August 27, 2025 • 47 mins
In this episode of the Legacy Bible Podcast, we revisit God’s covenant with Abraham and explore how His promises extend far beyond bloodlines to include all who come to Him by faith in Christ. Pastor Chuck Rains teaches from Galatians 3 and Genesis, showing how Abraham’s faith was counted as righteousness, how those who believe are called sons of God, and how the inheritance of eternal life belongs to all who are in Christ.
This message reminds us that true spiritual heritage is not found in genealogy but in faith. Whether Jew or Gentile, all who trust in Jesus share in Abraham’s blessing, are filled with the Spirit, and are called heirs of God.
📝 Show Notes
- God’s covenant with Abraham and its four unconditional promises:
- A great people
- A land
- A King
- A Savior for the world
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Welcome friends and welcome or welcome back.
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This is the Legacy Bible Podcast, a place where you will hear legacy lessons from the
Bible.
They were recorded on legacy audio from the tape archives of the Fellowship Bible Church
in Jo;iet, Illinois.
I be your host.
My name is Marcus Onate.
I'm bringing to you another one from the tape collection.
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Before we do that, I want to say hello and welcome to our new listeners.
I recently put the podcast on a new platform.
So we had a few downloads from there and one new subscriber from there.
So if you want to listen to it over there and rumble.
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So if you want to listen to it rumble, it's the same as the other podcast outlets.
But we'll talk about that a little bit more after a message here.
So this one today happens to be from September 29, 1991.
It's called Children of Faith.
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Abraham's promise.
Let me see.
I can't read my lessons.
I don't know.
Okay.
I can't read.
Well, children are both about Abraham.
Okay.
So I guess the continuation from last week, we had something about Abraham.
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I know that was recorded probably a few more weeks before this one.
I was at the beginning of September and it was at the end, but still something with
Abraham.
So this, that's so let's get right into it.
Like I said, I'll talk to you on the other side.
Now, I've said to each week in these last several weeks that I'm looking at with you
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at the truth of God's word as it centers for us on Abraham and his descendants.
Just a little resume about these matters.
God wanted to do a great work in this earth.
His heart of love wanted to bring a savior to this world, seeing his creature man in rebellion,
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seeing his creature turn from him going his own way under the judgment of death.
He allowed the love of God, the heart of God in love to bring a plan that he had in
his heart from the foundation of the earth, bring that plan to fulfillment.
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That his own son would come to this earth, be born of a woman, live a life as a man.
At a certain point in that life have a special anointing of the Spirit of God at his baptism
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that he would then go out and preach the word of God to Israel and offer them forgiveness
and life eternal.
That he would die being hated by those that he came to save.
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But not staying dead, he would be raised the third day to show that his life had was flawless,
perfect, sinless, and that the Father had accepted that life as a sacrifice for our sin.
He would raise him from the dead and openly display him for 40 days to show that his
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sacrifice was accepted and then to take him up into heaven with the promise that he would
someday return.
Return as far as Israel is concerned to sit on a throne over the nation Israel and return
and rule this world from Jerusalem for a thousand years.
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And having fulfilled all of those promises to take all who love him with him to be with
him forever in heaven.
In the epistles that follow the Gospels, we learn that there was another message that
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God wanted to bring to the world that was not disclosed in the Old Testament, it was
not disclosed in the Gospels, it was not disclosed until God used a man named Saul of
Tarsus and he became Paul, the apostle, by God's anointing, until that man received this
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message from God that anyone, Jew or Gentile in this age that would trust in Christ would
all be part of what he called the body of Christ, the church, the body of believers.
Now that message is to be heralded throughout the earth in every climb and place where people
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are, to every tribe and every nation, then they might know that the Savior that God sent
into this world was not just for the Jews, he is a Savior of the world.
He did not die just for the Jews.
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His blood is not an atonement to make reconciliation just for the Jews, it's for the whole world
and all are to be told.
Pledge with 15b in the name of the Lord Jesus that they might receive the forgiveness of
sense if they would receive it.
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God had made Abraham some promises and they were unconditional promises that Abraham would
father a nation.
In fact, that through his body would come descendants that would really populate many
nations.
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That's a far wider truth than really I've ever explored with you in great detail here
about those nations.
But God has fulfilled that not just simply because Ishmael has given rise to the Arab
people.
Ishmael had 12 sons just as Jacob later had 12 sons.
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And the Arab people look back to Ishmael as their head and they claim of course 12 tribes
just like the Jews do, but they of course don't claim the 12 sons of Jacob, but the
12 sons of Ishmael as their fathers.
But there were sons born to Abraham that maybe you've forgotten about also.
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He married Katura after Sarah's death and had more children even in his older years.
So that his being able to have part in the conception of Isaac even was not the end of
his fertility.
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But even after Sarah's death and as I say in the marriage of Katura and then there's
even a mention.
Not that God says that by the mention of it this is righteous.
Must be careful to divide history from statements of what is right or wrong, but Abraham also
had concubines and had children by them.
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We don't know how many.
And many nations are listed in the catalog of the verses from the book of Genesis.
So God promised that through Abraham would come many nations, but also he would give
them a land.
And when he spoke of them, you know, it seems like how could he have many nations and give
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them a land, a land because there would be a people that would have that particular land
that God had in mind.
And that of course, in God's mind was the people Israel as he later confirmed it and
that land would be that land of Israel.
That he would also give them a savior for the whole world.
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God has fulfilled those promises.
He has done it in raising up not just Abraham, but Abraham's son Isaac.
He confirmed the promises in Isaac, just one verse to remind you in Exodus.
I'm sorry, in Genesis.
You open there with me where God confirms this to Isaac is chapter, let's go down to
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the 17.
I just want to pick it up in 22.
Exodus or by saying Exodus, Genesis 22, at verse 16.
By myself, I have sworn says the Lord because you have done this thing and have not withheld
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your son, your only son in blessing, I will bless you and in multiplying, I will multiply
your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand, which is on the seashore.
In your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
In your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed my
voice.
Now his seed in particular was not just through Isaac, but ultimately was in Jesus Christ.
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In fact, if we even want to see Isaac specifically, I'll go back to that 1719, just so you have
a scripture reference to keep in mind.
Verse 19, then God said, no, Sarah, your wife shall bury you a son and you shall call his
name Isaac.
I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants
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after him.
So Abraham, Isaac, and then Jacob was a son of Isaac and God promised that these unconditional
covenants, these unconditional promises would be not just Abraham's, not just Isaac's,
but would be Jacob and Jacob's descendants.
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How were they?
Well, let me tell you real fast.
Number one, he would multiply those people that came from Abraham's lines until they
became a great number, like we just read here as the stars of the heaven or as the sands
of the sea.
Number two, he would give them a land that would be their own.
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Number three, he would give them a king who would reign over them and over all the earth.
Number four, he would give the world a savior through him.
Those are the four great unconditional promises through Abraham for the world.
First for Israel and then for the world.
God confirmed that promise of a savior, that spiritual seed that we saw mentioned there,
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that that one would be the savior of all the world.
All nations would be able to be saved through him.
And he sealed that, that time, remember that message that we had on the offering of the
prophet and father Abraham, when he laid the pieces in order and then God caused the great
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sleep to fall in him and then God went between the pieces.
God confirmed that he alone would be the one to fulfill this promise of a savior for all
the world.
Let's go up to Galatians chapter three.
I want to show you some words in there about our heritage.
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Galatians chapter three.
This son, the Lord Jesus, would become the savior of the world.
But then what?
Well, Galatians three, I would like to read it verse six.
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Just as Abraham believed God and it was a counter to him for righteousness.
Let me pause there and say that's a quote out of Genesis again, Genesis 15.
My believing God, by taking God at his word, by committing himself fully to the Lord, according
to whatever God said, by saying, well, Lord, I fully trust you, even with my very soul.
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And then stepping out in that commitment, God took note of that man's trust, that man's
faith and God accounted it to him for righteousness.
In other words, God put something to his account called righteousness.
Rather than look at Abraham any longer as the sinner that he was and we're all sinners,
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God took away his sin.
It means he removed his sin, he forgave his sin and he clothed him with righteousness.
God looked at Abraham.
And what did God see?
Maybe not what you or I would see.
Didn't see just that man with his failures and he had many.
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I mean, God doesn't hide that from us in his word.
Abraham did many things that he should never have done.
He is not sinless.
There is only one who lived on this earth who is sinless, the Son of God.
Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness.
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Abraham did not get his righteousness by his efforts, by his self will, by his determination,
by his determination to do good deeds.
That's not how Abraham got his righteousness.
He got it as a gift.
He got it because he believed God's word and God gave him the blessing and benefit of the
righteousness of God that would come to any who would trust in God because by trusting
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in God you were really saying, Lord, I don't know how it is.
I mean, in Abraham's day you'd have to be saying this, Lord, I don't know how it is
that you could possibly ever forgive me.
I don't know how it is that you in your own mind could take away my sin.
I don't know by what device or what means or how you're going to accomplish it, but
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I'm just committing myself to you and my eternity to you, Lord, and I'll do what you
want me to do.
I am yours.
See, Abraham did not know the details that you know about the virgin birth, about the
name of the woman in fact and the name of the man that would marry her, the town that
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she would live in, that this little baby would be born in a stable.
Abraham didn't know any of that.
He didn't know that this man would grow up in Nazareth.
His father would be a carpenter in about 30 years of age, as Luke says in his gospel
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that he would come down to the river Jordan and to the prophet named John would baptize
him in the river Jordan and that the spirit of God would come down upon him and that
he would be out there for three years preaching the love of God and the righteousness of God
and calling men to repentance and to belief in himself, that he would die on a cross and
that he would be buried and that he would be raised the third day and he would ascend
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40 days later.
Abraham didn't know any of that, but he did believe God.
And the benefits of the cross, the benefits of Jesus' death were given to him.
They were given to him thousands of years before Christ, possibly close to 2000 years
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before Christ.
Those benefits were given to him.
What were the benefits?
Righteousness.
And so it was with anybody, no matter when they lived, if they would put their faith in
God according to whatever provision it was that he had, they would be given the righteousness
of God because he only has one provision, the provision of redemption through the blood
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of his son.
There is no other provision that God makes for man's sin.
But when one of these folks in the days before they were ever told these things, when they
put their faith in God, not knowing those details, God still gave them the benefit of
the righteousness of Christ because God knew what he was going to do, God knew the
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details and God knew that it would really happen.
You see, when God says something is going to happen, it's just as good as done.
It may take four or five thousand years for it to happen, but it will happen.
You can count on it.
There is no doubt.
If God says that his children will be raised up from this earth and given a new body to
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live with him forever in heaven, I tell you it will be.
I've never seen such a body.
I've never flown up through the clouds that way.
But God said it, and I believe it, and it will be.
It's as good as done, even though it hasn't happened yet.
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Because God put his name to it, and God cannot lie.
He cannot lie.
Not only he does not lie, he cannot lie.
Read it in the book of Titus.
God who cannot lie.
It's wonderful.
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So here we are in Galatians.
You're in Galatians, aren't you?
Okay, chapter three.
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was a cow to him for righteousness.
Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
One day Jesus was talking with some Jews, the gospel of John tells us.
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And there was some discussion about fatherhood.
You want to see it in John chapter eight?
Who were his disciples?
Who believed in him?
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Was God their father?
I'd like to read in John chapter eight, verse 38.
I speak what I have seen with my father, and you do what you have seen with your father.
See, that's what Jesus said to them.
Now he says, what I have seen with my father, that's what I do.
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And what you have seen with your father, that's what you do.
The answer and said to him, Abraham is our father.
Abraham is your father.
Yes.
See what they were saying was, we can go down to the temple, and we can check the genealogical
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records.
They were still keeping genealogical records up to that point.
In fact, that's why Joseph took Mary down to Bethlehem because it was a city of David.
It was the city of David's birth.
Bethlehem was.
His father, Jesse, had lived there.
And that's in fact where his grandmother, great grandmother, Jesse's grandmother, had
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lived, Ruth, who married Boaz.
They were in Bethlehem.
So that was the city of David.
And why?
The city was of the house and lineage of David.
They still knew who were their ancestors.
They still knew their lineage.
They don't today.
Jews don't have those records, and they don't know today.
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You go up to Jew and say, are you the house of David?
They could not tell you.
Yes, I am or no.
They might say that, but there aren't any records.
Let's put it that way.
They have no records.
They're gone.
They were destroyed.
They could go to the temple and they could check the records and say, yes, I'm of this
house or I'm of that house.
I'm of this family.
I'm of that family.
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These fellows, these Pharisees, could say, we can trace our bloodlines right back to Abraham.
We are genuine 100% Jews.
Abraham is our father.
Now Jesus said, you do what you have seen with your father.
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That's what children do.
I say that as a father.
If I see my children doing some things I don't like, I have to ask the question, where did
they see that?
Sometimes I don't like to ask that question, but God wants me to.
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I better check me out first.
Then I can ask them if I'm sure they didn't get it from me, I can say, where did you learn
that?
If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
What kind of works did Abraham do?
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Abraham's works were works of faith.
He believed God.
He obeyed God.
Now I grant you, he did some things he shouldn't have been doing.
But you see, he also came to the place where he realized his error, corrected his life
before God and went on obeying the Lord.
Then he would go off and do some things again that he shouldn't be doing.
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He would correct his life before God and come back to the place of obedience and go on with
all.
Abraham's character was to walk with the Lord.
That was his character.
That was his life.
And he said, if you were Abraham's children, you would do the deeds of your father, Abraham.
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But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God.
From God.
Abraham did not do this.
Abraham didn't go around trying to murder people that were trying to do the will of
God.
Wouldn't it be terrible to have a pastor that was out with a knife trying to kill anybody
that would do the will of God?
He said, well, that sounds quite like a pastor.
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Was like a shepherd.
Any of you sheep follow me, I'll cut your throat.
You know what I mean?
What are shepherds for?
Was to lead the sheep, right?
I'll kill the sheep because they follow you.
It's supposed to encourage them to follow you.
Abraham can't be out after people with a knife because they're trying to do the will
of God.
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Where are you people who are trying to kill me, Jesus said?
How can you be Abraham's children?
Abraham wouldn't do that kind of thing.
I'm trying to do the will of my father.
By the way, these fellows never did enjoy the Lord's reasoning.
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You do the deeds of your father, he said.
Then they said to him, we were not born a fornication.
We have one father.
Now they're really getting spiritual here.
God is our father.
We have one father, God.
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And Jesus said to them, Jesus said to them, if God were your father, you would love me,
for I proceeded forth and came from God, nor have I come of myself, but he sent me.
And down down verse 44, he says, you are of your father, the devil.
Now, Galatians chapter 3.
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Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
Those Pharisees said, Abraham is our father.
We're sons of Abraham.
And Jesus said, no, you're not.
Abraham's not your father.
He's a devil is your father.
And that is people.
That's a spiritual statement.
That's not a bloodline statement.
That's not a genealogical statement.
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They couldn't say, yes, Abraham is our genealogical father.
That's not what counts before God.
What counts before God is, who is your spiritual father?
And really it comes down to either this, that God is your spiritual father, or the
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devil is, as Jesus said of the Pharisees.
Who is your spiritual father?
If God is your spiritual father, then you can claim Abraham also as your father.
Why?
Because Abraham was a man of faith.
You can claim as your spiritual father, if you want to know, you could claim as your
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spiritual father, any spiritual leader who loved the Lord, worshiped him with all her
heart, followed him, obeyed him.
You could say, Moses is my father.
That would be okay.
I'm grande.
Some people wouldn't understand that.
You want to be careful where you tell them this.
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You know, they just have to understand you saying a spiritual truth here.
I look back to the line of people.
Shem is my father.
Abel is my father.
Enoch is my father.
Noah is my father.
You want to do it.
You might as well open the book of Hebrews, chapter 11, and go through all 38 names of
the folk there that are listed who are people of faith.
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And say, I'm spiritually related to these people.
This is my family.
You want to know who my family is.
One time Jesus' mother and his brothers called for him.
His disciples came and said, your mother and your brethren are out outside here on the
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fringes of the group, so to speak.
Outside, they would like to see you.
And Jesus looked at the crowd and he said, who are my mother and brother?
These are my mother and brother.
He wasn't denying Mary, sweet dear precious Mary.
He was saying, I have a spiritual relationship with these people.
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That's the relationship that is uttermost in my mind, my heart.
Bloodline relationships are important.
They have their place and they must be given to honor.
But the key question is, who is your spiritual father?
And the scripture for seeing that God would justify the nations by faith preached the
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gospel to Abraham beforehand saying, in you all the nations shall be blessed.
Now in that little phrase is the gospel.
You say, I missed it.
Well, there it is.
In you all the nations shall be blessed.
Meaning that hidden in that phrase was God's assurance to Abraham that he was going to
provide a savior because this verse says so, that the gospel was there, preached the gospel
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to Abraham beforehand.
So the gospel, which is a word we use to sum up all the details about the coming death,
burial, resurrection and ascension of the Lord.
The whole story of Christ's redemptive work, the whole message is really summed up in one
word.
We use it as a shorthand word, the gospel.
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That's how it's used here.
God says the gospel is being preached to Abraham in the sense that he was saying, I have a
plan, I have a way that I'm going to bring redemption to this world that we're calling
the gospel.
The good news.
I'm going to make it happen.
And all the details of it come under that word.
And he was saying that to Abraham when he said, in you will all the nations of the earth
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be blessed?
Because you see, that gospel is in the Lord Jesus, that good news, that redemption that
was being preached to Abraham is in Christ.
So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
So if you come by faith to Christ, then you come under that blessing, the blessing, the
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God said he was going to bless the whole earth, or earth with, you come under the blessing
of the Savior.
If you believe those who are of faith, if you believe faith, here I'm speaking of belief,
if you put your faith in the Lord, then you come under the blessing of receiving redemption
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through God's Savior, his son.
If you don't put your faith in him, then you don't come under that blessing.
You can't claim God is your father.
But if you do, you can say, Abraham is my father, and God is my father.
Now go down to verse 26.
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Galatians 3, for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Not only is Abraham your father when you put your faith in the Lord Jesus, but God is
your father.
You see it there?
God is your father.
You say, that's pretty basic stuff.
Well, I've not to do that from time to time to then build very quickly and some wonderful
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and deeper truths that we have for us.
Go to verse 29 right here in Galatians 3.
And if you are Christ, now let's build on this.
Here, if God is your father through Christ, that means you belong to Christ.
If you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed.
What?
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If you belong to Christ, you spiritually, now I'm speaking spiritually, not according to
your bloodline, but your spiritual heritage, is that you are actually one of the children
that God was looking for when he said, you know they are going to be as numerous as
the stars of the heaven.
It is true that the Jews have multiplied and there are well over 20 million of them today
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alive.
It is true that with the naked eye they say you can only see about 2,000 stars, so that
isn't much of a challenge when we compare that with the 20-some million truth.
Now what do you do about the sands of the seashore?
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I don't think any one of us could ever take a little walk on a seashore and not see a
lot more than 2,000 grains of sand.
I mean man, you can pick that up in your hand.
Well I think you probably pick it up and not have very much sand in your hand.
But if you walk, take a good long walk down the seashore, you know, half an hour.
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Look at it all.
There is a lot of sand there.
I think it is true God wants to bring out of the Jewish nation.
He wants to bring a people for his name always that will believe in him and he has a plan
for that special people.
But this book is saying that God is looking at even the Gentiles that they might through
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Christ become the seed of Abraham spiritually.
Let's go another step in the chapter 4, at verse 6.
And because you are sons, let's take the next idea.
See you are a son of God, son of Abraham by faith in Christ because you are sons.
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God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying, Abba, father.
Abba, remember, is Dadah in her mech.
This is only true of those who are the children of God.
Only God's children have had the Holy Spirit of God come into them and give them the first
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and earliest words of recognition about who their father is.
Notice it doesn't say mama, it says Abba, Dadah.
I am very serious on that.
Because God is trying to teach us here that we recognize him as our father.
When you receive Christ as your Savior, all doubt, all question about God being your father
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should be wiped away.
Because it should immediately come into you a witness by the spirit of God that you are
his child.
You see, if you take God with his word, and if you don't call him a liar, and it says
that whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved, if you take God with
his word and you call on him, you are saved.
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And you say, I believe God, he is truly saved means delivered, forgiven, delivered out of
your sin and into righteousness, out of death, into life, out of darkness, into light.
All of these contrasts are given in the New Testament.
And you say, I believe that.
Well if you do, the Spirit of God is given to you.
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Not just some, but all of God's children, the Spirit of God comes into them.
Some preach this doctrine.
Well, you are a Christian, you have believed in Jesus.
Now you have got to really pray and go on for a while and try to get the Holy Spirit.
No, people, as it says in Romans 8, if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of
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his.
If you don't have God's Spirit, you don't belong to Christ.
It's as simple as that.
There is a teaching and it's a wonderful one that you want to let the Holy Spirit of God
have full control in your life, but people, you can't be a child of God and not have the
Spirit of God.
Right here, he has sent forth his Spirit in your heart, crying out of a father.
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That's true.
That's verse 6, now 7.
Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son.
And if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
That's where I was going with all of this, an heir of God through Christ.
You're not a slave anymore.
You're not a slave to sin.
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I want to think about that, meditate on that.
You'll read Romans 6 and Romans 7.
There's a great tension going on there.
What it means to be a slave to sin.
Let me give you the good news in Christ.
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If you have received the Lord Jesus, your chains of slavery to do, the deeds of your
father used to be your father of the devil have been broken.
Those chains are broken.
You don't have to obey that taskmaster anymore.
I didn't say you couldn't.
I didn't say you might not.
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I said you don't have to.
You have a new master.
That's why he accepts the title Lord, a Savior, Christ Jesus.
You're free.
You don't have to sin anymore.
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You don't have to be walking along in darkness.
You don't have to be envious and filled with wrath, jealousy, strife.
You don't have to commit all forms of evil.
You don't have to do that anymore because in the Lord Jesus you have been forgiven and
in the Spirit of God you've been empowered to walk righteously.
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And in the wisdom of God he has given you his word to guide your life.
And there's counsel in this book for every area of life.
The Spirit of God is your strength within to walk according to his word.
What he asks of you is that you would walk, yield into his spirit.
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As you have had faith in Christ, so now he would say walk in that faith.
Just as Abraham had to.
Now Jacob was the son of Isaac and Esau was the son of Isaac and they are really a great
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study in contrast about how to try to get your will in this world according to your
flesh.
I do want to study that even in that depth for you.
If you're as I keep looking at these lives of these two men, I would like you if you'd
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take an assignment from me, I'd like you to read Genesis this week.
At least if you'd read Genesis chapter 27 and 28, I want to look at that with you, not
the contrast of these two lives.
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Read about the deception, about the fleshliness and the worldly values that come out in not
only Jacob's life and Esau's life, but come out in our lives.
When we forget that we're born of Christ and the Spirit of God has been given to us
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and we don't have to walk that way, we have had full provision made for us to walk coddly,
to walk righteously.
By the way, I'm going to give you this little word of guidance as you would read those sections.
I don't want you to read about Jacob and you might even be following some of the notes
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in your Bible.
I have my Bibles, different ones that have those notes also, that says that what Jacob
did when he bought Esau's birthright shows that he had great faith.
I want to give you a little foretaste and warning and tell you, you may agree with that
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idea, I don't.
I don't think Jacob really shows us great faith until a bit longer along the road of
his life.
What he was doing there, I think, just proved that his name, Jacob, deceiver and supplantor,
was well-fitting for him.
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I want you to think on those lives because neither one of those men are really good models.
The only thing good that comes out of that story is the only thing good that comes out
of Abraham's story and that's the promises of God and the work of God for any who would
put their faith in him.
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No human being is a decent model for us to follow unless they are following in the steps
of the faith of Abraham, in the steps of the faith of Paul, in the steps of the faith
of John, or any other person that put their trust in Christ.
If they're not walking in faith, they're not a good model.
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And anything they do in their life that's not a faith isn't worth following as an example.
It's gone to give you some spiritual discernment as you read about the lives of the people
in the Bible that you're not followed their example, but that you follow only the one
example in the Scripture that you are ever to follow.
And that's the example of Christ where you see that example in somebody's life, follow
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it.
And where you don't see that example in somebody's life, don't follow it.
And if their name is Abraham or Moses or David, there are plenty of things in the Scripture
about those three men that you ought never, never to follow as examples.
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But where they show you Christ, where they show you your Lord, follow that example.
For people you better know your Lord, and you better know His example.
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Or you won't ever be able to see it in another life.
Now let's pray.
Father, thank you for the Lord Jesus and for the redemption that we have and the promise
that as we go through this life with all of its burdens and hurts, as we've shared and
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testimony with one another this morning, wherever we go, if you'll be with us Lord,
we're willing to go.
If Jesus go with me, I'll go anywhere.
Whatever you call on us to go through this week Lord, some are going to have physical
pain and some may even have the deep hurts and sorrow that takes a life from us.
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We don't know.
Some are going to have terrible burdens and problems of money and family troubles.
We don't know.
But Lord, we do know that if we stay cast upon you, you'll give us strength to go anywhere.
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Whatever any hurt, bear any burden.
Lord we need to be a people not simply that point to you as our Father because we were
born again one day long ago.
But we might point to you as our Father because we are walking by faith right now.
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Our spiritual Father.
Only Lord that we have been born again, but that we are doing your works to please you
because we love you.
Might the love of the Lord Jesus grow in our hearts, even through trial, and give us opportunity
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to share the wonders of the gospel with someone to this week Lord.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
All right.
Thank you, Pastor Rains for another message from the Bible.
Thank you listeners for listening in.
Especially our new listeners because we are now on a new outlet called Rumble.
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So next week we'll be having more of the same from the word of God.
I don't know if there are any more in Abraham.
I wish I had those other two weeks in the middle between episodes 76 and 75.
But I'm looking through the tape collection and I don't seem to have it.
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So if I come across it, I'll put it in there.
That sounds like an interesting series on Abraham.
But what we got so far is so it was great.
Most of us could stand on its own.
You really don't need the other ones to understand what the current one is.
Okay.
So thank you for listening.
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Please come back and I'll see you again next week.
And again, have a great day.
See you next week.
Welcome friends and welcome or welcome back.
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This is the Legacy Bible Podcast, a place where you will hear legacy lessons from the
Bible.
They were recorded on legacy audio from the tape archives of the Fellowship Bible Church
in Jo;iet, Illinois.
I be your host.
My name is Marcus Onate.
I'm bringing to you another one from the tape collection.
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Before we do that, I want to say hello and welcome to our new listeners.
I recently put the podcast on a new platform.
So we had a few downloads from there and one new subscriber from there.
So if you want to listen to it over there and rumble.
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So if you want to listen to it rumble, it's the same as the other podcast outlets.
But we'll talk about that a little bit more after a message here.
So this one today happens to be from September 29, 1991.
It's called Children of Faith.
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Abraham's promise.
Let me see.
I can't read my lessons.
I don't know.
Okay.
I can't read.
Well, children are both about Abraham.
Okay.
So I guess the continuation from last week, we had something about Abraham.
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I know that was recorded probably a few more weeks before this one.
I was at the beginning of September and it was at the end, but still something with
Abraham.
So this, that's so let's get right into it.
Like I said, I'll talk to you on the other side.
Now, I've said to each week in these last several weeks that I'm looking at with you
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at the truth of God's word as it centers for us on Abraham and his descendants.
Just a little resume about these matters.
God wanted to do a great work in this earth.
His heart of love wanted to bring a savior to this world, seeing his creature man in rebellion,
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seeing his creature turn from him going his own way under the judgment of death.
He allowed the love of God, the heart of God in love to bring a plan that he had in
his heart from the foundation of the earth, bring that plan to fulfillment.
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That his own son would come to this earth, be born of a woman, live a life as a man.
At a certain point in that life have a special anointing of the Spirit of God at his baptism
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that he would then go out and preach the word of God to Israel and offer them forgiveness
and life eternal.
That he would die being hated by those that he came to save.
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But not staying dead, he would be raised the third day to show that his life had was flawless,
perfect, sinless, and that the Father had accepted that life as a sacrifice for our sin.
He would raise him from the dead and openly display him for 40 days to show that his
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sacrifice was accepted and then to take him up into heaven with the promise that he would
someday return.
Return as far as Israel is concerned to sit on a throne over the nation Israel and return
and rule this world from Jerusalem for a thousand years.
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And having fulfilled all of those promises to take all who love him with him to be with
him forever in heaven.
In the epistles that follow the Gospels, we learn that there was another message that
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God wanted to bring to the world that was not disclosed in the Old Testament, it was
not disclosed in the Gospels, it was not disclosed until God used a man named Saul of
Tarsus and he became Paul, the apostle, by God's anointing, until that man received this
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message from God that anyone, Jew or Gentile in this age that would trust in Christ would
all be part of what he called the body of Christ, the church, the body of believers.
Now that message is to be heralded throughout the earth in every climb and place where people
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are, to every tribe and every nation, then they might know that the Savior that God sent
into this world was not just for the Jews, he is a Savior of the world.
He did not die just for the Jews.
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His blood is not an atonement to make reconciliation just for the Jews, it's for the whole world
and all are to be told.
Pledge with 15b in the name of the Lord Jesus that they might receive the forgiveness of
sense if they would receive it.
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God had made Abraham some promises and they were unconditional promises that Abraham would
father a nation.
In fact, that through his body would come descendants that would really populate many
nations.
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That's a far wider truth than really I've ever explored with you in great detail here
about those nations.
But God has fulfilled that not just simply because Ishmael has given rise to the Arab
people.
Ishmael had 12 sons just as Jacob later had 12 sons.
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And the Arab people look back to Ishmael as their head and they claim of course 12 tribes
just like the Jews do, but they of course don't claim the 12 sons of Jacob, but the
12 sons of Ishmael as their fathers.
But there were sons born to Abraham that maybe you've forgotten about also.
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He married Katura after Sarah's death and had more children even in his older years.
So that his being able to have part in the conception of Isaac even was not the end of
his fertility.
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But even after Sarah's death and as I say in the marriage of Katura and then there's
even a mention.
Not that God says that by the mention of it this is righteous.
Must be careful to divide history from statements of what is right or wrong, but Abraham also
had concubines and had children by them.
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We don't know how many.
And many nations are listed in the catalog of the verses from the book of Genesis.
So God promised that through Abraham would come many nations, but also he would give
them a land.
And when he spoke of them, you know, it seems like how could he have many nations and give
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them a land, a land because there would be a people that would have that particular land
that God had in mind.
And that of course, in God's mind was the people Israel as he later confirmed it and
that land would be that land of Israel.
That he would also give them a savior for the whole world.
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God has fulfilled those promises.
He has done it in raising up not just Abraham, but Abraham's son Isaac.
He confirmed the promises in Isaac, just one verse to remind you in Exodus.
I'm sorry, in Genesis.
You open there with me where God confirms this to Isaac is chapter, let's go down to
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the 17.
I just want to pick it up in 22.
Exodus or by saying Exodus, Genesis 22, at verse 16.
By myself, I have sworn says the Lord because you have done this thing and have not withheld
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your son, your only son in blessing, I will bless you and in multiplying, I will multiply
your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand, which is on the seashore.
In your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
In your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed my
voice.
Now his seed in particular was not just through Isaac, but ultimately was in Jesus Christ.
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In fact, if we even want to see Isaac specifically, I'll go back to that 1719, just so you have
a scripture reference to keep in mind.
Verse 19, then God said, no, Sarah, your wife shall bury you a son and you shall call his
name Isaac.
I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his descendants
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after him.
So Abraham, Isaac, and then Jacob was a son of Isaac and God promised that these unconditional
covenants, these unconditional promises would be not just Abraham's, not just Isaac's,
but would be Jacob and Jacob's descendants.
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How were they?
Well, let me tell you real fast.
Number one, he would multiply those people that came from Abraham's lines until they
became a great number, like we just read here as the stars of the heaven or as the sands
of the sea.
Number two, he would give them a land that would be their own.
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Number three, he would give them a king who would reign over them and over all the earth.
Number four, he would give the world a savior through him.
Those are the four great unconditional promises through Abraham for the world.
First for Israel and then for the world.
God confirmed that promise of a savior, that spiritual seed that we saw mentioned there,
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that that one would be the savior of all the world.
All nations would be able to be saved through him.
And he sealed that, that time, remember that message that we had on the offering of the
prophet and father Abraham, when he laid the pieces in order and then God caused the great
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sleep to fall in him and then God went between the pieces.
God confirmed that he alone would be the one to fulfill this promise of a savior for all
the world.
Let's go up to Galatians chapter three.
I want to show you some words in there about our heritage.
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Galatians chapter three.
This son, the Lord Jesus, would become the savior of the world.
But then what?
Well, Galatians three, I would like to read it verse six.
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Just as Abraham believed God and it was a counter to him for righteousness.
Let me pause there and say that's a quote out of Genesis again, Genesis 15.
My believing God, by taking God at his word, by committing himself fully to the Lord, according
to whatever God said, by saying, well, Lord, I fully trust you, even with my very soul.
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And then stepping out in that commitment, God took note of that man's trust, that man's
faith and God accounted it to him for righteousness.
In other words, God put something to his account called righteousness.
Rather than look at Abraham any longer as the sinner that he was and we're all sinners,
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God took away his sin.
It means he removed his sin, he forgave his sin and he clothed him with righteousness.
God looked at Abraham.
And what did God see?
Maybe not what you or I would see.
Didn't see just that man with his failures and he had many.
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I mean, God doesn't hide that from us in his word.
Abraham did many things that he should never have done.
He is not sinless.
There is only one who lived on this earth who is sinless, the Son of God.
Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness.
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Abraham did not get his righteousness by his efforts, by his self will, by his determination,
by his determination to do good deeds.
That's not how Abraham got his righteousness.
He got it as a gift.
He got it because he believed God's word and God gave him the blessing and benefit of the
righteousness of God that would come to any who would trust in God because by trusting
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in God you were really saying, Lord, I don't know how it is.
I mean, in Abraham's day you'd have to be saying this, Lord, I don't know how it is
that you could possibly ever forgive me.
I don't know how it is that you in your own mind could take away my sin.
I don't know by what device or what means or how you're going to accomplish it, but
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I'm just committing myself to you and my eternity to you, Lord, and I'll do what you
want me to do.
I am yours.
See, Abraham did not know the details that you know about the virgin birth, about the
name of the woman in fact and the name of the man that would marry her, the town that
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she would live in, that this little baby would be born in a stable.
Abraham didn't know any of that.
He didn't know that this man would grow up in Nazareth.
His father would be a carpenter in about 30 years of age, as Luke says in his gospel
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that he would come down to the river Jordan and to the prophet named John would baptize
him in the river Jordan and that the spirit of God would come down upon him and that
he would be out there for three years preaching the love of God and the righteousness of God
and calling men to repentance and to belief in himself, that he would die on a cross and
that he would be buried and that he would be raised the third day and he would ascend
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40 days later.
Abraham didn't know any of that, but he did believe God.
And the benefits of the cross, the benefits of Jesus' death were given to him.
They were given to him thousands of years before Christ, possibly close to 2000 years
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before Christ.
Those benefits were given to him.
What were the benefits?
Righteousness.
And so it was with anybody, no matter when they lived, if they would put their faith in
God according to whatever provision it was that he had, they would be given the righteousness
of God because he only has one provision, the provision of redemption through the blood
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of his son.
There is no other provision that God makes for man's sin.
But when one of these folks in the days before they were ever told these things, when they
put their faith in God, not knowing those details, God still gave them the benefit of
the righteousness of Christ because God knew what he was going to do, God knew the
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details and God knew that it would really happen.
You see, when God says something is going to happen, it's just as good as done.
It may take four or five thousand years for it to happen, but it will happen.
You can count on it.
There is no doubt.
If God says that his children will be raised up from this earth and given a new body to
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live with him forever in heaven, I tell you it will be.
I've never seen such a body.
I've never flown up through the clouds that way.
But God said it, and I believe it, and it will be.
It's as good as done, even though it hasn't happened yet.
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Because God put his name to it, and God cannot lie.
He cannot lie.
Not only he does not lie, he cannot lie.
Read it in the book of Titus.
God who cannot lie.
It's wonderful.
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So here we are in Galatians.
You're in Galatians, aren't you?
Okay, chapter three.
Just as Abraham believed God, and it was a cow to him for righteousness.
Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
One day Jesus was talking with some Jews, the gospel of John tells us.
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And there was some discussion about fatherhood.
You want to see it in John chapter eight?
Who were his disciples?
Who believed in him?
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Was God their father?
I'd like to read in John chapter eight, verse 38.
I speak what I have seen with my father, and you do what you have seen with your father.
See, that's what Jesus said to them.
Now he says, what I have seen with my father, that's what I do.
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And what you have seen with your father, that's what you do.
The answer and said to him, Abraham is our father.
Abraham is your father.
Yes.
See what they were saying was, we can go down to the temple, and we can check the genealogical
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records.
They were still keeping genealogical records up to that point.
In fact, that's why Joseph took Mary down to Bethlehem because it was a city of David.
It was the city of David's birth.
Bethlehem was.
His father, Jesse, had lived there.
And that's in fact where his grandmother, great grandmother, Jesse's grandmother, had
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lived, Ruth, who married Boaz.
They were in Bethlehem.
So that was the city of David.
And why?
The city was of the house and lineage of David.
They still knew who were their ancestors.
They still knew their lineage.
They don't today.
Jews don't have those records, and they don't know today.
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You go up to Jew and say, are you the house of David?
They could not tell you.
Yes, I am or no.
They might say that, but there aren't any records.
Let's put it that way.
They have no records.
They're gone.
They were destroyed.
They could go to the temple and they could check the records and say, yes, I'm of this
house or I'm of that house.
I'm of this family.
I'm of that family.
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These fellows, these Pharisees, could say, we can trace our bloodlines right back to Abraham.
We are genuine 100% Jews.
Abraham is our father.
Now Jesus said, you do what you have seen with your father.
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That's what children do.
I say that as a father.
If I see my children doing some things I don't like, I have to ask the question, where did
they see that?
Sometimes I don't like to ask that question, but God wants me to.
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I better check me out first.
Then I can ask them if I'm sure they didn't get it from me, I can say, where did you learn
that?
If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
What kind of works did Abraham do?
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Abraham's works were works of faith.
He believed God.
He obeyed God.
Now I grant you, he did some things he shouldn't have been doing.
But you see, he also came to the place where he realized his error, corrected his life
before God and went on obeying the Lord.
Then he would go off and do some things again that he shouldn't be doing.
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He would correct his life before God and come back to the place of obedience and go on with
all.
Abraham's character was to walk with the Lord.
That was his character.
That was his life.
And he said, if you were Abraham's children, you would do the deeds of your father, Abraham.
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But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God.
From God.
Abraham did not do this.
Abraham didn't go around trying to murder people that were trying to do the will of
God.
Wouldn't it be terrible to have a pastor that was out with a knife trying to kill anybody
that would do the will of God?
He said, well, that sounds quite like a pastor.
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Was like a shepherd.
Any of you sheep follow me, I'll cut your throat.
You know what I mean?
What are shepherds for?
Was to lead the sheep, right?
I'll kill the sheep because they follow you.
It's supposed to encourage them to follow you.
Abraham can't be out after people with a knife because they're trying to do the will
of God.
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Where are you people who are trying to kill me, Jesus said?
How can you be Abraham's children?
Abraham wouldn't do that kind of thing.
I'm trying to do the will of my father.
By the way, these fellows never did enjoy the Lord's reasoning.
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You do the deeds of your father, he said.
Then they said to him, we were not born a fornication.
We have one father.
Now they're really getting spiritual here.
God is our father.
We have one father, God.
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And Jesus said to them, Jesus said to them, if God were your father, you would love me,
for I proceeded forth and came from God, nor have I come of myself, but he sent me.
And down down verse 44, he says, you are of your father, the devil.
Now, Galatians chapter 3.
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Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
Those Pharisees said, Abraham is our father.
We're sons of Abraham.
And Jesus said, no, you're not.
Abraham's not your father.
He's a devil is your father.
And that is people.
That's a spiritual statement.
That's not a bloodline statement.
That's not a genealogical statement.
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They couldn't say, yes, Abraham is our genealogical father.
That's not what counts before God.
What counts before God is, who is your spiritual father?
And really it comes down to either this, that God is your spiritual father, or the
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devil is, as Jesus said of the Pharisees.
Who is your spiritual father?
If God is your spiritual father, then you can claim Abraham also as your father.
Why?
Because Abraham was a man of faith.
You can claim as your spiritual father, if you want to know, you could claim as your
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spiritual father, any spiritual leader who loved the Lord, worshiped him with all her
heart, followed him, obeyed him.
You could say, Moses is my father.
That would be okay.
I'm grande.
Some people wouldn't understand that.
You want to be careful where you tell them this.
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You know, they just have to understand you saying a spiritual truth here.
I look back to the line of people.
Shem is my father.
Abel is my father.
Enoch is my father.
Noah is my father.
You want to do it.
You might as well open the book of Hebrews, chapter 11, and go through all 38 names of
the folk there that are listed who are people of faith.
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And say, I'm spiritually related to these people.
This is my family.
You want to know who my family is.
One time Jesus' mother and his brothers called for him.
His disciples came and said, your mother and your brethren are out outside here on the
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fringes of the group, so to speak.
Outside, they would like to see you.
And Jesus looked at the crowd and he said, who are my mother and brother?
These are my mother and brother.
He wasn't denying Mary, sweet dear precious Mary.
He was saying, I have a spiritual relationship with these people.
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That's the relationship that is uttermost in my mind, my heart.
Bloodline relationships are important.
They have their place and they must be given to honor.
But the key question is, who is your spiritual father?
And the scripture for seeing that God would justify the nations by faith preached the
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gospel to Abraham beforehand saying, in you all the nations shall be blessed.
Now in that little phrase is the gospel.
You say, I missed it.
Well, there it is.
In you all the nations shall be blessed.
Meaning that hidden in that phrase was God's assurance to Abraham that he was going to
provide a savior because this verse says so, that the gospel was there, preached the gospel
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to Abraham beforehand.
So the gospel, which is a word we use to sum up all the details about the coming death,
burial, resurrection and ascension of the Lord.
The whole story of Christ's redemptive work, the whole message is really summed up in one
word.
We use it as a shorthand word, the gospel.
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That's how it's used here.
God says the gospel is being preached to Abraham in the sense that he was saying, I have a
plan, I have a way that I'm going to bring redemption to this world that we're calling
the gospel.
The good news.
I'm going to make it happen.
And all the details of it come under that word.
And he was saying that to Abraham when he said, in you will all the nations of the earth
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be blessed?
Because you see, that gospel is in the Lord Jesus, that good news, that redemption that
was being preached to Abraham is in Christ.
So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
So if you come by faith to Christ, then you come under that blessing, the blessing, the
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God said he was going to bless the whole earth, or earth with, you come under the blessing
of the Savior.
If you believe those who are of faith, if you believe faith, here I'm speaking of belief,
if you put your faith in the Lord, then you come under the blessing of receiving redemption
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through God's Savior, his son.
If you don't put your faith in him, then you don't come under that blessing.
You can't claim God is your father.
But if you do, you can say, Abraham is my father, and God is my father.
Now go down to verse 26.
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Galatians 3, for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Not only is Abraham your father when you put your faith in the Lord Jesus, but God is
your father.
You see it there?
God is your father.
You say, that's pretty basic stuff.
Well, I've not to do that from time to time to then build very quickly and some wonderful
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and deeper truths that we have for us.
Go to verse 29 right here in Galatians 3.
And if you are Christ, now let's build on this.
Here, if God is your father through Christ, that means you belong to Christ.
If you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed.
What?
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If you belong to Christ, you spiritually, now I'm speaking spiritually, not according to
your bloodline, but your spiritual heritage, is that you are actually one of the children
that God was looking for when he said, you know they are going to be as numerous as
the stars of the heaven.
It is true that the Jews have multiplied and there are well over 20 million of them today
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alive.
It is true that with the naked eye they say you can only see about 2,000 stars, so that
isn't much of a challenge when we compare that with the 20-some million truth.
Now what do you do about the sands of the seashore?
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I don't think any one of us could ever take a little walk on a seashore and not see a
lot more than 2,000 grains of sand.
I mean man, you can pick that up in your hand.
Well I think you probably pick it up and not have very much sand in your hand.
But if you walk, take a good long walk down the seashore, you know, half an hour.
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Look at it all.
There is a lot of sand there.
I think it is true God wants to bring out of the Jewish nation.
He wants to bring a people for his name always that will believe in him and he has a plan
for that special people.
But this book is saying that God is looking at even the Gentiles that they might through
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Christ become the seed of Abraham spiritually.
Let's go another step in the chapter 4, at verse 6.
And because you are sons, let's take the next idea.
See you are a son of God, son of Abraham by faith in Christ because you are sons.
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God has sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying, Abba, father.
Abba, remember, is Dadah in her mech.
This is only true of those who are the children of God.
Only God's children have had the Holy Spirit of God come into them and give them the first
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and earliest words of recognition about who their father is.
Notice it doesn't say mama, it says Abba, Dadah.
I am very serious on that.
Because God is trying to teach us here that we recognize him as our father.
When you receive Christ as your Savior, all doubt, all question about God being your father
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should be wiped away.
Because it should immediately come into you a witness by the spirit of God that you are
his child.
You see, if you take God with his word, and if you don't call him a liar, and it says
that whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved, if you take God with
his word and you call on him, you are saved.
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And you say, I believe God, he is truly saved means delivered, forgiven, delivered out of
your sin and into righteousness, out of death, into life, out of darkness, into light.
All of these contrasts are given in the New Testament.
And you say, I believe that.
Well if you do, the Spirit of God is given to you.
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Not just some, but all of God's children, the Spirit of God comes into them.
Some preach this doctrine.
Well, you are a Christian, you have believed in Jesus.
Now you have got to really pray and go on for a while and try to get the Holy Spirit.
No, people, as it says in Romans 8, if any have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of
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his.
If you don't have God's Spirit, you don't belong to Christ.
It's as simple as that.
There is a teaching and it's a wonderful one that you want to let the Holy Spirit of God
have full control in your life, but people, you can't be a child of God and not have the
Spirit of God.
Right here, he has sent forth his Spirit in your heart, crying out of a father.
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That's true.
That's verse 6, now 7.
Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son.
And if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
That's where I was going with all of this, an heir of God through Christ.
You're not a slave anymore.
You're not a slave to sin.
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I want to think about that, meditate on that.
You'll read Romans 6 and Romans 7.
There's a great tension going on there.
What it means to be a slave to sin.
Let me give you the good news in Christ.
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If you have received the Lord Jesus, your chains of slavery to do, the deeds of your
father used to be your father of the devil have been broken.
Those chains are broken.
You don't have to obey that taskmaster anymore.
I didn't say you couldn't.
I didn't say you might not.
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I said you don't have to.
You have a new master.
That's why he accepts the title Lord, a Savior, Christ Jesus.
You're free.
You don't have to sin anymore.
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You don't have to be walking along in darkness.
You don't have to be envious and filled with wrath, jealousy, strife.
You don't have to commit all forms of evil.
You don't have to do that anymore because in the Lord Jesus you have been forgiven and
in the Spirit of God you've been empowered to walk righteously.
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And in the wisdom of God he has given you his word to guide your life.
And there's counsel in this book for every area of life.
The Spirit of God is your strength within to walk according to his word.
What he asks of you is that you would walk, yield into his spirit.
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As you have had faith in Christ, so now he would say walk in that faith.
Just as Abraham had to.
Now Jacob was the son of Isaac and Esau was the son of Isaac and they are really a great
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study in contrast about how to try to get your will in this world according to your
flesh.
I do want to study that even in that depth for you.
If you're as I keep looking at these lives of these two men, I would like you if you'd
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take an assignment from me, I'd like you to read Genesis this week.
At least if you'd read Genesis chapter 27 and 28, I want to look at that with you, not
the contrast of these two lives.
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Read about the deception, about the fleshliness and the worldly values that come out in not
only Jacob's life and Esau's life, but come out in our lives.
When we forget that we're born of Christ and the Spirit of God has been given to us
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and we don't have to walk that way, we have had full provision made for us to walk coddly,
to walk righteously.
By the way, I'm going to give you this little word of guidance as you would read those sections.
I don't want you to read about Jacob and you might even be following some of the notes
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in your Bible.
I have my Bibles, different ones that have those notes also, that says that what Jacob
did when he bought Esau's birthright shows that he had great faith.
I want to give you a little foretaste and warning and tell you, you may agree with that
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idea, I don't.
I don't think Jacob really shows us great faith until a bit longer along the road of
his life.
What he was doing there, I think, just proved that his name, Jacob, deceiver and supplantor,
was well-fitting for him.
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I want you to think on those lives because neither one of those men are really good models.
The only thing good that comes out of that story is the only thing good that comes out
of Abraham's story and that's the promises of God and the work of God for any who would
put their faith in him.
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No human being is a decent model for us to follow unless they are following in the steps
of the faith of Abraham, in the steps of the faith of Paul, in the steps of the faith
of John, or any other person that put their trust in Christ.
If they're not walking in faith, they're not a good model.
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And anything they do in their life that's not a faith isn't worth following as an example.
It's gone to give you some spiritual discernment as you read about the lives of the people
in the Bible that you're not followed their example, but that you follow only the one
example in the Scripture that you are ever to follow.
And that's the example of Christ where you see that example in somebody's life, follow
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it.
And where you don't see that example in somebody's life, don't follow it.
And if their name is Abraham or Moses or David, there are plenty of things in the Scripture
about those three men that you ought never, never to follow as examples.
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But where they show you Christ, where they show you your Lord, follow that example.
For people you better know your Lord, and you better know His example.
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Or you won't ever be able to see it in another life.
Now let's pray.
Father, thank you for the Lord Jesus and for the redemption that we have and the promise
that as we go through this life with all of its burdens and hurts, as we've shared and
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testimony with one another this morning, wherever we go, if you'll be with us Lord,
we're willing to go.
If Jesus go with me, I'll go anywhere.
Whatever you call on us to go through this week Lord, some are going to have physical
pain and some may even have the deep hurts and sorrow that takes a life from us.
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We don't know.
Some are going to have terrible burdens and problems of money and family troubles.
We don't know.
But Lord, we do know that if we stay cast upon you, you'll give us strength to go anywhere.
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Whatever any hurt, bear any burden.
Lord we need to be a people not simply that point to you as our Father because we were
born again one day long ago.
But we might point to you as our Father because we are walking by faith right now.
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Our spiritual Father.
Only Lord that we have been born again, but that we are doing your works to please you
because we love you.
Might the love of the Lord Jesus grow in our hearts, even through trial, and give us opportunity
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to share the wonders of the gospel with someone to this week Lord.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
All right.
Thank you, Pastor Rains for another message from the Bible.
Thank you listeners for listening in.
Especially our new listeners because we are now on a new outlet called Rumble.
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We are kind of a I would say competition to YouTube.
So the same audio, Graham, that's on YouTube is on Rumble now and it seems to be doing good
there.
So welcome new listeners and welcome you all listeners for coming back.
I like listeners that come back.
So if you can subscribe, that'd be good.
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I'm going to get you to automatically download the podcast when new ones come out.
So you can do that and listen and share with your friends and read your Bible, of course.
And you can follow along your Bible while listening to the podcast.
That would also be a good thing too.
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So next week we'll be having more of the same from the word of God.
I don't know if there are any more in Abraham.
I wish I had those other two weeks in the middle between episodes 76 and 75.
But I'm looking through the tape collection and I don't seem to have it.
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So if I come across it, I'll put it in there.
That sounds like an interesting series on Abraham.
But what we got so far is so it was great.
Most of us could stand on its own.
You really don't need the other ones to understand what the current one is.
Okay.
So thank you for listening.
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Please come back and I'll see you again next week.
And again, have a great day.
See you next week.
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