Isn't God a great God?
Amen. He is good enough
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to bring us together
on Sabbath morning at this
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great place, amen.
I am grateful today,
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and appreciative to the
officers of the Oklahoma
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Conference for
inviting me to come and share
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these last few days
with you. I account it a
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privilege to be here,
and a privilege to share
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God's word and to
meet new people and to
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renew old acquaintances.
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A few years ago I had
the privilege of going to
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Ghana in Africa and
there were several persons
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from the Oklahoma Conference
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that were there, we
went and built a dormitory,
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for, a Girls
Dormitory there and an academy
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and it was good
to see folk here at
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Camp Meeting that
we have been there,
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to spend several days
with over there in Ghana.
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I bring you greetings from the
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Mid America Union Conference,
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where I am blessed to serve as
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secretary of the union.
We are 60,000 strong and
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500 congregations and
we have the same goal that
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you have and that is
to finish the work of God
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so all of us can go home, amen.
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And we ask that
you would pray for us
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as we seek to do God's
will in the territory that
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he has given to us. We
have one of the largest,
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in fact we have the
largest outside of the
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Canadian Union,
we have the largest
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Union Territory
of any other union.
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There is only I
think one other Union in
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our division where we
don't touch their border
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some place. So, we're
quite a large landmass
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there, we've got a lot
of people to deal with and
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we pray that you
would, we ask you for your
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prayers. I also want to
bring you greetings from
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Union College, I know
you have a great college
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here but I just
want to ask a question,
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how many of you have attended or
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graduated from Union College?
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Wow, look at there,
look at there. Well,
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I welcome you and
hope that you will remember
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your Alma Mater
and I will report to
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the president there
Dave Smith that I brought
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greetings to you
from Union College.
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This morning I want
to draw your attention
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to the Book of
Genesis, if you were here on
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last night and in
sabbath school this morning
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you will notice that
there was a continuum here,
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planned by God Himself.
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Genesis 22, and
beginning in verse 9,
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and then they came
to a place of which God
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had told him, and
Abraham built an altar there
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and placed the wood
in order, and he bound
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Isaac his son, and
laid him on the altar,
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upon the wood.
Abraham stretched out his hand
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and took the
knife to slay his son.
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But the angel of the
LORD called to him from
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heaven and said,
"Abraham, Abraham!"
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So he said, "Here
I am." And He said,
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"Do not lay your hand on the lad
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or do anything to him, for now
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I know that you fear
God, since you have not
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withheld your son,
your only son from me."
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Then Abraham lifted
up his eyes and looked,
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and there behind him was a ram,
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caught in a
thicket by his horns.
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So Abraham went and took the ram
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and offered it up
as a burnt offering
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instead of his
son. And Abraham called
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the name of the place,
The King James it says,
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Jehovah Jireh: the Lord
will provide as it is said
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to this day, In
the mount of the LORD
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it shall be provided.
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There is a lot of
talk today about faith.
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Particularly in the
secular world there is a
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lot of talk about
faith. People are being
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taught to trust and
have faith in themselves
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before they have faith and trust
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in anyone or anything else.
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One of the blessings
of church school is that
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church school our
schools concentrate and teach
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our students that God must,
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we must have faith in
God first. All the way
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through school I was in
our schools until I did my
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doctoral work
and then I went to a
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Secular University
and there it was pushed
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in my head and pushed in my head
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and pushed in my head to doubt
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everything but
myself. And the world is
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teaching folk to
trust self before anyone
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or anything else.
Right now our nation
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is in a quandary
for the president of the
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United States is
asking us to trust him,
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to have faith in him that things
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will work out in Iraq.
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And then there are
others there around
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the beltway, who are
saying we cannot have
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faith in the
President's plan, have faith in
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their plan, our
troops must come out of Iraq.
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They're asking us
to have faith in them,
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they are asking us to
have faith in the security
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of this nation so that
when we get on airplanes
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or we travel, we have
to have all kinds of papers
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now to get in and
out of the country and
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there are certain
things you can't take on an
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airplane and
being a heavy traveler,
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I can tell you it's not safe,
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I can tell you it's not safe,
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because there are
places you could just walk
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across the border
into the United States
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you don't have to go
through a border check.
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There are times when
I have forgotten and put
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the wrong thing in
my suitcase and went
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right on through, it's not safe.
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So don't have trust
and faith in man, man will.
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If you turn on
your television sets,
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you will hear a
lot of faith healers,
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and blessers on
the TV, I turned on TV
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the other night after
I left the meeting and I
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heard this
beautiful, beautiful music just
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I mean I'm saying this
is awesome music and as
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I listened to it and
the music ended and the
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speaker, a well
known international speaker
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came forward and
he began to preach,
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he began to talk
about healing and he said
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you're healed and
you're healed and you're healed
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and then he said if
you're not here you could be
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healed also and he
talked and he talked
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and he talked and he
talked and then he start
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talking about the
number and he said the number
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58 and we didn't
scripture, I lost in
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how he came up with
this 58, and 58 and he kept
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talking about 58 and
58 and 58 I kept saying to
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myself you know
where is he going with 58
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finally he said if
you will send me $58
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a month for 12 months
you can get the same healing.
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Amen! Strange
theology, for some folks
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faith is simply a con game,
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others confuse faith with trust,
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trust is based
upon past experiences.
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Trust is based upon
what? I am not asking you,
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it is a statement.
Trust is based upon the what,
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faith is based not on
past experiences but faith is
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based upon who not a
question but a statement.
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Trust is what
faith is who. When I knew
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I was coming to
Oklahoma Camp Meeting
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one of my good
friends is Rodney Glove,
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and we were
together a few weeks ago
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and I said to him tell me
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how is Oklahoma Camp Meeting.
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I had already agreed
to come and I don't like
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coming to dried up places.
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And so I wanted
to get myself ready,
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I wanted to know what
it's like and so Rodney,
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he said to me
you're going to love it.
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they are great people,
you'll have a good time
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and it's in an
air-conditioned pavilion
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and so when I came,
I came not in faith,
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I came trusting
because my friend who is
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trustworthy had told me
what it's all about, amen.
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When I walked out
on this platform on the
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Wednesday night I had
no doubt it would hold me
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up because I
trusted that the brethren
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had built it well, but
if the president had said
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to me when you
preach you must stand on
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this and walk out,
that would be faith, amen.
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Are you following me, amen?
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Trust is based
upon what, but faith is
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based upon whom. Amen.
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I can trust you because
I know what has happened
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in the past, but
there comes a time in our
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experience when past
experiences cannot show
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us what's gong to
happen next and so instead of
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trusting in man we
have to have faith in God
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and step out on nothing, amen.
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And there are many of
us who say we have faith
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but we only have
trust. Shall I say it again?
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There are many of us
who think we have faith
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but we only have trust.
When we talk about faith
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we cannot talk about faith
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without talking about Abraham.
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In Hebrews 11 that
hall of fame of faith
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more verses are
dedicated to Abraham
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than anyone else.
Abraham was God's man,
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can you imagine that
God thinking so much of you
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until God himself comes
to your house just to sit
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and have conversation with you.
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Can you imagine that
God is going to destroy
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one of the major
cities of the world and
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God comes to your
house first and says
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I am thinking about destroying?
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And you begin to say Lord, Lord,
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there must be
somebody in that city
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that's righteous and you
begin to bargain with God
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and God bargains
with you until you and God
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have an
agreement that if they have
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ten people God will spare it.
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Can you imaging having that kind
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of relationship with God?
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Yet, in our text here he is
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on this mountain
about to kill His only son,
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and the Bible says
God was testing Him.
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At first glance I'm astonished,
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I'm amazed at God's attitude,
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I'm horrified at
the length God will go
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to test a person
I wonder to myself
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if God doubt Abraham
is there any hope for me?
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I must confess, I
am also a little afraid
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because there are
some persons in this world
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who are precious to me
and I would not want God
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to ask me to take my own
hand and take their lives.
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It's one thing to give
up a loved one in death
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it's quite another to
slay them with your own hands,
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but as I continue to
read the narrative I began to
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understand that
Abraham has some understanding
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of what is happening
here, when the test was over
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Abraham memorialized the place
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for future generations.
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When Moses wrote
this chapter he called
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the name of the
place Jehovah-Raah.
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Follow me now, years
later when the translators
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translated Jehovah
Raah they translated
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it into the common
name of Mount Moriah
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for that time
which was Jehovah Jireh.
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Jehovah Jireh
is a powerful name.
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God will provide, if
you haven't thought about it
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we are here today only
because God has provided,
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can you say
amen out there, amen.
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He woke you up
this morning, amen.
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He gave your safe passage here.
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God has provided and I'm so glad
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that he still provides,
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come on say amen out
there, but Jehovah Jireh
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is not what
Abraham called the place,.
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Abraham named it
Jehovah-Raah, which means
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God can see, and
we'll see to it, amen, amen.
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There is a
difference in providing
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then and seeing to it.
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The difference is
you have a food pantry
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in your church and you give out
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25 baskets every
Wednesday and folk line up
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and as they come by
you just simply say here,
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here, here, here
that's providing,
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when you see to
it you bring them in
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sit them down,
find out what happened,
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why it happened,
how can I fix it.
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Jehovah Jireh is God
will make sure you get
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what you need,
Jehovah-Raah is God
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sees beyond what you need,
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knows where you came from,
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knows what you're facing and say
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I will take care
of your future. Amen.
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I'm glad that God
cares enough about me
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to see me God saw
Abraham and God saw
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that even though
Abraham was faithful,
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even though Abraham and He had
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this wonderful relationship yet
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there was a glitch in
Abraham's faithfulness
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and God needed to
deal with that glitch.
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When God called
Abraham, God said to Abraham
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leave the Ur of the Chaldees,
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leave your
country, leave your kinfolk,
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leave your ancestral home.
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God commanded Abraham to leave,
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the keyword here
is God called Abraham,
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Bible writer says
that God wanted Abraham
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to be a keeper of the sacred law
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for future generations.
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Therefore
Abraham must be separated
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from the
associations of his early life.
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The influence she
says of kindred and friends
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would interfere
with God's plans.
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So God said Abraham
leave, God saw that sometimes
00:20:51.49\00:20:58.98
environment affects
faith, if you look back at
00:20:59.34\00:21:04.56
Genesis 11, you
will discover that when
00:21:04.59\00:21:08.53
Abraham said to his
family I'm leaving town,
00:21:08.86\00:21:13.85
God has called me
Genesis 11, says that
00:21:14.31\00:21:17.89
Terah Abraham's
father said I will lead you,
00:21:17.92\00:21:26.93
are you following me, amen.
00:21:27.53\00:21:29.32
Terah knew how to take
things in this own hands,
00:21:31.04\00:21:37.08
Terah, Abraham's
father was a man who served
00:21:38.64\00:21:43.56
many Gods and the
main God he served
00:21:43.96\00:21:48.12
was the moon God.
00:21:48.15\00:21:50.59
Terah from the Ur of
the Chaldees which was
00:21:51.70\00:21:56.23
the center of
worship of the moon God
00:21:56.26\00:21:58.35
took Abraham and
locked and their families,
00:21:59.91\00:22:04.71
headed toward Canaan
but got stuck in Heron.
00:22:05.14\00:22:11.22
Heron is half way
between Ur of the Chaldees
00:22:12.68\00:22:19.32
and Canaan. God
said Abraham leave,
00:22:19.35\00:22:26.22
but Abraham
followed Terah his father.
00:22:26.94\00:22:32.37
There are times my
brothers and sisters
00:22:33.50\00:22:37.17
when God says
leave we have to leave
00:22:38.01\00:22:42.99
who he says leave, come
on say amen out there, amen.
00:22:43.10\00:22:47.41
There are times
when our environment
00:22:47.44\00:22:50.86
can reduce our faith,
if you are wrong, faithless
00:22:50.89\00:22:56.91
people you need to let
them alone, amen, amen.
00:22:56.94\00:23:02.22
If someone is always
downing your faith and I'm
00:23:05.72\00:23:09.64
not talking your
religion or your denomination,
00:23:09.67\00:23:12.52
I am talking about
relationship with God.
00:23:12.55\00:23:14.97
If someone, whoever it
is, is always telling you
00:23:15.00\00:23:19.06
trust and not
faith or always laughing
00:23:19.09\00:23:22.62
at your faith there
comes a time when you
00:23:22.65\00:23:25.66
have to separate
yourself from them, amen.
00:23:25.69\00:23:29.70
When God sees, God sees my path,
00:23:32.24\00:23:36.10
God sees my family, God
sees my family influence.
00:23:37.17\00:23:41.88
There are some folk who
have been mentally abused,
00:23:42.39\00:23:45.78
who have been cursed
out, who have been told
00:23:46.27\00:23:49.20
that they never would
be anything they have been
00:23:49.23\00:23:52.21
always criticized and
never praised and as a
00:23:52.24\00:23:56.17
result some folk
have self esteem problems,
00:23:56.20\00:24:00.01
some folk can't
stay in relationships
00:24:00.40\00:24:03.59
because they
don't love themselves,
00:24:03.62\00:24:05.83
some folk are cold
and hard harded because
00:24:06.19\00:24:09.75
it is a defense
mechanism against pain,
00:24:09.78\00:24:12.70
some folk gossip about everybody
00:24:12.98\00:24:15.23
because it's
easier to talk about you
00:24:15.60\00:24:18.17
then it is to talk about me.
00:24:18.37\00:24:20.08
Well God knows my roots,
00:24:20.47\00:24:22.52
God sees where I came from,
00:24:22.84\00:24:25.44
God understands
where I came from,
00:24:25.83\00:24:29.57
when we
understand then we understand
00:24:29.87\00:24:32.78
that when Abraham took
Hagar to have his child,
00:24:33.09\00:24:36.83
he was just doing
what his daddy would do,
00:24:37.13\00:24:39.94
taking things in his own hands.
00:24:40.26\00:24:44.26
But I'm happy to
report to you today that
00:24:47.89\00:24:51.54
family influences
and DNA is no match
00:24:52.62\00:24:58.14
for my Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
00:24:58.17\00:25:00.78
He who created DNA can
look at me and recreate me
00:25:01.13\00:25:06.57
in his image, would you
say amen out there, amen.
00:25:06.60\00:25:09.81
I am not stuck where I
am, I am not stuck with who
00:25:09.84\00:25:15.13
somebody else wants me to be,
00:25:15.50\00:25:17.58
my God can change me
from the inside out, amen.
00:25:17.91\00:25:22.85
Now, Drake has powerful blood.
00:25:25.81\00:25:31.73
My father is
the only male Drake.
00:25:35.22\00:25:42.18
He was Charles the
second, he had 13 sisters,
00:25:44.04\00:25:48.05
amen and he was
12th of the 13 children,
00:25:48.08\00:25:56.63
and he had two sons
myself, Charles the 3rd
00:25:57.85\00:26:04.56
and a brother that I
had. Everyone of my aunt's
00:26:05.40\00:26:12.96
children look like me.
Everyone male children,
00:26:12.99\00:26:24.95
everything God
just male children.
00:26:24.98\00:26:27.03
Everyone of my
father's cousins or my
00:26:34.86\00:26:39.64
father's nephews if
we were to parade in here
00:26:39.67\00:26:43.79
tonight this morning
you see you know all of us
00:26:43.82\00:26:48.16
our family
because we all look alike,
00:26:48.19\00:26:51.97
my children look
like me, my grandchildren
00:26:52.78\00:26:58.91
look like me. Folk
will always say to my wife,
00:26:59.66\00:27:03.02
where were you? I cannot change
00:27:03.05\00:27:11.90
what I look like on the outside.
00:27:12.28\00:27:14.18
God does not expect me to change
00:27:14.95\00:27:18.04
what I look like on
the outside but God said
00:27:18.07\00:27:21.53
regardless of who you
look like on the outside
00:27:21.56\00:27:24.92
I can change you on the inside,
00:27:25.25\00:27:27.55
you don't have to be
the way of others are,
00:27:27.86\00:27:30.97
you are my child, amen.
00:27:31.00\00:27:33.89
So they leave
Ur and they journey
00:27:37.34\00:27:40.70
to Haran and
sometimes because they only
00:27:40.73\00:27:46.21
go half way, they
only went half way
00:27:46.24\00:27:48.61
sometimes we don't receive
00:27:49.43\00:27:52.36
the full blessings
of God because we don't
00:27:52.81\00:27:56.58
follow his will all of the way,
00:27:56.61\00:27:59.47
we let someone else
hold up our blessing.
00:27:59.50\00:28:04.44
The Bible writer
says we will never enjoy
00:28:07.38\00:28:10.18
the full blessings of
the Lord until we understand
00:28:10.58\00:28:15.56
that the power of
God is stronger than
00:28:15.95\00:28:19.77
the naturally
inherit tendencies of man.
00:28:19.80\00:28:23.93
If you look at
the Lord's family,
00:28:24.74\00:28:26.89
there were murderers
and liars and adulterers
00:28:26.92\00:28:30.34
and prostitutes and thieves
00:28:30.37\00:28:32.84
in the Lord's
family. And the Lord said
00:28:32.87\00:28:35.35
I over came
therefore you can overcome.
00:28:35.38\00:28:39.42
Now Abraham is 75 years old,
00:28:41.73\00:28:46.24
it's time to settle
down, it's time for him to
00:28:47.56\00:28:52.82
enjoy his
grandchildren, it's time for him
00:28:52.85\00:28:57.34
to enjoy his
wealth, but his problem is
00:28:57.37\00:29:01.30
he don't have any children,
00:29:01.82\00:29:03.09
he is 75 years old
without chick no child
00:29:03.78\00:29:07.55
and God comes
again with the command
00:29:08.39\00:29:11.44
in the chapter 12,
leave your country,
00:29:11.47\00:29:13.66
leave your kinfolk,
leave your father's house.
00:29:14.02\00:29:16.95
Lord, where shall I go,
00:29:16.98\00:29:19.53
just leave and I
will tell you where to go.
00:29:19.86\00:29:25.59
Can you imagine
someone come unto and saying
00:29:26.85\00:29:30.98
pack up your house, put
everything you have on a
00:29:31.28\00:29:35.03
moving van and just
start moving down the street.
00:29:35.06\00:29:38.73
Abraham was a rich man
you read in other places,
00:29:40.39\00:29:43.64
where Abraham had
close to a thousand servants.
00:29:44.04\00:29:46.75
So what in like okay yeah
00:29:48.15\00:29:49.82
let's gets up this morning
00:29:49.85\00:29:50.82
pack a suitcase and
go. It was a huge move
00:29:50.83\00:29:56.32
and I see Abraham
walking down the street
00:29:57.25\00:30:00.82
with a parade of people
and the neighbors saying,
00:30:00.85\00:30:06.03
Abraham, where are
you going? I don't know,
00:30:06.06\00:30:09.97
I hear him saying
Sarah, have you had a talk
00:30:12.11\00:30:15.53
with Abraham. You
know Abraham, Eleazar
00:30:15.56\00:30:21.87
his main head
servant, Eleazar had to have
00:30:21.90\00:30:26.43
a talk with
Abraham, Abraham knows what
00:30:26.46\00:30:29.04
he's doing
because Abraham is walking
00:30:29.07\00:30:31.85
out in faith
Abraham is a rich vagabond,
00:30:31.88\00:30:37.15
Abraham knows
that somewhere God is
00:30:37.18\00:30:42.21
moving for him, there
God saw that he needed
00:30:42.24\00:30:47.23
to increase Abraham's
faith. Sometimes it is
00:30:47.26\00:30:52.56
possible to be
faithful in some instances
00:30:52.59\00:30:56.81
and faithfulness in other times.
00:30:56.84\00:31:00.06
There are times when
we maybe faithful in tithe
00:31:00.09\00:31:07.04
and offering and
faithless in how we keep the
00:31:07.07\00:31:11.54
Sabbath day. There
are times when we maybe
00:31:11.57\00:31:19.40
faithful in our diet and
faithless in our attitude.
00:31:19.43\00:31:26.33
There are some folk
and you've heard this over
00:31:26.36\00:31:29.54
and over and over
again, but I'm gonna say it
00:31:29.57\00:31:31.78
again there are some
folk who would rather
00:31:31.81\00:31:34.41
shoot themselves before
they put a piece of meat
00:31:34.44\00:31:37.36
in their mouth, but
they eat people all the time.
00:31:37.39\00:31:41.53
I was supposed, this
is supposed, subposition
00:31:51.53\00:31:54.83
by Drake. I will
suppose that God would rather
00:31:54.86\00:31:59.13
have you wrap your
lips around a chicken thigh
00:31:59.16\00:32:02.46
then wrap you lips
around words that hurt
00:32:02.49\00:32:05.46
other people, amen.
Faithful in learning,
00:32:05.49\00:32:13.16
faithful in study,
every morning you get up
00:32:13.19\00:32:17.69
and you have your
devotions but faithless in
00:32:17.72\00:32:21.76
obeying what you've read, amen.
00:32:21.79\00:32:24.55
Making a decision
that well I know what the
00:32:24.58\00:32:29.13
Bible says but I, I
know what the Bible says.
00:32:29.16\00:32:39.43
We ought not be
unequally yoked together.
00:32:39.46\00:32:43.04
But she's a
Christian, she goes to church
00:32:43.07\00:32:48.44
every Sunday morning,
and I just don't believe
00:32:48.47\00:32:53.97
that God wants me to
be single all the rest
00:32:54.00\00:32:57.27
of my life, amen. In
chapter 15, God comes
00:32:57.30\00:33:14.70
back to Abraham,
because Abraham is
00:33:14.73\00:33:17.85
complaining now.
Abraham is saying God
00:33:17.88\00:33:21.00
you told me, my seed
is gonna be like the sand
00:33:21.03\00:33:25.22
of the sea, like
stars of the sky, no one
00:33:25.25\00:33:29.26
could count them and
here I am seventy five
00:33:29.29\00:33:32.37
years old I have
nobody and I don't have a
00:33:32.40\00:33:35.75
place to call
home, I am a vagabond.
00:33:35.78\00:33:38.66
God comes back
to him and God says
00:33:38.69\00:33:43.80
I will make a new
covenant with you Abraham,
00:33:43.83\00:33:47.28
he says look now
towards heaven count
00:33:47.31\00:33:52.05
the stars if you can,
I will renew the covenant
00:33:52.08\00:33:55.70
and say to you your
seed will be like the stars
00:33:55.73\00:34:00.20
of the sky. Abraham
said, Lord I need you to
00:34:00.23\00:34:05.97
show me a sign, and
so the Bible writer says
00:34:06.00\00:34:10.33
that God gave
Abraham a dream and showed
00:34:10.36\00:34:15.05
him from his time
all the way up through
00:34:15.08\00:34:20.25
the echoes of time
and he saw the saints of
00:34:20.28\00:34:24.42
God standing in the
new Jerusalem, amen.
00:34:24.45\00:34:28.86
What a vision, what a site,
00:34:28.89\00:34:34.28
but still nothing
happened. 25 years later
00:34:34.31\00:34:45.41
God comes back to
Abraham. Now Abraham
00:34:45.44\00:34:51.05
is a 100 years old.
Now Sarah is 90 years old
00:34:51.08\00:34:58.25
God comes back
and God says Abraham,
00:34:58.28\00:35:02.48
you're gonna have a baby.
00:35:02.51\00:35:05.17
Sarah's walking around,
she's got a little pouch
00:35:15.11\00:35:19.58
and folks say
Sarah you're putting on
00:35:19.61\00:35:21.78
a little weight
aren't you. She says no,
00:35:21.81\00:35:24.48
I'm with child, folks
says you're 90 years old,
00:35:24.51\00:35:28.01
you can't have a
child, you're 90 years old
00:35:28.04\00:35:33.02
you lost your mind
somebody needs to examine
00:35:33.05\00:35:35.36
she has a psycho
problem. Abraham walks around
00:35:35.39\00:35:41.00
and say yeah I might
old but I still got it.
00:35:41.03\00:35:43.49
Listen to this, Bible
writer says faith maybe
00:35:51.70\00:35:58.04
genuine and strong,
yet prove weak in moments
00:35:58.07\00:36:03.52
of stress and
perplexity. There are times when
00:36:03.55\00:36:10.10
faith, we have a lot of
faith and there are times
00:36:10.13\00:36:13.88
when that great faith
fails us. We must remember
00:36:13.91\00:36:19.72
that faith grows
through experience;
00:36:19.75\00:36:25.43
experience is
what gives us faith.
00:36:25.46\00:36:29.28
God does not require
us to have great faith.
00:36:29.31\00:36:35.09
He says if you have
enough faith the size
00:36:35.12\00:36:37.97
of a mustard seed you
could move a mountain.
00:36:38.00\00:36:42.15
Have you ever
seen a mustard seed
00:36:42.18\00:36:44.68
if you put it on your
finger you could barely
00:36:44.71\00:36:47.56
see it, God says
you don't have to have a
00:36:47.59\00:36:50.04
whole lot of faith if
you just got a mustard
00:36:50.07\00:36:52.80
seed faith, you can
say to this mountain get
00:36:52.83\00:36:55.98
out of here and
the mountain will move.
00:36:56.01\00:36:59.16
Our problem is, we
want great faith without
00:36:59.19\00:37:04.01
going through
faith's experiences, amen.
00:37:04.04\00:37:08.91
You got to start
small and God builds it
00:37:08.94\00:37:13.47
little by little
by little by little.
00:37:13.50\00:37:16.49
We were in
school there came a time
00:37:16.52\00:37:22.59
when we ran out
of money, and ran out
00:37:22.62\00:37:27.94
of food, my wife and
I, all we had left was
00:37:27.97\00:37:34.18
a pot of beans, we
ate beans for lunch,
00:37:34.21\00:37:39.80
beans for dinner, we
had beans for breakfast
00:37:39.83\00:37:46.14
the next day. The
beans we had for breakfast
00:37:46.17\00:37:50.92
were the last beans we
had. I didn't have a job,
00:37:50.95\00:37:57.06
she didn't have a
job, we couldn't find jobs,
00:37:57.09\00:38:01.17
out of money, in
school, trying to get ready
00:38:01.20\00:38:05.44
to do the Lord's
work, mail man came,
00:38:05.47\00:38:10.29
in the mail was a
letter from my mother,
00:38:10.32\00:38:14.23
saw the handwriting
oh mom's encouraging us,
00:38:14.26\00:38:18.62
open the letter, out
of the letter a check
00:38:18.65\00:38:22.65
falls out, a check
for a $100, now $100 may
00:38:22.68\00:38:29.29
not be much now but in the 60s
00:38:29.32\00:38:32.47
it was a week's
wages my mother said,
00:38:32.50\00:38:37.52
got this letter the
other day forwarding
00:38:37.55\00:38:42.59
it on to you three years before
00:38:42.62\00:38:47.21
I had worked for a
company in the summer time,
00:38:47.24\00:38:52.00
three years later they
are auditing their books
00:38:52.03\00:38:56.34
and they discovered
that they forgot to pay
00:38:56.37\00:38:59.37
me vacation time. You
think they forgot to pay me,
00:38:59.40\00:39:07.84
I think God hid it and
God knew three years down
00:39:07.87\00:39:14.22
the road when Drake
was out of everything,
00:39:14.25\00:39:17.75
he was going to
come through, there have
00:39:17.78\00:39:20.62
been time since then
when the cupboard has
00:39:20.65\00:39:23.60
gotten lean and I
don't worry about it because
00:39:23.63\00:39:26.74
I know God will
come through every time.
00:39:26.77\00:39:31.10
But I had to go
through that, to have faith
00:39:33.74\00:39:37.51
that God is gonna
provide for us, amen,
00:39:37.54\00:39:40.70
you can't just wake
up one morning and say
00:39:40.73\00:39:42.83
I've got enough
faith to move a mountain,
00:39:42.86\00:39:45.58
mountain be
though removed and the
00:39:45.61\00:39:48.28
mountain moves,
you've got to go through
00:39:48.31\00:39:50.72
faith experiences,
amen. I was a young preacher
00:39:50.75\00:39:56.58
and a sister was
sick in the hospital
00:39:56.61\00:40:03.51
and asked for
anointing. So I took the elders
00:40:03.54\00:40:12.07
on Sabbath afternoon
we went to the hospital
00:40:12.10\00:40:17.35
put on my black
suit, had on my black tie,
00:40:17.38\00:40:22.69
my white shirt,
many elders strode down
00:40:22.72\00:40:27.58
the hospital
corridor, I had my Bible just
00:40:27.61\00:40:31.07
like that. I was
Holy man, I was holy.
00:40:31.10\00:40:36.05
I am going in
to anoint a sister,
00:40:36.08\00:40:37.90
stood at the, stood
at the foot of her bed,
00:40:37.93\00:40:41.64
talk with her
about James chapter 2,
00:40:41.67\00:40:45.30
you know if there
be any sick read some
00:40:45.33\00:40:48.28
scripture getting
ready to pray Holy
00:40:48.31\00:40:52.46
you know the holy, the
elders surrounded the bed,
00:40:52.49\00:40:56.59
we were gonna hold
hands and I was gonna
00:40:56.62\00:40:59.03
to rub the oil on her
head while I had a little
00:40:59.06\00:41:01.88
talk with Jesus,
suddenly the door flew open
00:41:01.91\00:41:07.48
and a member of my
church she's gone now.
00:41:07.51\00:41:11.82
Sister Turnie was
her name so the Turnie
00:41:11.85\00:41:15.31
always wore hats,
she always wore them
00:41:15.34\00:41:18.21
crooked on her
head. Sister Turnie came
00:41:18.24\00:41:23.78
through the door
like a Sherman Tank, bang,
00:41:23.81\00:41:27.25
came in the room,
we're standing there Holy,
00:41:27.28\00:41:30.25
she walked right up
to bed ignores the fact
00:41:30.28\00:41:32.44
that we are there and
she says to the sister,
00:41:32.47\00:41:35.22
honey, where does it
hurt she says right here
00:41:35.25\00:41:38.62
she laid her hands
right there, she began to
00:41:38.65\00:41:41.59
pray ignoring all of
us, she began to pray.
00:41:41.62\00:41:44.39
I'm standing there
saying, wait a minute now,
00:41:44.42\00:41:46.11
I'm the pastor
and she you know but
00:41:46.14\00:41:48.68
she started
praying and she pray and
00:41:48.71\00:41:52.09
when she got
finished prayer and she walked
00:41:52.12\00:41:54.35
turn around and
started toward the door,
00:41:54.38\00:41:56.83
and said get up. And I
am saying to myself now
00:41:56.86\00:42:02.78
they already said you
can't get up, they already
00:42:02.81\00:42:05.81
said she's almost
gone, that's why we're here,
00:42:05.84\00:42:09.09
but the sister got
up, walked out the room
00:42:09.12\00:42:15.00
herself nurses
came from everywhere,
00:42:15.03\00:42:18.61
bells went off,
alarms went off and I learned
00:42:18.64\00:42:24.16
that having a
degree and having pastor
00:42:24.19\00:42:27.91
before my name did
not mean that I was the
00:42:27.94\00:42:31.54
only one that had
enough faith to heal
00:42:31.57\00:42:35.04
somebody. You've
got to go through faith
00:42:35.07\00:42:40.48
experiences before
you reach the mountain
00:42:40.51\00:42:43.54
top, amen. Why did God
wait so long for Isaac,
00:42:43.57\00:42:51.00
Bible writer again, God
often allows circumstances
00:42:51.03\00:42:56.22
to reach a point
where human impotence
00:42:56.25\00:42:59.40
stands forth in
striking contrast to his
00:42:59.43\00:43:03.46
omnipotence, amen.
God says I want Isaac
00:43:03.49\00:43:07.64
to be born but I want
the world to know that
00:43:07.67\00:43:11.44
Abraham and Sarah didn't do it,
00:43:11.47\00:43:14.48
I want the world
to know that I did it,
00:43:14.51\00:43:18.33
the birth of Isaac
was contrary to the course
00:43:18.36\00:43:22.79
of nature, amen. At
last, our dream is fulfilled,
00:43:22.82\00:43:32.75
for 20 years there
is contact from God,
00:43:32.78\00:43:37.27
Abraham loves this
boy Isaac. Its his only,
00:43:37.30\00:43:44.45
its his only
begotten son I know he had
00:43:44.48\00:43:50.63
another son, but this
was the only begotten,
00:43:50.66\00:43:56.29
the only chosen
one, right, then because
00:43:56.32\00:44:02.27
the God who sees
also sees now God comes
00:44:02.30\00:44:11.00
in the night sees
him and he says Abraham,
00:44:11.03\00:44:15.70
Abraham and Abraham
knows that it's God talking.
00:44:15.73\00:44:22.09
If you look through
scripture you will discover
00:44:22.12\00:44:24.95
that every time God
calls, he calls twice Adam,
00:44:24.98\00:44:29.88
Adam. Abraham,
Abraham, take now your
00:44:29.91\00:44:38.81
only son, what's the matter God?
00:44:38.84\00:44:43.54
What happened? Again
from the pen of inspiration,
00:44:43.57\00:44:48.87
Abraham failed the
first test by not waiting on
00:44:48.90\00:44:55.08
the promise, if he
had waited he would not
00:44:55.11\00:44:59.78
have had to go
through this test, some of the
00:44:59.81\00:45:04.74
stuff we're going
through is our own fault, amen.
00:45:04.77\00:45:10.06
We can't blame anyone
for our foolish decisions,
00:45:10.09\00:45:14.97
come on say
amen out there, amen.
00:45:15.00\00:45:16.62
We've made some mistakes
but God does not abandon
00:45:16.65\00:45:21.24
us and our mistakes
praise His Holy name.
00:45:21.27\00:45:23.94
Satan accused God
of making an exception
00:45:23.97\00:45:26.74
to Abraham's faith.
Satan said that Abraham had
00:45:26.77\00:45:30.30
broken the
covenant and was unworthy
00:45:30.33\00:45:33.19
of the blessings. And
Abraham, Bible writer says,
00:45:33.22\00:45:39.90
and Isaac's
relationship began to replace
00:45:39.93\00:45:45.06
Abraham's relationship with God.
00:45:45.09\00:45:48.69
And so God said
take this thy son.
00:45:48.72\00:45:54.41
Abraham
wrestled with this thing,
00:45:54.44\00:45:58.39
Satan told him it can't be true.
00:45:58.42\00:46:02.26
God said this son was
gonna be like the stars
00:46:02.29\00:46:07.21
of the, his children
like the stars of the sky.
00:46:07.24\00:46:11.08
God would give you
this son and then take
00:46:11.11\00:46:13.73
him away. Abraham
labored with this thing,
00:46:13.76\00:46:16.84
Bible writer says, he
went to the bed of Isaac,
00:46:16.87\00:46:20.14
look at him,
couldn't say anything to him
00:46:20.17\00:46:24.09
and walked out of
this bedroom went over
00:46:24.12\00:46:26.74
to Sarah, watch
Sarah sleeping knowing that
00:46:26.77\00:46:30.21
if he told Sarah
what was going to happen
00:46:30.24\00:46:32.91
she might try to
stop it, he knew God was
00:46:32.94\00:46:36.40
talking to him, he
knew God was testing him,
00:46:36.43\00:46:39.90
he knew he had to obey God.
00:46:39.93\00:46:42.66
But we didn't
understand it, so he got
00:46:42.69\00:46:47.09
Isaac up took two man servants,
00:46:47.12\00:46:51.11
said we're going to
the mountain to worship,
00:46:51.14\00:46:56.73
it was a three day
journey, every night
00:46:56.76\00:47:00.32
they stopped. Isaac
and the servants slept,
00:47:00.35\00:47:03.75
but Abraham stayed up
all night long talking
00:47:03.78\00:47:06.88
to the Lord he is a
125 now and he's up all
00:47:06.91\00:47:13.61
night long, his body
is weary but he's pleading
00:47:13.64\00:47:17.68
with God saying,
Lord, tell me, tell me,
00:47:17.71\00:47:21.61
show me something but
God would not show him
00:47:21.64\00:47:25.44
anything. He had to
walk by faith, and then
00:47:25.47\00:47:32.75
on that third day he
sees the cloud hanging
00:47:32.78\00:47:37.46
over Mount Moriah and
he knows this is the place,
00:47:37.49\00:47:42.87
he knows God has
not changed his mind,
00:47:42.90\00:47:47.82
at the foot of
Mount Moriah. Abraham says
00:47:47.85\00:47:53.72
to the servants,
words of faith, he says you
00:47:53.75\00:47:58.64
wait here and we the boy and I,
00:47:58.67\00:48:03.05
we will go up, we
will make the sacrifice
00:48:03.08\00:48:08.24
and we will
come back down, amen.
00:48:08.27\00:48:11.57
Abraham, how do
you know if we go up
00:48:11.60\00:48:15.63
we can come back,
I know because I know
00:48:15.66\00:48:19.48
Jehovah-Raah, God
can see and God's going
00:48:19.51\00:48:24.20
to take care of it.
Amen. Climbing up one side
00:48:24.23\00:48:29.61
of the mountain
is Abraham and Isaac,
00:48:29.64\00:48:34.27
climbing up the
other side is a lonely ram,
00:48:34.30\00:48:40.57
just eating himself up
the side of the mountain,
00:48:40.60\00:48:46.22
the whole universe
is watching the drama
00:48:46.25\00:48:50.19
because they understand
that what's taking place
00:48:50.22\00:48:53.43
there is a foretaste of
what's going to take place,
00:48:53.46\00:48:57.12
because a few
yards from Mount Moriah
00:48:57.15\00:49:00.06
stands Golgotha's
heel, up one side of
00:49:00.09\00:49:03.84
it's mountain the
Lord cries out for justice
00:49:03.87\00:49:07.89
but coming up the
other side of its mountain
00:49:07.92\00:49:10.36
is a wounded, broken
Jesus. On Mount Moriah
00:49:10.39\00:49:16.98
Isaac carries the
wood, on Mount Calvary Jesus
00:49:17.01\00:49:24.40
carries the cross,
on Mount Moriah Abraham
00:49:24.43\00:49:29.77
builds an alter. On
Mount Calvary cross is laid
00:49:29.80\00:49:34.85
out on the ground,
on Mount Moriah Isaac
00:49:34.88\00:49:39.21
asks father, where is
the lamb on Mount Calvary
00:49:39.24\00:49:43.59
Jesus cries out my
God, my God, why have you
00:49:43.62\00:49:48.16
forsaken me, on Mount
Moriah Isaac is laid out,
00:49:48.19\00:49:53.89
on Mount Calvary
Jesus is stretched out.
00:49:53.92\00:49:58.80
On Mount Moriah
Abraham raises the knife,
00:49:58.83\00:50:03.52
on Mount Calvary the
Father hides His face
00:50:03.55\00:50:07.95
from his Son and
Satan and death begins
00:50:07.98\00:50:11.60
to make his move,
on Mount Moriah Abraham
00:50:11.63\00:50:15.93
brings down the
knife and suddenly on
00:50:15.96\00:50:19.36
Mount Moriah Abraham
hears the voice Abraham,
00:50:19.39\00:50:23.68
Abraham hold on
Abraham you don't have
00:50:23.71\00:50:27.78
to slay your son, there
is a ram in the thicken,
00:50:27.81\00:50:31.76
where is the ram
Lord, the ram is on
00:50:31.79\00:50:35.46
Mount Calvary. Jehovah-Raah,
00:50:35.49\00:50:44.17
God has seen to
it. God says Abraham,
00:50:44.20\00:50:51.57
I know, I know where
your allegiance is now,
00:50:51.60\00:50:56.34
I know that you
serve me above everybody
00:50:56.37\00:51:01.95
else. Abraham gave up
Isaac, God gave up Jesus.
00:51:01.98\00:51:08.74
Abraham had faith in
God, but God had faith
00:51:08.77\00:51:15.58
in Abraham,
because while Abraham was
00:51:15.61\00:51:20.64
offering up Isaac
God had Abraham's nephew
00:51:20.67\00:51:25.71
raising Rebecca
to be Isaac's wife.
00:51:25.74\00:51:29.58
There was no plan
B, somebody says what
00:51:29.61\00:51:37.88
if Abraham had
failed. Bible writer says,
00:51:37.91\00:51:43.09
Abraham could not
fail, God made a covenant
00:51:43.12\00:51:49.37
and if
Abraham's faith had waned,
00:51:49.40\00:51:53.95
God would have
increase his faith.
00:51:53.98\00:51:58.16
So he would
have passed the test.
00:51:58.19\00:52:00.58
Somebody said that's not fair,
00:52:00.61\00:52:02.67
but I want to
suggest to you this morning
00:52:02.70\00:52:05.03
that God has made
a covenant with us.
00:52:05.06\00:52:08.66
First John 1:9 if
we confess our sins
00:52:08.69\00:52:12.43
his faithful and just
to forgive us our sins.
00:52:12.46\00:52:16.63
First John 2, if
we sin, if you sin and
00:52:16.66\00:52:21.05
make a mistake and
sin we have an advocate
00:52:21.08\00:52:24.89
with the father,
who will stand there
00:52:24.92\00:52:27.96
and say my blood
father will shed for this man,
00:52:27.99\00:52:31.52
my blood father
will shed for that woman
00:52:31.55\00:52:34.52
and then First John 3
now we are the sons of God.
00:52:34.55\00:52:41.62
But that not yet
appear what we shall be
00:52:41.65\00:52:44.80
but this we know when
he comes we shall be like
00:52:44.83\00:52:49.36
him Jesus says I've
got a covenant with you,
00:52:49.39\00:52:53.33
if you confess your
sins I guarantee you,
00:52:53.36\00:52:56.67
you will make it
into the kingdom.
00:52:56.70\00:52:58.67
Jehovah-Raah God can
see and will see to it.
00:52:58.70\00:53:08.78
I began Wednesday
night, talking about one word
00:53:08.81\00:53:13.73
and that word is surrender.
And that's what faith is,
00:53:13.76\00:53:20.60
faith is surrendering
and the problem with
00:53:20.63\00:53:27.03
surrender is us,
we get in the way.
00:53:27.06\00:53:32.66
Lord I want to
stand up on my own feet.
00:53:32.69\00:53:37.11
No, no God says you
gotta let go you gotta
00:53:37.14\00:53:42.31
let me do it. Now I
want to ask you today,
00:53:42.34\00:53:45.94
do you want faith do
you know that only faith
00:53:45.97\00:53:51.43
will take us into
the kingdom, amen?
00:53:51.46\00:53:54.06
You've never
heaven; you've never seen a
00:53:54.09\00:53:58.10
street paved with
gold, you've never seen a
00:53:58.13\00:54:01.46
pearl big enough to be
a gate, you've not only,
00:54:01.49\00:54:05.18
you have, you, you
have not even seen Jesus.
00:54:05.21\00:54:09.77
All you've done is
read a book, that's talked
00:54:09.80\00:54:13.58
about him. All you've
done is talk to people
00:54:13.61\00:54:17.30
who testified
what the book has done
00:54:17.33\00:54:20.09
but you don't know for
sure except through faith.
00:54:20.12\00:54:28.14
If you're gonna
get to the kingdom
00:54:28.17\00:54:31.73
we gotta have
faith, if you're gonna have
00:54:31.76\00:54:35.56
faith you gotta let
go. You have to surrender,
00:54:35.59\00:54:40.27
some stuff in your
life you gotta let go some
00:54:40.30\00:54:45.18
problems you've
been trying to figure out
00:54:45.21\00:54:47.03
you've gotta let go,
amen. So I wonder today in
00:54:47.06\00:54:52.11
the next couple of
minutes we have finish up here,
00:54:52.14\00:54:54.43
if you're ready to
surrender, listen as
00:54:54.46\00:54:59.94
the pastor
sings, every head bowed,
00:54:59.97\00:55:02.93
every eyes closed,
it's your time with God.
00:55:02.96\00:55:08.40
God said your time now,
he's talking to you now,
00:55:08.43\00:55:13.31
he's making a new
covenant with you now,
00:55:13.34\00:55:16.20
and all he's asking you to do is
00:55:16.23\00:55:18.74
surrender, are you ready.
00:55:18.77\00:55:21.63
All to Jesus I surrender,
All to Him I freely give;
00:55:21.66\00:55:38.22
I will ever love and trust Him,
00:55:38.25\00:55:45.85
In His presence daily live.
00:55:45.88\00:55:54.26
I surrender
all, I surrender all.
00:55:54.29\00:56:08.69
All to Thee, my blessed
Savior, I surrender all.
00:56:08.72\00:56:23.13
And I am gonna to ask you to do
00:56:23.16\00:56:24.13
something that
some of you maybe a
00:56:24.14\00:56:25.11
little uncomfortable
with. A little accustomed
00:56:25.12\00:56:28.98
too. But we're
living in the last days,
00:56:29.01\00:56:33.82
the last breaths
of earth's history.
00:56:33.85\00:56:37.35
Jesus is about to
come, amen. Even folk
00:56:37.38\00:56:42.03
who don't believe
in Jesus know something
00:56:42.06\00:56:44.47
is about to take
place in this world.
00:56:44.50\00:56:47.45
Something has to take
place or the world will
00:56:47.48\00:56:50.61
implode upon
itself. It's time to stop
00:56:50.64\00:56:54.04
playing games, that's
right. it's time to stop
00:56:54.07\00:56:57.02
talking about it,
it's time to do something
00:56:57.05\00:57:00.24
about it, amen. It's
time to stop just say Lord
00:57:00.27\00:57:03.01
I promise, it's time
to surrender if today
00:57:03.04\00:57:07.95
you're ready to say
all to Jesus I surrender.
00:57:07.98\00:57:12.91
All to Him I freely
give. Now I'm gonna ask
00:57:12.94\00:57:17.88
you to stand from where you are,
00:57:17.91\00:57:19.86
make your way
down front foot altar,
00:57:19.89\00:57:22.56
a special prayer
gonna ask the president
00:57:22.59\00:57:24.73
to come and pray for us.
00:57:24.76\00:57:26.06
And just all to
prayer and make your way
00:57:26.09\00:57:29.01
down front while he
sings the next stanza,
00:57:29.04\00:57:31.30
don't be afraid,
just come on down.
00:57:31.33\00:57:34.61
All to Jesus I surrender,
00:57:34.64\00:57:41.89
Make me, Savior, wholly Thine;
00:57:41.92\00:57:48.77
Let me feel Thy Holy Spirit,
00:57:48.80\00:57:56.17
Truly know that Thou art mine.
00:57:56.20\00:58:03.64
This is your day.
This is surrender time.
00:58:03.67\00:58:05.47
I surrender
all, I surrender all.
00:58:05.50\00:58:17.61
All to Thee, my blessed
Savior, I surrender all.
00:58:17.64\00:58:32.33
Now before we
close I want to ask you
00:58:32.36\00:58:35.32
another question,
there maybe someone here
00:58:35.35\00:58:38.33
who is not a
member of the Seventh-Day
00:58:38.36\00:58:40.80
Adventist Church.
You may have been born
00:58:40.83\00:58:43.98
into the family of
Adventist but you've
00:58:44.01\00:58:45.79
never full surrendered
and said yes I want to
00:58:45.82\00:58:48.05
be baptized in
the church. Maybe this
00:58:48.08\00:58:50.75
is your firs
time at camp meeting,
00:58:50.78\00:58:52.55
maybe you've been
attending church but
00:58:52.58\00:58:54.81
never joined the
church. I've come today to
00:58:54.84\00:58:58.98
invite you to
become a part of God's
00:58:59.01\00:59:01.56
remnant people,
amen. If you're here today
00:59:01.59\00:59:04.46
you're not a
member of the church but
00:59:04.49\00:59:07.04
you want to join
God's church, so you just
00:59:07.07\00:59:09.63
slip you hand up where
you are, just slip your
00:59:09.66\00:59:12.56
hand up where you
are. Heaven is here,
00:59:12.59\00:59:15.71
Holy Spirit is
speaking. God is moving on
00:59:15.74\00:59:20.01
someone's heart.
Where are you now,
00:59:20.04\00:59:22.75
just say yes to
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:59:22.78\00:59:25.83
He bought you
here for this moment,
00:59:25.86\00:59:28.51
this is your
Mount Moriah moment,
00:59:28.54\00:59:31.21
God is saying
what more do you need,
00:59:31.24\00:59:33.51
God bless you my
brother, God bless you.
00:59:33.54\00:59:36.12
Anybody here, God
bless you over here, amen.
00:59:36.15\00:59:39.65
Anyone else God is
waiting on you now.
00:59:39.68\00:59:41.70
We've got
equipment, this is important.
00:59:41.73\00:59:44.57