Hello, friends, here at
3ABN Sabbath School panel
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we're making our
way through our study
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on God's everlasting covenant.
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In fact, that's
exactly what it's called.
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It's called "The Promise,
God's Everlasting Covenant."
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And we're learning that
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the covenant really is all about
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our personal
relationship with Jesus Christ.
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And so we want to encourage
you to stick it out with us
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each and every way through
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because we're
learning more and more
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as we dive deep into God's Word,
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but we want to tell you
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how you can get a
copy of this lesson
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if you don't have one already.
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So you can go online
if you don't have a copy,
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you can get a digital
copy at ABSG.Adventist.org,
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and you can
access a copy for free.
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But, of course, we
always encourage you
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if you can find your local
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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and they can provide a
copy for you for free as well
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and you get to fellowship
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and study God's Word
with likeminded individuals.
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So again, grab
your pens, your pencils,
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your writing, utensils,
iPads, whatever it is you use,
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and get ready to dive
deep with us into God's Word
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as we discuss God's
everlasting covenant.
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Hello, friends, and welcome back
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to 3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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Again, we're so blessed
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that you're joining
us each and every week
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as we are
studying through God's Word
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on God's everlasting covenant.
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That's our topic.
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And we're learning so much.
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And we have lots to cover today
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as today's lesson
is actually entitled,
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"An everlasting Covenant."
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And we're going to be
looking at God's names,
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the meaning of those
names and how they relate to God
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in connection with the
covenant and His people.
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And so that being said,
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I'm gonna go ahead and
introduce this fine panel.
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To my left, I have
Miss Jill Morikone.
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It's always a
blessing to have you.
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Thank you so much,
Ryan, privileged to be here.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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We have Pastor John Dinzey.
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How are you, Brother?
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I am doing well.
Thanks to the Lord.
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And it's a privilege
also for me to be here.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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And to your left
is Miss Shelley Quinn.
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Always a blessing to hear
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what you have to
say about the covenants.
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Oh, this is exciting to me.
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Amen.
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And, of course,
last but not least,
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on the far end of the table,
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Thursday's lesson today
is Pastor John Lomacang.
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Yeah, I'll get whatever
you guys leave out for me.
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I appreciate it.
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Okay. Praise the Lord.
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Again, we're talking about
God's everlasting covenant.
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And I'm going to read the
memory text before we pray
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and then we're going to
pray and get right into this.
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So I love this.
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Genesis 17:7 says,
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"And I will
establish My covenant
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between Me and you,
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and your descendants
after you in their generations,
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for an everlasting covenant,
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to be God to you,
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and your descendants after you."
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So Pastor John
Lomacang, on that note,
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why don't you
have a prayer for us?
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Gracious Father, loving Lord,
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as we come this morning
before the table of grace.
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Father, we pray that
You'll prepare for us a table
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from which we can
partake and know that
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this bread has
been imparted to us
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to impart to others.
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Give us wisdom, Lord,
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synchronize our
hearts and minds.
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May Your Holy Spirit
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pour through the
funnel of our obedient hearts,
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that those who are listening
and those who are watching
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may find the strength
that they are in need of,
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to walk in harmony
with this covenant,
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plus the
production aspects of it.
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And be all the glory
and honor go to You alone.
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We pray in Christ's name.
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Amen.
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Amen. Thank you, Brother.
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You know, growing up in
the Day family household
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when I was a kid, my
family, my parents taught us
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that your word means something.
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Honor your word.
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Honor your agreements
that you make with someone.
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If you make a promise,
then you honor that promise.
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And as I'm reading that text
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that we just
read from Genesis 17:7
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as God says, you know,
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"To you and your descendants
and to you in their generation,
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for an everlasting covenant,
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to be God to you
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and your descendants after you.:
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I love that the fact
that we say that a lot,
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it kind of rolls
off the tongue easy,
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everlasting covenant.
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But when you really
focus in on what that saying,
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it's beautiful to consider
that we serve an everlasting God
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that He's saying, you know what?
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Through thick and thin,
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whatever it is that
we're going through,
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I'm there for
you, I am your God.
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And I'm going to honor My word.
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I'm going to keep My
word because that's who I am.
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I'm an everlasting God.
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And My covenant is not something
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that just goes and stops, right?
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Or comes to a certain point
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and it just
becomes null and void.
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It is something that will last
in as much as you stay with Me
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and you are committed to Me.
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I love the fact that we
serve an almighty loving God
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that is everlasting
and His Word never fails.
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I want to start with
Sabbath afternoon's lesson
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there was a,
there was a beautiful
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little couple of paragraphs here
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that really I think
warms us up and sets us up
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for the study of this week.
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I'm gonna read that now.
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It says,
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"How many remember
distinctly in your childhood,
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a sickness or a
touch of pneumonia perhaps
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that made us very sick with
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the potential for
some something even worse.
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In the long feverish night
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we would awaken
from a half sleep
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to see our mother or father
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sitting in a
chair beside our bed,
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and the soft glow
of the nightlight.
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Just so in a
figurative human sense
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God set by the
bedside of a sin sick world
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as more whole
darkness began to deepen
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in the
centuries after the flood.
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For this reason,
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He called out Abraham
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and plan to establish
through his faithful servant,
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a people to whom
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He could entrust a
knowledge of Himself
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and give salvation.
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Therefore, God entered
into a covenant with Abraham
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and His posterity
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that emphasized in more detail,
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the divine plan
to save humankind
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from the results of sin.
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The Lord was not going to
leave his world unattended,
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not with it in such dire need."
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And so, I like the
way that set that up,
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because it sets us
up for Sunday's lesson
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which dives
deep into the meaning
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and the emphasis and importance
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of the name of God
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and how He
introduced Himself to Abraham.
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And I'm gonna go ahead
and go to Genesis 15:1-7.
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This is where God introduces
the covenant to Abraham
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and introduces Himself
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and basically He
shows to him says,
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this is Me, this
is what I'm all about.
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This is who I am.
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And I want you to know exactly
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who it is that is
seeking after you, Abraham,
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and it's calling upon you.
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So this is Genesis 15:1-7.
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Notice what the Bible says,
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"After these things
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the word of the
Lord came to Abram
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in a vision, saying,
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'Do not be afraid, Abram.
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I am your shield, your
exceedingly great reward.'
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But Abram said,
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'Lord God, what
will You give me,
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seeing I go childless,
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and the heir of my
house is Eliezer of Damascus?'
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Then Abram said,
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'Look, You have
given me no offspring,
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indeed one born in
my house is my heir!'
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And behold, the word of the Lord
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came to him, saying,
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'This one shall
not be your heir,
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but one who will
come from your own body
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shall be your heir.'
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Then He brought
him outside and said,
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'Look now toward heaven,
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and count the stars
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if you are able to number them.'
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And He said to him,
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'So shall your descendants be.'"
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And he believed... I love this.
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This is Genesis 15:6, he says,
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"And he believed in the Lord,
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and He accounted it to
him for righteousness."
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But our key verse
is the next verse,
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verse 7, it says,
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"Then He said to him,
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'I am the Lord,
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who brought you out
of Ur of the Chaldeans,
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to give you this
land to inherit it.'"
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So God basically
identifies Himself here,
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I am the Lord your God.
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And, of course, the
lesson brings out that names,
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of course can sometimes
be like trademarks, right?
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They're often
associated with certain traits
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and characteristics.
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For instance, if I
say certain names like
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I don't know,
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Albert Einstein, right?
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There's something
that comes to our mind,
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we have certain qualities,
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certain traits
and characteristics.
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Another person,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
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absolutely.
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Hitler.
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Okay, something
comes to the mind, right?
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Harriet Tubman.
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These are all
famous historical names,
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Abraham Lincoln, right?
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Something comes to mind.
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Michael Jordan.
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And then one
more Ellen G. White.
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Every one of these
historical individuals
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when you say their name,
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it's not just a
name, there are certain,
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these names are associated
with certain characteristics,
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traits and ideals
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that immediately
come to your mind
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when you hear that.
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So during Bible times,
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obviously
people of the Near East
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or the Middle East
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attached great importance
to the meaning of names.
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In fact, the SDA
Bible Commentary,
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volume 1 has this to say.
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This is volume 1, page 523
of the SDA Bible Commentary.
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It says,
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"The Hebrews
always thought of a name
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as indicating either
the personal characteristics
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of the one named
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or the thoughts and emotions
of the one giving the name
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or attendant circumstances
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at the time the name was given."
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And so I think of
certain names in Bible
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like you know that famous one
when you think of Jacob, right?
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What was Jacob's
name associated with?
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Deceiver, supplanter, right?
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So that was the
horrible name to be given.
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But that's what
he was known before
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God changed his name,
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I think of Michael, right?
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Michael is the
one who is like God,
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these names mean something.
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Well, the same thing here
is what the Sunday's lesson
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is bringing about
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that when God introduced Himself
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even though it says
in our English Bible,
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for instance, you
may have a King James
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or New King James Bible in there
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and then if you
have a King James Bible,
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it's gonna be
all caps, L-O-R- D,
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I am the LORD your God, right?
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But in the original language,
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they're bringing out
that actually God's name,
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He identifies himself,
He actually gives a name.
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I am Yahweh, who
brought you out of her.
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So He identified Himself.
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And, of course, with
that name comes a meaning,
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with that name comes
an identifying factor
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or characteristics or ideals,
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or certain traits
that come along with that.
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And it's interesting
that that name Yahweh,
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which we see in
our Bible as Lord,
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it appears more than 6828 times
in the Old Testament alone,
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which is powerful.
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God wants us to know who He is.
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He wants us to know
that I am the Lord your God.
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It also happens to be a name,
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of course, shrouded in mystery.
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Scholar suggests
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it could be a form
of the Hebrew verb.
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I'm hoping I'm
saying this correctly,
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hayah.
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It almost makes me want to...
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I don't know, it
just come to hayah.
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All right, you just
want to do some karate there.
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But no, seriously,
it's a real Hebrew word.
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And this is
what the scholars say
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that it comes from
the Hebrew verb hayah,
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which means to be
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in which case it
also can mean get this,
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the Eternal One,
the existent one,
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the self existent one,
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the self sufficient one
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or the one who lives
eternally kind of like that
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everlasting covenant,
that eternal covenant.
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He is an eternal God,
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He is an eternally existent God.
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And, of course,
this is describing
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the divine attributes of God,
it's describing His character.
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God is revealing to Abraham
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and it's powerful if
you think about this.
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Abraham was in Ur.
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Well, this is a
region outside of Babylon.
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So he would have
been just shrouded
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and just stooped
in Babylonian culture.
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So you're talking about,
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he's living in the
epicenter of a cultic practices
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and pagan polytheistic culture,
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where at every little turn,
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somebody is worshipping
some con kind of god,
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whether it's, you
know, the god of the wind,
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or the god of the
earth, the god of the grass,
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or the god of the sea, or
the god of gold and silver,
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or whatever kind of
gods they serve there.
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And then this God shows up
and says, Abraham, I'm Yahweh.
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I'm the Eternal One.
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I'm the self existent one,
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and I'm calling you
out, I want you to be My man.
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I've got so many
blessings for you.
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I'm not like all
these other false gods.
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And so this got
Abraham's attention.
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You can imagine, it
shook his world, right?
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Because looking at all
of these other false gods,
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what have they done for anyone?
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He's seen, he's observing,
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and he's seeing
all these other gods
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that they're serving
here in Babylonian culture.
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They haven't done anything.
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But here's a God that
says, I'm going to do something,
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I'm going to make
things happen for you.
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I'm going to bless you,
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you're going to be
a blessing to others.
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And this is who
I am, I am Yahweh,
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I am the God of everything.
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And so Abraham, the
Bible says he believed it.
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And it was accounted
to him for righteousness.
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He knew that there
was something different
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about this God.
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In fact, in Exodus 3:14,
that's what comes to my mind,
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when God actually
identified Himself
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and what this Yahweh means.
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When He identified
Himself to Moses and said,
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you know, when Moses asked
Him, so when I go into Egypt,
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what should I call you?
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Who should I tell sent me?
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He said, I am who I am.
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That's so you tell me, why?
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Because it means I rule over
the past, present, and future.
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I am the only true God.
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That's who you
tell has sent you,
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the only true God.
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So God wants Abraham
to know His name, right?
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Because that name
reveals aspect of his,
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aspects of His identity,
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His personal
nature and His character.
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And from this knowledge,
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we can learn to
trust in His promises.
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I'm thinking of Psalm 9:10,
as we're doing this study here,
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and those who know your
name, this is Psalm 9:10,
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"And those who know Your name
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will put their
trust in You, for You,
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Lord, have not
forsaken those who seek You."
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Did God forsake Abraham?
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Abraham found that out
that God was not bluffing.
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He wasn't just
another false god,
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like all the other false deities
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that they served in Babylon.
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He saw this
personal God for who He was,
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the mighty everlasting God.
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Another one, Psalm
91:14, love this text,
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"Because he has
set his love upon Me,
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therefore I will deliver
him, I will set him on high,
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because he has known My name."
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God's name is much more
than just the name, my friends.
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God's name tells us
the story of who He is.
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He is the Almighty God,
He is the everlasting God
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who wants to bestow
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that everlasting
covenant upon us.
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If only we would
just surrender to Him now
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and accept Him
for who He truly is,
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Yahweh, the
Eternally existed One.
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Amen.
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Thank you so much, Ryan.
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We're having church.
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That's powerful.
He has the truth.
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I think maybe we could have you
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be just a little
less excited now.
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I love that,
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I love Ryan's
energy and enthusiasm.
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What an incredible
setup to our lesson,
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Yahweh, I love that.
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I have another
of the names of God.
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I have El Shaddai.
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Now, El just means God.
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In the Semites it
was their basic name
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for referring to God,
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and it means might or power,
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and it occurs many 100
times throughout Hebrew.
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But it's connected El
Shaddai, God with Shaddai.
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And we're going to
study what that means.
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Let's look first
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at the first time
that this word for God,
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El Shaddai is used in the Bible.
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This is Genesis 17:1.
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This is talking to
Abraham, Genesis 17:1,
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"When Abram was ninety-nine
years old, the Lord, "
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this is Yahweh that
Ryan already addressed,
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"appeared to
Abram and said to him,
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'I am Almighty God,
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I am El Shaddai,
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walk before Me
and be blameless.'"
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This covenant making story
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is introduced by this appearance
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of God right here.
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And God repeats
His promise to Abram.
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Remember his promise
first made in Genesis 12.
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It was repeated in
Genesis Chapter 15.
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That promise of descendants,
but yet he's still childless,
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that promise of land
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and yet he
doesn't have a great deal,
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that reaffirmation
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God reaffirmed His
covenant right here with Abram,
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to both him and his descendants.
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And he gave circumcision
as a sign of that covenant.
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Now, Abram was 75 years old,
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which we would
consider in today's society,
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he's already getting older,
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maybe even retirement age,
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and yet at the age 75,
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he is called to
leave Ur of the Chaldees.
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Now at this
point, he's 99 years old,
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and that promise
that God gave to him.
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He hasn't seen
the fulfillment yet.
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So God comes and says,
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I am the Almighty one,
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I can fulfill that promise.
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Shaddai occurs 48 times
the word Shaddai in Hebrew,
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almost exclusively
in the Book of Genesis,
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and the Book of Job,
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of course, the
first time that occurs,
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we just read
that reference there.
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And Shaddai comes,
now we translate it
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we you could say sanitize
it in English in the Bible,
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because we
translate it God Almighty,
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and clearly God is almighty,
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but the original word
Shaddai come from shad,
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which literally means breast.
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So you could say this
means the mighty breast.
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This is where we get
that concept of God Almighty.
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Remember, maybe two weeks ago,
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I'm trying to remember
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when it was a
couple of weeks ago,
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Pastor John,
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I think it was
Pastor John talked about,
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we are made in the image of God,
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male and female
created in the image of God,
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meaning that God has
00:17:41.59\00:17:43.69
you could say
attributes, characteristics,
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that would be both
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what we would naturally identify
00:17:48.40\00:17:49.86
as masculine or feminine.
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And in this case,
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the mightiness of
God implies power,
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but not power of violence.
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This is the
power of bountifulness.
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It suggests that
God is the pourer-forth,
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the shedder of blessings.
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He is our El Shaddai,
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in contrast with the weakness
and the frailty of humanity.
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So let's look at, you might say,
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okay, so why do
I care about that?
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What does it matter
00:18:18.53\00:18:20.00
to know that God
is our El Shaddai?
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I think there are seven lessons,
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seven reasons
that I can see here.
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You know, I was
going there, Ryan.
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So lesson number one,
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El Shaddai gives me hope
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in seemingly
impossible situations.
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That's what God did to Abraham.
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He's 99 years old,
00:18:40.18\00:18:41.75
and he was given the
promise years before,
00:18:41.78\00:18:45.15
and yet he and his wife
00:18:45.19\00:18:46.52
are way past the
childbearing age,
00:18:46.55\00:18:48.32
especially his wife
passed the time a woman
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there's no way
from a human perspective
00:18:50.33\00:18:53.43
that they could have children.
00:18:53.46\00:18:55.10
And yet God appears and He says,
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I am a powerful God,
00:18:56.90\00:18:58.83
I am a bountiful God.
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I am the God who can pour forth
00:19:00.97\00:19:04.01
and shed blessings upon you.
00:19:04.04\00:19:06.44
Whatever you need,
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whatever you lack,
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I will supply it.
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So are you facing a seemingly
impossible situation today?
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Know that your God El Shaddai,
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He specializes God Almighty
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in taking a
seemingly impossible situation
00:19:21.52\00:19:25.39
and turning it around.
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The second lesson I see
is that El Shaddai can adjust
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how others view us.
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Now this is an interesting one.
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This is in Genesis Chapter 43.
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Jump over to Genesis Chapter 43.
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We see the
reference to El Shaddai again.
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Genesis 43:14.
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Now to set up this story,
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we see that Israel
or these would Jacob
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but of course his name
was changed later to Israel.
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He believes his
son Joseph is dead,
00:19:52.72\00:19:54.82
although he was really
sold into slavery in Egypt
00:19:54.86\00:19:57.79
and now he's the prime minister,
00:19:57.83\00:19:59.29
but Jacob doesn't know all that,
00:19:59.33\00:20:00.96
so he believes Joseph is dead.
00:20:01.00\00:20:02.93
There's a famine in the land
and the people are starving,
00:20:02.96\00:20:06.53
his family is starving.
00:20:06.57\00:20:08.64
He sent them to Egypt for food.
00:20:08.67\00:20:11.01
This harsh taskmaster
who turns out to be Joseph
00:20:11.04\00:20:15.98
kept Simeon in prison there.
00:20:16.01\00:20:18.71
The family comes back to daddy.
00:20:18.75\00:20:20.48
And then he says,
00:20:20.52\00:20:21.88
"Oh, but you need
to go for food again."
00:20:21.92\00:20:23.62
And they said,
00:20:23.65\00:20:24.99
"We can't go
because the overseer said,
00:20:25.02\00:20:26.82
'We got to bring our
little brother Benjamin
00:20:26.86\00:20:28.59
with us this time.'"
00:20:28.62\00:20:31.16
And so this is
where El Shaddai comes in.
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We're in Genesis 43:14,
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"And may God
Almighty, that's El Shaddai,
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give you mercy before the man
00:20:39.77\00:20:43.47
that he may
release your older brother
00:20:43.51\00:20:45.77
and Benjamin.
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If I am
bereaved, I am bereaved."
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He's praying God Almighty,
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El Shaddai to change
00:20:52.78\00:20:55.22
how this overseer
looks at the situation,
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to give him mercy in his heart.
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Lesson number three,
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El Shaddai pours out
blessings into our lives.
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We see this in jump
over a couple more chapters,
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Genesis 49:25.
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This is Israel's final blessing
00:21:15.90\00:21:17.71
at the end of
his life to his sons.
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And this is the blessing
to Joseph in particular.
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"By the God, that's El,
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of your father who will help you
00:21:24.01\00:21:26.58
and by the
Almighty, that's Shaddai,
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who will bless you with
blessings of heaven above,
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blessings of the
deep that lie beneath,
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blessings of the
breasts and of the womb."
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El Shaddai pours out
blessings into your life.
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Are you walking in a
place that seemingly impossible?
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Do you need the
people around you
00:21:46.43\00:21:48.70
to have an attitude
adjustment or an eye adjustment
00:21:48.74\00:21:52.04
with how they're
viewing that situation?
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Do you need blessings
poured out into your life?
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Call on God as your El Shaddai.
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Number four, El
Shaddai is able to correct us.
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This is a very
interesting one to me.
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Jump over to Job.
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Job 5:17,
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"Behold, happy
is the man whom God,
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that's El, corrects.
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Therefore, do not despise
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the chastening of the Almighty."
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That is Shaddai.
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Now, both
parents correct clearly
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when you grow up,
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usually the father disciplines
and the mother disciplines.
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But if we look at the
connotations from this,
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to me this is
specifically looking at
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how would your mama correct you.
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And I remember
when I was growing up,
00:22:39.02\00:22:42.62
my mom had many
ways to correct me.
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But the one way
that was most effective.
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I remember she
walked into the bedroom,
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I knew I was gonna get whipped.
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And she walked in
and she knelt down,
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I'll never forget this.
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And she began to pray.
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And she said,
00:22:56.81\00:22:58.14
"God, forgive me
00:22:58.17\00:22:59.51
for not being the mother to Jill
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that I should have been."
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And that broke my heart,
00:23:03.98\00:23:06.11
that mother's love for me,
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that desire that
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I would turn from my wicked ways
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and I would follow God,
00:23:12.92\00:23:14.29
that brought me, wooed me
back to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Next lesson is El
Shaddai is all powerful.
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Still in Job, Job 11:7,
00:23:24.10\00:23:27.50
"Can you search out
the deep things of God?"
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That's El.
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"Can you find out the
limits of the Almighty?"
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The Shaddai.
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There is no limit to
the power of our God.
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The next lesson number
six, El Shaddai sustains us.
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Job 33:4,
00:23:45.42\00:23:47.92
"The Spirit of God has made me
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and the breath of the Almighty
or Shaddai gives me life."
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So God not only
created us in the beginning,
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but through the
power of El Shaddai
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we are sustained.
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And finally, number seven,
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El Shaddai always
does the right thing.
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Job 34:12,
00:24:10.01\00:24:12.55
"Surely God, that is
El, will never do wickedly,
00:24:12.58\00:24:16.69
nor will the
Almighty, that is Shaddai,
00:24:16.72\00:24:20.02
pervert justice."
00:24:20.06\00:24:21.79
El Shaddai is not swayed
by other people's opinions,
00:24:21.82\00:24:24.59
by other people's
emotions or outside pressure.
00:24:24.63\00:24:28.13
God will always
do the right thing.
00:24:28.16\00:24:31.13
I'm so thankful no
matter what we are facing
00:24:31.17\00:24:34.00
that we can call on
Him as our El Shaddai.
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Praise the Lord. I like that.
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I love that
story about your mama.
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Mama Day she was a
little bit different.
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She said, Lord,
please let this whipping
00:24:41.94\00:24:44.11
straighten my son out.
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That's just how
things were around my house.
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And many times they
did, so praise the Lord.
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Hello, friends, welcome back
to 3ABN Sabbath School Panel,
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we're going to send it
over to Pastor John Dinzey
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for Tuesday's lesson.
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All right.
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Now we move over
to Tuesday's lesson.
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And the title for
today's lesson is,
00:25:39.43\00:25:41.84
"From Abram to Abraham."
00:25:41.87\00:25:45.17
And so, this begins
with Genesis Chapter 17.
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We're going to read that
again in verses 1 through 5.
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Let's go.
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"When Abram was
ninety-nine years old,
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the Lord appeared to
Abram and said to him,
00:25:55.25\00:25:58.19
'I am Almighty God,
00:25:58.22\00:26:00.46
walk before Me and be blameless.
00:26:00.49\00:26:02.79
And I will make My
covenant between Me and you,
00:26:02.82\00:26:05.69
and will
multiply you exceedingly.'
00:26:05.73\00:26:08.30
And Abram fell on his face,
00:26:08.33\00:26:09.66
and God talked with him, saying:
00:26:09.70\00:26:11.23
'As for Me, behold,
My covenant is with you,
00:26:11.27\00:26:14.60
and you shall be a
father of many nations.
00:26:14.64\00:26:17.17
No longer shall your
name be called Abram,
00:26:17.21\00:26:20.64
but your name shall be Abraham,
00:26:20.68\00:26:24.18
for I have made you a
father of many nations.'"
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So remember, Abraham,
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or at this point,
now he's 99 years old,
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no children.
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And now when he
presents himself to people,
00:26:35.86\00:26:38.39
I heard a pastor say this,
00:26:38.43\00:26:39.76
I thought that's
very interesting.
00:26:39.79\00:26:41.13
They said, what is your name?
00:26:41.16\00:26:42.53
My name is Abraham.
00:26:42.56\00:26:43.90
And they hear,
00:26:43.93\00:26:45.27
Oh you're a
father of many nations.
00:26:45.30\00:26:46.80
How many children do you have?
00:26:46.84\00:26:49.94
Well, his answer
would at that point be
00:26:49.97\00:26:51.67
well, I have one.
00:26:51.71\00:26:53.04
No.
00:26:53.07\00:26:54.41
But later, of course,
00:26:54.44\00:26:56.04
the promise of
the Lord became true.
00:26:56.08\00:26:58.68
He was a father of many nations.
00:26:58.71\00:27:00.52
And in him all the
families of the earth
00:27:00.55\00:27:02.62
have been blessed.
00:27:02.65\00:27:03.99
By the way, Abraham
lived to 175 years old,
00:27:04.02\00:27:07.69
blessed of the Lord.
00:27:07.72\00:27:09.36
Now when you go
to the scriptures,
00:27:09.39\00:27:11.59
you will notice that
00:27:11.63\00:27:12.96
many of the names of the people,
00:27:12.99\00:27:15.80
this is a common practice
00:27:15.83\00:27:17.87
among the Semitic
tribes of ancient times.
00:27:17.90\00:27:20.50
The names were heavy laden
with spiritual significance.
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You see, even Adam and Eve
00:27:24.74\00:27:27.14
when, after Cain killed
Abel, and Seth was born.
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Eve said this in Genesis 3:25,
00:27:31.18\00:27:34.62
"And Adam knew his wife
again, and she bore a son,
00:27:34.65\00:27:38.69
named him Seth,
00:27:38.72\00:27:40.06
for God has appointed
another seed for me, "
00:27:40.09\00:27:44.39
instead of Abel
whom Cain killed,
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Seth means substituted.
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And that was a
blessing from the Lord
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because they were
comforted by the Lord
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giving them another son Seth.
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Now, it is interesting
that the lesson brings out
00:27:59.21\00:28:02.48
some examples of name change.
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You have Jacob,
Jacob's name being changed,
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Joseph's name being
changed by the Egyptians,
00:28:08.68\00:28:12.29
Daniel, Hananiah,
Mishael and Azariah,
00:28:12.32\00:28:16.62
their names were changed.
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If time permits, I
will mention another one.
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But I want to start
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with the number three
example in the lesson.
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Let's go to Daniel Chapter 1,
00:28:26.20\00:28:28.44
and I'm going to
read verse 6 and 7.
00:28:28.47\00:28:31.37
Notice what happens
00:28:31.41\00:28:32.74
because the people of Israel
were taken captive to Babylon.
00:28:32.77\00:28:36.44
And some of the princes
were taken into the court
00:28:36.48\00:28:40.92
to be a part
00:28:40.95\00:28:42.28
of the Nebuchadnezzar's people.
00:28:42.32\00:28:46.29
And this was a
strategic move by Nebuchadnezzar
00:28:46.32\00:28:49.39
because these
princes of the people
00:28:49.42\00:28:51.39
would help them be
able to control the Jews
00:28:51.43\00:28:55.20
that were captive among them.
00:28:55.23\00:28:56.60
Now, notice what happens?
00:28:56.63\00:28:57.97
Daniel 1:6,
00:28:58.00\00:28:59.37
"Now from among
those of the sons of Judah
00:28:59.40\00:29:02.80
were Daniel,
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
00:29:02.84\00:29:05.84
To them the chief of
the eunuchs gave names:
00:29:05.87\00:29:09.24
he gave Daniel
the name Belteshazzar,
00:29:09.28\00:29:12.98
to Hananiah, Shadrach,
00:29:13.01\00:29:15.35
to Mishael, Meshach,
00:29:15.38\00:29:17.32
and to Azariah, Abed-Nego."
00:29:17.35\00:29:20.69
Of course, you notice
that their names were changed.
00:29:20.72\00:29:23.69
And it's interesting because
00:29:23.73\00:29:25.49
these Hebrews their
names meant something special.
00:29:25.53\00:29:29.10
They had a
spiritual significance.
00:29:29.13\00:29:31.17
The changing of the names
was not for a good reason.
00:29:31.20\00:29:36.24
It was to in their
life's experience in Babylon
00:29:36.27\00:29:41.74
so that they can identify
with the gods of Babylon,
00:29:41.78\00:29:45.45
actually, the name Babylon
00:29:45.48\00:29:46.85
in the Babylonian language means
00:29:46.88\00:29:48.48
gate of the gods,
00:29:48.52\00:29:49.85
so many gods, they were pagans,
00:29:49.88\00:29:52.62
and they wanted these
Jews not to have their names
00:29:52.65\00:29:56.83
having beautiful significance
about the Almighty God
00:29:56.86\00:30:00.46
continually sounding
00:30:00.50\00:30:02.10
when you call Daniel.
00:30:02.13\00:30:03.47
Let's look at
the name significance
00:30:03.50\00:30:05.23
of Daniel and his friends.
00:30:05.27\00:30:07.70
Daniel's name
means a God of judgment
00:30:07.74\00:30:11.67
or God is my judge.
00:30:11.71\00:30:13.48
Hananiah
signified the lord of grace,
00:30:13.51\00:30:16.04
or the Lord is gracious to me.
00:30:16.08\00:30:17.95
Michael or Mishael,
00:30:17.98\00:30:20.02
convey the sense that
the Lord is the strength,
00:30:20.05\00:30:23.75
my strength.
00:30:23.79\00:30:25.39
Azariah is a
compound of Azar and iah
00:30:25.42\00:30:28.69
implied the Lord is my help.
00:30:28.72\00:30:31.53
So their names being changed
00:30:31.56\00:30:34.13
was to lead them to
forget who they were.
00:30:34.16\00:30:38.23
And so this, of course,
00:30:38.27\00:30:41.20
had they not stay
close to the Lord,
00:30:41.24\00:30:43.51
that would have happened,
00:30:43.54\00:30:44.87
but they chose to be faithful
00:30:44.91\00:30:46.51
and these guys
endured some terrible things.
00:30:46.54\00:30:50.01
I don't know how many of us
after the statute was put up,
00:30:50.05\00:30:54.25
and the instrument
sounded would have bowed
00:30:54.28\00:30:58.39
before that statue
that Nebuchadnezzar set up,
00:30:58.42\00:31:01.22
but you have the
three Hebrew worthies
00:31:01.26\00:31:03.22
being faithful to
God until the end,
00:31:03.26\00:31:05.26
even after Nebuchadnezzar say,
00:31:05.29\00:31:07.40
"Hey, we're going to
give you guys a second chance.
00:31:07.43\00:31:09.86
We're going to see if
you're going to bow down,
00:31:09.90\00:31:11.57
and if you don't, you're
going into the fiery furnace."
00:31:11.60\00:31:14.10
They said,
00:31:14.14\00:31:15.47
"The Lord will
deliver us and if He does not,
00:31:15.50\00:31:17.31
we are not going to bow down."
00:31:17.34\00:31:19.81
So there they stayed,
00:31:19.84\00:31:21.64
they remain faithful to God,
00:31:21.68\00:31:23.11
you know, it's very important
00:31:23.14\00:31:24.75
to recognize that
00:31:24.78\00:31:26.11
your name means
something connected to the Lord.
00:31:26.15\00:31:28.88
And so, I have
good news for you,
00:31:28.92\00:31:31.65
and continue to listen,
00:31:31.69\00:31:33.02
and we'll see that in a moment.
00:31:33.05\00:31:35.19
See, as Christians,
we must never forget,
00:31:35.22\00:31:37.79
not forget that we are pilgrims
and strangers in this world.
00:31:37.83\00:31:42.60
I want to talk
to you about Jacob,
00:31:42.63\00:31:44.50
because his name was
changed for a good reason.
00:31:44.53\00:31:50.01
In Genesis 32:28, it says here,
00:31:50.04\00:31:54.51
"And he said your name
00:31:54.54\00:31:55.94
shall no longer be called Jacob,
00:31:55.98\00:31:57.68
but Israel,
00:31:57.71\00:31:59.05
for you have struggled
00:31:59.08\00:32:00.42
with God and with
men and have prevailed."
00:32:00.45\00:32:04.35
And so here you have,
Jacob's name being changed.
00:32:04.39\00:32:09.16
He wrestled with the
angel during the whole night.
00:32:09.19\00:32:12.59
And he realized that
00:32:12.63\00:32:14.86
wait a minute,
this is no common man.
00:32:14.90\00:32:17.17
And so he held on,
00:32:17.20\00:32:19.00
he held on
00:32:19.03\00:32:20.37
and he was blessed to
have his name changed.
00:32:20.40\00:32:23.74
And I want to point
out something interesting
00:32:23.77\00:32:26.94
because his brother said
something interesting about him
00:32:26.98\00:32:30.75
in Genesis 27:34-36,
00:32:30.78\00:32:33.52
" When Esau heard the
words of his father..."
00:32:33.55\00:32:35.92
See, Jacob had come
in and stole the blessing
00:32:35.95\00:32:40.49
that he that he was
supposed to receive.
00:32:40.52\00:32:42.69
"When Esau heard
the words of his father,
00:32:42.72\00:32:44.29
he cried with an exceedingly
great and bitter cry,
00:32:44.33\00:32:47.26
and said to his father,
00:32:47.30\00:32:48.63
'Bless me, bless
me also, O my father!'
00:32:48.66\00:32:50.80
But he said,
00:32:50.83\00:32:52.17
'Your brother came with deceit
00:32:52.20\00:32:54.14
and has taken
away your blessing.'
00:32:54.17\00:32:56.34
And Esau said,
00:32:56.37\00:32:57.71
'Is he not rightly named Jacob?
00:32:57.74\00:33:01.28
For he has
supplanted me these two times.
00:33:01.31\00:33:04.25
He took away my birthright,
00:33:04.28\00:33:06.11
and now look, he has
taken away my blessing!'
00:33:06.15\00:33:08.95
And he said,
00:33:08.98\00:33:10.32
'Have you not
reserved a blessing for me?' "
00:33:10.35\00:33:12.42
He was desirous
to have the blessing
00:33:12.45\00:33:15.09
that he despised
earlier in his life.
00:33:15.12\00:33:18.59
But Jacob's name
was changed to Israel,
00:33:18.63\00:33:22.76
a wonderful change.
00:33:22.80\00:33:24.30
And so, I'm going to read to you
00:33:24.33\00:33:25.67
from Patriarchs
and Prophets, page 198.
00:33:25.70\00:33:28.80
Notice here,
00:33:28.84\00:33:30.17
"The error that
had led Jacob's sin
00:33:30.21\00:33:32.01
in obtaining the
birthright by fraud
00:33:32.04\00:33:34.08
was now clearly set before him.
00:33:34.11\00:33:36.31
He had not
trusted God's promises,
00:33:36.34\00:33:38.51
but had sought
by his own efforts
00:33:38.55\00:33:40.28
to bring about that
00:33:40.32\00:33:41.65
which God would
have accomplished
00:33:41.68\00:33:43.18
in His own time and way.
00:33:43.22\00:33:45.85
As an evidence that
he had been forgiven,
00:33:45.89\00:33:47.72
his name was changed
00:33:47.76\00:33:49.39
from one that was a
reminder of his sin,
00:33:49.42\00:33:51.83
to one that
commemorated his victory.
00:33:51.86\00:33:54.56
'Thy name,' said the Angel,
00:33:54.60\00:33:56.13
'shall be called no more Jacob,
00:33:56.16\00:33:57.87
the supplanter, but Israel:
00:33:57.90\00:34:00.40
for as a prince
00:34:00.44\00:34:01.90
hast thou power
with God and with men,
00:34:01.94\00:34:04.14
and hast prevailed.'"
00:34:04.17\00:34:05.84
Jacob had received the blessing
for which his soul had longed.
00:34:05.87\00:34:10.18
His sin as a
supplanter and deceiver
00:34:10.21\00:34:13.15
had been pardoned.
00:34:13.18\00:34:15.32
The crisis in his life was past.
00:34:15.35\00:34:17.45
Doubt and perplexity,
00:34:17.49\00:34:21.69
and remorse had
embittered his existence,
00:34:21.72\00:34:24.03
but now all was changed,
00:34:24.06\00:34:25.89
and sweet was the peace
of reconciliation with God.
00:34:25.93\00:34:29.60
Jacob no longer
feared to meet his brother.
00:34:29.63\00:34:32.60
God, who had forgiven his sin,
00:34:32.63\00:34:34.87
could move the heart of Esau
00:34:34.90\00:34:36.60
also to accept his
humiliation and repentance."
00:34:36.64\00:34:40.44
Praise the Lord.
00:34:40.48\00:34:41.81
His name was changed
00:34:41.84\00:34:43.18
from something
negative to something positive.
00:34:43.21\00:34:46.05
And the good
news I have for you,
00:34:46.08\00:34:47.72
I don't know what
kind of name you have,
00:34:47.75\00:34:49.38
whether you like it or not.
00:34:49.42\00:34:50.85
And I heard some horrible name
00:34:50.89\00:34:53.66
that some father
gave to his daughters.
00:34:53.69\00:34:56.22
They had three daughters.
00:34:56.26\00:34:57.59
He called them
yesterday, today and tomorrow.
00:34:57.63\00:34:59.19
I don't know what in the world
00:34:59.23\00:35:00.56
got into the
minds of these parents.
00:35:00.60\00:35:02.26
But I don't know
00:35:02.30\00:35:03.63
if you've been
called something else
00:35:03.67\00:35:05.70
that you didn't
like by your peers.
00:35:05.73\00:35:07.87
But God is going
to give us a new name.
00:35:07.90\00:35:11.57
Bought by us
through Jesus Christ,
00:35:11.61\00:35:14.31
He paid the price
00:35:14.34\00:35:15.68
to be able to not only redeem us
00:35:15.71\00:35:17.18
to call us, call us His children
00:35:17.21\00:35:19.08
and give us an inheritance,
00:35:19.11\00:35:22.05
but to have our names changed,
00:35:22.08\00:35:24.49
because God loves us,
wants the best for us.
00:35:24.52\00:35:27.59
Abraham's name was changed
00:35:27.62\00:35:29.09
so that he could identify
00:35:29.12\00:35:30.83
with the promises
that God had made to him.
00:35:30.86\00:35:34.30
Amen and amen. Thank you.
00:35:34.33\00:35:36.23
This has been
such a lovely study.
00:35:36.26\00:35:38.33
Wednesday's lesson
is "Covenant Stages."
00:35:38.37\00:35:42.70
We've already
mentioned how God's covenant
00:35:42.74\00:35:45.77
is an everlasting covenant,
00:35:45.81\00:35:47.81
one that was made before
00:35:47.84\00:35:49.18
He returned to began
the covenant of redemption.
00:35:49.21\00:35:51.91
And God is constantly,
progressively unfolding this,
00:35:51.95\00:35:56.65
but even within the
cabinet of Abraham, he does.
00:35:56.69\00:35:59.59
So the first,
00:35:59.62\00:36:00.96
there's three
progressive stages,
00:36:00.99\00:36:02.96
as God will see that
00:36:02.99\00:36:05.29
He approaches Abraham each time,
00:36:05.33\00:36:08.40
He gives him a
command and a promise.
00:36:08.43\00:36:10.17
So let's look
at the first stage.
00:36:10.20\00:36:12.10
Genesis 12:1-3,
00:36:12.13\00:36:15.40
"Now the Lord had said to Abram:
00:36:15.44\00:36:17.27
'Get out of your country,
00:36:17.31\00:36:18.64
from your family,
from your father's house,
00:36:18.67\00:36:20.28
to a land that I will show you.
00:36:20.31\00:36:22.14
I will make you a great nation,
00:36:22.18\00:36:24.81
I will bless you and
make your name great,
00:36:24.85\00:36:27.78
and you shall be a blessing.
00:36:27.82\00:36:30.19
I will bless
those who bless you,
00:36:30.22\00:36:32.25
I will curse him who curses you,
00:36:32.29\00:36:34.72
and in all the
families of the earth,
00:36:34.76\00:36:38.09
you and all the
families of the earth
00:36:38.13\00:36:40.83
will be blessed through you."
00:36:40.86\00:36:42.36
And then in verse 7, he says,
00:36:42.40\00:36:44.83
"The Lord
appeared to Abram and said,
00:36:44.87\00:36:46.30
'To your descendants
I will give this land.'"
00:36:46.33\00:36:51.41
And I will, I will, I will.
00:36:51.44\00:36:54.41
This is God's covenant,
00:36:54.44\00:36:57.21
Abraham's 75 years old,
00:36:57.25\00:36:59.48
living in a pagan
society reared by pagan parents.
00:36:59.51\00:37:05.59
And we know that
because Joshua 24:2, it says,
00:37:05.62\00:37:09.12
"To rob, that's his
father, had served false gods."
00:37:09.16\00:37:14.20
So here is Abraham,
00:37:14.23\00:37:15.80
God's calling him
00:37:15.83\00:37:17.17
into a new
relationship with Him.
00:37:17.20\00:37:19.63
And He says,
00:37:19.67\00:37:21.00
"Leave everything
familiar behind you."
00:37:21.04\00:37:23.00
He's living in a
town that's a seaport,
00:37:23.04\00:37:25.61
God's calling him
00:37:25.64\00:37:27.08
to transition to
living the life of a nomad.
00:37:27.11\00:37:31.21
This is an
incredible example of faith.
00:37:31.25\00:37:35.35
And 25 years later, he's
finally given this sense.
00:37:35.38\00:37:40.19
So God approaches Abraham
00:37:40.22\00:37:43.32
to be the first
special covenant bear,
00:37:43.36\00:37:49.26
if you will,
00:37:49.30\00:37:50.63
the one who is going to
be the first major figure
00:37:50.67\00:37:52.83
of the God's covenant of grace.
00:37:52.87\00:37:55.60
And he does ask, he
gives him a command,
00:37:55.64\00:37:59.77
and it's one that
involves total trust in God.
00:37:59.81\00:38:03.24
I don't know that
I'd be that great.
00:38:03.28\00:38:05.81
But Hebrews 11 says,
00:38:05.85\00:38:07.32
"It was by faith,
00:38:07.35\00:38:08.95
Abraham went out
00:38:08.98\00:38:10.32
not knowing where he was going."
00:38:10.35\00:38:12.69
But the promise was not only,
00:38:12.72\00:38:15.02
even though it was
specifically made to Abraham,
00:38:15.06\00:38:17.86
it was ultimately a promise
00:38:17.89\00:38:19.73
that includes all of
the whole human race.
00:38:19.76\00:38:24.10
We see in Galatians 3,
Paul's writing about this,
00:38:24.13\00:38:28.30
verses 6 through 9,
Abraham believe God,
00:38:28.34\00:38:31.81
it was accounted to
him for righteousness.
00:38:31.84\00:38:35.08
Somebody asked me once,
00:38:35.11\00:38:36.44
"Do you believe in
righteousness by faith?"
00:38:36.48\00:38:38.25
Let me tell you,
00:38:38.28\00:38:39.61
there is no
righteousness except by faith.
00:38:39.65\00:38:41.88
Righteousness by faith
00:38:41.92\00:38:43.25
is the only thing
that there is with God.
00:38:43.28\00:38:46.45
And he says,
00:38:46.49\00:38:47.82
"Therefore know that
only those who are of faith,"
00:38:47.86\00:38:51.66
this is Paul
writing in Galatians 3,
00:38:51.69\00:38:54.43
"Only those who are of
faith are sons of Abraham."
00:38:54.46\00:38:59.83
And the
scripture we're seeing that
00:38:59.87\00:39:01.20
God would justify
with Gentiles by faith,
00:39:01.24\00:39:05.84
preached the gospel to
Abraham beforehand, saying,
00:39:05.87\00:39:09.31
in you, all the nations
of the earth will be blessed.
00:39:09.34\00:39:15.18
So Paul
concludes, Galatians, 3:9,
00:39:15.22\00:39:19.15
"So then those who are of faith
00:39:19.19\00:39:22.99
are blessed with
believing Abraham."
00:39:23.02\00:39:25.69
Woo, woo!
That's the first stage.
00:39:25.73\00:39:27.80
Now this is the exciting part.
00:39:27.83\00:39:29.76
God comes back
on the second stage.
00:39:29.80\00:39:32.57
Again, there's an
approach command and a promise.
00:39:32.60\00:39:35.64
Genesis 15:5-18.
00:39:35.67\00:39:38.47
God comes to him,
00:39:38.51\00:39:39.84
He brings Abraham
outside and He says,
00:39:39.87\00:39:42.24
"Look now toward the heaven,
00:39:42.28\00:39:43.95
count the stars if
you're able to number them,
00:39:43.98\00:39:47.02
so shall your descendants be."
00:39:47.05\00:39:51.35
And it says in verse 6,
00:39:51.39\00:39:52.79
"He believed in the Lord,
00:39:52.82\00:39:55.46
and He God accounted it
to him as righteousness.
00:39:55.49\00:40:01.43
The covenant, the
everlasting covenant
00:40:01.46\00:40:05.83
has always been
righteousness by faith,
00:40:05.87\00:40:09.67
justified by faith.
00:40:09.70\00:40:11.97
So, then he says in
verse 7, God says to him,
00:40:12.01\00:40:16.08
"I am the Lord who
brought you out of her
00:40:16.11\00:40:18.31
and out of the Chaldeans,
00:40:18.35\00:40:19.98
to give you this
land to inherit it."
00:40:20.02\00:40:23.05
So He promises him the land.
00:40:23.08\00:40:25.05
And you know, then what happens?
00:40:25.09\00:40:26.99
Abraham makes a
genuine request for assurance.
00:40:27.02\00:40:29.79
He says,
00:40:29.82\00:40:31.16
"Lord, how shall I
know I will inherit it."
00:40:31.19\00:40:33.60
So what God
does is He tells him,
00:40:33.63\00:40:35.93
get a heifer, a
goat and the ram,
00:40:35.96\00:40:38.83
cut them in half,
lay them with a path,
00:40:38.87\00:40:41.20
whether it's half on
one side, half on the other,
00:40:41.24\00:40:43.87
and a path in between.
00:40:43.91\00:40:45.51
And then he tells them
00:40:45.54\00:40:46.88
to get a turtledove and a pigeon
00:40:46.91\00:40:48.34
that they killed,
00:40:48.38\00:40:49.88
but they're not to be divided.
00:40:49.91\00:40:52.11
So Abraham obeys,
00:40:52.15\00:40:54.05
he cuts these animals asunder,
00:40:54.08\00:40:56.38
lays them this way.
00:40:56.42\00:40:58.15
Now, you know,
in the ancient days,
00:40:58.19\00:41:03.29
when man would cut
a covenant with man,
00:41:03.32\00:41:06.46
he make a covenant,
00:41:06.49\00:41:07.83
they call it cutting a covenant,
00:41:07.86\00:41:09.20
this is what they did.
00:41:09.23\00:41:11.63
And what would happen is,
00:41:11.67\00:41:13.47
then each man would
walk through the path.
00:41:13.50\00:41:18.87
And they are saying, basically,
00:41:18.91\00:41:20.71
as they're doing
this, taking this covenant,
00:41:20.74\00:41:23.28
so let it be done to me,
00:41:23.31\00:41:24.68
let me be cut in half
if I break this covenant,
00:41:24.71\00:41:27.08
but let's watch this.
00:41:27.12\00:41:29.38
Because what
happens after Abraham obeys?
00:41:29.42\00:41:33.86
God puts
Abraham in a deep sleep,
00:41:33.89\00:41:37.93
just like He put,
00:41:37.96\00:41:39.39
when He put
Adam in a deep sleep,
00:41:39.43\00:41:43.37
when He was going to create Eve.
00:41:43.40\00:41:45.37
Now get this, while
he's in the deep sleep,
00:41:45.40\00:41:51.64
God's gonna walk through this.
00:41:51.67\00:41:54.04
Abraham never
walks through this,
00:41:54.08\00:41:56.68
because there's only one
person making the promises,
00:41:56.71\00:42:00.38
Abraham did.
00:42:00.42\00:42:01.85
It didn't involve any
promise on Abraham's part.
00:42:01.88\00:42:06.02
It was God's promises.
00:42:06.05\00:42:08.86
So God is going
to walk through this,
00:42:08.89\00:42:11.69
and He talks to
His sleeping prophet,
00:42:11.73\00:42:15.86
telling him his
descendants are going to be,
00:42:15.90\00:42:17.90
you know, 400 years, then
this land that were there,
00:42:17.93\00:42:21.40
they're going to be afflicted,
00:42:21.44\00:42:22.77
and there'll be
strangers in the land.
00:42:22.80\00:42:25.61
And then He
promises He'll judge Egypt.
00:42:25.64\00:42:27.94
So He's talking to Abraham,
it's from verses 13 to 21,
00:42:27.98\00:42:31.71
Abraham's hearing it in a vision
00:42:31.75\00:42:34.15
as he sleeps.
00:42:34.18\00:42:35.82
But the Abrahamic covenant,
00:42:35.85\00:42:38.55
it's interesting to me that
00:42:38.59\00:42:39.92
God, maybe it's because
00:42:39.95\00:42:41.89
this is the way
people cut covenants,
00:42:41.92\00:42:43.89
God wanted to prove
that it was a covenant,
00:42:43.93\00:42:46.86
but He was the only one.
00:42:46.90\00:42:49.90
So figuratively, God is saying,
00:42:49.93\00:42:53.23
so let it be done to Me,
00:42:53.27\00:42:55.20
if I were to break My covenant.
00:42:55.24\00:42:57.51
Now, the third stage,
00:42:57.54\00:42:59.24
Genesis 17,
00:42:59.27\00:43:01.84
"Abraham's 99 years old,
00:43:01.88\00:43:04.11
God appears to him says,
00:43:04.15\00:43:06.11
'I am Almighty God,
00:43:06.15\00:43:07.88
walk before Me
and be blameless.'"
00:43:07.92\00:43:10.82
Whoa, There is,
00:43:10.85\00:43:13.72
remember, that
covenant is God's covenant.
00:43:13.76\00:43:17.33
He always says, My
covenant, He makes the promises.
00:43:17.36\00:43:20.23
But there are stipulations.
00:43:20.26\00:43:23.06
There are
conditions of obedience.
00:43:23.10\00:43:25.90
He says, walk
before me, be blameless,
00:43:25.93\00:43:27.74
I'll make My
covenant between Me and you
00:43:27.77\00:43:30.51
and will
multiply you exceedingly.
00:43:30.54\00:43:33.48
And Abraham falls on his face.
00:43:33.51\00:43:35.84
And that's when he says,
00:43:35.88\00:43:37.21
my covenant is
00:43:37.25\00:43:38.68
you're going to be the
father of many nations,
00:43:38.71\00:43:40.62
I'm going to change
your name from Abram,
00:43:40.65\00:43:43.69
which means father
is exalted to Abraham,
00:43:43.72\00:43:47.69
which means
father of many nations.
00:43:47.72\00:43:50.16
And then he says,
00:43:50.19\00:43:51.53
"I'm going to make this
an everlasting covenant,
00:43:51.56\00:43:54.96
that between Me and
you, that through you,
00:43:55.00\00:43:59.00
the world is
going to be blessed."
00:43:59.03\00:44:00.44
Now, let's look
00:44:00.47\00:44:02.94
in the very short
time we've got left.
00:44:02.97\00:44:06.37
Galatians 3:7.
00:44:06.41\00:44:09.38
Paul, in the New Testament
makes it abundantly clear
00:44:09.41\00:44:13.38
that the true
descendants of Abraham
00:44:13.42\00:44:15.75
are those who have
the faith of Abraham,
00:44:15.78\00:44:19.65
who trust in the promised merit,
00:44:19.69\00:44:23.43
or the merits of
the Promised Messiah.
00:44:23.46\00:44:26.63
Galatians 3:7, Paul says,
00:44:26.66\00:44:30.57
"Therefore know that only those
00:44:30.60\00:44:33.03
who are of faith
are sons of Abraham."
00:44:33.07\00:44:38.01
Then in verse 29, he says,
00:44:38.04\00:44:39.87
"If you are Christ,
you are Abraham's seed,
00:44:39.91\00:44:45.11
and heirs
according to the promise."
00:44:45.15\00:44:49.45
What is the
everlasting covenant?
00:44:49.48\00:44:53.69
It is the Lamb slain
00:44:53.72\00:44:55.32
from the
foundation of the world.
00:44:55.36\00:44:57.66
It is God's provision for
salvation, for redemption.
00:44:57.69\00:45:02.83
It was introduced when
he said, I'm going to...
00:45:02.86\00:45:07.24
The woman is
going to have a seed.
00:45:07.27\00:45:08.97
This is why when
she said she thinks
00:45:09.00\00:45:12.54
he's going to replace the seed.
00:45:12.57\00:45:14.14
She thinks, hey,
Seth is going to be,
00:45:14.18\00:45:16.18
this is Eve,
00:45:16.21\00:45:18.01
the Promise
Deliverer, the Messiah.
00:45:18.05\00:45:20.65
But God wants you to know that
00:45:20.68\00:45:24.29
He is inviting
you into covenant.
00:45:24.32\00:45:26.45
If you're not in
covenant with God,
00:45:26.49\00:45:28.42
you're not saved.
00:45:28.46\00:45:29.79
How simple can I say that?
00:45:29.82\00:45:31.16
Wow. Thank you, Shelley.
00:45:31.19\00:45:32.86
Thank you, all of you.
00:45:32.89\00:45:34.23
I mean, we've been
talking about covenants,
00:45:34.26\00:45:36.06
all the way through.
00:45:36.10\00:45:37.43
And although it's kind of
like Daniel and Revelation,
00:45:37.47\00:45:41.17
we have been
repeating and enlarging
00:45:41.20\00:45:44.21
because Abraham
has been mentioned
00:45:44.24\00:45:45.57
a number of times,
00:45:45.61\00:45:46.94
and today, mine is called
00:45:46.98\00:45:48.51
"Covenant Obligation."
00:45:48.54\00:45:50.65
Now, we pointed out
the number of covenants
00:45:50.68\00:45:53.08
we find in Scripture.
00:45:53.11\00:45:54.45
Just to cap off
what we've talked about,
00:45:54.48\00:45:55.98
I think, since our lesson began.
00:45:56.02\00:45:59.85
There are about
depending on how you count,
00:45:59.89\00:46:02.66
if you choose
only the Hebrew Bible,
00:46:02.69\00:46:05.19
you find four major categories
00:46:05.23\00:46:08.93
that the Jews
consider covenants.
00:46:08.96\00:46:11.03
When you consider the
Bible in its totality,
00:46:11.07\00:46:13.07
you find the Edenic
covenant, the Noahic covenant,
00:46:13.10\00:46:16.07
the Abrahamic
covenant, the Mosaic covenant,
00:46:16.10\00:46:18.71
which also include
a Priestly covenant,
00:46:18.74\00:46:21.14
because of the
Ark of the Covenant,
00:46:21.18\00:46:23.01
the services that the
priests were to perform,
00:46:23.04\00:46:25.78
the Davidic Covenant,
and then the New covenant,
00:46:25.81\00:46:28.25
so you can total it about seven.
00:46:28.28\00:46:30.52
But the one thing
that unites them all
00:46:30.55\00:46:32.85
is the God who
made the covenants.
00:46:32.89\00:46:35.76
So when you look at this,
00:46:35.79\00:46:37.49
you'll find if
you put the phrase,
00:46:37.53\00:46:40.00
the short phrase,
I will in the Bible,
00:46:40.03\00:46:42.70
and I've tried to
track this as well as I can,
00:46:42.73\00:46:45.77
you find more
than 2,300 phrases,
00:46:45.80\00:46:49.24
I will.
00:46:49.27\00:46:50.84
And when you
look at all of them,
00:46:50.87\00:46:52.21
and I tried my best to
count as many as I could,
00:46:52.24\00:46:54.38
because I mean, I
couldn't sit there
00:46:54.41\00:46:55.74
and count all 2,300.
00:46:55.78\00:46:57.65
But I noticed that
almost all of those were...
00:46:57.68\00:47:02.58
The Lord saying,
this is what I'm gonna do,
00:47:02.62\00:47:04.72
I will, I will, I
will, I will, I will,
00:47:04.75\00:47:07.99
not to include
00:47:08.02\00:47:09.36
the declarations
of a fallen angel,
00:47:09.39\00:47:11.13
I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds,
00:47:11.16\00:47:12.96
those, take those seven out.
00:47:12.99\00:47:15.23
But in most cases,
00:47:15.26\00:47:16.60
God was making declarations
00:47:16.63\00:47:18.90
and these declarations was
from the God of the covenant.
00:47:18.93\00:47:22.70
As we talked about
the Tetragrammaton,
00:47:22.74\00:47:26.68
the phonetic name of God Yahweh
00:47:26.71\00:47:29.24
with the, just with YHWH,
00:47:29.28\00:47:33.25
and He is the
God of the covenant.
00:47:33.28\00:47:35.18
So these covenants were
made from beginning to end,
00:47:35.22\00:47:37.89
and every covenant,
00:47:37.92\00:47:39.39
this is something very
important to understand.
00:47:39.42\00:47:42.02
Every covenant that God made,
00:47:42.06\00:47:44.36
He did not have preconditions
to Him extending the covenant.
00:47:44.39\00:47:50.37
But He showed it have conditions
00:47:50.40\00:47:51.73
to those who
embraced to the covenant.
00:47:51.77\00:47:54.00
Let's start with Genesis 18:19.
00:47:54.04\00:47:57.07
And Abraham has been the
star of this panel today.
00:47:57.11\00:48:03.48
He says,
00:48:03.51\00:48:04.85
"For I have known him,
00:48:04.88\00:48:06.78
in order that he
may command his children
00:48:06.82\00:48:09.52
and his household after him,
00:48:09.55\00:48:12.22
that they keep
the way of the Lord,
00:48:12.25\00:48:15.12
to do righteousness and justice
00:48:15.16\00:48:17.83
that the Lord
may bring to Abraham
00:48:17.86\00:48:20.66
what he has spoken to him."
00:48:20.70\00:48:22.73
So the Lord made the covenant
00:48:22.76\00:48:24.10
but he said, wait a minute,
00:48:24.13\00:48:25.67
your children, your household,
00:48:25.70\00:48:27.50
there's something I'm
going to require of them.
00:48:27.54\00:48:29.97
And then when we
find that requirement
00:48:30.01\00:48:31.61
that the Lord made
very clear to Abraham,
00:48:31.64\00:48:34.21
command your household
00:48:34.24\00:48:35.94
after the covenant
I've made with you.
00:48:35.98\00:48:38.51
And then you find these words
00:48:38.55\00:48:40.18
that are so
beautiful in Genesis 26:5.
00:48:40.22\00:48:43.82
Here's what the Bible says,
00:48:43.85\00:48:46.22
"And why did God bless him?
00:48:46.25\00:48:47.76
Because Abraham obeyed My voice,
00:48:47.79\00:48:51.76
kept My charge,
00:48:51.79\00:48:53.36
My commandments, My
statutes, and My laws."
00:48:53.40\00:48:57.37
A lot of people
read that and say,
00:48:57.40\00:48:58.73
wait a minute, that's
long, long, long before Sinai.
00:48:58.77\00:49:02.50
You have Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
00:49:02.54\00:49:03.87
you have Jacob's 12 sons
00:49:03.91\00:49:05.24
and you have
them going to bondage,
00:49:05.27\00:49:06.74
then they have to come out,
00:49:06.78\00:49:08.11
then the Lord gives
them Ten Commandments
00:49:08.14\00:49:09.48
and people that think
00:49:09.51\00:49:11.21
the commandments
just came into existence
00:49:11.25\00:49:12.71
at Sinai, I thought,
00:49:12.75\00:49:14.72
well, what
commandments did Abraham keep?
00:49:14.75\00:49:16.89
Well, you find in the Bible
00:49:16.92\00:49:18.25
there were 1500
years of unwritten record,
00:49:18.29\00:49:20.49
but there was not 1500 years
00:49:20.52\00:49:21.99
of unwritten
requirements to be obedient?
00:49:22.02\00:49:24.93
Why would you...
00:49:24.96\00:49:26.29
Why would there be
a need to be obedient
00:49:26.33\00:49:27.73
unless there's something to
be obedient in harmony with?
00:49:27.76\00:49:30.77
How could man have
sinned all that time,
00:49:30.80\00:49:33.44
lest there's a law that
could have been violated?
00:49:33.47\00:49:36.37
But Abraham was the one
00:49:36.40\00:49:37.74
that was the man
that was obedient,
00:49:37.77\00:49:39.94
he obeyed My voice.
00:49:39.97\00:49:41.51
Obedience could not exist,
00:49:41.54\00:49:43.38
except there is a law
to live in harmony with.
00:49:43.41\00:49:45.81
So we find, once again,
00:49:45.85\00:49:48.48
as we look at the Old Testament
00:49:48.52\00:49:49.95
and the New Testament,
00:49:49.98\00:49:51.32
you find once again,
00:49:51.35\00:49:52.69
this unconditional
extension of a commandment
00:49:52.72\00:49:55.89
and a covenant from God.
00:49:55.92\00:49:58.23
But surely He
does require obedience
00:49:58.26\00:50:00.50
on the part of
those who embrace it.
00:50:00.53\00:50:02.50
Hebrews 10:16.
00:50:02.53\00:50:04.50
We're going all the way
down to the New covenant,
00:50:04.53\00:50:07.84
and in as we look
through the lessons,
00:50:07.87\00:50:10.51
I'm just so excited
00:50:10.54\00:50:11.87
when we prepare
for these lessons,
00:50:11.91\00:50:13.24
as we look through them,
00:50:13.27\00:50:14.61
we start to see things
that we love to say today.
00:50:14.64\00:50:16.81
But we got to wait
till the time comes,
00:50:16.85\00:50:19.71
because I just
have loved this study.
00:50:19.75\00:50:21.98
But He says this is the covenant
00:50:22.02\00:50:23.35
I will make with them
00:50:23.39\00:50:24.85
after those days, says the Lord,
00:50:24.89\00:50:27.56
I will put My
laws in their hearts,
00:50:27.59\00:50:30.03
and in their minds,
00:50:30.06\00:50:31.39
I will write them.
00:50:31.43\00:50:32.76
In other words,
00:50:32.79\00:50:34.13
they're not going to have
to carry around the Torah.
00:50:34.16\00:50:36.20
They're not gonna have to carry
around the Ark of the Covenant.
00:50:36.23\00:50:38.97
It is going to be
here, it's going to be here.
00:50:39.00\00:50:41.50
And the consciences of men
00:50:41.54\00:50:43.54
can only be consciences
00:50:43.57\00:50:45.41
when the Spirit of
God awakens within them
00:50:45.44\00:50:48.14
this reminder that
there's an obligation.
00:50:48.18\00:50:50.25
God made a covenant with you,
00:50:50.28\00:50:52.08
and your obligation
to honor that covenant.
00:50:52.11\00:50:54.78
If that covenant is violated,
00:50:54.82\00:50:56.55
it awakens within
us the sense of guilt,
00:50:56.58\00:50:58.55
the sense of falling short.
00:50:58.59\00:51:00.42
All have sinned and fallen short
00:51:00.46\00:51:02.06
of the glory of God.
00:51:02.09\00:51:03.43
We can't fall short
00:51:03.46\00:51:04.79
unless there's a
covenant to live up to exalt
00:51:04.83\00:51:07.90
and to measure our
lives by a standard by
00:51:07.93\00:51:10.77
which each one of us
is going to be judged.
00:51:10.80\00:51:13.47
Now, according to
the lesson so far,
00:51:13.50\00:51:16.44
we have seen that the covenant
is always a covenant of grace.
00:51:16.47\00:51:20.38
But it's never a covenant
00:51:20.41\00:51:21.94
that does not require obedience.
00:51:21.98\00:51:24.31
So suffice it to say this,
00:51:24.35\00:51:26.72
let's look at a
couple of passages,
00:51:26.75\00:51:28.28
looking at the
obedience aspect of it.
00:51:28.32\00:51:30.25
And I'm going to come at it
00:51:30.29\00:51:31.65
from the New
Testament perspective,
00:51:31.69\00:51:33.52
because we know,
00:51:33.56\00:51:34.89
we find all
throughout the Old Testament
00:51:34.92\00:51:36.46
this cadence of
the children of Israel,
00:51:36.49\00:51:39.16
the cadence of
the Hebrews going in,
00:51:39.19\00:51:40.56
the Israelites coming out
of Eden, of Noah, of Moses,
00:51:40.60\00:51:45.00
we find these
covenants continually made,
00:51:45.03\00:51:47.67
but the covenant language
continues in the New Testament.
00:51:47.70\00:51:50.54
Luke 6:46,
00:51:50.57\00:51:52.51
look what the Lord says,
00:51:52.54\00:51:54.01
"Why do you call Me Lord, Lord,
00:51:54.04\00:51:56.64
and do not do the
things which I say."
00:51:56.68\00:52:00.02
So the covenant is there too,
00:52:00.05\00:52:01.75
because for anyone
who calls the Lord,
00:52:01.78\00:52:04.29
his Lord, or her Lord,
00:52:04.32\00:52:07.52
we must do what the Lord says.
00:52:07.56\00:52:11.26
Remember the Israelites
00:52:11.29\00:52:12.63
when they were
given the commandments,
00:52:12.66\00:52:14.00
all that the Lord
has said, we will do.
00:52:14.03\00:52:16.63
The same thing applies
here in the New Testament,
00:52:16.67\00:52:18.73
why do you call Me Lord, Lord,
00:52:18.77\00:52:20.10
and do not do the
things which I say.
00:52:20.14\00:52:22.60
Another one that
people love to ignore,
00:52:22.64\00:52:25.01
John 14:15,
00:52:25.04\00:52:26.37
"If you love Me,
keep My commandments."
00:52:26.41\00:52:30.55
That simply,
00:52:30.58\00:52:31.98
when the Lord is your God,
00:52:32.01\00:52:34.18
you can't say He is my Lord,
00:52:34.22\00:52:36.48
but I'm not gonna
keep His commandments.
00:52:36.52\00:52:38.59
Then you will be
guilty as Isaiah 24:5 says,
00:52:38.62\00:52:42.09
"They broke My laws,
they violated My commandments,
00:52:42.12\00:52:45.89
or they broke My commandments,
they violated My laws."
00:52:45.93\00:52:48.96
You can't call God,
00:52:49.00\00:52:50.80
I'm gonna specifically
speak to Christians,
00:52:50.83\00:52:52.63
you can't call Jesus Lord,
00:52:52.67\00:52:55.04
and then ignore
His commandments.
00:52:55.07\00:52:57.27
1 John 2:3-4, or verse 4,
00:52:57.31\00:53:00.04
1 John 2:4,
00:53:00.08\00:53:01.41
"He who says, I know Him,
00:53:01.44\00:53:03.18
and does not keep His
commandments is a liar,
00:53:03.21\00:53:05.55
and the truth is not in him."
00:53:05.58\00:53:07.18
Does that covenant obligation,
00:53:07.22\00:53:08.85
and then the apostles
00:53:08.88\00:53:10.39
as they went forth
proclaiming the gospel,
00:53:10.42\00:53:12.65
once again,
00:53:12.69\00:53:14.02
the show of
obedience to that covenant.
00:53:14.06\00:53:16.66
Acts 5:32,
00:53:16.69\00:53:18.23
"And we are His
witnesses to these things,
00:53:18.26\00:53:20.66
and so also is the Holy Spirit,
00:53:20.70\00:53:23.26
whom God has given
to those who obey Him."
00:53:23.30\00:53:27.04
The covenant is
not without obedience.
00:53:27.07\00:53:29.74
Look at these five points.
00:53:29.77\00:53:31.27
God promised Noah
00:53:31.31\00:53:32.64
that his family would be spared.
00:53:32.67\00:53:34.41
But it was on the condition
00:53:34.44\00:53:35.78
of Noah's
obedience to God's covenant.
00:53:35.81\00:53:38.15
Hebrews 11:7,
00:53:38.18\00:53:40.22
"By faith Noah being
divinely warned of things
00:53:40.25\00:53:42.45
not yet seen,
00:53:42.48\00:53:43.92
moved with godly fear,
00:53:43.95\00:53:45.59
prepared an ark
00:53:45.62\00:53:46.96
for the saving of his household,
00:53:46.99\00:53:48.49
by which he condemned the world
00:53:48.52\00:53:51.43
and became heir
of the righteousness
00:53:51.46\00:53:53.83
which is according to faith.
00:53:53.86\00:53:55.26
And as Shelley said,
00:53:55.30\00:53:56.63
there is no other righteousness,
00:53:56.67\00:53:58.00
but righteousness by faith.
00:53:58.03\00:53:59.37
Number two, when God gave
Moses the principles of the law,
00:53:59.40\00:54:01.87
Israel
responded with affirmation
00:54:01.90\00:54:03.54
that God's law
warranted a response.
00:54:03.57\00:54:06.37
And in short,
00:54:06.41\00:54:07.74
all that the Lord
has said, we will do.
00:54:07.78\00:54:09.54
Exodus 24:7-8,
00:54:09.58\00:54:11.85
"All that the Lord
had said we will do."
00:54:11.88\00:54:15.38
Did they do it?
00:54:15.42\00:54:17.82
You can't do
anything by declaration,
00:54:17.85\00:54:19.85
you have to rely
on the Spirit of God.
00:54:19.89\00:54:22.16
I can do all
things through Christ,
00:54:22.19\00:54:24.13
who strengthens me.
00:54:24.16\00:54:25.49
Number three,
00:54:25.53\00:54:26.86
the covenant of God
00:54:26.90\00:54:28.23
does not dismiss our obligation
to God's commandments.
00:54:28.26\00:54:32.57
Psalm 78:10,
00:54:32.60\00:54:34.80
"They did not keep the
covenant of God, " why?
00:54:34.84\00:54:37.71
"They refused to
walk in His law."
00:54:37.74\00:54:39.97
Let me ask a question.
00:54:40.01\00:54:41.34
Are you a New
Testament Christian
00:54:41.38\00:54:42.74
that believes you don't
have to walk in God's law?
00:54:42.78\00:54:44.85
Well, the same
statement applies to you.
00:54:44.88\00:54:46.58
There's no way that
00:54:46.61\00:54:47.95
you could be a
covenant keeping Christian,
00:54:47.98\00:54:50.45
a covenant
keeping worshipper of God
00:54:50.49\00:54:52.99
and not be
obedient to the law of God.
00:54:53.02\00:54:55.82
Number four, God requires
obedience to His covenant.
00:54:55.86\00:54:58.79
Jeremiah 11:1-6,
00:54:58.83\00:55:00.90
I don't have time
to read all of it,
00:55:00.93\00:55:02.43
but I'll just
simply put it this way.
00:55:02.46\00:55:03.80
He says,
00:55:03.83\00:55:05.17
"Obey my voice,
00:55:05.20\00:55:06.53
and do according to
all that I command you
00:55:06.57\00:55:09.40
and you shall be My people."
00:55:09.44\00:55:11.41
And lastly,
00:55:11.44\00:55:13.48
we find that God's
covenant is always something
00:55:13.51\00:55:15.58
that comes out of an
obligation from our hearts.
00:55:15.61\00:55:18.41
Let me make this
point as we transition.
00:55:18.45\00:55:20.72
If your heart is not
filled with love for the Lord,
00:55:20.75\00:55:23.89
the covenant of
God is His love to you.
00:55:23.92\00:55:27.02
Your response to
the covenant of God
00:55:27.06\00:55:29.32
is your love to Him.
00:55:29.36\00:55:31.09
Do you love Him that much?
00:55:31.13\00:55:33.43
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:55:33.46\00:55:35.20
Man, that's,
this is a rich lesson.
00:55:35.23\00:55:37.87
This was a rich lesson indeed.
00:55:37.90\00:55:39.23
So let's take some time
00:55:39.27\00:55:40.60
just to go back through
and give some final thoughts.
00:55:40.64\00:55:42.00
Monday's lesson we
talked about El Shaddai,
00:55:42.04\00:55:44.31
our God who can do anything
00:55:44.34\00:55:46.47
and take any
seemingly impossible situation
00:55:46.51\00:55:49.71
and turn it around.
00:55:49.74\00:55:51.11
Just want to encourage you
00:55:51.15\00:55:52.48
no matter what
you are going through,
00:55:52.51\00:55:53.95
no matter what
you are experiencing,
00:55:53.98\00:55:55.98
call on Him and He
will be faithful to you.
00:55:56.02\00:55:58.62
That's right.
00:55:58.65\00:55:59.99
Amen.
00:56:00.02\00:56:01.36
Well, Abram's name
was changed to Abraham
00:56:01.39\00:56:04.73
because he chose
to be faithful to God.
00:56:04.76\00:56:07.86
And that means that
God wants to transform him
00:56:07.90\00:56:11.43
as well as us.
00:56:11.47\00:56:12.80
I'm reading to you
from Revelation 2:17,
00:56:12.83\00:56:16.81
"He who has an ear, let him hear
00:56:16.84\00:56:18.87
what the Spirit
says to the churches.
00:56:18.91\00:56:21.01
To him who overcomes
00:56:21.04\00:56:22.58
I will give some of
the hidden manna to eat,
00:56:22.61\00:56:25.11
and I will give
him a white stone,
00:56:25.15\00:56:26.98
and on the stone,
a new name written,
00:56:27.02\00:56:29.95
which no one knows
00:56:29.98\00:56:31.32
except him who receives it."
00:56:31.35\00:56:33.19
And God wants to give
you a new start, a new name,
00:56:33.22\00:56:36.29
and make you part of his family.
00:56:36.32\00:56:37.66
Amen.
00:56:37.69\00:56:39.03
We saw in on
Thursday or Wednesday,
00:56:39.06\00:56:42.26
that God revealed separate,
00:56:42.30\00:56:45.20
He revealed His covenant
in several stages to Abraham.
00:56:45.23\00:56:48.80
The progressive
unfolding of that
00:56:48.84\00:56:51.94
in Exodus 2:24,
00:56:51.97\00:56:53.68
when God hears the Hebrews,
00:56:53.71\00:56:55.88
He remembers His
covenant with Abraham,
00:56:55.91\00:56:59.61
this Sinai covenant is built
00:56:59.65\00:57:03.05
on this everlasting
covenant with Abraham.
00:57:03.08\00:57:05.89
In Luke 1:72, God sends Christ,
00:57:05.92\00:57:11.66
He remembers His
covenant with Abraham,
00:57:11.69\00:57:14.66
it's all about the
everlasting covenant.
00:57:14.70\00:57:17.73
That's right.
00:57:17.77\00:57:19.10
If you're a
covenant keeping Christian,
00:57:19.13\00:57:20.47
God does not want lip
service, He wants life service.
00:57:20.50\00:57:23.44
Amen.
00:57:23.47\00:57:24.81
Matthew 15:8,
00:57:24.84\00:57:26.17
"The people draw near
to Me with their mouth,
00:57:26.21\00:57:28.14
and honor Me with their lips,
00:57:28.18\00:57:29.78
but their hearts
are far from Me."
00:57:29.81\00:57:31.21
I pray that you will not
be a lip service Christian,
00:57:31.25\00:57:34.12
but a life service Christian.
00:57:34.15\00:57:35.65
Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:57:35.68\00:57:37.39
This lesson has reminded me of
00:57:37.42\00:57:39.82
just how committed
God really is to us.
00:57:39.85\00:57:42.66
It's not always the case
00:57:42.69\00:57:44.03
that we are as committed to Him.
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But He is
certainly committed to us
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and I just want to invite
you if you're home watching,
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wherever you are
around the world,
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commit yourself to Christ.
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Just reach out
to Him and ask Him,
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Lord, help me to be
more committed to You,
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and He will give
you the spirit to do so.
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We will invite you
to come back next week
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and join us for
another lesson entitled
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"Children of the Promise."
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Until then, thank you
so much for joining us,
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and we will see you
right back here next week
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on 3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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