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God Will Provide

Winning Walk with Ed Young

January 10, 2021

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The Winning Walk is the international teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young.

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God Will Provide

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Ed Young: The theme of thisScripture is Jehovah-jireh,
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God will provide.
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So, when I say Jehovah-jirehin 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.congregation: God will provide.
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"Now it came to pass after thesethings."
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After these things is where webegin 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 ofthe world.
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He climbed the top of MountEverest after an almost
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impossible climb up with hisfriend, his guide.
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Ice, storm, cold, rain, lackof oxygen, fatigue, slides.
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Sheer effort, he reachedthe top, the top of the world,
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29.002 feet.
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No human being will ever climbhigher than that.
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That's the apex.
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That's the highest that anyonewill ever climb.
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Unless you would climbthe mountain we're going
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up today, Mount Moriah.
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And we have two men, Abrahamand Isaac, Isaac meaning
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laughter, climbing thatmountain.
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And spiritually, Moriah isthe highest mountain you can
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ascend in the Old Testament.
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In fact, you move to the NewTestament, it is on the same
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Mount Moriah you found MountCalvary, 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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Jehovah-jireh.
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So we look at Genesis 22, verse1 says, "Now it came to pass
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after these things that Godtested 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 Biblebeginning 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 Urof the Chaldees
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between the Tigris and EuphratesRiver.
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A decadent place, a godlessplace, a pagan place.
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And God called Abraham to comeout 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 chapter11, he said Abraham was to find
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a city and to build a city whohas 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 wayto a promised land.
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And we read about it.
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Abraham was known as a friendof 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 waythrough the Bible.
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And we see he gotto 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 hebuilt his altar.
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Abraham always built his altarand 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'mgoing to worship," and then
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out of worship, "I'm goingto get all my stuff together."
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Built an altar, pitched histent.
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That was Abram, and what a lifehe lived.
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God blessed him.
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He was prosperous.
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Man, he fought battles to rescuehis nephew, Lot, and he went
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into Sodom and Gomorrah, and hetried to negotiate with God
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and be the mediatorso 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 himearlier and said, "Abram, you're
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going to be the fatherof a great nation."
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And his name then was calledAbram, which means big time
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father, foremost father.
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The angel said, We don't callyou that anymore.
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By the way, people meet Abramand 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'regonna name you Abraham, which
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means father of multitudes,father of many."
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And he said, "Well, what'syour name?"
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"Abraham."
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"How many children you have, youfather 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 fatherof many.
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He doesn't even have a singleoffspring.
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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 himand said, "Abraham, father
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of many, you're gonna have thatpromised son and he's going
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to redeem the world.
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He's gonna build a peculiarpeople who love me and
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follow me.
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He is going to be the progenitorof a whole new congregation
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of God-fearing people that'll goall the way through eternity."
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And Abraham said, "You know," ashe 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 littlelate for this.
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I don't know what you're talkingabout, 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 angelreaffirmed 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 thena 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 laughterand 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 himthe Messiah would come.
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What a promise.
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And then we see that he wastested.
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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 testthat was severe, overwhelming.
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Fortissimo, passionate test.
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The passion that Clay Walker haswhen 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 weknow this.
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And that's what the first versetells 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 thathappens 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 yourson, your only son Laughter,
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whom you love, and goto the land of Moriah, and offer
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him there as a burnt offeringon one of the mountains of which
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I shall tell you."
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Offer Laughter as a burntoffering?
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And a burnt offering, ladiesand gentlemen, they would take
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all of the animal, allof the animal, and put it
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totally on the altar, and letthe fire consume it completely.
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That was a burnt offering.
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And that's what God askedAbraham to do.
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Unbelievable, isn't it?
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Go take Laughter, thepromised one.
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And then we have, follow mecarefully, a conflict,
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a conflict between the promiseof 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 himon the altar as
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a burnt offering."
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So here's God's promiseand 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 visitingin Northern Ireland and she
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visited a sheep farm or ranch.
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And she saw there the shepherdwas taking the sheep and putting
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them in vats, vats that wereheld with all kind of medicinal
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oils to rid the sheepof parasites and other things.
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And she watched a shepherd takethe 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 whatthat sheep thought.
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Here's my shepherd now tryin'to kill me."
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Ladies and gentlemen, sometimeswhat we may interpret that God
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is trying to kill us, he'sreally trying to save us.
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So here we have a conflictbetween 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 manytimes.
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You have too, and you havethanked him for when he said yes
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to us.
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"Lord, I pray that this willhappen," and he said yes.
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"Lord, I ask that you wouldguide me," and he said yes.
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We thank him when we petitionto him and he says yes.
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But how many times have wethanked him when we petitioned
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him when he said no?
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If Keith, when he proposedto that girl and she turned him
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down, what if they had gottenmarried?
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Thank God that God said, "No,this isn't the one."
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Most of us could have thattestimony.
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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 dothis," and God said no.
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And I don't understand those bigno's in my life.
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You don't understand it either.
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But one day when we getto heaven, we'll look back
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and we'll understand when Godsaid no and we'll thank him
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for that no.
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When he says yes, it's easyto 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 Biblethat 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'snot 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 isto glorify the Lord and we do
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that by seeking himand understanding one thing,
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Jehovah-jireh.
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So we have the test, severetest.
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Take your boy, climb thatmountain, 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 breathtakingcommand, and look at the next
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verse here.
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"Abraham rose up earlyin the morning."
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Man, the next day.
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"Saddled his donkey, and tooktwo of his young men with him,
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and Isaac his son; and he splitthe wood for the burnt offering,
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and arose and went to the placeof which God had told him."
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By the way, after one of ourservices, Clay asked me, "Why
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did they cut the wood rightat the beginning of their trip
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and Laughter had to carry, 18years old probably, all that
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wood on his back all the wayup to Moriah, a three day
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journey?"
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And I said, "You know, I'venever known--"
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then I knew exactly why.
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This is a shadow of Jesuscarrying 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 hima burnt offering, a living
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sacrifice on that altar for yoursin 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 veryinteresting.
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"Then on the third day," versefour, "Abraham lifted his eyes
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and saw the place far off.
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And Abraham said to his youngmen--" two went with him beside
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his son.
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"And Abraham said to his youngmen, 'Stay here with the donkey;
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and the Lad and I, we will goyonder and worship, we will
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worship,"' and look at this, "wewill come back to you.
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We will go, Laughter and I, wewill worship, Laughter and I,
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and we will come back to you."
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But the command was to takeIsaac and make him--and burn
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him up and make him up aburnt 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 tomyself usually.
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It goes like, "Are there anyvalleys that seem to be
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uncrossable?
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Are there any mountains youcannot tunnel through?
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No, God specializes on thingsthat seem impossible.
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He knows a thousand ways to makea 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 bea burnt offering on
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this mountain.
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Now, we understand that.
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We read itthrough with jaundiced eyes.
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Soren Kierkegaard wrote a littlebook called, "Fear
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and Trembling," and in thisbook, Kierkegaard says he
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doesn't get this story.
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He's saying it's a horrificstory, a father asked to burn
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up his son.
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And he just says--boy, he talksabout the obedience of Abraham,
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how exacting it was.
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And a lot of people stumbleover this test, but it's because
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we don't understand itin 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 thinkindividually.
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They thought in terms of family.
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And therefore, when the headof the family would die, he
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would leave most or all of hisinheritance to the firstborn.
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Why?
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If he sorted it out to allthe individuals, they had 4, 5,
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6, 10, 12, 15 children, allthe power in the family would be
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dissipated.
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But if they stayed togetherand the firstborn would control
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that family and bethe progenitor there
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of the family, man, that gavethem--that's the way it worked
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in the Middle East.
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And you read in the Bible, whatwere the Jews taught to do?
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What were all the other culturestaught to do?
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You give to God that which isfirst.
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The fruit would come in, they'dgive firstfruits to God.
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The harvest, the grain wouldcome in.
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They'd give the first partof the harvest to God.
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And look there, rememberthe 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 Israelitesescaped that.
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How?
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Because a lamb was killedand a lamb became the substitute
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for the firstborn.
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And therefore, when Abrahamheard the call to present
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Laughter, Isaac, asthe firstborn, as a burnt
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offering, it wasn't like Godsaid, "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 notthe voice of God.
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I had too many falafelslast night."
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I mean, God wouldn'tdo that.
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"Abraham, I want you to gokill Sarah."
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No, God would never do that.
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But when he said, "Abraham, Iwant 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 principleof the whole posture that we
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work through here.
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See, a totally different thingto--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 woodof 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 twoof them went together.
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And Laughter spoke toAbraham 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 fireand 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 offeringis, and you're supposed to be
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the burnt offering," but hedidn't know how this was going
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to happen.
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"And he said, 'God willprovide for him the lamb for
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a burnt offering.'
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So the two of them wenttogether.
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Then they came to the placeof which God had told him.
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And Abraham built an altar thereand 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 powerfulthan 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 goingon and not what exactly was
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going to take place.
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"And he bound Laughter his sonand laid him on the altar,
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upon the wood.
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And Abraham stretched out hishand and took a knife
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to slay his son.
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But the angel called to him fromheaven 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 yourhand on the lad, or do anything
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to him; for now I know that youfear God, there you have not
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withheld your son, your onlyson, from me.'
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And Abraham lifted his eyesand looked, and behold there was
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a ram caught in a thicketby the horns.
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So Abraham went and tookthe ram, and offered it up as
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a burnt offering.
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And Abraham called the placeJehovah-jireh."
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You see what's going on?
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God knew the firstborn was to begiven to him and he says,
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"Abraham, you've taken littleLaughter and I want to make sure
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he hasn't taken my place in yourheart, he hasn't become an idol.
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He hasn't become what all yourlife revolves around this 18
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or 19 years you've had this sonof promise.
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He is the firstborn.
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I want you to take firstbornand submit it to me as a
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burnt offering."
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And Abraham--God sawthe willingness of Abraham
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and then God knew that he wasnow first place and nothing was
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ahead of him in the heartand the mind of Abraham.
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Beautiful thing.
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George Jagger, you mightremember the story,
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tragic story.
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George took his father and threesons 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 fillingin the boat and he had all
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the Jagger boys put on theirlife 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 hisyoungest die, his next son, his
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next son, and then his daddydied tied close to him.
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Nine hours later, he swamto shore, never cutting loose
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any of his family, though heknew they were dead.
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George Jagger saw, as a dad, allhis 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 onthat 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 timeswith his dad.
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He knew he could bethat offering.
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He knew he was a miracle son.
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He knew if somehow he was killedthat 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 livehis life on an altar.
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Parents, that's what we mustbuild in our kids so when
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the bottom of their lives fallsout or the bottom of our lives
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falls out, when we want Godto say yes and he says no, they
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will see that we have a firmfoundation on Jesus Christ that
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is beyond this lifeand 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 gripthe tightest, that which we make
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most important, most valuablefor us to go on, for us to live,
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whatever that which you and Igrip the tightest is that in all
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probability we need to giveto God.
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Because that which we holdon the tight--I couldn't have
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this without this.
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I wouldn't want to livewithout this person, this thing.
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Oh, that which we holdon the tightest is probably
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where the testing will comeand 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 giveto God we will receive back
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a greater treasure, hopefullyin 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: It is not always easy tokeep track
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I know this will become atreasured record
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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 hadfirst place in Abraham's life.
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Sometimes we are testedfor the same reason.
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God wants us to trust himand grow stronger in our
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daily walk.
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The good news is when we giveup control of our lives, he
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prepares you and me and equipsus to pass the most difficult
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trials with flying colors.
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Let me ask you apersonal question.
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When life's tests and trialscome 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 youand help equip you to win
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Thank you for watching today,and please join us again next
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