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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Going Without Knowing (Part 2) | January 21, 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, and welcome again
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- To "pathway to victory."
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- When facing a major life decision with high stakes,
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- Wouldn't it be nice if god would simply come forward
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- And point you in the right direction?
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- Well, god rarely gives us a clear-cut answer,
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- But he does give us some principles
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- To help us make those decisions.
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- And today we're going to look at
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- Two well-known figures in scripture
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- Who illustrate how faith enables us
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- To submit to god's will for our lives.
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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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- ♪ it is well, it is well with my soul ♪
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- ♪ it is well, it is well with my soul ♪
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- ♪ o lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight ♪
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- ♪ the clouds be rolled back as a scroll ♪
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- ♪ the trump shall resound and the lord shall descend ♪
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- ♪ with my soul ♪
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- ♪ amen ♪
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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, everything familiar to them
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- To go to a place that was unidentified
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- At this point to them,
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- All because god said to go.
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- Perhaps you felt that kind of loneliness too,
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- The loneliness of moving to a new city,
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- Moving to a new church, moving to a new job.
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- Even though you're surrounded by people, you feel all alone.
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- That's what it took for abraham.
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- Why did he do it?
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- Let me tell you why he didn't do it.
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- It's not because he calculated
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- That the new land was better than ur of the chaldees.
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- He didn't study the housing market,
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- Or the job (laughing) market,
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- Or the climate or anything else and say,
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- "i think i'd like to move there."
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- No, he went there by faith.
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- Look at verse 9, this gives us great insight
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- Of what happened even after he got there.
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- "by faith," hebrews 11:9, "by faith,
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- Abraham 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.
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- In the old testament times,
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- An alien was one step above a slave, had very few rights,
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- Was not really tied to the country that he went to,
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- And that was abraham.
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- The whole time that he and sarah would live in canaan,
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- Did you know they never built a house?
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- They were wealthy, but they never built a house,
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- They lived in tents.
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- They never bought a piece of property,
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- Except to be buried on.
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- Why would they do that?
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- Why would they live such detached lives?
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- Verse 10 says, "for he, abraham, was looking for the city
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- Which has foundations whose architect and builder is god."
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- Abraham was looking for a better city, a more lasting city.
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- 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?
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- Walk by faith means taking that next step,
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- Even when you can't see the outcome.
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- Taking the next step you know god wants you to take.
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- There's some of you right now
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- Who are living in a fog of confusion,
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- Maybe about your profession, about your marriage,
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- About your children.
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- And this pandemic has even thickened that fog.
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- It's harder now than ever before
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- To see what's going to happen three months from now,
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- Six months from now.
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- God isn't calling you to see the future,
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- To know what's going to happen.
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- He's asking you to take that next step
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- In obedience to him,
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- Walking by faith when you can't see the future.
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- That's what abraham illustrates.
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- His wife sarah illustrates another aspect
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- Of submissive faith.
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- Sometimes submitting to god's commands
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- Means walking with god when you can't see the future.
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- But sometimes it means waiting on god
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- When you can't hear his voice.
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- I remember so well in a previous church,
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- We were having a great ministry there,
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- But the possibility of going to another church opened up,
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- And amy and i were really considering
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- Whether or not to go to this new church.
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- And we tried to keep it quiet,
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- But we couldn't keep it quiet.
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- And other people in the congregation
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- Began knowing that we were considering leaving.
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- And so i'll never forget, a senior adult woman, very wise,
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- She slipped me a note one day that i'll never forget.
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- She said, "pastor, remember,
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- Sometimes it takes more faith to stay in a place
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- Than to go to a new place."
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- And we ended up staying for a number of more years,
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- And had a great ministry there.
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- But that's really true, faith doesn't always mean going.
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- Sometimes it means staying where you are,
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- Staying in that job, staying in that marriage,
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- Staying in that church, or wherever god has you.
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- Waiting on god without hearing,
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- Sarah's a great illustration of that.
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- Look at verses 11 and 12, "by faith,
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- Even sarah herself received ability to conceive,
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- Even beyond the proper time of life,
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- Since she considered him faithful who had promised.
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- Therefore there was born even of one man, abraham,
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- And him as good as dead at that,
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- As many descendants as the stars of heaven in number,
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- And innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore."
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- When this promise came that abraham and sarah
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- Were going to be the progenitors of a great nation,
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- Abraham was 75 years old.
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- Sarah was 65 years old.
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- Now to be honest, their faith wavered at times,
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- Like the time that abraham and sarah
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- Decided to fulfill god's promise in their way,
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- By having abraham have relations with haggai,
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- The maid servant of sarai, and that didn't work out well.
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- That was a complete disaster.
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- Then there was the time the angelic visitors came,
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- And announced that in the very next year,
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- Sarah, when she was 90 years old, would give birth,
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- And she laughed at god.
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- Yeah, they had some momentary lapses in their faith,
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- But they still believed god most of the time.
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- By the way, aren't you glad that god doesn't judge us
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- By one or two slip ups in our life?
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- That he doesn't judge us because we stumble here and there?
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- Instead, god evaluates our life
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- By the general direction in which we're headed.
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- Are we headed toward god, are we headed away from god?
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- Abraham and sarah believed god,
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- Even though they had lapses of faith.
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- And you have to understand what a tremendous thing it was
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- To believe god.
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- I mean today, for a woman to have a baby when she's 60,
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- I mean that's thought of as just outrageous, miraculous,
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- It doesn't happen.
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- Imagine a 90-year-old woman having a baby?
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- I mean that would be something for the supermarket tabloid,
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- Right below the latest sighting of elvis presley.
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- I mean, you just don't hear about that,
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- 90-year-old women having babies.
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- And think about abraham, abraham, 100 years of age.
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- The bible says in verse 12, "he was as good as dead."
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- (congregation laughing)
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- Now, some of you ladies know what it means
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- To be married to somebody who is as good as dead.
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- (congregation laughing)
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- You can't tell the difference, that was sarah.
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- Doesn't god have a great sense of humor?
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- But god said when they were 75 and 65,
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- "you are going to be parents."
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- He gave the promise, and then they didn't hear another word
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- The next year, the next year, the next year,
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- Until the year before the birth.
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- They waited 24 years, believed god
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- Without ever hearing a word from god.
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- Waiting on god when he is silent,
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- Some of you know what that's like as well.
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- You're waiting on god
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- To do something miraculous in your life.
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- You're waiting on god to turn your child
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- Or grandchild's heart back to the lord again.
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- You're waiting on god to change the heart
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- Of your husband or wife toward you.
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- You're waiting on god to bring healing to yourself,
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- Or somebody you care about.
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- Faith means believing god will do
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- What he has promised to do, and acting accordingly.
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- And sometimes acting accordingly means waiting on god.
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- Abraham demonstrates that a submissive faith
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- Walks with god when you can't see the future.
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- Sarah illustrates that submissive faith
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- Means waiting on god when you can't hear his voice.
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- Why were abraham and sarah
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- Able to exercise this kind of profound faith?
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- Remember, they had no bible old or new testament.
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- They didn't have thousands of years of church history,
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- Of men and women who had gone before them.
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- What is it that allowed them
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- To exercise this invaluable quality of faith?
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- Remember hebrews 11:6, "without faith,
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- It's impossible to please god."
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- How did they do it?
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- Let me give you three reasons
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- They were able to exercise a submissive obedient faith.
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- Number one, they released their grip on the present.
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- They released their grip on the present.
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- Look at verses 13 and 14,
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- "all these died in faith without receiving the promises.
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- But having seen them,
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- And having welcomed them from a distance,
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- And having confessed that they were strangers
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- And exiles on the earth.
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- For those who say such things make it clear
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- That they are seeking a country of their own."
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- Even after they arrived in the promised land,
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- They never got too comfortable there.
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- They never built the house,
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- They never owned the property, why?
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- They knew this world is not their home,
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- They were just passing through.
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- And they realized how easily their lives could be uprooted.
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- After all, when they were 60 and 50,
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- God had uprooted them from the ur of the chaldees.
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- How did they know god wouldn't do
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- The same thing to them again?
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- They knew the best way to go through life
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- Walking with god is to hold on to life loosely,
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- Holding onto their possessions, their plans loosely.
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- That's why they were able to walk with faith.
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- They released their grip on their present circumstances.
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- Paul said it this way in philippians 3:20,
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- "for our citizenship is in heaven,
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- From which we eagerly await for a savior,
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- The lord jesus christ."
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- Our citizenship is up there.
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- Now, some christians take that to the extreme.
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- They think because our citizenship is up there,
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- We can forsake all our responsibilities here.
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- No, we live on earth too.
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- We have responsibilities to our family,
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- To our work, to our government.
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- We have responsibilities,
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- But we're never to get too tied up
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- With those responsibilities,
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- To the point that we forget where our real citizenship is.
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- You know, every now and then we get a reminder
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- That helps us loosen our grip on the present.
- 00:15:42.186 --> 00:15:45.189
- Have you ever had a doctor say,
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- "there's something suspicious on that x-ray.
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- We need to run some more tests."
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- And sometimes you go for weeks or days
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- Wondering what the outcome is going to be.
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- When you're confronted with the possibility of your death,
- 00:16:02.640 --> 00:16:05.710
- It's interesting how those things
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- That seemed urgent are now unimportant.
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- And those things a few days earlier
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- That had seemed unimportant now seem urgent.
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- That's what the possibility of death does for you.
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- It makes you prioritize the things that are essential.
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- I think one of the benefits, frankly, of this pandemic
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- Has been that it's cut through the illusion
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- That we're in control of our life.
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- It was just an illusion anyway, we don't control our life.
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- We've been forced to confront our own mortality.
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- It's helped us release our grip
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- On our present circumstances.
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- That's key to walking or waiting in faith.
- 00:16:44.515 --> 00:16:48.386
- But not only did they release their grip on the present,
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- Secondly, they renounced their past.
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- Look at verse 15, "and indeed,
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- If they had been thinking of that country
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- From which they went out,
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- They could have had an opportunity to return."
- 00:16:59.964 --> 00:17:02.900
- You know, as they made their way to canaan,
- 00:17:03.801 --> 00:17:05.236
- They faced some real struggles, abraham and sarah.
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- And it would've been tempting to think,
- 00:17:08.506 --> 00:17:09.974
- "oh, for the good old days of ur of the chaldees,
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- How i long for being with my friends
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- And fellow idol worshipers.
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- How i wish i could go back home."
- 00:17:19.016 --> 00:17:22.320
- That's a common temptation for anybody
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- Who's trying to walk forward in faith.
- 00:17:24.856 --> 00:17:27.558
- I think about that song that our friends, the hoppers, sing,
- 00:17:27.558 --> 00:17:31.129
- "i've come too far to look back again.
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- There is nothing behind me.
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- All the treasures i used to love have faded from view.
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- There's a new day ahead of me.
- 00:17:40.138 --> 00:17:41.906
- All my heartache is over, for i left it at calvary,
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- Where my new life began."
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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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- For some of you, god has called you out of a certain city.
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- He's called you out of a certain profession.
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- Maybe he's called you out of a certain lifestyle.
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- Don't look back.
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- Don't long for the good old days,
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- Because frankly, the good old days
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- Aren't as good as we remember anyway.
- 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:17.375
- God wants us to set our hearts on the future,
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- And that leads to the third principle of submissive faith.
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- That is, abraham and sarah
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- Refocused their affection on the future.
- 00:18:25.716 --> 00:18:29.554
- Look at verse 16, "but as it is,
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- They desire a better country, that is a heavenly one.
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- Therefore, god is not ashamed to be called their god,
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- For he has prepared a city for them."
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- Their focus was not just on canaan, but it was on heaven,
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- The new city, the new jerusalem.
- 00:18:46.470 --> 00:18:49.140
- Have you ever heard the expression,
- 00:18:49.907 --> 00:18:51.776
- "people who are just too heavenly minded
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- To be of any earthly good,"
- 00:18:55.780 --> 00:18:57.481
- Have you ever heard that before?
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- People who are always thinking about heaven.
- 00:18:59.383 --> 00:19:02.153
- There's no such thing as a person
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- Who thinks too much about heaven.
- 00:19:04.488 --> 00:19:06.991
- In fact, c.s. lewis said,
- 00:19:06.991 --> 00:19:08.559
- "the problem is not that we think too much about heaven,
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- It's that we think too little of it."
- 00:19:11.629 --> 00:19:14.565
- And he went on to say, "history has shown
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- That those who have made the greatest for god
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- Are those who thought most about the next life,
- 00:19:19.237 --> 00:19:24.809
- While doing the most in this life."
- 00:19:25.576 --> 00:19:28.512
- And that was the secret to abraham and sarah,
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- They were focusing on the future.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, before you will ever refocus
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- Your affection on the future,
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- There is an issue you have to get settled in your heart
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- Once and for all.
- 00:19:44.061 --> 00:19:45.863
- Are you living your life to please yourself?
- 00:19:46.764 --> 00:19:51.869
- Or are you living your life to please jesus christ?
- 00:19:52.903 --> 00:19:57.508
- Is the focus of your life
- 00:19:57.508 --> 00:19:59.310
- On acquiring as many possessions, and achievements,
- 00:19:59.310 --> 00:20:04.048
- And pleasures as you possibly can?
- 00:20:04.048 --> 00:20:06.651
- Or is the focus of your life doing everything you can
- 00:20:07.685 --> 00:20:11.555
- To build the kingdom of god?
- 00:20:11.555 --> 00:20:13.858
- Your focus is one or the other, it can't be both.
- 00:20:14.792 --> 00:20:19.530
- You know, when i think about this idea
- 00:20:20.364 --> 00:20:23.034
- Of abraham and sarah focusing on the future,
- 00:20:23.034 --> 00:20:26.237
- Because they believe that god is a rewarder
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- Of those who diligently follow after him,
- 00:20:29.040 --> 00:20:31.609
- When i think about that,
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- I think about the scottish brothers,
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- John and david livingstone,
- 00:20:34.912 --> 00:20:36.547
- Who lived more than 200 years ago.
- 00:20:36.547 --> 00:20:39.917
- John livingstone had as his life's goal
- 00:20:40.751 --> 00:20:44.689
- To accumulate as much money as he possibly could.
- 00:20:44.689 --> 00:20:49.160
- And he did, he achieved a pile of money with his life.
- 00:20:49.160 --> 00:20:54.465
- But if you looked up the name john livingstone
- 00:20:55.399 --> 00:20:57.034
- In the old encyclopedia,
- 00:20:57.034 --> 00:20:59.170
- Remember encyclopedias, remember those?
- 00:20:59.170 --> 00:21:03.174
- (congregation laughing)
- 00:21:03.174 --> 00:21:04.475
- If you had looked up the name john livingstone
- 00:21:04.475 --> 00:21:05.609
- In the "encyclopedia britannica,"
- 00:21:05.609 --> 00:21:07.611
- It would've had one line about him,
- 00:21:07.611 --> 00:21:09.547
- "john livingstone, brother of david livingstone."
- 00:21:09.547 --> 00:21:14.819
- And who was david livingstone?
- 00:21:15.453 --> 00:21:16.854
- He was that scottish minister, missionary,
- 00:21:16.854 --> 00:21:20.991
- Medical doctor who spent his life in africa,
- 00:21:20.991 --> 00:21:24.695
- Died in africa, sharing the gospel of jesus christ
- 00:21:24.695 --> 00:21:28.165
- With as many people as possible.
- 00:21:28.165 --> 00:21:30.368
- Why would somebody give their life to do that?
- 00:21:30.368 --> 00:21:33.671
- Early in his ministry, david livingstone knelt before god
- 00:21:33.671 --> 00:21:36.907
- Saying, "i will place no value on anything i have
- 00:21:36.907 --> 00:21:42.246
- Or may possess, unless it's in relationship
- 00:21:43.147 --> 00:21:46.317
- To the kingdom of god."
- 00:21:46.317 --> 00:21:48.552
- Today, if you traveled to westminster abbey in london,
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- And look at the plaque above his burial spot, it says this,
- 00:21:52.256 --> 00:21:56.727
- "for 30 years his life was spent
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- In an unwearied effort to evangelize."
- 00:22:00.531 --> 00:22:05.636
- Why?
- 00:22:05.836 --> 00:22:07.204
- Because david livingstone
- 00:22:07.204 --> 00:22:08.439
- Was looking for that better country,
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- That more lasting country.
- 00:22:11.742 --> 00:22:13.911
- And like abraham and sarah,
- 00:22:14.512 --> 00:22:16.747
- He believed that god is a rewarder
- 00:22:16.747 --> 00:22:20.017
- Of those who diligently seek after him.
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- Yes, god rewards those who diligently seek after him,
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- And that truth is etched into scripture
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- As an irrevocable promise of god.
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