Caption transcript for Abraham: Father of Faith — “The Calling” (1/8)

• 00:48 SHALOM AND WELCOME TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
• 00:50 I'M MYLES WEISS.
• 00:52 AND I'M KATHARINE WEISS.
• 00:54 AND WE'VE GOT A BRAND NEW SERIES FOR YOU TODAY.
• 00:56 THIS IS VERY EXCITING KATHARINE.
• 00:58 WELL IT'S ALWAYS EXCITING TO BE WITH YOU THE VIEWERS
• 01:02 AND TO BRING THESE MESSAGES INTO YOUR HOME.
• 01:04 YOU KNOW WE'RE BRINGING A MESSAGE ABOUT FAITH TODAY
• 01:07 AND WE NEED FAITH MORE NOW THAN EVER BEFORE.
• 01:09 ABRAHAM WAS THE FATHER OF FAITH.
• 01:13 HE WAS AN ORDINARY MAN WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY PURPOSE AND A PROMISE THAT GOD HAD GIVEN HIM.
• 01:19 YOU KNOW SOMETIMES WE CAN FEEL ORDINARY AND NOT TOO EXTRAORDINARY
• 01:23 BUT GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD.
• 01:25 HE HAS A PLAN FOR ALL OF OUR LIVES AND WE NEED TO EMBRACE HIS PLAN.
• 01:30 WE'LL SEE THE JOURNEY BETWEEN HIM AND GOD AND SARAH COMING ALONG FOR THE RIDE.
• 01:35 NOT ONLY COMING ALONG FOR THE RIDE, BUT PARTICIPATING.
• 01:39 WELL SHE PLAYS SUCH AN INTEGRAL ROLE IN EVERYTHING THAT TAKES PLACE.
• 01:43 IT'S REALLY A PICTURE OF A MAN'S WALK WITH GOD,
• 01:45 A MARRIAGE BEFORE GOD...
• 01:46 YES
• 01:48 THE UPS AND DOWNS OF ALL OF THAT.
• 01:49 IT'S REALLY AN AMAZING STORY
• 01:51 THAT HELPS US TO SEE THAT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE REGULAR PEOPLE
• 01:54 BECAUSE OF WHO GOD IS, HE CALLS US AND HE ENABLES US.
• 01:57 SCRIPTURE SAYS IN ACTS 7,
• 02:00 THE GOD OF GLORY APPEARED TO ABRAHAM AND CALLED HIM AND HE OBEYED.
• 02:04 HE LEFT THE FAMILIAR.
• 02:06 SARAHM LEFT THE FAMILIAR.
• 02:07 SHE WENT WITH HIM.
• 02:09 SHE LEFT THE CITY LIFE AND JOURNEYED IN A HARD TENT LIFE.
• 02:14 THAT'S RIGHT, THE DESERT FROM A COSMOPOLITAN, METROPOLITAN LIFE
• 02:17 TO THIS JOURNEYING SHEPHERDING LIFE.
• 02:20 IT WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
• 02:22 AND IN THE MIDST OF IT THEY WERE FOLLOWING THIS "HASHEM".
• 02:26 THE JEWISH PEOPLE CALLED GOD "HASHEM", "THE NAME".
• 02:29 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE OVER TIME HOW EVEN THAT NAME IS RELATED TO THE CALL OF ABRAM
• 02:33 BECAUSE HE IS FROM THE LINE OF SHEM.
• 02:35 WE'LL TELL MORE ABOUT THAT LATER.
• 02:37 I LIKE HOW GOD USED ABRAHAM AND HIS OBEDIENCE TO REVEAL HIMSELF
• 02:42 AND TO BLESS ONE PEOPLE GROUP, A NATION,
• 02:46 AND THEN FROM THAT NATION THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WOULD BE BLESSED.
• 02:50 RIGHT, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE PROMISE
• 02:52 TO THE SANDS OF THE SEA AND THE STARS OF THE SKY,
• 02:55 WHICH SPEAKS OF THE JEWS AND THE BELIEVING CHRISTIANS TOGETHER. RIGHT...RIGHT.
• 02:58 THERE'S THIS DUAL PROMISE THAT'S GOING TO UNFOLD
• 03:00 THAT COMES DOWN THROUGH THE AGES TO OUR LIVES TODAY.
• 03:02 GALATIANS 3:6 TELLS US
• 03:04 THAT ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD
• 03:06 AND IT WAS COUNTED TO HIM
• 03:07 FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS
• 03:09 AND THAT'S REALLY THE CALL THAT'S ON US.
• 03:11 WILL WE BELIEVE GOD, ESPECIALLY EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK?
• 03:14 HE SAYS IT AND THEN HE DOES IT AND WE NEED TO BELIEVE IT.
• 03:17 ABRAHAM WAS DEFINED BY GOD AS A PATRIARCH, AS A PROPHET,
• 03:21 AND THEN MOST OF ALL AS HIS FRIEND,
• 03:24 WHICH IS; WELL IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT.
• 03:27 SO, WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN OUR DRAMA TODAY WITH THE CALL OF ABRAM
• 03:31 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE ABRAM AND SARAH COMING OUT OF UR
• 03:34 AND BEGINNING THEIR LONG JOURNEY INTO HISTORY.
• 05:03 HERE WE ARE IN A LAND
• 05:06 SIMILAR TO WHERE ABRAHAM CAME FROM UR OF THE CHALDEES
• 05:10 ON HIS WAY UP TO HARAN
• 05:12 AND THEN ON HIS JOURNEY.
• 05:15 ISAIAH TELLS US TO LOOK TO THE ROCK FROM WHICH WE'RE HEWN.
• 05:19 LISTEN TO THIS IN ISAIAH 51;
• 05:41 AND THAT IS THE STORY OF ABRAM AND SARAI.
• 05:44 THEIR NAMES WILL BE CHANGED.
• 05:46 THEY'RE GOING TO BE THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER OF A BELIEVING NATION,
• 05:49 A NATURAL NATION, MY JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 05:51 AND THEN A BELIEVING NATION.
• 05:53 YEARS AGO I HAD A GROUP WITH ME
• 05:56 AND WE WERE IN THE KNESSET.
• 05:57 WE MET WITH BENNY ELON,
• 05:58 THE MINISTER OF TOURISM
• 06:00 AND A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT,
• 06:03 HE SAID SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING TO OUR GROUP, WHICH WERE MOSTLY CHRISTIANS.
• 06:06 HE SAID, "WE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM,"
• 06:10 "AND YOU ARE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM BY FAITH."
• 06:14 AND THAT'S THE STORY THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SHOWING YOU IN THESE PROGRAMS.
• 06:17 WE HAVE THE INCREDIBLE SCOPE OF HISTORY THAT BRINGS THE STORY OF ABRAHAM ALIVE
• 06:23 AND SHOWS US HOW WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THIS MAN, THE FATHER OF FAITH.
• 06:28 ABRAHAM CAME OUT OF A VERY METROPOLITAN PLACE, UR.
• 06:33 IT WAS IN MESOPOTAMIA.
• 06:35 MESOPOTAMIA MEANS "BETWEEN THE TWO RIVERS".
• 06:37 IT'S MODERN DAY IRAQ.
• 06:40 AND HE WENT ON THIS JOURNEY FROM A VERY SOPHISTICATED LAND FOR ITS DAY.
• 06:46 HE WENT ON THIS JOURNEY INTO THE LIFE OF BECOMING A SHEPHERD,
• 06:48 AN INCREDIBLE ADVENTURE,
• 06:50 A VERY STRONG CHANGE IN LIFESTYLE FOR HIM.
• 06:55 HE AND HIS WIFE AND THEN ALL THOSE WHO WERE ADDED TO HIM WENT UP THROUGH THE LAND,
• 06:59 WENT DOWN TO EGYPT,
• 07:00 AND BACK INTO THE LAND.
• 07:03 IN FACT, THEIR STORY IS THE STORY OF THE WAY OF THE PATRIARCHS.
• 07:06 IT IS THE STORY OF THE HEARTLAND OF ISRAEL.
• 07:09 VERY CONTROVERSIAL TODAY,
• 07:12 THE SO-CALLED WEST BANK IS ACTUALLY JUDEA AND SAMARIA.
• 07:15 IT'S ACTUALLY THE HEARTLAND OF ISRAEL.
• 07:18 AND IT IS THE PLACE WHERE ABRAHAM WALKED.
• 07:21 NOW YOU'LL HEAR ME SAY ABRAM, ABRAHAM, I'LL BE SWITCHING BACK AND FORTH.
• 07:25 LATER IN OUR SERIES YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR AN EXACT MOMENT IN TIME
• 07:29 WHEN GOD WILL CHANGE ABRAHAM'S NAME FROM ABRAM TO ABRAHAM.
• 07:33 BUT YOU'LL HEAR ME USE BOTH NAMES.
• 07:34 THEY'RE INTERCHANGEABLE.
• 07:38 THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN HE BECOMES ABRAHAM, MEANING THE "FATHER OF MANY NATIONS".
• 07:42 THESE NAMES ARE VERY SIGNIFICANT
• 07:44 BECAUSE THE VERY NAME ABRAM AND ABRAHAM ARE COMING FROM A LINE OF NAMES
• 07:50 THAT GO BACK TO NOAH AND HIS THREE SONS.
• 07:53 NOAH, THE FATHER OF ALL, HAD THREE SONS,
• 07:56 JAPHETH, SHEM, AND HAM.
• 08:00 THE NAME OF SHEM, HIS NAME MEANS "NAME".
• 08:03 I BELIEVE THAT GOD UNDERSTOOD THE LINEAGE OF SHEM.
• 08:08 HE UNDERSTOOD THAT RATHER THAN BEING LIKE THE PEOPLE OF SHINAR
• 08:11 WHO WERE OUT TO MAKE A NAME FOR THEMSELVES,
• 08:15 THAT ABRAHAM WOULD BE ONE WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO MAKE A NAME FOR GOD.
• 08:20 HE WOULD BE WILLING TO SUBMIT HIS LIFE IN SUCH A WAY
• 08:24 THAT THE GOD OF ABRAHAM'S NAME WOULD BE EXULTED IN THE EARTH.
• 08:28 THAT'S WHAT WE'LL SEE UNFOLD IN THESE 10 CHAPTERS,
• 08:31 THIS STORY OF THE WALK OF ABRAHAM, THE FATHER OF FAITH.
• 08:35 IT'S AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF A MAN'S WALK OF FAITH WITH DIFFICULTIES BEING COUNTED.
• 08:40 HIS INCREDIBLE HUMANITY, HE'S SO SIMILAR TO US IN SO MANY WAYS
• 08:44 AND HE MAKES DECISIONS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE MADE.
• 08:47 HE TRIUMPHS AND HE FAILS AND TRIUMPHS AGAIN ALWAYS COMING BACK TO THE GOD WHO CALLED HIM.
• 08:54 SO THAT'S WHAT THE BEGINNING OF THIS SECTION OF THE SCRIPTURES IS CALLED.
• 08:57 IT'S ACTUALLY THE PORTION THAT'S READ BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 09:00 THE PORTION OF TORAH THAT'S READ WEEK BY WEEK.
• 09:03 THERE'S ALWAYS A SIMILARITY OF PEOPLE READING THE SAME PORTION EVERY WEEK.
• 09:06 THIS ONE IS CALLED "LECH LECHA",
• 09:09 IT MEANS "GET UP AND GO"
• 09:12 AND THAT'S WHAT THE CALL IS TO ABRAHAM.
• 09:14 HE'S HEARING FROM GOD;
• 09:16 HE'S BEING CALLED TO A LAND THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW.
• 09:20 HE'S BEING CALLED TO FOLLOW A GOD BY FAITH
• 09:24 AND THAT IS OUR CALL AS WELL ISN'T IT?
• 09:27 YOU AND I ARE CALLED TO WALK A WALK OF FAITH
• 09:30 AND THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO LOOK TO ABRAHAM FROM WHOM WE ARE CUT
• 09:33 SO THAT WE CAN WALK THE WALK OF FAITH JUST AS HE DID.
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• 10:05 FROM ABRAHAM, MOSES AND DAVID TO THE MESSIAH AND THE APOSTLES.
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• 11:03 IT HAD BEEN A LONG JOURNEY STARTING IN UR.
• 11:07 AND ABRAM TOOK SARAI HIS WIFE
• 11:10 AND LOT, HIS BROTHER'S SON
• 11:14 AND THEY FOLLOWED THE BANKS OF THE EUPHRATES RIVER MIGRATING NORTHWEST PAST BABYLON TO HARAN.
• 11:21 AND NOW HEADING SOUTH INTO CANAAN ABRAM STOPS IN BETHEL
• 11:26 WHERE HE BUILDS AN ALTAR AND CALLS UPON THE LORD.
• 12:27 ABRAM WAS A MAN OF ALTARS.
• 12:31 HE LEFT THE ALTARS TO THE MOON GOD OF IRAQ, MESOPOTAMIA, AND UR OF THE CHALDEES.
• 12:36 HE LEFT THAT ALL BEHIND AND HE BECAME A MAN WHO BUILT ALTARS TO THE LIVING GOD.
• 12:40 WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW HIM AS HE MAKES THESE ALTARS
• 12:43 AND COMMUNES WITH AND CONNECTS WITH THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
• 12:48 IN FACT, GOD WILL BECOME KNOWN AS THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND "JACOB"...
• 12:52 OR THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND "ISRAEL".
• 12:55 THERE'S SO MUCH DISPUTE OVER THIS LAND...
• 12:58 THERE'S SO MUCH DISPUTE OVER THE HISTORY.
• 13:00 IN FACT, THERE ARE THOSE THAT ARE TRYING TO RE-WRITE JEWISH HISTORY
• 13:03 AND TAKE US OUT OF THIS LAND...
• 13:06 TAKE US OUT OF THE HISTORY OF THIS LAND.
• 13:08 BUT IT WON'T HAPPEN BECAUSE GOD SAYS WHO HE IS
• 13:12 AND HE CALLS HIMSELF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND ISRAEL.
• 13:16 HE SWEARS BY HIMSELF AND WE'LL SEE THAT AS WELL AS OUR DRAMA UNFOLDS.
• 13:20 THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE STORY.
• 13:23 THE WORD FOR THE HEBREW PEOPLE COMES FROM AN ANCESTOR OF ABRAM.
• 13:29 HIS ANCESTOR WAS NAMED "EBER", WHICH MEANS "CROSSES OVER"...
• 13:34 "ONE WHO CROSSES OVER."
• 13:35 THAT'S WHERE THE WORD "HEBREW" COMES FROM.
• 13:37 WE ARE KNOWN TODAY AS THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 13:39 BUT THAT WORD CAME IN MUCH LATER.
• 13:41 IN FACT, ABRAHAM'S DESCENDANTS INCLUDED THE 12 TRIBES
• 13:46 AND ONE OF THOSE TRIBES WAS JUDAH.
• 13:49 AND ABRAM'S DESCENDANT JUDAH IS WHERE WE GET THE NAME FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 13:53 BECAUSE WE WERE KNOWN AS THE "JUDAHITES" AND THEN THE "JEWS"
• 13:58 AND THAT'S HOW WE GET THESE NAMES.
• 14:00 NAMES ARE GOING TO BE VERY IMPORTANT IN THIS STORY
• 14:03 BECAUSE SO MUCH OF THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN HOW GOD DESCRIBES HIMSELF
• 14:07 AND HOW HE CALLED ABRAM.
• 14:09 ABRAM'S DESCENDANTS ARE RELATED TO THE MEANING OF THEIR NAMES
• 14:12 AND THAT WILL UNFOLD
• 14:14 AS WE CONTINUE THIS STORY OF THE MAN OF ALTARS.
• 14:17 THIS IS REALLY A STORY OF THE ETERNAL NATURE OF OUR GOD
• 14:21 AND THE ETERNAL NATURE OF HIS PROMISES.
• 14:23 WHEN HE MAKES A PROMISE HE KEEPS HIS PROMISE.
• 14:26 HE CALLS ABRAM IN GENESIS CHAPTER 12 VERSES 1-3
• 14:31 AND HIS PROMISE IS
• 14:32 (SPEAKING HEBREW)...
• 14:36 "I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS YOU".
• 14:38 HE CALLS ABRAM
• 14:40 AND HE MAKES A PROMISE FOREVER
• 14:42 THAT THOSE WHO BLESS ABRAM AND HIS CHILDREN
• 14:45 WILL BE BLESSED...
• 14:46 THOSE WHO CURSE ABRAM AND HIS CHILDREN
• 14:48 WILL BE CURSED.
• 14:50 AND YOU KNOW WE'VE SEEN THAT THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF MANKIND
• 14:52 WHEN NATIONS RISE
• 14:55 AND THEY COME TO THE HEIGHT OF THEIR CIVILIZATION SO CALLED
• 14:58 WHEN THEY STAND AGAINST THE GOD OF ABRAHAM;
• 15:00 WHEN THEY STAND AGAINST THE JEWISH PEOPLE;
• 15:03 WHEN THEY COME AGAINST THAT RELATIONSHIP THEY DISAPPEAR FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
• 15:07 WE'VE SEEN THAT WITH GREECE AND WITH ROME.
• 15:10 WE'VE SEEN THAT WITH CIVILIZATIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
• 15:12 IN OUR MODERN TIMES WE'RE SEEING THAT NOW
• 15:16 AND THERE'S A THREAT AGAIN AGAINST THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 15:18 AND ITS TAKING PLACE RIGHT HERE IN THIS LAND
• 15:21 WHERE THERE IS THIS CONSTERNATION
• 15:24 AND THIS CONSPIRACY OF THE SURROUNDING NATIONS...
• 15:26 THIS TOUGH NEIGHBORHOOD...
• 15:28 THE SURROUNDING NATIONS SAYING "WE WILL WIPE YOU OFF THE FACE OF THE MAP."
• 15:31 WELL IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE OF GOD'S PROMISE.
• 15:34 I'M SO GLAD HE'S A COVENANT KEEPING GOD.
• 15:37 IF HE DOES NOT KEEP HIS COVENANT TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE
• 15:40 WHO'S TO SAY HE WILL KEEP HIS COVENANT TO THE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE?
• 15:43 SO AS HE KEEPS HIS COVENANTS WITH US, THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM,
• 15:47 HE KEEPS HIS COVENANTS WITH YOU, THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM BY FAITH.
• 15:50 I'M THINKING ABOUT BACK IN THE 19TH CENTURY
• 15:53 WHEN MARK TWAIN CAME HERE AND HE LOOKED AT THE DESOLATION.
• 15:56 IT WAS BEFORE THE GREAT ALIYAH OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND 20TH CENTURY...
• 16:00 AND HE SAID "IT'S SUCH A DESOLATE PLACE"
• 16:02 "AND IF I WERE GOING TO BELIEVE IN GOD THOUGH,"
• 16:04 "I WOULD BELIEVE IN THE JEWISH PEOPLE'S GOD"
• 16:07 "BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW THEY COME AND GO,"
• 16:09 "CIVILIZATIONS COME AND GO,"
• 16:11 "WE WATCH THE JEWS REMAIN."
• 16:14 "WHAT IS THE SECRET OF THEIR IMMORTALITY?" HE WOULD ASK.
• 16:17 AND I BELIEVE I HAVE THE ANSWER FOR HIM.
• 16:19 MR. CLEMENS...MARK TWAIN,
• 16:21 THE ANSWER IS NOT THE STRENGTH AND THE POWER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
• 16:24 THE ANSWER IS THE GOD OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
• 16:27 HE'S A COVENANT KEEPING GOD.
• 16:29 HE MADE A PROMISE TO ABRAHAM
• 16:31 AND HE'S KEEPING THAT PROMISE THROUGHOUT THE AGES.
• 16:34 WE SEE THAT TAKING PLACE IN THE STORY WE'RE WATCHING AND ALSO IN OUR LIFE TODAY.
• 17:23 ISRAEL MY BELOVED...
• 17:25 IT IS GOD'S EYE IS ON THIS LAND.
• 17:28 I'M TELLING YOU.
• 17:30 AND WHEN YOU GO THERE
• 17:31 YOU WILL FEEL HIS PRESENCE...
• 17:32 YOU WILL FEEL HIS HEART...
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• 17:48 THIS LAST SUMMER
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• 18:21 LET'S GO BACK TO OUR DRAMA
• 18:24 WHERE WE'RE CONTINUING THE STORY OF ABRAHAM AND SARAH
• 18:27 AS THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE CALL OF GOD IN THE LAND.
• 18:34 NOW THERE WAS FAMINE IN THE LAND
• 18:36 AND ABRAM WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT.
• 19:08 AND SARAI DID AS ABRAM ASKED.
• 19:12 PHARAOH TOOK SARAI INTO HIS COURT AND TREATED ABRAM WELL,
• 19:17 GIVING HIM SHEEP, OXEN,
• 19:20 AND MANY SERVANTS.
• 19:22 BUT THE LORD PLAGUED PHARAOH,
• 19:24 FOR SARAI WAS THE WIFE OF ABRAM.
• 19:30 AND PHARAOH SENT ABRAM AND SARAI AWAY, AND ALL THAT HAD BEEN GIVEN TO THEM.
• 19:37 GOD USES A FAMINE.
• 19:38 HE MAY NOT CAUSE IT
• 19:39 BUT HE USES FAMINE IN THE BIBLE
• 19:42 TO MOVE THE HISTORY OF MAN FORWARD.
• 19:44 THERE ARE 13 MAJOR FAMINES IN THE BIBLE STORIES.
• 19:47 THIS IS ONE OF THEM.
• 19:49 SARAI AND ABRAM...
• 19:51 THEY THINK THEY'RE GOING ON A STRAIGHT LINE WITH GOD.
• 19:52 NO, NO, NO...
• 19:54 THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME TWISTS AND TURNS IN THE STORY.
• 19:56 AND IN FACT, IT'S A FAMINE THAT TURNS THEM BACK TOWARDS EGYPT,
• 20:00 AND NOT ONLY TOWARDS EGYPT
• 20:03 BUT THERE'S A REAL DYNAMIC IN THE NECESSITY WHEN THEY'RE IN THE LAND OF PROMISE
• 20:08 OF DEPENDING ON GOD FOR RAIN.
• 20:11 WHAT A BLESSING IT IS WHEN IT DOES RAIN HERE,
• 20:13 WHEREAS IN EGYPT THERE'S ALWAYS WATER FROM THE NILE.
• 20:16 THE NILE OVERFLOWS, THERE'S AN OVERFLOWING OF THE BANKS,
• 20:18 THERE'S A NATURAL PROVISION
• 20:20 AND THERE'S THIS DYNAMIC OF
• 20:22 "DO I GO FOR THE NATURAL PROVISION OR DO I STAY WITH TRUSTING IN THE LORD?"
• 20:25 AND WHEN THE FAMINE HIT
• 20:27 ABRAM MADE A DECISION THAT YOU AND I MIGHT MAKE
• 20:29 WHICH IS "LET'S GO TO EGYPT."
• 20:31 WELL IT'S A BAD DECISION ON SARAI'S POINT OF VIEW
• 20:34 BECAUSE HE PUT HER LIFE IN JEOPARDY.
• 20:36 HE SAW THAT SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN;
• 20:38 HE SAW THAT SHE MIGHT BE LUSTED AFTER
• 20:41 AND PHARAOH MIGHT TAKE HER AND WANT TO EVEN KILL HIM.
• 20:44 SO HE CONVINCED SARAI TO LIE A HALF-LIE.
• 20:48 HE SAID "YOU ARE MY SISTER"
• 20:50 WHICH SHE WAS HIS HALF-SISTER
• 20:52 BUT ANY HALF-LIE IS A FULL LIE IN GOD'S EYES
• 20:54 AND IT TOOK GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY
• 20:57 TO KEEP SARAI AND THE LINE THAT HE'D ORDAINED FOR HIS SON TO BE BORN THROUGH...
• 21:01 PROTECTION...
• 21:03 PHARAOH COMES DOWN WITH A PLAGUE...
• 21:04 GOD IS SO GOOD,
• 21:07 I MEAN HERE ABRAHAM, THE FATHER OF FAITH, MAKES HIS FIRST FAUX PAS.
• 21:11 HE MEETS GOD AT THE ALTAR,
• 21:13 GOD REVEALS HIMSELF AS ADONAI, AND YET FAMINE COMES.
• 21:16 ISN'T THAT LIKE OUR LIVES THOUGH MYLES?
• 21:18 WHEN GOD PROMISES US SOMETHING,
• 21:20 THEN THE EXACT OPPOSITE BEGINS TO HAPPEN.
• 21:22 SO THEY GO DOWN TO EGYPT...
• 21:24 THEY GO SOUTH.
• 21:27 THAT'S A BIG SIGN IN THE WORD OF GOD ABOUT HAVING LEFT HIS PROMISES
• 21:31 AND GOING THE OPPOSITE WAY IN THE NATURAL.
• 21:34 BUT GOD IS THE GOD THAT KEEPS THEM
• 21:36 AND KEEPS THEM ALIVE
• 21:38 AND KEEPS THEIR LINE ALIVE.
• 21:40 NOT ONLY KEEPS THE LINE ALIVE
• 21:41 BUT SARAI AS THE VESSEL OF PROMISE.
• 21:43 SHE'S A LOT LIKE ISRAEL.
• 21:45 ISRAEL IS THE VESSEL OF PROMISE...
• 21:48 IN A CERTAIN WAY, THE PROMISE OF THE MESSIAH, THE PROMISE OF BLESSING.
• 21:50 GOD IS GOING TO HAVE A JEWISH PEOPLE IN THIS LAND.
• 21:54 HE'S GOING TO BRING US BACK TO THE LAND
• 21:56 AND HE'S GOING TO BRING HIMSELF BACK TO MEET US HERE.
• 21:58 AND THAT VESSEL OF PROMISE,
• 21:59 THAT IDEA...
• 22:01 SARAI FALLS RIGHT INTO THAT
• 22:03 BECAUSE SHE IS THE ONE THROUGH WHOM THE MESSIAH'S LINE WILL COME.
• 22:07 THE LINE OF ISAAC WILL COME THROUGH SARAI.
• 22:09 SO THEY GO TO EGYPT
• 22:11 AND NOT ONLY DOES GOD PROTECT THEM BUT HE INCREASES THEM.
• 22:14 WHEN THEY HAVE THIS ENCOUNTER WITH PHARAOH
• 22:17 THEY WIND UP WITH MORE GOODS, MORE SHEEP, MORE CATTLE,
• 22:19 MORE BLESSING IN FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S WORD TO THEM.
• 22:23 WELL THANK GOD THAT PHARAOH WAS ABLE TO RESPOND TO GOD'S PLAGUE.
• 22:26 HE SAID, "WHOA, I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG HERE."
• 22:29 "SARAI, YOU MUST BE ABRAM'S WIFE I PRESUME?"
• 22:33 HE EVEN WENT TO ABRAM AND SAID "WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?"
• 22:36 "TAKE THESE GOODS, TAKE THESE SHEEP, TAKES THESE CATTLE;"
• 22:39 "TAKE THIS GOLD AND SILVER AND LEAVE."
• 22:41 GOD IS SO FAITHFUL.
• 22:45 HE GETS THEM BACK ON THE PATH THEY NEED TO BE ON WITH INCREASE
• 22:48 AND I BELIEVE THAT'S A WORD FOR US.
• 22:50 SOMETIMES WHEN WE THINK GOD HAS LEFT US
• 22:52 OR THAT HE'S NOT AWARE OF OUR SITUATION
• 22:55 OR HE'S NOT AWARE OF THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE...
• 22:57 IN FACT, HE KNOWS THE END FROM THE BEGINNING...
• 22:59 HE KNOWS MORE ABOUT OUR SITUATION THAN WE DO
• 23:02 AND HE WILL CAUSE HIS PROMISE TO COME TO PASS IN OUR LIVES
• 23:06 IF WE WILL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW HIM.
• 23:08 REMEMBER ABRAHAM IS A MAN OF ALTARS.
• 23:11 HE'S ALWAYS GOING TO COME BACK TO MEETING WITH GOD AT AN ALTAR
• 23:16 AND TURNING TO GOD EVEN WHEN HE MAKES MISTAKES,
• 23:18 EVEN WHEN HE ERRS,
• 23:20 EVEN WHEN HE VEERS TO THE LEFT OR TO THE RIGHT
• 23:22 HE'S GOING TO COME BACK TO THE LORD.
• 23:24 I THINK THAT'S A WORD FOR US,
• 23:25 FOR YOU AND FOR ME,
• 23:26 THAT WE CAN FIND THE LORD,
• 23:28 WE CAN COME BACK TO HIM,
• 23:30 WE CAN FIND HIS PROMISE
• 23:31 AND HE'LL CONTINUE TO INCREASE US SPIRITUALLY
• 23:33 AS WE WALK FORWARD WITH HIM.
• 23:36 SO THIS STORY WITH ABRAHAM AND SARAH
• 23:38 IS A VERY INTERESTING PART OF THE HISTORY OF OUR FAITH
• 23:42 AND WE'LL CONTINUE WITH IT LATER ON.
• 24:02 ABRAHAM...
• 24:03 A MAN OF FAITH...
• 24:04 AND A MAN OF ALTARS
• 24:06 WE NEED TO BE A PEOPLE OF ALTARS TOO MYLES.
• 24:08 IT'S REALLY TRUE.
• 24:11 WE NEED TO FOLLOW THE LORD AND COME BACK TO HIM WHENEVER THERE'S AN ISSUE.
• 24:13 DAVID RUBIN WAS THE FORMER MAYOR OF SHILOH.
• 24:17 SHILOH WAS WHERE THE ARK RESTED FOR 369 YEARS
• 24:20 AND IT IS IN WHAT'S CALLED "THE WEST BANK"
• 24:23 WHICH IS ACTUALLY "THE HEARTLAND OF ISRAEL".
• 24:25 AS WE ARE REACHING FOR THE RETURN OF THE LORD
• 24:29 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THOSE WHO BLESS THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM
• 24:32 WILL BE BLESSED...
• 24:34 THOSE WHO CURSE THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM
• 24:35 WILL BE CURSED.
• 24:38 AND DAVID RUBIN IS GOING TO EXPLAIN THAT TO US FROM THE SCRIPTURES.
• 24:40 SO LET'S GO TO OUR INTERVIEW WITH DAVID RUBIN.
• 24:45 IF WE LOOK AT A COUNTRY LIKE RUSSIA
• 24:48 THAT HAS HAD ONLY DIVISION AND SPLITS AND COMMUNISM
• 24:53 AND ALL KINDS OF TROUBLES THROUGH THE YEARS
• 24:56 IT'S BECAUSE RUSSIA
• 25:00 HAS NEVER TREATED ITS JEWISH PEOPLE PROPERLY THROUGH THE CENTURIES...
• 25:03 THE PERSECUTIONS, THE POGROMS,
• 25:05 THE REPRESSION OF JEWISH CULTURE...
• 25:11 EVERYTHING IN RUSSIA HAS BEEN LIKE THAT.
• 25:16 IN PARALLEL TO THAT THE OTHER GREAT POWER, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HAS FLOURISHED.
• 25:22 AND IT'S ONLY IN RECENT YEARS
• 25:25 SINCE THE UNITED STATES STARTED PUSHING THIS RIDICULOUS IDEA OF HAVING A PALESTINIAN STATE,
• 25:31 A TERRORIST MUSLIM STATE IN THE BIBLICAL HEARTLAND OF ISRAEL
• 25:35 THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS STARTED TO HAVE ITS SERIOUS ECONOMIC PROBLEMS.
• 25:39 SO I THINK THAT WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT THOSE BLESSINGS
• 25:43 IN UNDERSTANDING WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND IN THE FREE WORLD.
• 25:51 EUROPE IS HAVING TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE PROBLEMS...
• 25:55 ECONOMIC PROBLEMS...
• 25:56 SOCIAL PROBLEMS...
• 25:59 RAPIDLY INCREASING MUSLIM POPULATION LOOKING TO CHANGE EUROPE.
• 26:03 THAT ALL COMES FROM, THE CURSE OF NOT STANDING WITH ISRAEL.
• 26:09 A COUNTRY THAT STANDS WITH ISRAEL WILL BE BLESSED.
• 26:14 AND THE BLESSINGS GO THROUGH ISRAEL AS GENESIS 12 SAYS.
• 26:22 WHAT AN INCREDIBLE STORY TO SEE THE CONTINUITY OF THE BIBLE
• 26:25 FROM ABRAM THROUGH YESHUA
• 26:28 INTO THE MODERN REBORN STATE OF ISRAEL
• 26:31 AND WE WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THIS NEXT WEEK.
• 26:33 PLEASE JOIN US AS WE CONTINUE WITH THE AMAZING JOURNEY OF ABRAM AND SARAI.
• 26:37 SO UNTIL THAT TIME WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU PLEASE,
• 26:41 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
• 26:43 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.