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Robert Jeffress - Walking With Your God

May 23, 2025 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - Walking With Your God
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Walking With Your God | May 23, 2025
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  • [narrator] 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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  • Some people think that all it takes to be a christian
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  • Is to spend an hour at church on sundays
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  • Or read a quick devotional every morning.
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  • But while those actions are vitally important,
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  • Truly living the christian life entails much more than that.
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  • Today, i'm going to show you four simple principles
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  • That will transform your relationship with god.
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  • My message is titled "walking with your god"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • (music)
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  • [narrator] the bible is filled with stories about heroes.
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  • But abraham rises above the rest
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  • As a true champion of faith.
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  • In "walking by faith," dr. robert jeffress shares
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  • How to step forward in faith,
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  • Even when the future appears uncertain.
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  • Your faith can thrive despite the challenges you face.
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  • Request your copy of "walking by faith"
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  • When you give a generous gift
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  • To support the ministry of "pathway to victory."
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  • A number of years ago
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  • I heard chuck swindoll recount an article
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  • On the advantages of walking versus running.
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  • The article said in part,
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  • "walking places less stress on your body.
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  • There is less risk of injury.
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  • And if you walk fast enough,
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  • Five miles an hour for 45 minutes or more,
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  • You can achieve just as much as if you were running."
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  • But it was the last sentence in that article
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  • That caught my attention.
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  • It said, "walking is not a glamorous sport.
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  • It has none of the panache of let's say mountain climbing.
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  • Walking sounds so humdrum, so pedestrian,
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  • But at the right pace and with regularity,
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  • It can be the best thing you can do for your body."
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  • Then chuck made this application to the christian life.
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  • He said, "christian living is not glamorous.
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  • Walking with god has none of the panache
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  • Of say miraculous healings or speaking in tongues
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  • Or being slain in the spirit.
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  • Walking with god sounds so humdrum, so pedestrian,
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  • But done at the right pace and with regularity,
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  • Walking with god can be
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  • The best thing you can do for your soul."
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  • You see, walking is the most common metaphor in the bible
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  • For our relationship with god.
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  • Over 300 times, the old testament uses
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  • The word walk or walking.
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  • For example, that well-known passage, micah 6:8,
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  • "what does the lord require of you
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  • Except to do justice, to love kindness, and to," what,
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  • "walk humbly with your god?"
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  • You find that same metaphor in the new testament.
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  • Ephesians 4:1 paul says,
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  • "i beseech you brethren
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  • By the mercies of god that you obey the calling
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  • With which you have been called.
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  • That you walk in a manner worthy of the calling
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  • With which you have been called."
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  • Not that you run,
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  • But that you walk in a manner worthy of your calling.
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  • Or colossians 2:6, "as you have received christ jesus,
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  • So also," what, "so also walk in him."
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  • Years ago, eugene peterson wrote a great book
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  • About the christian life.
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  • I'll never forget the title of it,
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  • "a long obedience in the same direction."
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  • That's what the christian life is.
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  • It's going the same direction,
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  • Obeying god over a period of time.
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  • And when you do that,
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  • You end up at your desired destination.
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  • What's involved with walking with god?
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  • I want you to notice from genesis 17,
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  • This account of abraham's life,
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  • Four components of what it means
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  • For you and me to walk with god.
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  • First of all, it begins with waiting on god's timing.
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  • Waiting on god's timing.
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  • Look at verse one of chapter 17.
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  • "now, when abraham was 99 years old,
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  • The lord appeared to abraham and said to him,
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  • 'i am god almighty.
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  • Walk before me and be blameless.'"
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  • Now i want you to underscore 99.
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  • His age of 99.
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  • There's a reason we're given that detail.
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  • The last verse of chapter 16 tells us abraham was 86
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  • When ishmael was born,
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  • And now it is 13 years later
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  • When god comes back and speaks to abraham again.
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  • Think about it.
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  • Abraham went 13 years without hearing from god.
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  • 13 years of silence.
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  • Frankly, we want to hear from god regularly, don't we?
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  • We seek after these immediate and frequent manifestations
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  • That he really is there.
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  • It's always been that way.
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  • And what i'm saying to you is
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  • The most important thing to understand is
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  • We need to wait on god.
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  • Part of walking with god means waiting on god
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  • To answer in his way and according to his timetable.
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  • Abraham learned that after 13 years of waiting
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  • To hear from god.
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  • Walking with god, secondly,
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  • Involves trusting in god's power.
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  • Trusting in god's power.
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  • Remember what god had promised to abraham
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  • When he was 60 years of age, he's now 99.
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  • But at 60 years of age he said,
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  • "i'm going to make you the father of a great nation."
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  • His name abram, that was his original name,
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  • Meant exalted father.
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  • He didn't have any children,
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  • But he was named exalted father.
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  • So he finally, after 15 years of a side trip to heron,
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  • Makes it to the promised land.
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  • And for 10 years he's in the promised land
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  • Between 75 and age 85 without any child whatsoever,
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  • But abraham never lost faith.
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  • He kept trusting in god for those next 13 years
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  • As he waited and waited and waited
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  • For god to answer his promise.
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  • I want to show you something interesting
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  • About abraham's faith, about his trust in god's power.
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  • Look at romans 4 beginning with verse 18,
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  • "in hope against hope abraham believed,
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  • So that he might become a father of many nations
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  • According to that which had been spoken,
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  • 'so shall your descendants be.'
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  • Without becoming weak in faith,
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  • He contemplated his own body,
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  • Now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old,
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  • And the deadness of sarah's womb.
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  • Yet with respect to the promise of god,
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  • He did not waver in unbelief,
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  • But he grew strong in faith, giving glory to god,
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  • And being fully assured that
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  • What god had promised he was able to perform."
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  • Notice two components of abraham's trust in god's promise.
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  • First of all,
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  • He focused on the bleakness of his circumstances.
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  • He trusted in the bleakness of his circumstances.
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  • Verse 19 says, "without becoming weak in faith,
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  • He contemplated his own body."
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  • Well, listen to me.
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  • Having faith doesn't mean you play
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  • Like you don't have any challenges or promises.
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  • It means accurately assessing your situation
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  • No matter how bleak it is.
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  • God had said,
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  • "abraham, i'm going to make you the father of a multitude,"
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  • And abraham gets up every morning,
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  • Looks in the mirror and says, "i'm going to be a father?
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  • I look more like a cast member from the 'walking dead'
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  • Than i do a father of a multitude."
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  • He looks at himself, he gets discouraged.
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  • He looks over at his wife,
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  • He doesn't find any encouragement there.
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  • She's 90 years old.
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  • As one person said, "her womb had become a tomb."
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  • She had no capability of producing children either.
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  • He was being very honest about his situation.
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  • Some of you right now are in some bleak circumstances.
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  • Your bank account is evaporating.
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  • Your children are still in rebellion
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  • Against you and against god.
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  • The health reports are getting worse and not better.
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  • No, trusting in god's power doesn't mean
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  • Denying the reality of your situation,
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  • But it means not only focusing on your bleak circumstances,
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  • But focusing on the greatness of your god.
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  • That's what abraham did.
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  • It says in verse 20,
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  • "yet with respect to the promise of god,
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  • He didn't waiver in unbelief,
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  • But he grew strong in faith, giving glory to god,
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  • And being fully assured
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  • That what god had promised he was able to perform."
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  • You see, whenever you look at your circumstances
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  • And you compare them to your own strength and ability,
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  • You're going to get discouraged,
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  • Because you're going to realize
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  • That your problems are bigger than you are.
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  • But abraham didn't make that mistake.
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  • Instead of focusing
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  • Just on his circumstances and his own abilities,
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  • He focused on the greatness of god.
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  • And you know what?
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  • He came to the conclusion
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  • That god was bigger than his problems.
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  • Do you believe that?
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  • Do you believe that god is bigger than your circumstances
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  • No matter how dire they are?
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  • Just ask yourself this question.
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  • What circumstance in your life
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  • Could not god change in an instant if he wanted to?
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  • God has the ability to perform.
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  • That's exactly what the scripture says about abraham.
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  • He believed that god was able to perform a miracle.
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  • I want to show you something very interesting
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  • I just discovered.
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  • Go back to chapter 17 verse one of genesis.
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  • "now when abraham was 99 years old,
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  • The lord appeared to him and said to him,
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  • 'i am god almighty.'"
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  • That hebrew word for god almighty is el shaddai.
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  • It's the first time it's used in the bible.
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  • Up to this point, god had been known as elohim,
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  • Which means the creator god,
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  • The god who made everything,
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  • But now god identifies himself as el shaddai, god almighty.
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  • In other words,
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  • He's not only the god who creates everything,
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  • He's the god who controls everything.
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  • It's one thing to believe
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  • That god in an instant created
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  • The sun and the moon and the stars and everything we see,
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  • But it's another thing to believe that the same god
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  • Who created the sun and the moon
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  • Controls the sun and the moon,
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  • And if he wants to,
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  • He can stop them in their tracks
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  • Just like he would do for joshua.
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  • The same is true for you.
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  • The deists used to believe that god
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  • Just kind of created everything,
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  • Wound it up like in the alarm clock
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  • And then left creation on its own.
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  • "no," god says, "i'm the one who's intricately involved
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  • In every detail in this world
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  • And every detail in your life as well."
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  • That's the kind of god that abraham believed in.
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  • What does it mean to walk with god?
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  • It means to wait on god's timing.
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  • Secondly, it means to trust in god's power.
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  • Thirdly, walking with god, now this is key,
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  • Involves listening to god's voice.
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  • Listening to god's voice.
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  • Look at verse three of chapter 17.
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  • "abraham fell on his face and god talked to him."
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  • Now, when we talk about prayer,
  • 00:12:10.953 --> 00:12:12.354
  • We're talking about our talking to god,
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  • And that's great.
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  • We ought to pray.
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  • Jesus encouraged us to pray,
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  • But where in your schedule is there time for you
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  • To allow god to speak to you?
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  • Not you incessantly saying,
  • 00:12:27.670 --> 00:12:29.071
  • "god, i need this, this, this, this, this."
  • 00:12:29.071 --> 00:12:31.207
  • "god, what do you want from me?"
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  • We need to listen to the voice of god.
  • 00:12:34.844 --> 00:12:37.479
  • How does god speak to us?
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  • One way he speaks to us is through his word,
  • 00:12:40.282 --> 00:12:43.052
  • But we need to be sure we're listening
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  • To the right things god is saying to us.
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  • Let me just mention four things
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  • God will talk to you about if you listen to him carefully.
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  • First of all, he sometimes talks to you about sins
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  • That need to be abandoned in your life.
  • 00:12:56.899 --> 00:12:59.768
  • Sins that need to be abandoned.
  • 00:12:59.768 --> 00:13:01.637
  • Is there anything in your life displeasing to god?
  • 00:13:01.637 --> 00:13:04.907
  • Remember what david prayed in psalm 139:23-24.
  • 00:13:04.907 --> 00:13:09.678
  • He said, "search me, o god, and know my heart
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  • And try and know my anxious thoughts.
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  • And see if there'd be any hurtful way in me
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  • And lead me in the everlasting way."
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  • David was asking god
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  • To take the spotlight of his holy spirit
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  • And shine it inside david's heart
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  • To see if there's any dark place,
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  • Any place that is displeasing to god.
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  • When you ask god to do that,
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  • I guarantee you god will answer
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  • That prayer 100% of the time.
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  • If you ask god to honestly point out to you anything
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  • That is wrong in your life that is displeasing to him,
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  • He will answer it.
  • 00:13:46.815 --> 00:13:48.117
  • Sometimes god speaks to us about relationships
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  • That need to be mended, that need to be healed.
  • 00:13:52.454 --> 00:13:56.158
  • That's what jesus had in mind in matthew 5:23 when he said,
  • 00:13:56.158 --> 00:14:00.796
  • "if you're presenting your sacrifices at the altar,
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  • And then remember somebody has something against you,
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  • Leave your offering before the altar
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  • And go and first be reconciled to your brother
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  • And then come and present your offering."
  • 00:14:13.042 --> 00:14:15.945
  • Now, people misinterpret this verse all the time.
  • 00:14:15.945 --> 00:14:18.781
  • They think jesus said, "if you're worshiping
  • 00:14:18.781 --> 00:14:21.050
  • And remember you have something against somebody else,
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  • Just leave your worship
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  • And go and see if you can shake an apology out of them,
  • 00:14:25.721 --> 00:14:28.290
  • So you can get back to worship."
  • 00:14:29.091 --> 00:14:30.426
  • No, that's not what he's talking about.
  • 00:14:30.426 --> 00:14:32.594
  • It's not if you have something against somebody else,
  • 00:14:32.594 --> 00:14:35.164
  • Mark 11:25, jesus said, "if you're in the temple praying
  • 00:14:35.164 --> 00:14:38.767
  • And you remember you've got something
  • 00:14:38.767 --> 00:14:40.369
  • Against somebody else, forgive him."
  • 00:14:40.369 --> 00:14:43.472
  • Right there in the pew where you are.
  • 00:14:43.472 --> 00:14:44.907
  • You don't have to go and talk to him.
  • 00:14:44.907 --> 00:14:46.408
  • You forgive him.
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  • You have the ability to do this.
  • 00:14:47.343 --> 00:14:48.978
  • No, this is a different situation.
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  • You remember that there's somebody
  • 00:14:50.913 --> 00:14:53.048
  • Who has something against you.
  • 00:14:54.016 --> 00:14:55.985
  • It's time for you to quit worshiping
  • 00:14:57.353 --> 00:14:58.854
  • And go talk to that person
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  • And seek their forgiveness to try to make a wrong right.
  • 00:15:00.689 --> 00:15:04.593
  • In 1 timothy 1:19, paul said there are two essentials
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  • For living the christian life,
  • 00:15:10.065 --> 00:15:11.433
  • Faith and a clear conscience.
  • 00:15:11.433 --> 00:15:15.437
  • You know what a clear conscience is?
  • 00:15:15.437 --> 00:15:17.339
  • It's the assurance that neither god
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  • Nor anyone else can accuse you of a wrong
  • 00:15:20.709 --> 00:15:24.813
  • You haven't attempted to make right.
  • 00:15:24.813 --> 00:15:27.383
  • It's not that they can't accuse you of a wrong,
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  • We all have done wrong.
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  • But is there anybody out there
  • 00:15:30.185 --> 00:15:31.353
  • Who can accuse you of wrong
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  • That you've not attempted to make right with that person?
  • 00:15:33.188 --> 00:15:36.759
  • That's what god will speak to you about,
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  • Relationships that need to be mended.
  • 00:15:39.061 --> 00:15:41.830
  • Thirdly, he might speak to you about gifts to offer.
  • 00:15:41.830 --> 00:15:45.467
  • In 2 corinthians 8, paul is encouraging the corinthians
  • 00:15:45.467 --> 00:15:48.504
  • To give generously like the macedonians.
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  • They gave not out of their riches
  • 00:15:51.974 --> 00:15:54.777
  • But out of their poverty.
  • 00:15:54.777 --> 00:15:57.112
  • In 2 corinthians 8:2-3, paul said,
  • 00:15:57.112 --> 00:16:00.349
  • "that in a great deal of affliction,
  • 00:16:00.349 --> 00:16:03.385
  • Their abundance of joy
  • 00:16:03.385 --> 00:16:04.653
  • And their deep poverty overflowed
  • 00:16:04.653 --> 00:16:06.755
  • In the wealth of their liberality.
  • 00:16:06.755 --> 00:16:08.457
  • For i testify that according to their ability,
  • 00:16:08.457 --> 00:16:11.560
  • And beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord,
  • 00:16:11.560 --> 00:16:16.098
  • And they first gave of themselves to the lord."
  • 00:16:16.098 --> 00:16:19.435
  • And then finally, are there commands to be followed?
  • 00:16:19.435 --> 00:16:22.805
  • That's one thing god will speak to you about,
  • 00:16:22.805 --> 00:16:25.607
  • A command that needs to be obeyed.
  • 00:16:25.607 --> 00:16:27.609
  • David prayed in psalm 119:34
  • 00:16:27.609 --> 00:16:30.412
  • "give me understanding of your word
  • 00:16:30.412 --> 00:16:33.415
  • That i may observe your law and keep it with all my heart."
  • 00:16:33.415 --> 00:16:38.520
  • David prayed "give me understanding of your word."
  • 00:16:39.788 --> 00:16:42.691
  • That's what psalm 119 is about.
  • 00:16:42.691 --> 00:16:44.326
  • It's about the word of god.
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  • Give me understanding.
  • 00:16:45.794 --> 00:16:47.296
  • Why? so that i might be a great teacher of the bible.
  • 00:16:47.296 --> 00:16:50.599
  • No, it's so that i personally may observe
  • 00:16:50.599 --> 00:16:55.237
  • Everything you've commanded me to do.
  • 00:16:55.237 --> 00:16:57.940
  • The words of one of my mentors rings in my ears
  • 00:16:59.141 --> 00:17:02.711
  • Every time i read that passage.
  • 00:17:02.711 --> 00:17:04.880
  • He said, "remember, god didn't give us the bible
  • 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.617
  • To make us smarter sinners.
  • 00:17:08.617 --> 00:17:11.653
  • He gave us the bible to make us more obedient disciples,
  • 00:17:13.021 --> 00:17:15.824
  • Followers of christ."
  • 00:17:15.824 --> 00:17:17.793
  • Are there commands to be followed?
  • 00:17:17.793 --> 00:17:19.728
  • Well, that's what god spoke to abraham about.
  • 00:17:19.728 --> 00:17:22.164
  • When abraham fell down on his face before the lord,
  • 00:17:22.164 --> 00:17:25.033
  • The lord gave him a command.
  • 00:17:25.033 --> 00:17:27.536
  • Look at verse 19 of chapter,
  • 00:17:27.536 --> 00:17:29.438
  • Pardon me, verse 10 of chapter 17.
  • 00:17:29.438 --> 00:17:31.807
  • God said to abraham,
  • 00:17:31.807 --> 00:17:33.075
  • "this is my covenant which you shall keep
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  • Between me and you and your descendants after you.
  • 00:17:35.144 --> 00:17:38.013
  • Every male among you shall be circumcised.
  • 00:17:38.013 --> 00:17:42.117
  • And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin,
  • 00:17:42.117 --> 00:17:45.988
  • And it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you."
  • 00:17:45.988 --> 00:17:50.959
  • Now, without going into graphic detail,
  • 00:17:50.959 --> 00:17:54.196
  • You understand circumcision is
  • 00:17:54.196 --> 00:17:56.131
  • The removal of the foreskin from the male organ
  • 00:17:56.131 --> 00:17:59.568
  • And actually that was an ancient practice
  • 00:17:59.568 --> 00:18:01.770
  • Long before abraham hit the scene.
  • 00:18:01.770 --> 00:18:03.906
  • Pagans did it and it symbolized various things,
  • 00:18:03.906 --> 00:18:06.742
  • But god took a formerly pagan exercise
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  • And attached a new meaning to it, a spiritual reality.
  • 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:15.317
  • Same thing with baptism, by the way, for christians today.
  • 00:18:15.317 --> 00:18:18.820
  • Baptism used to be used by pagans
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  • To identify with certain cultic religions.
  • 00:18:21.156 --> 00:18:23.892
  • God took baptism and attached a new meaning to it.
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  • It would be of meaning,
  • 00:18:27.729 --> 00:18:28.764
  • A picture of our death, burial,
  • 00:18:28.764 --> 00:18:30.632
  • And resurrection in jesus christ.
  • 00:18:30.632 --> 00:18:33.302
  • We died to our own way of living.
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  • We've been raised to a newness of living.
  • 00:18:35.571 --> 00:18:37.973
  • Well, in abraham's day, circumcision,
  • 00:18:37.973 --> 00:18:41.476
  • God changed the meaning to be an identifier,
  • 00:18:41.476 --> 00:18:44.780
  • To be a way of identifying with god's covenant promise.
  • 00:18:44.780 --> 00:18:49.084
  • It represented,
  • 00:18:49.084 --> 00:18:50.586
  • The removal of the foreskin from the male organ,
  • 00:18:50.586 --> 00:18:55.490
  • Was a picture of the removal of sin from a person's heart.
  • 00:18:55.490 --> 00:18:59.561
  • Of course, it was an outward ritual
  • 00:18:59.561 --> 00:19:02.164
  • That meant nothing apart from an inward reality.
  • 00:19:02.164 --> 00:19:06.168
  • Circumcision was an arrow that pointed
  • 00:19:06.168 --> 00:19:09.805
  • To what christ would do for us on the cross.
  • 00:19:09.805 --> 00:19:13.208
  • He came not to perform a circumcision of the flesh
  • 00:19:13.208 --> 00:19:16.545
  • But of our heart, to remove our sin nature from us.
  • 00:19:16.545 --> 00:19:19.915
  • Paul made that application in colossians 2:11.
  • 00:19:19.915 --> 00:19:22.918
  • He said, "and in christ you are also circumcised
  • 00:19:22.918 --> 00:19:26.188
  • With a circumcision made without hands
  • 00:19:26.188 --> 00:19:29.091
  • And the removal of the body of the flesh
  • 00:19:29.091 --> 00:19:31.193
  • By the circumcision of christ."
  • 00:19:31.193 --> 00:19:33.929
  • That was the command god gave abraham.
  • 00:19:33.929 --> 00:19:36.398
  • This is the first time circumcision
  • 00:19:36.398 --> 00:19:39.201
  • Was mentioned in the bible.
  • 00:19:39.201 --> 00:19:41.436
  • And that leads us to the fourth element of walking with god.
  • 00:19:41.436 --> 00:19:44.673
  • It's not only listening to god's voice,
  • 00:19:44.673 --> 00:19:47.409
  • To what he commands us to do,
  • 00:19:47.409 --> 00:19:49.378
  • But fourthly, it's obeying god's commands.
  • 00:19:49.378 --> 00:19:53.715
  • I wanted to show you something very interesting.
  • 00:19:53.715 --> 00:19:55.350
  • Look at verse 23.
  • 00:19:55.350 --> 00:19:56.585
  • How did abraham respond to god's command?
  • 00:19:56.585 --> 00:20:01.023
  • "then abraham took ishmael his son,
  • 00:20:01.023 --> 00:20:04.326
  • And all the servants who were born in his house
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  • And all who were bought with his money,
  • 00:20:06.928 --> 00:20:08.930
  • Every male among the men of abraham's household,
  • 00:20:08.930 --> 00:20:12.567
  • And he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin
  • 00:20:12.567 --> 00:20:16.305
  • In the very same day, as god had said to him."
  • 00:20:16.305 --> 00:20:21.310
  • He obeyed god completely and immediately.
  • 00:20:23.312 --> 00:20:27.883
  • He did it in the very same day.
  • 00:20:27.883 --> 00:20:29.518
  • Now, i'm going to walk on sensitive ground here.
  • 00:20:29.518 --> 00:20:34.256
  • Without being too graphic,
  • 00:20:34.256 --> 00:20:35.724
  • Let me just say, remember,
  • 00:20:35.724 --> 00:20:37.693
  • In abraham's day there were no surgeons scalpels.
  • 00:20:37.693 --> 00:20:42.030
  • There was no anesthetic, there wasn't even tylenol.
  • 00:20:42.030 --> 00:20:46.468
  • If you were going to do a circumcision, guess what you had?
  • 00:20:48.003 --> 00:20:49.905
  • You either had a knife or the sharp end of a rock
  • 00:20:49.905 --> 00:20:53.608
  • And no way to dull the pain.
  • 00:20:53.608 --> 00:20:55.610
  • You can understand if abraham might have been
  • 00:20:55.610 --> 00:20:57.946
  • A little reluctant to do this to himself
  • 00:20:57.946 --> 00:21:01.183
  • As well as to other people.
  • 00:21:01.183 --> 00:21:03.685
  • But he had an immediate response to what god commanded.
  • 00:21:03.685 --> 00:21:07.789
  • He obeyed god that very same day.
  • 00:21:07.789 --> 00:21:11.326
  • And we'll see the same pattern in abraham in chapter 22
  • 00:21:11.326 --> 00:21:15.864
  • When god gives him the hardest test of his entire life.
  • 00:21:15.864 --> 00:21:20.102
  • When he tells abraham,
  • 00:21:20.102 --> 00:21:21.136
  • "i want you to sacrifice
  • 00:21:21.136 --> 00:21:22.537
  • Your beloved son isaac on the altar,"
  • 00:21:22.537 --> 00:21:26.641
  • And the bible says the very next morning,
  • 00:21:26.641 --> 00:21:28.910
  • Abraham arose and took his son to the mountain of sacrifice.
  • 00:21:28.910 --> 00:21:33.448
  • This willingness to obey god completely and immediately
  • 00:21:34.783 --> 00:21:39.187
  • I think explains why abraham was known as the friend of god.
  • 00:21:39.187 --> 00:21:44.292
  • Do you remember what jesus said in john 15:14?
  • 00:21:46.261 --> 00:21:49.965
  • You are my friends
  • 00:21:50.766 --> 00:21:52.167
  • If you get all warm fuzzies when you worship me.
  • 00:21:52.167 --> 00:21:57.139
  • You are my friend
  • 00:21:58.607 --> 00:22:00.108
  • If you win people to faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:22:01.910 --> 00:22:04.279
  • You are my friend if you get baptized.
  • 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:06.581
  • He says, "you are my friends if you do what i command you."
  • 00:22:06.581 --> 00:22:11.686
  • How do you know if you're a friend of god?
  • 00:22:12.754 --> 00:22:14.423
  • Are you doing what god commands you to do?
  • 00:22:14.423 --> 00:22:19.161
  • That's what it means to walk with god.
  • 00:22:19.161 --> 00:22:21.997
  • Are there some things in your life
  • 00:22:21.997 --> 00:22:23.632
  • That god has told you to start doing
  • 00:22:23.632 --> 00:22:25.700
  • That you haven't obeyed yet?
  • 00:22:25.700 --> 00:22:27.469
  • Are there some things god has told you to stop doing
  • 00:22:28.770 --> 00:22:31.406
  • That you haven't stopped yet?
  • 00:22:31.406 --> 00:22:34.075
  • You know, somebody said,
  • 00:22:34.075 --> 00:22:36.478
  • "it's not the parts of the bible
  • 00:22:36.478 --> 00:22:37.846
  • I don't understand that bother me,
  • 00:22:37.846 --> 00:22:40.348
  • It's the parts of the bible i do understand that bother me."
  • 00:22:40.348 --> 00:22:44.920
  • For most of us, the problem is not a lack of information,
  • 00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:48.857
  • It's a lack of application.
  • 00:22:50.025 --> 00:22:51.827
  • And that's what walking with god is all about.
  • 00:22:53.595 --> 00:22:55.997
  • It's about waiting on god's timing,
  • 00:22:56.932 --> 00:22:59.701
  • Trusting in god's power,
  • 00:22:59.701 --> 00:23:01.503
  • Listening to god's voice and obeying god's commands.
  • 00:23:02.737 --> 00:23:07.442
  • Yes, it's pedestrian and may seem humdrum,
  • 00:23:08.577 --> 00:23:11.680
  • But it's the best thing you and i can do
  • 00:23:12.781 --> 00:23:15.250
  • For our spiritual health.
  • 00:23:15.250 --> 00:23:17.686
  • (music)
  • 00:23:17.686 --> 00:23:20.689
  • It's not enough to become educated about god.
  • 00:23:24.392 --> 00:23:27.696
  • That's nothing more than an academic exercise.
  • 00:23:27.696 --> 00:23:31.066
  • Know god wants to be in a relationship with you
  • 00:23:31.066 --> 00:23:34.436
  • And as part of that relationship,
  • 00:23:34.436 --> 00:23:36.271
  • He's asking you to trust and obey.
  • 00:23:36.271 --> 00:23:39.741
  • Well, at "pathway to victory," we hear from so many folks
  • 00:23:39.741 --> 00:23:42.611
  • Who tell us wonderful stories
  • 00:23:42.611 --> 00:23:44.579
  • About their enduring relationships.
  • 00:23:44.579 --> 00:23:47.182
  • Not long ago i received an inspirational note
  • 00:23:47.182 --> 00:23:50.085
  • From an elderly couple.
  • 00:23:50.085 --> 00:23:52.020
  • Roberta watches our television program in arizona
  • 00:23:52.020 --> 00:23:55.690
  • And she said, "pastor jeffress,
  • 00:23:55.690 --> 00:23:57.626
  • My husband and i are both 87 years old
  • 00:23:57.626 --> 00:24:00.829
  • And we are celebrating
  • 00:24:00.829 --> 00:24:02.097
  • Our 68th wedding anniversary this september.
  • 00:24:02.097 --> 00:24:05.901
  • All our lives we've gone to church,
  • 00:24:05.901 --> 00:24:07.836
  • But we can no longer make it there every sunday.
  • 00:24:07.836 --> 00:24:10.872
  • And so we deeply appreciate
  • 00:24:10.872 --> 00:24:12.641
  • That you make the tv messages available to us.
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  • [announcer] in the midst of our chaotic world
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  • Is it possible to find peace and contentment?
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  • Abraham did and so can you.
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  • In "walking by faith," dr. robert jeffress shows you
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  • How to make courageous decisions,
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  • Ones that are far outside your comfort zone.
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  • In doing so, god will prove faithful.
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  • Abraham was far from perfect.
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  • He made mistakes, including some really big ones,
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  • But through it all, he walked with god in faith,
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  • And you can too.
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  • [announcer] in this dynamic book,
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  • Dr. jeffress explains how to walk by faith
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  • In a faithless world,
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  • Squarely founded on the wisdom
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  • Gained from the story of abraham.
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  • If the story of abraham tells us anything,
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  • It doesn't matter how old you are,
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  • It doesn't matter how far you've drifted away from god,
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  • You can come back.
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  • Without question, abraham is one of the most,
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  • Faith filled men in the entire bible.
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  • Time after time, he demonstrated his trust in god,
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  • And every time abraham took a risk,
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  • God came through on his promises.
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  • Well, next time we're going to venture
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  • Into a controversial passage in the bible.
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  • It describes the destruction of sodom and gomorrah.
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  • This story reminds us that
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  • Although god's patience with sinners is real,
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  • It's also limited.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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  • In our series "walking by faith."
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  • God is patient
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  • And i want you to hear that today.
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  • He is loving.
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  • There is no sin beyond god's forgiveness.
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  • God is patient, god is loving.
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  • He is forgiving if we ask.
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  • But there comes a time
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  • When god draws a line in the sand and says, "enough."
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  • There is a time when the patience of god runs out.
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