Trust Me and Multiply, Part 2

Rear courage is a consideration of God's commitment to shown at Calvary you want to know where you have courage you know how courage will you have faith in him, because you're an awesome person of faith or because you're just a person of great courage.

It comes from understanding the commitment that God showed to you in his irrevocable covenant that he gave you at Calvary right in your house :-) bit events looking like one of the most important figures in human history. Abraham see how God multiplied his life eternal significance. What you want for your life your life matter is significantly if you joined us yesterday.

You heard the first part of today's teaching and will cover some of that same ground today, for those who may have missed the simple teaching pastor JD taught us the importance of trust as we ask God to multiply our lives have your Bible and pen and let's join pastor JD in Genesis chapter 51 have a life that matters for eternity.

You want to have a life of significance. You can only follow Jesus with total abandon and you have got to live with Richard Todd treasures you doubt you got to do so in a way that just as God hears the seed in your about the multiply and take care of me and bless for the same job you cannot walk forward and multiply. If you're going to hedge your bets, you have to run and jump with total abandon. That leads us to a question were in the world you get back on the confidence where did you get the courage to plant the seed that you have where you get the courage to job question number three or save number three confidence to rest for God comes only from comprehending the commitment of God. Abraham shows us a confidence arrest for God come from comprehending the commitment of God. We know we know that Abraham eventually got this. How do we know that well Genesis chapter 22 were not going to look at it today will get more in depth to it will later but after God finally gave to Abram. This promise son Isaac after he gave the son he asked Abraham when Isaac was about 15 years old.

He asked Abram to offer this on up as a sacrifice now really go more in depth in this later, but Isaac was not only what Abram most loved in the world is not only his most treasured person in possession whatever Isaac was Abram's only hope for the future of his family and his nation don't dissuade vendors represent what he treasures most. It represents all his hope for the future and God says offered as a sacrifice and Abraham in Genesis 22 doesn't God immaculate and go through with it will get to that later. He stops and before he does about Abraham is willing to put that thing he loves the most.

And I think you trust the most on the altar question for you is what is that for you will give them more that later, but here's my question out after failing again and again and again. After being the kind of guy who would throw his wife under the bus, not once but twice. How does Abraham finally get the confidence to do.

I think I know, I think I know Genesis 15 gets about to go there. Genesis 15 verse three Abraham is in one of his doubting moods. God reappears to him and says this, Genesis 15, three. Fear not, Abram, I am your shield and I and your exceeding great reward.

And Abraham says report will thanks God that's awesome you taught me a new worship course, I'll be happy seeing the night somebody said is rude. After God reveals us to a neighbor says behold you give me a son. That's all he says if God appears to you that this is what a responsive unionism for my son Mike 92.take him outside the shows and stars and says as many as the stars are the Tiger offering to be Abram min occurs that famous verse for the apostle Paul says shows us how we get saved Abram in Genesis 15, six Abram believed the Lord was credited to him as righteousness, but also how people saved in the Old Testament semi.

They were in the New Testament there say by believing on the Messiah. Abram believed that the Messiah would come. We believe the Messiah has come, they believe, for we believe backward. The direction is the different but the object is the same. Abraham believed God's promise of God to keep his word and God credited to him as righteousness. Just like God credits us as righteous and we believe God raised Jesus from the dead.

I believe God said so this point. Genesis 56 what Abraham but then after the most famous verse on faith in the whole Bible is 56 Abram said verse eight by Lord God, I will. I know the words he doubts again now is doubting two different things here in these two components always form the substance of your doubts. The first part of the doubt is God. How do I know I can trust you.

It's been like two decades God he really can keep your the second component is how can I trust me God you not proven to be pretty unreliable. What if I screw this up to go to the two pieces of what causes a doubting you God I don't trust you and I can trust me. You know what God's answer is pretty awesome front and I we are attracting verse nine, chapter 15, and I'll summarize incinerated gotchas. You and I trust you and I and trust me okay five animals, cow, goat, Aramco, turtledove, and a pigeon.

I want you to find a ditch and want you cut them in half. I don't support either half of them on either side of the ditch so that the blood flows down the ditch and makes a river of blood like what we live in a written age. So when we want to guarantee we ask for a written contract. So when a contractor for example, quote you a price to work on your house. If you are smart you asked for it in writing so when he comes back to you, or if he comes back he was is actually I decided to charge you this amount instead you say here's your name on the contract guaranteeing this other price well in those days, instead of signing the contract. They cut a few animals open and walked through the river of blood so that the blood splashed up on the roads say if I don't keep up my end of the covenant made this this blood may it happen to me.

The Hebrew word for covenant literally means to cut they would say you cut a covenant with a soundcard read a psychotic covenant.

Honestly, I feel like this would just be more effective with my contractor how much you charge me for the painting.

I don't think so. My friend the blood in your pants is differently, so I could be more effective. Well, they're supposed to make this covenant at sundown, so verse 12 as the sun was going down a deep sleep fell on Abram, a dreadful and great darkness fell upon him, and a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch. By the way exact same words to use to describe the presence of God in and in Exodus when we document Mount Sinai the fire of his own is in the light of his presence passes between the thesis on that day. Watch this, the Lord made a covenant with Abram.

The Lord made a covenant with Abraham but who didn't walk through that that river blood Abram didn't you. In those days, the king made a covenant with a servant.

It was customary for the servant to walk through the river of blood alone because it was assumed that the king would keep up his in this is the only covenant in recorded history where the king goes through, and the servant does not. The meaning is very clear. God is saying if I fail to keep up my side of the bargain. I will pay with my blood.

But if you fail to keep up your side of the bargain. I also will pay with my blood.

I'm going to be responsible for both sides of the covenant, I want you to really think about that God made himself responsible for God's part and God made himself responsible for Abram's part, I'll pay the penalty of 9 AM and update if you don't keep up. Either that of course is going to give us one of the clearest pictures of Christ in the Old Testament just like Abram fell into a deep sleep. We were in the deep dreadful sleep of sin. The Gospels tell us that when Christ died a dreadful darkness descended upon the old earth and Jesus blood flowed out of his side, like a river was God's son dying because God had not kept up his end of the bargain. No, he was dying because we had not kept up ours. That's why we seeing things like he took my sins and my sorrow and made them his very own. He bore my burden to Calvary and he suffered and died alone. I was supposed to be there. I was supposed to be the one dying. He died in my place because he made himself a guarantor not just for his part, he put his life on the line for my part, so what else do I have to say, but how marvelous how wonderful and my song shall ever be how marvelous how wonderful is my Savior's love for me that is exactly where Abram got the faith that he showed in Genesis 22 when the offer was called on offer of Isaac that seemed assured him that she assured him of what God would do and it assured him of how committed. God was to see Ms. promise through to begin even after Abraham had faltered and fallen again and again and again. Abraham would fall Abraham was unfaithful, but God would always be in gobble cover both parts of the covenant know it is true, even after the scene Abraham to struggle without but throughout Abram's life.

You see this conviction beginning to settle in and you hear him. In Genesis 22 you hear him quote basically think God is gonna take care of this. Even where I mess it up to write this down. True confidence does not come from within us. True confidence comes from what was done for us courage. Listen. Courage is not a character quality. Courage is a consideration of God's commitment to shown at Calvary you want to know where you have courage you will have courage, or you have faith in him come because you're an awesome person of faith or because you're just a person of great courage. It comes from understanding the commitment that God showed to you in his irrevocable covenant that he gave you at Calvary and the cross we see God's commitment to see it through. And that becomes our anchor to boldly go forward with them because not only will he keep up his and he's gonna make up for whatever I mess up which you just reflect for a minute on how comforting that is God's commitment to my family is greater than mine. What that means for me as a dad means that I am not worried about where if I always like getting right is my kid God is going to make up for what I mess up that were I falter. He stays committed. God's commitment to this church is greater than my love the church my wife and I depend on the church.

God's commitment to you is greater than my commitment to you because God purchased you with his blood. I never done that for you got more invested in the church than I do. Some I am to persuade God to bless the church I'm a part of its his church. I just gotta say God do in your church what you want to do God's commitment to my growth in Christ like Michelle is greater than mine because I've been part God got more invested in my life and I have invested in my life because God purchased new.

His blood, which is why by the way, I don't obsess about discovering his will use tobacco and like I was just obsess about them. Like I could. I felt like the will of God like this thing for me that he kept in a lockbox and you cannot with this assertive posture toward me about God. What you really like I Natalia you figured out, and I hope you get combination.

I did not screw up and I'm a laugh please them. You will please come, your will go with that failure will you just be obsess about all these things finally realizes what the greatest burden, my back on what you know what God has more rest of my life that is not up in heaven. When I got to be the discoverers will make it hard for them. God says what you know my will more than you want to know it.

You can just rest in me, because my commitment to you exceed your commitment to you. That means all these matter where you are, how badly you stumbled, you can get up and you can go onward in faith because God's commitment to you has never subsided. You took your hands off of God you fell flat on your face would guess you didn't give up God and give up. So Proverbs 2416 says it this way.

Listen to this, the righteous man falls seven times and gets back up again every single time to this report, you know, strange. It would be think about walking behind somebody fell 7 times the first time they fall when you do, but felt right the second time they fall. You slowly pull out your phone and you film it the third time you shoot it to some friends because this is the fourth time you posted on YouTube.

The fifth time they fall. You feel bad. I should not be filling this guy because he clearly got a problem.

The six time you call 911. The seventh time you're trying to get the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation seven times the righteous man spiritually and morally, and in his faith falls seven times. By the late seven in the Bible is the number of completion in Hebrew, which means this is all that full does as he falls. That's all you whole life is one fall afternoon, Abraham fell 5 times and show his righteousness by never falling. He showed his righteousness, but what he did when he felt every single time he got back up battery fail because righteousness is a declaration.

Listen.

Righteousness is a declaration that even when you falter, God will remain faithful in gobble complete the work that he is started and what he has purpose for you. That means that means no matter where you are or how you fall when you can get up you can get because God has never subsided. He still has a plan.

I know some of you have messed up badly get up getting up as a declaration of faith that God has not given up on you getting out to say I understand what he proved in Jesus Christ getting up is your faith declaration that he still has a planned a mess. Bless and multiply your life and use it for good. Did you mess up your marriage did you fall back into porn. Did you make a really bad mistake John got out he walked to Calvary alone, and he will never give up on you, so you reflect on what he did for you with the cross and you like Abraham, you fall and you get up and say I mess it up. He still got a plan and that's the path of righteousness.

And this without the multiply blessing number four you see from Abraham's life. The multiplying power comes through faith once it happens, your gift of urgency 17 religions.

17 God appears again when Abraham is 19 nine years old. No kid God hears chipper Abram no longer should today be called Abram that he your name shall be Abraham big daddy made you the father of many nations. They read like I give you since you picture your and changed his name all God added was one little Hebrew letter in Hebrew hey H, it's the same way we would pronounce an H in English it just an aspirin is pretty much audit the breath he added to Abram's name. It's like you put breath into Abram. Abram went to Abraham.

This might be pushing it too far, but I'm pretty confident it's not.

It's like God is putting his spirit into Abraham.

The Hebrew word for breath. That sound is rock, which also is translated spirit. Abraham Pam God puts his spirit into Abram and immediately after this immediately. God put the multiplying power of his spirit and Abraham, when he persisted through them believing I don't know about you but I'm of the breath of God in everything that I do. I want the breath of God in me as a parents. I want the breath of God in my Christian life I want the breath of God, as your pastor. Did you call me Jake made got to be my new name. I if you want that multiplying power, it only comes to bold, reckless, audacious faith God will only multiply that for which you wait for him in faith. Are you single you find it hard to wait for marriage.

Can you trust God and let him grow you during this season because what he will do is you will breathe his breath into your character, and he will multiply your character and multiply your joy in this season.

If you will trust them.

I know people in our church and got pregnant with a long time. There were even married.

Now they find themselves in a difficult situation and are thinking about an abortion. Here's my question for you. Would you trust God to provide for you and the bait that I messed up. I know I got a given up on you and you will trust Artemis. He will breathe his breath and about and who knows what multiplying power got a bring forth to that child that you let Libby trust God to help you take care of maybe maybe maybe God called you to go overseas. He's called you to go overseas and you're asking a question I but I got Ted's house is going to work how my kids can be taken care off. What can happen with my retirement. What if you just obey God and just let him multiply you in faith and say, God, what you call me to put your breath in and you'll take care of you see in this season God is asking our church to take some huge steps both you individuate us together as a church in order for us to achieve this multiplying power. We are going to have to put ourselves in a place where we respond with faith in God. We want the pouring of the spirit.

When it comes to bold, obedient faith. It just says yes I'll go and you'll take care of it. That's why keep repeating CS Lewis's line.

The only safe rule when it comes to generosity, whether of your time to counter your treasures that you do in a way that scares you is only when you obey, and faithful dog. Multiply the power of the spirit, he can only multiply what you give him the faith to listen because Abraham trusted God because Abraham trusted God.

God filled with the spirit and Sarah had a baby who would have a baby would have a baby, you would have a baby that would birth of Jesus Christ and because of that you and I are here today. Literally we are sitting in this church because Abraham trusted God and multiplied here is my question for you to consider who is going to put point backwards to you from eternity in Satan because he or she trusted God because they were bold and daring and extravagant God multiplied them and now I'm in the kingdom because of what they planted because of how they jump because they took what God gave them and they obeyed just that. I'll go and I'll just go with abandon and also yes Lord it all belongs to you and this is the seed you given me here is to be multiplied. Some a church. God is serious about teaching us to live by faith, because it's the only way that he multiplies the power the ministry through us before God can do something through us. He's got to do something in us. Yes the multiply faith deep within us before he can multiply the ministry wide through us. So where is it right now. This weekend that you need to trust and wait on God or is it visiting a personal situation is that in the relationship is in your career is and what you're doing with your time and talent treasures are you living by daring faith and there's things so you ask you what were we doing this multiply stuff again nothing about the glass with his two reasons. Number one, we had a bunch of new people this church like 3000, give or take new people since the last time we did something like this. Last time we did this or 3400 families began to give to the kingdom of God. For the first time is over those you that already and Jordan Gage don't you want people to join us.

Don't you want to give them an invitation to live by faith. Corseted. That's why we do this. Here's a second region, and probably even more important. The second reason we do this is because I feel like I need to be challenged again to live by faith. I'm not car but severely out of alignment always goes to self-sufficiency and self-centeredness.

You know what you want to. If you're the kind of person honestly doesn't need to be challenged again and again to live by faith in the little sacrifice, you are fundamentally different than me, and by the way, congratulations your fun and only different than Abraham because Abraham fell 5 times that we know of this like every chapter of his life, you're the kind of person who said I was challenged with five years ago and I've done it ever since then, congratulations, your awesome.

The rest of us are not too if you would just condescend for a little while. Your weakness can lead us were sinners and knowing deal with this. That would be a big help to us. We do this because we know that we naturally gravitate toward self-centeredness and self-sufficiency.

So I would make no apology for saying from time to time we got a come back and asked the question we trust in God. We live by faith, we live in the sacrifice of living for his kingdom and not our own, so it is the dilemma of a living sacrifice to God calls us to be sacrifices are usually dead. We had a living when they keep trying to get up off the altar, so we continuously God and I said yes Lord, and I doing it with faith. What barriers are there, you lived all out for God by faith what barriers are there to you giving extravagantly by faith, your only need three new level.

Is there something you from feeling mutually naming Scott to not only help you overcome it, but to build your faith in the process.

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