1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,400 Let's play one more time as we enter into the word of God and 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:11,000 see what he has in store for us. Father. 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,800 Right now we choose to lift our hearts to you. 4 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,500 As we sang, You have given us new mercies this morning. 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,500 Lord, we ask that you would bless us with an intensification 6 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:25,500 with your presence. Lord, that you would take this 7 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:28,900 word, your word and drive it deep into our hearts Lord. 8 00:00:28,900 --> 00:00:34,300 We pray that every man. Would disappear except Christ. 9 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:37,100 Jesus, Lord, that he would be seen. 10 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:40,800 Loved adored exalted and lifted High. 11 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:45,400 Take your word, Lord. As we heard yesterday. 12 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:52,400 And make it come. And manifest in our flesh in our 13 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,100 lives. Lord remove any confusion 14 00:00:56,100 --> 00:01:01,400 distraction coming. And visit our hearts again. 15 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,200 We ask these things in Jesus name. 16 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,500 Amen. As we scale through the 17 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:13,500 scriptures, we realize that there are a number of titles 18 00:01:13,500 --> 00:01:16,600 that God reveals to his people throughout the generations. 19 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,900 These various badges that God carries Reveal. 20 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:27,600 Something about both his attributes who he is and his 21 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:33,400 ability what he's able to do. These things are found in his 22 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,700 name alone. Nevermind in his actions. 23 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,600 And as his people, we find ourselves in prayer and worship 24 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:46,400 identifying and relating to God with various names. 25 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:51,100 Do we not? Holy an anointed one Redeemer. 26 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:58,600 Son of God, Son of Man, King of Kings, Lord of lords, healer, 27 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:03,400 great physician Prince of Peace. and we thank God for that 28 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,200 because we benefit from understanding who he is through 29 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:13,300 these names, his name reveals who he is, and yet They might 30 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:16,200 context. At least there is one title that 31 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,400 God gives of himself, that you don't really hear often. 32 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,800 It's not really said in prayer, sometimes maybe in songs, we may 33 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:28,100 be here it in Bible study, But it's a name of God nonetheless 34 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:33,800 and it's found in the book of Exodus chapter 3 verse 6. 35 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,500 It's a title that God gives himself very early in the Bible 36 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:40,400 at a very crucial time in Redemptive history to a very 37 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,200 important figure, amongst God's roster of servants. 38 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:52,800 God says in Exodus 3 Verse 6 to Moses, And he said, I am the god 39 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:58,600 of your father, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and 40 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,500 the god of Jacob and Moses. Hid his face for, he was afraid 41 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,400 to look at God. This is a reference that God 42 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,400 gives himself. This is a title that God of 43 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,100 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and God in his wisdom. 44 00:03:13,100 --> 00:03:15,300 Amongst all the other things that he couldn't reveal himself 45 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:20,000 with he chooses to expose himself to reveal himself, To 46 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,600 Moses in this matter. I am the god of your father's 47 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,800 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And here's the question, why? 48 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:31,900 What is that name? Even mean, what significance 49 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:35,300 does that have? Well this morning I believe it 50 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:38,700 has three at least three significant Revelations, about 51 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:42,100 who God is. Number one, it reveals something 52 00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:45,300 that we saying that God is a faithful God. 53 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:50,800 He's a promise keeping God. See when God chooses to reveal 54 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,800 himself this way to Moses, it was at a specific time. 55 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,000 Moses was going to be chosen to be a vessel to go and deliver 56 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,100 the people of Israel from Egypt and for hundreds of years that 57 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:04,300 people were what suffering under Affliction from an oppressor. 58 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:08,300 And it was at this moment that God chooses to use a man to 59 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:10,400 deliver as an extension of his grace. 60 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:13,600 And this is what he's saying to Moses. 61 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:18,200 I've made a promise. Many years ago. 62 00:04:19,500 --> 00:04:22,400 To Abraham and I passed that promise down to Isaac. 63 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,800 And I passed that promise down to Jacob and my promise can be 64 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:30,200 summarized in this, I promise to make a people and I promise to 65 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,000 take that people to birth a nation and to bring them into a 66 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,300 land and to inhabit that land, that's what my promise is. 67 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,400 And though, I've said it many years ago, and though, it seems 68 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,600 like I've been silent. I've now come to manifest the 69 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:48,400 reality of my faithfulness. And that's why you look at verse 70 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:55,100 15 here, When God tells Moses again to go to the people with 71 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:59,700 this name in mind, he says, look, God also said to Moses say 72 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:01,600 this to the people. I'm not just saying this to you, 73 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,100 Moses. I'm not just telling you that I 74 00:05:04,108 --> 00:05:05,800 am the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 75 00:05:05,900 --> 00:05:10,000 I'm telling you to go tell the entire nation that I am the god 76 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,200 of your father's, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and 77 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:14,900 the god of Jacob. He has sent me to you. 78 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:21,100 After 400 years. This is when God chooses to 79 00:05:21,108 --> 00:05:24,100 reveal himself this way and this is how we understand what this 80 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:28,600 name means for us. When God Says something, he 81 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:33,000 means it. He is immutable. 82 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:35,700 He is unchanging. He's unwavering. 83 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,500 If God said it in his word, he has no intention nor does he 84 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:43,600 even have the ability because he's not a man that can lie to 85 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:48,600 change his mind on what he said. So every time I come to this 86 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,500 word, I can trust that what he said, he's going to keep who he 87 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:55,900 says he is. He is what he will do in the 88 00:05:55,900 --> 00:05:58,300 future. He's gonna do now. 89 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:01,700 I thank God for that because just like the Israelites I can 90 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:05,800 be going through so much. And yet trust that he's the god 91 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,100 of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I said something before and I'm 92 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:11,600 going to make it happen. So guess what? 93 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,200 If Jesus said he's coming back, he's coming back. 94 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:17,100 If Jesus says that he's going to redeem us and bring us to a 95 00:06:17,108 --> 00:06:19,500 place that he's preparing for us, he's going to bring us to 96 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:22,300 that place that he has prepared for us if he's gonna wipe out 97 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:25,000 everything else so that he can establish his kingdom, guess 98 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,300 what? He's going to do it. 99 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:28,200 Well, it seems like it's kind of quiet. 100 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Seems like nothing's really happening based on that promise 101 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:34,800 like the Israelis hundreds of years. 102 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,500 Where's This Promise? Keeping God. 103 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:41,000 But just like Moses, he will show up. 104 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:46,100 And he will keep his word. That's true in a corporate 105 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:47,700 level. That's true for his program for 106 00:06:47,707 --> 00:06:49,400 the universe and that's true for you. 107 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,600 And I as individuals God is a promise keeping God I can trust 108 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,000 in him, I can lean on him. I can take this word and know 109 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,300 that it is true forever but it doesn't just end there Jesus 110 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:02,800 quotes. This verse which reveals the 111 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:05,700 second point of what this title means about, God, I would 112 00:07:05,700 --> 00:07:09,800 encourage you to turn to Matthew 24:32 and see what Jesus says 113 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,700 here. The context is this you had a 114 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:14,400 group of liberal religious, people called the Sadducees. 115 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:17,600 They didn't like Miracles and Supernatural stuff and believe 116 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,500 that there is a resurrection and that were angels and Spirits 117 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:21,000 now. No, no. 118 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,000 That's All foolishness and so in an attempt to try to trick 119 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,200 Jesus, never a good idea by the way. 120 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,900 They approached him and they try to create the scenario. 121 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,000 To try to stump him in his understanding of the 122 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,500 Resurrection. And Jesus replies in Matthew 22 123 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:43,500 32. He says and as for the 124 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:46,000 resurrection of the Dead, have you not read? 125 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,500 He's tiny Sadducees. Have you not read? 126 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:55,300 What was said to you by God and he quotes Exodus 36. 127 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:59,500 I am the god of Abraham and the god of Isaac, and the god of 128 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:01,500 Jacob. He is not a god of the dead, but 129 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:05,100 of the living. Now, Jesus is a wise teacher, 130 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,300 and a wise, evangelist, the Sadducees did not believe in any 131 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:10,600 other books, except for the first five, books of the Bible. 132 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:14,900 Jesus could have quoted a lot of books, a lot of verses, from the 133 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:17,500 prophets to prove the resurrection, but he knew that 134 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:22,000 they did not hold to Daniel, They did not hold to Isaiah 135 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:25,800 only, the first five books. So, Jesus in his wisdom quotes 136 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,600 from Exodus and proves the resurrection from The Exodus. 137 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,100 but I love this, he says Have you not read? 138 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:40,000 What was said to you? Now if we can put up, Mark 139 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,500 12:26, this is the same story told in a different way with 140 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:46,400 different wording and see what Jesus says in Mark 12 26. 141 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:48,600 And it's very important because it tells us something about the 142 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,500 power of the word of God. He says, and as for the dead 143 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:54,100 being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses in the 144 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:57,400 passage about the Bush? How God spoke to him? 145 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:04,500 Saying the same thing. So in Matthew he says, listen 146 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:06,400 have you not read? What was said to you? 147 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:09,600 In Mark. He says, have you not read? 148 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:14,000 What was said to him? Now we read Exodus, we realized 149 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,900 that that Revelation that God gave was for Moses, it wasn't to 150 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:21,100 the Sadducees that such as didn't even come to existence 151 00:09:21,100 --> 00:09:22,900 for hundreds. I mean hundreds of years but yet 152 00:09:22,900 --> 00:09:28,300 Jesus says, have you not read? What was said to you? 153 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:32,000 You know what that tells me about the Bible. 154 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,000 You know what that tells me about the stories that we read, 155 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,600 you know, what it tells us about everything that's in Scripture 156 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:38,800 that even though he said it to another person, even though he 157 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,300 said, another time he had us in mind. 158 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:46,400 He had us in mind, he wants to speak to you. 159 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,600 And to me through Leviticus, he wants to speak to you to me, as 160 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,200 he spoke to Moses and spoke to Samuel, and spoke to Jeremiah. 161 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,300 He wants to speak to us when he speaks to them. 162 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,500 Everything in the word of God has intended for us as well. 163 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:04,400 It's not just a historical thing that we study Lord. 164 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,500 What are you saying to me? And so when he says, have you 165 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:09,400 not read? What was said to you, that God 166 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,200 is the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 167 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,300 I'm not just saying that to Moses. 168 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:16,800 I'm saying it to Maranatha 2019 to every single person in this 169 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,300 place. So now I got to know what that 170 00:10:20,300 --> 00:10:25,200 means and in the context here, Jesus quotes this title, to 171 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,200 prove something about God's power. 172 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:29,800 He says it reads the really carefully. 173 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:33,700 I am present tense the god of Abraham not. 174 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:40,500 I was I am right now. To say that Abraham, Isaac and 175 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:43,400 Jacob, their bodies might be dead, but their Spirits are 176 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:48,900 alive and they're with me. They're with me because I'm not 177 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:51,400 the god of the dead, I'm the god of the living, their bodies are 178 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,800 waiting to be resurrected, but they are with me right now. 179 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,800 because that is the reality of our existence that when we 180 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,900 escaped these bodies, we will be in the presence of God or in the 181 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:06,500 place where God is Not and he's saying this to prove the 182 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:08,900 resurrection, but this title means something for us that if 183 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:11,900 you raised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he's going to raise me. 184 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:16,100 That if they are in the presence of God when they gave their last 185 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:18,400 breath, I will be in the presence of God when I give my 186 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,500 last breath and you read in the Book of Matthew. 187 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:25,000 Even earlier, he talks about two, destinations for two groups 188 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,700 of people, and he says, people from the East and the west north 189 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:29,700 and south, they will come and they will be gathered. 190 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:32,700 And they will be in the Kingdom of Heaven doing what sitting at 191 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:35,200 a table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 192 00:11:36,700 --> 00:11:39,500 Imagine what that's going to be like part of Heaven is going to 193 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:42,900 be sitting down with these guys. Part of the experience of 194 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:45,200 glories that the Bible studies that we have. 195 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,800 And even the session right now we're going to be able to hear 196 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,500 about the faithfulness of God from Abraham's own lives. 197 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:54,100 We're going to be able to talk about the goodness of God from 198 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:57,500 Isaac's on mouth. We're going to hear about God's 199 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,600 perseverance and his patience with us through Jacob. 200 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:05,300 I'm not the god of the Dead on the god of the living. 201 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:09,500 And he quotes that title to say life is coming to you. 202 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:14,000 Life doesn't end here. Life's not finished here. 203 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:15,900 There's a place where you're going to come. 204 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,900 There's a place where I'm going to take you to, where you will 205 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:23,400 be in my presence forever. Lastly, I think this is very 206 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,100 important and this is the main point of the whole conference. 207 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:28,900 The whole conference is going to be centered around the god of 208 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:33,400 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But here's the last point, he is 209 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:39,800 the god who works in and through different people As glorious as 210 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,000 these truths are that, God is the promise, keeping God that 211 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,800 God is the resurrector. If there's still some other 212 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:50,700 component to this title, that is more relational than we think. 213 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,500 He is the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 214 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:01,300 And God chooses to identify himself with each of them. 215 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,100 You know, Abraham, Isaac. And Jacob could have taken up 216 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:12,100 three verses 44 versus pops. To say and Abraham begat, Isaac, 217 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:14,100 Isaac, begat, Jacob, and the seed passed down. 218 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:15,600 It could have just been a genealogy thing. 219 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:17,300 But you know what? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob take 220 00:13:17,300 --> 00:13:21,100 up most of the Book of Genesis Why? 221 00:13:22,300 --> 00:13:25,400 And what we see there is that God walks with them and got 222 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,700 talks with them and God leads them, and God promise, and God 223 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:30,900 disciplines, and God test them individually. 224 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,500 Because forgot to say, I'm the god of Abraham, Isaac, and 225 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:38,100 Jacob, God is The God Who says, I'm personal. 226 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,100 I'm not just the God for Christians. 227 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,000 I'm not just a god of the Bible. I'm your God. 228 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,800 I'm your friend. I'm your protector. 229 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:55,200 I'm Your Leader. I'm your sanctifier. 230 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,200 And so, we understand something about the personality of God. 231 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,700 We understand something about the relationship that he longs 232 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:05,900 to have with us as individuals. And as much as these men have 233 00:14:05,900 --> 00:14:08,500 something in common, they are very much different. 234 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:14,000 Think about Abraham. Abraham had a father named Tara 235 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,400 Abraham grew up in a place called earlier the Chaldeans. 236 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:24,300 And Abraham perhaps we didn't realize this was not a man that 237 00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:26,700 was faithful to the Living. God, all his life. 238 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,700 He lived in a pagan land and Abraham who we call. 239 00:14:30,700 --> 00:14:34,300 The father of Faith was actually a worshipper of false gods. 240 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:38,600 That is Not Mere opinion. That is not speculation here. 241 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:41,700 This verse when Joshua preaches to his people, look what he says 242 00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:44,200 about Abraham and Joshua 24:2, just listen. 243 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:49,700 It says in Joshua said to all the people thus says the Lord 244 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:54,000 the god of Israel long ago, your father's live, beyond the 245 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:58,100 Euphrates Tara, the father of Abraham, and of nahor, and they 246 00:14:58,100 --> 00:15:04,100 served other gods. So we have this understand that 247 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:06,900 Abraham just pops on the scene and God calls him, because he 248 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:10,300 was faithful know when God found Abraham, when Abraham lived, 249 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:13,900 most of his life. It was actually and idolatry. 250 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:18,300 Living for and worshipping other deities. 251 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:20,000 Other than the true and living God. 252 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:24,200 And we understand from Genesis 12, that God calls this man, 253 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:29,200 clearly at the age of 75. He not only caused him but he 254 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,100 uses them in a mighty and glorious way. 255 00:15:31,100 --> 00:15:33,400 And here's how we understand something about Abraham. 256 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,400 God, being the god of Abraham tells me this tells us this that 257 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,700 if you've lived most of your life, most of your existence for 258 00:15:41,700 --> 00:15:44,100 yourself in your sin worshipping, even false god 259 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:49,400 including yourself God is able to redeem you, God is able to 260 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,100 renew you and God is able to empower you. 261 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:57,600 For the rest of your life. And God can flip the script no 262 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,400 matter how long you live to the human, I like Abraham. 263 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,700 You might have wasted your existence for the most part but 264 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:06,600 when I hear that God is the god of Abraham. 265 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:10,700 What I hear is that God is a God that can redeem anybody because 266 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:14,000 it's never too late and not just redeem that but have a plan for 267 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,600 them. For the rest of their lives. 268 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,600 God is the god of the one who can save you. 269 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:25,500 Even if you're dying in your body, Is that you? 270 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:30,800 You feel like you've wasted most of your teenage years. 271 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,500 Do you feel like you've wasted your high school years, you're 272 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:35,600 wasting your college Years? Do you feel like, now, you are 273 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:40,100 just Awakening to the reality. Oh yeah, life is beyond the gods 274 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:42,400 that I've created in my life. The things that I've pursued and 275 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:48,800 worshipped God tells us through this title that he could save, 276 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,000 you redeem, you renew, you restore, you and do things 277 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,100 through you that you never thought you can imagine. 278 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,400 If he did it for Abraham, you can do it for you. 279 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,000 But it's not just the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac. 280 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,200 And that's different because the god of Isaac concerning. 281 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,000 Isaac is much different than Abraham. 282 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,599 Isaac didn't grow up in a pagan land. 283 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:15,900 Isaac isn't one that we hear that was worshipping false gods. 284 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,200 Isaac was somebody that grew up in a household of faith Shirley 285 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,500 Isaac heard the stories from his father, Abraham. 286 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:26,700 From his mother, Sarah the faithfulness of God. 287 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:30,500 Surely Isaac. When he came to that epic scene 288 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:33,400 in Genesis 22, when he was willing to lay down his own 289 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,600 life, on the altar, realize the intervention of God and even 290 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,600 himself. Got a glimpse of a gospel when 291 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,500 God provided a substitute for his own life. 292 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:44,700 He heard it. He seen it. 293 00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:47,800 He smelted. He was in that environment. 294 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:52,200 His whole life. Isaac in our context is the kid 295 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:53,700 that grew up in the Christian home. 296 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:58,200 He's the one since birth new about truth. 297 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:02,100 But he's also the god of Isaac, you realize that, right? 298 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Because you read Isaac's life and you realize that Isaac 299 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:10,500 experiences something of the goodness of God that God still 300 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:14,300 calls Isaac even though Isaac was so familiar with God, that 301 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:17,300 Isaac didn't have this radical shift this, this transformation 302 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:20,100 that he lived for idols and he lived in a pagan land, God calls 303 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:21,500 him out of that land to an unknown. 304 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:23,300 And no Isaac, just grew up in it. 305 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,000 Yeah. God still says I'm going to 306 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,700 expose and reveal my goodness to you my Mercy, to you, my plans 307 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:34,100 for you and through you. I still have a plan for The 308 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:39,300 Isaacs. The Isaacs are not outside of my 309 00:18:39,300 --> 00:18:43,100 ability and my willingness in my wanting to show myself strong to 310 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:47,000 them. He's the god of God of Isaac, 311 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,600 which tells me something. Listen. 312 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,000 If you probably majority of the place in this place, grew up in 313 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,800 a Christian home with faithful parents. 314 00:18:55,100 --> 00:18:58,300 You might think that there is no plan, there might be no 315 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:00,100 testimony. There might be no ability to 316 00:19:00,100 --> 00:19:02,300 relate to God. I mean, I've heard it over and 317 00:19:02,300 --> 00:19:05,200 over again. I haven't experienced God's love 318 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:08,000 like that drug dealer. Did or that gang member did? 319 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,100 I haven't experienced the goodness of God, because I 320 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:13,500 didn't experience Darkness or I wasn't so filthy and sent to 321 00:19:13,500 --> 00:19:17,000 know the Redemptive power of his blood and so they get bored. 322 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,700 And they just kind of cruise through life normally, but 323 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:25,700 brothers and sisters realize, he's also the god of Isaac. 324 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:30,200 And he shows himself to Isaac and he reveals himself to us. 325 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,700 He speaks to Isaac the same way, he spoke to Abraham, and Jacob. 326 00:19:35,300 --> 00:19:36,800 So, you and I must never believe that. 327 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,900 Just because I might have grown up in the certain context that I 328 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:42,900 cannot know, God, the same way Abraham did, or Jacob did. 329 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:51,800 But he's also the god of Jacob. Jacob is interesting. 330 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:59,300 Because Jacob, like Isaac grew up in that Household of Faith. 331 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,900 He had believing parents. I mean, Isaac knew the goodness 332 00:20:03,900 --> 00:20:06,700 of God. He had his wife in a miraculous 333 00:20:06,700 --> 00:20:10,100 fashion. He seen God bless him abundantly 334 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:13,600 even right after he came out of backsliding, Genesis 26. 335 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,000 But Jacob was different than Isaac in this. 336 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,400 That we are introduced to him in a very negative light. 337 00:20:22,300 --> 00:20:24,700 Then when Jacob steps on the scene with his brother, Esau, 338 00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:28,300 both of them. Are incomplete rebellion and 339 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:30,300 contradiction to what their conviction should have. 340 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:34,400 Been. So how are we introduced to 341 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,700 Jacob? Well, he lives up to his name. 342 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:40,800 He's a trickster. He's a deceiver. 343 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:46,100 He's a liar, he's a manipulator. And he eventually has to leave 344 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:48,200 home because of his own sin and he's found in a Wilderness and 345 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,500 he's found really in a mess for a good portion of his life. 346 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,400 And Jacob speaks something about the one who grew up in a house 347 00:20:58,400 --> 00:20:59,800 where he's heard the Bible stories. 348 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,900 He's went to Sunday school. He fell asleep in the youth 349 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:05,500 meetings. He was dragged to conferences. 350 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:10,500 And when he wanted to have his way, he would try to have his 351 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:12,100 way. It was all about the flash. 352 00:21:12,100 --> 00:21:15,100 It was all about mine, the name. Jacob, as we're going to find 353 00:21:15,100 --> 00:21:16,300 out this, not just mean deceiver. 354 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:20,300 It means he'll grab her. You know what Jacob was. 355 00:21:20,300 --> 00:21:23,300 He was a grabber. I want this. 356 00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:24,900 This is mine. I want that. 357 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:26,200 That is mine. I want Her. 358 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:27,700 She's Mine. I want the blessing. 359 00:21:27,700 --> 00:21:29,000 It's mine. I grab. 360 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,500 I grab. I grab. 361 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,400 It's about me. It's not about giving it's not 362 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,000 about dying to self is not about extending though it's about how 363 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,600 much can I gather in for myself? That's Jacob. 364 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:43,300 And a lot of people in Christian households live just like that. 365 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:50,900 I want to live for me, never mind the glory of God. yet God, 366 00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:58,500 Is the god of Jacobs. So as much as Jacob, try to do 367 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:01,400 it, his own way. You see God chasing after Jacob. 368 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:08,100 And as much as Jacob lived. To really bring shame to the 369 00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:13,000 name. God says, you know, Jacob as 370 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,200 much as you think that you're going to do this your own way 371 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,200 and you think that you've messed up to a degree, where it's 372 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,600 unredeemable? I'm going to Seoul radically 373 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,300 shift you. I'm in a sobre que Jacob, I'm 374 00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:24,200 going to so reveal myself to you that. 375 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,500 I will literally physically change the way you walk. 376 00:22:29,300 --> 00:22:32,300 For the rest of his life, he would limp as a testimony of how 377 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:36,000 God can change Jacobs into Israel's. 378 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:44,400 And so, you have people. Unfortunately, Christian parents 379 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,200 that approach and say my son is not living. 380 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:52,200 According to how we taught him. My daughter is not living. 381 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,300 According to way, we've raised her up. 382 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:58,200 They're Grabbers, they're living for self. 383 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,900 They have their own Ambitions. They have their own Pursuits. 384 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,400 And yet, here's a message of hope. 385 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:10,200 He's the god of Jacobs. So what do we understand when 386 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,500 God says, I am the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, the 387 00:23:12,508 --> 00:23:14,100 god of Jacob. This is what we understand. 388 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,200 Whether you've lived most of your life herself living in 389 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,400 idolatry living in sin. God can save you, change, you, 390 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:25,200 and use you, whether you grew up in a household of faith, you 391 00:23:25,208 --> 00:23:31,300 don't have this radical story. And you feel as though you need 392 00:23:31,300 --> 00:23:35,200 that to know God in a special way, he's the god of Isaac's and 393 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,700 he wants to speak to you and reveal himself to you just like 394 00:23:37,700 --> 00:23:41,200 the Abraham. Or whether you're like Jacob. 395 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:44,400 You hear it, you know, it you understand it. 396 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,400 You just haven't had an encounter with God yet. 397 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,100 God is the god of Jacob, and he is so patient. 398 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:55,800 So loving so forgiving, and he is so jealous for his glory. 399 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,100 Do you know that he wants to use you in a way that it will 400 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:04,100 display his manifest love? It's amazing. 401 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:08,800 How God says, I am the god of Jacob even after his name is 402 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,800 changed to Israel, he still chooses to identify himself with 403 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:17,800 Jacob. As much as these men were 404 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,900 different. And that's the point of this 405 00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:21,100 conference. We're going to explore in 406 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:23,600 different sessions, these men and how God dealt with them 407 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,800 differently. What principles they offer us 408 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,900 through their lives. God has a commentary about all 409 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:31,900 three men. It is astounding. 410 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:36,300 What he says about these three men in the New Testament It's 411 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:41,100 actually shattering how God actually comments on their 412 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:45,500 lives. This is one to really highlight 413 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:52,400 that's in Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11. 414 00:24:56,100 --> 00:25:00,400 Verse 16. Now when you understand the 415 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,500 context you realize that he just finished speaking about Abraham, 416 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:07,100 Isaac and Jacob And he says this in verse 16. 417 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:15,100 He says, but as it is, they Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they 418 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:19,800 desire a better country. That is a Heavenly one. 419 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,100 Now, listen to what God says about them. 420 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:30,600 Please pay attention to this. Therefore, God is not ashamed to 421 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:36,000 be called their God. For, he has prepared for them a 422 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:44,100 city. God is not ashamed to be called 423 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:51,300 their God. now, I look at that verse and I say praise God but I 424 00:25:51,308 --> 00:25:57,900 look at that verse also and I say, oh God, Because for God to 425 00:25:57,908 --> 00:26:01,300 be able to say, I'm not ashamed to be called their God implies 426 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:03,500 that he can be ashamed to be called. 427 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:14,900 Someone's God. I don't want to be one where God 428 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:21,200 says, mmm. Yeah, he calls me Lord. 429 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:30,700 Yeah, he says I'm God. Oh, but Abraham all. 430 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:37,200 I miss God. I'm his Lord. 431 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:41,400 I'm his master. Well, what about him? 432 00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:43,700 Yeah, I don't know how this works, really? 433 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:46,800 I'm trying to fit this into my own theology, but I understand 434 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,900 from The Book of Proverbs that even an Earthly father, if 435 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:51,400 you've read Proverbs carefully, there are many instructions 436 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,200 given for a son, not to bring shame to their father, for their 437 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:56,700 daughter. Not to bring reproach to her 438 00:26:56,700 --> 00:26:59,900 mother. Here's the reality. 439 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:03,700 If we are all believers in this place, we are all children of 440 00:27:03,700 --> 00:27:05,900 God. We are all adopted. 441 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:10,300 We Are All in the Family by the grace and the Lord of ours 442 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:13,000 saving sold. He is the one that can redeem us 443 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,000 and bring us to that place. Yes by his finished work but We 444 00:27:17,008 --> 00:27:19,300 have to understand that even in an Earthly setting in a familiar 445 00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:22,400 setting that children relate to their parents differently and 446 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,200 parents relate to their children differently. 447 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:27,900 So when it says about these three men that he's not ashamed 448 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:31,000 to be called their God, my question is why what did Abraham 449 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:33,800 Isaac? And Jacob have forgot to say, 450 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:38,200 I'm their God. And I will declare and he 451 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:44,900 declared it through his word. Was it because of their spotless 452 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,300 lies? Was it because of their 453 00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:54,200 consistent faithfulness? Was it because of their absence 454 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,500 of failure? Because I read Abraham, Isaac 455 00:27:57,500 --> 00:27:58,300 and Jacob. And guess what? 456 00:27:58,300 --> 00:28:04,200 I see failure. Moments where they stepped out 457 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:08,500 of faith more than once. I mean you hear the audible 458 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:11,900 voice of God, the audible voice of God and your select. 459 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:15,100 Yeah. Hey God still says, I'm not a 460 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:18,300 shame. I mean, what was it, was it 461 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:20,100 their gifting was at their abilities. 462 00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:24,400 What was it for God to say? My heart is stirred towards 463 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,500 these meant to say, I'm their God. 464 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:35,300 It's right there in the verse. It says here, but as it is, they 465 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:43,400 desire. So wasn't even necessarily about 466 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,900 what they did is about what they had in their hearts. 467 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:53,300 All this is powerful Listen to this God's Delight in his heart 468 00:28:53,300 --> 00:28:58,400 listen God's Delight in his heart towards these men was 469 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,800 provoked by the desire in their hearts. 470 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:07,100 What move God's heart to the light in these men was when he 471 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:10,100 Zoom past through the failure. He Zoom pass through the moral 472 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:11,900 failure. He all these things, all these 473 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:15,100 mistakes, all these hiccups, he Zoom past all of that and he 474 00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:17,900 looks into the hearts and he saw something in each of them, they 475 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:24,000 desire. What do they desire? 476 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,700 A better country? What they lived for. 477 00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:32,400 What provoked them, the Throne of their affections. 478 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,500 Their Throne of their Ambitions with something Beyond this life. 479 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,000 It was nothing of this world, it was nothing that was found here 480 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,700 even when they were called to live in a place where they don't 481 00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:45,900 even know really down deep inside. 482 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:49,400 They wanted something Beyond they wanted the Abode of God, 483 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,900 they wanted to be in his presence, they wanted to be 484 00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:55,900 where he was, they wanted something that was otherworldly 485 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,300 and this move God's heart to say though. 486 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:00,600 You see these distractions and though you see the land, and 487 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,500 though you've been blessed with many flocks and let em all these 488 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:05,300 things. Peace with your enemies, you 489 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:07,700 still have a desire. Other than these things. 490 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,700 And so, I'm not ashamed to be called your God. 491 00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:15,300 So for me to move into that favor for me to move into that 492 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:18,400 position with God, where he can look at me, says I'm not ashamed 493 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,000 to be called as God, in 2019 is all found and what I truly want 494 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,300 in this life. What do I want? 495 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,800 What's really in my desires? I mean, listen, if we just open 496 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,700 your heart even this morning and we look inside and see, what are 497 00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:38,100 your Joys and what are your Pursuits and what really brings 498 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,100 Glee to you? What would it be? 499 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:45,400 Is it? Well this and that. 500 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,600 Well listen what's at stake? Here is the smile of God. 501 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,400 What's at stake? Here, is God being able to look 502 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,400 over you and be able to, I Love The Book of Job because Satan 503 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,900 doesn't introduce job to God. God introduces job to Satan, 504 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:09,000 just have you seen him? He's blessed, he's rich, but he 505 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,700 fears me. Yeah. 506 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:14,800 But because he loves the stuff that you give him touch his 507 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,300 stuff. Let me up the anti touch his 508 00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:19,700 body. And watch. 509 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,300 And I think I mean you read in Isaiah even where Abraham is 510 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:32,400 referred to as a friend of God. All of that. 511 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:37,800 Is found in the central truth. Found in Hebrews 11 16, they 512 00:31:38,300 --> 00:31:42,000 desired. A better country. 513 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:47,700 Because it speaks about their desire for him. 514 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:52,700 And that's why David was a man after God's heart. 515 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:59,000 He failed, he royally messed up, no pun intended. 516 00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:02,500 He got, it can still identify him that way. 517 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,400 And then you look at Saul who messed up not to the degree that 518 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,300 David that in my opinion and God says, get rid of him. 519 00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:14,000 Why? Desire. 520 00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:19,500 Saul wanted position, David wanted presents. 521 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:24,900 It's all about desire. And as we walk in that desire 522 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:27,700 and we fall and we fail, there's no shame. 523 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,200 And my whole life, I've heard of understand and never be ashamed 524 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:34,900 of God. Don't ever be ashamed of the 525 00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:38,000 Gospel, don't ever be ashamed of the truth of the scriptures, but 526 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,800 I have very rarely heard that concept of God. 527 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,900 Not being a shitting me. Oh, thank God. 528 00:32:47,900 --> 00:32:50,600 That positionally in Christ. We Are All Sons and Daughters. 529 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,000 Thank God for that. But practically relationally 530 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:59,500 experientially Lord. Look into my heart. 531 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:04,500 Do you see what you want to see? Lord. 532 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:07,500 Look past my failures. Forgive me look past my 533 00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:09,800 inconsistencies, look past my fault. 534 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,200 Look past, the thoughts that come in and crash sometimes 535 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:16,300 against this one thing I have Lord and see all of it through 536 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:18,700 this lens. I desire you about everything. 537 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,600 I desire a better country. I'm not bound to this world. 538 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,000 I'm, I'm a soldier and I live in tenza. 539 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,300 I'm not I'm not stuck here. Lord, I need you. 540 00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:32,300 I want you. And God can look down and say I 541 00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:36,800 found one, I'm not ashamed to call his God. 542 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:43,600 I want that more than anything. I want that commentary of my 543 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,800 life more than anything. Forget anything else? 544 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,900 Forget the praise of, man. Forget the titles. 545 00:33:50,900 --> 00:33:53,500 Forget the forget it for God to say hi. 546 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,000 That desire that he has in his heart. 547 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:05,000 Moves my heart. This is one in whom I can say, I 548 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,500 miss God. I'm his Lord, I'm his master, we 549 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:12,000 should be able to unassuming Lisa, he's my God, he's my Lord, 550 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,300 he's my master, we should Proclaim that from the rooftops, 551 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:18,300 but for God, to save from heaven, Down on the Earth. 552 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:22,100 Say, that's my son. That's my daughter. 553 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,800 Look at the desire in her heart. Look at all the things that come 554 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,500 their way. Look at all the other Christians 555 00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:31,500 distracted with money. And all this otherworldly stuff, 556 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:40,400 but him, I'm is God. Just going to end it there. 557 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:45,500 Because I think that's enough for us to be able to say, Lord 558 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:51,300 do something in me. When you and I hear that God is 559 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:53,199 the god of Abraham. Isaac. 560 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,400 And Jacob. What we hear is this, he's the 561 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,900 promise keeper. If he said it, he means it. 562 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:04,000 He is the resurrector the same way that they are right now in 563 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,400 the presence of God and their bodies are awaiting to be 564 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,400 glorified. So you and I have hope to 565 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,900 realize that when we pass from this life, to the next, we will 566 00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:15,600 fellowship with these men. And we will be able to hear from 567 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:19,600 their own mouths. Over some dinner, how good God 568 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:23,000 is. But we also hear this, he is a 569 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,100 god that is relational and he works in each and every single 570 00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:29,600 one of us and no matter where we come from. 571 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:31,600 No matter what. We've grown up in no matter 572 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,500 what, we've made his mistakes, God is still able to do 573 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:37,500 something in and through us. And ultimately, they all have 574 00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:38,700 this. One thing in common though, they 575 00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:41,400 were all unique. I'm not ashamed to be called 576 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,500 their God because they have a desire. 577 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:52,400 For my presence. My kingdom, my will That's what 578 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,400 God wants to be able to say about all of us. 579 00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:58,500 I think God it's not about performance. 580 00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:02,200 I thank God that he doesn't keep record of my wrong. 581 00:36:03,100 --> 00:36:07,300 I thank God that his smile is not based necessarily. 582 00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:12,600 On this or that, but he looks deep inside. 583 00:36:13,900 --> 00:36:17,400 And he sees the desire. And that moves his heart. 584 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:21,400 Can we see him this morning and thank you for such a wonderful? 585 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,300 God, we are praying to, in a moment, the god of Abraham, 586 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:29,700 Isaac, and Jacob. Let's pray, just meditate on 587 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:31,500 these truths before we do so corporately. 588 00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:38,700 Lord, we recognize you this morning as the god of Abraham, 589 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:46,400 Isaac, and Jacob. With thank you that your 590 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,500 personal. That you want to walk with each 591 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:51,300 of us. You want to talk to each of us. 592 00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:56,800 You want to reveal yourself uniquely and individually Teach 593 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:03,800 of us. Lord, we pray that. 594 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,000 If there are any people in here, that might be any one of those, 595 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,400 they can relate to any one of those people that you would make 596 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:14,200 yourself known. Now they can see that, no matter 597 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,900 where I am right now, God is still willing to relate to me. 598 00:37:20,300 --> 00:37:23,500 The father even now we pray for this corporate desire that you 599 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:25,900 would be able to save this place over each person. 600 00:37:25,900 --> 00:37:30,100 I'm not ashamed. To be called their God. 601 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:36,000 Because they desire. Better country. 602 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:40,800 Lord, you call us to set our minds on the things above. 603 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:45,400 You call us to set our affections on you Above All 604 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:51,200 Things. So right now we pray that you 605 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,400 would do that work in each heart. 606 00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,800 That every heart would be able to confidently display, the 607 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,500 desire for greater things in you. 608 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,300 And that would be the very thing that moves your heart towards 609 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:15,500 us. But we praise you, we worship 610 00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:18,200 you invited this title that you've given to us. 611 00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:23,400 In Jesus name, amen.