As-Salaam-Alaikum to our
Muslim brothers and sisters,
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shalom to our Hebrew cousins,
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peace be upon you
our Christian friends.
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Welcome to "The
Descendants of Abraham."
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We're blessed by
your presence with us.
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We'll be encouraged by
Abraham, the father of faith
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who was trained by a
very patient and merciful God,
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so that his faith
may be strengthened.
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In our previous
program we looked that
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how God kept His
promise to Abraham
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and blessed his first
born son Ishmael with 12 sons.
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These 12 sons of
Ishmael became 12 princesses
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just as God said would happen.
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Always, God
always keeps His promise.
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Abraham loved Ishmael and wanted
him to be the son of promise.
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But God said,
"this cannot be so."
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And Abraham
accepted the will of God.
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He knew that his
faith failed him.
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And he would
experience heartbreak
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when he was asked to
make a very difficult decision
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regarding his
beloved son Ishmael.
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I call today's program
the Abandonment of Ishmael,
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the Abandonment of Ishmael
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because you see
Ishmael was abandoned.
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He was abandoned by his father.
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He was abandoned from
the only home he knew,
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he was asked to leave.
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Ishmael had been
instructed by his mother
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that he was to be
especially blessed of God.
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And as the son of Abraham,
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he was to inherit all
that was promised to Abraham.
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But that was man's
way, not God's way.
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That was never God's plan.
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You see, God never approved
of adulatory or polygamy.
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He is a holy God.
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He cannot approve
of man's sinful ways.
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God's plan for
marriage is one man,
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one woman, one
husband, one wife,
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Satan has corrupted this plan.
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We see today, so
much pain and sorrow
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in broken
relationships, broken marriages,
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children without
fathers and mothers and so on.
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Satan started destroying
the family in the Garden of Eden
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when he first tempted Eve
to eat of the forbidden fruit.
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Let's take a look
at this in Genesis 1.
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Well, let's read
verses 26-28 and 31,
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Genesis 1:26-28 and 31.
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It says, "Then God said,
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"Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness.
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So God created man in His image,
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in the image of
God He created him,
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male and
female, He created them.
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Then God blessed
them, and God said to them,
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"Be fruitful and multiply."
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Then God saw
everything that He had made,
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and indeed it was very good."
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The Creator God had a
plan for Abraham and Sarah.
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But Satan was going to
interfere with that plan.
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We know from history
that Abraham's wife Sarah
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thought that she would help God.
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She was going to help
God fulfill his promise
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to give them a son.
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When she asked
Abraham to marry Hagar,
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again not God's plan,
this was Sarah's plan.
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Sarah was not being
patient and waiting upon God.
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She was going
to do it man's way.
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And she asked
Abraham to marry Hagar,
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so that this
promised son could be born.
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God didn't need help.
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When we try to help God
with his plans for mankind,
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all we do is
make a mess of things.
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Abraham's first son Ishmael
was born to Hagar, Sarah's maid,
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but Ishmael was
not the son of promise.
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Abraham had to accept this
decision from the holy God,
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the Creator and as much as
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we have
difficulties in accepting this.
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And as much as we would
like to believe otherwise,
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we have to accept
the reality and the truth
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that Isaac, Isaac not
Ishmael was the son of promise.
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Here is what
the Creator tells us
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in the Book of Isaiah 55:8-9.
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Let's read that, the
Book of Isaiah 55:8-9.
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"For My thoughts
are not your thoughts,
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neither are your ways
My ways, says the Lord.
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For as the heavens
are higher than the earth,
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so are My ways
higher than your ways,
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and My thoughts
than your thoughts."
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The practice of
polygamy was acceptable
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in society in Abraham's days.
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And it was not
considered sinful then.
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But again as we just
read that was man's way,
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those were man's ideas.
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For God said, "My
thoughts are not your thoughts,
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neither are My ways your ways."
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And He says that what sometimes
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what man think
is right, is wrong.
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We have to accept
the Creator's plan.
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We have to accept
His way, His word.
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We cannot go against that,
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no matter how
difficult it is for us.
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The Creator never approved
of the practice of polygamy
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because it
actually violated his laws.
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It violated his law.
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Only through
Abraham's true wife Sarah
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would the promised son be born.
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God appeared again to Abraham
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when he was
almost 100 years old.
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And reminded him of the promise
of a son through his wife Sarah
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who at that time
was 99 years old.
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We see the
fulfillment of God's promise
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to this faithful couple.
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Let's read Genesis 22:1-3
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"And the Lord
visited Sarah as He had said,
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and the Lord did for
Sarah as He had spoken.
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For Sarah conceived and bore
Abraham a son in his old age,
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at the set time of
which God had spoken to him.
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And Abraham called
the name of his son
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who was born to him,
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who Sarah bore to him, Isaac."
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After the birth of
Isaac, Abraham and Sarah
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was full of joy over the birth
of their son in their old age.
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The promise that God
made to them had come to pass.
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They stirred up
jealousy in Hagar's heart.
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A very natural what
mother, what wife, what woman,
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would not be hurt
and even feel that,
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that feeling of jealousy and
anger at this whole situation.
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Hagar knew Ishmael was
not the one promised by God.
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She allowed her disappointment
and jealousy to spread
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to her son
Ishmael who disliked Isaac
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because he thought that Abraham
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his father Abraham
preferred Isaac over him.
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Sarah did not like
what was happening.
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She saw that there
will be trouble between
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Hagar's son
Ishmael and her son Isaac.
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She told her husband
Abraham of the disrespect
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of Ishmael to her
and to her son Isaac
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and asked Abraham
to send them away.
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And we can read about the
sad moment in Genesis 21:10.
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Let's read that Genesis 21:10.
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"Therefore she said to Abraham,
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"Cast out this
bondwoman and her son,
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for the son of this bondwoman
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shall not be heir
with my son, namely Isaac."
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Abraham was greatly distressed.
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Ishmael was his son,
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his only son
before Isaac came along
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and Abraham bonded with
him, he became his father,
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he was his father,
Isaac was his beloved son
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and Abraham loved him
with all of his heart,
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the heart of a father.
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He couldn't
possibly send him away.
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Would you my
brother or my sister
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be willing to
part with your child
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just because your
husband or wife asked you to?
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Abraham did not know what to do.
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So he asked God for guidance.
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Abraham should have asked
his the Creator God for guidance
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when Sarah tried to
lead him to marry Hagar,
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before the birth of Ishmael,
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Abraham should
have gone to God first.
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Now, the trouble
between the two women
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and the sons of
Abraham was becoming
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too much for him to bear.
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The Lord tells Abraham to listen
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to the voice of Sarah his wife.
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And that he should not let
his affections for his son,
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Ishmael or for Hagar,
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get in the way of
doing the right thing.
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This was the only path
he could take to restore
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harmony and
happiness again to his family.
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In Genesis 21:11-12, we read,
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"And the matter was very
displeasing in Abraham's sight
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because of his son.
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But God said to Abraham,
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"Do not let it be
displeasing in your sight
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because of the lad or
because of your bondwoman.
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Whatever Sarah has said to you,
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listen to her voice;
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for in Isaac your
seed shall be called."
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Abraham had to obey.
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If God had approved of polygamy,
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He would not
have directed Abraham
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to send away Hagar and Ishmael.
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This lesson was not just
for Abraham but for all of us.
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God teaches us
that a husband and wife
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must cherish the
sanctified relationship.
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It must be
respected and protected
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whatever
sacrifice has to be made.
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God does not change,
He cannot change His laws,
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He does not change His ways.
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It is up to us to
be obedient to Him
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and it is up to us to change.
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In the Creator's eyes Sarah
was the only wife of Abraham,
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there was no other.
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She was entitled to
rights as a wife and mother
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which no other woman
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or no one else
could have in the family.
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She was
betrothed to her husband.
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And she did not want to share
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his love and
affection with Hagar.
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She loved Abraham.
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God did not rebuke Sarah
for her part and encouraging
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her husband to marry Hagar.
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He never did, even
though they both sinned
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by believing in the
power of the Creator God.
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Abraham was held responsible
for not trusting in God's power
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which led him to
take Hagar as his wife
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and to think that through her
the promise would be fulfilled.
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You see, Abraham
could have said no,
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when Hagar asked
him to-- I'm sorry,
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when Sarah asked him
to take Hagar as his wife
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and to bring that promised son
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Abraham could have
said no, he didn't.
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So that's why God
held him responsible.
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When God makes His
plans man cannot change that.
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We must accept it,
even when we don't like
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the outcome we must accept it.
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Even when we don't like
it, we must always praise God
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for His blessing in our life.
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Being a merciful God,
He also promised Abraham
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that Ishmael although separated
from his father's house
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will not die nor
be forsaken by God.
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He would be preserved because
he was the son of Abraham.
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God promised to make
of Ishmael a great nation
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and as we learned in
our previous program,
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God fulfilled his promise
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regarding Ishmael
as He always does.
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Let's read Genesis 21:13-14.
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It says here and
this again is from God.
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"Yet I will also make a nation
of the son of the bondwoman,
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because he is your seed."
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So Abraham rose
early in the morning,
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and took bread
and a skin of water;
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and putting it on her shoulder,
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he gave it and the boy
to Hagar, and sent her away.
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Then she departed and wandered
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in the Wilderness of Beersheba."
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Abraham's heart was
breaking of what he had to do,
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even though this
command came from God
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again to send
Ishmael away and Hagar away,
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it wasn't easy for Abraham.
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He was brought down
with grief and his feelings
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as a father were deeply
moved, as he sends away Hagar
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and his first born
son Ishmael to wander
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as strangers in a strange land.
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As Hagar and Ishmael
wandered in the wilderness,
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they ran out of water.
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The distressed mother placed
her son Ishmael under a shrub,
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a tree in the desert for
shade and she walked away,
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she moved faraway from him.
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She did not want to hear
his cries of thirst and hunger,
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she believed he was
going to die in the wilderness.
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They had no more
water, they had no more food
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and Hagar like any other
mother could not bear to see
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her precious son die.
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But she did not have to doubt,
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the word of God
foresee, God was there.
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He was always with Ishmael
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and if we look
at Genesis 21:17-18,
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here is what God said, He said
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"And God heard
the voice of the lad.
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Then the angel of God
called to Hagar out of heaven,
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and said to her,
"What troubles you, Hagar?
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Fear not, for God has heard
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the voice of
the lad where he is.
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Arise, lift up the lad
and hold him with your hand,
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for I will make
him a great nation."
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The Creator God again
reminded Hagar of the promise
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He made to Abraham
concerning Ishmael.
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God loved Ishmael and
did not hold him responsible
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for the choices
that Abraham made.
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But God because of His holiness,
His purity, His righteousness
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and His laws could not
answer Abraham's prayer
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that Ishmael be the
promised son, He couldn't.
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If He could have, if He
could have taken away the pain
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and the broken
heartedness from Abraham,
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He would have but He couldn't.
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The promised son must
come from a lawful marriage
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and we too must accept
God's way and His laws.
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Let us look at how God
was still working in the life
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of Ishmael and Hagar
even through all of this.
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In Genesis 21:19-21.
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Let's read that
together, "God opened her eyes,
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and she saw a well of water.
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And she went and
filled the skin with water,
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and gave the lad to drink.
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So God was with the
lad and he grew and dwelt
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in the wilderness
and became an archer.
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He dwelt in the
Wilderness of Paran
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and his mother took a wife
for him from the land of Egypt."
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I believe that Ishmael kept
in touch with his father Abraham
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and his brother Isaac.
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I believe that Ishmael continued
to worship his father's God,
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the God of Abraham.
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Here is why I believe this.
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Because in the Torah,
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in the book of the
beginnings in Genesis
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again we read in
Chapter 25:8-9, it tells us,
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"Then Abraham breathed his
last and died in a good old age,
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an old man and full of years,
and was gathered to his people.
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And his sons Isaac
and Ishmael buried him
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in the cave of Machpelah,"
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Isaac and Ishmael came
together to bury their father.
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If we study the scriptures,
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we will see that there
was a lot of connection
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between Abraham and Ishmael.
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Remember, Ishmael and
his mom dwelt in Paran.
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They moved, he
married an Egyptian
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but as we study more of the
scriptures which we will do.
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You'll see that
they lived in Beersheba.
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And you'll see that
that's where Abraham moved too.
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So the connection was
there, they stayed closed
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and Ishmael accepted that
he was not the son of promise
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but that Isaac was.
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And they came
together to bury their father.
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And Ishmael continued to
worship the God of Abraham.
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The Creator God
called Abraham to be
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the father of the faithful.
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And he was to be the
example of faith for all of us.
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I would like to add my voice
to the voice of our Creator
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who is inviting his Ishmaelite
children to come home.
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Our father is missing you.
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He is calling
you to return to him.
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He wants you to
come home Ishmaelites.
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He called me home.
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And now he is using
me to call you home.
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He loves you and He
continues to take care of you
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even though you
may have forgotten Him.
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Won't you try His way,
Ishmael knew the God of Abraham,
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the Creator, the One true
God and he worshipped Him.
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Somewhere, somehow
man made a mess of things.
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We always try to
do it our own way.
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We don't know what
the truth is anymore.
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We're told so
many different things
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by so many different people,
so many different nations,
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so many different cultures.
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That is why God, the One God,
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the true living God had to
come to this earth to show us
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the way and the truth.
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Won't you try His way, just try?
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He does not
force us to love Him.
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Call upon God, He
says, call me Abba,
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the one that Abraham called upon
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and allow Him to
direct you to His truth.
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Abba, father, is what
He wants us to call Him.
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It's an intimate
close personal relationship.
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I hope I pray,
that you will search
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and I know if you search
and if you pray and ask God
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reveal to me the truth,
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the true God
that He will do that.
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He will reveal Himself to you.
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My brothers, my
sisters, my fellow Ishmaelites,
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accept Him, accept the truth.
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I want to pray
for you right now.
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I want to pray with you.
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I want to ask our Abba,
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our father to
come into your heart.
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He is merciful, He is kind.
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And everyday He shows
us who He is and His love.
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When you wake up in the
morning, when you feel the rain,
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when you see the son, when you--
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all the food you're eating,
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He is the one that
supplies it for you.
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Let's pray together.
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Abba, thank You for
Your mercy and kindness
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that You show us everyday.
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Open our eyes, that we may
see Your blessings in our lives.
00:25:02.56\00:25:07.58
Help us to let go of
man's ways and traditions.
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You have rescued us
from the bondage of sin
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and from Satan himself
who wants to destroy us
00:25:16.29\00:25:20.42
and who wants to deceive us
for this our life belongs to You
00:25:20.45\00:25:26.41
and You only
because of Your mercy,
00:25:26.44\00:25:30.15
and Your grace upon
us, we belong to You.
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Bless us as we
continue on our journey
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to learn Your
truth for us, amen.
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Next time on the next program
I hope you'll join us again.
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We'll continue to
follow the life of Abraham
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and the ultimate test
from his God that he will face.
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It will be very difficult
for him but he will face it.
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If you have any questions,
00:26:08.02\00:26:11.56
if you would like to know
more about the God of Abraham,
00:26:11.59\00:26:16.56
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00:26:36.90\00:26:40.38
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00:27:04.77\00:27:07.68
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