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>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO
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A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO THOSE
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AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR OUR
LESSON STUDY TODAY AND ALSO A
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THOSE WHO ARE VISITING.
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DEALING WITH BIBLICAL
MISSIONARIES. TODAY WE FIND
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WELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR LESSON
THIS MORNING, I'D LIKE TO INVITE
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OUR SINGERS TO JOIN ME HERE ON
STAGE AND WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN
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BY PRAISING THE LORD
FOR HIS GOODNESS. THANK YOU.
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>>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS.
TO BEGIN SINGING, WE ARE GOING
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TO GO IN OUR HYMNALS TO HYMN
#608 - FAITH IS THE VICTORY -
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AND AS YOU'VE BEEN STUDYING YOUR
LESSON THIS WEEK, YOU KNOW THAT
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IT'S ABOUT ABRAHAM AND
HE TRULY WAS A MAN OF FAITH.
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IT TOOK A LOT OF FAITH TO FOLLOW
GOD AND LEAVE FAMILY, LEAVE
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FRIENDS, AND WANDER AND FOLLOW
GOD'S LEADING AS EACH ONE OF US
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DO. SO LET'S
SING TOGETHER FAITH IS
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THE VICTORY - WE'LL SING
THE FIRST AND THE LAST VERSES.
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(MUSIC)
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>>ENCAMPED ALONG THE HILLS OF
LIGHT, YE CHRISTIANS SOLDIERS,
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RISE, AND PRESS THE BATTLE
ERE THE NIGHT SHALL VEIL THE
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GLOWING SKIES.
AGAINST THE FOE IN VALES BELOW
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LET ALL OUR STRENGTH BE HURLED;
FAITH IS THE VICTORY, WE KNOW,
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THAT OVERCOMES THE
WORLD. FAITH IS THE VICTORY!
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FAITH IS THE VICTORY!
OH, GLORIOUS VICTORY, THAT
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OVERCOMES THE WORLD. TO
HIM THAT OVERCOMES THE FOE,
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WHITE RAIMENT SHALL BE GIV'N;
BEFORE THE ANGELS HE SHALL KNOW
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HIS NAMED CONFESSED IN HEAV'N.
THEN ONWARD FROM THE HILLS OF
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LIGHT, OUR HEARTS WITH LOVE
AFLAME, WE'LL VANQUISH ALL THE
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HOSTS OF NIGHT, IN
JESUS' CONQU'RING NAME.
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FAITH IS THE
VICTORY! FAITH IS THE VICTORY!
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OH, GLORIOUS VICTORY,
THAT OVERCOMES THE WORLD.
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>>OUR NEXT SONG, YOU WON'T EVEN
BE SINGING - YOU'LL BE ENJOYING
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- AS I INTRODUCE A VERY
SPECIAL FAMILY TO ME - IT'S MY
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SISTER-IN-LAW AND MY THREE
NIECES: INARRA, CIANNA, AND
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TAYA, AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE
SINGING FOR US POWER TO REDEEM.
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(MUSIC)
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>>YOU TAKE WHAT IS AND YOU MAKE
IT BEAUTIFUL WHEN LOVE FLOODS
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IN, WE'RE RESORTED FOREVER MORE.
WITH BREATH THAT BRINGS THE DEAD
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TO LIFE, WITH WORDS THAT PIERCE
THE DARK WITH LIGHT ONLY BY THE
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BLOOD ARE WE SET FREE.
WITH MERCY STRONG TO CARRY SHAME
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AND NAIL IT TO A TREE YOU
ALONE HOLD THE POWER TO REDEEM.
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NO GUILT COMPETES
WITH INNOCENCE CRUCIFIED.
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NO GRAVE CAN HOLD WHAT
YOUR GRACE HAS JUSTIFIED.
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WITH BREATH THAT BRINGS THE DEAD
TO LIFE WITH WORDS THAT PIERCE
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THE DARK WITH LIGHT ONLY
BY THE BLOOD ARE WE SET FREE.
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WITH MERCY STRONG TO CARRY SHAME
AND NAIL IT TO A TREE YOU ALONE
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HOLD THE POWER TO REDEEM.
REJOICE OH CHILD OF GOD LIFT
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YOUR EYES TO SEE WITH
EVERY MORNING LIGHT AGAIN WE ARE
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REDEEMED REJOICE OH CHILD OF GOD
LIFT YOUR EYES TO SEE WITH EVERY
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MORNING LIGHT, AGAIN WE ARE
REDEEMED WITH BREATH THAT BRINGS
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THE DEAD TO LIFE, WITH WORDS
THAT PIERCE THE DARK WITH LIGHT
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ONLY BY THE BLOOD ARE WE SET
FREE. WITH MERCY STRONG TO CARRY
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SHAME AND NAIL IT TO A TREE YOU
ALONE HOLD THE POWER TO REDEEM.
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OH YOU ALONE, HOLD THE
POWER TO REDEEM OH YOU ALONE,
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HOLD THE POWER TO REDEEM
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>>MORNING EVERYBODY. I
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GOING THROUGH OUR BRAND-NEW
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SUBJECT OF BIBLICAL
MISSIONARIES. YOU KNOW,
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SOMETIMES WE SIT AROUND,
IN CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS,
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AND WE STRATEGIZE AND TRY TO
DETERMINE WHAT IS OUR VISION.
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AND WE GET TOGETHER VISION
STATEMENTS, MISSION STATEMENTS,
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AND I ALWAYS STRUGGLE A LITTLE
WITH THAT BECAUSE I FIGURE, IF
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YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION,
WE SORT OF HAVE A MISSION
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STATEMENT GIVE TO US BY JESUS
AND THAT MISSION STATEMENT IS
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"ALL AUTHORITY IS GIVEN TO
ME IN HEAVEN AND EARTH; GO YE,
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THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL
NATIONS, BAPTIZING IN THE NAME
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OF THE FATHER AND THE
SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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AND, LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS,
EVEN TO THE END OF THE WORLD."
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THAT'S A PRETTY
GOOD MISSION STATEMENT.
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GO INTO ALL THE WORLD - TEACH
- TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL
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THINGS, WHATEVER I HAVE
COMMANDED YOU. AND SO WE'RE
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ALL CALLED TO DO MISSION WORK
OR BE MISSIONARIES IN SOME SPOT.
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AND SO WE'RE GOING TO DELVE
INTO LESSON #2 ON THE SUBJECT OF
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ABRAHAM AND WE - IT'S ABRAHAM,
THE FIRST MISSIONARY - AND, AS
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WE ALWAYS DO, WE LIKE TO SAY THE
MISSION - MEMORY VERSE, I SHOULD
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SAY - MEMORY VERSE TOGETHER.
AND THIS IS FROM GALATIANS.
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YOU'D THINK WHEN WE DO A MEMORY
VERSE ON ABRAHAM, WE'D BE GOING
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TO THE OLD TESTAMENT; WE'RE
GOING TO THE NEW TESTAMENT.
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GALATIANS CHAPTER
3, VERSES 6 THROUGH 8.
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I'M GOING TO BE DOING IT FROM
THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION -
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GALATIANS 3:6 - YOU WANT
TO SAY IT WITH ME? YOU READY?
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"JUST AS ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD,
AND IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR
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RIGHTEOUSNESS.
THEREFORE KNOW THAT ONLY THOSE
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WHO ARE OF FAITH
ARE SONS OF ABRAHAM.
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AND THE SCRIPTURE, FORESEEING
THAT GOD WOULD JUSTIFY THE
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GENTILES BY FAITH, PREACHED THE
GOSPEL TO ABRAHAM BEFOREHAND,
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SAYING, 'IN YOU ALL THE NATIONS
SHALL BE BLESSED.'" THIS IS JUST
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ONE OF THOSE VERSES IN THE BIBLE
THAT'S, AS THEY SAY, PREGNANT
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WITH MEANING. SO IT'S
VOLCANIC IN POTENTIAL.
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FIRST OF ALL, IT TELLS US THAT
ONLY THE SONS OF FAITH ARE THE
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ONES WHO ARE
ACCOUNTED TO BE RIGHTEOUS.
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IT'S LIKE PAUL SAYS, IN
GALATIANS 3, "IF YOU ARE
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CHRIST'S THEN YOU ARE
ABRAHAM'S SEED AND HEIRS."
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IT'S NOT JUST PHYSICAL JEWS
THAT ARE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM.
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THAT MEANS, EVERYBODY HERE THAT
HAS THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM CAN BE
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ABRAHAM'S SPIRITUAL SEED.
AND THEN, IN ADDITION TO THAT,
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IT'S TELLING US THAT THE
GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO THEM.
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WE ALWAYS THINK OF THE GOSPEL
AS A NEW TESTAMENT PHENOMENON.
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HERE IT'S SAYING THAT THE GOSPEL
WAS AN OLD TESTAMENT DYNAMIC.
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NOW ABRAHAM, FIRST OF ALL, HIS
NAME STARTS OUT IN THE BIBLE -
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WE DON'T HEAR OF
ABRAHAM, THAT'S HIS SECOND NAME.
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WHAT'S HIS FIRST NAME? ABRAM.
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AND ABRAM MEANS: AB - ABBA,
IN THE BIBLE, MEANS FATHER.
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YOU KNOW HOW PAUL SAYS, 'ABBA'
- IT MEANS 'PAPA' OR 'FATHER'.
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ABRAM IS TALKING ABOUT 'FATHER
IS EXALTED' - ABRAHAM IS A
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LITTLE TWIST ON THAT AND IT
MEANS SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT:
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'FATHER OF A MULTITUDE.' IT'S
INTERESTING THAT GOD CHANGES
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ABRAHAM'S NAME FROM ABRAM
TO ABRAHAM BEFORE HE HAS ANY
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CHILDREN. AND I CAN JUST SEE HIM
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EXPLAINING TO PEOPLE,
'I'VE CHANGED MY NAME.
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I WENT DOWN TO THE COURTHOUSE
AND I HAD MY NAME CHANGED.
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GOD TOLD ME TO CHANGE IT.'
'WHAT DID YOU CHANGE IT FROM?
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YOU CHANGED IT FROM
'FATHER IS EXALTED' TO?'
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'ABRAHAM - FATHER OF A
MULTITUDE.' 'FATHER OF A
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MULTITUDE, WOW, WONDERFUL,
HOW MANY CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE?'
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'I DON'T HAVE ANY.' 'HOW
OLD ARE YOU?' 'SEVENTY-FIVE.'
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'OPTIMISTIC.' SO ABRAHAM STILL
IS TALKING ABOUT 'FATHER' BUT
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THE END OF IT IS VERY DIFFERENT:
FATHER OF A MULTITUDE.
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AND THE THREE MAJOR RELIGIONS OF
THE EARTH - YOU'VE GOT JUDAISM,
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CHRISTIANITY - BOTH BRANCHES -
PROTESTANT AND CATHOLICISM - AND
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ISLAM ALL CLAIM TO TRACE THEIR
ROOTS BACK TO ABRAHAM AND SO, HE
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IS A VERY IMPORTANT CHARACTER TO
STUDY. SO HE IS CALLED A HEBREW.
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NOW EVERYONE SAYS, 'WELL,
ABRAHAM, YOU KNOW, AS THE FATHER
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OF THE JEWS, HE
WAS OBVIOUSLY A JEW.'
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NO, HE WASN'T. A LOT
OF OTHER RACES CAME OUT OF
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ABRAHAM BEFORE
JEWS WERE DEFINED.
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IT'S NOT UNTIL YOU GET DOWN
TO THE SONS OF JACOB OR ISRAEL -
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YOU HAVE THE TRIBE OF
JUDAH AND THOSE WHO SURVIVED THE
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BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY WERE
PRINCIPALLY THOUGHT OF AS 'THE
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JEWS' FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH
AND THAT'S WHERE WE GET THAT
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WORD. ABRAHAM WAS A HEBREW.
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NOW, THE WORD 'HEBREW' AS NEAR
AS WE CAN TELL, IT'S DERIVED
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FROM THE WORD 'EBER' WHICH,
YOU NOTICE IN GENESIS 10:21,
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IS ONE OF THE
ANCESTORS OF ABRAHAM.
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HE WAS FROM THE PEOPLE OF EBER
- A HEBREW - AND THEY - THE WORD
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'HEBREW' IS TALKING ABOUT
ONE WHO CROSSED OVER AND IT'S,
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PRESUMABLY, THOSE WHO HAD
CROSSED OVER THE EUPHRATES
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BECAUSE THE FIRST SETTLEMENT WAS
ALL THERE NOT FAR FROM THE TOWER
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OF BABEL IN MESOPOTAMIA.
BUT ABRAHAM, BELIEVING GOD HAD
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CALLED HIM - HE, WITH HIS
FATHER, TERAH, AND MUCH OF HIS
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FAMILY, THEY CROSSED OVER AND
THEY WERE CALLED 'HEBREWS' SO
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THAT WAS KIND OF
AN ENCOMPASSING TERM.
00:14:32.23\00:14:35.44
TECHNICALLY, IT'S NOT USED THAT
WAY, BUT ALL OF THE DESCENDENTS
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OF ABRAHAM COULD
BE CALLED HEBREWS.
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NOW IT'S INTERESTING THAT WHEN
YOU GET TO GENESIS CHAPTER 11 -
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I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - ABRAHAM
IS FAMOUS AS A MISSIONARY
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BECAUSE HE CAME OUT FROM A
PEOPLE THAT WERE WORSHIPING
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IDOLS THERE IN MESOPOTAMIA -
THEY HAD - AFTER THE TOWER OF
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BABEL, LANGUAGES WERE
CONFOUNDED, BUT PEOPLE WERE
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STILL PRETTY MUCH SITUATED
TO THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION
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THERE, BUT THEY HAD GIVEN
THEMSELVES OVER TO IDOLATRY.
00:15:06.77\00:15:10.14
INDEED, THE TOWER OF BABEL WAS
A BIG SHRINE TO SUN WORSHIP AND
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THAT'S WHY NEBUCHADNEZZAR
REBUILT THAT SUN - THAT TOWER -
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THAT TEMPLE - TO MARDUKE.
AND SO HE WAS BEING CALLED OUT
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FROM THE IDOLATRY. IT
HAPPENED IN TWO STAGES.
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ABRAHAM DID NOT JUST GET A
DIRECT FLIGHT FROM UR OF THE
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CHALDEES TO ISRAEL. HE
HAD A STOP OVER, AS YOU WOULD
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SAY. IT HAPPENED IN TWO STAGES.
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LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN GENESIS
11 - GENESIS 11:31 AND 32 - AND
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IT SAYS, "AND TERAH TOOK HIS SON
ABRAM AND HIS GRANDSON LOT, THE
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SON OF HARAN, AND HIS
DAUGHTER-IN-LAW SARAI, HIS SON
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ABRAM'S WIFE, AND THEY WENT
OUT WITH THEM FROM UR OF THE
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CHALDEANS TO GO TO THE LAND OF
CANAAN;" - THEY'RE GOING TO THE
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LAND OF CANAAN BUT THEY DON'T
GET ALL THE WAY THERE - "AND
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THEY CAME TO HARAN AND DWELT
THERE." - NOW I'VE ASKED SHERLE
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IF SHE COULD PUT A
SLIDE UP ON OUR SCREEN.
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NOW YOU'LL SEE DOWN IN
THE LOWER RIGHT YOU'VE GOT UR.
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THAT YELLOW LINE GOES ALL THE
WAY UP OVER 600 MILES TO HARAN.
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THAT'S A LONG JOURNEY AND,
YOU KNOW, YOU TRAVEL WITH A BIG
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GAGGLE OF A FAMILY AS THEY HAD
BACK THEN - YOU'VE GOT YOUR MEN,
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YOUR WOMEN, YOUR CHILDREN,
YOUR CAMELS, YOUR DONKEYS, YOUR
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GOATS, YOUR SHEEP, YOUR
SHEPHERDS, YOUR HOUSEHOLD, YOUR
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SERVANTS - HOW FAR DO YOU THINK
YOU COULD GET IN A DAY WITH A
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CREW LIKE THAT? ANY OF
YOU EVER GO OUT TO LUNCH
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BY YOURSELF AND YOU SAY, 'I
CAN HAVE LUNCH IN 20 MINUTES'?
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THEN YOU GO TO LUNCH WITH ONE
OTHER FRIEND AND HOW LONG IS IT?
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FORTY MINUTES. THEN
YOU HAVE AN OFFICE LUNCH
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WHERE YOU TAKE LIKE SIX
PEOPLE - HOUR AND A HALF.
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THE PRICE GOES UP EXPONENTIALLY
TOO WHEN YOU DO THAT.
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YOU EVER - YOU GO ON A - ANY
KIND OF EXCURSION WITH A GROUP
00:17:02.55\00:17:06.15
AND IT'S LIKE HERDING
SQUIRRELS AFTER A WHILE, RIGHT?
00:17:06.19\00:17:09.46
JUST TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY TO
GO - AND SO YOU CAN, YOU KNOW,
00:17:09.49\00:17:14.30
AVERAGE TEN - FIFTEEN MILES A
DAY AND IT TOOK MONTHS TO MAKE
00:17:14.30\00:17:18.83
THAT JOURNEY. SO
THEY GET TO HARAN AND THEY
00:17:18.87\00:17:22.30
GET COMFORTABLE. THEY
SETTLE DOWN THERE. THEY MAY HAVE
00:17:22.34\00:17:24.81
STOPPED BECAUSE IT WAS A
SEASONAL TIME FOR THEM TO STOP.
00:17:24.84\00:17:27.34
IT'S LIKE THE LEWIS AND CLARK
EXPEDITION: WHEN THEY WERE GOING
00:17:27.38\00:17:29.71
CROSS COUNTRY, THEY ACTUALLY
HAD TO STOP AND THEY HAD TO CAMP
00:17:29.74\00:17:33.45
WITH THE MANDAN INDIANS
JUST TO SURVIVE THE WINTER.
00:17:33.48\00:17:35.95
IF IT WASN'T FOR THEM,
THEY WOULDN'T HAVE MADE IT.
00:17:35.98\00:17:38.09
THEY JUST - YOU HAVE TO STOP FOR
MONTHS BECAUSE THEY'LL - IT WAS
00:17:38.12\00:17:40.26
A BIG FREEZE OUT. THEN
YOU WAIT FOR THE THAW THEN
00:17:40.29\00:17:42.42
YOU CONTINUE YOUR JOURNEY.
AND SO, WEATHER MAY HAVE BEEN
00:17:42.46\00:17:44.76
PART OF THE REASON. SO
THEY DID THE FIRST PART OF
00:17:44.79\00:17:46.86
THE TRIP. NOW GO -
WELL, LET ME FINISH
00:17:46.90\00:17:49.36
READING THAT. AND IT
SAYS - SO THEY WENT "TO
00:17:49.40\00:17:51.73
HARAN AND DWELT THERE. SO
THE DAYS OF TERAH WERE TWO
00:17:51.77\00:17:55.54
HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS,
AND TERAH DIED IN HARAN."
00:17:55.57\00:18:01.01
NOW THE PLACE, HERON, WAS NAMED
AFTER THE SON OF TERAH BECAUSE
00:18:01.04\00:18:04.25
HE, THE SON OF TERAH, DIED THERE
- OR DIED BEFORE THAT AND THEY
00:18:04.28\00:18:09.92
NAMED THE CITY AFTER
HIM. TERAH LIVED HOW LONG?
00:18:09.95\00:18:13.59
TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE YEARS.
HE LIVED LONGER THAN ABRAHAM,
00:18:13.62\00:18:15.52
DIDN'T HE?
ABRAHAM LIVED 175 YEARS.
00:18:15.56\00:18:17.69
TERAH PROBABLY LIVED
DURING THE TIME OF JOB.
00:18:17.73\00:18:21.16
YOU KNOW, JOB IS REALLY THE
OLDEST BOOK IN THE BIBLE, BUT
00:18:21.20\00:18:23.97
WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE
AND YOU LOOK AT THE LENGTH OF
00:18:24.00\00:18:27.24
THE YEARS OF THE PEOPLE OF JOB,
YOU NOTICE HOW, FROM THE TOWER
00:18:27.27\00:18:30.27
OF BABEL, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED
BEFORE THE FLOOD, THEY LIVED 900
00:18:30.31\00:18:33.81
YEARS AND THE SONS
OF NOAH MAYBE 600 YEARS.
00:18:33.84\00:18:36.88
THEN THE AGES WENT DOWN EVERY
FEW GENERATIONS UNTIL WE GOT TO
00:18:36.91\00:18:40.28
OUR THREE SCORE AND TEN - MAYBE
A LITTLE MORE - BUT THEN YOU
00:18:40.32\00:18:44.35
HAVE - THERE WAS A PERIOD OF
TIME WHEN TWO HUNDRED WAS THE
00:18:44.39\00:18:48.22
AVERAGE, AND THAT'S WHEN
JOB LIVED. SO JOB WAS PROBABLY A
00:18:48.26\00:18:51.83
CONTEMPORARY OF
TERAH, THE FATHER OF ABRAHAM.
00:18:51.86\00:18:54.56
BUT NOW GO TO GENESIS CHAPTER
12 - YOU'VE JUST FINISHED OUT
00:18:54.60\00:18:59.30
GENESIS 11 - "NOW THE LORD
HAD SAID TO ABRAM:" - SO HE'S
00:18:59.33\00:19:02.70
SAYING, 'YOU'RE NOT DONE
GOING WHERE I TOLD YOU TO GO.
00:19:02.74\00:19:06.84
YOU'VE ONLY GONE PART WAY. I
DON'T WANT YOU TO COME PARTWAY
00:19:06.88\00:19:09.74
OUT OF BABYLON; I WANT YOU TO
GO ALL THE WAY OUT OF BABYLON.'
00:19:09.78\00:19:12.45
EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD GONE
600 MILES, THEY ARE STILL IN
00:19:12.48\00:19:15.42
MESOPOTAMIA. THEY
HAVE NOT COME OUT OF THE
00:19:15.45\00:19:18.35
PLACE WHERE
THERE'S STILL IDOLATRY.
00:19:18.39\00:19:20.39
- "NOW THE LORD SAID TO ABRAM:"
- GENESIS 12:1 -"'GET OUT OF
00:19:20.42\00:19:24.76
YOUR COUNTRY, FROM YOUR FAMILY
AND FROM YOUR FATHER'S HOUSE,'"
00:19:24.79\00:19:29.43
- WHY DID HE SAY
OUT FROM YOUR FAMILY?
00:19:29.46\00:19:31.20
DID SOME OF THE RELATIVES
OF ABRAHAM STAY IN HARAN?
00:19:31.23\00:19:34.30
WHEN JACOB GOES BACK TO
FIND A WIFE, WHERE DOES HE GO?
00:19:34.34\00:19:37.17
HE DOESN'T GO TO UR, HE GOES
BACK TO MESOPOTAMIA, BUT NOW HE
00:19:37.21\00:19:40.91
ONLY HAS TO GO TO HARAN TO FIND
A GIRL THAT STILL BELIEVES IN
00:19:40.94\00:19:43.58
THE TRUE GOD. AND SO SOME
OF THE FAMILY WAS LEFT BEHIND.
00:19:43.61\00:19:46.68
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
"'GET OUT...FROM YOUR FAMILY AND
00:19:46.72\00:19:50.72
FROM YOUR FATHER'S HOUSE,
TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.
00:19:50.75\00:19:53.39
I WILL MAKE YOU A GREAT NATION;
I WILL BLESS YOU AND...I WILL
00:19:53.42\00:19:57.96
BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU AND
I WILL CURSE HIM WHO CURSES YOU;
00:19:57.99\00:20:01.93
AND IN YOU ALL THE FAMILIES OF
THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.'" -
00:20:01.96\00:20:06.50
THAT'S JUST ANOTHER
ONE OF THOSE GREAT VERSES.
00:20:06.53\00:20:09.70
THIS IS THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
THAT IS MADE IN THE BIBLE THAT
00:20:09.74\00:20:12.21
SHOULD BE CAREFULLY
NOTED AND MARKED IN YOUR BIBLE.
00:20:12.24\00:20:15.64
WE'RE GOING TO GO TO ABOUT FIVE
POINTS THAT ARE MADE IN THIS
00:20:15.68\00:20:18.38
PROMISE IN JUST A MOMENT, BUT
SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME - WHO'S
00:20:18.41\00:20:21.82
GOT HEBREWS 11:8? LET ME SEE.
00:20:21.85\00:20:23.99
SOMEONE DOWN FRONT, OKAY, WE'LL
HAVE YOU READ THAT IN JUST A
00:20:24.02\00:20:25.59
MOMENT. I WANT YOU
TO NOTICE THAT - WHEN
00:20:25.62\00:20:27.56
WAS THE LAST TIME THAT GOD SPOKE
TO MAN PRIOR TO GENESIS 12:1?
00:20:27.59\00:20:32.79
IT'S - 422 YEARS HAVE GONE
BY SINCE GOD SPOKE TO NOAH.
00:20:32.83\00:20:38.87
DO YOU NOTICE THAT, AS YOU READ
THROUGH THE AGES AND STAGES OF
00:20:38.90\00:20:44.11
THE BIBLE, THERE ARE
PERIODS OF APPARENT SILENCE?
00:20:44.14\00:20:46.74
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN ABRAHAM'S
DAY COULD HAVE SAID, 'WAY BACK
00:20:46.78\00:20:50.65
IN NOAH'S DAY, GOD SPOKE AND
WE HEARD MIRACLES AND THERE WERE
00:20:50.68\00:20:52.58
PROPHETS, BUT I GUESS
THAT WAS ALL RUMORS AND FABLES.
00:20:52.61\00:20:54.85
IT DIDN'T REALLY EXIST.
GOD - HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING IN
00:20:54.88\00:20:56.75
A LONG TIME. GOD IS
DEAD.' YOU KNOW HOW MANY
00:20:56.79\00:20:59.92
TIMES IN HISTORY IT
LOOKED LIKE THAT HAPPENED?
00:20:59.95\00:21:02.09
YOU GET DOWN TO THE TIME OF
GIDEON AND GIDEON SAYS TO THE
00:21:02.12\00:21:04.56
ANGEL, 'WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE
MIRACLES WE USED TO HEAR ABOUT?
00:21:04.59\00:21:06.53
HUNDREDS OF YEARS HAVE
GONE BY. NO VOICE FROM GOD.
00:21:06.56\00:21:08.73
NO MIRACLES.' BUT GOD
WAS GETTING READY TO DO GREAT
00:21:08.76\00:21:11.43
MIRACLES. AND THEN THERE
WAS ANOTHER GREAT DRY SPELL.
00:21:11.47\00:21:13.67
SO DURING TIMES OF GREAT
DELIVERANCE, IT SEEMS LIKE
00:21:13.70\00:21:17.34
THERE'S MIRACLES. SO
400 YEARS HAD GONE BY.
00:21:17.37\00:21:20.24
NOW GOD SPEAKS AND HE ENDS
UP SPEAKING TO ABRAHAM VERY
00:21:20.28\00:21:23.41
DIRECTLY, AS YOU
READ THE VARIOUS ACCOUNTS.
00:21:23.45\00:21:26.85
NOW HE STILL HAS 422 MILES TO GO
FROM HARAN - YOU CAN STILL SEE
00:21:26.88\00:21:31.95
THE MAP UP THERE - DOWN TO THE
LAND OF CANAAN, WHERE HE STAYED
00:21:31.99\00:21:36.49
IN VARIOUS PLACES.
ALRIGHT, I WANT YOU TO LOOK UP
00:21:36.52\00:21:41.80
IN PSALM 27:10 - THIS IS A CALL
OF ABRAHAM WE'RE STUDYING NOW
00:21:41.83\00:21:45.57
AND IT SAYS, "WHEN MY FATHER AND
MY MOTHER FORSAKE ME, THEN THE
00:21:45.60\00:21:50.54
LORD WILL TAKE ME UP."
HE HAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO HIS
00:21:50.57\00:21:53.27
FAMILY. WE KNEW
HIS FATHER HAD DIED AT
00:21:53.31\00:21:55.61
THAT POINT. WE DON'T
KNOW ABOUT HIS MOTHER.
00:21:55.64\00:21:57.51
YOU KNOW, THAT'S DIFFICULT
TO DO, TO WALK AWAY FROM YOUR
00:21:57.55\00:22:01.85
HOMELAND. I DON'T
KNOW WHY PEOPLE GET SO
00:22:01.88\00:22:05.62
ATTACHED TO SOME
PLACES THAT THEY CALL HOME.
00:22:05.65\00:22:09.06
HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD AGREE WITH
ME THAT THERE ARE SOME PLACES IN
00:22:09.09\00:22:12.46
THE WORLD YOU WOULD NEVER WANT
TO LIVE AND THAT YOU DON'T KNOW
00:22:12.49\00:22:15.73
WHY ANYONE WOULD
WANT TO LIVE THERE.
00:22:15.76\00:22:18.07
I'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO
SAY TOO MUCH BECAUSE I'LL OFFEND
00:22:18.10\00:22:24.21
SOMEBODY, BUT I HAVE BEEN SOME
PLACES - WELL, JUST GOING ACROSS
00:22:24.24\00:22:30.88
NEVADA YOU'LL FIND A TOWN -
I MEAN, NOW THEY'VE GOT ALL THE
00:22:30.91\00:22:35.48
MODERN CONVENIENCES - YOU'LL
FIND A TOWN OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF
00:22:35.52\00:22:37.69
NOWHERE AND YOU ASK THE
LOCALS, 'WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?'
00:22:37.72\00:22:40.89
'I'VE BEEN HERE ALL MY
LIFE AND WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR
00:22:40.92\00:22:42.66
GENERATIONS.' 'WHY?'
'THAT'S BECAUSE' - HE SAID -
00:22:42.69\00:22:44.99
'IT'S WHERE - IT'S HOME
FOR US. WE'RE USED TO IT.
00:22:45.03\00:22:47.03
WE LIKE IT. IT'S ENCHANTING.
00:22:47.03\00:22:48.53
IT GROWS ON YOU.' AND YOU THINK,
'WHAT IN THE WORLD MADE THEM
00:22:48.56\00:22:51.83
START A TOWN THERE?'
SOMEONE'S WAGON TRAIN BROKE DOWN
00:22:51.87\00:22:57.04
AND THEY JUST GOT COMFORTABLE
AND THE FAMILY GREW UP THERE AND
00:22:57.07\00:23:01.94
IT BECAME HOME. IT GREW ON THEM.
00:23:01.98\00:23:03.65
AND EVEN AFTER THEY TRAVELED,
THAT'S WHERE THEY CAME BACK TO
00:23:03.68\00:23:06.75
BECAUSE IT WAS HOME. AND
THEN, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GET
00:23:06.78\00:23:11.02
SETTLED IN PLACES - THEY GET
USED TO IT - THEY GET THE FAMILY
00:23:11.05\00:23:14.02
THERE. THEY'RE ACCUSTOMED TO THE
00:23:14.06\00:23:15.79
ENVIRONMENT AND IT - AND
THEY BECOME VERY DEFENSIVE AND
00:23:15.82\00:23:17.69
PATRIOTIC ABOUT THIS
SPOT OUT IN THE DESERT.
00:23:17.73\00:23:20.16
I USED TO TEASE MY NAVAJO INDIAN
FRIENDS WHEN I'D GO VISIT THEM
00:23:20.20\00:23:24.17
OUT ON THE RESERVATION AND
THEY'D HAVE A HOGAN - NO SPRING,
00:23:24.20\00:23:26.80
NO ROCKS, NO TREES - JUST OUT
IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE - AND
00:23:26.84\00:23:29.80
THEY'D - THAT
WOULD BE THEIR HOME.
00:23:29.84\00:23:32.11
AND GENERATIONS OF THEM LIVED
THERE AND I'D ASK THEM, 'HOW IN
00:23:32.14\00:23:33.71
THE WORLD DID
YOU PICK THIS SPOT?'
00:23:33.74\00:23:36.64
THEY USED TO TEASE AND
THEY SAID, 'WELL, ONE OF OUR
00:23:36.68\00:23:40.02
ANCESTORS SHOT AN ARROW AND A
RAVEN CAUGHT THE ARROW AND THE
00:23:40.05\00:23:45.72
RAVEN FLEW AND THEN HE DROPPED
THE ARROW AND WE TOOK IT AS A
00:23:45.75\00:23:49.19
SIGN THAT'S WHERE WE SHOULD
BUILD.' AND THAT WAS THE ONLY
00:23:49.22\00:23:52.83
REASON THEY COULD COME UP WITH
BECAUSE THEY KNEW THERE WAS NO
00:23:52.86\00:23:54.46
OTHER GOOD REASON TO BE THERE.
SO - BUT PEOPLE GET ATTACHED TO
00:23:54.50\00:23:59.83
SPOTS AND IT'S HARD TO MOVE.
IT WAS HARD FOR THE CHILDREN OF
00:23:59.87\00:24:05.01
ISRAEL TO COME OUT OF BABYLON
AFTER BEING THERE FOR 70 YEARS.
00:24:05.04\00:24:10.75
YOU GET FAMILY. YOU
GET ROOTS DOWN AT 70 YEARS.
00:24:10.78\00:24:13.25
YOU'RE ALL READY FOR THAT
- FOR HER TO READ THAT VERSE.
00:24:13.28\00:24:16.48
GO AHEAD. TELL YOU WHAT.
LET'S READ HEBREWS 11, VERSE 8
00:24:16.52\00:24:20.26
AND THEN I'LL TALK
ABOUT THAT. ARE WE READY?
00:24:20.29\00:24:23.12
>>"BY FAITH ABRAHAM OBEYED WHEN
HE WAS CALLED TO GO OUT TO THE
00:24:23.16\00:24:25.09
PLACE WHICH HE WOULD RECEIVE
AS AN INHERITANCE, AND HE WENT
00:24:25.13\00:24:28.93
OUT NOT KNOWING
WHERE HE WAS GOING."
00:24:28.96\00:24:30.90
>>YOU EVER GOTTEN AN INVITATION
TO GO SOMEWHERE AND YOU DON'T
00:24:30.93\00:24:35.60
KNOW WHERE YOU'RE
GOING? CAN YOU JUST HEAR THE
00:24:35.64\00:24:38.77
CONVERSATION
BETWEEN ABRAHAM AND SARAH?
00:24:38.81\00:24:41.88
'DEAR, I WANT YOU TO
START PACKING.' 'WHY?'
00:24:41.91\00:24:45.11
'WE'RE GOING TO GO
ON A TRIP.' 'WHERE?'
00:24:45.15\00:24:47.85
'I DON'T KNOW.'
'WHAT'S THE TEMPERATURE?'
00:24:47.88\00:24:52.39
'DON'T KNOW.' 'HOW LONG
ARE WE GOING TO BE THERE?'
00:24:52.42\00:24:55.39
'BETTER PACK EVERYTHING.' 'CAN'T
FIT EVERYTHING ON THE DONKEY.'
00:24:55.42\00:25:00.53
'NEED TO HAVE A GARAGE SALE OR
GIVE IT AWAY.' I HEARD KAREN -
00:25:00.56\00:25:06.37
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MOVING INTO
ANOTHER HOUSE NOW THAT WE'VE
00:25:06.40\00:25:10.71
SETTLED HERE IN THIS CHURCH AND
WE'RE - YOU KNOW, YOU COLLECT A
00:25:10.74\00:25:13.78
LOT OF STUFF AFTER TWENTY YEARS
AND, BOY, WE'RE WONDERING - AND
00:25:13.81\00:25:18.81
WE'RE TRYING TO
DOWNSIZE IN OUR HOUSE.
00:25:18.85\00:25:20.72
THAT JUST COMPOUNDS THE PROBLEM.
SO I CAN IMAGINE THERE WERE SOME
00:25:20.75\00:25:25.72
VERY INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS.
HE WENT OUT BY FAITH NOT KNOWING
00:25:25.75\00:25:29.22
WHERE HE WAS GOING.
THAT TAKES A LOT OF FAITH.
00:25:29.26\00:25:32.43
YOU KNOW, SOMETHING YOU'RE GOING
TO NOTICE IN THE BIBLE - THERE'S
00:25:32.46\00:25:35.86
A PATTERN. ABRAHAM
BROUGHT HIS WIFE - WHAT
00:25:35.90\00:25:40.34
DOES A WOMAN
REPRESENT IN BIBLE ANALOGIES?
00:25:40.37\00:25:43.37
YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY THAT - OR
ASK THAT - A THOUSAND TIMES IN
00:25:43.41\00:25:46.01
CHURCH. HE BRINGS
HER OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA
00:25:46.04\00:25:48.68
- OUT OF BABYLON -
TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:25:48.71\00:25:51.31
THEN ABRAHAM HAS A SON - HE HAS
SEVERAL SONS, BUT THE MAIN SON
00:25:51.35\00:25:56.28
OF PROMISE IS ISAAC. THE
UNIQUE THING ABOUT ISAAC -
00:25:56.32\00:25:59.39
ALL THE OTHER BOYS OF ABRAHAM
- AND HE HAD MANY OTHERS BESIDES
00:25:59.42\00:26:02.16
ISHMAEL, YOU KNOW?
AFTER SARAH DIED HE MARRIED
00:26:02.19\00:26:04.66
KETURAH AND HE HAD A LOT MORE
WIVES, SO IT WASN'T JUST HAGAR.
00:26:04.69\00:26:08.06
BUT THE ONLY SON OF ABRAHAM THAT
WAS THE SON OF PROMISE WAS ISAAC
00:26:08.10\00:26:12.23
AND GOD TELLS ABRAHAM, 'YOU'RE
NOT TO HAVE A WIFE COME FROM THE
00:26:12.27\00:26:19.31
LOCALS, BUT YOU MUST HAVE A WIFE
THAT YOU BRING - THAT WORSHIPS
00:26:19.34\00:26:23.28
THE TRUE GOD - BRING HER FROM
BABYLON TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:26:23.31\00:26:26.65
AND THAT WAS - ISAAC GOES AND
GETS REBEKAH - OR ACTUALLY, THE
00:26:26.68\00:26:31.92
SERVANT OF ELIEZER - SERVANT
OF ABRAHAM NAMED ELIEZER - HE
00:26:31.95\00:26:34.89
BRINGS REBEKAH. AND
THEN YOU'VE GOT JACOB.
00:26:34.92\00:26:37.59
WELL, ISAAC HAD ESAU ALSO, BUT
ESAU MARRIED THE LOCAL GIRLS.
00:26:37.63\00:26:41.80
BUT THEY TOLD JACOB,
'YOU'RE THE CHILD OF PROMISE.
00:26:41.83\00:26:45.87
YOU GO BACK AND YOU
BRING YOUR WIFE OUT OF BABYLON.
00:26:45.90\00:26:49.47
THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO JUST BE
RACHEL - IT ENDED UP WITH FOUR
00:26:49.50\00:26:52.97
WIVES, BUT BROUGHT THEM FROM
BABYLON TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:26:53.01\00:26:57.05
YOU NOTICE THE REPEAT?
THEY'RE BRINGING - AND THEN, THE
00:26:57.08\00:26:59.88
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
ARE CARRIED OFF TO WHERE?
00:26:59.91\00:27:01.78
TO BABYLON AND GOD CALLS THEM,
SEVENTY YEARS LATER, OUT OF
00:27:01.82\00:27:06.35
BABYLON - HIS BRIDE -
BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:27:06.39\00:27:09.66
AND THEN YOU READ IN REVELATION
- AND WHAT'S THE SECOND ANGEL'S
00:27:09.69\00:27:13.50
MESSAGE? BABYLON IS FALLEN - AND
YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 18
00:27:13.53\00:27:19.27
"FALLEN, FALLEN. COME
OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE."
00:27:19.30\00:27:22.67
GOD IS CALLING, IN THE LAST
DAYS, HIS PEOPLE OUT OF BABYLON.
00:27:22.70\00:27:26.17
GOD CALLED ABRAHAM OUT BECAUSE
THEY WERE WORSHIPING - ABRAHAM'S
00:27:26.21\00:27:29.28
OWN PEOPLE BEGAN
TO WORSHIP FALSE GODS.
00:27:29.31\00:27:32.15
IDOLATRY HAD COME IN.
FALSE WORSHIP HAD COME IN.
00:27:32.18\00:27:35.98
CALLING BACK TO THE PROMISED
LAND - AND SO, ARE GOD'S PEOPLE
00:27:36.02\00:27:40.22
- IS THIS RELEVANT TODAY?
ARE WE BEING CALLED BACK TO THE
00:27:40.26\00:27:42.72
PROMISED LAND? AND SO,
GOD WANTED ABRAHAM TO BE
00:27:42.76\00:27:45.56
A MISSIONARY ALONG THE
WAY, AS HE WAS COMING OUT.
00:27:45.59\00:27:48.93
AND IT'S DIFFICULT TO
SAY GOODBYE TO FAMILY.
00:27:48.96\00:27:53.17
LUKE 14:26, JESUS SAID, "IF
ANY MAN COMES TO ME AND DOES NOT
00:27:53.20\00:27:57.44
HATE" - AND THE WORD
'HATE' THERE MEANS 'LOVE LESS
00:27:57.47\00:28:01.68
SUPREMELY' - "HIS FATHER
AND HIS MOTHER, HIS WIFE AND HIS
00:28:01.71\00:28:04.88
CHILDREN, HIS BROTHER AND
HIS SISTERS, YES, HIS OWN LIFE,
00:28:04.91\00:28:06.88
HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE."
WHAT GOD ASKED ABRAHAM TO DO,
00:28:06.92\00:28:08.92
JESUS ASKED THE DISCIPLES TO
DO. HE SAID, 'I'M ASKING YOU TO
00:28:08.95\00:28:13.76
FORSAKE EVERYTHING AND FOLLOW
ME.' AND ABRAHAM WAS ASKED,
00:28:13.79\00:28:17.73
BASICALLY, TO WALK AWAY FROM
EVERYBODY HE KNEW AND FOLLOW
00:28:17.76\00:28:20.96
WHERE HE KNEW GOD WAS BRINGING
HIM. NOW - WELL, I'LL GET TO
00:28:20.96\00:28:25.73
THAT IN A MINUTE.
LET'S LOOK AT THAT PROMISE.
00:28:25.77\00:28:28.44
I'VE GOT A LOT TO COVER
HERE. I JUST WANT TO LOOK AT THE
00:28:28.47\00:28:30.64
PROMISE THAT'S MADE ONE
MORE TIME IN GENESIS 12.
00:28:30.67\00:28:33.01
HE - NOTICE FIVE POINTS - HE
SAID, 'I'LL MAKE OF YOU A GREAT
00:28:33.04\00:28:36.18
NATION.' THAT'S QUITE A PROMISE.
ABRAHAM HAD NO CHILDREN.
00:28:36.21\00:28:40.38
HE SAID, 'I'LL BLESS YOU
AND MAKE YOUR NAME GREAT.'
00:28:40.42\00:28:44.12
BY DESERTING HIS COUNTRY HE'S
GOING IN A PLACE WHERE HE HAS NO
00:28:44.15\00:28:47.26
REPUTATION OR NO NAME,
SO GOD WAS GOING TO HAVE TO
00:28:47.29\00:28:50.06
GIVE HIM A NAME
AMONG THE GENTILES.
00:28:50.09\00:28:52.23
'I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS
YOU AND CURSE HIM WHO CURSES
00:28:52.26\00:28:55.33
YOU.' HE WOULD BECOME THE
CRITERIA TO EVERYONE ELSE BEING
00:28:55.36\00:28:59.87
BLESSED OR CURSED.
WHY DID GOD SAY THAT?
00:28:59.90\00:29:02.54
'THOU SHALT BE A BLESSING.' JUST
THE VERY PRESENCE - AS JOSEPH
00:29:02.57\00:29:07.81
WAS A BLESSING TO POTIPHAR,
ABRAHAM WOULD BE A BLESSING TO
00:29:07.84\00:29:10.38
ALL WITH WHOM HE CAME IN CONTACT
- 'AND IN YOU ALL THE FAMILIES
00:29:10.41\00:29:13.55
OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED'
- NOT JUST THE ONES LOCALLY, BUT
00:29:13.58\00:29:16.85
EVERY OTHER FAMILY IN THE
WORLD WOULD BE BLESSED THROUGH
00:29:16.89\00:29:18.69
ABRAHAM. WHY?
00:29:18.72\00:29:20.42
HE'S SAYING THE MESSIAH WOULD
COME THROUGH YOUR SEED AND IT'S
00:29:20.46\00:29:23.66
THROUGH CHRIST
EVERYBODY ELSE IS BLESSED.
00:29:23.69\00:29:25.93
SO THAT'S QUITE A
COVENANT THAT GOD IS MAKING.
00:29:25.96\00:29:29.83
ONE MORE THING I
WANT TO READ TO YOU HERE.
00:29:29.86\00:29:32.83
WELL, I'VE GOT A
COUPLE MORE THINGS.
00:29:32.87\00:29:34.20
JOSHUA 24 - TALKING ABOUT WHAT
ABRAHAM CAME OUT OF - JOSHUA 24,
00:29:34.24\00:29:39.41
VERSES 2 AND 3 - "AND JOSHUA
SAID UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, 'THUS
00:29:39.44\00:29:47.82
SAYS THE LORD.'" - THIS IS AT
THE END OF JOSHUA'S LIFE - "'THE
00:29:47.85\00:29:50.25
LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, YOUR FATHERS
DWELT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
00:29:50.29\00:29:54.56
FLOOD.'" - WHAT FLOOD IS HE
TALKING ABOUT? YOU STILL SEE
00:29:54.59\00:29:57.09
THE MAP ON THE SCREEN?
YOU NOTICE THE YELLOW LINE?
00:29:57.13\00:29:59.29
THAT YELLOW LINE IS PRETTY MUCH
FOLLOWING THE EUPHRATES RIVER
00:29:59.33\00:30:02.16
AND THAT RIVER, WHEN THERE WAS A
LOT OF RAIN UP IN THE MOUNTAINS
00:30:02.20\00:30:06.63
OF ARARAT AND - UP THERE IN THE
NORTH MOUNTAINS, THERE COULD BE
00:30:06.67\00:30:12.97
MASSIVE FLOODS. THEY
CALLED THAT RIVER 'THE
00:30:13.01\00:30:15.44
FLOOD' AND IT WOULD FLOOD THE
DELTAS AND IT WOULD FLOOD THE
00:30:15.48\00:30:17.88
PLAINS AND SO WHEN JOSHUA SAYS
'ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD'
00:30:17.91\00:30:21.82
IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER
SIDE OF THE TIME OF NOAH, THAT
00:30:21.85\00:30:24.35
FLOOD, IT'S TALKING ABOUT
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EUPHRATES.
00:30:24.39\00:30:28.59
HE SAID, 'YOUR FATHERS DWELT
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD.
00:30:28.62\00:30:32.53
IN OLD TIME, EVEN TERAH, FATHER
OF ABRAM AND THE FATHER OF
00:30:32.56\00:30:36.60
NACHOR, AND THEY
SERVED OTHER GODS.
00:30:36.63\00:30:39.03
AND I TOOK YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM
FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
00:30:39.07\00:30:42.50
FLOOD' - IT EVEN SAYS TERAH
- THEY'D GOTTEN INVOLVED IN
00:30:42.54\00:30:45.17
IDOLATRY. YOU
REMEMBER WHY RACHEL GOT IN
00:30:45.21\00:30:47.68
TROUBLE? SHE HID
HER FATHER'S GODS.
00:30:47.71\00:30:51.78
ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT?
EVEN LABAN HAD GOTTEN INVOLVED.
00:30:51.81\00:30:56.99
THEY WERE NOT
UNTAINTED FROM IDOLATRY.
00:30:57.02\00:30:59.29
'AND I TOOK YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM
FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD
00:30:59.32\00:31:04.79
AND I LED HIM THROUGHOUT ALL THE
LAND OF CANAAN, MULTIPLIED HIS
00:31:04.83\00:31:07.96
SEED AND GAVE HIM ISAAC.'
THAT WAS OVER A THOUSAND-MILE
00:31:07.96\00:31:12.87
JOURNEY. WHO'S
GOING TO READ FOR ME IN A
00:31:12.90\00:31:15.14
MOMENT REVELATION 18:4?
YEAH, WE'LL GET TO YOU JUST FROM
00:31:15.17\00:31:18.91
- IN JUST A MOMENT. I
WANT TO LOOK AT - HERE'S A
00:31:18.94\00:31:22.38
QUOTE FROM
PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS P. 125
00:31:22.41\00:31:25.61
- IT SAYS, SPEAKING OF THE
AREA THAT ABRAHAM CAME OUT OF,
00:31:25.65\00:31:29.72
"IDOLATRY INVITED HIM
ON EVERY SIDE, BUT IN VAIN.
00:31:29.75\00:31:34.56
FAITHFUL AMONG THE FAITHLESS,
UNCORRUPTED BY THE PREVAILING
00:31:34.59\00:31:38.43
APOSTASY, HE STEADFASTLY ADHERED
TO THE WORSHIP OF THE ONE TRUE
00:31:38.46\00:31:42.63
GOD." CAN WE BE SURROUNDED BY
00:31:42.66\00:31:44.60
COMPROMISE AND IDOLATRY ON
EVERY SIDE AND STILL BE TRUE?
00:31:44.63\00:31:48.94
THAT'S THE ONLY
WAY TO BE A MISSIONARY.
00:31:48.97\00:31:50.84
WHEN MISSIONARIES GO TO DARK
COUNTRIES - WHEN I SAY 'DARK
00:31:50.87\00:31:53.74
COUNTRIES' I MEAN PLACES THAT
DON'T HAVE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL -
00:31:53.78\00:31:55.64
AND THEY'RE SHARING THE GOSPEL,
THEY NEED TO KNOW HOW TO STAND
00:31:55.68\00:32:00.52
FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE
WHEN THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY
00:32:00.55\00:32:02.52
COMPROMISING INFLUENCES
OR YOU CAN'T BE A MISSIONARY.
00:32:02.55\00:32:05.09
YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE YOUR FAITH
- YOUR WORLD VIEW - IT ALL NEEDS
00:32:05.12\00:32:10.93
TO BE LOCKED IN AND SETTLED AND
GOD IS GIVING THIS SAME MESSAGE
00:32:10.96\00:32:14.40
TODAY, 'BABYLON IS FALLEN.
COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE.' THAT
00:32:14.46\00:32:17.23
DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU GET ON A
BOAT SOMEWHERE, IT MEANS WE NEED
00:32:17.27\00:32:20.47
TO COME OUT AND BE SEPARATE
IN THE WAY THAT WE LIVE.
00:32:20.50\00:32:23.61
GO AHEAD AND READ THAT
FOR US - REVELATION 18:4.
00:32:23.64\00:32:25.41
>>"AND I HEARD ANOTHER VOICE
FROM HEAVEN SAYING, 'COME OUT OF
00:32:25.44\00:32:30.11
HER MY PEOPLE, THAT YE BE NOT
PARTAKERS OF HER SINS AND THAT
00:32:30.15\00:32:33.31
YOU RECEIVE NOT
OF HER PLAGUES.'"
00:32:33.35\00:32:36.35
>>SO IN THE SAME WAY
ABRAHAM CAME OUT OF BABYLON AND
00:32:36.38\00:32:38.99
GOD BLESSED HIM, DO GOD'S PEOPLE
IN THE LAST DAYS NEED TO KNOW
00:32:39.02\00:32:43.12
HOW TO HAVE ENOUGH
FAITH TO GET OUT OF BABYLON?
00:32:43.16\00:32:46.29
AND IF YOU DON'T, WHAT
HAPPENS? PLAGUES - NOT GOOD.
00:32:46.33\00:32:49.10
LOOK IN 2 CORINTHIANS 6:17,
"'WHEREFORE, COME OUT FROM AMONG
00:32:49.13\00:32:55.50
THEM AND BE YE SEPARATE,' SAYS
THE LORD, 'AND TOUCH NOT THE
00:32:55.54\00:32:59.01
UNCLEAN THING.'" NOW WHEN PAUL
SAYS 'COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM
00:32:59.04\00:33:02.24
AND BE SEPARATE' WAS HE ASKING
CHRISTIANS TO GO LIVE ON TOP OF
00:33:02.28\00:33:05.48
A PILLAR LIKE SIMON THE STYLITE
OR TO GO OFF IN A CAVE AND LIVE
00:33:05.51\00:33:09.42
BY THEMSELVES? NO, HE
TOLD ELIJAH TO GET OUT OF
00:33:09.45\00:33:11.79
THE CAVE AND GET
BACK INTO THE COUNTRY.
00:33:11.82\00:33:13.52
SO WHEN IT SAYS 'COME
OUT AND BE SEPARATE' -
00:33:13.56\00:33:15.96
'COME OUT OF HER MY
PEOPLE' - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:33:15.99\00:33:17.83
IT MEANS COME OUT FROM
THE WORLDLINESS AND BE HOLY.
00:33:17.86\00:33:22.43
SO YOU CAN COME OUT AND BE
SEPARATE WHILE YOU'RE STILL
00:33:22.46\00:33:25.13
SURROUNDED WITH THE SAME KIND OF
PEOPLE. IT MEANS YOU'RE COMING
00:33:25.17\00:33:27.64
OUT IN YOUR LIFESTYLE AND BEING
SEPARATE AND NOT TOUCHING THE
00:33:27.67\00:33:29.97
UNCLEAN THING - "'AND I WILL BE
A FATHER UNTO YOU AND YOU WILL
00:33:30.01\00:33:33.61
BE MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS'
SAYS THE LORD ALMIGHTY."
00:33:33.64\00:33:35.98
HEBREWS 11:14, "FOR THOSE WHO
SAY SUCH THINGS, THEY DECLARE
00:33:36.01\00:33:40.42
PLAINLY THAT
THEY SEEK A HOMELAND."
00:33:40.45\00:33:42.68
- AND, TRULY, IF THEY CALLED TO
MIND A COUNTRY FROM WHICH THEY
00:33:42.72\00:33:45.72
CAME OUT, THEY WOULD HAVE HAD
OPPORTUNITY TO RETURN - "BUT NOW
00:33:45.75\00:33:47.89
THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY
THAT IS A HEAVENLY COUNTRY.
00:33:47.92\00:33:50.73
THEREFORE, GOD IS NOT ASHAMED TO
BE CALLED THEIR GOD BECAUSE HE
00:33:50.76\00:33:54.56
HAS PREPARED FOR THEM A CITY."
AND SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
00:33:54.56\00:33:58.30
CITY OF FAITH. NOW,
ONE OTHER THING THAT I WANT
00:33:58.33\00:34:02.17
YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THE CALL OF
ABRAHAM: IF SOMEONE'S GOING TO
00:34:02.20\00:34:06.37
GO DO MISSION WORK, DO YOU WANT
TO KNOW THAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU
00:34:06.41\00:34:09.51
TO DO IT? YOU'VE
PROBABLY HEARD STORIES
00:34:09.54\00:34:12.55
ABOUT MISSIONARIES THAT TAKE
TRIPS AND THEN THEY GET TO THE
00:34:12.58\00:34:17.19
MISSION FIELD AND START TO
DOUBT THAT GOD EVER CALLED THEM.
00:34:17.22\00:34:20.32
THEY JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
EXOTIC AND THOUGHT IT WOULD BE
00:34:20.36\00:34:22.99
FUN AND HEARD A GOOD MISSION
STORY WHEN THEY WERE KIDS AND
00:34:23.02\00:34:25.39
THEN THEY THINK, 'WHAT IN
THE WORLD AM I DOING HERE?'
00:34:25.43\00:34:27.50
THERE ARE PROBABLY SOME
PEOPLE THAT HAVE GONE ON MISSION
00:34:27.50\00:34:31.47
PROJECTS OR CALLS
THAT WERE NOT CALLED.
00:34:31.50\00:34:35.67
I HAVE REPEATED OFTEN A STORY
I HEARD - I'VE HEARD A COUPLE
00:34:35.70\00:34:40.48
RENDITIONS OF IT, BUT I THINK
THERE'S SOME TRUTH TO IT - THAT
00:34:40.51\00:34:42.68
SOMEONE WAS TRAVELING AND THEY
- BY CHANCE, THEY WERE ON THEIR
00:34:42.71\00:34:47.65
WAY TO DO MISSION WORK IN SOME
FOREIGN COUNTRY AND THEY'RE ON
00:34:47.68\00:34:50.09
AN AIRPLANE AND LO AND BEHOLD
THEY'RE SITTING DOWN - AIRPLANE
00:34:50.12\00:34:53.19
OR TRAIN, I'VE HEARD IT BOTH
WAYS - NEXT TO BILLY GRAHAM AND
00:34:53.22\00:34:55.62
AS THEY'RE TALKING HE
SAYS, 'WHERE'RE YOU GOING?'
00:34:55.66\00:35:00.66
HE SAID, 'I'M GOING' - AND THEY
NAMED THIS, YOU KNOW, OFF TO
00:35:00.70\00:35:03.93
SOME REMOTE SPOT IN AUSTRALIA TO
DO SOME MISSION WORK AMONG THE
00:35:03.97\00:35:07.87
ABORIGINES OR WHEREVER IT WAS
AND HE SAID, 'THAT'S WONDERFUL'
00:35:07.90\00:35:11.17
- HE SAID - 'SO HOW HAS
YOUR MISSION WORK GONE AT HOME?
00:35:11.21\00:35:13.64
HOW MANY PEOPLE DID YOU BRING
TO THE LORD IN YOUR LOCAL CHURCH
00:35:13.68\00:35:15.81
AND IN YOUR FAMILY?' 'OH,
I HAVEN'T BROUGHT ANYONE TO
00:35:15.84\00:35:18.58
THE LORD LOCALLY YET.' HE SAID,
'WHY DO YOU THINK IT'S GOING TO
00:35:18.61\00:35:21.72
BE EASIER IN A FOREIGN MISSION
FIELD WHERE YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY
00:35:21.75\00:35:26.79
STRANGE CUSTOMS, STRANGE
LANGUAGE, PEOPLE THAT YOU DON'T
00:35:26.82\00:35:29.99
UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE AND WHY
- IF YOU CAN'T BE - IF YOU CAN'T
00:35:30.03\00:35:33.03
DO THESE THINGS IN A GREEN TREE,
WHY ARE YOU GOING TO DO THEM IN
00:35:33.06\00:35:36.30
THE DRY?' AND SO
YOU WANT TO KNOW THAT
00:35:36.33\00:35:39.40
YOU'RE CALLED TO DO MISSION WORK
AND ONE WAY IS SEE - CAN YOU BE
00:35:39.43\00:35:42.40
SUCCESSFUL LOCALLY? IF
YOU CAN'T BE FAITHFUL TO YOUR
00:35:42.44\00:35:45.71
CONVICTIONS AND LIVE A SEPARATE
LIFE WHERE YOU ARE, THEN WHY IS
00:35:45.74\00:35:49.51
IT GOING TO BE TRUE WHEN
YOU GO TO A MISSION FIELD?
00:35:49.54\00:35:52.51
SO YOU WANT TO KNOW
THAT GOD HAS CALLED YOU.
00:35:52.55\00:35:54.15
YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS?
ACTS 7:2, "THE LORD GOD OF GLORY
00:35:54.18\00:35:58.19
APPEARED TO OUR FATHER ABRAHAM.
SO WHEN ABRAHAM SPOKE - WHEN GOD
00:35:58.22\00:36:01.76
SPOKE TO ABRAHAM DID HE JUST
HEAR A VOICE, OR DID STEPHEN
00:36:01.79\00:36:06.26
SAY, IN ACTS,
'GOD APPEARED TO HIM'?
00:36:06.29\00:36:08.93
"THE LORD GOD OF OUR FATHER
APPEARED TO HIM WHEN HE WAS IN
00:36:08.96\00:36:12.37
MESOPOTAMIA BEFORE HE DWELT IN
00:36:12.40\00:36:14.14
HERON AND SAID, 'GET OUT OF YOUR
COUNTRY AND FROM YOUR RELATIVES
00:36:14.17\00:36:17.04
AND COME TO A LAND I'LL SHOW
YOU.'" SO THE FIRST PART OF THE
00:36:17.07\00:36:20.21
CALL ABRAHAM GETS
AND TERAH GOES WITH HIM.
00:36:20.24\00:36:23.21
THEY GO TO HERON, GOD GIVES HIM
THE SECOND PART OF THE CALL AND
00:36:23.24\00:36:25.71
HE GOES THE REST OF THE WAY.
ALRIGHT, BACK NOW TO SECTION 2
00:36:25.75\00:36:29.45
OUT OF 5 - SO WE'VE GOT TO
HASTEN ALONG HERE - ABRAHAM'S
00:36:29.48\00:36:32.55
TESTIMONY TO THE KINGS :
NOW THIS STORY COMES TO US FROM
00:36:32.59\00:36:36.73
GENESIS 14 - LET ME TELL
IT TO YOU JUST REAL QUICK.
00:36:36.76\00:36:41.30
WELL, LET ME READ IT - I'LL READ
TO YOU - GENESIS 14:21, "NOW THE
00:36:41.33\00:36:44.70
KING OF SODOM SAID TO ABRAHAM,
'GIVE ME THE PERSONS AND TAKE
00:36:44.73\00:36:49.20
THE GOODS FOR YOURSELF.'
BUT ABRAHAM SAID TO THE KING OF
00:36:49.24\00:36:52.61
SODOM, 'I'VE RAISED MY
HAND TO THE LORD GOD MOST HIGH,
00:36:52.64\00:36:54.71
POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH,
I'LL TAKE NOTHING FROM A THREAD
00:36:54.74\00:36:57.95
TO A SANDAL STRAP AND I WILL
NOT TAKE ANYTHING THAT IS YOURS,
00:36:57.98\00:37:01.85
LEST YOU SHOULD SAY 'I
HAVE MADE ABRAHAM RICH.'"
00:37:01.88\00:37:04.15
HERE'S THE CONTEXT FOR THIS
INTERESTING STORY: ABRAHAM GREW
00:37:04.19\00:37:09.12
VERY GREAT WHEN
HE WAS LIVING THERE.
00:37:09.16\00:37:11.93
HE WAS ALREADY - HAD FLOCKS AND
HERDS AND SERVANTS WHEN HE LEFT,
00:37:11.96\00:37:14.83
BUT WE KNOW THAT BY THE TIME
THIS STORY HAPPENS IN GENESIS
00:37:14.83\00:37:18.63
14, ABRAHAM'S GOT AT LEAST 300
PEOPLE THAT ARE TRAINED FOR WAR
00:37:18.67\00:37:23.34
IN HIS HOUSEHOLD. SO
HE'S GOT A SMALL ARMY OF 300
00:37:23.37\00:37:26.57
WHICH, BY THE WAY, IS NOT BAD
BECAUSE THAT'S ALL GIDEON HAD,
00:37:26.61\00:37:28.94
RIGHT? SO I THINK HE HAD
A LITTLE MORE - WHAT WAS IT,
00:37:28.98\00:37:32.75
319 MEN? SO HE'S GOT THIS SMALL
ARMY. HE'S GOT - HE'S SURROUNDED
00:37:32.78\00:37:36.52
BY THESE OTHER SMALL KINGDOMS.
THESE ARE CLAN LEADERS THAT HAD
00:37:36.55\00:37:42.32
SOLDIERS BUT MANY WERE MUCH
BIGGER THAN HE - THEY MAY HAVE
00:37:42.36\00:37:45.16
HAD THOUSANDS IN THEIR ARMY
- MANY THOUSANDS - AND THE FIVE
00:37:45.19\00:37:48.06
KINGS OF THE NORTH
LED BY CHEDORLAOMER.
00:37:48.10\00:37:52.80
THERE'S FIVE CONFEDERATE KINGS
- THEY SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE'RE
00:37:52.83\00:37:56.94
POWERFUL ENOUGH, IF WE WORK
TOGETHER WE - SODOM AND GOMORRAH
00:37:56.97\00:37:59.21
AND THOSE CITIES OF THE PLAIN,
THEY ARE VERY WEALTHY - WE CAN
00:37:59.24\00:38:02.88
CONQUER THEM AND
TAKE EVERYTHING THEY HAVE.
00:38:02.91\00:38:05.41
SO LET'S GO DOWN AND LET'S
ATTACK THEM AND WE'LL HAVE THIS
00:38:05.45\00:38:09.65
LARGER EMPIRE.' SO THEY GO DOWN
TO THE JORDAN VALLEY AND, YOU
00:38:09.68\00:38:14.02
KNOW, BEFORE THE FIRE AND
BRIMSTONE RAINED DOWN ON SODOM
00:38:14.06\00:38:17.56
AND GOMORRAH - REMEMBER, GOD
SAID, 'IN THE DAYS OF LOT IT WAS
00:38:17.59\00:38:20.46
LIKE THE GARDEN OF GOD.
IT WAS VERY FERTILE, VERY
00:38:20.50\00:38:22.60
BEAUTIFUL, VERY RICH, VERY LUSH,
VERY WEALTHY - A LOT OF COMMERCE
00:38:22.63\00:38:25.83
- THE JORDAN VALLEY -
AND THEY WANTED THE RICHES.
00:38:25.87\00:38:29.04
SO THEY GO TO THE JORDAN VALLEY
- THESE FIVE KINGS FROM THE
00:38:29.07\00:38:31.77
NORTH - THEY CONQUER THE FOUR
KINGS OF THE VALLEY - SODOM AND
00:38:31.81\00:38:34.98
GOMORRAH - AND THEY BRING THEM
- THEY BRING THEM UP CAPTIVE -
00:38:35.01\00:38:39.38
THEY'RE HEADING
TOWARDS THE NORTH.
00:38:39.41\00:38:40.75
ONE SURVIVOR FROM THE
BATTLE COMES AND TELLS ABRAHAM.
00:38:40.78\00:38:42.65
ABRAHAM - HIS ONE MAIN CONCERN
IS HE WANTS TO RESCUE HIS NEPHEW
00:38:42.68\00:38:46.79
LOT AND HIS FAMILY, WHO HAVE
NOW MOVED IN WITH HIM - THEY'RE
00:38:46.82\00:38:51.93
MAKING THAT MISTAKE - AND SO HE
GOES AND HE GETS A CONFEDERACY
00:38:51.96\00:38:57.90
OF TWO OTHER FRIENDS, MAMRE
AND ESHCOL AND THERE WERE OTHER
00:38:57.93\00:39:04.87
SHEIKS THAT LIVED IN THE
LAND AND THEIR HOUSEHOLDS AND HE
00:39:04.91\00:39:07.68
SAYS, 'WILL YOU GO WITH ME
TO FIGHT AGAINST THE KINGS OF
00:39:07.71\00:39:10.65
DAMASCUS AND
BRING BACK OUR FAMILY?'
00:39:10.68\00:39:16.52
AND THEY COME TOGETHER -
SO THERE'S LIKE TWELVE KINGS
00:39:16.55\00:39:19.39
INVOLVED - YOU DO THE MATH -
FIGURE ABRAHAM'S A SHEIK - HE'S
00:39:19.42\00:39:22.86
A KING - ESHCOL, MAMRE, FIVE
FROM THE NORTH, FOUR FROM THE
00:39:22.89\00:39:27.50
SOUTH. SO YOU'VE
GOT AT LEAST A DOZEN
00:39:27.56\00:39:29.93
KINGS INVOLVED IN THIS.
ABRAHAM BECOMES THE LEADER OF
00:39:29.96\00:39:32.73
THEM ALL AND HE WINS THE BATTLE.
HE TAKES THE INITIATIVE AND HE
00:39:32.77\00:39:36.74
FIGHTS TO RESCUE
THESE OTHER KINGS.
00:39:36.77\00:39:39.84
I MEAN, IT ALMOST - IT ALMOST
SOUNDS STRANGE, BUT DO YOU
00:39:39.87\00:39:43.85
REALIZE BEFORE SODOM
AND GOMORRAH WERE JUDGED AND
00:39:43.88\00:39:47.18
DESTROYED, SODOM
AND GOMORRAH WERE SAVED?
00:39:47.22\00:39:49.42
YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT?
AND JUDE ACTUALLY REFERENCES
00:39:49.45\00:39:55.56
THAT THOUGHT. HE SAYS THE ANGELS
THAT WERE ONCE SAVED KEPT NOT
00:39:55.59\00:39:59.36
THEIR FIRST ESTATE AND THEY WERE
LATER LOST. THE PEOPLE OF SODOM
00:39:59.39\00:40:02.73
AND GOMORRAH WHO WERE SAVED
BY ABRAHAM, BECAUSE THEY TURNED
00:40:02.76\00:40:06.47
BACK TO THEIR WICKEDNESS, THAT
JUDGMENT SHOULD HAVE WOKEN THEM
00:40:06.50\00:40:08.90
UP AND SAID, 'OH LOOK,
WE ALMOST GOT DESTROYED.
00:40:08.94\00:40:10.54
WE PRAYED AND REPENTED AND GOD
SAVED US AND NOW WE'VE TURNED
00:40:10.57\00:40:13.04
RIGHT BACK TO OUR WICKEDNESS
AGAIN.' AND SO HE SAVED THEM.
00:40:13.07\00:40:18.41
BUT THIS BECAME A
TESTIMONY TO THE OTHER NATIONS.
00:40:18.45\00:40:21.45
AND THEN, WHEN THEY SAID, 'LOOK,
WE'LL PAY YOU.' HE SAID, 'NO,
00:40:21.48\00:40:25.05
ALL I'M ASKING IS THAT YOU FEED
THE SOLDIERS WHAT THEY'VE EATEN.
00:40:25.09\00:40:27.52
HE HAD THE RIGHT TO
ALL THE BOUNTY OF THE WAR.
00:40:27.56\00:40:30.39
HE COULD HAVE BEEN FABULOUSLY
RICH, BECAUSE NOT ONLY WOULD
00:40:30.43\00:40:32.83
ABRAHAM HAVE OWNED EVERYTHING
THAT SODOM AND GOMORRAH HAD
00:40:32.86\00:40:34.93
CAPTURED. HE WOULD
HAVE OWNED EVERYTHING
00:40:34.96\00:40:37.60
THEY CAPTURED FROM THE NORTHERN
FIVE KINGS, HE COULD HAVE HAD
00:40:37.63\00:40:40.60
ALL THIS WEALTH AND HE SAID,
'NO, I'M NOT GOING TO NEED ANY
00:40:40.64\00:40:43.10
OF IT.' WOW, THAT'S
A LOT OF SELF-CONTROL.
00:40:43.14\00:40:46.61
HE SAYS, 'I DON'T WANT YOU
TO SAY YOU MADE ABRAHAM RICH.
00:40:46.64\00:40:49.01
IF I'M RICH, GOD'LL MAKE ME RICH
AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK
00:40:49.04\00:40:54.78
IT'S BECAUSE OF
WAR I BECAME RICH.
00:40:54.82\00:40:56.58
I WANT YOU TO KNOW IT'S BECAUSE
OF THE BLESSING OF GOD I BECAME
00:40:56.62\00:40:58.85
RICH.' AND SO IT BECAME A
TESTIMONY TO HIS GENEROSITY.
00:40:58.89\00:41:04.76
HE BECAME A TESTIMONY
TO THE KINGS OF THE NORTH.
00:41:04.79\00:41:06.80
YOU KNOW, MANY OF THEM SURVIVED
- THEY FLED - THEY SAID, 'GOD IS
00:41:06.83\00:41:10.13
WITH ABRAHAM.' AND SO GOD
GAVE HIM, THROUGH THIS TRIAL, AN
00:41:10.17\00:41:14.67
OPPORTUNITY. NOW IT
SAYS HERE - GO TO THE
00:41:14.70\00:41:19.81
NEXT SECTION UNDER AN EXEMPLAR
OF FAITH - SOMEONE'S GOING TO
00:41:19.84\00:41:23.78
READ FOR ME HEBREWS 11, VERSES 9
AND 10 - OKAY, IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:41:23.81\00:41:27.32
I WANT TO READ HEBREWS 15:5
- I'M SORRY, GENESIS 15:5 - GOD
00:41:27.35\00:41:33.12
SAYS TO ABRAHAM - HE BROUGHT HIM
OUTSIDE AND HE SAYS, "LOOK NOW
00:41:33.15\00:41:38.19
TOWARDS THE HEAVEN AND COUNT THE
STARS IF YOU'RE ABLE TO NUMBER
00:41:38.23\00:41:41.50
THEM." LET ME JUST ASK YOU
WHY YOU THINK ABOUT THIS VERSE.
00:41:41.53\00:41:44.53
DID ABRAHAM LIVE
LONGER THAN WE LIVE?
00:41:44.57\00:41:48.47
DID PEOPLE LIVE
LONGER BACK THEN?
00:41:48.50\00:41:51.24
WAS THE
ATMOSPHERE CLEARER BACK THEN?
00:41:51.27\00:41:54.64
DID THEY HAVE AS
MUCH POLLUTION AS WE HAVE?
00:41:54.68\00:41:56.21
DO YOU THINK THEIR EYES MIGHT
HAVE BEEN EVEN A LITTLE SHARPER?
00:41:56.24\00:42:00.12
YOU KNOW, NOT TOO FAR FROM HERE
IS - LIVING IN GRASS VALLEY - IS
00:42:00.15\00:42:05.52
AN AMERICAN LEGEND NAMED RICK -
NO, NO, CHUCK YEAGER - I ALMOST
00:42:05.55\00:42:11.59
SAID RICK
YEAGER - HE'S A MEMBER.
00:42:11.63\00:42:13.06
CHUCK YEAGER - HOW MANY OF
YOU HAVE HEARD OF CHUCK YEAGER?
00:42:13.09\00:42:15.70
PILOT, TEST PILOT - YOU KNOW,
HE'S STILL ALIVE - 95 - STILL
00:42:15.73\00:42:17.97
FLIES. I'D LIKE TO FLY WITH HIM.
00:42:18.00\00:42:20.60
OF COURSE, THAT COULD BE A
LITTLE NERVE WRACKING - 95 - BUT
00:42:20.64\00:42:23.54
HE STILL FLIES. A FRIEND
OF MINE JUST CHECKED HIM OUT.
00:42:23.57\00:42:26.61
HE USED TO HAVE 20/10 VISION IN
BOTH EYES. HE COULD SEE - THEY
00:42:26.64\00:42:31.01
SAID HIS SIGHT WAS INCREDIBLE
AT SPOTTING OTHER AIRCRAFT.
00:42:31.05\00:42:33.55
HE'D JUST LOOK AROUND JUST
LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE A GNAT.
00:42:33.58\00:42:36.12
KAREN AND I ARE FLYING ALONG AND
I'LL SAY, 'YOU SEE THAT PLANE?'
00:42:36.15\00:42:39.22
- OR I WAS WITH NATHAN LAST WEEK
- 'YOU SEE THAT PLANE THERE?'
00:42:39.25\00:42:41.36
'I CAN'T SEE IT.' WE ALL WEAR
GLASSES SO - BUT ABRAHAM HAD
00:42:41.39\00:42:46.29
MUCH CLEARER VISION,
I THINK, THAN WE HAVE.
00:42:46.33\00:42:48.40
THAT'S JUST MY
THEORY. I CAN'T PROVE IT.
00:42:48.43\00:42:51.37
YOU CAN'T DISPROVE IT. I
BELIEVE THE SKY WAS CLEAR.
00:42:51.40\00:42:54.50
SO WHEN HE SAYS, 'ABRAHAM, GO
OUTSIDE AND LOOK UP.' YOU KNOW,
00:42:54.54\00:42:58.04
YOU EVER BEEN IN THE MOUNTAINS
AND YOU SEE A CLEAR SKY?
00:42:58.07\00:43:01.24
WHEN YOU'RE OUT IN THE COUNTRY
AND NOT POLLUTED BY CITY LIGHTS
00:43:01.28\00:43:04.78
AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE SKY IS
JUST SPLASHED WITH CREAM FROM
00:43:04.81\00:43:07.88
THE MILKY WAY YOU JUST SEE
IT JUST SPECKLED EVERYWHERE
00:43:07.92\00:43:12.62
WITH STARS AND
HE SEES THESE STARS.
00:43:12.65\00:43:14.89
HE DIDN'T JUST SEE THE BIG STARS
WE SEE IN THE CITY, HE SAW THE
00:43:14.92\00:43:17.76
BILLIONS OF STARS
AND GOD - 'SEE ALL THAT?'
00:43:17.79\00:43:22.33
- HE SAID, 'YOU'RE SEED IS
GOING TO BE MORE THAN THAT.
00:43:22.36\00:43:25.40
IF YOU'RE ABLE TO NUMBER THEM,
SO SHALL YOUR DESCENDENTS BE.'
00:43:25.43\00:43:29.97
AND HE BELIEVED THE LORD.
HE WASN'T PICKING A SPECIFIC
00:43:30.01\00:43:31.77
NUMBER BECAUSE LATER GOD SAYS,
'CONSIDER IT WILL BE LIKE THE
00:43:31.81\00:43:35.74
SAND OF THE SEASHORE.' SO YOU
THINK GOD WAS BEING SPECIFIC OR
00:43:35.78\00:43:38.55
WAS HE GENERALIZING, WITH A
POETIC IMAGE, THAT IT WILL BE
00:43:38.58\00:43:42.58
NUMBERLESS, IS
ALL HE WAS SAYING.
00:43:42.62\00:43:44.32
AND THEN NOTICE IT SAYS HERE IN
VERSE 6, "HE BELIEVED THE LORD
00:43:44.35\00:43:48.59
AND HE (GOD) ACCOUNTED IT TO
HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS." HE WAS
00:43:48.62\00:43:53.03
CREDITED WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS
BECAUSE HE BELIEVED.
00:43:53.06\00:43:56.77
THAT'S BETTER KNOWN AS
RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.
00:43:56.80\00:43:59.80
THAT COMES UP A LOT THROUGHOUT
THE BIBLE, BUT YOU FIND IT WITH
00:43:59.83\00:44:03.04
ABRAHAM. HE WAS GIVEN CREDIT FOR
00:44:03.07\00:44:06.88
RIGHTEOUSNESS
BECAUSE HE BELIEVED GOD.
00:44:06.91\00:44:09.41
AND IF YOU BELIEVE THE GOSPEL
- THAT GOD IS GOING TO FORGIVE
00:44:09.44\00:44:12.55
YOUR SINS - AND THAT GOD IS
GOING TO CREATE A MIRACLE WITHIN
00:44:12.58\00:44:16.32
YOU OF NEW LIFE, THAT HIS SON
WILL BE IN YOU - SEE ABRAHAM,
00:44:16.35\00:44:20.59
WHEN GOD SAID 'THE MESSIAH'S
IN YOUR SEED' GOD WAS SAYING TO
00:44:20.62\00:44:24.16
ABRAHAM, 'THE MESSIAH IS IN
YOU.' AND WHEN YOU'RE SAVED,
00:44:24.19\00:44:27.40
HE'S SAYING THE
MESSIAH COMES ALIVE IN YOU.
00:44:27.46\00:44:29.90
IT'S CHRIST IN YOU,
THE HOPE OF GLORY. RIGHT?
00:44:29.93\00:44:33.07
AND SO HE BELIEVED GOD AND IT
WAS ACCOUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:44:33.10\00:44:37.54
GO AHEAD, READ FOR ME
HEBREWS 11, VERSES 9 AND 10.
00:44:37.57\00:44:40.74
>>"BY FAITH HE DWELT IN THE
LAND OF PROMISE AS IN A FOREIGN
00:44:40.78\00:44:45.58
COUNTRY, DWELLING IN TENTS WITH
ISAAC AND JACOB, THE HEIRS WITH
00:44:45.61\00:44:49.62
HIM OF THE SAME PROMISE, FOR
HE WAITED FOR THE CITY WHICH HAS
00:44:49.65\00:44:53.29
FOUNDATIONS, WHOSE
BUILDER AND MAKER IS GOD."
00:44:53.32\00:44:56.76
>>YOU KNOW, THAT'S
A BEAUTIFUL PROMISE.
00:44:56.79\00:44:58.93
ABRAHAM, HE JUST WANDERED HITHER
AND YON ALL THROUGH THE PROMISED
00:44:58.96\00:45:03.93
LAND, BUT HE WAS WAITING ON GOD.
YOU KNOW, I WANT TO JUMP DOWN
00:45:03.97\00:45:07.54
HERE. EVERYWHERE
ABRAHAM WENT - LET'S
00:45:07.57\00:45:12.14
GO INTO THE SECTION ABRAHAM THE
WANDERER - ABRAHAM THE WANDERER
00:45:12.17\00:45:16.44
. YOU KNOW THAT OLD CHRISTMAS
SONG, 'I WONDER AS I WANDER OUT
00:45:16.48\00:45:20.18
UNDER THE STARS' - ABRAHAM SPENT
QUITE A TIME WANDERING FROM
00:45:20.22\00:45:26.15
PLACE TO PLACE. FOR
ONE THING, YOU'LL NOTICE HE
00:45:26.19\00:45:28.29
GOES TO MOREH AT
SHEKEM. HE GOES TO HEBRON.
00:45:28.32\00:45:35.66
HE GOES TO MAMRE. HE
GOES TO MOUNT MORIAH.
00:45:35.70\00:45:40.20
HE GOES DOWN TO EGYPT.
EVERYWHERE HE GOES - MOST PLACES
00:45:40.24\00:45:45.14
HE GOES - IT RECORDS
THAT HE BUILDS AN ALTAR.
00:45:45.17\00:45:48.11
GENESIS 12:7, "THE LORD GOD
APPEARED TO ABRAHAM AND SAID,
00:45:48.14\00:45:52.15
'UNTO YOUR SEED
I'LL GIVE THIS LAND.'
00:45:52.18\00:45:53.95
HE BUILT AN ALTAR TO THE LORD.
GENESIS 12:8, "AND HE PITCHED
00:45:53.98\00:45:57.35
HIS TENT WITH BETHEL TOWARD THE
SEA AND AI ON THE EAST AND HE
00:45:57.39\00:46:00.99
BUILT AN ALTAR TO THE LORD."
AND SO MOST PLACES HE'S MOVING
00:46:01.02\00:46:06.03
HIS TENT - WELL, EVERYWHERE HE
MOVES HIS TENT - ABRAHAM BUILDS
00:46:06.06\00:46:09.03
AN ALTAR. WHAT KIND
OF TESTIMONY IS THAT
00:46:09.06\00:46:11.60
TO THE NATIONS AROUND YOU?
WHEN YOU GO OUT TO EAT WITH
00:46:11.63\00:46:15.47
FRIENDS, MAYBE AT THE OFFICE -
YOU'RE A BELIEVER, THEY'RE NOT -
00:46:15.50\00:46:18.51
DO YOU LET THEM KNOW YOU'RE
GOING TO PRAY FOR YOUR FOOD?
00:46:18.54\00:46:21.74
OR DO YOU JUST KIND OF WINK
ONE EYE AND TELL GOD YOU PRAYED?
00:46:21.78\00:46:25.65
YEAH, I JUST WENT OUT WITH THREE
- I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE ALL
00:46:25.68\00:46:33.09
ATHEISTS, BUT THEY'RE CERTAINLY
NOT BELIEVERS - A LITTLE WHILE
00:46:33.12\00:46:34.82
AGO AND I KNEW IT MIGHT BE
AWKWARD FOR THEM, BUT I FIGURE
00:46:34.86\00:46:37.29
WHY WOULD I BE
ASHAMED OF MY FAITH?
00:46:37.33\00:46:40.50
IT MIGHT OPEN A CONVERSATION.
IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY WHEN
00:46:40.53\00:46:42.76
YOU'RE WITH PEOPLE AND YOU
SAY, 'JUST PARDON ME A MOMENT.'
00:46:42.80\00:46:45.23
AND YOU BOW YOUR HEAD
AND YOU THANK THE LORD.
00:46:45.27\00:46:47.04
IF I'M IN A PUBLIC RESTAURANT
AND I'M BY MYSELF, I TAKE OFF MY
00:46:47.07\00:46:48.94
BASEBALL CAP AND I LET
PEOPLE KNOW I'M PRAYING.
00:46:48.97\00:46:52.01
IT DOESN'T MATTER IF I'M
IN CHIPOTLE OR WHEREVER IT IS.
00:46:52.04\00:46:54.54
AND THE MUSIC'S BLARING -
SOMETIMES I GET PHONE CALLS FROM
00:46:54.58\00:47:00.45
PEOPLE AT SOME OF THESE
RESTAURANTS AND THE MUSIC IS -
00:47:00.48\00:47:03.18
YOU KNOW, THE FOOD'S GOOD,
BUT THE MUSIC IS - AND I HAVE TO
00:47:03.22\00:47:07.42
TELL THEM - I SAY, 'LOOK,
THIS IS NOT IN MY CAR, I'M AT
00:47:07.46\00:47:10.59
CHIPOTLE EATING AND I CAN'T HELP
IT.' ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
00:47:10.63\00:47:17.60
TALKING ABOUT? IT CAN
BE EMBARRASSING, YOU KNOW?
00:47:17.63\00:47:20.90
YOU GET CALLED - SOME CHURCH
CONFERENCE CALL - YOU PICK UP
00:47:20.94\00:47:23.77
THE PHONE -
BOMP-TAKA-TAKA-BOMP-TAKA - I'M
00:47:23.81\00:47:26.04
GOING, 'THIS ISN'T MY RADIO!
I CAN'T HELP IT.' ANYWAY, BUT I
00:47:26.07\00:47:31.01
PRAY BECAUSE
YOU'RE BUILDING AN ALTAR.
00:47:31.05\00:47:33.48
WHEREVER YOU WANDER
YOU'RE BEING A MISSIONARY.
00:47:33.52\00:47:37.05
YOU LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT YOU
WORSHIP GOD AND WHEN YOU'RE WITH
00:47:37.09\00:47:39.69
YOUR FAMILY, YOU
HAVE FAMILY WORSHIP.
00:47:39.72\00:47:41.39
IT'S JUST ONE OF THE THINGS
HE DID EVERYWHERE HE WENT.
00:47:41.42\00:47:44.09
NOW SOMEONE SAID, 'A
FUGITIVE IS RUNNING FROM HOME.
00:47:44.13\00:47:48.16
A VAGABOND HAS NO HOME. A
STRANGER IS AWAY FROM HOME.
00:47:48.20\00:47:53.80
A WANDERER IS SEARCHING FOR A
HOME AND A PILGRIM IS ON HIS WAY
00:47:53.84\00:47:58.07
HOME.' IN HEBREWS IT SAYS - YOU
CAN READ IN HEBREWS 11:13, "ALL
00:47:58.11\00:48:01.61
THESE" - SPEAKING OF THE FATHERS
OF THE FAITHFUL - "ALL THESE
00:48:01.64\00:48:06.08
DIED IN FAITH NOT HAVING
RECEIVED THE PROMISES, BUT
00:48:06.11\00:48:08.72
HAVING SEEN THEM AFAR OFF AND
THEY WERE ASSURED OF THEM AND
00:48:08.75\00:48:12.42
EMBRACED THEM BY FAITH
AND CONFESSED THAT THEY WERE
00:48:12.45\00:48:16.59
STRANGERS AND
PILGRIMS ON THE EARTH."
00:48:16.62\00:48:18.96
I DON'T KNOW, DO WE STILL
HAVE THAT SONG IN OUR BOOK?
00:48:18.99\00:48:20.66
I THINK WE DO.
'I'M A PILGRIM AND I'M A
00:48:20.70\00:48:22.40
STRANGER' - IS THAT STILL
IN THE NEW HYMNAL? YEAH, IT IS.
00:48:22.43\00:48:26.17
YEAH, IT'S A GOOD SONG BECAUSE -
'THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME, I'M
00:48:26.20\00:48:32.24
JUST A-PASSING
THROUGH' - YOU KNOW THAT ONE?
00:48:32.27\00:48:34.44
'IF HEAVEN'S NOT' - THAT
WAS AN OLD PENTECOSTAL SONG, 'IF
00:48:34.48\00:48:37.38
HEAVEN'S NOT MY HOME,
O LORD, WHAT WOULD I DO?
00:48:37.41\00:48:39.18
THE ANGELS BECKON ME FROM
HEAVEN'S OPEN DOOR AND I CAN'T
00:48:39.21\00:48:43.12
BE AT HOME IN THIS WORLD
ANYMORE.' BECAUSE - NOW - DID -
00:48:43.15\00:48:47.19
WAIT A SECOND, THAT ISN'T FAIR.
GOD SAYS TO ABRAHAM, 'I WANT YOU
00:48:47.22\00:48:50.49
TO UPROOT EVERYTHING AND GO
TO THE LAND OF CANAAN AND I WANT
00:48:50.53\00:48:53.40
YOU TO WANDER THE WHOLE TIME
YOU'RE THERE - AS A PILGRIM.'
00:48:53.43\00:48:56.23
DID HE EVER GET TO
SETTLE DOWN AND GET HIS HOUSE?
00:48:56.26\00:49:01.04
NO, BECAUSE ABRAHAM WAS LOOKING
BEYOND THIS WORLD TO A CITY THAT
00:49:01.07\00:49:07.84
HAD FOUNDATIONS. WILL
ABRAHAM GET TO INHERIT THE
00:49:07.88\00:49:12.05
PROMISED LAND? WHEN
THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES
00:49:12.08\00:49:15.45
DOWN TO EARTH - THAT CITY
- WHERE IS IT GOING TO LAND?
00:49:15.48\00:49:18.79
IT TELLS US IN THE BIBLE -
JESUS' FEET - ZECHARIAH 14 -
00:49:18.82\00:49:23.39
TOUCH WHAT? MOUNT OF OLIVES.
JESUS ASCENDED FROM BETHANY ON
00:49:23.43\00:49:28.56
THE MOUNT OF OLIVES; HE COMES
BACK ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
00:49:28.60\00:49:30.97
THE NEXT PLACE HIS FEET
TOUCH FORMS A GREAT VALLEY - NEW
00:49:31.00\00:49:33.84
JERUSALEM SETTLES DOWN
- 375 MILES ON EACH SIDE.
00:49:33.87\00:49:36.50
THE BORDERS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM
COMPLETELY ENCOMPASS THE
00:49:36.54\00:49:40.78
PROMISED LAND. IN
FACT, THE PROMISED LAND IS
00:49:40.81\00:49:43.91
JUST GOING TO BE LIKE CENTRAL
PARK. IT'LL BE SMALL WITHIN THE
00:49:43.95\00:49:47.15
TERRITORY OF THE NEW JERUSALEM.
SO ABRAHAM WILL LITERALLY
00:49:47.18\00:49:50.25
INHERIT THAT LAND AND HIS
SEED - ALL THOSE THAT ARE THE
00:49:50.29\00:49:56.06
SEED OF ABRAHAM - WE DO,
LITERALLY, GET THAT LAND -
00:49:56.09\00:49:58.53
THE PERFECT LAND
THAT HAD FOUNDATIONS.
00:49:58.56\00:50:01.73
YOU SEE HOW BEAUTIFULLY GOD'S
WORD FULFILLED THE PROMISE?
00:50:01.76\00:50:04.67
HE KNEW THIS WAS NOT
IT. THIS LIFE IS SHORT.
00:50:04.70\00:50:06.87
COMPARED TO ETERNITY, ABRAHAM
SAID, 'I'M GOING TO WANDER HERE
00:50:06.90\00:50:09.44
BUT I'M LOOKING BEYOND TO THE
DAY WHEN WE'RE GOING TO GET THIS
00:50:09.47\00:50:11.57
LAND FOREVER.' SO UNTIL THEN, WE
WANDER. YOU KNOW, WE INTERVIEWED
00:50:11.61\00:50:19.15
A FAMILY THIS WEEK AT AMAZING
FACTS - WE'RE CONSIDERING HIRING
00:50:19.18\00:50:22.42
- AND THEY CAME FROM ANOTHER
STATE - LONG WAY - BEEN LIVING
00:50:22.45\00:50:29.72
IN THE OTHER STATE THEIR ENTIRE
LIVES - ALL OF THEIR FAMILY
00:50:29.76\00:50:32.79
LIVES IN THE OTHER STATE
IN A TOWN THEIR ENTIRE LIVES.
00:50:32.83\00:50:36.03
ALL OF THEIR ROOTS - CHILDREN IN
SCHOOL, BABY, AND I SAID, 'YOU
00:50:36.06\00:50:41.74
KNOW, THAT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH.'
AND THE FATHER SAID, 'WELL, IF
00:50:41.77\00:50:45.11
ABRAHAM COULD DO IT, WE'LL JUST
HAVE TO SAY, 'LORD, IF THIS IS
00:50:45.14\00:50:49.44
WHAT YOU WANT US TO DO, WE'LL
HAVE FAITH THAT THAT'S WHAT YOU
00:50:49.48\00:50:52.15
WANT US TO DO.' BUT, YOU KNOW,
IT'S HARD STILL, TODAY WHEN
00:50:52.18\00:50:56.08
YOU'VE JUST GOT TO UPROOT YOUR
WHOLE FAMILY AND GO TO A PLACE
00:50:56.12\00:50:58.65
WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE A SUPPORT
GROUP BECAUSE YOU THINK THIS IS
00:50:58.69\00:51:00.86
WHERE GOD WANTS US. BUT
DOES GOD STILL ASK US TO
00:51:00.89\00:51:04.06
MAKE MOVES OF FAITH TODAY?
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ASKED TO GET
00:51:04.09\00:51:07.93
OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE
FOR GOD AND DO SOMETHING?
00:51:07.96\00:51:10.57
JUST REMEMBER HOW AWKWARD AND
HOW DIFFICULT IT MUST HAVE BEEN
00:51:10.60\00:51:14.74
FOR ABRAM AND SARAH - SARAI -
IT WAS ABRAM AND SARAI - LATER
00:51:14.77\00:51:18.97
ABRAHAM AND SARAH - TO DO THAT.
SO IT WAS ACTUALLY THE FAITH OF
00:51:19.01\00:51:25.11
THEM BOTH. THEY
BOTH GOT A NEW NAME.
00:51:25.15\00:51:26.85
BUT EVERYWHERE
THEY WENT THEY WANDERED.
00:51:26.88\00:51:29.75
THEY BUILD AN ALTAR AND THEY
ALSO WITNESSED THROUGH THEIR
00:51:29.78\00:51:33.02
FAMILY. HE WAS A
MISSIONARY IN HIS OWN HOUSE.
00:51:33.05\00:51:37.13
AND THIS IS JUST MY LAST
FEW WORDS. I WANT TO GIVE YOU -
00:51:37.16\00:51:39.69
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
- IS IT 1 TIMOTHY 4:16?
00:51:39.73\00:51:42.70
YOU'VE GOT THAT? ALRIGHT,
IF YOU'LL GET READY WITH THAT,
00:51:42.73\00:51:45.70
I WANT TO READ AGAIN NOW JOSHUA
24, VERSES 2 AND 3, "AND JOSHUA
00:51:45.73\00:51:52.24
SAID TO THE PEOPLE," -
OH, I ALREADY READ THAT ONE.
00:51:52.27\00:51:57.65
LET ME SEE, I WANT TO READ -
I WANT TO READ GENESIS 18:18 AND
00:51:57.68\00:52:04.62
19, "SINCE ABRAHAM SHALL SURELY
BECOME A GREAT AND A MIGHTY
00:52:04.65\00:52:08.56
NATION AND ALL THE NATIONS
OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED IN
00:52:08.59\00:52:11.86
HIM, FOR I HAVE KNOWN HIM IN
ORDER THAT HE MIGHT COMMAND HIS
00:52:11.89\00:52:15.86
CHILDREN AND HIS HOUSEHOLD AFTER
HIM, THAT HE MAY KEEP THE WAY OF
00:52:15.90\00:52:19.63
THE LORD TO DO RIGHTEOUSNESS
AND JUSTICE THAT THE LORD MIGHT
00:52:19.67\00:52:23.41
BRING ABRAHAM WHAT
HE HAS SPOKEN TO HIM.
00:52:23.44\00:52:25.81
HAVE YOU MET FAMILIES BEFORE,
THEY SAY, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, I
00:52:25.84\00:52:28.71
THINK THAT GOD MAKES US ALL
UNIQUE AND WE ALL HAVE A FREE
00:52:28.74\00:52:31.58
WILL AND, YOU KNOW, MY KIDS,
THEY'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO
00:52:31.61\00:52:34.15
FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY BELIEVE AND
FROM INFANCY ON THEY'LL HAVE TO
00:52:34.18\00:52:36.08
FIND OUT ON THEIR OWN.'
THAT WAS SORT OF THE APPROACH MY
00:52:36.12\00:52:40.52
MOTHER TOOK. I'M
GLAD, FOR MY SAKE, THAT I
00:52:40.56\00:52:43.39
HAD THAT FREEDOM, BUT I THINK,
AS A CHRISTIAN, YOU DON'T TAKE
00:52:43.43\00:52:46.66
THAT APPROACH THAT YOU JUST SORT
OF LET THEM GROPE AROUND IN THE
00:52:46.70\00:52:50.13
DARK. I THINK
THAT YOU TEACH THEM.
00:52:50.17\00:52:52.43
DOESN'T IT SAY - DOESN'T MOSES
SAY, 'WHEN YOU LAY DOWN, WHEN
00:52:52.47\00:52:57.24
YOU RISE UP, WHEN YOU GO OUT,
WHEN YOU COME IN, REPEAT THE
00:52:57.27\00:53:02.08
WORD OF GOD TO YOUR
CHILDREN'? WORSHIP WITH THEM.
00:53:02.11\00:53:06.58
SHOW THEM THE WAYS OF
TRUTH. PUT IT ON YOUR HAND.
00:53:06.61\00:53:09.82
PUT IT ON YOUR FOREHEAD.
HE WAS SPEAKING, OF COURSE,
00:53:09.85\00:53:12.82
ILLUSTRATIVELY. HE
SAID, 'HAVE IT IN YOUR HEART,
00:53:12.85\00:53:15.02
PUT IT ON THE
POSTS OF YOUR HOUSE.
00:53:15.06\00:53:17.23
SURROUND YOURSELVES WITH
THE WORD OF GOD SO THAT YOUR
00:53:17.26\00:53:21.33
CHILDREN WILL GROW UP
WITH BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES.' AND
00:53:21.36\00:53:24.17
ABRAHAM COMMANDED
HIS FAMILY THAT WAY.
00:53:24.20\00:53:26.43
NOW, IN DOING THIS - IN
DOING MISSION WORK, IT NOT ONLY
00:53:26.47\00:53:30.47
REACHES OTHERS - YOUR FAMILY -
BUT IT IS REDEMPTIVE IN WHAT IT
00:53:30.51\00:53:36.18
DOES FOR YOU. LET'S READ
THAT VERSE IN 1 TIMOTHY 4:16.
00:53:36.21\00:53:40.15
>>"TAKE HEED TO
YOURSELF AND TO THE DOCTRINE.
00:53:40.18\00:53:43.02
CONTINUE IN THEM, FOR IN DOING
THIS YOU WILL SAVE BOTH YOURSELF
00:53:43.05\00:53:47.32
AND THOSE WHO HEAR YOU."
00:53:47.36\00:53:49.42
>>IF YOU'RE A MISSIONARY, RIGHT
THERE YOU'VE GOT THE REASON -
00:53:49.46\00:53:53.70
PART OF THE REASON, AT LEAST,
THAT I'M INVOLVED IN MINISTRY -
00:53:53.73\00:53:56.36
IS BECAUSE IN REACHING
OTHERS YOU SAVE YOURSELF.
00:53:56.40\00:54:03.54
IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU
BELIEVE AND YOU'RE NOT INVOLVED
00:54:03.57\00:54:07.24
IN USING YOUR GIFTS IN SOMEHOW
REACHING OTHERS - AND THAT MIGHT
00:54:07.28\00:54:11.28
BE THROUGH YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR
GIFTS, BUT EVERYBODY SHOULD BE
00:54:11.31\00:54:13.48
INVOLVED WITH A
PASSION TO WITNESS TO OTHERS.
00:54:13.52\00:54:16.95
IN DOING THIS, YOU SAVE BOTH
YOURSELF AND THOSE WHO HEAR YOU.
00:54:16.99\00:54:22.02
HE SAYS, 'FOR IN DOING THIS YOU
WILL SAVE YOURSELF AND THOSE WHO
00:54:22.06\00:54:25.86
HEAR YOU.'
THAT'S A MESSAGE FOR ME.
00:54:25.89\00:54:28.70
THAT'S A MESSAGE
FOR EVERY MISSIONARY.
00:54:28.73\00:54:30.77
DO YOU KNOW A LOT OF
MISSIONARIES ARE CONVERTED IN
00:54:30.80\00:54:32.87
THE PROCESS OF
DOING MISSION WORK?
00:54:32.90\00:54:34.97
I HEARD A WONDERFUL TESTIMONY
YEARS AGO AT CAMP MEETING ABOUT
00:54:35.00\00:54:37.91
A MISSIONARY FAMILY.
THEY WENT TO THE MISSION FIELD
00:54:37.94\00:54:40.08
WITH ANOTHER MISSIONARY FAMILY
AND THEY'RE IN A - JUST A DARK
00:54:40.11\00:54:43.85
MISSION FIELD SOMEWHERE WHERE
THERE'S ALL KINDS OF JUST VERY
00:54:43.88\00:54:47.15
PRIMITIVE LIVING.
PEOPLE WERE JUST RUNNING AROUND
00:54:47.18\00:54:49.22
NAKED - I MEAN, IT WAS A REAL
FIRST-CLASS MISSION PROJECT.
00:54:49.25\00:54:51.65
TWO MISSION FAMILIES WERE
SUPPOSED TO REACH THE PAGANS.
00:54:51.69\00:54:55.16
THEY BEGAN TO FIGHT AMONG
THEMSELVES - THE CHRISTIAN
00:54:55.19\00:54:58.06
FAMILIES. THEY
COULD NOT GET ALONG.
00:54:58.09\00:55:00.73
THEY FOUGHT, THEY BICKERED,
THE TENSION - AND FINALLY THEY
00:55:00.76\00:55:04.90
REALIZED THAT THE LORD BROUGHT
THEM TO THE MISSION FIELD TO
00:55:04.93\00:55:08.64
CONVERT THEM AND THEY WEREN'T
GOING TO REACH ANYBODY ELSE
00:55:08.67\00:55:12.97
UNTIL THEY WERE CONVERTED.
AND THEY HAD TO GO TO THE OTHER
00:55:13.01\00:55:15.98
SIDE OF THE WORLD TO FIND
OUT THAT THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO BE
00:55:16.01\00:55:18.25
MISSIONARIES UNTIL THEY
WERE SURRENDERED TO THE LORD.
00:55:18.28\00:55:20.48
THEY COULDN'T GET
ALONG WITH ANYBODY ELSE.
00:55:20.52\00:55:22.45
AND IT'S QUITE A DRAMATIC
STORY AND I'M NOT ABLE TO DO IT
00:55:22.48\00:55:25.52
JUSTICE, BUT SOMETIMES GOD
BRINGS US TO THE MISSION FIELD
00:55:25.55\00:55:29.79
TO REACH THE MISSIONARY AND IN
REACHING OTHERS WE'RE CONVERTED
00:55:29.82\00:55:33.90
IN THE PROCESS. I HAVE
SEEN, BEFORE, PEOPLE THAT
00:55:33.93\00:55:37.53
ARE GIVING BIBLE STUDIES TO
OTHERS ARE CONVERTED BY THE VERY
00:55:37.57\00:55:42.10
TRUTHS THEY ARE
SHARING WITH OTHERS.
00:55:42.14\00:55:44.17
THEY STARTED DOING IT BECAUSE
THEY THINK THEY SHOULD, BUT IN
00:55:44.21\00:55:46.64
THE PROCESS OF DOING IT THEY
GET AHOLD OF IT FOR THEMSELVES.
00:55:46.68\00:55:50.61
AND SO, YOU SHOULD BE INVOLVED
IN SHARING THE GOSPEL WITH
00:55:50.65\00:55:54.18
OTHERS EVEN IF YOU DON'T FEEL
LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT ALL
00:55:54.22\00:55:57.65
THE RIGHT REASONS IN DOING IT.
DID JESUS SEND OUT PETER, JAMES,
00:55:57.69\00:56:01.92
AND JOHN PREACHING?
SELF-EVIDENT QUESTION.
00:56:01.96\00:56:06.49
DID IT CONVERT
THEM IN THE PROCESS?
00:56:06.53\00:56:09.16
WERE THEY ARGUING AMONG
THEMSELVES WHILE THEY WERE OUT
00:56:09.20\00:56:11.53
DOING MISSION WORK? YEAH.
00:56:11.57\00:56:13.60
AND JESUS SAID TO PETER, 'WHEN
YOU ARE CONVERTED, STRENGTHEN
00:56:13.64\00:56:16.67
THE BRETHREN.' HE STILL HAD THEM
DOING IT BECAUSE DOING IT WAS
00:56:16.71\00:56:20.08
PART OF THEIR CONVERTING
PROCESS. SO EVEN ABRAHAM -
00:56:20.11\00:56:24.95
DID ABRAHAM MAKE SOME
MISTAKES IN THE MISSION FIELD?
00:56:24.98\00:56:27.15
DID HE SAY, 'SARAH, OH
YEAH, SHE'S NOT MY WIFE.
00:56:27.18\00:56:30.19
SHE'S MY SISTER.' DID HE
HAVE A FEW LAPSES ALONG THE WAY?
00:56:30.22\00:56:36.46
AND GOD TAUGHT HIM
TO TRUST IN THE PROCESS.
00:56:36.49\00:56:39.53
SO EVERYBODY CAN LEARN FROM THE
STORY OF ABRAHAM AND WE CAN ALL
00:56:39.56\00:56:43.20
DO MISSION WORK. AMEN?
00:56:43.23\00:56:45.17
ALRIGHT, WE - I THINK WE'VE RUN
OUT OF TIME FOR OUR LESSON, BUT
00:56:45.20\00:56:48.14
I WANT TO REMIND THOSE WHO ARE
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00:57:01.58\00:57:03.72
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00:57:06.15\00:57:08.76
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