A Lasting Faith

The book of Hebrews says that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Abraham was given great faith and with that faith held on to the promise of the land and the countless posterity, even though in this life.

He never saw either today a monumental covenant between God and man.

As described in Genesis chapter 15.

Stay with us from Chicago. This is The Moody Church.

Our weekly service of worship and teaching with pastor Erwin Blitzer today. Dr. Lidster continues his series on strength for the journey taken your next steps with God. A study in the life of Abraham.

Later in our broadcast will show how God gave Abraham a lasting thing the Moody choir comes now to open our service. Thank you so much choir and we do accept that call to praise. We hope that you have come with an attitude of worship and openness to the Lord our God. When you take your hymnal please and turn to 682 guide me old thou great Jehovah happens to be one of my favorite hymns. I hope that that is true also of you and then you'll notice the Scripture reading today is by Pastor Mark theory was our director of Christian education and will have an opportunity to participate in that. And then we sing the chorus knowing you. Once we stand will continue to stand until we That Chorus. I Hope That Your Mind and Heart This Morning Is Open to God.

The Last Stanza of the Hymn That We Are Going to Sing Talks about Standing on the Verge of Jordan in the Mind of the Hymn Writer Jordan Represents Death and He Talks about Being Safe on Canaan's Side and That of Course in His Mind Represents Heaven but Notice That the Life and the Experience of the Israelites Becomes Ours As We Sing This Hymn and Seek for God's Guidance. Whatever Barrier May Be in Your Life Today to Hinder You from Full Participation and Blessing and Worship. Would You Give That Barrier to the Lord As We Now Seek Him and Invite His Blessed Presence. Join As We Pray the Father in Jesus Name We Ask That You Will Open Our Lives to You. Help Us to Set Aside All the Distraction. Help Us, so Father We Pray That Even Those Matters That Are on Our Minds Shall Be Yielded to Your Control. As We Sing Your Praise and Seek Your Guidance We Ask in Jesus Name, Amen.

Our Scripture Reading Is Taken from Philippians Chapter 3 Verses Seven through 14.

Please Join with Me on the Bold Print, but Whatever. Again, I Had I Counted As Loss for the Sake of Christ.

Indeed, I Count Everything Is Loss Because of the Surpassing Worth of Knowing Christ Jesus My Lord, for His Sake I Have Suffered the Loss of All Things, and Count Them As Rubbish in Order That I May Gain Christ and Be Found in Him, Not Having a Righteousness of My Own That Comes from the Law, but That Which Comes through Faith in Christ, the Righteousness from God That Depends on Faith That I May Know Him and the Power of His Resurrection, and May Share His Sufferings, Becoming like Him in His Dad That by Any Means Possible I May Attain the Resurrection of the Dead That I Have Artie Obtained This or Am Already Perfect, but I Press on to Make It My Own Because Christ Jesus Had Made Me His Own Brothers, I Do Not Consider That I Have Made It My Own. But One Thing I Do, Forgetting What Lies behind and Straining Forward to What Lies Ahead, I Press on toward the for the Prize of the Upward Call of God in Christ Jesus and Virtually Every Test That You and I Encounter in the Christian Life Comes down to Two Questions. First of All Is God Trustworthy Can He Be Trusted. The First Question and the Second Question Is Can I Trust Him Always Reduced to a Matter of Trust and Whether or Not God Is Trustworthy You Face a Temptation and That the Temptation Is to Do Your Own Thing and You Ask Yourself This Question Is Sin, Ever a Good Idea Is That a Better Idea and God's Idea Comes down to a Matter of Trust.

Everything Comes down to That Anxiety. The Inability That We Have To Control Consequences and Control Events That We Give over to God, Can We Trust Him. That's the Question Abraham Was Told by God, I'm Going to Give You the Land and I'm Going to Give It to You Forever and to Your Offspring. It Will Be Yours. The Question Now before Us Is Can Abraham Trust Him. Can Abraham Do and to Live in Such a Way That He Believes That God Knows What He Is Doing and Can Be Believe the 15th Chapter of the Book of Genesis, Which Is Our Text for Today Genesis Chapter 15 Is One of the Most Important Chapters in All the Bible, Genesis 15, Every Bible Open to This Great and Wonderful Chapter What God Does in Genesis 15, Is He Gives Abraham Three Promises Were Going to Look at Those Promises Because Abraham in the 15th Chapter Really Is Having a Dialogue with God and We Get in on It and We Get to Listen in on What's Happening between Abraham and God. The Chapter Opens in Verse One after These Things the Word of the Lord Came to Abraham in a Vision, Fear Not First Time That Expression Is Used in the Bible. Fear Not Abraham, I Am Your Shield, Your Reward Shall Be Very Right.

Promise.

Number One I Am Your Protection. I Am Your Shield, Why Did God Say That to Abraham at This Juncture, Remember the Context after These Things, It Says Abraham Had Just Routed Four Kings in the East. They Had Gone off with a Whole Bunch of Loops Which Abraham Recaptured Including Law. As We Noticed Last Time He No Doubt Feared Retaliation. There He Was in His Tent. The Kings Could Gang up on Him and They Could Come in They Could Overwhelm Them Very Very Easily and Kill Them and Then What Would Happen to the Promises of God, and the Seed God Says Abraham I Am Your Shield. I'll Protect You and Your Reward Shall Be Great. I Know That You Said No to the King of Sodom, the King of Sodom Wanted You to Keep All of the Goods That You Recaptured and You Said No Less Thinking of Sodom Say That He Made Abraham Rich and and Because of That I'm Going to Bless You. You're Going to Be Rewarded. Everything Is Going to Be Okay. Abraham, God, It's Says This Lovely Promise. I Am Your Shield and Your Reward Shall Be Great. Abraham's Success with the Problem of the Promise Though. You See God. It Said That I'm Going to Give It Your Seed. He's Getting Older Sarah His Wife Is Already beyond the Place of Being Able to Bear Children, and so Abraham Is Is Trying to Figure out How God's Have You Ever Tried to Figure out How God's Going to Do It Whenever I've Done That 9/10 Times I'm Wrong.

So Abraham Says to God, Verse Two, Oh Lord God, You Give Me.

I Continue, Childless, and the Air of My Houses Eliezer of Damascus. He Says You Not Given Me a Child and in Those Days That Was Calm and If You Didn't Have Any Children of the Airship Would Be Passed to One of Your Favorite Servants or Someone Who Was in Your House You Highly Regarded and Choices Are You Going to Do It through Eliezer and God Come Stay Premises.

Abraham No He Says Expressly He Says Your Very Own Son Last Part of Verse Five and Verse Six, Shall Be Your Heir.

This Man Shall Not Be Your Heir. Your Very Own Son Is Going to Be Your Heir and It Leads Abraham to More Puzzles about the Will of God, Which Sometimes Appears to Be a Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma. How Is God Going to Do It.

So Abraham Says Lord, How's It Going to Happen. God Says Abraham Come out Look at the Stars. Previously God Says As Many Particles of Dust As There Are on the Earth. That's the Way Your Seed Is Going to Be.

Not That There Are Going to Be As Many People As Dust, but You Can't Number the Dust.

God Says You Can't Number Your Seed. Now God Says Come out and Look at the Stars. Sometimes in the Blackness of Your Experience When There Is Nothing You Can Look at Just Look at the Stars. Can You Count Them. Abraham No I Can't Count Them, so Shall Your Seed Be. God Says I'm Your Protection. I Am Also Your Provision. It'll Happen.

Abraham First, Promise. God Says I'm Your Protection Second Promise, a Promise of Righteousness.

Verse Six of Chapter 50 Dean Is One of the Most Important Verses of the Old Testament Is Quoted Three Times in the New Testament It Says and Abraham Believed the Lord and He Counted It to Him As Righteousness. The Gift of Righteousness, the Promise of Righteousness Three Words in That Little Verse That You Must Understand If You Intend to Get to Heaven. Some of You Intend to Get to Heaven. I Hope That Your Intention Will Be Realized in His Company Realized on the Basis of Whether or Not You Understand This. The First Word Is the Word Believed Abraham Believed God in the Hebrew the Word Actually Is a Main from Which We Get. Amen It Was Translated into Greek As a Man, and That's the Way It Appears in the New Testament When Jesus Said, Verily, Verily I Say unto You, the Greek Says a Man Amen, I Say to You.

Amen.

Means I Embrace and I Heartily Accept What God Has Said If Abraham Were German He'd Say Young Hole Young Hole. That's the Idea, Yes, I Embrace It Is Mine. Abraham Said a Man to God, and It Was Counted As Righteousness. Are You Here Today Being Willing to Say Amen Amen to God. That's What It Means to Believe. Thank You. Thank Three of You Are Saying Amen. You Know It's Not Fair That Three People Would Say Let's All Say It Together.

Let's All Say Amen. Okay, Let's All Say Hey Man Hey Man to God. That's What Abraham Did Not Second Word Counted Reckoned He Wasn't Righteous. He Was a Sinner.

In Fact, His Sins Are Clear on the Pages of Scripture, but Was Credited to Him As Righteousness. God Says I'm Crediting Your Account Something You Do Not Naturally You Have and That Is Righteousness in the New Testament If We May Jump Therefore Moment It Becomes Very Clear.

Theologians Call This Imputation, It Was Imputed to Him. The Bible Says That Jesus Was Counted, a Sinner.

He Was a Reckoned to Be a Sinner.

He Wasn't Personally but He Was He Was Reckoned As a Center and What Happened When Jesus Died.

Is This.

He Got What He Didn't Deserve.

Namely, Our Sins Were Credited to Him and We Got What We Didn't Deserve. Namely, His Righteousness Is Credited to Us.

That's What Imputation Is and When the Apostle Paul Quotes This in the Book of Romans.

He Quotes It Because He Wants to Show That God's Way of Salvation Always Is Faith and Not Works. That's the Context in the Book of Romans and so God Says Today.

Abraham, You Don't Have Any Righteousness, Not the Kind That I Need but I'm Gonna Credited to You As a Free Gift. You Say Will How Are People Saved in the Old Testament Times the Answer Is This That God Saved People like Abraham on Credit Will Know What It's like to Buy Something on Credit, Don't We.

We All Had Plastic in Her Pocket and That We Go to Someplace and We Say Yes I Want This Article of Furniture and and We Put It on Credit and We Begin to Enjoy It and Then at the End of the Month. The Statement Comes and It Has To Be Paid.

Remember, It Has To Be Paid. God Sets Abraham, I Am Going to Save You on Credit Because I Know That Jesus Is Coming, and in Your Seed Is Going to Be the Redeemer Is Going to Be Qualified to Take Away Your Sin and Already Now I'm Giving You the Privilege of in Joining Me and Walking in Righteousness, Knowing That Christ Is Coming As Nobody Gets Saved Apart from the Work of Jesus Disabled That Abraham Actually Believe in Jesus. He Saw Jesus Coming with Some Clarity Not Much but Some but He Believed What God Revealed That It Was Credited to Him As Righteousness. The Content of This Faith Was Different Than Ours, but the End Result Was the Same Third Word.

Righteousness What Is Righteousness Is the Kind of Righteousness That Only God Itself Accepts and the Only Righteousness That God Accepts Is His Own. That's Why We Sing Clothed in His Righteousness Alone.

You Understand That This Has To Be a Free Gift. God Does Not Say Abraham Now That You've Done This. What You Have To Do Is in Order to Get You Need a Sacrifice Go Offer a Sacrifice.

God Doesn't Say Abraham to Get It You Have To Give Money. God Doesn't Say Abraham Go off and Be Baptized. No, It's a Free Gift. And the Reason It Has To Be Free Is Because This Is a Righteousness of Which You and I Have None. We Can Contribute to It.

We Can't Make It Better. We Can Subtract from That. It Is the Righteousness of God Is Polls Shows in the Book of Romans, and That Means That God Can Save Big Centers As Well As Lesser Ones Because Ultimately Salvation Has To Be a Free Gift. Of Course It's Better That You Be Lesser Sinner Than a Greater Sinner to Be Sure, but at the End of the Day. God Says I Can Even Save Criminal If They Stop Trusting in Themselves and Trust in Jesus for Their Righteousness, for the Gift God Has Given. This Is the Most Precious Gift God Gave to Abraham. It's What He Needed the Most. And He Believed God, and It Was Credited to Him As Righteousness.

Second, Promise First Promises Protection.

The Second Is Righteousness. And Now the Third Promise Is That about Glorious Future and What an Important Passage.

This Is in Order to Understand What's Going on Here and the Rest of the Chapter, I Need to Tell You That in Those Days When You Made a Covenant with Someone and It Was to Be a Blood Covenant Very Solemn. What You Did As You Took Animals and You Cut Them into You Kill Them and Cut Them into New Laid Them in Half so That They Were Symmetrical and Then the Two of You Walked through in between These Pieces and What You Were Saying in Effect Is If I Break My Word. I Deserve the Same Date As These Animals Was the Most Solemn Covenant That You Could Ever Possibly Make so God Says Abraham Takes Some Animals Take a Heifer Take a Go Take around and Cut Them into and Lay Them out. Abraham Does, He Finds He Has To Keep the Birds of Prey Away from Eating the Exposed Meat and Then the Bible Says That a Deep Sleep Came upon Abraham Verse 12, and Behold a Dreadful Darkness Befell Him and in His Sleep. God Says to Him, Abraham Know for Certain That Your Offspring Will Be Sojourners in the Land That Is Not Theirs. I'm in the Middle of Verse 13 and Will Be Servants There and They Will Be Afflicted 400 Years, but I Will Bring Judgment on the Nation That They Serve. And Afterward, They Shall Come out with Great Possessions.

As for Yourself, You Shall Go to Your Fathers in Peace and You Shall Be Buried in a Good Old Age, and They Shall Come Back Here in the Fourth Generation for the Iniquity of the Amorites Is Not yet Complete.

God Says Abraham, Your Seed Is Going to Inherit the Land but That's Not Going to Happen for 400 Years. First of All, You Have To Have a Child and Then There Will Be This Family That Will Be Created That Will Go into Egypt for 400 Years and Then They're Going to Come Back. And of Course We Know That That Happened under Moses and Joshua and Then They're Going to Enter into the Land for Hundred Long Years, but They'll Be Back Because God Is God and Time Is Not a Limitation to Him As It Is to Us.

So Abraham Receives This Revelation and Then Most Start. This Is What Happens. It Says in Verse 17 When the Sun Had Gone down and It Was Dark, the Oldest Smoking Fire Pot and a Flaming Torch Passed between These Bees on That Day the Lord Made a Covenant with Abraham Saying to Your Offspring. I Give This Land from the River of Egypt to the Great River, the Euphrates, the Land of the Canada Sites and Then All of These Other Gershon Eidson, Jebusites, and Megabytes and All of the Other. What's with This Flaming Torch and This Pot or This Oven. That's God Passing through the Pieces As Becomes Very Clear Both in This Text and Other Passages of Scripture.

The Furnace Perhaps Representing the Furnace of Affliction That the Israelites Are Going to Go through and the Torch, Representing the Light That They Will Eventually Be to the World, Both Suffering and Glory. God Says I Am Walking All Right Now. You Followed It This Far, Haven't You $64 Question. Where Is Abraham in This Whole Thing, the Answer Is He's Asleep, He's in Another World. He's Somewhere Else He Does Not Walk with God between These Pieces, God Walks between the Pieces Alone Because What God Is Saying Is I'm Making This Covenant with You, Abraham. But Guess What, This Isn't an Agreement Where You Do Your Part and Then I Do My Part. This Is a Covenant That I Am Making with You That I Will Accomplish Unaddressed Holy 100% and Is Not Even Dependent upon Your Faithfulness or Your Obedience.

Though God Will Bring That about. Because I Am God and This Is What I Have Decided to Do and It Will Happen and Nothing, Including Even the Human Will Will Stand in My Way.

While Welcome to What Is Called the Unconditional Covenant. No Conditions. God Says I Making This Agreement with Myself What It Says in the Book of Hebrews Hebrews Says, When God Made a Promise to Abraham, Because He Could Swear by None Greater. He Swore by Himself. It Says in the Text since He Had No One Greater by Whom to Swear by Whom to Swear. He Swore by Himself Saying, Surely I Will Bless You and Multiply You, and Thus Abraham Having Patiently Waited, Obtained the Promise. Goddesses. This Is My Doing This It Will Does That Mean Abraham Could Be Disobedient, and so Forth. Well, Theoretically, but God When He Makes a Covenant like This in Effect Is Saying Something Else.

I Am Going to Work in Abraham's Heart to Birth in Him the Faith. I'm Going to Do the Miracle That He and Sarah Need to Have a Son, and I Am Going to Work through the Human Will to Accomplish My Ends, but at the End of the Day. This Is Me Swearing by Myself but It's Going to Happen. There Is Nothing More Certain on Planet Earth Than That Abraham's Seed Will Inherit the Land That God Gave in One of the Questions We Have To Ask Is, Have They Already Inherited It All, or Is There Still a Future for the Nation Israel Because God Says It's Going to Happen and If He Says It's Going to Happen. It Is Three Very Important Lessons, Life-Changing Lessons That Will Help You. First of All, You Notice in This Text That God Doesn't Treat Everybody Alike. Did You Know That God Doesn't Treat Everybody Alike. Although You Know That We People Say Lie Can Accept a God Who's Going to Treat Some People Differently.

God Didn't Give This Revelation to Hammurabi. For Example, One of the Kings That Gave Us a Great Law That Is Been Discovered Who Lived Shortly after the Time of Abraham. God Didn't Give This Revelation to Lot God Didn't Give This Revelation to Any Other of Abraham's Kinsfolk Goddesses Abraham I'm Choosing You and If You Asked the Question As to Why You're Probing into a Mystery That I Have Chosen to Not Reveal Simply Because of My Good Pleasure. God Doesn't Treat Everybody Alike Yes to Treat Everyone Justly, Absolutely. But There Are Some Who Receive Mercy's, but Others Do Not Receive. If You Struggle with That, Let Me Simply Suggest That You Let God Be God. True Story. Two Sisters Grow up in the Very Same Home. One Grows up Searching God, Knowing That She Has To Be Born Again.

Going from Church to Church Saying I Know That If I'm Not Born Again Will Not Enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Somebody Tell Me How to Be Born Again and She's Gloriously Converted. Her Sister Whom I Happen to Know Is a Relative of Mine Hard As Nails Atheist Wants Nothing to Do with God.

The Bible or Anything Else While the One He Shows Mercy. You Say Will What about This Atheist Could She Believe Yes Yes If She Desired to Believe There's No Question about It, but It's Almost As If the Desire Has Been Taken from Her. The Other One in Whom God Worked, Said Pastor Lutzer by Mentioning This Point You Have Scared up More Rabbits Than You're Able to Shoot on a Sunday Morning and so I Have. I Want You to Think about That Not Everybody Is Treated Alike. Now If You Find in Your Heart a Desire to Pursue God Pursue Him, Seek Him, Seek Christ Because If You Have That Desire.

It Shows That God Is Working with in You to Bring about His Purpose Seek It with All of Your Heart. Second, All of God's Children, All of God's Children Live with Delayed Promises, Delayed Promises Is Abraham.

God Says I'm Giving You the Land, It's Yours and Your Descendents Forever. Okay God Start Doing Well.

You Don't Even Have a Son yet.

Abraham, in Fact, the Next Sermon. I Hope You Don't Miss Has To Do with the Birth of Ishmael, All of the Consequences Were to Look at the Impact of This in the Muslim World and the Jewish World and the Christian World. But God Says I'm Going to Do All This for You. Now What Does God Say It's Going to Be 400 Years before They Actually Come Back and Even Begin the Process of Inheriting It and Some of Us Think They Still Haven't Finished the Process, so God Is God Is Saying Is This the Way It Is You're Going to Have To Wait Abraham. It Says in the Book of Hebrews.

He Died, He Died in Faith without the Promises Fulfilled.

You Know That When When Sarah Dies, He Has To Buy a Plot of Land to Barrier.

What's This Buying a Plot of Land. Land Was Given to Him by God. God Says Yes Yours, but You Know What Promises Going to Be Delayed. We Live with Delayed Promises over Time. Of Course, Healing Is in the Atonement. Jesus Died for Us, Body, Soul and Spirit, and There Are Some People Who Tell Us You Don't Have To Delay Anything All Know Know It's Yours Just Name It.

Claimant Know Our Healing Will Be Ours. Someday When We Have Resurrection Bodies When We Won't Need Glasses When We Won't Have the Limitations of the Flesh yet but It's Coming. Stomach Justice. All of the Things Now Can't You Imagine Abraham Being in Touch with the Health and Wealth Preacher Abraham It's Yours. Take It God Gave It to You Claimant What You Mean You're Paying for the Land You Own It, You Just Bring All These Enemies under Your Control and in Submission Because It's All Yours Rabbit Now Can I Share Something with You.

I Will If God Wills It in about a Year and like to Preach a Series of Messages in Title Living with Delayed Prom.

I Think That's One of the Greatest Confusions That We Have Is That We Have To Live with Delayed Promises You so Are There Some Promises We Can Embrace Right Now and the Answer Is Yes, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and You Shall Be Saved If You Wait until Some Future Time. It May Be Too Late. There Some Promises That Need to Be Embraced Right Now, but There Are Many Promises That Are Delayed but They Are As Certain As God's Holy Word, but We Die Faith Third and Last through Faith through Faith. You and I Also Enter into an Unconditional Covenant and Unconditional Covenant Called the New Covenant, the New Covenant in My Blood. Today Were Going to Have an Opportunity to Remember That New Covenant When We Have Communion Together and That Also Is an Unconditional Covenant. Once You Come to Saving Faith in Christ. God Says I Am Going to Take Responsibility for Taking You All the Way from Earth to Heaven and Making Sure That You Arrive My Sheep Hear My Voice, and They Know Me and They Follow Me and I Give unto Them Eternal Life, Neither Shall Any of Them Perish.

My Father, Who Gave Them to Me, Is Greater Than All and No Man Is Able to Pluck Them Out Of My Hand.

My Father Is Greater Than I Know Man Is Able to Pluck Them Out Of His Hand. God Says You Trust Christ As Savior and I Enter into an Agreement That Depends on Me and My Faithfulness to Take You All the Way to the Promised Land Sale. Does That Mean Christians Can Be Disobedient. Just As in the Case of Abraham. God Says I'm Gonna Work in Their Hearts to Bring about the Faith That They Need to Be Saved and the Obedience by Which They Represent Me Here on Earth but at the End of the Day It's All One Sided. It All Comes from Me to Them. Abraham Did Not Make a Promise That Day, God Made All the Promises. That's Why When You Hear Me Preach the Gospel at Moody Church When I'm Asking Those of You Who Never Believed on Christ to Be Saved. You'll Never Hear Me Say Now Make a Promise to Follow Jesus, I May Say That to Believers but Not on Believe What You Mean. Make a Promise to Follow Change. The Gospel Isn't Something That I Promised the Gospel Means That I Come Absolutely Helpless to Receive a Promise That God Is Given.

That's What the Gospel Is DL Moody Said That He Heard a Man Stand up and Say It Took Me 42 Years to Learn These Three Things Well You Know If You Find Somebody Who Can Tell You in Two Minutes Something It Took 42 Years to Learn.

I Think the Auto Listen up the Saying Goes, the Man Stood up and Said Three Things. First, I Can Do Nothing to Save Myself in the News Even Gets Better.

Second, God Doesn't Expect Me to Do Anything to Save Myself Because He Knows I Can't. And Thirdly, Jesus Paid It All. That's the Good News of the Gospel a Week Ago Yesterday I Was at a Reception and I Didn't Know the Folks Very Well, but I Was Asked to Be There and so I Was and Deb during a Moment There Was a Cameraman There.

It Was Taking Pictures of the Bride. Yet A Few Moments, so I Put My Hand on His Shoulder and Said Can You Tell Me How Far You Come in Your Walk with God.

Just Thought I'd Try to Question and He Gave Me an Answer of Sorts, and Then I Explained the Gospel to Him Something like I've Done to You and He's All Very Easy, Very Easy, Very Easy, so Is It Easy If It's so Easy When You Believe on Jesus Right Here Now and Not Willing to Do That, but It's Easy Is It Easy, It's Easy. Looked at from One Standpoint Yes Very Hard from Another Standpoint Because When You Come to Jesus You Are Saying I Cannot Save Myself My Works Are Rubbish.

As We Read This Morning in the Scripture. I Am a Sinner Convicted of My Sin Apart from the Mercy of God, I'm Going to Be Forever Damned That's What You're Saying When You Believe so Yeah It's Easy, My Is It Hard on Pride in Human Nature Which Stands in the Way of Receiving God's Free Grace Overcome That Barrier by the Power of the Spirit. I Pray That You Shell That Those of You Would Never Trusted Christ Would Believe Even Right Now You Are Seated in the Sanctuary or Listening by Some Other Means. Join Me As We Pray. Father, We Want to Thank You Today That When God Swore and Made a Covenant. He Swore by Himself. He Said This Is What I'm Going to Do My Plans Will Not Be Frustrated by Human Nature. With All of Its Sins. With All of Its Failings.

I Shall Do As I Please, What Confidence That Gives Us in Your Holy Word in Your Promises, but I Pray Now for Those Who Have Never Trusted Christ As Savior. At This Moment. May They Believe in Jesus Made a Say Amen. Jesus and Receive the Gift of Righteousness Cause That to Happen. Father for Our Lives Are Frail and We Can Only Do It If You Work in Our Hearts before I Close This Prayer Ever You Are Right Now.

Would You Say Amen to Jesus. Amen.

I Pray Father That Those Who Have Been Converted This Morning May They Tell Someone of Their Conversion That Indeed They Have Chosen to Say Amen to Jesus Not to Make a Promise but to Receive the Free Gift That He Offers the Pray in His Blessed Name. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Let's Sing Together Two Stanzas of 305, the Jesus Paid It All. What Other Song Could We Possibly Sing. Other Than That One 305 Will Sing Only the First and the Third Stanzas. Let's All Stand to Sing 305 on Today's Moody Church. Our Pastor Looks or Spoke about a Listing Faith Fifth in a 10 Part Series on Strength for the Journey Study the Life of Abraham Next Week. Abraham Agrees to Short-Circuit God's Plan As His Maid Hagar Bears Him a Son Join Us Them for a Misdirected Thing We Are so Grateful to All Support The Moody Church. Our during This Month We Have a Special Opportunity. Every Gift You Send Will Be Doubled.

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