August 20, 2025 • 39 mins
In this episode of the Legacy Bible Podcast, we revisit Rev. Chuck Rains’ message from September 1, 1991, exploring God’s call to Abraham in Genesis 12. Abraham was asked to leave everything familiar and step into the unknown—trusting not in his own strength, wealth, or safety nets, but in the Lord alone. Through vivid illustrations of trust, Rev. Rains shows that true faith means “cutting the ropes” and committing ourselves fully to God’s promises. Listeners are reminded that the blessings promised to Abraham extend beyond a physical nation and land, pointing ultimately to salvation through Christ—a blessing for all nations. This timeless message calls us to place our trust not in ourselves or worldly securities, but in the unfailing faithfulness of God.
Show Notes
- Scripture Focus: Genesis 12:1–3, Galatians 3:6–9
- Abraham’s call to leave his homeland and trust God’s promise
- The difference between physical promises (nation, land) and spiritual promises (salvation in Christ)
- What it means to fully commit to God without holding onto “safety ropes”
- David’s perspective on the prosperity of the unrighteous and the eternal hope of the righteous
- The fulfillment of God’s promise through Jesus Christ—blessing all nations
- Application: Living daily in faith, walking as Abraham walked, trusting in God’s unshakable Word
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Friends, and welcome or welcome back.
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This is the Legacy Bible Podcast, a place where you hear legacy lessons from the Bible,
from Legacy Audio, from the tape collection of the Fellowship Bible Church in Joliet,
Illinois.
I'm your host, Marcus Onate, and today I'll be bringing to you another one from the
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Church's tape archive collection.
This one is from September 1, 1991.
It's preached by our pastor, the Reverend Chuck Rains, and the title is Faith That
Cuts the Ropes, Faith That Cuts the Ropes, about Abraham going on on faith because of
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metaphor of a bridge.
So I think you'll like that one, just the parts I've been listening to so far.
I liked it, and I listened to it twice now.
So I guess we'll just get right to it, and I'll see you on the other side.
Now the Lord had said to Abraham, get out of your country from your kindred, that's
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your general, you know, relatives, your family line, and from your father's house, it means
directly under his father's roof to a land that I will show you.
I will make you a great nation.
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I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you.
And here's the wonderful part of these promises that touches the whole world.
And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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In you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
So God made some promises to Abraham that called for him to exercise faith back there
in 12, 1.
He told him, get out of your country, get away from your kindred, get away from your father's
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house and go to a land that I'll show you.
He was calling for Abraham to act, but he was calling for something more than simple
obedience in the sense of doing what God said.
But he was looking for an obedience that was resting on this, that Abraham would first
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cast himself on the Lord, trusting, in other words, in the Lord, committing himself completely
to the Lord.
If the Lord told him to do something and that he would follow through, Abraham was being
called to take God at his word and to act on it in such a way as to put his whole lot
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with the Lord, hold back nothing.
It's easy to say, well, I'll go along with this or that and not really cut the strings.
I like to use the illustration and you've heard it over and over from me.
I think it's fitting of the bridge.
There's a bridge over a deep, deep chasm.
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You want to get to the other side and this bridge is the only way over.
You have to commit yourself to the bridge.
Have you ever seen the pictures of some of the tiny bridges that people have built over
chasms, but they didn't have steel and they didn't have a way to make the span that was
too far, they didn't have a way to make the span with wood, so they braided together
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some vines or hemp or something that they had in their surroundings and they made long
ropes and they swung them across and got them up on the other side and then swung some other
ropes over there and eventually made a little pathway across on ropes.
Maybe they took some pieces of wood and tied them to the ropes underneath and made a walkway.
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We used to call those swinging bridges or swinging bridges, not the kind of bridge you'd
choose to go over, at least I wouldn't, if it was over some deep, deep chasm.
It might be a little bit scary, first time you try it or second or third or fifth to
whom I don't know, but if you think of yourself going over such a bridge, you're going to
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have to say, you know, this is a risky business because if this bridge gives out, I'm done
in.
You have to commit yourself to the bridge.
Well, you could say, you know, I know the fellow that built this bridge and he never
really does anything very well.
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He was the first little pig, you know, with the straw house.
If you knew that somebody with that kind of characteristic pattern had built the bridge,
you'd have strong concern about whether he's going to hold you up.
It might be a little easier for you, might be a little more secure for you if you said,
now I wouldn't mind going over the bridge so much if I had a rope that was still tied
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to one side, put it around my waist and tie it securely.
Good long rope, not too long, but good and long, so that as I walk across the bridge of
the bridge breaks, I still at least have the rope.
I'll hang on to the rope and I'll swing back, but I'll get bruised up a little bit, but
at least I won't be crashed on the rocks below.
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That may sound safe, but it's not committal.
It isn't what the Bible would call trust, at least not trust in the bridge.
You're really, you know what you're really trusting in in my illustration?
Anybody can guess there?
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The rope, yeah.
And you probably trust in the rope because you know who made it.
Maybe you made it yourself or maybe you've tested it before.
Life is full of trust people.
That's how life works.
You can't go through life without trust.
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You trust in your car, you trust other people going to stay on their side of the line, you
trust that when the red light flashes for them, they're going to stop, you just trust.
You get on one of those motorized staircases and escalator.
You trust that the thing is going to, and it's even worse if you get into an elevator.
You trust that the cables are going to hold.
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You trust that the fellow that put this together knew what he was doing.
Life is full of trust.
You trust that when you flip the switch, the lights are going to go on.
They don't go on, something's wrong.
You don't want your trust to be interrupted.
You don't want people to be coming through red lights at you.
It happens.
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People die because their trust was a man or in the stuff of this world.
And the lights sometimes don't go on and sometimes people don't stop at lights.
But when God speaks and asks for our faith, he wants us to know something's different
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about him.
That's why I studied with you last week that God is righteous and there is no unrighteousness
in him.
And when God asks you to trust in him, you can rest in this.
He won't fail.
God faileth not.
He will not fail you.
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He is righteous, but he is on the basis of his righteousness.
He is trustworthy.
So when he said to Abraham, leave your country, leave your people, go to a place that I'll
show you.
He was really asking for Abraham to cut the ropes.
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Don't trust in yourself or the ropes that you've made for yourself.
Cut them and step out on the bridge.
The bridge, however, is not a swinging, fragile bridge.
What you have in the scriptures is a solid rock bridge.
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There couldn't be anything more solid, more deeply set than the bridge that God asks you
to step out on.
It is God himself.
And actually, you're better off on the bridge than you are on the ground before the bridge.
You're better off stepping out on the Lord than standing on your own.
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You're better off committing yourself to the Lord's care and to the Lord's will and
to the Lord's direction and the Lord's counsel and the Lord's provision than you are standing
on your own.
Because the scripture everywhere is clear.
When a man trusts in himself, when he trusts in his own strength, when he trusts in his
own wisdom, trusts in his own knowledge, it will fail him.
Maybe not today, but ultimately it will fail him.
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And a lot of people actually get to live all their lives trusting in themselves and never
realizing that what they're trusting in really will fail them.
In fact, the Psalms talk of the rich man.
David in fact, when he talks of him, is kind of complaining.
He observes the rich man.
He says, I've seen this rich man, his eyes bulge out with fatness.
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That was a compliment.
That was not bad.
In those days, the thought was, if you had enough food to eat so that you were a little
overweight, you were blessed.
Nowadays, we look at it a little differently.
But he was just saying, take a look at this rich man.
He's fat, nice clothes.
His family doesn't have any want.
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His children are all happy.
He gets to live a long life and watch his children grow up.
He has no problems.
And what he means by rich man isn't simply that somebody has a lot of money.
Understand, God uses the wealth of this world for his own purposes.
He can.
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Riches are not evil.
Money is not evil, but the Scripture does say something else is.
What is it, folks?
What is evil?
The love of money is the root of all evil.
No, you got it.
It's not the money.
It's the love of it.
And the problem that a rich man has isn't that he has money.
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It's not his problem.
His problem is that he loves his money.
By the way, I want to tell you, in talking about Abraham, he was a rich man.
He was a wealthy man.
He had a lot of cattle, a lot of camels.
He was a very rich man.
He did not love his riches.
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His heart was not set on his riches.
That isn't what really made life have meaning for him.
That isn't what made him happy.
The man who in his riches, as David looked on the rich man, what David is talking about
is a man who loved his riches but did not love God.
And David was further upset because he said at the last, in a moment, the man was a little
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bit like a man is gone.
I kind of think of it this way.
There is a rich man living sumptuously all of his life, going about his excesses, maybe
building house after house after house, maybe multiple changes of clothes.
I've told you, I've heard stories of rich people that have had 200 pairs of shoes in
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their closet.
300 garments.
Well think of Solomon.
He did.
He had his heart in the wrong place at certain periods in his life.
It just, people can be taken up with those things.
And when David saw that, he said, here's this man, lives all of his life just in all
of his excesses.
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And he never has any troubles.
And he never has any diseases and no great problems.
And then suddenly he dies.
And it's kind of like what we would call today a heart attack, you know?
Rich man lives a long life.
And then one night he's in his sleep and he has a little coughing and choking and he's
gone.
And he just has never really known sorrow, you know, as we would think from the scriptures,
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sometimes you would think, well, if you don't live for God, you're certainly going to have
pain and hurt.
And David is saying, you know, that isn't always true.
Some people get to live out a full life with their excesses and they die quickly and they
really never know any pain.
And he says, it's wrong.
I don't like it.
They ought to really get theirs.
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You know, this is David, you know, are there sinners?
You know, let them have some real trouble.
Let them have some pain.
He said, but I went into the sanctuary.
He went into the place of worship.
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He went to where God was showing himself.
He went into the presence of God as what it means.
You see, the truth is David was not able to go into the sanctuary.
He wasn't a priest.
It would have been a direct and awful violation for David to have gone in there and probably
he would have died.
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So when he says that, he's calling on the figure of what the priest was able to go into
and the tabernacle, he could go into the Holy of Holies.
And David knew about that.
He knew that we, as those who love the Lord, as those who have put their trust in him, we
have the privilege of going into the Lord's presence.
We couldn't, if we were here, when David was alive, we couldn't do it any more than
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him in terms of going into that inner room in the sanctuary of rather the Holy of Holies
of the temple or the tabernacle.
I'll get it straight.
We couldn't do that.
But what we always could do and has always been available to us as people, regardless of
the age, the man that puts his trust in the Lord has the privilege of going into the presence
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of the Lord in prayer.
We have had that blessed privilege as far back as God has made himself known to man.
When Adam and Eve cheated themselves of the personal fellowship with the Lord in the garden
because of their sin and they accepted those skins from animals shed, whose blood was shed
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that they might be covered in their nakedness.
They were in a sense saying, we accept from you, you're covering by blood.
And there was communication between those who were people of faith and the Lord.
I'll give you the citation.
I don't have it from Adam and Eve, but I do from their son Abel because it's right there
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in the book of Genesis chapter four, when God talks about it and this is confirmed in
Hebrews 11 that the voice of righteous Abel called out to God and God heard him.
You see, right from the beginning, the righteous have had access to God by prayer.
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It's always so in the Word of God.
And David said he went into the sanctuary and then he saw things as they really are.
He saw the end of the unrighteous man.
He saw the eternal end of the unrighteous man.
He saw what the unrighteous man now had to face, now that he was dead.
Let me tell you, there's more written in the Word of God on the subject of judgment, on
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the subject of what happens to somebody after they die.
There's much more written in the Word of God about that than about heaven.
And that shocks some people.
But people need to hear it that upon death, Hebrews 927 is appointed unto man once to die.
And after this, the judgment that upon death, one had better have an eternal answer.
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One had better already have in place an answer before God.
They had better belong to God.
They had better have life in his name.
They better know him as their Savior because after death, it's a point when the man you
see wants to die and after death comes judgment.
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And that's what David is saying.
He went into the sanctuary and he knew their end.
He knew suddenly that even if a rich man who loved his riches, and we're speaking of
the man who loved his riches, even if he had a sumptuous life and never knew pain, as far
as eternity is concerned, he was in trouble.
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He was going to suffer for eternity.
You see the Scriptures teach that our life is like a little vapor, a vapor that appears
for a little time.
It's like steam above the steam kettle.
It goes a few inches into the air and suddenly you can't see it anymore.
Life is like a steam vapor.
It appears for a little while and then it vanishes away.
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The rich man's life down here is, as Moses says in his Psalms, three score and ten by
reason of strength, four score.
You might live 70 or 80 years, but you know in eternity, that's like a little moment of
steam above the kettle.
60, 70, 80 years is something, but it's not much when you weigh it against eternity, eternity,
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eternity.
And the Scripture warns man, man's like the flower of the grass.
It appears for a while when the sun is up in the heat of the day, it causes the little
delicate flower to fade and it's gone.
And that's what your life is like.
Like a little bloom, like a little flower, a delicate little blossom that pops up and
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it's beautiful and it's wonderful, but the heat of the sun comes and it's gone.
Your body cannot live forever.
We age, we get sick and we die.
You can fight it.
You can buy all the preparations you want to at the drugstore, but you're going to age
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and you're going to die.
Your vapor of steam may last another inch or two longer than somebody else's, but it's
going to be gone.
And David realized that the rich man, the man who loved his riches, had all of eternity
to be judged.
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But he, even though he had troubles and trials, he, because he loved the Lord, because he
was one of God's children.
He knew that he would be with the Lord forever.
That's what's important, knowing the Lord.
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So when God made these promises to Abraham, we have to separate in these promises between
the things that touch this earth and the things that touch eternity.
And these three verses, he does promise him that he's going to make him a great nation.
That means he's going to cause Abraham to have children and from his children will come
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children who are going to have children who are going to have children and eventually
they're going to be a great number of them.
That's what happened.
But you know, having babies and having them grow up and have children and have children
and have children, that's physical stuff, really.
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God made this promise to Abraham.
Abraham, you are going to be the root for a physical nation.
He told him this, and of course later in Genesis, and even here in this section right here in
these three verses, he talks about a land, he tells him in verse one, to leave his father's
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house to a land that I will show you.
The land that God was going to show Abraham was going to become the land for those people
that were going to come from his lines.
Abraham's line was going to become a great nation and they were going to live in that
land.
That's physical stuff.
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Having children is physical stuff.
And so happened that Abraham's seed, his line, got to be millions in number.
Then they got trimmed down.
But they number in the millions again today.
In my lifetime, we heard of the terrible, terrible slaughter of Jews and Germany.
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Six million of them were killed.
It's terrible.
It makes you weep.
If you ever get to Israel, visit the shrine of remembrance that they have there.
Remembering these six million people, they have little tiles set in the floor.
And they have six million of these little tiles paving the floor.
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You walk around with the pictures they have, with the concentration camps and the atrocities
they performed on those people.
You come out of there without having been deeply moved.
I came out to tell you what tears.
I don't know how you could come out and I realized the terrible, terrible torture that
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that nation has been through.
But the truth is, as far as their numbers are concerned, they have continued to multiply
and there are many millions of Jews in the world today.
This line of Abraham, even though they've had their setbacks in the physical sense, in
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their numbers, even though they've had their setbacks, they today number in the millions.
There are over 20 million of them.
Some say over 30 million.
I don't know the exact number, but there are millions of them.
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So the physical seed of Abraham becoming a people, that's happened.
How about the land, the physical land?
God says, I'm going to give you this land, physical land.
Well, they went to that land.
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Abraham did.
He didn't stay in it.
He wandered out of it for a while and then came back to it.
The sun Isaac was in it and then wandered out of it for a while and then came back to
it.
And after Isaac, there was Jacob and Jacob's 12 sons, wandered out of it because of drought.
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You know how God used Egypt and everything?
They were down in Egypt.
430 years they were out of the land.
Then they came back and they were back in it for centuries and God had to cast them out
of it and they were out of it for almost 2000 years and now they're dribbling and
drabbing, getting back to it.
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And you think, well, that's the fulfillment of these promises of God.
The reason I want to study this with you is that you understand that is not.
That is not.
God still promises them a nation that came from Abraham's line.
He still promises them that land that's theirs and they will live in it.
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But there's another great truth that is in harmony with all of this and in fact is the
most basic and controlling one of all of these truths.
And that has to do with salvation and the Savior.
So that in this third verse in you, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed was an
arrow pointing to the fact that God was going to bring a Savior to the world through the
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Jews.
And the genealogies are there in Matthew and Luke to say, yes, back to Abraham is the
genealogy of Jesus Christ.
He is of Abraham's seed.
He is of Jesse's seed, the father of David.
He is a Jew and he has become the Savior of the whole world, not just the Jew.
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Now is it enough then that the Jew just be a Jew in order to get in on all the promises
of God?
Now I want to quickly tie this together for you from something that the Lord said to the
Pharisees in John chapter 8, he said not so.
Here's what the Pharisees said in John 8.39.
There was a terrible, strong argument and discussion I'd call it, but it was really an
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argument that the Lord was having with them.
They did not understand that even though they were Jews, they had no relationship with God.
He was 39.
There are these Pharisees are talking.
They answered and said to him, Abraham is our Father and Jesus said to them, if you
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were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
What is the proof of whether you're Abraham's child or not?
Not simply whether you can trace your genealogy back to Abraham, that's the physical stuff.
The Lord Jesus wanted them to show him was that they did the works of Abraham.
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They obeyed God, not with just dogged obedience according to law, but that their hearts loved
the Lord and gave themselves to respond to God and to obey God because they had, like
the bridge, cast themselves on the Lord.
The truth was the Pharisees hadn't done that at all.
They didn't know what faith was.
All they knew was that they had a genealogy that went back to Abraham and therefore they
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were claiming those promises of Abraham.
They were one of the nation.
They were going to have the land.
They were going to have the nation in the land.
They knew the other promises that were built on this, that there was going to be one to
rule over them.
In other words, there was going to be a government that God was going to give them and the head
of the government was going to be a king.
He was called a Messiah and the Messiah was going to come and reign over them and they
were the privileged ones.
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They were going to be in on all this.
And the Lord Jesus said, well, yes, but, but the key issue is, are you children of faith
or are you only children of blood?
And the ones that God is looking for, even to do those promises among the Jews there that
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were given in Genesis 12, 1, 2, and 3, God is looking for a people who believe in Him.
What I'm saying is, God isn't giving up those promises to Abraham.
God isn't giving up the Jew.
He's going to have his nation.
He's going to have his land and praise God.
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He's going to have his king, the Lord Jesus.
But the ones that God will bring into that kingdom are not going to just simply be there
because they are bloodline Jews.
The question is going to be for those Jews and indeed they're going to be Jews that
come into that nation.
But the question will be, do they have the Lord Jesus as their Savior?
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It is a spiritual question.
That's why he was going to give one to bless the whole world through Abraham and certainly
to bless the whole world was to also call the Jews to faith in him.
I'm going to give it to you from Galatians 3.
And here, of course, it looks beyond the Jews.
It also looks to Gentiles.
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But I want you to see this principle nonetheless from Galatians chapter 3.
I'm going to read it verse 6.
Just as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness, therefore know that
only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
Now read that.
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Only those who are of faith are the sons of Abraham.
Those Pharisees in Jesus' day were not being counted as sons of Abraham because they were
not of faith.
They didn't cast themselves upon the Lord.
They didn't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in his death's atonement for them.
They wanted to live on their own strength and live on their own values and live by their
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own wisdom.
They were not really sons of Abraham for the promise.
Now here's verse 8.
And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, and that takes
you back to that third verse in Genesis 12-3, that it was going to be through Abraham that
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the nations of the world were going to be blessed.
You see, that foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith preached the gospel to
Abraham beforehand saying, and here's the quote, here's the quote from Genesis 12-3,
"...in you all the nations shall be blessed."
You see, isn't it wonderful to go to the Bible and that the Bible actually quote from
the other parts of the Bible and explain to you what it means?
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Galatians 3-8 is telling you that when you read Genesis 12-3, that for the nations of
the...in you all the nations shall be blessed means, as it says above there, that this was
centered on the gospel, the good news, that justification was going to be by faith.
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See, he would justify the nations by faith.
If the nations would come and trust in Christ, they would be accounted as the spiritual children
of Abraham.
So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
And that's people how all the nations of the earth got in on this blessing, that Christ
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did not just die for the Jew.
He died for the nations and that any in all the nations who believe in him and trust him
as their Savior are accounted as children of God.
And as far as faith is concerned, if you want to look back to somebody who had faith in
God and in that sense our Father, it is Abraham, Abraham, believe God.
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It was counted to him for righteousness.
Let me just in closing just say this to you.
That doesn't mean that God has set aside His promises to Abraham that one day there's
going to be a nation, we call it Israel today because that's what God called Jacob after
he changed his name.
The nation called Israel is going to have their land and they're going to have their
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king, the Messiah rule over them that is never taken away from the Jews.
But the only Jews that are going to really be able to be a part of that are going to
have to be Jews who have come to God by faith.
Now I'm not putting that in a timeframe for you.
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I don't have time for that this morning, but it's still future.
It hasn't happened yet.
I mean if you think that the Jews have ruled over the world, I don't know what history
book you've been reading, that Jesus has reigned in the Jewish nation and has subdued all the
nations of the world, that hasn't happened people.
It's promised but it hasn't happened.
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And I believe it.
I mean if God said it, it sounds fantastic, but I believe it, if God said it's going to
happen, it's going to happen.
But He makes it clear that the only Jews are going to be counted as the nation in that
they are Jews who have put their faith in Christ.
That's what Galatians 3 is telling us that those phrases mean.
Well then how about the Gentiles?
The wonderful thing about this is that even though we may not get in on that physical
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program, we may not be, therefore counted as the nation that Christ is going to rule over,
we can be in the family.
We can be just as much a child of God as any Jew could ever be a child of God.
We can be just as saved as any Jew could ever be saved.
We can have the blessings of God.
We can have the blessings of Abraham.
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We can have the blessings.
We don't have the promise to the nation, but we have the blessings that God is determined
to give to any who will come to Him and let His Son be their savior.
There isn't one blessing held back from you in the fullness of what Christ has provided
for your relationship with Him.
Heaven is yours and all the blessings of God in heaven are yours and all of eternity.
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The personal relationship that He's given to all who believe in Him are yours.
The same way Abraham came.
True these physical things have to be worked down here on this earth among some that are
at that time still part of Abraham's line, but they're going to be believers and God's
going to do that special program and that's all right and that's going to be His glory.
But anybody, anybody, anywhere who will trust in Christ as their savior, anywhere they may
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have the blessings of Abraham and have a relationship with God through Christ and have eternity
in Him.
Don't let anybody so teach these things that they would twist this and take that away
from the world.
Christ is the savior of the world.
And don't teach it in a way that you remove the facts that someday Christ will reign even
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over His people Israel, even as Michael.
I'm sorry, even as Gabriel told Mary.
He will inherit the throne of his father David.
There is no question about that.
The angel didn't lie.
God has never lied in His word.
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It will happen, but you can no salvation through the same savior that any Jew can because salvation
is no different for you than for them.
We're one in the Lord Jesus.
Father, thank you for Abraham's faith.
It's an illustration to us that we can be saved as he was.
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And one with him is our Father in the Spirit, in the spiritual sense, Lord, our brother.
I would pray that we might help others see these great truths that Christ died for this
world and all who would receive him may have the blessing of eternal life and be in the
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family of God to live with you forever.
Lord, use this week and help us share these truths and encourage others that sure you
have this physical program.
You're going to work that out someday and that day looks like it's coming around the
corner, not far away.
But for right now and for everyone, there is the offer of salvation.
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Help us be a people that walk in that faith, Lord, and live it day by day.
Lord, thank you, Pastor Raines, for another message from the Word of God.
And thank you, listeners, for listening in to this massive tape collection we have.
Well, it is pretty massive, but not too massive, but we still have enough tapes that we're
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I've been putting them up there.
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So they're not synced up with what the episode latest episode is, but they're from back episodes.
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Until then, have a great day.
Friends, and welcome or welcome back.
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This is the Legacy Bible Podcast, a place where you hear legacy lessons from the Bible,
from Legacy Audio, from the tape collection of the Fellowship Bible Church in Joliet,
Illinois.
I'm your host, Marcus Onate, and today I'll be bringing to you another one from the
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Church's tape archive collection.
This one is from September 1, 1991.
It's preached by our pastor, the Reverend Chuck Rains, and the title is Faith That
Cuts the Ropes, Faith That Cuts the Ropes, about Abraham going on on faith because of
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metaphor of a bridge.
So I think you'll like that one, just the parts I've been listening to so far.
I liked it, and I listened to it twice now.
So I guess we'll just get right to it, and I'll see you on the other side.
Now the Lord had said to Abraham, get out of your country from your kindred, that's
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your general, you know, relatives, your family line, and from your father's house, it means
directly under his father's roof to a land that I will show you.
I will make you a great nation.
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I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you.
And here's the wonderful part of these promises that touches the whole world.
And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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In you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
So God made some promises to Abraham that called for him to exercise faith back there
in 12, 1.
He told him, get out of your country, get away from your kindred, get away from your father's
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house and go to a land that I'll show you.
He was calling for Abraham to act, but he was calling for something more than simple
obedience in the sense of doing what God said.
But he was looking for an obedience that was resting on this, that Abraham would first
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cast himself on the Lord, trusting, in other words, in the Lord, committing himself completely
to the Lord.
If the Lord told him to do something and that he would follow through, Abraham was being
called to take God at his word and to act on it in such a way as to put his whole lot
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with the Lord, hold back nothing.
It's easy to say, well, I'll go along with this or that and not really cut the strings.
I like to use the illustration and you've heard it over and over from me.
I think it's fitting of the bridge.
There's a bridge over a deep, deep chasm.
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You want to get to the other side and this bridge is the only way over.
You have to commit yourself to the bridge.
Have you ever seen the pictures of some of the tiny bridges that people have built over
chasms, but they didn't have steel and they didn't have a way to make the span that was
too far, they didn't have a way to make the span with wood, so they braided together
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some vines or hemp or something that they had in their surroundings and they made long
ropes and they swung them across and got them up on the other side and then swung some other
ropes over there and eventually made a little pathway across on ropes.
Maybe they took some pieces of wood and tied them to the ropes underneath and made a walkway.
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We used to call those swinging bridges or swinging bridges, not the kind of bridge you'd
choose to go over, at least I wouldn't, if it was over some deep, deep chasm.
It might be a little bit scary, first time you try it or second or third or fifth to
whom I don't know, but if you think of yourself going over such a bridge, you're going to
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have to say, you know, this is a risky business because if this bridge gives out, I'm done
in.
You have to commit yourself to the bridge.
Well, you could say, you know, I know the fellow that built this bridge and he never
really does anything very well.
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He was the first little pig, you know, with the straw house.
If you knew that somebody with that kind of characteristic pattern had built the bridge,
you'd have strong concern about whether he's going to hold you up.
It might be a little easier for you, might be a little more secure for you if you said,
now I wouldn't mind going over the bridge so much if I had a rope that was still tied
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to one side, put it around my waist and tie it securely.
Good long rope, not too long, but good and long, so that as I walk across the bridge of
the bridge breaks, I still at least have the rope.
I'll hang on to the rope and I'll swing back, but I'll get bruised up a little bit, but
at least I won't be crashed on the rocks below.
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That may sound safe, but it's not committal.
It isn't what the Bible would call trust, at least not trust in the bridge.
You're really, you know what you're really trusting in in my illustration?
Anybody can guess there?
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The rope, yeah.
And you probably trust in the rope because you know who made it.
Maybe you made it yourself or maybe you've tested it before.
Life is full of trust people.
That's how life works.
You can't go through life without trust.
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You trust in your car, you trust other people going to stay on their side of the line, you
trust that when the red light flashes for them, they're going to stop, you just trust.
You get on one of those motorized staircases and escalator.
You trust that the thing is going to, and it's even worse if you get into an elevator.
You trust that the cables are going to hold.
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You trust that the fellow that put this together knew what he was doing.
Life is full of trust.
You trust that when you flip the switch, the lights are going to go on.
They don't go on, something's wrong.
You don't want your trust to be interrupted.
You don't want people to be coming through red lights at you.
It happens.
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People die because their trust was a man or in the stuff of this world.
And the lights sometimes don't go on and sometimes people don't stop at lights.
But when God speaks and asks for our faith, he wants us to know something's different
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about him.
That's why I studied with you last week that God is righteous and there is no unrighteousness
in him.
And when God asks you to trust in him, you can rest in this.
He won't fail.
God faileth not.
He will not fail you.
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He is righteous, but he is on the basis of his righteousness.
He is trustworthy.
So when he said to Abraham, leave your country, leave your people, go to a place that I'll
show you.
He was really asking for Abraham to cut the ropes.
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Don't trust in yourself or the ropes that you've made for yourself.
Cut them and step out on the bridge.
The bridge, however, is not a swinging, fragile bridge.
What you have in the scriptures is a solid rock bridge.
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There couldn't be anything more solid, more deeply set than the bridge that God asks you
to step out on.
It is God himself.
And actually, you're better off on the bridge than you are on the ground before the bridge.
You're better off stepping out on the Lord than standing on your own.
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You're better off committing yourself to the Lord's care and to the Lord's will and
to the Lord's direction and the Lord's counsel and the Lord's provision than you are standing
on your own.
Because the scripture everywhere is clear.
When a man trusts in himself, when he trusts in his own strength, when he trusts in his
own wisdom, trusts in his own knowledge, it will fail him.
Maybe not today, but ultimately it will fail him.
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And a lot of people actually get to live all their lives trusting in themselves and never
realizing that what they're trusting in really will fail them.
In fact, the Psalms talk of the rich man.
David in fact, when he talks of him, is kind of complaining.
He observes the rich man.
He says, I've seen this rich man, his eyes bulge out with fatness.
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That was a compliment.
That was not bad.
In those days, the thought was, if you had enough food to eat so that you were a little
overweight, you were blessed.
Nowadays, we look at it a little differently.
But he was just saying, take a look at this rich man.
He's fat, nice clothes.
His family doesn't have any want.
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His children are all happy.
He gets to live a long life and watch his children grow up.
He has no problems.
And what he means by rich man isn't simply that somebody has a lot of money.
Understand, God uses the wealth of this world for his own purposes.
He can.
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Riches are not evil.
Money is not evil, but the Scripture does say something else is.
What is it, folks?
What is evil?
The love of money is the root of all evil.
No, you got it.
It's not the money.
It's the love of it.
And the problem that a rich man has isn't that he has money.
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It's not his problem.
His problem is that he loves his money.
By the way, I want to tell you, in talking about Abraham, he was a rich man.
He was a wealthy man.
He had a lot of cattle, a lot of camels.
He was a very rich man.
He did not love his riches.
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His heart was not set on his riches.
That isn't what really made life have meaning for him.
That isn't what made him happy.
The man who in his riches, as David looked on the rich man, what David is talking about
is a man who loved his riches but did not love God.
And David was further upset because he said at the last, in a moment, the man was a little
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bit like a man is gone.
I kind of think of it this way.
There is a rich man living sumptuously all of his life, going about his excesses, maybe
building house after house after house, maybe multiple changes of clothes.
I've told you, I've heard stories of rich people that have had 200 pairs of shoes in
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their closet.
300 garments.
Well think of Solomon.
He did.
He had his heart in the wrong place at certain periods in his life.
It just, people can be taken up with those things.
And when David saw that, he said, here's this man, lives all of his life just in all
of his excesses.
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And he never has any troubles.
And he never has any diseases and no great problems.
And then suddenly he dies.
And it's kind of like what we would call today a heart attack, you know?
Rich man lives a long life.
And then one night he's in his sleep and he has a little coughing and choking and he's
gone.
And he just has never really known sorrow, you know, as we would think from the scriptures,
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sometimes you would think, well, if you don't live for God, you're certainly going to have
pain and hurt.
And David is saying, you know, that isn't always true.
Some people get to live out a full life with their excesses and they die quickly and they
really never know any pain.
And he says, it's wrong.
I don't like it.
They ought to really get theirs.
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You know, this is David, you know, are there sinners?
You know, let them have some real trouble.
Let them have some pain.
He said, but I went into the sanctuary.
He went into the place of worship.
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He went to where God was showing himself.
He went into the presence of God as what it means.
You see, the truth is David was not able to go into the sanctuary.
He wasn't a priest.
It would have been a direct and awful violation for David to have gone in there and probably
he would have died.
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So when he says that, he's calling on the figure of what the priest was able to go into
and the tabernacle, he could go into the Holy of Holies.
And David knew about that.
He knew that we, as those who love the Lord, as those who have put their trust in him, we
have the privilege of going into the Lord's presence.
We couldn't, if we were here, when David was alive, we couldn't do it any more than
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him in terms of going into that inner room in the sanctuary of rather the Holy of Holies
of the temple or the tabernacle.
I'll get it straight.
We couldn't do that.
But what we always could do and has always been available to us as people, regardless of
the age, the man that puts his trust in the Lord has the privilege of going into the presence
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of the Lord in prayer.
We have had that blessed privilege as far back as God has made himself known to man.
When Adam and Eve cheated themselves of the personal fellowship with the Lord in the garden
because of their sin and they accepted those skins from animals shed, whose blood was shed
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that they might be covered in their nakedness.
They were in a sense saying, we accept from you, you're covering by blood.
And there was communication between those who were people of faith and the Lord.
I'll give you the citation.
I don't have it from Adam and Eve, but I do from their son Abel because it's right there
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in the book of Genesis chapter four, when God talks about it and this is confirmed in
Hebrews 11 that the voice of righteous Abel called out to God and God heard him.
You see, right from the beginning, the righteous have had access to God by prayer.
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It's always so in the Word of God.
And David said he went into the sanctuary and then he saw things as they really are.
He saw the end of the unrighteous man.
He saw the eternal end of the unrighteous man.
He saw what the unrighteous man now had to face, now that he was dead.
Let me tell you, there's more written in the Word of God on the subject of judgment, on
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the subject of what happens to somebody after they die.
There's much more written in the Word of God about that than about heaven.
And that shocks some people.
But people need to hear it that upon death, Hebrews 927 is appointed unto man once to die.
And after this, the judgment that upon death, one had better have an eternal answer.
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One had better already have in place an answer before God.
They had better belong to God.
They had better have life in his name.
They better know him as their Savior because after death, it's a point when the man you
see wants to die and after death comes judgment.
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And that's what David is saying.
He went into the sanctuary and he knew their end.
He knew suddenly that even if a rich man who loved his riches, and we're speaking of
the man who loved his riches, even if he had a sumptuous life and never knew pain, as far
as eternity is concerned, he was in trouble.
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He was going to suffer for eternity.
You see the Scriptures teach that our life is like a little vapor, a vapor that appears
for a little time.
It's like steam above the steam kettle.
It goes a few inches into the air and suddenly you can't see it anymore.
Life is like a steam vapor.
It appears for a little while and then it vanishes away.
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The rich man's life down here is, as Moses says in his Psalms, three score and ten by
reason of strength, four score.
You might live 70 or 80 years, but you know in eternity, that's like a little moment of
steam above the kettle.
60, 70, 80 years is something, but it's not much when you weigh it against eternity, eternity,
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eternity.
And the Scripture warns man, man's like the flower of the grass.
It appears for a while when the sun is up in the heat of the day, it causes the little
delicate flower to fade and it's gone.
And that's what your life is like.
Like a little bloom, like a little flower, a delicate little blossom that pops up and
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it's beautiful and it's wonderful, but the heat of the sun comes and it's gone.
Your body cannot live forever.
We age, we get sick and we die.
You can fight it.
You can buy all the preparations you want to at the drugstore, but you're going to age
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and you're going to die.
Your vapor of steam may last another inch or two longer than somebody else's, but it's
going to be gone.
And David realized that the rich man, the man who loved his riches, had all of eternity
to be judged.
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But he, even though he had troubles and trials, he, because he loved the Lord, because he
was one of God's children.
He knew that he would be with the Lord forever.
That's what's important, knowing the Lord.
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So when God made these promises to Abraham, we have to separate in these promises between
the things that touch this earth and the things that touch eternity.
And these three verses, he does promise him that he's going to make him a great nation.
That means he's going to cause Abraham to have children and from his children will come
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children who are going to have children who are going to have children and eventually
they're going to be a great number of them.
That's what happened.
But you know, having babies and having them grow up and have children and have children
and have children, that's physical stuff, really.
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God made this promise to Abraham.
Abraham, you are going to be the root for a physical nation.
He told him this, and of course later in Genesis, and even here in this section right here in
these three verses, he talks about a land, he tells him in verse one, to leave his father's
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house to a land that I will show you.
The land that God was going to show Abraham was going to become the land for those people
that were going to come from his lines.
Abraham's line was going to become a great nation and they were going to live in that
land.
That's physical stuff.
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Having children is physical stuff.
And so happened that Abraham's seed, his line, got to be millions in number.
Then they got trimmed down.
But they number in the millions again today.
In my lifetime, we heard of the terrible, terrible slaughter of Jews and Germany.
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Six million of them were killed.
It's terrible.
It makes you weep.
If you ever get to Israel, visit the shrine of remembrance that they have there.
Remembering these six million people, they have little tiles set in the floor.
And they have six million of these little tiles paving the floor.
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You walk around with the pictures they have, with the concentration camps and the atrocities
they performed on those people.
You come out of there without having been deeply moved.
I came out to tell you what tears.
I don't know how you could come out and I realized the terrible, terrible torture that
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that nation has been through.
But the truth is, as far as their numbers are concerned, they have continued to multiply
and there are many millions of Jews in the world today.
This line of Abraham, even though they've had their setbacks in the physical sense, in
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their numbers, even though they've had their setbacks, they today number in the millions.
There are over 20 million of them.
Some say over 30 million.
I don't know the exact number, but there are millions of them.
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So the physical seed of Abraham becoming a people, that's happened.
How about the land, the physical land?
God says, I'm going to give you this land, physical land.
Well, they went to that land.
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Abraham did.
He didn't stay in it.
He wandered out of it for a while and then came back to it.
The sun Isaac was in it and then wandered out of it for a while and then came back to
it.
And after Isaac, there was Jacob and Jacob's 12 sons, wandered out of it because of drought.
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You know how God used Egypt and everything?
They were down in Egypt.
430 years they were out of the land.
Then they came back and they were back in it for centuries and God had to cast them out
of it and they were out of it for almost 2000 years and now they're dribbling and
drabbing, getting back to it.
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And you think, well, that's the fulfillment of these promises of God.
The reason I want to study this with you is that you understand that is not.
That is not.
God still promises them a nation that came from Abraham's line.
He still promises them that land that's theirs and they will live in it.
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But there's another great truth that is in harmony with all of this and in fact is the
most basic and controlling one of all of these truths.
And that has to do with salvation and the Savior.
So that in this third verse in you, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed was an
arrow pointing to the fact that God was going to bring a Savior to the world through the
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Jews.
And the genealogies are there in Matthew and Luke to say, yes, back to Abraham is the
genealogy of Jesus Christ.
He is of Abraham's seed.
He is of Jesse's seed, the father of David.
He is a Jew and he has become the Savior of the whole world, not just the Jew.
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Now is it enough then that the Jew just be a Jew in order to get in on all the promises
of God?
Now I want to quickly tie this together for you from something that the Lord said to the
Pharisees in John chapter 8, he said not so.
Here's what the Pharisees said in John 8.39.
There was a terrible, strong argument and discussion I'd call it, but it was really an
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argument that the Lord was having with them.
They did not understand that even though they were Jews, they had no relationship with God.
He was 39.
There are these Pharisees are talking.
They answered and said to him, Abraham is our Father and Jesus said to them, if you
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were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
What is the proof of whether you're Abraham's child or not?
Not simply whether you can trace your genealogy back to Abraham, that's the physical stuff.
The Lord Jesus wanted them to show him was that they did the works of Abraham.
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They obeyed God, not with just dogged obedience according to law, but that their hearts loved
the Lord and gave themselves to respond to God and to obey God because they had, like
the bridge, cast themselves on the Lord.
The truth was the Pharisees hadn't done that at all.
They didn't know what faith was.
All they knew was that they had a genealogy that went back to Abraham and therefore they
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were claiming those promises of Abraham.
They were one of the nation.
They were going to have the land.
They were going to have the nation in the land.
They knew the other promises that were built on this, that there was going to be one to
rule over them.
In other words, there was going to be a government that God was going to give them and the head
of the government was going to be a king.
He was called a Messiah and the Messiah was going to come and reign over them and they
were the privileged ones.
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They were going to be in on all this.
And the Lord Jesus said, well, yes, but, but the key issue is, are you children of faith
or are you only children of blood?
And the ones that God is looking for, even to do those promises among the Jews there that
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were given in Genesis 12, 1, 2, and 3, God is looking for a people who believe in Him.
What I'm saying is, God isn't giving up those promises to Abraham.
God isn't giving up the Jew.
He's going to have his nation.
He's going to have his land and praise God.
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He's going to have his king, the Lord Jesus.
But the ones that God will bring into that kingdom are not going to just simply be there
because they are bloodline Jews.
The question is going to be for those Jews and indeed they're going to be Jews that
come into that nation.
But the question will be, do they have the Lord Jesus as their Savior?
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It is a spiritual question.
That's why he was going to give one to bless the whole world through Abraham and certainly
to bless the whole world was to also call the Jews to faith in him.
I'm going to give it to you from Galatians 3.
And here, of course, it looks beyond the Jews.
It also looks to Gentiles.
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But I want you to see this principle nonetheless from Galatians chapter 3.
I'm going to read it verse 6.
Just as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness, therefore know that
only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
Now read that.
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Only those who are of faith are the sons of Abraham.
Those Pharisees in Jesus' day were not being counted as sons of Abraham because they were
not of faith.
They didn't cast themselves upon the Lord.
They didn't believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in his death's atonement for them.
They wanted to live on their own strength and live on their own values and live by their
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own wisdom.
They were not really sons of Abraham for the promise.
Now here's verse 8.
And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith, and that takes
you back to that third verse in Genesis 12-3, that it was going to be through Abraham that
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the nations of the world were going to be blessed.
You see, that foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith preached the gospel to
Abraham beforehand saying, and here's the quote, here's the quote from Genesis 12-3,
"...in you all the nations shall be blessed."
You see, isn't it wonderful to go to the Bible and that the Bible actually quote from
the other parts of the Bible and explain to you what it means?
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Galatians 3-8 is telling you that when you read Genesis 12-3, that for the nations of
the...in you all the nations shall be blessed means, as it says above there, that this was
centered on the gospel, the good news, that justification was going to be by faith.
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See, he would justify the nations by faith.
If the nations would come and trust in Christ, they would be accounted as the spiritual children
of Abraham.
So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
And that's people how all the nations of the earth got in on this blessing, that Christ
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did not just die for the Jew.
He died for the nations and that any in all the nations who believe in him and trust him
as their Savior are accounted as children of God.
And as far as faith is concerned, if you want to look back to somebody who had faith in
God and in that sense our Father, it is Abraham, Abraham, believe God.
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It was counted to him for righteousness.
Let me just in closing just say this to you.
That doesn't mean that God has set aside His promises to Abraham that one day there's
going to be a nation, we call it Israel today because that's what God called Jacob after
he changed his name.
The nation called Israel is going to have their land and they're going to have their
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king, the Messiah rule over them that is never taken away from the Jews.
But the only Jews that are going to really be able to be a part of that are going to
have to be Jews who have come to God by faith.
Now I'm not putting that in a timeframe for you.
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I don't have time for that this morning, but it's still future.
It hasn't happened yet.
I mean if you think that the Jews have ruled over the world, I don't know what history
book you've been reading, that Jesus has reigned in the Jewish nation and has subdued all the
nations of the world, that hasn't happened people.
It's promised but it hasn't happened.
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And I believe it.
I mean if God said it, it sounds fantastic, but I believe it, if God said it's going to
happen, it's going to happen.
But He makes it clear that the only Jews are going to be counted as the nation in that
they are Jews who have put their faith in Christ.
That's what Galatians 3 is telling us that those phrases mean.
Well then how about the Gentiles?
The wonderful thing about this is that even though we may not get in on that physical
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program, we may not be, therefore counted as the nation that Christ is going to rule over,
we can be in the family.
We can be just as much a child of God as any Jew could ever be a child of God.
We can be just as saved as any Jew could ever be saved.
We can have the blessings of God.
We can have the blessings of Abraham.
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We can have the blessings.
We don't have the promise to the nation, but we have the blessings that God is determined
to give to any who will come to Him and let His Son be their savior.
There isn't one blessing held back from you in the fullness of what Christ has provided
for your relationship with Him.
Heaven is yours and all the blessings of God in heaven are yours and all of eternity.
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The personal relationship that He's given to all who believe in Him are yours.
The same way Abraham came.
True these physical things have to be worked down here on this earth among some that are
at that time still part of Abraham's line, but they're going to be believers and God's
going to do that special program and that's all right and that's going to be His glory.
But anybody, anybody, anywhere who will trust in Christ as their savior, anywhere they may
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have the blessings of Abraham and have a relationship with God through Christ and have eternity
in Him.
Don't let anybody so teach these things that they would twist this and take that away
from the world.
Christ is the savior of the world.
And don't teach it in a way that you remove the facts that someday Christ will reign even
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over His people Israel, even as Michael.
I'm sorry, even as Gabriel told Mary.
He will inherit the throne of his father David.
There is no question about that.
The angel didn't lie.
God has never lied in His word.
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It will happen, but you can no salvation through the same savior that any Jew can because salvation
is no different for you than for them.
We're one in the Lord Jesus.
Father, thank you for Abraham's faith.
It's an illustration to us that we can be saved as he was.
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And one with him is our Father in the Spirit, in the spiritual sense, Lord, our brother.
I would pray that we might help others see these great truths that Christ died for this
world and all who would receive him may have the blessing of eternal life and be in the
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family of God to live with you forever.
Lord, use this week and help us share these truths and encourage others that sure you
have this physical program.
You're going to work that out someday and that day looks like it's coming around the
corner, not far away.
But for right now and for everyone, there is the offer of salvation.
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Help us be a people that walk in that faith, Lord, and live it day by day.
Lord, thank you, Pastor Raines, for another message from the Word of God.
And thank you, listeners, for listening in to this massive tape collection we have.
Well, it is pretty massive, but not too massive, but we still have enough tapes that we're
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going to be here for a few more years.
So if you want, you could subscribe.
That way you'll be reminded when a new episode comes out, or you could just come back every
Wednesday.
That's when I usually put the ones out and Thursday I do the YouTube episode because
yes, we do have a YouTube channel.
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So you can go there and maybe a good place to like steer someone to because everyone knows
how to find YouTube, at least I think they do.
So you could do that.
It's the legacy Bible podcast.
If you looked it up, you do a search in Google, kind of stuff comes up for that.
And you want to check out the website, the website.
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It's got some few resources.
I recently put a few more of the transcripts up there.
I think there's like, I don't know what, 14 of them up there now.
So they're going along as my sister does them.
I've been putting them up there.
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So they're not synced up with what the episode latest episode is, but they're from back episodes.
But you could listen.
I mean, I mean, you could read as I go to download in a study because I think they're
really well done.
So you could check that out.
Okay, then I'll see you next week.
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And until then, remember, share the podcast, subscribe, comment, share all that.
I like all that kind of stuff.
And most important is read your Bible and read the Bible while listening to the podcast.
That's a good idea too.
Alrighty then.
I'll see you next week.
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Until then, have a great day.
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