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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Going Without Knowing (Part 1) | January 20, 2025
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- [announcer] from the pulpit
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- Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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- This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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- Hi, i'm robert jeffress
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- And welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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- Have you ever faced a major life decision
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- That required making a leap of faith?
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- Well, you're not alone.
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- In hebrews 11, the writer identifies
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- 11 men and women of faith
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- Who trusted god without reservation.
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- And today we're going to look at two of those individuals
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- Who trusted god even when the outcome was unclear.
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- My message is titled, "going without knowing"
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- On today's edition of "pathway to victory".
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- During the vietnam war,
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- A woman discovered that her husband was missing in action.
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- For weeks, she had to live with the fact
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- That her husband might be dead.
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- As the weeks turned into months,
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- She had to learn to live with the fact
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- That her husband might be still alive.
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- As the months turned into years,
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- She had to realize that
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- She would spend the rest of her life without knowing.
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- You know, living without knowing requires maturity,
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- But obeying god without knowing requires faith.
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- And that's what we're talking about in this series,
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- Spiritual fitness,
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- Strengthening your faith in troubled times.
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- Faith is the necessary ingredient
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- When we go through challenging circumstances.
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- When the writer of hebrews was writing hebrews 11,
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- He wasn't trying to compose the most eloquent treatise
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- On faith that has ever been written.
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- He was addressing a real problem
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- That was being experienced
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- By real people in a particular time.
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- These were jewish christians who had come out of judaism
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- And had just embraced the christian faith,
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- But instead of solving all their problems,
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- Their faith was actually causing problems.
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- They weren't suffering from a pandemic,
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- But they were suffering other problems,
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- They were going through persecution,
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- They were dealing with unanswered prayer,
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- And they were beginning to wonder
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- Maybe this newfound christianity
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- Isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
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- And so, they were in danger of giving up
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- Their christian faith and going back into judaism.
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- And in hebrews 10, the writer says,
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- "before you do that, don't give up your confidence in him."
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- What is it that keeps you from letting go of your beliefs
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- Instead of holding onto them?
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- What is it that will keep you
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- From buckling under life's pressures
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- And instead enduring under those pressure?
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- In a word, it is faith.
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- Faith is the necessary ingredient
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- So that problems don't shatter your faith,
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- They strengthen your relationship with god.
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- And that's where we've come to in our study of hebrews.
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- What is faith?
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- What is this faith
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- That will strengthen us in troubled times
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- Instead of destroying us in troubled times?
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- Well, in the first two verses of hebrews 11,
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- The writer defines what faith is,
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- The best way to understand what faith is
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- Is to first of all understand what it isn't.
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- Mark twain, the american humorist, was at most an agnostic.
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- He said, "faith is trying to believe
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- What you know ain't so,"
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- Or that's how an unbeliever looks at faith,
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- But that's not how a believer looks at it.
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- In hebrews 11:1, the writer says,
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- "now faith is the assurance of things hoped for.
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- It is the conviction of things not seen."
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- That word assurance, hypostasis,
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- Is a word that refers to a concrete foundation
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- That holds up massive pillars
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- That support a building.
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- That's what faith is, it's not a hope, it's not a wish,
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- It is the concrete assurance,
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- But it's also a conviction that goes one step further.
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- It's not only believing,
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- It's believing enough to do something,
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- Acting out your faith.
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- It's a conviction of things not seen.
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- Remember i gave you this definition last week of faith,
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- Faith is believing that god will do
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- What he has promised to do and acting accordingly.
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- Faith always requires action.
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- And by definition,
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- Faith is in that which is not seen.
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- It's in invisible things.
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- It doesn't take any faith for me
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- To believe that tyler brinson exists,
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- I see him, i watch him every week, he's visible to me.
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- What it takes faith to believe in
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- Is something that you can't see,
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- And frankly, this was what the challenge was
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- To these hebrew christians,
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- These new christians, they said,
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- "we're tired of believing in things that we can't see.
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- We want to go back into judaism,
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- We want to believe in a faith that we can touch and feel,
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- We want a priest that we can touch.
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- We want a temple that we can go into,
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- We want a sacrifice that we can smell.
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- We're tired of this invisible priest
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- Who's in an invisible temple in heaven
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- Who's in offered this invisible sacrifice.
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- Do you ever feel that way sometimes?
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- But real faith requires believing in
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- That which is invisible.
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- And so, the writer in hebrews 11
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- Reminds these new jewish christians
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- That the old testament was filled with examples of people
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- Who believed in the unseen and the invisible.
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- And he goes through example after example
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- Of what it means to believe god and act accordingly.
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- We looked at abel who demonstrates a faith that saves,
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- Abel had never seen god and yet by faith
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- He obeyed god and offered that better sacrifice.
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- Or enoch demonstrates a faith that sanctifies.
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- For 300 of his 365 years,
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- The bible says he walked with god,
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- He obeyed god, never saw any result of it.
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- He was living and surrounded in an ungodly culture,
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- But he kept obeying god,
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- And until the very end, he obeyed god
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- And god just took him to heaven,
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- Raptured him to heaven instead of allowing him to die.
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- But it was because he believed that god was a rewarder
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- Of those who diligently follow him,
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- Even though he's never seen that reward.
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- Today we're going to come to another aspect of faith.
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- Faith that not only saves and sanctifies,
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- But a faith that is submissive to god's will.
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- If you're going to obey god,
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- You have to have faith in that which is invisible.
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- And today we're going to look at two people
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- Who demonstrate that kind of submissive faith.
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- The first is abraham,
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- Who demonstrates that submissive faith walks with god,
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- Even when we can't see the future.
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- Look at verse eight of hebrews 11,
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- "by faith, abraham, when he was called
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- Obeyed by going out to a place
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- Which he was to receive for an inheritance,
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- And he went out not knowing where he was going."
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- Abraham was to the jewish people
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- What george washington is to americans,
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- I mean, he was the father of their country.
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- He was the beginning of the abrahamic promise
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- That extends through this day until the lord returns.
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- Abraham was a man of faith.
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- You know, abraham was the only person in the bible
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- Who was called the friend of god.
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- That's how god referred to abraham, "my friend abraham."
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- Can you think of any greater compliment
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- Than having god call you his friend?
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- That was abraham, he was a friend of god,
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- And what made him a friend of god?
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- Some people say,
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- "well, it was his willingness
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- To go through that painful procedure
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- Of circumcision without any anesthetic."
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- Other people say, "oh no, it was his willingness
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- To give up a better land to his nephew lot
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- To keep the peace in the family."
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- Other people say, "well, it was his willingness
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- To offer his son isaac as a sacrifice to god,"
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- As we'll talk about next time.
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- All of those things were great,
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- But that's not what caused abraham
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- To be called the friend of god.
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- It was abraham's faith that made him righteous
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- In a right relationship with god.
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- And we see that so well illustrated in romans 4:1-8.
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- Remember, paul is talking about the fact that
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- We are saved by god's grace through faith
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- And not through our own works,
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- And he uses abraham as the example.
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- Look at romans 4:1,
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- "what then shall we say about abraham,
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- Our forefather, according to the flesh?
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- For if abraham was justified,"
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- That is declared not guilty by works,
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- "he has something to boast about, but not before god.
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- For what does the scripture say?"
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- And then, paul quotes genesis 15:6,
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- "abraham believed god and it was credited,"
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- It, his faith was credited to him as righteousness.
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- What made abraham the friend of god?
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- What caused him to be declared righteous
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- And a right standing with god was not his works
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- But his faith in god.
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- His works were the result of his faith.
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- Paul is reminding the readers of that night
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- That god took abraham out of his tent and said,
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- "look up into the sky, abraham, see all the stars?
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- So shall your descendants be."
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- Even though abraham didn't have one child yet.
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- The bible says abraham believed god,
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- He believed what god said.
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- We don't know how much he believed,
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- He may have had a lot of faith
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- Or he might have had the faith of a mustard seed.
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- But the bible says with
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- Whatever amount of faith abraham had, he believed god,
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- And what did god do?
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- He took that little bit of faith
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- And in the great accounting room of heaven,
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- He exchanged that faith for god's righteousness.
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- How was abraham saved?
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- He was saved by god's grace,
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- That was received through faith
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- And would be ultimately paid for
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- By the blood of christ, the way we're all saved.
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- Abraham was saved by grace through faith,
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- That's what he's saying here.
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- And then in verse four of romans 4,
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- "now to the one who works,
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- His wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due."
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- You realize that.
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- If you're an employee,
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- You don't thank your employer every two weeks
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- When you get a check, that's not a favor he's given to you,
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- It's what he owes you.
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- If you work for something, you deserve to be paid.
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- But look at verse five, "but to the one who does not work
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- But believes in him, god,
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- Who justifies the ungodly,
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- His faith is credited as righteousness."
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- Do you know why god will not allow you
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- To work for your salvation?
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- Because if you are allowed to work for your salvation,
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- Then salvation is not a gift from god.
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- It's an obligation from god.
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- If salvation,
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- The forgiveness of your sins is 99% god's grace
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- And even 1% of your works, then again,
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- Salvation is not a gift, it's an obligation,
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- And god refuses to owe any man or woman salvation,
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- It is a free gift of god.
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- It was for abraham.
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- Abraham believed god
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- And that belief was counted as righteousness.
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- For the writer of hebrews is saying,
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- Because he was righteous, not guilty, he acted accordingly.
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- Every good thing that abraham did
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- Sprung out of his right relationship with god.
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- And it gave him the faith to walk with god,
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- Even when he couldn't see the future.
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- Now the story of abraham actually begins
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- At the end of genesis 11.
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- We won't turn there right now,
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- But most people don't know,
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- The story actually begins there when abraham was 60 old.
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- Abraham lived in ur of the chaldees,
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- A metropolitan advanced civilization
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- In the mesopotamian valley.
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- He was the son of terah,
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- Terah was the commander of nimrod's armies.
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- The one thing they all had in common
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- Is they all worshiped idols, including abraham.
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- Abraham was a worshiper of idols.
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- You know, some people wonder,
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- Why did god choose abraham
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- To be the father of this great nation?
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- Maybe it was because abraham was the only person in earth
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- Who didn't worship an idol but worshiped the true god.
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- That'd be a nice story, but it's not true.
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- The bible says he worship idols just like his father, terah.
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- The only reason god chose abraham
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- Is the same reason he chose you,
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- His grace, his grace and grace alone.
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- God spoke to abraham when he was 60 years old
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- And told him to go to a land that he would show him.
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- You say, "now i can read genesis 11
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- And there's nothing about god's call to abraham.
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- And when he was in ur of the chaldees,
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- Where do you get that, pastor?"
- 00:14:26.355 --> 00:14:28.057
- Well, it's in acts 7:2 in the new testament.
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- Paul tells us that that abraham's initial call
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- Came when he was 60 in ur,
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- So he picks up his family and they get as far as haran
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- And they settle down there and they spend 15 years there.
- 00:14:40.102 --> 00:14:44.707
- And then when we come to genesis 12,
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- God repeats and expands his call and says,
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- "abraham, you've been here long enough,
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- It's time for you to pack up again
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- And go to that land that i will show you
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- And i will make you the father of a great nation
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- And i will bless those who bless you
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- And curse those who curse you and through you,
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- All the nations of the world will be blessed."
- 00:15:01.757 --> 00:15:05.361
- So what did abram do?
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- Look at verse four of genesis 12.
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- "so abram went forth as the lord had spoken to him
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- And lot went with him.
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- Now, abram was 75 years old when he departed from haran.
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- Now i don't know about you,
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- But i don't know many 75 year olds
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- Who are crazy about changing their life.
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- I don't know many people who like change of any kind,
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- But just imagine what it is like to pick up,
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- Uproot, and go to a land you've never seen before
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- With all of your family.
- 00:15:36.992 --> 00:15:38.794
- But abraham did that when he was 75, look at verse five.
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- "and abram took sarai his wife and lot his nephew
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- And all their possessions which they had accumulated
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- And the persons which they had acquired in haran
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- And they set out for the land of canaan,
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- Thus they came to the land of canaan."
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- Just think of all the stuff abraham and sarah
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- Had accumulated in 75 years.
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- 75 years of living.
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- I went into our garage yesterday
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- And it is packed to the brim
- 00:16:12.728 --> 00:16:15.097
- And it's interesting,
- 00:16:15.097 --> 00:16:16.532
- It's kind of like geological strata in our garage.
- 00:16:16.532 --> 00:16:21.570
- The bottom portion structure,
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- That's the garland years from the 1970s.
- 00:16:24.139 --> 00:16:27.843
- And then on top of that are the eastland years
- 00:16:27.843 --> 00:16:30.379
- And then the 15 years in wichita falls above that,
- 00:16:30.379 --> 00:16:33.348
- And then our dallas last 13 years above that.
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- I'd hate to try to find anything in there.
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- You can imagine all the stuff that abraham had.
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- But he picked it up,
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- He gathered it together and what did he do?
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- Did he call daryl flood movers and say,
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- "come pick up this stuff, send it ahead to canaan?"
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- No, the bible says that they tied it
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- To the backs of the donkeys
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- And every other beast they had and out they went to canaan.
- 00:16:55.370 --> 00:16:59.942
- But the real remarkable thing about this move
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- Is not the inconvenience of it,
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- It's the faith that it took to do that.
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- Just think they left ur of the chaldees,
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- They were leaving their family,
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- They were leaving their religious traditions,
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- They were leaving their friends,
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- Everything familiar to them
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- To go to a place that was unidentified
- 00:17:20.095 --> 00:17:22.898
- At this point to them,
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- All because god said to go.
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- Think of the loneliness that would take
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- To leave everything you knew
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- To a strange and distant land.
- 00:17:30.305 --> 00:17:32.341
- When i was preparing this message this week,
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- I couldn't help think of the first time i left home.
- 00:17:34.109 --> 00:17:39.448
- I was 18 years old and was leaving dallas
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- And leaving my family
- 00:17:43.385 --> 00:17:44.920
- And leaving the church here i had grown up in
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- To go 90 miles south to baylor university.
- 00:17:48.657 --> 00:17:53.028
- And i remember that saturday so well that i went to baylor,
- 00:17:53.028 --> 00:17:57.533
- I was already feeling a little bit blue
- 00:17:57.533 --> 00:17:59.568
- Because my wife, my girlfriend at the time, amy,
- 00:17:59.568 --> 00:18:03.205
- Had gone on to austin to the university of texas,
- 00:18:03.205 --> 00:18:06.708
- So i was feeling kind of lonely.
- 00:18:06.708 --> 00:18:08.544
- And so our family decided not to just to send me by myself,
- 00:18:08.544 --> 00:18:12.614
- But we went in a family caravan.
- 00:18:12.614 --> 00:18:15.417
- It was not just me, it was my mother and my father,
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- My sister sitting right out there,
- 00:18:19.888 --> 00:18:22.157
- And my brother, my grandmother and grandfather
- 00:18:22.157 --> 00:18:26.061
- And my great-grandmother,
- 00:18:26.061 --> 00:18:27.796
- We all got in a caravan and headed down i-35 to waco.
- 00:18:27.796 --> 00:18:33.068
- They dropped me off in my dorm
- 00:18:33.702 --> 00:18:35.771
- And my grandfather said,
- 00:18:35.771 --> 00:18:37.406
- "let's all have a prayer together."
- 00:18:37.406 --> 00:18:39.007
- So we got in a circle and he prayed for me
- 00:18:39.007 --> 00:18:41.643
- And then he left, they left.
- 00:18:41.643 --> 00:18:44.079
- And i'm telling you, i have never felt lonelier.
- 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:47.683
- I was surrounded by a lot of people,
- 00:18:47.683 --> 00:18:49.585
- I would eventually make some great friends there,
- 00:18:49.585 --> 00:18:51.887
- But that day i was lonely.
- 00:18:51.887 --> 00:18:53.622
- And i remember that saturday night
- 00:18:53.622 --> 00:18:55.557
- Going down to the fifth street bridge,
- 00:18:55.557 --> 00:18:58.660
- The bridge that spans i-35 on fifth street
- 00:18:58.660 --> 00:19:02.097
- And i walked into the center of that bridge, i didn't jump,
- 00:19:02.097 --> 00:19:05.534
- But i just walked to the center of that bridge
- 00:19:05.534 --> 00:19:07.970
- And i looked to the north
- 00:19:07.970 --> 00:19:09.504
- And thought about my family and my friends i had left.
- 00:19:09.504 --> 00:19:13.242
- I turned and looked toward the south toward austin
- 00:19:13.242 --> 00:19:16.578
- Where those pagans were holding my girlfriend amy
- 00:19:16.578 --> 00:19:19.147
- At the university of texas.
- 00:19:19.147 --> 00:19:21.583
- You know i was lonely.
- 00:19:22.084 --> 00:19:24.086
- Perhaps you felt that kind of loneliness too,
- 00:19:24.086 --> 00:19:26.221
- The loneliness of moving to a new city,
- 00:19:26.221 --> 00:19:29.391
- Moving to a new church, moving to a new job.
- 00:19:29.391 --> 00:19:32.160
- Even though you're surrounded by people, you feel all alone.
- 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:36.164
- That's what it took for abraham.
- 00:19:36.164 --> 00:19:37.833
- Why did he do it?
- 00:19:37.833 --> 00:19:39.668
- Let me tell you why he didn't do it.
- 00:19:39.668 --> 00:19:42.004
- It's not because he calculated
- 00:19:42.004 --> 00:19:43.672
- That the new land was better than ur of the chaldees.
- 00:19:43.672 --> 00:19:46.608
- He didn't study the housing market or the job market
- 00:19:46.608 --> 00:19:49.978
- Or the climate or anything else and say,
- 00:19:49.978 --> 00:19:52.247
- "i think i'd like to move there."
- 00:19:52.247 --> 00:19:53.749
- No, he went there by faith.
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- Look at verse nine,
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- This gives us great insight of what happened
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- Even after he got there.
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- "by faith," hebrews 11:9,
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- "by faith, abram lived as an alien in the land of promise,
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- As in a foreign land dwelling in tents
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- With isaac and jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise."
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- This is interesting,
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- Even when he finally got to the promised land,
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- The bible said, "he lived, he sojourned,"
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- That word means to live as an alien, not a citizen.
- 00:20:21.843 --> 00:20:26.181
- In the old testament times,
- 00:20:26.782 --> 00:20:29.051
- An alien was one step above a slave, had very few rights,
- 00:20:29.051 --> 00:20:34.189
- Was not really tied to the country that he went to,
- 00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:37.759
- And that was abraham.
- 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:39.261
- The whole time that he and sarah would live in canaan,
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- Did you know they never built a house?
- 00:20:41.396 --> 00:20:43.598
- They were wealthy, but they never built a house,
- 00:20:43.598 --> 00:20:45.801
- They lived in tents.
- 00:20:45.801 --> 00:20:47.336
- They never bought a piece of property
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- Except to be buried on.
- 00:20:49.438 --> 00:20:51.606
- Why would they do that?
- 00:20:51.606 --> 00:20:52.908
- Why would they live such detached lives?
- 00:20:52.908 --> 00:20:55.010
- Verse 10 says, "for he, abraham,
- 00:20:55.010 --> 00:20:57.679
- Was looking for the city
- 00:20:57.679 --> 00:20:59.247
- Which has foundations whose architect and builder is god."
- 00:20:59.247 --> 00:21:04.386
- Abraham was looking for a better city, a more lasting city,
- 00:21:05.520 --> 00:21:08.657
- He was looking for that new jerusalem,
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- He knew that's where his reward would be.
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- Let me just say this as simply as possible.
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- You know what it means to walk by faith?
- 00:21:18.667 --> 00:21:21.203
- Walk by faith means taking that next step,
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- Even when you can't see the outcome,
- 00:21:27.275 --> 00:21:29.277
- Taking the next step you know god wants you to take.
- 00:21:30.345 --> 00:21:33.482
- There are some of you right now
- 00:21:34.116 --> 00:21:35.350
- Who are living in a fog of confusion,
- 00:21:35.350 --> 00:21:39.187
- Maybe about your profession,
- 00:21:39.187 --> 00:21:41.056
- About your marriage, about your children.
- 00:21:41.923 --> 00:21:45.994
- And this pandemic has even thickened that fog.
- 00:21:45.994 --> 00:21:51.233
- It's harder now than ever before
- 00:21:51.867 --> 00:21:53.335
- To see what's going to happen three months from now,
- 00:21:53.335 --> 00:21:56.805
- Six months from now.
- 00:21:56.805 --> 00:21:59.241
- God didn't call on you to see the future,
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- To know what's going to happen,
- 00:22:01.309 --> 00:22:02.577
- He's asking you to take
- 00:22:02.577 --> 00:22:03.879
- That next step in obedience to him.
- 00:22:03.879 --> 00:22:08.583
- Walking by faith when you can't see the future,
- 00:22:08.583 --> 00:22:12.788
- That's what abraham illustrates.
- 00:22:12.788 --> 00:22:15.690
- His wife sarah illustrates
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- Another aspect of submissive faith.
- 00:22:18.093 --> 00:22:20.996
- Sometimes submitting to god's commands
- 00:22:20.996 --> 00:22:24.266
- Means walking with god when you can't see the future.
- 00:22:24.266 --> 00:22:27.569
- But sometimes it means waiting on god
- 00:22:27.569 --> 00:22:30.806
- When you can't hear his voice.
- 00:22:30.806 --> 00:22:33.742
- I remember so well, in a previous church,
- 00:22:33.742 --> 00:22:37.879
- We were having a great ministry there,
- 00:22:37.879 --> 00:22:39.648
- But the possibility of going to another church opened up,
- 00:22:39.648 --> 00:22:43.585
- And amy and i were really considering
- 00:22:43.585 --> 00:22:45.353
- Whether or not to go to this new church.
- 00:22:45.353 --> 00:22:49.458
- And we tried to keep it quiet,
- 00:22:49.458 --> 00:22:51.326
- But we couldn't keep it quiet.
- 00:22:51.326 --> 00:22:53.528
- And other people in the congregation
- 00:22:53.528 --> 00:22:55.397
- Began knowing that we were considering leaving.
- 00:22:55.397 --> 00:22:58.733
- And so, i'll never forget,
- 00:22:58.733 --> 00:23:01.236
- A senior adult woman, very wise
- 00:23:01.236 --> 00:23:04.005
- She slipped me a note one day that i'll never forget,
- 00:23:04.005 --> 00:23:06.942
- She said, "pastor, remember,
- 00:23:06.942 --> 00:23:09.177
- Sometimes it takes more faith to stay in a place
- 00:23:09.177 --> 00:23:13.248
- Than to go to a new place."
- 00:23:13.248 --> 00:23:15.550
- And we ended up staying for a number of more years
- 00:23:16.551 --> 00:23:18.687
- And had a great ministry there.
- 00:23:18.687 --> 00:23:21.089
- But that's really true, faith doesn't always mean going,
- 00:23:21.089 --> 00:23:24.493
- Sometimes it means staying where you are.
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- ♪ music ♪
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- So here's the question.
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- [narrator] when was the last time
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- You heard god speak to you from his word?
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- Dr. robert jeffress believes that growing closer to god
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- Begins with reading your bible and spending time in prayer.
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- Make god your priority by spending quality time in his word
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- He chose to do it through the written word.
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- And that's why it's so important for you and for me
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- To set aside regular time to read the word of god.
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- [narrator] whether you've been a christian
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- We'll discover one thing
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- All of these men and women had in common
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- Is they believed god
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- And they acted according to their belief in god.
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- They did something as a demonstration of their faith.
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- [narrator] thank you for giving generously
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- To proclaim the practical, applicable,
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- Abraham didn't know where he would end up,
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- But that didn't stop him from moving forward.
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- Abraham trusted god and he was willing to follow god's plan,
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- In the same way god is calling you
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- To move forward even when you can't see the future.
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- Well, sometimes, faith requires not just moving,
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- But sometimes it requires waiting,
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- It means sitting in silence.
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- And next time i'll share a classic illustration
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- About sarah, abraham's wife,
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- Who longed to hear the voice of god.
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- Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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- In our series, "spiritual fitness".
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- You know, as they made their way to canaan,
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- They faced some real struggles, abraham and sarah,
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- "oh, i wish i could go back home."
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- Those who want to please god, walk with god,
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- Cannot afford the luxury of looking back.
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