The Sermon Abram - Come To A Land by David McGee
Apr 07, 2013
Abram - Come To A Land (27:16)
Referenced Scriptures: Genesis 12:1-6; 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Genesis 12:1-6
1) Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father‘s house, to the land that I will show you.
2) I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
3) I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."
4) So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5) Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother‘s son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
6) Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
14) if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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Now, a few weeks ago we spoke about the children and trying to remember the word that we used with children about how the naïveté, not the naïve myths and the that the naïve list of the child is that they will believe that an acceptance of what is set and when Jesus says, unless you come to the kingdom of God as a little child that just totally acceptance of what God has to say that what God will do in your life is that you've got to come to come to God perspective in that portion that we are just we are just simple enough to believe the goggles do what he said he would do, and that's a challenge that is always before us that our faith, especially as we get older and we allow our reasoning to somehow discredit what God is saying to us it because a real challenge for us to just look at God and believe that he can do what he says he will do and that God will be able to work in our life the way that he has promised that he will do so. These become the challenges for us to allow God to bring about the opportunities and bring about the fulfillment of his word and his promise in our life if we are naïve enough night, he enough to allow this process to happen while today our lesson is in Genesis chapter twelve, and this is Abram and his call. We know Ms. Abraham, but in a few weeks will come to the name change. Maybe next week about Abram and how that God has called him to come to a land come to a LAN and Genesis chapter twelve. It reads, God told Abram the for your family and your fathers leave your father 's home for land that I will show you all make you a great nation, and now bless you all make you famous. You'll be a blessing. All bless those who bless you, those who curse you all curse all the families of your will be blessed through you to labor and left just as God said and lots left with him. Abram was seventy five years old when he( Abram took his wife Sarah and his nephew Lot with him, along with the possessions and people they had gotten her rant and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound. Abram passed through the country as far. Second, and the open of Laura and at that time, the Canaanites occupy the lands so as we look at the story of Abram Abraham and Sarah, or as we have them in this lesson on the Scriptures, Abraham and Sarah. I God called Abraham and he called him to a land that he was going to know when he got there. I told him to come from his father 's home and go to land that he will show him whatever he arrives and God will show him as we think about your will. I have some beachside property in Arizona. A lot of a lot of sand, but this didn't get to the water yet so we just almost like a water-soluble east front property got lots of sand with no water while it lay wallowing in a gopher that I love you believe such a thing beachfront property in Arizona. Why, because it doesn't exist and the idea of our life is that we generally, and a good thing. What happened through and it is good to have proof and is a good thing to have read as a good thing to be able to challenge people 's thoughts and what they say because some people. They've proven that they don't know where they're out to rob you or destroy you and make you bankrupt. So there are people that you have to be challenged with you have to look at life and be able to say while you know what I believe you before and didn't work. I have I have some questions about what you're saying now while with Abraham. Abraham in this case God has given them a promise. I want to develop the land. I will show you and when you get there, I'll let you know what, I'll let you know that you're there. Well, one of the traditions about Abram is that he was a maker of idols that his father was a maker of idols and so Abram went his profession was to make idols and ill have a needle into his idol store and buy your best idle and it was to that. I know that you would pray and you know you would dedicate your life of all the things to, but Abram was a maker of idols and here is the God who would speak to him and he and Mrs. Gallus, you think about this life anything about Abram. He was always you seventy five years old whenever he leaves this country, and whatever he's preparing to go. He's going because God has spoken to his heart. I wonder if he was so no challenged by how that he made all these idols and end all initiators of making idols and living with his father and his father 's idols that have ever spoken to him. None of them had any power to change anything. None of them have the ability to make a difference in their life, and along comes the God Jehovah the God who is the creator of heaven and earth, and a spring the labor& on the land for you. I'm better promise for you. I like to believe your homeland and all the place and it was such impact upon Abram that he knows the difference between seventy five years of being around these idols and none of them ever influenced them to have a voice. Perhaps you know, sometimes wonder what how did God speak was it in the clap of thunder was it in that still small voice inside him, and when we don't really, but overly told how God spoke to him, but he knew they were a new God had given him this direction, and so upon that he states everything to be that he owns everything states his life 's possessions, his family, everything is at risk to follow a command that he heard in his heart while sometimes as we look at our Scriptures, and so on. We are challenged and sometimes were not the John establish the covenant which that means it. What that means is that God established the contract we call contracts. God put a contract together with Abraham and he said that God would make of him a great nation, and this is these other things as we look at God 's word spoken to Abraham. We as followers of God, look at the Scriptures, which are God 's Word, his words spoken to us and it is in this that God has made an agreement with us now, it's important that we know the Scriptures so that God can give out as we look at this weekend we can look as a blogger. Everything in the Bible 's mind, and it's all going to be exactly as as I I interpreted to be by way of taking promises and taking portions of that after the whole book is our day of what belongs to us, but they're different. Different promises at different points and times in our life and their different promises they come to the surface when you're going through trials you feel lonely, God says, I will never leave you nor forsake you that the Scripture lignite would not speak to her heart. I'm not alone in this, God is with me whenever we're praying for a specific need in our life. Maybe a financial need. When God says I'm your permission that I will provide for you so that is a Scripture that God would perhaps bring to my mind in which God would speak to us, just like he spoke to paper so there was a promise in the word of God given to Abram is a promise in the word of God is spoken to us. If you confess your sins, he is faithful and just to forgive you of your sins cleanse you from all unrighteousness. The time in which you would like be frightened frightened by life, frightened by death fighting by the past, we remember that God says in his word beaches were to a heart if you confess you are forgiven your name is in his book of life, you will live forever promise spoken to a specific need. First, it says I'll meaning God make you a great nation and bless you. God is the mind provision and Abrams life is promised, promised he doesn't say when you go to get this you need it that he says I'm a make or break. I want you to know that I'm making a promise with you on signing a contract. I'm giving you a contract that is that is as good as my work. The Bible says heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass the way, so the contract regarding given us is as good as his word. And whenever God says it, it will happen. It will take place. It will come to pass. Maybe doesn't come today but it will come because of God 's word cannot fail to contract cannot be canceled or can be canceled by us. God will never cancel his contract, it's a divine contract issued from God the father to the followers of Jesus Christ, we find that sometimes these contracts are conditional, such as in Isaiah says if my people pray if my people who are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, they will hear from have God will heal their land. So if my people pray that's a conditional contract and whether or not a nontraditional contract is to have flouted if you confess your sin, so it when we confess our sins are sins are forgiven, so that's a non- conditional you do I say this happened while the promise continues diagram and and or and verse two I will make your name great message Bible has famous. I will make your name famous and you will be a blessing. The condition to Abraham 's promise was that he had to leave our localities and interest takeoff on this journey and have developed a place that God would show him. But God 's giving and God 's provision are included in this when he gives to labor the rages beyond what we hold and I have God 's blessing is greater than we could ever imagine, and his blessing is greater than what we could ever hold in our hands, the mind part this unit shall be given unto you, pressed down, shaken together, and running over the divine purpose. Peter there walking down the street and come to the blind man he wants to be healed and Peter says Silver and gold have I none of the lane that exits over and over by none rise up and walk. Why have I give to you, Jim and God 's blessing. He blesses our life with the purpose and what that purpose is, is that we are to give it, so we find it that God has promised that he will be a blessing. And then I will bless others through you. I will be blessed verse three I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you, God says augurs, meaning that you don't have to be preoccupied with getting even. You don't have to be preoccupied with you have those that you never had this about how perhaps not in on these occasions when people done wrong to me, and I have certain thoughts about the news where they should go and how they should spend the rest of eternity. Now I don't. I know that's never happened. You've is that you're just far above that. But anyhow, if those things that ever come into your mind, God says, and I'll worry about. Don't get preoccupied to get off track, though get off course in going down that road of hatred and bitterness and in these drive getting even, let alone only to go there. Why does God has promised to bless you and those individuals who have cursed God will take care of them. God has a way of working things out in their life. Besides, you're going to do anything that's long-term anyhow, just stay focused on where you want to go God promises God 's provision. God promises a divine provision and guess what it carries into our everyday life. It carries into our life that we live out each day we are to focus on God where the focus on his direction for our life. The direction of our life now I ask you to list while if God would bless your life. How do you think he would do it well. Sometimes I I look at that as they want to know exactly how I would like him to bless me. I can show you pictures. I've got now. It's like being a kid in the Sears catalog. Yeah, I want this about the zealot. This is not circled the whole blood gave my mom know those of you don't know what Sears catalog is Augustus Hill discovered by the sheer fact that I remember the Sears catalog? yeah okay thank you very much that he had once wanted that he thought about all the way spoke to Jamie out soon. Please get it in the mail. Now this big thick book at everything that Sears that I was in the back with the toys of nicer, so I knew someone ever. God says and that's it. We sang in the script, and God will bless us. It's like automatically the Sears wish book was opened, and wherein the circle and stop yellow God has a way of blessing us this far. That is part of the blessing sometimes bought God has something so much greater than this for Abraham. He says to him all the families of the earth will be blessed through you) can have a clue as to what this is about beauty being last to the extent beyond anything that we can imagine the Scriptures talk about how bad we can't even begin to imagine what God 's provisions are that his thoughts are so far about our thoughts. We can't even begin to comprehend, get our mind around what God 's provision and God 's blessing would be, and for Abraham is wondering now all the nation will we know that the descendents of Abraham Abram. This point is Jesus Christ and that Jesus came in at the birth, death and resurrection of Christ. He has the blessing of the entire world that was promised Abraham. But whenever we hear promise when we hear about these things. We have a way of putting them within the context of our understanding the resist golfer. He was a professional golfer and one of the sheets. Over in the Middle East had requested this professional to come over and teaching. Okay, so he went over and now he was flown over probably is private, private jet private plane and job play golf with the Vichy gave them instructions. I spent a few days. Maybe we got a number of exact amount of time you'll flew back home and job before he left the sheik asked in the Sidwell you. I would like to give you something, and in a society paid me to pay them very well. This is not what that's quite alright guys are now elegant is up. This is okay well maybe a golf club, so it's okay so I goes home and how to weigh always imagining while his guy. So the wealthy. He's elegant goldplated or gold golf club and he wants potters and he's imagining getting a pattern. He waits. We can delete some month. Still no golf club. So whatever, but I was about two months of went by a man showed up at the door if you thought you thought you gave him a deep to a golf club, a golf club in 18-hole golf club, so, so you see a golf course, so the guys that I wanted golf club now to seek whom one which money is no object. He went and bought the guy a complete and total golf club in LA in all golf course. We recall and his thinking the professional golfer was thinking a golf club and the she thought of the golf club country club. So you see, whenever we look at our life, we look at the things of God promises us. We gently put it within the context of framework of our understanding what is at the goblins to do in our life. What is it that his promises are going to do it. I like how Lego make a difference into God 's promise to Abraham to labor and that he was not a blessing, and that it was the make his name great, and that he would be a blessing to the entire world within the framework of a broom his entire world was just a small group of people. But the promise the King to Abraham still is, in effect today. God doesn't cancel out his promises. We just leave them on playing. We leave them like a child that we won't allow ourselves to be that naïve person that would simply believe that got to do impossible things in our life what were your much more mature and put that within the framework while God didn't really mean golf course, a mentor golf club and I would get the plastic set at Dollar General is enough. That's what God is talking about the lead plastic set of golf clubs at the Dollar General and Volvo God is saying no golf course and the way we put things within the framework of who we are and God is trying to get us to move beyond that. And Abram, he's getting him to move out away from the things that kept him so inhibited in so limited his false beliefs. His false gods. His idols that the worship. There are things in our life that we worship things in our life that we consider consider sacred, but they never said really speak to us. They really never do anything for the really don't fall in love with us. We can follow-up with them Communion today. Jesus has fallen in love with you, he created you, baby dedication child infant child person dedication to draw God loves that little girl and he loves you and I and each one the same. There's nothing we can do in our entire life to make God love us less than what he does. There's nothing we can do in our life to make them love us more he loves us because of who we are and is that desire for relationship with us that he wants to take us as okay Brent from our localities take them away from the things that we consider so sacred that really don't have any value to our life. Anyone's to take us to the land of promise, which is a land in which we you and I live believing that God can speak his promise to our hearts in our lives in which we can have faith that we can go through golf, go to work, go to life every day knowing God is with me, though never leave me nor forsake all things work together for good to those who love him, who are called by him. So there are these promises that he keeps bringing to life 's philosophy speaks to us the dumb idols, what we think they represent is a living God who touches our life apron had a choice in the choice, God says, I want you to go, but the choice is yours. You can stay or you can go. You can stay with your idols, we can go to a land of promise. His decision was between settling in with his family, or stay starting out with God 's direction, get a decision between the security of what he already had the uncertainty of traveling under God 's direction, all ever had to go on was a promise that God would guide him and that he would bless and Andrew could never visualize what it was that God had in store for him, but I say that God will bless us that he has thoughts and his ways are far above us and the challenge for us is that when we make decisions those decisions have an impact on the people who follow us, our children learn neighbors, our friends and everyone is because God has a way of blessing us is a godly blessing us, we will bless others. You know, I think my family came from Ireland in before was like in the seventeen fifties seventeen sixties and meet weekly. We got early Rod 's family came from Sweden and her nineteen oh two. They came here, our parents and grandparents, and whoever before us make decisions that affect who we are where we are what we are. Ha ha. But we live our life. People make decisions. You and I are making decisions that are just as important as our families made our families made to come to this country to make a difference for you. We are making those same type of decisions that influence people 's lives. God comes through a heart with a promise of eternal life. All we have to do is ask for forgiveness. God comes also the promise that he will never leave us nor forsake what we what were doing is allowing his spirit to speak his word to our life where we will find hope we will find security probably will find peace in this life and the life to come is on this premise that we leave our old life of sin and take on a new life. I promise of love and forgiveness of different way of thinking a different hope I'm different. Hope that it isn't about he who dies with most toys wins. He who has God in his heart is blessed and he will be a blessing. Remember, I'd like a golf club. God has a way of taking his taking what we have been taking it to a different level than we could ever ask or think, shows that father we are grateful to you that you have blessed us with such a wonderful day. A day in which we celebrate communion day, which we sing songs of of our restoration of your love for us. The day of God, of which we dedicate our children to a day in which the Lord 's great promise to our own hearts. We thank you Lord for loving us that much. We prayer blessing upon our lives upon our families, we pray your voice to speak to our hearts that we may know your direction for us. We pray in Jesus name. Everyone said amen. God bless youNow, a few weeks ago we spoke about the children and trying to remember the word that we used with children about how the naïveté, not the naïve myths and the that the naïve list of the child is that they will believe that an acceptance of what is set and when Jesus says, unless you come to the kingdom of God as a little child that just totally acceptance of what God has to say that what God will do in your life is that you've got to come to come to God perspective in that portion that we are just we are just simple enough to believe the goggles do what he said he would do, and that's a challenge that is always before us that our faith, especially as we get older and we allow our reasoning to somehow discredit what God is saying to us it because a real challenge for us to just look at God and believe that he can do what he says he will do and that God will be able to work in our life the way that he has promised that he will do so. These become the challenges for us to allow God to bring about the opportunities and bring about the fulfillment of his word and his promise in our life if we are naïve enough night, he enough to allow this process to happen while today our lesson is in Genesis chapter twelve, and this is Abram and his call. We know Ms. Abraham, but in a few weeks will come to the name change. Maybe next week about Abram and how that God has called him to come to a land come to a LAN and Genesis chapter twelve. It reads, God told Abram the for your family and your fathers leave your father 's home for land that I will show you all make you a great nation, and now bless you all make you famous. You'll be a blessing. All bless those who bless you, those who curse you all curse all the families of your will be blessed through you to labor and left just as God said and lots left with him. Abram was seventy five years old when he( Abram took his wife Sarah and his nephew Lot with him, along with the possessions and people they had gotten her rant and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound. Abram passed through the country as far. Second, and the open of Laura and at that time, the Canaanites occupy the lands so as we look at the story of Abram Abraham and Sarah, or as we have them in this lesson on the Scriptures, Abraham and Sarah. I God called Abraham and he called him to a land that he was going to know when he got there. I told him to come from his father 's home and go to land that he will show him whatever he arrives and God will show him as we think about your will. I have some beachside property in Arizona. A lot of a lot of sand, but this didn't get to the water yet so we just almost like a water-soluble east front property got lots of sand with no water while it lay wallowing in a gopher that I love you believe such a thing beachfront property in Arizona. Why, because it doesn't exist and the idea of our life is that we generally, and a good thing. What happened through and it is good to have proof and is a good thing to have read as a good thing to be able to challenge people 's thoughts and what they say because some people. They've proven that they don't know where they're out to rob you or destroy you and make you bankrupt. So there are people that you have to be challenged with you have to look at life and be able to say while you know what I believe you before and didn't work. I have I have some questions about what you're saying now while with Abraham. Abraham in this case God has given them a promise. I want to develop the land. I will show you and when you get there, I'll let you know what, I'll let you know that you're there. Well, one of the traditions about Abram is that he was a maker of idols that his father was a maker of idols and so Abram went his profession was to make idols and ill have a needle into his idol store and buy your best idle and it was to that. I know that you would pray and you know you would dedicate your life of all the things to, but Abram was a maker of idols and here is the God who would speak to him and he and Mrs. Gallus, you think about this life anything about Abram. He was always you seventy five years old whenever he leaves this country, and whatever he's preparing to go. He's going because God has spoken to his heart. I wonder if he was so no challenged by how that he made all these idols and end all initiators of making idols and living with his father and his father 's idols that have ever spoken to him. None of them had any power to change anything. None of them have the ability to make a difference in their life, and along comes the God Jehovah the God who is the creator of heaven and earth, and a spring the labor& on the land for you. I'm better promise for you. I like to believe your homeland and all the place and it was such impact upon Abram that he knows the difference between seventy five years of being around these idols and none of them ever influenced them to have a voice. Perhaps you know, sometimes wonder what how did God speak was it in the clap of thunder was it in that still small voice inside him, and when we don't really, but overly told how God spoke to him, but he knew they were a new God had given him this direction, and so upon that he states everything to be that he owns everything states his life 's possessions, his family, everything is at risk to follow a command that he heard in his heart while sometimes as we look at our Scriptures, and so on. We are challenged and sometimes were not the John establish the covenant which that means it. What that means is that God established the contract we call contracts. God put a contract together with Abraham and he said that God would make of him a great nation, and this is these other things as we look at God 's word spoken to Abraham. We as followers of God, look at the Scriptures, which are God 's Word, his words spoken to us and it is in this that God has made an agreement with us now, it's important that we know the Scriptures so that God can give out as we look at this weekend we can look as a blogger. Everything in the Bible 's mind, and it's all going to be exactly as as I I interpreted to be by way of taking promises and taking portions of that after the whole book is our day of what belongs to us, but they're different. Different promises at different points and times in our life and their different promises they come to the surface when you're going through trials you feel lonely, God says, I will never leave you nor forsake you that the Scripture lignite would not speak to her heart. I'm not alone in this, God is with me whenever we're praying for a specific need in our life. Maybe a financial need. When God says I'm your permission that I will provide for you so that is a Scripture that God would perhaps bring to my mind in which God would speak to us, just like he spoke to paper so there was a promise in the word of God given to Abram is a promise in the word of God is spoken to us. If you confess your sins, he is faithful and just to forgive you of your sins cleanse you from all unrighteousness. The time in which you would like be frightened frightened by life, frightened by death fighting by the past, we remember that God says in his word beaches were to a heart if you confess you are forgiven your name is in his book of life, you will live forever promise spoken to a specific need. First, it says I'll meaning God make you a great nation and bless you. God is the mind provision and Abrams life is promised, promised he doesn't say when you go to get this you need it that he says I'm a make or break. I want you to know that I'm making a promise with you on signing a contract. I'm giving you a contract that is that is as good as my work. The Bible says heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass the way, so the contract regarding given us is as good as his word. And whenever God says it, it will happen. It will take place. It will come to pass. Maybe doesn't come today but it will come because of God 's word cannot fail to contract cannot be canceled or can be canceled by us. God will never cancel his contract, it's a divine contract issued from God the father to the followers of Jesus Christ, we find that sometimes these contracts are conditional, such as in Isaiah says if my people pray if my people who are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, they will hear from have God will heal their land. So if my people pray that's a conditional contract and whether or not a nontraditional contract is to have flouted if you confess your sin, so it when we confess our sins are sins are forgiven, so that's a non- conditional you do I say this happened while the promise continues diagram and and or and verse two I will make your name great message Bible has famous. I will make your name famous and you will be a blessing. The condition to Abraham 's promise was that he had to leave our localities and interest takeoff on this journey and have developed a place that God would show him. But God 's giving and God 's provision are included in this when he gives to labor the rages beyond what we hold and I have God 's blessing is greater than we could ever imagine, and his blessing is greater than what we could ever hold in our hands, the mind part this unit shall be given unto you, pressed down, shaken together, and running over the divine purpose. Peter there walking down the street and come to the blind man he wants to be healed and Peter says Silver and gold have I none of the lane that exits over and over by none rise up and walk. Why have I give to you, Jim and God 's blessing. He blesses our life with the purpose and what that purpose is, is that we are to give it, so we find it that God has promised that he will be a blessing. And then I will bless others through you. I will be blessed verse three I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you, God says augurs, meaning that you don't have to be preoccupied with getting even. You don't have to be preoccupied with you have those that you never had this about how perhaps not in on these occasions when people done wrong to me, and I have certain thoughts about the news where they should go and how they should spend the rest of eternity. Now I don't. I know that's never happened. You've is that you're just far above that. But anyhow, if those things that ever come into your mind, God says, and I'll worry about. Don't get preoccupied to get off track, though get off course in going down that road of hatred and bitterness and in these drive getting even, let alone only to go there. Why does God has promised to bless you and those individuals who have cursed God will take care of them. God has a way of working things out in their life. Besides, you're going to do anything that's long-term anyhow, just stay focused on where you want to go God promises God 's provision. God promises a divine provision and guess what it carries into our everyday life. It carries into our life that we live out each day we are to focus on God where the focus on his direction for our life. The direction of our life now I ask you to list while if God would bless your life. How do you think he would do it well. Sometimes I I look at that as they want to know exactly how I would like him to bless me. I can show you pictures. I've got now. It's like being a kid in the Sears catalog. Yeah, I want this about the zealot. This is not circled the whole blood gave my mom know those of you don't know what Sears catalog is Augustus Hill discovered by the sheer fact that I remember the Sears catalog? yeah okay thank you very much that he had once wanted that he thought about all the way spoke to Jamie out soon. Please get it in the mail. Now this big thick book at everything that Sears that I was in the back with the toys of nicer, so I knew someone ever. God says and that's it. We sang in the script, and God will bless us. It's like automatically the Sears wish book was opened, and wherein the circle and stop yellow God has a way of blessing us this far. That is part of the blessing sometimes bought God has something so much greater than this for Abraham. He says to him all the families of the earth will be blessed through you) can have a clue as to what this is about beauty being last to the extent beyond anything that we can imagine the Scriptures talk about how bad we can't even begin to imagine what God 's provisions are that his thoughts are so far about our thoughts. We can't even begin to comprehend, get our mind around what God 's provision and God 's blessing would be, and for Abraham is wondering now all the nation will we know that the descendents of Abraham Abram. This point is Jesus Christ and that Jesus came in at the birth, death and resurrection of Christ. He has the blessing of the entire world that was promised Abraham. But whenever we hear promise when we hear about these things. We have a way of putting them within the context of our understanding the resist golfer. He was a professional golfer and one of the sheets. Over in the Middle East had requested this professional to come over and teaching. Okay, so he went over and now he was flown over probably is private, private jet private plane and job play golf with the Vichy gave them instructions. I spent a few days. Maybe we got a number of exact amount of time you'll flew back home and job before he left the sheik asked in the Sidwell you. I would like to give you something, and in a society paid me to pay them very well. This is not what that's quite alright guys are now elegant is up. This is okay well maybe a golf club, so it's okay so I goes home and how to weigh always imagining while his guy. So the wealthy. He's elegant goldplated or gold golf club and he wants potters and he's imagining getting a pattern. He waits. We can delete some month. Still no golf club. So whatever, but I was about two months of went by a man showed up at the door if you thought you thought you gave him a deep to a golf club, a golf club in 18-hole golf club, so, so you see a golf course, so the guys that I wanted golf club now to seek whom one which money is no object. He went and bought the guy a complete and total golf club in LA in all golf course. We recall and his thinking the professional golfer was thinking a golf club and the she thought of the golf club country club. So you see, whenever we look at our life, we look at the things of God promises us. We gently put it within the context of framework of our understanding what is at the goblins to do in our life. What is it that his promises are going to do it. I like how Lego make a difference into God 's promise to Abraham to labor and that he was not a blessing, and that it was the make his name great, and that he would be a blessing to the entire world within the framework of a broom his entire world was just a small group of people. But the promise the King to Abraham still is, in effect today. God doesn't cancel out his promises. We just leave them on playing. We leave them like a child that we won't allow ourselves to be that naïve person that would simply believe that got to do impossible things in our life what were your much more mature and put that within the framework while God didn't really mean golf course, a mentor golf club and I would get the plastic set at Dollar General is enough. That's what God is talking about the lead plastic set of golf clubs at the Dollar General and Volvo God is saying no golf course and the way we put things within the framework of who we are and God is trying to get us to move beyond that. And Abram, he's getting him to move out away from the things that kept him so inhibited in so limited his false beliefs. His false gods. His idols that the worship. There are things in our life that we worship things in our life that we consider consider sacred, but they never said really speak to us. They really never do anything for the really don't fall in love with us. We can follow-up with them Communion today. Jesus has fallen in love with you, he created you, baby dedication child infant child person dedication to draw God loves that little girl and he loves you and I and each one the same. There's nothing we can do in our entire life to make God love us less than what he does. There's nothing we can do in our life to make them love us more he loves us because of who we are and is that desire for relationship with us that he wants to take us as okay Brent from our localities take them away from the things that we consider so sacred that really don't have any value to our life. Anyone's to take us to the land of promise, which is a land in which we you and I live believing that God can speak his promise to our hearts in our lives in which we can have faith that we can go through golf, go to work, go to life every day knowing God is with me, though never leave me nor forsake all things work together for good to those who love him, who are called by him. So there are these promises that he keeps bringing to life 's philosophy speaks to us the dumb idols, what we think they represent is a living God who touches our life apron had a choice in the choice, God says, I want you to go, but the choice is yours. You can stay or you can go. You can stay with your idols, we can go to a land of promise. His decision was between settling in with his family, or stay starting out with God 's direction, get a decision between the security of what he already had the uncertainty of traveling under God 's direction, all ever had to go on was a promise that God would guide him and that he would bless and Andrew could never visualize what it was that God had in store for him, but I say that God will bless us that he has thoughts and his ways are far above us and the challenge for us is that when we make decisions those decisions have an impact on the people who follow us, our children learn neighbors, our friends and everyone is because God has a way of blessing us is a godly blessing us, we will bless others. You know, I think my family came from Ireland in before was like in the seventeen fifties seventeen sixties and meet weekly. We got early Rod 's family came from Sweden and her nineteen oh two. They came here, our parents and grandparents, and whoever before us make decisions that affect who we are where we are what we are. Ha ha. But we live our life. People make decisions. You and I are making decisions that are just as important as our families made our families made to come to this country to make a difference for you. We are making those same type of decisions that influence people 's lives. God comes through a heart with a promise of eternal life. All we have to do is ask for forgiveness. God comes also the promise that he will never leave us nor forsake what we what were doing is allowing his spirit to speak his word to our life where we will find hope we will find security probably will find peace in this life and the life to come is on this premise that we leave our old life of sin and take on a new life. I promise of love and forgiveness of different way of thinking a different hope I'm different. Hope that it isn't about he who dies with most toys wins. He who has God in his heart is blessed and he will be a blessing. Remember, I'd like a golf club. God has a way of taking his taking what we have been taking it to a different level than we could ever ask or think, shows that father we are grateful to you that you have blessed us with such a wonderful day. A day in which we celebrate communion day, which we sing songs of of our restoration of your love for us. The day of God, of which we dedicate our children to a day in which the Lord 's great promise to our own hearts. We thank you Lord for loving us that much. We prayer blessing upon our lives upon our families, we pray your voice to speak to our hearts that we may know your direction for us. We pray in Jesus name. Everyone said amen. God bless you