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Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright this is God's fund changing purpose. You are not going to ever change the purposes of God. Many are the plans in a man's heart but the purposes of God will prevail.

No matter what seeks to come against God. There is not going to be a 14 God's original plan and purpose. Alan Wright welcome to another message you that will help you see your life in a whole new light being excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series that we called the top 10 Pastor Alan is presented remove the church in North Carolina in the first 10 years of pastor Ellen's radio broadcast.

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And so it seems that the promise of God is called into question because God calls Abraham to take Isaac and offer him upon the altar as an act of worship. And in verse six of 22. Abraham took the word for the burnt wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife is a two of them went on together. Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham father. Yes, my son.

Abraham replied the fire and the wood are here Isaac said. But where is the Lamb for the burnt offering where is the Lamb will preach a sermon on that one day where is the Lamb Abraham answered God himself will provide the Lamb God himself, thereby say himself. I'm not providing you're not provided I'm not real sure where it's coming from, but God himself will provide it. The word provide comes from pro-meaning before and video meeting to see to provide means to see before.

If you could see everything before you can have the provision they're waiting on the need.

God himself will provide.

I don't know how but there's one thing I know about our godson is God didn't make a promise and turned back on it I doubted him once and so we wound up with Ishmael. But it's a new day son and I don't know what's gonna happen, but God himself will provide the Lamb there's never been a greater more poignant or powerful or accurate prophetic word. Has there, but that God himself will provide the Lamb. When they reached the place God told him about Abraham built an altar there and arrange the wood on a team, bound his son Isaac and laid him on multiple top the wood they reset his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel Lord called out to him from heaven, Abraham, Abraham here and probably handle the boy not do anything him. Now I know you fear God, because you've not withheld from your son, your only son, Abram looked up and there in the thick. He saw a ram compliance warns anyone over took the ram and sacrifice it as a burnt offering.

Instead of his son.

So Abraham called place.

The Lord will provide the call that place. The Lord sees is what it literally means Jehovah gyri, call this place Jehovah drive because the Lord sees ahead and provides and to this day is it is set on the mountain of the Lord. It will be provided. The angel Lord called Abraham from heaven a second time and said I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you've done this and I'm not withheld your son, your only son. I will surely bless you and make your descendents as numerous as the stars in the sky as the sand on the seashore. Your descendents will take possession of the cities of their enemies and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you will bathe me if you want to know what your spiritual inheritance is that I called you church the spiritual offspring of Abraham tell you that here you have your inheritance. I will bless you, says the Lord, and I'll make your descendents as numerous as the stars in the sky, bless your life and the fruit of your life will be spiritual descendents that'll go on beyond you and touch the world and your descendents will take possession of the cities of the enemy. Not only will you, but those whose lives you touch will be infected will be cool slowly filled with the Holy Spirit, such as you take back what the enemy had stolen, bring about restoration the world seem like it was lost, but it is not a nominal bless you that you will be a blessing to have spiritual victory in your life and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed. We got an inheritance.

Go to Hebrews chapter 6 God came to Abraham in Genesis 12 and gave him an oath. Bless you and you will be blasting your people be blessed in the world. Be blessed through you and he came back in Genesis 22 and he blessed him again and gave him the same oath again. Now we come to Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 13 Hebrews chapter 613. When God made his promise when God made his promise to Abraham. Since there was no one greater for him to swear by. He swore by himself saying I will surely bless you and give you many descendents.

So after waiting patiently. Abraham received what was promised minutes whereby someone greater than themselves in the oath confirms what is said and put an end to all argument because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promise. He confirmed it with an oath on changing nature of his purpose and his purpose was to bless Abraham his natural descendents in all of his spiritual offspring so that through this blessing, there would be blessing released in the world.

This is God's son changing purpose. You are not going to ever change the purposes of God. Many are the plans in a man's heart but the purposes of God will prevail. I'm telling you, no matter what seeks to come against God. There is not going to be a 14 God's original plan and purpose to blessed the human beings that he made in his image so that they would have dominion in their and he wanted this to be very clear to the heirs he doesn't want people who are heirs to be acting like orphans so he has sworn by himself to make the unchanging nature of his prep is very clear to the heirs of what was promised, and he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that by two unchangeable things, in which is impossible for God to lie, wheel fled to take hold. The hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged. The point of what he saying is to encourage us the text immediately precedes this is an exhortation to not be lazy. You could call this message the answer out of our laziness, but I think I'm going to call it God swears to God Alan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series ministries for quite some time.

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By the way, that's what the law does to you. Don't think of a pink elephant right now. Please whatever you do don't and so they want on the video cameras in the. The person comes back in and says well did you look no.

7/10 of these precious, otherwise perfect children immediately lied about it while their parents are watching in a separate room on the video screen to see their children, their precious little ones lying and his children.

We tended to come to know that it's one thing for some I'd say yes or no to us, but if the circumstances change a little bit might not hold so if you really want to get something from somebody beyond just a yes or no, it's, you know, can we have ice cream tonight and if the parent says will see that that means no. But if the parent says yes you know the child might want to ramp up the commitment a little bit by saying do you promise because a yes or no is not quite as good as a promise you make a promise you put a little bit more into now if you really want to turn the heat up and is not only do you promise, but will reduce kids is like you promise no cross is counted to bring your hands around say okay no cross and then you cross your legs and they don't notice because I can nullify this by some other superstition here. You promise no cross is counted by okay I promise no crosses can, but if you really, really, still, you know you need to get confidence at the state that it you turn it up just another notch. And that's where you get into not only do you promise, but do you swear you swear my mama told me don't you ever swear like that is not good so I need some I'd it okay to you swear okay I swear I'll do it now smell something really happen. But if you still if it's really important to be like to swear cross your heart hope to die, you add some personal mortal infliction of pain upon yourself and ultimate death.

If you don't do this, would you invoke the gods of the universe strike you down with lightning if you don't say this, would you could add something to your note. You need to know that you really mean is okay. I swear if you read really desperate in our society.

You just some way.

We got to try to get people to tell the truth here everything wrestled somebody telling the truth.

They actually solve the murder happened, I saw the bank robber, would you just put your hand on the Bible. Raise your other hand we just swear by the you can use this Bible in the classroom or any other part of our government. Put your hand on the Bible you swear to God right now you don't believe in God. He never read the Bible, swear to tell the whole swear right now by God, really, really important and I don't want to do is to make build my life and everything's going to depend on mom will determine right now. Okay to it, just doing kill me if I don't do so is so serious that I need to invoke greater power that could just strike me down anytime soon. Swear, swear will be a better person. I am not going to keep on being so lazy. I am not going to keep being late all the meetings I do it. You swear when something ornamental swear on it but I mean most of my life. I've heard the Christian gospel proclaimed is something that sounds a little bit like good news and it constantly banners because it seemed like most of the messages were most all I can wound up being like okay now you know here's you know God died for you and you get safe now hear me give you seven steps to be a better husband because you're not a very good husband as you are right now to write these down. I got seven things for you write it down because you know number one you need to love your wife is Christ loved the church and that means sacrifice are you sacrificing right now are you sacrificing enough for your wife and although I do know you know you cannot put a check next and the next thing that you know you is good news. Within it, turn it when you know by the end of the message like will you recommit your oath to God to just live a better life would just recommit yourself and make a fresh post today. Oh well you had in Which you can make a new low today you could just right here in front of God and these witnesses you could just right now to establish I'm going to do better. God yes I am spiritual disciplines like this. Your problem is you read the Bible enough that's your problem. You don't read by one of, if you read the Bible more won first place. You know what is said and you quit doing all those things you're doing is not matching up with the Bible is read more I read my Bible and read my Bible and read my Bible every day. Get up for the birds are out healthcare mostly to get a sinus infection and that my new system is compromised with active sleep or not you'll pray enough. You will pray not what Jesus did for you and you cannot carry for an hour cross for you for you on the cross. You cannot carry one hour even give one stinking God, yourself and do it will pray every day for every day for an hour. We got pray every day for 15 minute wait 10 minutes and I got on the way to work God on our accountability relationships like this. You really grow up in the Lord, you realize you not only need preaching on Sunday and teaching on Wednesday in small but you need to get a mental relationship actually believe in this and discipling relationship and get rid of that sin in your life.

What you need to do an accountability partner, but you're probably gotten no account of the eye five in the morning every Friday will meet you is no when you need to sharpen our sin this week is on the minute you did.

You listed, you just test.

I figured you would lustfully week. I'll be there. You have not listed look me in your accountability morning. Don't tell me a lot this week that you did Wednesday.

So you know you twice a week to make a window. I will meet you on Tuesday and Friday. Tuesday and Friday call you every day because you obviously do not feel yourself to stop doing this terrible behavior is damaging so many people you can't seem to keep your mouth so I will just call you every day. That's what you need is more Problem with trying to live your life out of keeping your oath to God.

The problem with it is.

It's a system which is built on and fueled by fear right in here it is teaching that really is the flagship of this particular series, God swears to God a study of Hebrews and its continuing in a moment with Alan here in the studio with additional insight on what we've heard in a final word stands for quite some time.

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Gift to discover God's grace afresh with Alan Wright's time at the first decade gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries, 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.work. I love this series, I love this particular teaching and I forgetting to a lot of times for those who are just hearing anything that's a creative title. We, in reference to the Trinity, God in three persons unpacked up so God swears to God is literally what Hebrews tells us that God did when he made the confident with Abraham saying there's no one else whereby he swore by himself. So when you make a covenant in the Old Testament times. Literally, they would cut an animal walk between this sort of bloodied gauntlet of animal carcass and essentially make their vowels. Each party in the confident one would say if I do not keep my Val, may I be like this Lane animal what the writer of Hebrews is alluding to is when God made his covenant with Abraham. Abraham was sleep. God let him go into sort of a trance and God was represented by a blazing fire pot that moved between the sling carcass. It was God himself, making the comment and saying essentially if I don't keep my word and my promise to you Abraham made my life be like this Lane animal. Of course, the beauty of the gospel is that he did come and he became the Lamb. The Lamb who was slain for us.

So this is all wrapped up in what it means. This powerful intriguing thought that God swore by himself were learning about the depths of God's new covenant promises to us in Christ. Today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries