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Robert Jeffress - It Begins and Ends with Israel (Part 1)

April 8, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - It Begins and Ends with Israel (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - It Begins and Ends with Israel (Part 1) | April 8, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress, and welcome
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  • Again to "pathway to victory."
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  • From the very beginning, it's been clear that god has
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  • A special plan and purpose for the nation of israel.
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  • So what does the future of this ancient nation have to do with
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  • The future of the world today?
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  • The answer is everything.
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  • Today, we're going to discover how god's promise to abraham
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  • More than 4000 years ago, directly connects to his plan
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  • For our present and our future.
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  • My message is titled, "it begins and ends with israel," on
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  • Jeffress: i want you to imagine for just a moment that a friend
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  • Of yours says, "you need to get a copy of john grisham's
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  • Latest novel.
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  • It is a real spellbinder."
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  • And so you go out and purchase the book, grisham's latest
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  • Lawyer tale.
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  • And one night, before you go to bed, you decide to start reading
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  • It and you open it up in the middle of the book and suddenly
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  • You're confronted with names and locations that are unfamiliar
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  • To you.
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  • Who in the world are joan and jill and judge mills?
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  • And what are they doing in the caribbean?
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  • And why did bill just dump a million dollars over into the
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  • Ocean out of his boat?
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  • You're confused.
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  • And so to make sense out of it, you go to the end of the book.
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  • You're reading there in the end and suddenly the action has
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  • Shifted to a funeral home.
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  • It's the funeral of bill, and joan and judge mills are seated
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  • There, and joan leans over to judge mills and says, "you know,
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  • Bill shouldn't have dropped that million dollars over the boat in
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  • The caribbean."
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  • Judge mills says, "well, he didn't know the mafia was
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  • After him."
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  • You think, "mafia?
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  • Where did the mafia come from?"
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  • You're hopelessly confused and so you slam the book shut in
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  • Disgust and you think to yourself, "you know, old grisham
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  • Has lost his touch, hasn't he?"
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  • And i realize that analogy is about as subtle as a
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  • Sledgehammer, but it illustrates a very important point.
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  • And that is why so many people are confused by the bible in
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  • General and certainly by the subject of bible prophecy.
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  • You know, if you wanna understand the bible, you wanna
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  • Understand bible prophecy, the place to begin is not at the end
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  • In the book of revelation, it's not in the middle in ezekiel
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  • And daniel.
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  • If you wanna understand the bible and bible prophecy,
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  • You start where?
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  • At the beginning.
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  • You start at the beginning of the book.
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  • Now that makes sense, doesn't it?
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  • Well, that's what we're going to do today, as we launch into our
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  • Series, "perfect ending."
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  • "why your eternal future matters today."
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  • The way to understand prophecy is to start at the beginning.
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  • So, if you have your bibles, i want you to turn to the book
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  • Of genesis.
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  • In fact, the word "genesis" literally means beginnings, and
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  • In genesis, we find the beginning of everything.
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  • Now, when you think of the book of genesis, what comes to
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  • Mind immediately?
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  • You probably think of these great momentous events like the
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  • Creation of the world or the fall of man, or the flood, or
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  • The tower of babel.
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  • And yet all of those magnificent events we think about when we
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  • Think about genesis, you know, they're all compressed into the
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  • First 11 chapters of the book.
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  • If there are 50 chapters in genesis, all of those big things
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  • Are told in the first 11 chapters.
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  • It's almost as if god is saying, hey, by the way, this is how
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  • These things happened.
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  • It's an introduction.
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  • The theme of the first 11 chapters of genesis is man's
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  • Alienation from god.
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  • God created man perfectly, placed him in a perfect garden,
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  • Yet man chose to rebel against god.
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  • And in the first 11 chapters of genesis, you find man moving
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  • Further and further away from god until that climactic event
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  • In genesis 11, the tower of babel, man's ultimate defiance
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  • Of his creator.
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  • Now, at that point, god would have been completely justified
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  • In condemning man forever, allowing man to suffer the
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  • Consequences of his alienation from god.
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  • But god being rich in love didn't do that.
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  • Instead, he instituted a rescue plan for both mankind and the
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  • World that god created.
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  • And that rescue plan begins in genesis 12 and, write this down,
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  • The theme of genesis 12 all the way to the end of the bible in
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  • Revelation 22, is god's reconciliation with man.
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  • God's reconciliation with man.
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  • That's genesis 12, all the way to revelation 22.
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  • Now, god's rescue plan for man and his plan for the restoration
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  • Of the entire world, all centered on one man.
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  • His name was abraham.
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  • That's where the rescue plan began, with this man
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  • Called abraham.
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  • And the remaining 39 chapters of genesis have to do with abraham
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  • And his descendants, the beginning of this plan
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  • Of reconciliation.
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  • And so when we come to genesis chapter 12, we are introduced to
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  • Abraham and to the specific promise that god made
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  • To abraham.
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  • We call it the abrahamic covenant.
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  • It was the promise of redemption for mankind and for all
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  • Of creation.
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  • Now, to understand this promise, you have to understand the
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  • Context of the promise that god made to abraham.
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  • We're first introduced actually to abraham back in genesis
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  • Chapter 11.
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  • And when we come to genesis 11, we find abraham and his family
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  • Living in a city called ur of the chaldeans.
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  • Now, ur was a metropolitan city, much like london or new york
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  • Is today.
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  • I remember when i was in college, i went down to see amy
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  • At the university of texas in austin and i went to a display
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  • They had there: an archaeological display.
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  • I didn't spend a lot of time there.
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  • I had more important things to do, but i spent a little bit of
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  • Time there and it was an archaeological excavation of ur
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  • Of the chaldeans and they had all of these artifacts from ur.
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  • And when you looked at these artifacts, you quickly
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  • Discovered that ur was known as a center of mathematics
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  • And astronomy.
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  • But one thing archaeology has revealed to us as well is ur of
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  • The chaldeans was the center of idolatry.
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  • The residents of ur were involved in idol worship.
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  • Now, we wanna think that abraham was different from
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  • Everybody else.
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  • We wanna think that the reason god reached down and called
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  • Abraham, because unlike the other residents of earth who
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  • Worship false gods, abraham was looking for the true god.
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  • But that's not the case.
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  • In fact, the bible tells us that abraham was no different than
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  • Any other resident of earth.
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  • He worshiped false gods as well.
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  • You say, where do you get that, pastor?
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  • Joshua 24, verses 2 to 3, joshua said that abraham was
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  • An idol worshiper.
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  • Joshua said to all the people, verse 2: "thus says the lord,
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  • The god of israel, from ancient times, your fathers lived beyond
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  • The river, namely terah, the father of abraham, and the
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  • Father of nahar.
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  • And they served other gods."
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  • Doesn't say, "they, except for abraham, served other gods."
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  • "they served other gods."
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  • Abraham was an idol worshiper.
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  • So the question is, why did god choose to save abraham?
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  • Why did he choose to make abraham the focal point of his
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  • Plan for redemption for the world?
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  • It had nothing to do with the goodness of abraham.
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  • It had everything to do with the goodness of god.
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  • And there is a very important spiritual truth there for you
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  • And me.
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  • If you're a christian today, if you're watching this broadcast,
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  • Why is it god saved you?
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  • It had nothing to do with your goodness.
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  • It's not because god looked in your life and saw something
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  • Worth saving.
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  • It's not because god looked down the corridor of history and knew
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  • That if you had the opportunity to respond to the gospel,
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  • You would.
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  • God's choice of you, your salvation, had nothing to do
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  • With your goodness.
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  • It had everything to do with the goodness of god.
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  • Titus 3, verse 5, says, "god saved us, not on the basis of
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  • Deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to
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  • His mercy."
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  • Your salvation, my salvation, had nothing to do with me.
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  • It has everything to do with god.
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  • And that was true for abraham.
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  • God, out of his mercy, chose to save abram.
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  • And he gave this command.
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  • Look at verse 1, genesis chapter 12: "then the lord said to
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  • Abram, 'go forth from your country.
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  • And from your relatives and from your father's house to the land
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  • That i will show you.'"
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  • God was saying to abraham, "i want you to uproot everything
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  • You have, your family, your possessions.
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  • And i want you to move to a distant land that i will
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  • Eventually show you.
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  • You're to get up and you're to start moving."
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  • Now, think what that must have been to abraham to leave
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  • Everyone and everything familiar to him to go to this
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  • Unnamed country.
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  • I remember in our last church, amy and i had dinner one evening
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  • With a hispanic couple and they told us their story.
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  • Two years earlier, they had both been living in mexico.
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  • They had fabulous jobs, a large house, they had a child on
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  • The way.
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  • They said god spoke to them and said to leave their home and
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  • Move to the united states.
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  • They didn't speak at that time, one word of english, they had no
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  • Job prospects, but they said, "pastor, god told us to go,
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  • So we came.
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  • We left our house, we left with only what we could carry in two
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  • Suitcases and came to the united states.
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  • But eventually, after being here, we realized why god had
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  • Sent us."
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  • That's what god did to abraham.
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  • He said, "i want you to move."
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  • It didn't make any sense.
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  • F.b. meyer, the great biographer,
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  • One time said about abraham and this
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  • Command to leave, he said, "god's commands are not always
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  • Accompanied by reason, but god's commands are
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  • Always accompanied by a promise, whether spoken or unspoken."
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  • Some of you here today know what i'm talking about.
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  • God has given you a command.
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  • He's told you clearly what he wants you to do.
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  • Doesn't make any sense, doesn't seem reasonable, but god
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  • Has spoken.
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  • He said, "it's time to get up and move."
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  • Remember, whenever god gives a command, that command doesn't
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  • Always make sense, but it is always accompanied by a promise.
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  • That was true for abraham.
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  • And we find those promises that followed god's command in verses
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  • 1 to 3 of genesis 12.
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  • Look at it with me.
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  • "now, the lord said to abram, 'go forth from your country.
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  • And from your relatives and from your father's house to the land
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  • I will show you.
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  • And i will make you a great nation.
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  • And i will bless you.
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  • And make your name great; and you shall be a blessing; and i
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  • Will bless those who bless you.
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  • And the one who curses you i will curse.
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  • And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'"
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  • I want you to jot down here the three components of this
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  • Abrahamic promise or covenant.
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  • First of all, god promised to abraham a land.
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  • A land.
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  • Verse 1, "he said, 'go forth from your country to the land
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  • Which i will show you.'"
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  • God was saying to abraham, "i've got a piece of real estate for
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  • You and your descendants and it will be yours forever."
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  • Later in genesis 15, god gives us the geographical boundaries
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  • Of that real estate that was to belong to abraham and
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  • His descendants.
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  • In ezekiel 37 we find a further expansion of those boundaries.
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  • God said, "this is gonna be yours, abraham, and your
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  • Descendants' forever."
  • 00:12:50.092 --> 00:12:52.561
  • Now, we know from history that israel has never possessed all
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  • Of the land yet, that god has promised.
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  • We certainly know now they're not possessing all of god's
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  • Promised land.
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  • The time in history when they had the greatest percentage of
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  • That land was the 10th century bc during solomon's reign.
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  • But even then, they had not yet inhabited all the land, but one
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  • Day they will.
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  • That was god's promise to abraham and to his
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  • Believing descendants.
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  • And i don't have to tell you all of the conflict we read about
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  • Every day in the middle east when you boil it down to its
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  • Essence, it's over this promise, this promise that god made to
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  • Israel of a land that would be theirs forever.
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  • Either god meant it or he didn't mean it.
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  • I believe god meant it.
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  • And i believe ultimately god's gonna fulfill it.
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  • God said, "i'm gonna give you a land.
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  • Not only that," he said, "i'm going to give you a seed."
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  • He said, "i will make you a great nation and i will
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  • Bless you."
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  • He was saying to abraham, you're going to be the father of a
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  • Tremendous nation.
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  • In fact, in genesis 22, god expounded on how great that
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  • Nation would be.
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  • In genesis 22:17, he said, "indeed i will greatly bless
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  • You, abraham.
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  • I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens
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  • And of the sand which is on the seashore and your seed shall
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  • Possess the gate of their enemies."
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  • That is, abraham, your descendants are gonna be
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  • Innumerable like the stars in the heavens, like the sand on
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  • The seashore.
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  • That's how great your nation will be.
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  • That promise was amazing, considering the fact that when
  • 00:14:22.818 --> 00:14:27.089
  • God made the promise to abraham, abraham was 75 years old.
  • 00:14:27.089 --> 00:14:32.795
  • In fact, the writer of hebrews in hebrews 11:12 describes
  • 00:14:32.795 --> 00:14:36.165
  • Abraham at that time that god made the promise as being,
  • 00:14:36.165 --> 00:14:39.301
  • Quote, "as good as dead."
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  • Now, some of you wives know what i'm talking about.
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  • You look over at your husband, say, "he's as good as dead.
  • 00:14:48.110 --> 00:14:50.846
  • He's still breathing, but he might as well be dead."
  • 00:14:50.846 --> 00:14:53.482
  • Well, that was how abraham was.
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  • That's how sarah felt.
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  • He was as good as dead.
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  • Not only that, but sarah herself was barren.
  • 00:14:59.888 --> 00:15:02.758
  • And yet god said to this couple, you're gonna be the father, the
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  • Mother, of a great, great nation.
  • 00:15:05.861 --> 00:15:08.263
  • And thirdly, he said, "not only am i gonna give you a land,
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  • A seed, i'm gonna make you a blessing."
  • 00:15:11.100 --> 00:15:13.635
  • Genesis 12:3 says, "and in you all the families of the earth
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  • Shall be blessed."
  • 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:19.775
  • Now, this is obviously the climax of this promise:
  • 00:15:19.775 --> 00:15:23.579
  • A worldwide blessing abraham and his descendants would be.
  • 00:15:23.579 --> 00:15:27.916
  • What is god talking about?
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  • Some people say that he's talking about some general
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  • Spiritual blessing.
  • 00:15:31.920 --> 00:15:33.655
  • We know that three major world religions claim abraham is their
  • 00:15:33.655 --> 00:15:37.393
  • Father: islam and judaism and christianity.
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  • So maybe that's what he's talking about.
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  • In that sense, "all of the world is gonna be blessed through
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  • You, abraham."
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  • I don't think that's what god means at all.
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  • I think god had something very specific in mind.
  • 00:15:47.936 --> 00:15:51.073
  • He was saying, "through you, abraham, one is going to come
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  • Who is going to redeem mankind and reverse the curse that has
  • 00:15:55.944 --> 00:16:00.149
  • Been placed on this earth.
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  • Through you, abraham, the savior of the world is going to come."
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  • You say, "now, wait a minute, pastor.
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  • How do you get all of that out of verse 3?
  • 00:16:08.323 --> 00:16:10.926
  • Where do you find a promise
  • 00:16:10.926 --> 00:16:13.195
  • Of a savior who's going to redeem mankind in this simple
  • 00:16:13.195 --> 00:16:17.733
  • Phrase, 'through you, all the nations of the earth will
  • 00:16:17.733 --> 00:16:20.903
  • Be blessed'?"
  • 00:16:20.903 --> 00:16:22.271
  • How do i know that's true?
  • 00:16:22.271 --> 00:16:24.506
  • It's from the new testament, and the way the new testament
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  • Interprets this verse.
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  • You know, there are some people who believe that abraham knew
  • 00:16:28.944 --> 00:16:33.782
  • There would be some general blessing that would come through
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  • His descendants.
  • 00:16:36.819 --> 00:16:38.187
  • But he never really understood the true nature of
  • 00:16:38.187 --> 00:16:41.123
  • That blessing.
  • 00:16:41.123 --> 00:16:42.524
  • That's just not true.
  • 00:16:42.524 --> 00:16:44.026
  • The bible tells us abraham had a very clear understanding of what
  • 00:16:44.026 --> 00:16:47.629
  • This blessing would be.
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  • Hold your place here and turn over to galatians chapter 3.
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  • Galatians chapter 3, verses 6 through 8.
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  • As you're turning there, let me remind you of the setting of the
  • 00:16:57.372 --> 00:16:59.741
  • Book of galatians.
  • 00:16:59.741 --> 00:17:01.443
  • The churches at galatia were being infected by
  • 00:17:01.443 --> 00:17:04.513
  • False teachers.
  • 00:17:04.513 --> 00:17:06.048
  • They were called the judaizers, and the judaizers said this.
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  • They said: faith in jesus christ is necessary for salvation, but
  • 00:17:09.751 --> 00:17:14.690
  • It's not sufficient for salvation.
  • 00:17:14.690 --> 00:17:17.426
  • That is, you need to trust in jesus as your savior and keep
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  • The law, be circumcised, on and on and on and on.
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  • It's faith and works.
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  • That was the teaching of the judaizers.
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  • Today, you have the same thing.
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  • In fact, in most of christendom, you find the same thing
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  • Being taught.
  • 00:17:35.477 --> 00:17:36.812
  • Faith in christ is important, but it's not enough.
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  • To be saved, you need to trust in christ as your savior and be
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  • Baptized and partake of the sacraments and join this
  • 00:17:43.785 --> 00:17:47.222
  • Particular church and, and, and, and.
  • 00:17:47.222 --> 00:17:50.192
  • It's faith in christ and for salvation.
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  • Paul says no.
  • 00:17:53.529 --> 00:17:55.197
  • In galatians 1:8, he says, "if any man preaches another gospel,
  • 00:17:55.197 --> 00:17:58.901
  • That is another gospel besides faith in christ alone, let that
  • 00:17:58.901 --> 00:18:02.671
  • Man be anathema, let him be damned."
  • 00:18:02.671 --> 00:18:07.342
  • The bible says it is faith in christ alone that saves and to
  • 00:18:07.342 --> 00:18:11.647
  • Prove that to the galatians, he uses the story of abraham.
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  • Look at verse 6: "even so abraham believed god, and it was
  • 00:18:14.716 --> 00:18:20.689
  • Reckoned to him as righteousness."
  • 00:18:20.689 --> 00:18:22.824
  • Remember, he's talking to jews here.
  • 00:18:22.824 --> 00:18:25.160
  • He's saying, you wanna know how a person is saved?
  • 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:27.362
  • Let's go back to the father, our father abraham and see how he
  • 00:18:27.362 --> 00:18:30.265
  • Was saved.
  • 00:18:30.265 --> 00:18:31.633
  • Was he saved by faith and works and circumcision?
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  • No.
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  • Abraham believed god and it was reckoned to him
  • 00:18:34.703 --> 00:18:37.039
  • As righteousness.
  • 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:38.407
  • Verse 7: "therefore, be sure that it is those who are of
  • 00:18:38.407 --> 00:18:42.477
  • Faith who are sons of abraham."
  • 00:18:42.477 --> 00:18:44.980
  • Now i'm gonna talk about this more in the weeks ahead.
  • 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:48.083
  • To be a recipient of the abrahamic covenant and blessing,
  • 00:18:48.083 --> 00:18:54.189
  • You don't just need to be a physical descendant of abraham.
  • 00:18:54.189 --> 00:18:58.160
  • Being a jew by birth, by nationality, that doesn't get
  • 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.363
  • You anything.
  • 00:19:01.363 --> 00:19:02.864
  • The true sons of abraham are those who are related to him
  • 00:19:02.864 --> 00:19:06.335
  • By faith.
  • 00:19:06.335 --> 00:19:07.903
  • By faith.
  • 00:19:07.903 --> 00:19:09.271
  • The promise is made to god and to believing israel.
  • 00:19:09.271 --> 00:19:13.742
  • Be sure that it is those of-- who are of faith who are the
  • 00:19:13.742 --> 00:19:17.479
  • Sons of abraham.
  • 00:19:17.479 --> 00:19:18.814
  • Verse 8: "and the scripture, foreseeing that god would
  • 00:19:18.814 --> 00:19:21.817
  • Justify the gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand
  • 00:19:21.817 --> 00:19:26.555
  • To abraham saying, 'all the nation shall be blessed
  • 00:19:26.555 --> 00:19:30.826
  • In you.'"
  • 00:19:30.826 --> 00:19:32.160
  • It's that last verse i want you to get.
  • 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:34.229
  • What message was preached to abraham?
  • 00:19:34.229 --> 00:19:37.299
  • It was the gospel.
  • 00:19:37.299 --> 00:19:40.435
  • God preached the gospel to abraham, saying, "all the
  • 00:19:40.435 --> 00:19:45.274
  • Nations shall be blessing you."
  • 00:19:45.274 --> 00:19:46.642
  • In other words, abraham had a much deeper understanding of
  • 00:19:46.642 --> 00:19:49.778
  • The gospel.
  • 00:19:49.778 --> 00:19:51.246
  • It wasn't some general idea of a blessing.
  • 00:19:51.246 --> 00:19:53.849
  • Abraham understood the gospel of jesus christ, and abraham was
  • 00:19:53.849 --> 00:20:00.322
  • Saved, not because of his works, but because of god's grace that
  • 00:20:00.322 --> 00:20:05.727
  • Was received through faith.
  • 00:20:05.727 --> 00:20:07.129
  • Abraham believed god and it was reckoned to him
  • 00:20:07.129 --> 00:20:09.464
  • As righteousness.
  • 00:20:09.464 --> 00:20:10.799
  • Now, everybody, get ready to put your boots on, okay?
  • 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:13.368
  • We're gonna wade in some deep theological waters here for
  • 00:20:13.368 --> 00:20:16.571
  • Five minutes.
  • 00:20:16.571 --> 00:20:17.939
  • I promise we will make it to the other side, okay?
  • 00:20:17.939 --> 00:20:20.976
  • But this is so key to understand.
  • 00:20:20.976 --> 00:20:23.211
  • This isn't in your notes.
  • 00:20:23.211 --> 00:20:24.579
  • This is bonus, okay?
  • 00:20:24.579 --> 00:20:25.947
  • This is bonus.
  • 00:20:25.947 --> 00:20:28.317
  • You know, i'm asked all the time, "how were people in the
  • 00:20:28.317 --> 00:20:31.119
  • Old testament saved?"
  • 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:32.487
  • Have you ever been asked that question before?
  • 00:20:32.487 --> 00:20:34.056
  • Have you ever wondered, in the days before jesus christ came
  • 00:20:34.056 --> 00:20:37.326
  • And died, how were people in the old testament saved?
  • 00:20:37.326 --> 00:20:41.930
  • They were saved the same way you and i are saved.
  • 00:20:41.930 --> 00:20:44.633
  • Now, i want you to write down these three statements somewhere
  • 00:20:44.633 --> 00:20:47.169
  • On the side of your outline.
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  • It doesn't matter whether you're in the old testament or the
  • 00:20:48.537 --> 00:20:51.039
  • New testament.
  • 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:52.741
  • The basis of salvation is god's grace.
  • 00:20:52.741 --> 00:20:58.914
  • The basis of salvation is god's grace.
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  • Doesn't matter when you lived, we're all saved, not by our
  • 00:21:00.949 --> 00:21:03.985
  • Works but by god's grace, god giving us what we don't deserve.
  • 00:21:03.985 --> 00:21:07.956
  • The basis for salvation is god's grace.
  • 00:21:07.956 --> 00:21:11.093
  • Secondly, the means of salvation is christ's death.
  • 00:21:11.093 --> 00:21:17.065
  • The means of salvation is christ's death.
  • 00:21:17.065 --> 00:21:20.335
  • That is god's grace, his willingness to give us what we
  • 00:21:20.335 --> 00:21:23.338
  • Don't deserve, actually had an expression in time and history.
  • 00:21:23.338 --> 00:21:26.875
  • It occurred at calvary at the cross of jesus christ.
  • 00:21:26.875 --> 00:21:29.778
  • Romans 5 says, "god demonstrated his love toward us in that while
  • 00:21:29.778 --> 00:21:33.515
  • We were yet sinners, christ died for us."
  • 00:21:33.515 --> 00:21:36.451
  • Because of god's grace, god sent his son jesus to be the means of
  • 00:21:36.451 --> 00:21:42.224
  • Our salvation.
  • 00:21:42.224 --> 00:21:43.692
  • And when jesus died on the cross, that act by god provided
  • 00:21:43.692 --> 00:21:49.464
  • The opportunity for anyone to be saved.
  • 00:21:49.464 --> 00:21:52.534
  • The basis of our salvation is god's grace.
  • 00:21:52.534 --> 00:21:55.904
  • The means of salvation is christ's death.
  • 00:21:55.904 --> 00:21:59.708
  • The channel of salvation, number three, is our faith.
  • 00:21:59.708 --> 00:22:05.147
  • The channel of salvation is by our faith.
  • 00:22:05.147 --> 00:22:07.682
  • The way god's grace through the death of jesus christ applies or
  • 00:22:07.682 --> 00:22:12.454
  • Is applied to our life is through our faith.
  • 00:22:12.454 --> 00:22:14.790
  • But get this, we're not saved by faith.
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  • We are saved by god's grace.
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  • God's grace that was demonstrated by christ's death,
  • 00:22:19.795 --> 00:22:22.564
  • But we receive salvation through faith.
  • 00:22:22.564 --> 00:22:25.333
  • It was paul who said in ephesians 2: "for by," what?
  • 00:22:25.333 --> 00:22:28.336
  • "grace you are saved through faith."
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  • And that's what was true of abraham.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Jeffress: we've just barely gotten our feet wet in the
  • 00:22:41.817 --> 00:22:44.052
  • Waters of biblical prophecy.
  • 00:22:44.052 --> 00:22:46.288
  • And over the next few weeks, my goal is to make the entire scope
  • 00:22:46.288 --> 00:22:49.891
  • Of god's plan for the future clear to you.
  • 00:22:49.891 --> 00:22:53.128
  • Now, before we wrap up today's program, i want to share a note
  • 00:22:53.128 --> 00:22:56.965
  • From matthew in colorado.
  • 00:22:56.965 --> 00:22:59.367
  • He wrote, "i feel alone in a dark, decaying world that is
  • 00:22:59.367 --> 00:23:02.671
  • Soon coming to a screeching halt, and no one seems to be
  • 00:23:02.671 --> 00:23:06.308
  • Listening or paying attention to the signs around them.
  • 00:23:06.308 --> 00:23:10.145
  • There are a lot of false teachers out there and a lot of
  • 00:23:10.145 --> 00:23:12.781
  • People who are being misled by them.
  • 00:23:12.781 --> 00:23:15.550
  • Thank you for preaching and teaching sound doctrine!"
  • 00:23:15.550 --> 00:23:20.055
  • Well, thank you for that encouraging note and for those
  • 00:23:20.055 --> 00:23:23.191
  • Of you who support "pathway to victory," thank you for helping
  • 00:23:23.191 --> 00:23:26.728
  • Us reach friends like matthew who are craving to hear the
  • 00:23:26.728 --> 00:23:30.198
  • Truth of god's word.
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  • God is multiplying our partnership many times over as
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  • Men and women all over the world begin to hear the truth of god's
  • 00:23:36.137 --> 00:23:39.608
  • Perfect plan for the end times.
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  • Now, stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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  • Announcer: with everything happening in our world today.
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  • It's natural to wonder, are we living in the end-times?
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  • In his brand-new book "ask dr. jeffress about the end times,"
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  • Dr. robert jeffress answers the 20 questions people ask the
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  • Most about the future.
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  • Jeffress: in my 40+ years as a pastor, i've answered countless
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  • Questions about the end-times, and that's why i wrote this
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  • Book, to give you clear, biblical answers that will fill
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  • Our lord's return.
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  • Jeffress: the end-time events are going to be
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  • Very frightening.
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  • It's going to consist of economic turmoil.
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  • There'll be wars, there'll be unprecedented persecution.
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  • But fortunately christians don't have to fear that period
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  • Of time.
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  • Jeffress: the best way to understand bible prophecy is
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  • To start at the beginning, the very beginning.
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  • It didn't take long for mankind to turn his heart away from god.
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  • And when abraham enters the scene in genesis chapter 12, it
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  • Represents the beginning of god's plan to rescue us, a plan
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  • That is still being carried out today.
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  • Make sure to join us again next time when we look at three
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  • Characteristics of god's promise to abraham that are key to
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  • Understanding the end times.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series, "perfect ending."
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  • Jeffress: fact is, many christians will concede, "yeah,
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  • God made a promise to abraham.
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  • He made a promise of a land, a seed and a blessing, and god
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  • Intended for this promise to be fulfilled, but they rebelled
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  • Against god and they ultimately rejected christ.
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  • And because israel has rejected christ, the abrahamic covenant
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  • Has changed."
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part 2 of the
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  • Message, "it begins and ends with israel," here on
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