The Sermon Define Success by David McGee
Jun 21, 2020
Define Success (39:58)
Referenced Scriptures: Proverbs 6:16-19; Genesis 12:1-20; Genesis 13:3-12; Genesis 15:5-18; Genesis 17:5-5; 1 Chronicles 29:10-16
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Proverbs 6:16-19
16) There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
17) Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;
18) A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
19) A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
Genesis 12:1-20
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.
7) Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
8) He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
9) Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
10) There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was sore in the land.
11) It happened, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.
12) It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.‘ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.
13) Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."
14) It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15) The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh‘s house.
16) He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
17) Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram‘s wife.
18) Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn‘t you tell me that she was your wife?
19) Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,‘ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."
20) Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.
Genesis 13:3-12
3) He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
4) to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
5) Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
6) The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
7) There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram‘s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot‘s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.
8) Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
9) Isn‘t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
10) Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.
11) So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
12) Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
Genesis 15:5-18
5) Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you be able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
6) He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
7) He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."
8) He said, "Lord Yahweh, whereby will I know that I will inherit it?"
9) He said to him, "Take me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon."
10) He took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn‘t divide the birds.
11) The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12) When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
13) He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
14) I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.
15) But you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
16) In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
17) It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
18) In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 17:5-5
5) Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made you.
1 Chronicles 29:10-16
10) Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, Blessed be you, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
11) Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heavens and in the earth [is your]; your is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
12) Both riches and honor come of you, and you rule over all; and in your hand is power and might; and in your hand it is to make great, and to give strength to all.
13) Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
14) But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of you, and of your own have we given you.
15) For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
16) Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes of your hand, and is all your own.
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