father.
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  We want to see the outline, God, of what you're doing in our
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  lives. Father, encourage the Saints,
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  strengthen the Saints, strengthen the family unit.
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  Father, strengthen marriages. Lord, I pray that you'll blow
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  upon us. Blow upon the fire.
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  God, I pray you'll increase the heat.
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  Father, I pray that you'll pull out all of the dross, all of the
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  impurities. Refine us, God, Polish us.
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  Lord, help us to mirror and model our Lord Jesus Christ to
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  this wicked and dark and perverse world.
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  God, I pray that you'll snatch them out of the fire.
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  I pray God, that you will call many more sons and daughters
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  unto yourself. God.
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  Save the elect, Lord, and save some more, God, I pray that
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  you'll help us. God, help us to see you.
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  Help us to know that you're here.
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  We love you, King Jesus, Holy Spirit, fill us today.
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  Teach us these paths of righteousness.
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  Holy Spirit, you teach us. I hide.
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  Lord, it is you who come out. Father, it's you that we are
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  here for. For you are worthy to be
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  praised. You are worthy of all honor.
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  You are worthy of adoration. King Jesus, send your holy and
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  precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And there was a famine in the
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  land beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham.
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  And Isaac went unto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, unto
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  Gerar. So here we see like father, like
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  son, and the sins of the father are visited upon the children.
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  And we're going to see that the apple doesn't fall too far from
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  the tree. And all Isaac here is having to
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  wrestle with the same kind of plague that his father did.
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  And this Abimelech is likened to the title of Pharaoh.
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  Pharaoh would have been the leader of Egypt.
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  And here this abimelech is the title for the leader of the
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  Philistines. Let's see what happens in this
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  chapter. Verse 2.
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  And the Lord appeared unto him and said, do not go down into
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  Egypt, dwell in the land, which I shall tell you of.
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  So here God is very precise when He visited Isaac here.
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  And this chapter is one of the only chapters that we get to see
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  the character and we get to see the life of Isaac.
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  The Bible doesn't spend a whole lot of time talking about this
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  man, but you need to know that he was mighty in the land, and
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  that he is blessed by Yahweh everlasting.
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  Verse 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and I
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  will bless you, for unto you and unto your seed I will give all
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  these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore
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  to your father Abraham. So here God is visiting Isaac
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  and letting him know that the promises of Abraham are
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  available to him, telling him not to leave the area of Canaan,
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  that it was going to be his inheritance.
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  Verse 4 And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of
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  heaven, and I will give unto your seed all these countries,
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  and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
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  We have to come through the Jewish God, the God that
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  revealed himself to Abraham and the land of the Chaldees.
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  Friends, you need to understand this is the only one true living
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  God. There is no Mother God, and
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  every other God is an idol, friends, that cannot see and
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  cannot hear. And it is only Abraham's God and
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  Isaac's God and Jacob's God that the line of the Messiah came
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  through. And that is the same line that
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  you and I must come unto the Father through His Son, His only
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  begotten Son. And we are eternally blessed
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  forever and ever and ever and ever and ever by this Jewish
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  Israeli God, the God of Abraham. 5 because Abraham obeyed my
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  voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and
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  my laws. So you can see here that the
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  whole entire nation of the Jews, the entire nation of the
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  Israelis, was born out of Abraham.
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  Abraham was not Hebrew, he was not a Jew.
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  Prior friends. It was created through him,
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  friends. And that is a hard concept for
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  most, but I will tell you that they are still here today
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  because of what Genesis is outlining for us.
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  This is all that we need to know.
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  This is the beginning of that mighty nation that is still in
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  existence today. 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gharar.
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  So we're going to see this lapse, this momentary lapse of
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  judgment from Isaac, and he's going to be corrected by a Pagan
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  leader. 7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and
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  he said, she's my sister, for he feared to say she is my wife,
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  lest she, he said the men of the place would kill for Rebecca
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  because she was fair to look upon.
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  So that is what you need to understand is Isaac is motivated
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  by the spirit of fear. And anytime we are operating in
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  the spirit of fear, that is not from God.
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  Fear is not from God. Friends, we are more than
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  conquerors in Christ Jesus and that is what you need to
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  understand. When fear creeps in, we must
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  tackle it, we must do away with it, we must lay scripture on top
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  of it and do not operate within fear.
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  The only thing we fear is God Almighty and everything else
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  boughs and cowers in His presence, Friends.
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  And if God is for us, then who can be against us?
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  Aid. And it came to pass when he had
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  been there a long time, that Abimelech, king of the
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  Philistines, looked out of a window and saw and behold, Isaac
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  was sporting with Rebecca, his wife.
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  Here you can see that this leader of the Philistines, old
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  Abimelech, somehow caught a glimpse of Isaac's sporting
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  after Rebecca. Perhaps they were playfully
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  engaged in some activity, but Needless to say, friends, he
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  figured it out. There was passion and desire and
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  he saw that this is not his sister.
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  This is most certainly his wife. He was sporting with her nine.
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  And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold of a surety, she's
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  your wife. And how did you say she is my
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  sister? And Isaac said to him, because I
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  said, lest I die for her, operating in the spirit of fear.
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  And here he's actually getting rebuked by a Pagan leader just
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  like his father did. And you can see here that the
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  apple doesn't fall far from the tree. 10 And Abimelech said,
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  What is this that you have done to US?
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  One of the people might likely have landed with your wife, and
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  you should have brought the guiltiness upon us.
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  Somehow, someway, these Pagan leaders respect the God of
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  Abraham and Isaac. And you can see here that only
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  one true living God has the ability to 'cause the barrenness
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  and to cause them to suffer for touching one of these mighty men
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  of God, their wives. 11 And Abimelech charged all his
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  people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall
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  surely be put to death. So he put the fear of God into
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  all of his subjects. 12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and
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  received in the same year a hundredfold, And the Lord
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  blessed him. So here he planted a garden, and
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  the garden was very fruitful, And you can see that God's grace
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  and God's Providence and God's favor was upon the son of
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  Abraham. 13 And the man grew great, and went forward and grew
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  until he became very great. So just like his father,
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  everything he touched turned to gold. 14 For he had possession
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  of flocks, possession of herds, and great store of servants in
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  the Philistines envied him. So here he became a mighty man
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  in that land. 15 for all the wells which his father's
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  servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the
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  Philistines stopped them up and filled them with earth.
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  So here you can see that they were moving and envy and they
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  were trying to disrupt the flow that Isaac had in the land of
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  God's blessing upon them and his family.
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  And you can see what great patience Isaac has.
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  This man of God, even though he had a momentary lapse of
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  judgment, it did not disqualify him.
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  And you need to know that St. You need to know that you're not
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  identified by your failures. God doesn't see you through that
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  lens. He will discipline you, but you
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  are His and we need to operate within that and we don't need to
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  stay out there in the pig pen too long, come back to the
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  Father's house, repent, get underneath church discipline and
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  then be restored back, the 16 and Abimelech said to Isaac.
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  Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.
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  So here they feared him because he had become so great, and
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  God's hand was on him, and everywhere that he went God was
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  showering him with protection. And the same is available to
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  you, friend, if you'll fall in line with what God has for you,
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  get in the will of God and watch how doors open and that doors
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  shut that no man can open. Friends, that is the life of a
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  St. is we are more than conquerors, we are the
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  peacemakers, Friends. 17 And Isaac departed from there and
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  pitched his tent in the valley of Gerard, and he dwelt there.
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  18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in
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  the days of Abraham his father, For the Philistines had stopped
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  them after the death of Abraham, and he called their names after
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  the names by which his father had called them.
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  So here Isaac is the great well digger.
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  We know that Abraham liked to build altars, and we know that
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  Jacob's going to pitch a lot of tents.
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  But here Isaac is identified as the well digger, and we're going
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  to see how that is significant in the spiritual life with the
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  application that God wants us to dig up out of this passage.
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  And here's what you need to understand is that the water is
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  the word of God and it cleanses us friends, and it washes over
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  us and it satisfies us. And Jesus said that anybody who
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  drinks of the living water will never be thirsty again.
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  And that is the Word of God. And Jesus is the Word.
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  And the Word became flesh and the Word is alive and active and
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  sharper than any 2 edged sword. And so you need to be in the
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  Word of God. Be rooted and grounded in the
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  Word of God. Do not let the book sit on the
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  shelf and collect dust. That is what the enemy would
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  have you to do. He wants you listening to little
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  sound bites and little sermons along the way.
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  He does not want you to actually have the context.
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  He doesn't want you to know the complete, infallible, inerrant
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  Word of God. He wants to keep you ignorant of
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  the word of God. Friends, open it up and get in
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  it and unearth the jewels that are in this book, friends.
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  And that is what Isaac is doing. He's digging up these wells.
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  He's finding the water. And that is what we are tasked
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  to do as well. Friend, 19 and Isaacs servants
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  dug in the valley and found there a well of springing water.
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  So you can see that all of these Philistines and all of the
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  people of Abimelech, they were stopping up Abraham's wells
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  after he died. And then Isaac comes in and he's
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  trying to get them to go again and they're stopping them up in
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  here. He finally finds one that is
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  springing up and over. It's flowing and it never runs
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  dry. And that is what we find in
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  Christ Jesus. 20 And the herdman of Gerard did strive with
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  Isaac's herdman, saying, This water is ours.
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  And he called the name of the well Isaac, because they strove
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  with him. 21 And he dug another well, and they strove for that
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  also, And he called the name of it, Sit da.
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  So here you can see all of these herdsmen, They're coming and
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  trying to claim these wells of Abraham's as their own.
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  And here you can see the patience of Isaac.
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  He does not try to dispute them, He just moves on His way.
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  And that is what you need to understand.
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  There are a lot of cantankerous people who they just want to sit
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  around and they want to argue theology and doctrine.
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  But we need to get our noses in the book and allow God to give
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  us the fresh water, allow God to give us the fresh bread.
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  We don't need to be relying on yesterday's old news and
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  yesterday's old bread. We get in it every day, and God
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  reveals to us new facets of His truth and who He is. 22 And he
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  removed from there and dug another well, and for that they
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  did not strive. And he called the name of it
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  Reb, and he said for now the Lord has made room for us and we
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  shall be fruitful in the land. That is what you need to know is
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  that there are a lot of stopped up wells out there and they just
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  want to operate within the bylaws of what is comfortable
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  and what is community based. And you need to know that God
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  has fresh water for you today. He has fresh bread for you
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  today. We can't be living off of
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  yesterday's successes in the stale, moldy bread. 23 And he
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  went up from there to Beersheba. 24 And the Lord appeared unto
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  him the same night and said, I am the God of Abraham your
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  father. Do not fear, for I am with you,
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  and I will bless you, and I will multiply your seed for my
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  servant Abraham's sake. Abraham had found favor in the
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  eyes of God. He was the friend of God.
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  And you can see here that Isaac is walking in that favor. 25 And
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  he built an altar there, and he called upon the name of the
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  Lord, and he pitched his tent there, and Isaac's servants dug
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  a well. 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuza,
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  one of his friends in Thika, the chief captain of his army. 27
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  And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing you hate
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  me, and have sent me away from you?
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  You remember they said, Get out of here, for you are too mighty
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  for us. And here Isaac wants to know,
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  what is your business? What do you come here for?
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  And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with you.
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  And we said, let there be an oath between US, and between US
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  and you, and let us make a covenant with you, 29 that you
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  will do us no hurt, as we have not touched you, and as we have
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  done unto you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.
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  You are now the blessed of the Lord.
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  So look at how real recognizes real and they know that the God
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  of Abraham, Yahweh, everlasting, the only one true God is with
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  Isaac. And they see it, and they're
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  saying, Make a covenant with us, that you will not harm us. 30
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  And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. 31 And
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  they rose up at times in the morning, and swore one to
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  another. And Isaac sent them away, and
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  they departed from him in peace. 32 And it came to pass the same
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  day that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well
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  which they had dug, and said unto him, We found water.
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  And he called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city
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  is Beersheba unto this day. 34 And Esau was 40 years old.
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  When he took the wife Judith and the daughter of Barry the
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  Hittite and Bashima the daughter of Elon the Hittite and will end
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  on 35 which were a grief of mine unto Isaac and Rebecca.
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  So we see that here it flips the script and we go to Esau and we
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  see that Esau has started marrying these Philistines.
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  And this was very grievous to Isaac and Rebecca because they
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  wanted him to be thoroughbred and not to intermarry in with
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  the Pagan daughters. And this is how the bloodline
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  gets polluted, friends. But we are going to see that God
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  has a plan through Isaac's other son, Jacob, the deceiver, the
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  heel catcher. Let's see how it goes.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  word of Isaac the well digger. And there's so much spiritual
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  application here. Start digging that well,
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  unearthing those gems and jewels.
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  Start drinking of that living water, Franzi, you'll never be
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  thirsty again. I love you, God loves you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.