Ed Young - God Will Provide

January 24, 2025 | S25:E21

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - God Will Provide | January 24, 2025

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Ed young: the theme of this scripture is jehovah-jireh,
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God will provide.
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So, when i say jehovah-jireh in the service, you
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Will answer--
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Congregation: god will provide.
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Ed young: jehovah-jireh.
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"now it came to pass after these things."
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After these things is where we begin as we ascend mount mariah.
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In 1953, may the 28th,
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11:30 a.m., sir edmund hillary
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Ascended to the top of the world.
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He climbed the top of mount everest after an almost
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Impossible climb up with his friend, his guide.
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Ice, storm, cold, rain, lack of oxygen, fatigue, slides.
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Sheer effort, he reached the top, the top of the world,
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29,002 feet.
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No human being will ever climb higher than that.
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That's the apex.
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That's the highest that anyone will ever climb.
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Unless you would climb the mountain we're going
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Up today, mount moriah.
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And we have two men, abraham and isaac, isaac meaning
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Laughter, climbing that mountain.
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And spiritually, moriah is the highest mountain you can
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Ascend in the old testament.
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In fact, you move to the new testament, it is on the same
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Mount moriah you found mount calvary, and that's the highest
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Mountain anytime, anywhere, any place.
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Same mountain.
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Perhaps the same place.
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Jehovah-jireh.
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So we look at genesis 22, verse 1 says, "now it came to pass
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After these things that god tested abraham and said to him,
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'abraham!'
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And he said, 'here am i.'
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After these things--" what are these things?
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We read the chronological bible beginning in chapter 12, all
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The way through to chapter 22.
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That's the life of abraham, and what a life.
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Here he was at ur of the chaldees
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Between the tigris and euphrates river.
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A decadent place, a godless place, a pagan place.
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And god called abraham to come out of ur, and to go
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To the promised land, and to build a nation, a people.
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And you read in hebrews chapter 11, he said abraham was to find
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A city and to build a city who has foundations, whose builder
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And maker is god.
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Foundations.
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And that was a quest.
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That was the faith of abraham.
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He left everything he'd known.
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He left all the history, everything behind him, and he
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Climbed that mountain.
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He went there all the way to a promised land.
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And we read about it.
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Abraham was known as a friend of god.
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Let me tell you something.
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You can't do better than that.
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Who's your buddy? god.
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Who's your best friend? god.
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And he's known that all the way through the bible.
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And we see he got to the promised land with his
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Nephew, lot.
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And you read lot, notice this.
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Lot pitched his tent and then he built his altar.
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Abraham always built his altar and then he pitched his tent.
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We operate like that.
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We get our things together, then, "oh, yes, we're going
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To worship."
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Or we start off and say, "i'm going to worship," and then
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Out of worship, "i'm going to get all my stuff together."
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Built an altar, pitched his tent.
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That was abram, and what a life he lived.
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God blessed him.
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He was prosperous.
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Man, he fought battles to rescue his nephew, lot, and he went
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Into sodom and gomorrah, and he tried to negotiate with god
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And be the mediator so the judgment would not come
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Down upon those decadent, godless people.
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What a guy, quite a man.
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And the angel spoke to him earlier and said, "abram, you're
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Going to be the father of a great nation."
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And his name then was called abram, which means big time
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Father, foremost father.
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The angel said, we don't call you that anymore.
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By the way, people meet abram and said, "man, you're called
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Foremost father.
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How many children do you have?"
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He said, "not a one."
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Oh.
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Then the angel said, "we're gonna name you abraham, which
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Means father of multitudes, father of many."
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And he said, "well, what's your name?"
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"abraham."
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"how many children you have, you father of multitudes?"
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"i don't have a one."
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So, they'd see him coming.
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"there's abraham.
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He calls himself the father of many.
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He doesn't even have a single offspring.
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What a goose.
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What a joke."
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But abraham believed god.
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But the last time god told him and said, "abraham, father
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Of many, you're gonna have that promised son and he's going
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To redeem the world.
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He's gonna build a peculiar people who love me and
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Follow me.
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He is going to be the progenitor of a whole new congregation
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Of god-fearing people that'll go all the way through eternity."
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And abraham said, "you know," as he talked with angel, "it's
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Getting a little late.
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I'm 100 years old.
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My wife is 90.
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I mean, you know, it's a little late for this.
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I don't know what you're talking about, but by faith i'm gonna--
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You know, i believe ya."
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And abraham laughed.
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Don't know what that laugh was.
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Later on, another angel reaffirmed that promise,
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And sarah, behind the curtains, his wife, she laughed.
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She said, "i'm 90 years old.
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I'm going to have a baby?
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He's 100.
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My goodness, we--whoo, no, no, no, no."
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She laughed.
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But guess what?
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Sarah got pregnant and then a baby was born.
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And they named him what?
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Laughter.
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That's what isaac means.
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So they had a little laughter and they were thrilled.
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Unbelievable.
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Laughter.
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Now the son of promise.
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Now it is through him the messiah would come.
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What a promise.
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And then we see that he was tested.
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Fortissimo.
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These musicians know that word.
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It's a musical word.
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That's what the word "tested" means there in the greek,
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Fortissimo.
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It means with passion.
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It means with, voom.
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Man, all the way, it was a test that was severe, overwhelming.
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Fortissimo, passionate test.
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The passion that clay walker has when he sings, right?
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Fortissimo, that's it.
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And he was tested.
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It's important that we know this.
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And that's what the first verse tells us.
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God says, "abraham!"
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And abraham answered and said, "lord, i'm right here."
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And then we see the test that happens and it begins
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With a conflict.
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Look at verse 2.
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Then god said, "take now your son, your only son laughter,
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Whom you love, and go to the land of moriah, and offer
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Him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which
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I shall tell you."
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Offer laughter as a burnt offering?
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And a burnt offering, ladies and gentlemen, they would take
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All of the animal, all of the animal, and put it
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Totally on the altar, and let the fire consume it completely.
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That was a burnt offering.
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And that's what god asked abraham to do.
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Unbelievable, isn't it?
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Go take laughter, the promised one.
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And then we have, follow me carefully, a conflict,
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A conflict between the promise of god, "laughter is going
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To bring all the truth of god, the revelation of god,
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With a new kind of people," and now we have a command that
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Says, "take laughter and put him on the altar as
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A burnt offering."
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So here's god's promise and god's command, and they're
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In conflict with one another.
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How's this gonna happen?
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Jehovah-jireh.
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Jehovah-jireh.
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Elisabeth elliot was visiting in northern ireland and she
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Visited a sheep farm or ranch.
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And she saw there the shepherd was taking the sheep and putting
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Them in vats, vats that were held with all kind of medicinal
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Oils to rid the sheep of parasites and other things.
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And she watched a shepherd take the sheep, and put them
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In the vat, and put them down, and they'd come up, and he'd put
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Them down again.
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And she said, "i wonder what that sheep thought.
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Here's my shepherd now tryin' to kill me."
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Ladies and gentlemen, sometimes what we may interpret that god
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Is trying to kill us, he's really trying to save us.
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So here we have a conflict between the promise of god
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And the command of god.
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How does this work?
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How does this happen?
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I've gone to the lord many times.
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You have too, and you have thanked him for when he said yes
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To us.
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"lord, i pray that this will happen," and he said yes.
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"lord, i ask that you would guide me," and he said yes.
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We thank him when we petition to him and he says yes.
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But how many times have we thanked him when we petitioned
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Him when he said no?
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If keith, when he proposed to that girl and she turned him
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Down, what if they had gotten married?
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Thank god that god said, "no, this isn't the one."
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Most of us could have that testimony.
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We've gone to the lord and said, "god, you know, i know this is
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Your will.
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I pray believing that you do this," and god said no.
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And i don't understand those big no's in my life.
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You don't understand it either.
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But one day when we get to heaven, we'll look back
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And we'll understand when god said no and we'll thank him
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For that no.
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When he says yes, it's easy to thank him, but it is the no's
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That gets us.
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Let me tell you something, folks.
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There's nowhere in the bible that says that we're to be
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Healthy, wealthy, wise, prosperous, and live long lives.
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If you'll find that passage, would you bring it and show it
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To me after service?
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You can't find it because it's not there.
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God is in control of life.
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Some are brief, some are long, some are tragic, some are full.
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You see, our purpose is to glorify the lord and we do
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That by seeking him and understanding one thing,
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Jehovah-jireh.
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So we have the test, severe test.
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Take your boy, climb that mountain, make him a burnt
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Offering.
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And then we have the obedience.
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This is stunning to me.
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God gives this breathtaking command, and look at the next
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Verse here.
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"abraham rose up early in the morning."
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Man, the next day.
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"saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him,
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And isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering,
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And arose and went to the place of which god had told him."
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By the way, after one of our services, clay asked me, "why
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Did they cut the wood right at the beginning of their trip
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And laughter had to carry, 18 years old probably, all that
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Wood on his back all the way up to moriah, a three day
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Journey?"
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And i said, "you know, i've never known--"
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Then i knew exactly why.
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This is a shadow of jesus carrying his wood up that same
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Cross as he died for you and me.
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As the father offered him a burnt offering, a living
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Sacrifice on that altar for your sin and for my sin.
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They went up the mountain, and then notice this.
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This verse is so very interesting.
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"then on the third day," verse four, "abraham lifted his eyes
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And saw the place far off.
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And abraham said to his young men--" two went with him beside
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His son.
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"and abraham said to his young men, 'stay here with the donkey;
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And the lad and i, we will go yonder and worship, we will
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Worship,"' and look at this, "we will come back to you.
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We will go, laughter and i, we will worship, laughter and i,
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And we will come back to you."
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But the command was to take isaac and make him--and burn
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Him up and make him up a burnt offering.
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What's goin' on here?
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You got a conflict here.
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How does it work?
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I sing a little chorus to myself usually.
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It goes like, "are there any valleys that seem to be
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Uncrossable?
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Are there any mountains you cannot tunnel through?
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No, god specializes on things that seem impossible.
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He knows a thousand ways to make a way for you."
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So we have this conflict.
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We will go, we will worship, will come back.
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We'll come back?
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Man, isaac, laughter, is to be a burnt offering on
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This mountain.
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Now, we understand that.
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We read it through with jaundiced eyes.
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Soren kierkegaard wrote a little book called, "fear
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And trembling," and in this book, kierkegaard says he
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Doesn't get this story.
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He's saying it's a horrific story, a father asked to burn
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Up his son.
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And he just says--boy, he talks about the obedience of abraham,
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How exacting it was.
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And a lot of people stumble over this test, but it's because
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We don't understand it in the context of how abraham
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Saw it.
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Follow me.
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In that day, people didn't think individually.
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They thought in terms of family.
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And therefore, when the head of the family would die, he
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Would leave most or all of his inheritance to the firstborn.
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Why?
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If he sorted it out to all the individuals, they had 4, 5,
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6, 10, 12, 15 children, all the power in the family would be
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Dissipated.
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But if they stayed together and the firstborn would control
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That family and be the progenitor there
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Of the family, man, that gave them--that's the way it worked
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In the middle east.
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And you read in the bible, what were the jews taught to do?
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What were all the other cultures taught to do?
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You give to god that which is first.
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The fruit would come in, they'd give firstfruits to god.
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The harvest, the grain would come in.
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They'd give the first part of the harvest to god.
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And look there, remember the plagues in egypt?
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What was one of the plagues?
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A judgment on the egyptians, "your firstborn will be killed."
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Ooh, but the israelites escaped that.
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How?
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Because a lamb was killed and a lamb became the substitute
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For the firstborn.
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And therefore, when abraham heard the call to present
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Laughter, isaac, as the firstborn, as a burnt
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Offering, it wasn't like god said, "abraham, i want you to go
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To the tent and kill isaac, laughter."
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He'd say, "no, that's not the voice of god.
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I had too many falafels last night."
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I mean, god wouldn't do that.
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"abraham, i want you to go kill sarah."
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No, god would never do that.
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But when he said, "abraham, i want you to go offer isaac, your
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Firstborn, as an offering," he got that.
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He got that.
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He understood that.
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That's in the principle of the whole posture that we
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Work through here.
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See, a totally different thing to--and by the way, isaac,
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Laughter, got it as well.
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Look at the next passage.
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Oh, the passage of the lamb.
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"so abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid
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It on isaac, laughter, his son; and he took the fire in his
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Hand, a knife, and the two of them went together.
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And laughter spoke to abraham his father and said,
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'my father!'
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He said, 'here i am, my son.'
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Then he said, 'look, the fire and the wood, but where is
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The lamb for the offering?'"
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Abraham answered, "i don't know. i don't know."
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But he said, "jehovah-jireh."
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Oh yeah, jehovah-jireh.
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"i don't know where the offering is, and you're supposed to be
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The burnt offering," but he didn't know how this was going
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To happen.
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"and he said, 'god will provide for him the lamb for
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A burnt offering.'
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So the two of them went together.
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Then they came to the place of which god had told him.
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And abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order;
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And he bound isaac his son," 18-year-old, 19-year-old son,
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Much stronger and more powerful than his dad without
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Any question.
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Isaac knew he was the firstborn.
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He understood what was going on and not what exactly was
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Going to take place.
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"and he bound laughter his son and laid him on the altar,
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Upon the wood.
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And abraham stretched out his hand and took a knife
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To slay his son.
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But the angel called to him from heaven and said,
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'abraham, abraham!'"
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And the lord said, "i'm sure glad to hear from you.
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Here i am. here i am."
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And then look what happens.
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"and god said, 'do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything
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To him; for now i know that you fear god, there you have not
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Withheld your son, your only son, from me.'
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And abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and behold there was
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A ram caught in a thicket by the horns.
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So abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up as
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A burnt offering.
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And abraham called the place jehovah-jireh."
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You see what's going on?
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God knew the firstborn was to be given to him and he says,
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"abraham, you've taken little laughter and i want to make sure
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He hasn't taken my place in your heart, he hasn't become an idol.
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He hasn't become what all your life revolves around this 18
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Or 19 years you've had this son of promise.
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He is the firstborn.
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I want you to take firstborn and submit it to me as a
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Burnt offering."
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And abraham--god saw the willingness of abraham
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And then god knew that he was now first place and nothing was
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Ahead of him in the heart and the mind of abraham.
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Beautiful thing.
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George jagger, you might remember the story,
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Tragic story.
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George took his father and three sons out into the atlantic
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Fishing and a storm came.
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Six foot waves.
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The water was filling in the boat and he had all
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The jagger boys put on their life jackets, tied them
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Together, went into the ocean.
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They fought the waves.
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They couldn't make it to shore.
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The youngest son, cliff, at the bottom, he finally said,
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"i can't fight any longer.
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I'm going to jesus."
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And that father watched his youngest die, his next son, his
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Next son, and then his daddy died tied close to him.
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Nine hours later, he swam to shore, never cutting loose
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Any of his family, though he knew they were dead.
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George jagger saw, as a dad, all his father die and his boys die.
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And he saw them as they died, died with confidence because he
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Built into them jesus.
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Laughter got on that altar, why?
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Because he'd been on that altar.
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He had been a worshiper.
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He'd watched his dad worship.
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He'd been many times with his dad.
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He knew he could be that offering.
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He knew he was a miracle son.
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He knew if somehow he was killed that god would bring him back
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To life again.
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He didn't have any problem.
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He was taught to climb and live his life on an altar.
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Parents, that's what we must build in our kids so when
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The bottom of their lives falls out or the bottom of our lives
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Falls out, when we want god to say yes and he says no, they
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Will see that we have a firm foundation on jesus christ that
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Is beyond this life and beyond the suffering
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Of the day.
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Two little principles.
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That which you and i grip the tightest, that which we make
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Most important, most valuable for us to go on, for us to live,
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Whatever that which you and i grip the tightest is that in all
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Probability we need to give to god.
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Because that which we hold on the tight--i couldn't have
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This without this.
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I wouldn't want to live without this person, this thing.
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Oh, that which we hold on the tightest is probably
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Where the testing will come and that which we need to
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Give to god.
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Second word.
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That which we surrender and give to god we will receive back
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A greater treasure, hopefully in this life, but certainly
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In eternity.
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Jehovah-jireh.
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Jehovah-jireh.
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Jehovah-jireh.
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Ed: have you ever tried to read a historical novel out of order?
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It would be hard, if not impossible, to understand the
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Plot, wouldn't it?
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And yet, we read and study the bible in much the same way.
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Like a novel, the bible tells a story
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With a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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And when you read it in chronological order,
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You will see history unfold in a new and understandable
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And memorable way.
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Listen, in this new year, i want to challenge you
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To read through the bible in 52 weeks.
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When you give to the winning walk this month,
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At the end of 52 weeks, you will know and understand
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Like never before the full story of the bible.
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♪♪♪
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Ed young: in today's message, abraham faced the most
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Challenging test of his life.
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Now, why was he tested?
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God wanted to know if he had first place in abraham's life.
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Sometimes we are tested for the same reason.
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God wants us to trust him and grow stronger in our
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Daily walk.
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The good news is when we give up control of our lives, he
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Prepares you and me and equips us to pass the most difficult
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Trials with flying colors.
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Let me ask you a personal question.
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When life's tests and trials come your way, are you prepared?
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Would you like to be?
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Call the number on your screen.
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We would love to speak with you and help equip you to win
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Every battle.
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Thank you for watching today, and please join us again next
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Time on "the winning walk."
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Ed Young - God Will Provide

January 24, 2025 | S25:E21

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