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Hey everybody, Thank you for tuning into Pray dot com Radio.
My name is Mike Kai, the senior pastor of Inspired
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I hope you enjoy this message right here.
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On prey dot com Radio.
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When I begin to look at Abraham and we've been
talking about this series on faith, faith is so incredible.
Faith is very very important, not just faith in God,
but faith that God can do incredible things.
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I felt like.
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After this year, I knew in my heart that it's
like Hawaii is shrunk back a little bit.
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But I believe that inspire church.
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The people go to inspire that we are not going
to be people who shrink back, that We're gonna be
people who move forward, who are distrusting. And I'm declaring
this summer is called the Summer of faith in Jesus name.
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Somebody say amen.
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You know the Bible says that without faith, it is
impossible to please God.
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According to the Book of James.
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Without faith, it's impossible to please him. God blesses people
who step out in faith, who are not waiting for
everything to work the way that it should. Even though
we have sensibility and like we ask for the wisdom
of Solomon, we want everything to work. But we also
have to understand that you're not always gonna see all
the entire picture, and God rarely gives you the entire
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picture when he calls you to step out. Abraham was
given the calling in Genesis chapter twelve, and basically God
gave him direction, just follow me to the land that
I will show you, and then he gives them the
Abrahamic covenant of the blessing that will happen if he
follows him.
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He doesn't say this is.
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The land you're gonna live in, this is what how
many descendants you're gonna have?
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He does.
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He says that they're gonna be a multitude, but he
doesn't say this is exactly the town, the place, this
is what you're gonna do with your life. It doesn't
give him all of the details, but he gives him
what's important.
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He says, go to the land and I will show you.
I will give you land, and I will give you descendants.
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And that was enough for Abraham to follow him in
a world full of different gods at that time, that
you could follow.
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Pick a god. You can the sun god. Follow that god.
Pick the moon god. Pick the moon god. You can
follow that god at night. Pick that goddess. You could
pick whatever you want.
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He was given options, but he heard the voice of
Yahweh and followed him. God was doing a great reset
before we even called anything a reset.
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He was doing a reset with humanity through Noah.
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And then after Noah, God decided that he would pick
one man through one nation would be birth out of
this one man where that nation did not exist. The
land was there, but there were no descendants, and he
would have to have descendants. The descendants would come through Isaac,
the promised son, the one that they'd been hoping for,
the one that they had been praying for and they've
been trying for, And they waited for years. They tried
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for years, and it never came to pass until later on,
even after they gave birth to Ishmael. The Bible tells
us that as we step out in faith, God comes
along his sons and his daughters to encourage them along
the journey. But I think we have to be obedient
at the end of the day, to be obedient, to
hear the voice of the Lord and to follow him.
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As a matter of fact, I believe that there are
different progressions to following God on the vision that God
has for your life.
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If you're praying for vision, you're asking God for vision.
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That's the best prayer you could pray and get ready
because God may call you to do something that is
totally out of your comfort zone. But you're not gonna
get there fast, but you're gonna get there if you
continue to follow Him in Jesus name.
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When I'm thinking.
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About Honolulu and Meli Lani and Meeli Lani was just
a dream. We had people who were driving all the
way from Meli Lani, but we knew we needed a
location in Mei Lani. When I before we even came here,
how many of you were with me in the old
hot Elementary school at wai Kelle. Go ahead and raise
your hand. Go ahead and raise hand. At one, two, three, four, five, six,
seventy eight, nine, ten. We all sweated it out at
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why Kele Elementary School. The rest of you are living
in the land of milk and honey. That when God
called me back then to leave my great what. I
loved my youth ministry. I loved Hope Chapel conno Here.
I loved the windward side. I loved that Lisa and
I were employed there, we were staffed there, we got
saved there, we met there, we had our family there.
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I love that. But when God called me to leave,
that was totally not what I wanted to do. I
did not want to come to the west Side. Nothing
wrong with the west Side, nothing wrong with your west
Side pride.
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I love the west Side.
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Got quite all of a sudden, whoa, I'm feeling a
little tension because I said, west Side, Dan Krengz, you
gotta help me out.
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I'm telling you, I do know. I'm an east Side guy.
I'm a wind and rain kind of guy, you know
I'm talking about.
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And so when God called me to go over the
coalios to the coals, to come over here, I didn't
want to go. So I went immediately. I found these
progressions in stages. The first one is disobedience, right, No,
there's no way I'm not going. I'm not going to go.
I'm not going to go. Progression please on the screen.
Disobedience I'm not going in any moment now, disobedience, and
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then the second one is that is the next level
is reluctance. Is reluctance, I wanna be careful because it
might be a teenager up there.
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I don't know. The reluctance, thank you, There you go.
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Okay, So number one you have disobedience, I don't want
to go. The second level is reluctance. I'm very I
don't want to go. I'm not gonna go. I really
don't want to go. Not that I don't want to
go now, I really don't want to go. Then the
next level after reluctance, after you've done some business with God,
is compliance. You're complying, you are complying with the Lord.
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You're going, but your heart's not really in it. Then
it's compliance. Then from compliance you go to the next level,
and the compliance becomes obedience, and you're doing it because
you know you should right, because you know that as
a Christian you are obedient. And then from obedience then
I think it goes to the next level. And that's
when you are tried and you are tested, and you
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come to alliance. You are totally aligned with God. So
you're under alignment, and then I think it hits the
ultimate level where it is a delight, delight, I delight
to do the will of God. Abraham ended up delighting
to do what God called him to do. And so
in Genesis chapter twenty one, verse one to eight, it
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says that the Lord kept his word and did for
Sarah exactly what he had promised. She became pregnant, and
she gave birth to a son for Abraham and his
old age. And this happened at just the time God
had said that it would. How's that just the time
that God said it, at just the right time. This
is when God does it. I don't know how many
of you, guys are waiting on something. You're waiting on
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the word, You're waiting on the promise, You're waiting on
something prophetic. You're waiting on the promotion. You're waiting on
the loan, you're waiting on a business. You're waiting for
God to make it clear. You're waiting for the clouds
to part, You're waiting for an answer. How many of
you would say, I'm waiting right now, Mike, I'm waiting.
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Go ahead and raise your hand.
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Well, you have come to the right service today because
the prophetic that God has get even to Abraham, for
us takes ten chapters, but for Abraham it took decades.
We see it in ten chapters, but God takes it
in decades, but it begins to happen. So when you
are waiting and you are patient, you're waiting for that
godly husband, you're waiting for that godly wife, you're waiting
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to you know, you're waiting for that promise, don't do
an Ishmael and being and cause problems down the road
that you're still gonna have to deal with. And that's
what we're dealing with in the world today because of
that promise, because of black broken promise. It says right
here in verse four that eight days after Isaac was born,
Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded. And Abraham was
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one hundred years old when Isaac was born. That's old,
everybody that's like, that's real old. And he still had
a kid. That's amazing. That's a miracle. And Sarah declared,
God has brought me laughter. And all who hear about
this will laugh with me. Who would have said that
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Abraham Sarah would nurse a baby, that Sarah would nurse
a baby. Yet I've given Abraham a son in his
old age, and they named him Isaac because Isaac means laughter.
So when I look at the lessons that we can
teach our children, the lessons that have been poured out
to me, the lessons that my dad taught me, the
lessons that my spiritual fathers taught me, I think about
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these four things. We find it in Genesis chapter twenty two,
verse one to three, and it says this. It says
sometime later, everybody say sometime later, meaning Lannie say sometime later,
thank you. And then some time later God tested Abraham's faith.
Abraham God called yes. He replied, here, I am take
your son, your only son, yes, Isaac, whom you love
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so much, and go to the land of Mariah. Go
and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of
the mountains, which I will show you.
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Go and take them to Mariah. And then imagine if
God told you that.
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Now this is the son that you've been waiting for,
This is the this is the promise that you've been
waiting for, or maybe this is the business that you
have been hoping for.
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This is the building that you have finally got.
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This is all the things, the dreams, and this is
the relationship that you have trusted God for. And God says,
put it on the altar. I want you to trust
me and put it on the altar. Put that career
on the altar. Put that on the altar. If he
calls you to put it on the altar or take
it to the mountain, you got to listen to him
because you never know what God's gonna do. He could
either take it and replace it with something better, or
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he could put it right back in your hand. Put
it right back in your hand and be more amazing
than you thought it could. I remember before we got
into this building, one of my closest friends would tell
me and we were going through a whole lease situation
on the lease and renegotiating the least because I don't
know if you know this, but we took a three
year lease on this building and went all in on
three years with eight hundred thousand dollars to build out.
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Not this nice version, the previous version, which was still
nice anyway, but anyway, this added more seats and I
remember that we had eight hundred thousand dollars in the bank.
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We really had a million. We had a million and
all in.
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We put a million dollars all in for only a
three year guarantee.
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Now, I don't know if you think that's crazy or what,
but that was faith. That was a risk.
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There was no guarantee that the land would the landlord
would renegotiate with us after that three years. But we
knew that this was our opening in our door. I
don't know if you've saw the movie Dumb and Dumber.
It's not the best Christian movie, but you know, but
you're saying there's a chance. You're saying there's a chance.
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And there was a chance. And we got in. And
as a result of getting in, God renewed the lease
and then another lease renewal.
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And we want to buy it, but they won't sell it.
So what did God do?
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God brings me Leilani and we buy Mellilani and we
have a great location to Meli Lani.
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What does God do? We want to go to Copole?
So God provides the land.
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Oh, by the way, construction costs about thirty to forty
percent higher. Now did you know that? But we're gonna
step out in Jesus name. We're gonna step out in
faith and see what God does. Because it's impossible to
please God without faith. So we're gonna try, and we're
gonna step out and see God bring the miracles, and
step out and see God bring bring the miracles, and
step out and call out. The miracle gives what We
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have enough money to build couple A. We have enough.
We have enough. The key is it's all in your pockets.
It's in your pa. You have it all online, You've
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got it all, meaning lot, you got it all.
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Hold no, lolah, you got it all. I believe we're
gonna have enough to complete that building.
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I'm gonna do. I wanna do it debt free in
Jesus name. I don't like mortgages. The good news that's
in your pockets. Without faith, it's impossible to please God.
Let's see what God does. So he takes them up
there and he puts it on the he's with the
altar in mind, and Bible says in verse three that
the next morning, Abraham got up early and he saddled
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his dogue, and he took two of his servants with him,
along with his son Isaac okay, and then he chopped
wood for a fire for burnt offering and set out
for the place that God had told him about his disobedience.
There's no disobedience. We hear no story of reluctance. We
hear no heart of compliance. All we know is that
he is obeying, he is delighting, and he is aligned
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with God. He has made mistakes. He's gone to Egypt,
shouldn't have gone. Had brought back Hagar as a maid
servant for his wife as a gift, and she's the
maid servant. They end up having Ishmael through the maide servant.
And now we have all our problems in the Middle East.
To this day, you have all of those challenges. He
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argues with his nephew. The nephew argues with him. The
nephew's disrespectful. He takes the high road, which is pretty awesome.
His nephew takes the lower planes, and he goes there
to the plains of Zoar. God tells Abraham, and look around,
just turned through a three sixty from Eva to Diamond Head,
from west side to east side, from Malca to Makaya.
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All of that is going to be yours. I got you.
God begins to fulfill this promises in Abraham in his
old age, has the age, has the wisdom of the elderly,
and he sees what he's seen before, and he knows
God is going to do something, that he's going to
go there and God's going to do a miracle. I'm
gonna bring my son Isaac, and God's going to do
a miracle. I think it's important that our children watch
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us obey God promptly. I hope my kids have overheard
my conversations of faith. I hope that they have heard
of the angst of losing opportunities and seeing God bring
things back. I pray that our children who are living
in this land of plenty don't lose their edge because
of the blessing that is overflowing from one generation to
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the next. I pray that I pray that you who
are younger in your teens, that you see what your
parents have fought for, your grandparents have fought for, and
why they get so upset when they see things happen
with our nation that they're having a hard time going
with the flow because they knew what it was like
in the forties and the sixties, and they knew what
it was like in the eighties because they paid a
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price for this too. I pray that we trust God
with our obedience. The second thing that we find in
verse six. So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt
offering on Isaac's shoulders, while he himself carried the fire
and the knife. And as the two of them walked
on together, Isaac turned to Abraham and said, Father, yes,
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my son. Abraham replied, and he says, we have the
fire and the wood. The boy says, but where is
the sheep for the burnt offering? And this is what
he says. He says, God will provide a sheep for
the burnt offering. This picture right here, I don't know
if you know this. I'm sure some of you do.
I think most of you might is a prophetic picture
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of Jesus. So he's going up to Mount Moriah. On
Mount Moriah is where the current temple mount stands. On
Mount Moriah is what you see the Dome of the
Rock behind me, which is not a Jewish site, it's
a Muslim site. Next to it is the alak Samasque
below that, and the Dome of the Rock in the
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Golden Dome. The dome looks beautiful, but really there is
no temple anymore. The temple has been wiped out. On
the foundation of the temple is where Mount Moriah was
built on. The temple was mat Moran was built on
Mount Moriah, and this is the site where Abraham is
going to obey the Lord to sacrifice his son. It's
a picture of God sending Jesus with the wood on
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his shoulders, on Isaac's shoulders, carrying it up the mountain
of Jesus with the beams of the cross. He's got
two servants who are going up to help, and like
the two thieves on the cross, one of the right
and one of the left. While Jesus is crucified. God
says the Lord will provide. He says, God will provide
a sheep for the bird offering my son. I was
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talking of Pastor Waxer, Tipman Tip Tipton, my good friend
from One Love Uh the second best Bible teacher in
the state of Hawaii, second best. And he's a just kidding.
He's a really good friend of mine. He's he's amazing.
I just was throwing out that out. He says, see,
if you're awake, I can't tell from your masks if
you really are with me or you're like, okay. So anyway,
Waxer tipped in great guy, and I talked to him
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about this the other day. We were talking. I said,
he goes, yeah, I'm all right.
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I remember.
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Remember that's the that's the threshing floor of Irana where
David had to offer a sacrifice to the Lord. And
he said, Arona, sell me a threshing floor. He says, no, no, no,
I'm gonna give it to you for free, King David.
He goes, no, no, no, I will not take sacrifices,
offer any sacrifices that have cost me nothing. He says,
So I'm gonna pay for this land, and I'm gonna
give it to the Lord to stop this plague that
has hit our hit our world right now. I'm gonna
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stop it that it's hit hit Israel. And so he
pays for it. It is on this threshing floor that
David would prepare on Mount Moriah, this exact spot where
the temple would be built, that his son Solomon would
build that temple on that spot. Of course, we know
that the temple was destroyed two times, and the temple
will be rebuilt again, not in our time. Hopefully we're
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out of here when the rapture takes us out, because
that is where the deal will be made with Israel
with the Anti Christ. To go ahead and put that temple,
new temple up on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Right now,
if I could get the picture again one more time
of Jerusalem.
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There you go on.
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That empty there's there's a there's a part on this
side now on that corner, on this corner over here,
in the upper right hand corner, which is where the
temple will be built. When I went to my first
my first trip to Israel, on this bottom right hand corner,
there's a little gazebel. And in that little gazebel, my
tour guy told me, right here, Mike, right here, this
is where the Holy of Holies is. If we were
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to drill down, this is where the most holy place
of the original Temple would have been. And I went
inside the gazebel and I prayed blessing.
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My brothers who were pastors are looking at me. You're crazy.
What are you doing inside?
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That's sacred, that's holy, I said, I said, we can
approach God boldly before his throne. This is just architecture.
I'm coming inside. Right here, you should join me. They
were scared. No, Wana, they struggle. No, just kidding anyway,
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm
just kidding. I'm just kidding. Throw all my Hawaii pass
their friends under the bus. My tour guy, Ronnie Winter,
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who's still my friend to this day. See my friend
to this day. I still email him. He's in the sixties.
Ronnie said, might come come, Come, Come, come you you guys,
Come on, I guys, take your guys all to this
place and you go against the Whaling Wall. Have you
heard of the Whaling Wall or the Western Wall? Where
you take your prayers and you put it in there
and you get to cole mingle with Hebrews who are
praying fervently over that wall, on that side of that wall.
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They're praying.
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And I just prayed, and you know all the things
that I wrapped up in that in mid two thousands,
and I stuck it in there. Everything has happened, you guys,
everything has happened, and I put it in there.
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But Ronnie says, let's go one level deeper. And we
want one level deeper.
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And how many of you know that civilizations are built
upon civilizations for thousands of years. And so we went
down to the actual bottom of the base of the
I feel like I can't do hula right the bottom
of the temple, at the bottom, on the bottom where
nobody subterranean below the ground, fifty to seventy feet below ground,
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where the actual temple foundation was, where there was where
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. We should go on
to Israel tour before Jesus comes back, because he's coming
back soon. So I don't know when he's coming, but
let's try to go in twenty twenty two. Okay, save
your money, we're gonna go all right, for it's destroyed.
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So here we go. Now.
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So we went down there and Ronnie took me down
all these stairs and you know what the amazing thing was,
there's a place where the Holy of Holies was this
way as well, underground. And he said, if you went
in here, Mike, exactly here, this is where the center
of the Holy of Holy of the old.
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Temple would have been.
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And I took another piece of paper, wrote my prayer
and stuck it in there. And actually this is where
the women, the place where the women could pray when
all the men had to pray on the outside, the
women got to be on the inside. I thought that
would be amazing. Abraham is going to be sacrifice, sacrificing
his son on this altar. He says, the Lord will provide.
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And the Lord does provide, because in verse six it says,
so Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on
Isaac's shoulders that I had said. He says, God will
provide a sheep for the burnt offering. Waxer also reminded me,
he said, this, Mike, the Hebrew is actually not.
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God will provide a lamb.
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God will provide himself as the lamb, the substitution, the
substitutionary atonement for our sins, the covering of over our sins.
God will provide. The Bible tells this is also in
verse ten, he says, an Abraham picked up the knife
to kill his son as a sacrifice. Why did he
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do that? Because in those pagan cultures you normally would
sacrifice the first son.
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I don't know what age, but it was common.
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Maybe they waited they would sacrifice them and throw them
in the fire. As a matter of fact, in Deuteronomy
chapter twelve, verse thirty one, and says you must not
worship the Lord your god in their way, because in
worshiping their gods Honolulu their God's meaning Lani, they do
all kinds of detestable things that the Lord hates online.
They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire
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as sacrifices to their gods. And so what commonly happened
is is that they would begin to sacrifice the first son.
That's why I praise God. I'm number two in my family.
I'm my second son. I'm the second son. Hey, you
guys earlier. Okay, okay, here's number three, number three. We
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have to see God accurately, see God accurately.
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We gotta see God accurately.
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He did not see the Lord as the way the
other people who followed the pagan gods did.
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This is that verse eleven.
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At that moment, the Angel of the Lord called to
him from heaven. Abraham Abraham, Yes, Abraham replied here I am.
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Should you imagine he's about to sacrifice his son.
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He's not gonna take a dagger and plunge it into
his heart, as what we probably have seen in some
art depictions. He's gonna sacrifice the same way that he
would sacrifice the lamb. He would lay it down and
cut the cartoid artery. It would bleed it to death,
and then you would offer it as a sacrifice, as
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a burnt offering, he says Abraham. Abraham, yes, Abraham replied,
here I am, he says, don't lay a hand on
the boy. The angel said, do not burn him in
any way. For now I know that you truly fear God.
Now I know that you fully respect me, you fully
honor me, you fully obey me. You have not withheld
from me even your son, your only son, the same
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way God did not withhold from us his only begod son,
Jesus Christ. Then he says in verse thirteen, then Abraham
looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns
in a thicket, and so he took the ram and
sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
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That's why he is the propitiation, fancy work for the
covering of my sin and your sin. He is the
sacrifice for us. That's why in John chapter one, verse one,
John the Baptist looks at Jesus and says, behold the
lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world,
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the ram in the thicket.
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He is our substitute for us.
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And then it says Abraham named that place Jehovah Jirah,
which means the Lord will provide. To this day people
still use that name as a proverb. On the mountain
of the Lord. That God provided we see God accurately.
Here's number four of My final point is this number four.
Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham in
verse fifteen. And this is what the Lord said, because
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you have obeyed me and not withheld even your son,
your only son, I swear by my own name that
I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants
beyond the sea shore, like the stars in the sky
and the sand on the sea shore.
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Can you imagine the sand on the sea shore of
the whole world.
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Grab a handful of sand, and the next time you
go to the beach, maybe this afternoon, and try to
imagine how many grains in that one handful of sand,
how many.
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A million, a million and a half.
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God says, your descendants will be so great, Abraham through Isaac,
that your descendants would include us, will be more than
sand on the seashore.
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And then the stars in the sky.
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We've been engrafted into the family of God, that even
though we are not Hebrews, we are not Jewish, We've
been brought in because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
that has made away for me and you to be
in God's family. And so the most important thing that
we could do is we could know God personally. I
really believe that the end is speeding up. The end
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is speeding up. We're getting there faster. We have accelerated
towards the end, and I don't know how soon that's coming.
Jesus said, the Father knows those times. Not even I
know that time. It is only the Father who knows.
I believe that we are getting closers. You can see
what's happen happening in the world, and what's happening economically,
not just inflation, but you see the reasons behind the reasons,
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and the authority behind the authorities, and you see all
of that, and you just begin to realize we are
speeding up. I imagine that people during Nero's time felt
that it was speeding up. I imagine that people in
World War two felt that it was speeding up.
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But I never lived in those eras.
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But I think biblically, according to everything that's been fulfilled.
When you look before the nineteen forties, Israel wasn't even
a nation. Did you know that before the nineteen forties,
the land was there, but it was under British and
Palestinian control. Even though it was God's land, it was
his people's land already given to him in Genesis chapter eleven,
in Genesis chapter twelve, this was already the endowment that
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was given to the people of Israel, that this would
be Did you know that it was prophetically spoken in
the Book of Israel that people would come back. You
know there were six million Jews I think that were
exterminated in concentration camps in Europe, and then trying to
wipe that out that didn't happen.
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That happened to everybody dash all.
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I mean, you name it in Warsaw and Poland, in
horrendous places that took place under Hitler. And then it
was spoken about how there was a man name I'm
going beyond my time and I don't really care, but
here we go.
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Thank you for being here.
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Come on, he can plain people bring that there's a
there's a scientist named Chame Rosenwig. I think I got
his name right, but I'll have it later on when
I when I preached this part, he created smokeless bullets
that in World War One, that they would fire their
bullets and there was too much smoke and give away
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your position. And he taught the British and he created something,
and he was Jewish on how to do it. And
he said, what is your gift? He says, my gift,
my payment is my land back in Israel. And it
started with the United Nations, and I think President Harry Truman,
if memory serves me, correctly, called Israel a nation, and
a nation was birth in one day. In one day,
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the United Nations went berserk, the Arab nations.
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Around it were upset crazy.
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And then in ezekiel Is prophesied that on silver wings
of birds, God's people would return and repopulate a land
that was filled with marshes and dry and hardly any
trees at all. And God made Israel an oasis in
the desert, and to this day the leader in technology
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and agriculture in Europe and in that region.
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The blessing is on Israel, everybody.
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And that's why when I saw Beb Netanyahu lose and
they ousted him from office and they brought in a
new group. I thought, oh my gosh, we're gonna have problems.
We already had a present before that loved Israel. And
that's important to me, and it should be important to you.
Because God said I will bless those who bless you,
and curse those who curse you. We need to be
on the side of Israel. We don't need a president
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to have to do that. We can be praying for Israel. Secondly,
we got to pray for Israel even more because the
one of their biggest protectors, even though they didn't like him,
was Benjamin Netanyah who stood in the gap and held
back Iran and all those countries that want to cast
Israel into the sea. I'm going further than I expect it.
I'm telling you right now, this is what they want.
They want to see Israel's demise. Israel goes down, America
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goes down to but God is going to do something
with Israel.
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So that's why we got to get behind him.
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Happy Father's Day, that's different. Come on, let's pray Father.
We just thank you for our nation, We thank you
for our country. We thank you for the history of
the Bible and the history of this nation. Father, help
us in the midst of all of our caveats about
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how we so much could be better, could have done
things better. Lord, I thank you that you still have
shed your grace on thee. I know you can turn
this country around. I know that there should be a
great revival that we're praying for in the marketplace and
not just in the church buildings. Father, I pray that
you strengthen our faith, maybe.
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The summer of faith. May you pour out your faith,
pour out your spirit. We want to please you, so
we want to step out when you call. We want
to be people who are.
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Our obedient, show our children, show our families what it
means to step out in obedience to your word, to
your call upon our lives. Father, I pray as we
are as fathers, are giving a masculine example of what
it means to be a man. Father, I pray that
your blessing would come upon every single father in this place.
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In the name of Jesus and Father, I thank you
that we coming from all races, we come from all
all different backgrounds.
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But Father, I thank you that.
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Ultimately you are our great Father, and we thank you Lord,
so we love you, we bless you in the name
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On prey dot com Radio.
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When I begin to look at Abraham and we've been
talking about this series on faith, faith is so incredible.
Faith is very very important, not just faith in God,
but faith that God can do incredible things.
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I felt like.
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After this year, I knew in my heart that it's
like Hawaii is shrunk back a little bit.
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But I believe that inspire church.
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The people go to inspire that we are not going
to be people who shrink back, that We're gonna be
people who move forward, who are distrusting. And I'm declaring
this summer is called the Summer of faith in Jesus name.
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Somebody say amen.
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You know the Bible says that without faith, it is
impossible to please God.
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According to the Book of James.
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Without faith, it's impossible to please him. God blesses people
who step out in faith, who are not waiting for
everything to work the way that it should. Even though
we have sensibility and like we ask for the wisdom
of Solomon, we want everything to work. But we also
have to understand that you're not always gonna see all
the entire picture, and God rarely gives you the entire
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picture when he calls you to step out. Abraham was
given the calling in Genesis chapter twelve, and basically God
gave him direction, just follow me to the land that
I will show you, and then he gives them the
Abrahamic covenant of the blessing that will happen if he
follows him.
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He doesn't say this is.
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The land you're gonna live in, this is what how
many descendants you're gonna have?
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He does.
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He says that they're gonna be a multitude, but he
doesn't say this is exactly the town, the place, this
is what you're gonna do with your life. It doesn't
give him all of the details, but he gives him
what's important.
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He says, go to the land and I will show you.
I will give you land, and I will give you descendants.
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And that was enough for Abraham to follow him in
a world full of different gods at that time, that
you could follow.
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Pick a god. You can the sun god. Follow that god.
Pick the moon god. Pick the moon god. You can
follow that god at night. Pick that goddess. You could
pick whatever you want.
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He was given options, but he heard the voice of
Yahweh and followed him. God was doing a great reset
before we even called anything a reset.
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He was doing a reset with humanity through Noah.
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And then after Noah, God decided that he would pick
one man through one nation would be birth out of
this one man where that nation did not exist. The
land was there, but there were no descendants, and he
would have to have descendants. The descendants would come through Isaac,
the promised son, the one that they'd been hoping for,
the one that they had been praying for and they've
been trying for, And they waited for years. They tried
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for years, and it never came to pass until later on,
even after they gave birth to Ishmael. The Bible tells
us that as we step out in faith, God comes
along his sons and his daughters to encourage them along
the journey. But I think we have to be obedient
at the end of the day, to be obedient, to
hear the voice of the Lord and to follow him.
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As a matter of fact, I believe that there are
different progressions to following God on the vision that God
has for your life.
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If you're praying for vision, you're asking God for vision.
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That's the best prayer you could pray and get ready
because God may call you to do something that is
totally out of your comfort zone. But you're not gonna
get there fast, but you're gonna get there if you
continue to follow Him in Jesus name.
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When I'm thinking.
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About Honolulu and Meli Lani and Meeli Lani was just
a dream. We had people who were driving all the
way from Meli Lani, but we knew we needed a
location in Mei Lani. When I before we even came here,
how many of you were with me in the old
hot Elementary school at wai Kelle. Go ahead and raise
your hand. Go ahead and raise hand. At one, two, three, four, five, six,
seventy eight, nine, ten. We all sweated it out at
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why Kele Elementary School. The rest of you are living
in the land of milk and honey. That when God
called me back then to leave my great what. I
loved my youth ministry. I loved Hope Chapel conno Here.
I loved the windward side. I loved that Lisa and
I were employed there, we were staffed there, we got
saved there, we met there, we had our family there.
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I love that. But when God called me to leave,
that was totally not what I wanted to do. I
did not want to come to the west Side. Nothing
wrong with the west Side, nothing wrong with your west
Side pride.
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I love the west Side.
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Got quite all of a sudden, whoa, I'm feeling a
little tension because I said, west Side, Dan Krengz, you
gotta help me out.
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I'm telling you, I do know. I'm an east Side guy.
I'm a wind and rain kind of guy, you know
I'm talking about.
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And so when God called me to go over the
coalios to the coals, to come over here, I didn't
want to go. So I went immediately. I found these
progressions in stages. The first one is disobedience, right, No,
there's no way I'm not going. I'm not going to go.
I'm not going to go. Progression please on the screen.
Disobedience I'm not going in any moment now, disobedience, and
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then the second one is that is the next level
is reluctance. Is reluctance, I wanna be careful because it
might be a teenager up there.
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I don't know. The reluctance, thank you, There you go.
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Okay, So number one you have disobedience, I don't want
to go. The second level is reluctance. I'm very I
don't want to go. I'm not gonna go. I really
don't want to go. Not that I don't want to
go now, I really don't want to go. Then the
next level after reluctance, after you've done some business with God,
is compliance. You're complying, you are complying with the Lord.
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You're going, but your heart's not really in it. Then
it's compliance. Then from compliance you go to the next level,
and the compliance becomes obedience, and you're doing it because
you know you should right, because you know that as
a Christian you are obedient. And then from obedience then
I think it goes to the next level. And that's
when you are tried and you are tested, and you
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come to alliance. You are totally aligned with God. So
you're under alignment, and then I think it hits the
ultimate level where it is a delight, delight, I delight
to do the will of God. Abraham ended up delighting
to do what God called him to do. And so
in Genesis chapter twenty one, verse one to eight, it
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says that the Lord kept his word and did for
Sarah exactly what he had promised. She became pregnant, and
she gave birth to a son for Abraham and his
old age. And this happened at just the time God
had said that it would. How's that just the time
that God said it, at just the right time. This
is when God does it. I don't know how many
of you, guys are waiting on something. You're waiting on
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the word, You're waiting on the promise, You're waiting on
something prophetic. You're waiting on the promotion. You're waiting on
the loan, you're waiting on a business. You're waiting for
God to make it clear. You're waiting for the clouds
to part, You're waiting for an answer. How many of
you would say, I'm waiting right now, Mike, I'm waiting.
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Go ahead and raise your hand.
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Well, you have come to the right service today because
the prophetic that God has get even to Abraham, for
us takes ten chapters, but for Abraham it took decades.
We see it in ten chapters, but God takes it
in decades, but it begins to happen. So when you
are waiting and you are patient, you're waiting for that
godly husband, you're waiting for that godly wife, you're waiting
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to you know, you're waiting for that promise, don't do
an Ishmael and being and cause problems down the road
that you're still gonna have to deal with. And that's
what we're dealing with in the world today because of
that promise, because of black broken promise. It says right
here in verse four that eight days after Isaac was born,
Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded. And Abraham was
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one hundred years old when Isaac was born. That's old,
everybody that's like, that's real old. And he still had
a kid. That's amazing. That's a miracle. And Sarah declared,
God has brought me laughter. And all who hear about
this will laugh with me. Who would have said that
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Abraham Sarah would nurse a baby, that Sarah would nurse
a baby. Yet I've given Abraham a son in his
old age, and they named him Isaac because Isaac means laughter.
So when I look at the lessons that we can
teach our children, the lessons that have been poured out
to me, the lessons that my dad taught me, the
lessons that my spiritual fathers taught me, I think about
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these four things. We find it in Genesis chapter twenty two,
verse one to three, and it says this. It says
sometime later, everybody say sometime later, meaning Lannie say sometime later,
thank you. And then some time later God tested Abraham's faith.
Abraham God called yes. He replied, here, I am take
your son, your only son, yes, Isaac, whom you love
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so much, and go to the land of Mariah. Go
and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of
the mountains, which I will show you.
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Go and take them to Mariah. And then imagine if
God told you that.
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Now this is the son that you've been waiting for,
This is the this is the promise that you've been
waiting for, or maybe this is the business that you
have been hoping for.
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This is the building that you have finally got.
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This is all the things, the dreams, and this is
the relationship that you have trusted God for. And God says,
put it on the altar. I want you to trust
me and put it on the altar. Put that career
on the altar. Put that on the altar. If he
calls you to put it on the altar or take
it to the mountain, you got to listen to him
because you never know what God's gonna do. He could
either take it and replace it with something better, or
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he could put it right back in your hand. Put
it right back in your hand and be more amazing
than you thought it could. I remember before we got
into this building, one of my closest friends would tell
me and we were going through a whole lease situation
on the lease and renegotiating the least because I don't
know if you know this, but we took a three
year lease on this building and went all in on
three years with eight hundred thousand dollars to build out.
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Not this nice version, the previous version, which was still
nice anyway, but anyway, this added more seats and I
remember that we had eight hundred thousand dollars in the bank.
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We really had a million. We had a million and
all in.
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We put a million dollars all in for only a
three year guarantee.
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Now, I don't know if you think that's crazy or what,
but that was faith. That was a risk.
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There was no guarantee that the land would the landlord
would renegotiate with us after that three years. But we
knew that this was our opening in our door. I
don't know if you've saw the movie Dumb and Dumber.
It's not the best Christian movie, but you know, but
you're saying there's a chance. You're saying there's a chance.
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And there was a chance. And we got in. And
as a result of getting in, God renewed the lease
and then another lease renewal.
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And we want to buy it, but they won't sell it.
So what did God do?
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God brings me Leilani and we buy Mellilani and we
have a great location to Meli Lani.
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What does God do? We want to go to Copole?
So God provides the land.
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Oh, by the way, construction costs about thirty to forty
percent higher. Now did you know that? But we're gonna
step out in Jesus name. We're gonna step out in
faith and see what God does. Because it's impossible to
please God without faith. So we're gonna try, and we're
gonna step out and see God bring the miracles, and
step out and see God bring bring the miracles, and
step out and call out. The miracle gives what We
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have enough money to build couple A. We have enough.
We have enough. The key is it's all in your pockets.
It's in your pa. You have it all online, You've
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got it all, meaning lot, you got it all.
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Hold no, lolah, you got it all. I believe we're
gonna have enough to complete that building.
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I'm gonna do. I wanna do it debt free in
Jesus name. I don't like mortgages. The good news that's
in your pockets. Without faith, it's impossible to please God.
Let's see what God does. So he takes them up
there and he puts it on the he's with the
altar in mind, and Bible says in verse three that
the next morning, Abraham got up early and he saddled
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his dogue, and he took two of his servants with him,
along with his son Isaac okay, and then he chopped
wood for a fire for burnt offering and set out
for the place that God had told him about his disobedience.
There's no disobedience. We hear no story of reluctance. We
hear no heart of compliance. All we know is that
he is obeying, he is delighting, and he is aligned
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with God. He has made mistakes. He's gone to Egypt,
shouldn't have gone. Had brought back Hagar as a maid
servant for his wife as a gift, and she's the
maid servant. They end up having Ishmael through the maide servant.
And now we have all our problems in the Middle East.
To this day, you have all of those challenges. He
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argues with his nephew. The nephew argues with him. The
nephew's disrespectful. He takes the high road, which is pretty awesome.
His nephew takes the lower planes, and he goes there
to the plains of Zoar. God tells Abraham, and look around,
just turned through a three sixty from Eva to Diamond Head,
from west side to east side, from Malca to Makaya.
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All of that is going to be yours. I got you.
God begins to fulfill this promises in Abraham in his
old age, has the age, has the wisdom of the elderly,
and he sees what he's seen before, and he knows
God is going to do something, that he's going to
go there and God's going to do a miracle. I'm
gonna bring my son Isaac, and God's going to do
a miracle. I think it's important that our children watch
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us obey God promptly. I hope my kids have overheard
my conversations of faith. I hope that they have heard
of the angst of losing opportunities and seeing God bring
things back. I pray that our children who are living
in this land of plenty don't lose their edge because
of the blessing that is overflowing from one generation to
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the next. I pray that I pray that you who
are younger in your teens, that you see what your
parents have fought for, your grandparents have fought for, and
why they get so upset when they see things happen
with our nation that they're having a hard time going
with the flow because they knew what it was like
in the forties and the sixties, and they knew what
it was like in the eighties because they paid a
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price for this too. I pray that we trust God
with our obedience. The second thing that we find in
verse six. So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt
offering on Isaac's shoulders, while he himself carried the fire
and the knife. And as the two of them walked
on together, Isaac turned to Abraham and said, Father, yes,
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my son. Abraham replied, and he says, we have the
fire and the wood. The boy says, but where is
the sheep for the burnt offering? And this is what
he says. He says, God will provide a sheep for
the burnt offering. This picture right here, I don't know
if you know this. I'm sure some of you do.
I think most of you might is a prophetic picture
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of Jesus. So he's going up to Mount Moriah. On
Mount Moriah is where the current temple mount stands. On
Mount Moriah is what you see the Dome of the
Rock behind me, which is not a Jewish site, it's
a Muslim site. Next to it is the alak Samasque
below that, and the Dome of the Rock in the
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Golden Dome. The dome looks beautiful, but really there is
no temple anymore. The temple has been wiped out. On
the foundation of the temple is where Mount Moriah was
built on. The temple was mat Moran was built on
Mount Moriah, and this is the site where Abraham is
going to obey the Lord to sacrifice his son. It's
a picture of God sending Jesus with the wood on
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his shoulders, on Isaac's shoulders, carrying it up the mountain
of Jesus with the beams of the cross. He's got
two servants who are going up to help, and like
the two thieves on the cross, one of the right
and one of the left. While Jesus is crucified. God
says the Lord will provide. He says, God will provide
a sheep for the bird offering my son. I was
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talking of Pastor Waxer, Tipman Tip Tipton, my good friend
from One Love Uh the second best Bible teacher in
the state of Hawaii, second best. And he's a just kidding.
He's a really good friend of mine. He's he's amazing.
I just was throwing out that out. He says, see,
if you're awake, I can't tell from your masks if
you really are with me or you're like, okay. So anyway,
Waxer tipped in great guy, and I talked to him
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about this the other day. We were talking. I said,
he goes, yeah, I'm all right.
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I remember.
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Remember that's the that's the threshing floor of Irana where
David had to offer a sacrifice to the Lord. And
he said, Arona, sell me a threshing floor. He says, no, no, no,
I'm gonna give it to you for free, King David.
He goes, no, no, no, I will not take sacrifices,
offer any sacrifices that have cost me nothing. He says,
So I'm gonna pay for this land, and I'm gonna
give it to the Lord to stop this plague that
has hit our hit our world right now. I'm gonna
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stop it that it's hit hit Israel. And so he
pays for it. It is on this threshing floor that
David would prepare on Mount Moriah, this exact spot where
the temple would be built, that his son Solomon would
build that temple on that spot. Of course, we know
that the temple was destroyed two times, and the temple
will be rebuilt again, not in our time. Hopefully we're
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out of here when the rapture takes us out, because
that is where the deal will be made with Israel
with the Anti Christ. To go ahead and put that temple,
new temple up on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Right now,
if I could get the picture again one more time
of Jerusalem.
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There you go on.
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That empty there's there's a there's a part on this
side now on that corner, on this corner over here,
in the upper right hand corner, which is where the
temple will be built. When I went to my first
my first trip to Israel, on this bottom right hand corner,
there's a little gazebel. And in that little gazebel, my
tour guy told me, right here, Mike, right here, this
is where the Holy of Holies is. If we were
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to drill down, this is where the most holy place
of the original Temple would have been. And I went
inside the gazebel and I prayed blessing.
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My brothers who were pastors are looking at me. You're crazy.
What are you doing inside?
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That's sacred, that's holy, I said, I said, we can
approach God boldly before his throne. This is just architecture.
I'm coming inside. Right here, you should join me. They
were scared. No, Wana, they struggle. No, just kidding anyway,
I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm
just kidding. I'm just kidding. Throw all my Hawaii pass
their friends under the bus. My tour guy, Ronnie Winter,
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who's still my friend to this day. See my friend
to this day. I still email him. He's in the sixties.
Ronnie said, might come come, Come, Come, come you you guys,
Come on, I guys, take your guys all to this
place and you go against the Whaling Wall. Have you
heard of the Whaling Wall or the Western Wall? Where
you take your prayers and you put it in there
and you get to cole mingle with Hebrews who are
praying fervently over that wall, on that side of that wall.
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They're praying.
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And I just prayed, and you know all the things
that I wrapped up in that in mid two thousands,
and I stuck it in there. Everything has happened, you guys,
everything has happened, and I put it in there.
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But Ronnie says, let's go one level deeper. And we
want one level deeper.
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And how many of you know that civilizations are built
upon civilizations for thousands of years. And so we went
down to the actual bottom of the base of the
I feel like I can't do hula right the bottom
of the temple, at the bottom, on the bottom where
nobody subterranean below the ground, fifty to seventy feet below ground,
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where the actual temple foundation was, where there was where
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. We should go on
to Israel tour before Jesus comes back, because he's coming
back soon. So I don't know when he's coming, but
let's try to go in twenty twenty two. Okay, save
your money, we're gonna go all right, for it's destroyed.
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So here we go. Now.
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So we went down there and Ronnie took me down
all these stairs and you know what the amazing thing was,
there's a place where the Holy of Holies was this
way as well, underground. And he said, if you went
in here, Mike, exactly here, this is where the center
of the Holy of Holy of the old.
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Temple would have been.
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And I took another piece of paper, wrote my prayer
and stuck it in there. And actually this is where
the women, the place where the women could pray when
all the men had to pray on the outside, the
women got to be on the inside. I thought that
would be amazing. Abraham is going to be sacrifice, sacrificing
his son on this altar. He says, the Lord will provide.
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And the Lord does provide, because in verse six it says,
so Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on
Isaac's shoulders that I had said. He says, God will
provide a sheep for the burnt offering. Waxer also reminded me,
he said, this, Mike, the Hebrew is actually not.
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God will provide a lamb.
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God will provide himself as the lamb, the substitution, the
substitutionary atonement for our sins, the covering of over our sins.
God will provide. The Bible tells this is also in
verse ten, he says, an Abraham picked up the knife
to kill his son as a sacrifice. Why did he
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do that? Because in those pagan cultures you normally would
sacrifice the first son.
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I don't know what age, but it was common.
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Maybe they waited they would sacrifice them and throw them
in the fire. As a matter of fact, in Deuteronomy
chapter twelve, verse thirty one, and says you must not
worship the Lord your god in their way, because in
worshiping their gods Honolulu their God's meaning Lani, they do
all kinds of detestable things that the Lord hates online.
They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire
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as sacrifices to their gods. And so what commonly happened
is is that they would begin to sacrifice the first son.
That's why I praise God. I'm number two in my family.
I'm my second son. I'm the second son. Hey, you
guys earlier. Okay, okay, here's number three, number three. We
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have to see God accurately, see God accurately.
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We gotta see God accurately.
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He did not see the Lord as the way the
other people who followed the pagan gods did.
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This is that verse eleven.
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At that moment, the Angel of the Lord called to
him from heaven. Abraham Abraham, Yes, Abraham replied here I am.
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Should you imagine he's about to sacrifice his son.
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He's not gonna take a dagger and plunge it into
his heart, as what we probably have seen in some
art depictions. He's gonna sacrifice the same way that he
would sacrifice the lamb. He would lay it down and
cut the cartoid artery. It would bleed it to death,
and then you would offer it as a sacrifice, as
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a burnt offering, he says Abraham. Abraham, yes, Abraham replied,
here I am, he says, don't lay a hand on
the boy. The angel said, do not burn him in
any way. For now I know that you truly fear God.
Now I know that you fully respect me, you fully
honor me, you fully obey me. You have not withheld
from me even your son, your only son, the same
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way God did not withhold from us his only begod son,
Jesus Christ. Then he says in verse thirteen, then Abraham
looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns
in a thicket, and so he took the ram and
sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
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That's why he is the propitiation, fancy work for the
covering of my sin and your sin. He is the
sacrifice for us. That's why in John chapter one, verse one,
John the Baptist looks at Jesus and says, behold the
lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world,
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the ram in the thicket.
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He is our substitute for us.
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And then it says Abraham named that place Jehovah Jirah,
which means the Lord will provide. To this day people
still use that name as a proverb. On the mountain
of the Lord. That God provided we see God accurately.
Here's number four of My final point is this number four.
Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham in
verse fifteen. And this is what the Lord said, because
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you have obeyed me and not withheld even your son,
your only son, I swear by my own name that
I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants
beyond the sea shore, like the stars in the sky
and the sand on the sea shore.
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Can you imagine the sand on the sea shore of
the whole world.
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Grab a handful of sand, and the next time you
go to the beach, maybe this afternoon, and try to
imagine how many grains in that one handful of sand,
how many.
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A million, a million and a half.
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God says, your descendants will be so great, Abraham through Isaac,
that your descendants would include us, will be more than
sand on the seashore.
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And then the stars in the sky.
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We've been engrafted into the family of God, that even
though we are not Hebrews, we are not Jewish, We've
been brought in because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ
that has made away for me and you to be
in God's family. And so the most important thing that
we could do is we could know God personally. I
really believe that the end is speeding up. The end
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is speeding up. We're getting there faster. We have accelerated
towards the end, and I don't know how soon that's coming.
Jesus said, the Father knows those times. Not even I
know that time. It is only the Father who knows.
I believe that we are getting closers. You can see
what's happen happening in the world, and what's happening economically,
not just inflation, but you see the reasons behind the reasons,
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and the authority behind the authorities, and you see all
of that, and you just begin to realize we are
speeding up. I imagine that people during Nero's time felt
that it was speeding up. I imagine that people in
World War two felt that it was speeding up.
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But I never lived in those eras.
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But I think biblically, according to everything that's been fulfilled.
When you look before the nineteen forties, Israel wasn't even
a nation. Did you know that before the nineteen forties,
the land was there, but it was under British and
Palestinian control. Even though it was God's land, it was
his people's land already given to him in Genesis chapter eleven,
in Genesis chapter twelve, this was already the endowment that
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was given to the people of Israel, that this would
be Did you know that it was prophetically spoken in
the Book of Israel that people would come back. You
know there were six million Jews I think that were
exterminated in concentration camps in Europe, and then trying to
wipe that out that didn't happen.
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That happened to everybody dash all.
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I mean, you name it in Warsaw and Poland, in
horrendous places that took place under Hitler. And then it
was spoken about how there was a man name I'm
going beyond my time and I don't really care, but
here we go.
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Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Come on, he can plain people bring that there's a
there's a scientist named Chame Rosenwig. I think I got
his name right, but I'll have it later on when
I when I preached this part, he created smokeless bullets
that in World War One, that they would fire their
bullets and there was too much smoke and give away
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your position. And he taught the British and he created something,
and he was Jewish on how to do it. And
he said, what is your gift? He says, my gift,
my payment is my land back in Israel. And it
started with the United Nations, and I think President Harry Truman,
if memory serves me, correctly, called Israel a nation, and
a nation was birth in one day. In one day,
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the United Nations went berserk, the Arab nations.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Around it were upset crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And then in ezekiel Is prophesied that on silver wings
of birds, God's people would return and repopulate a land
that was filled with marshes and dry and hardly any
trees at all. And God made Israel an oasis in
the desert, and to this day the leader in technology
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and agriculture in Europe and in that region.
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The blessing is on Israel, everybody.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And that's why when I saw Beb Netanyahu lose and
they ousted him from office and they brought in a
new group. I thought, oh my gosh, we're gonna have problems.
We already had a present before that loved Israel. And
that's important to me, and it should be important to you.
Because God said I will bless those who bless you,
and curse those who curse you. We need to be
on the side of Israel. We don't need a president
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to have to do that. We can be praying for Israel. Secondly,
we got to pray for Israel even more because the
one of their biggest protectors, even though they didn't like him,
was Benjamin Netanyah who stood in the gap and held
back Iran and all those countries that want to cast
Israel into the sea. I'm going further than I expect it.
I'm telling you right now, this is what they want.
They want to see Israel's demise. Israel goes down, America
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goes down to but God is going to do something
with Israel.
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So that's why we got to get behind him.
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Happy Father's Day, that's different. Come on, let's pray Father.
We just thank you for our nation, We thank you
for our country. We thank you for the history of
the Bible and the history of this nation. Father, help
us in the midst of all of our caveats about
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how we so much could be better, could have done
things better. Lord, I thank you that you still have
shed your grace on thee. I know you can turn
this country around. I know that there should be a
great revival that we're praying for in the marketplace and
not just in the church buildings. Father, I pray that
you strengthen our faith, maybe.
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The summer of faith. May you pour out your faith,
pour out your spirit. We want to please you, so
we want to step out when you call. We want
to be people who are.
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Our obedient, show our children, show our families what it
means to step out in obedience to your word, to
your call upon our lives. Father, I pray as we
are as fathers, are giving a masculine example of what
it means to be a man. Father, I pray that
your blessing would come upon every single father in this place.
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In the name of Jesus and Father, I thank you
that we coming from all races, we come from all
all different backgrounds.
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But Father, I thank you that.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Ultimately you are our great Father, and we thank you Lord,
so we love you, we bless you in the name
of Jesus, and everybody said, hey, everybody, thanks again for
tuning into pray dot com Radio. To find more of
my messages, podcasts, and leadership resources, go to pray dot
com or head directly to my website at mike Kai
dot tv mike Kai dot tv for curated content. Once again,
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this is Mike Co, senior pastor of Inspired Church in Hawaii.
Thank you so much for joining me on pray dot
com Radio. Aloha and God bless
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