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We all have within us the desire to leave a legacy through our offspring and Abram wasn’t any different. Genesis 15:1 reads like this,
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
Today we are going to be diving into this chapter to understand what the Lord was communicating to Abram and his descendants. Be sure to watch the video in its entirety
Scripture References:
Genesis 15:1-7
Ephesians 6:16
Jude 1:24
Galatians 3:6
Romans 4:19-26
Hebrews 11:12
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hello good morning this is tahi bottles
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account and today we are going to be
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diving into Genesis 15 we are just gonna
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cover verse one today but to cover verse
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1 we have to also understand a little
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bit of the background on both before I
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get into it there's one thing that was
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always on my mind like when I listened
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to her Jeremy Kemp song there's a song
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that he came up with I guess a little
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while ago and in the song he says I
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don't want to leave a legacy only Jesus
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and they cry of my heart as of late has
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been Lord I want my life to count not so
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that I'll leave a legacy so people
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remember me but what I want them to
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remember is you and your life through me
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in the sense that on my funeral which I
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know we are gonna die unless Jesus comes
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back before we go now I don't want
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people at my funeral to remember me by
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because I used to talk about snicker so
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I used to do certain things well you
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remember what I used to do but I wanted
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to remember that this is the man I love
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the Lord that's the legacy that I want
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to leave and if you look at Solomon in
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Ecclesiastes he said he has a main duty
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of men fear God
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fear God and shun evil in a cesta we
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exist to go if I got soul when I'm
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buried and what I want to leave his that
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and that's not because this is what the
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desire this is the desire that the Lord
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has put on my heart now is that's what I
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want to leave us a legacy that people
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remember him through me okay I just
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wanted to say that because it goes in
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line with the chapter that we're gonna
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read today in Genesis 15 verse 1 now
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this scripture starts with after these
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things let me go to let me exit out here
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real quick actually we just gonna go
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into the into the in the actual slide
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now when the word of the Lord came to
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Abram the very first statement that he
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made was in verse 1 of our Genesis is
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fear not Abram
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so that leads me to ask what could
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Abraham have been fearful of because if
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you look at chapter 14 he had just
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defeated cha da Lama and his army of
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three kings
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so what could really be at the root of
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Abram fear I don't think Abraham was
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fearing any retaliation from main but
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first to shed some light on what could
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be at the root of his fear Abraham was
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tied less he didn't have any children
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so Abraham might have been fearful that
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he will never have a child and
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consequently all his hard work effort
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and possessions will go to someone else
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that income from his own loins so he was
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concerned about his legacy just like
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anybody else who will carry on his name
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right and we all have within us the
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desire to leave a legacy through our
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offspring and Abraham wasn't any
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different because and the next statement
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that the Lord made was I'm your shield
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you are very your reward shall be very
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great so I'm gonna pause this for a
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second and we're gonna look at the so
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let's go back and read the verse again
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in Genesis 15 verse 1 after these things
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the word of the Lord came to Abram in a
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vision and he says fear not Abram I am
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your shield your reward shall be very
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great but Abram said Oh Lord God what
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will you give me for a continued child
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less and the heir of my house is Eliezer
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of Damascus and Abram said Behold you
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have given me no offspring any member of
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my household will be my heir and behold
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the word of the Lord came to him and
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said this man shall not be your heir
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your very own son shall be your heir and
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he brought him outside and said look
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toward heaven and Number the Stars if
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you are able to number them then he said
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to him so shall your offspring be and he
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believed the Lord and he counted it to
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him as righteousness so let's go back to
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the slides again because I failed to do
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that and I wanted to show you a couple
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of things here so let's go back to what
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I said so like I said we all have
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the desire to leave a legacy through our
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offspring and Abram was wasn't any
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different and the next statement the
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Lord made was I'm your shield your
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reward shall be very great
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now you think is this we need to
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understand the role of the fog avanti
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the function of his shield his shields
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main purpose is to guard and protect to
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serve as a covering and we are told in
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Ephesians 6 verse 16 in all
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circumstances take up the shield of
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faith with which you can extinguish all
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the flaming darts of the evil one right
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so in this case Abraham and Abram before
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I became Abraham had those flames those
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flaming dart from the evil one coming
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fear fear of what fear of not having an
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offspring that will carry on his legacy
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right so in that verse the Lord was
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basically saying to Abram hi my self
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will be your faith consequently your
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reward will be very great I want to
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expand on that and look at the doxology
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in Jude 1 verse 24 as it relates to
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guarding and protecting the shield okay
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the doxology says in Jude 1 verse 24 now
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to him who is able to keep you from
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stumbling and to present you blameless
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before the presence of his glory with
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great joy to the only God our Savior
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through Jesus Christ our Lord be glory
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Majesty Dominion and authority before
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all time and now and forever amen so
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basically the Lord was was declaring the
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gospel to Abram in those statements when
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he said fear not
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I'm your shield your reward shall be
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very pretty
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Abraham or Abram had everything anyone
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who desire as far as material
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possessions were concerned he had Carol
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servants silver and gold he was a
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wealthy man but he didn't have a son and
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if you stretch this tour
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a little more he didn't yet have the Son
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of God Abraham's physical problem being
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childless was meant to communicate a
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deeper truth in the sense that Abram and
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what Abraham truly needed was the Lord
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Himself
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hence the words I am your shield your
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very great reward the Lord and the Lord
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was telling him in me Abraham you have
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everything that you truly need
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I'm sufficient for you and for everyone
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to understand this truth of the gospel
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the Lord allowed him to be childless for
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a moment okay and Abram finally
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understood and his deeper truth since
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verse 6 and says abraham believed God
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and he was counted to him as
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righteousness in Galatians 3 6 there is
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some light shed on that again does he
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does he who supplies the spirit to you
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and works miracles among you do so by
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works of the law or by hearing with
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faith justice abraham believed God and
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he was counted to him as righteousness
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northern that it is not it is those or
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faith who are the sons of Abraham and
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the scripture foreseeing that God would
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justify the Gentiles by faith preached
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the gospel beforehand to Abraham saying
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in you shall all the nations be blessed
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so then those were of faith are blessed
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along with Abraham the man of faith okay
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you see how Paul is really explaining
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all these truths to us so Abram was
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given a promise by God and he believed
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and God read it early to him as
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righteousness
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Isaac was the child of promise and a
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shadow of the grew promise which is
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Jesus Christ Isaac was born by the
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promise of God because at it by the time
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as it was brought on board Abram was 100
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years old and Sarah's womb was already
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dead Berenice thus shown that Abram had
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nothing to do with the promise God
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performed a work in order dub
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Abram might be justified by faith and
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all his own works in Romans 4 verse 19
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and 26 we are told he did not weaken in
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faith when he considered his own body
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which was as good as dead since he was
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about 100
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or when he considered the barrenness of
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saris wound no unbelief made him waver
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concerning the promise of God but he
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grew strong in faith in his faith as he
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gave glory to God fully convinced that
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God was able to do what he had promised
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that is why his faith was counted to him
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as righteousness but the words he works
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it was counted to him when are written
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for his sake alone for four hours
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also you also if you a child of Abraham
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he will be counted to us we believe in
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him who raised from the dead Jesus our
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Lord who was delivered up for our
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trespasses and raised for our
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justification therefore from one man
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this is in Hebrews 11 12 him as good as
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dead were born descendants as many as
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the saw stars of the heaven and as many
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our state innumerable grains of the sand
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by the seashore what we learn the
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righteousness of God is revealed from
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faith and for faith from the beginning
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to the end of our earthly life when the
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word of the Lord came to Abraham and
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told him fear not
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Abram I'm your shield your reward shall
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be very great he was being preached the
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gospel jesus said in John 8 verse 50 see
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your father Abraham rejoiced that he
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would see my day and he saw it and was
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glad Abram indeed understood the Gospel
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according to Jesus himself and believed
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and God declared him righteous hence
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relieved by faith because without faith
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is impossible to please God faith comes
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from God he is our shield our very great
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reward so like I said this is like a
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there's a lot of things to remember here
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first the word of the Lord comes to
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Abram fear not I am your shield your
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reward shall be very great goddess type
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say into us fear not because he himself
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is our shield
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to who to those who are born and
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believed like Abraham our Father because
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Abraham is called the father of all
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faith so we believe just like Abraham
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and by and by our by the promise of God
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we become children of Abraham because we
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believe as he believed and then God
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can't get to us as righteousness so our
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righteousness come from believing the
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promise of God as the Holy Spirit
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Himself works in us to will enact
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according to his good purpose he
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presents the gospel to us and because he
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lives in us we respond with yes we
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receive it we received your promise
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Jesus because you yourself are is you
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are a very great reward God is all that
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we need this is what the scripture is
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there for us because in God we have
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everything that we need for life and
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godliness to our knowledge of him who
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called us out of darkness into his
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marvelous light you see that so God
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through His Holy Spirit does a work of
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regeneration in you so that you can see
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the gospel of Christ you can see the
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truthfulness of trash you can see the
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beauty of Christ you can see what he has
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done for you and then you respond by
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faith because God Himself was already
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predisposed you to respond by His Holy
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Spirit that indwells you this is this is
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just amazing to me to know that we are
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the true children of Abraham we will
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believe just like our father abraham
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believed because he set a stage for us
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so our belief comes and is parallel to
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Abraham's belief in the sense that we
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believe what God says and then we
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receive the gift of eternal life you see
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that this is just amazing to me that
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this was written for our sake we the
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children of Abraham so you are part of
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that promise if you believe just like
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abraham believed and I hope these
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descend you to read Genesis 15 verse 1
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in the entire chapter in multiple
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there's so much in there that I can't
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even begin to unpack because I don't
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even fully what I think I've
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photographed it because there's so much
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stuff that I got wanna teach us
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just come under the tutelage of his
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spirit and I allow them to do to change
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transform you by the renewing of your
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mind okay this is why we are told in the
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scripture so I will encourage you to go
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back and read the scripture again and
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ask the Lord Himself to open your mind
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to understand what he is trying to
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reveal to us the children of Abraham
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okay have a wonderful day and I'll see
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you next time
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