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Hello everyone, everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to your daily Bible 15 minute daily Bible walk.

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So bless you're joining us today.

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Last time we left off with a story of Abram and Sarai coming up with the plan to go into Hagar and the result was an Ishmael.

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And we went into detail about Ishmael is a compromise.

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And we, we left off with the question, how have you compromised God's promises?

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Trying to help God along and bring him to.

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Because usually it doesn't work out.

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It may seem cool on the, in the front end.

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It may seem like it's working on the front end.

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Usually though it'll come back to bite you later.

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Right?

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And we see that with Ishmael.

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We see Ishmael and his descendants have been a constant thorn in Israel's side ever since.

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Right?

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So that was where we left it off with yesterday.

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Today we're going to continue now in Genesis chapter 16, we get in verse.

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I'll go ahead and we finished with verse six last time.

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That's where I'm gonna pick it up at this time.

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So we lay the foundation of what's going to happen.

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And we'll talk about today.

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Abram said unto Sarai, behold, your maid is in your hand.

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Do to her as it pleases you.

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When Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her face.

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Hagar fled.

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And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to shore.

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And he said, hagar, Sarah's maid, why have you come here?

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Where are you going?

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And she said, I flee from the face of my Mr.

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Sarai.

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And the angel, Lord said to her, return to your mistress.

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Submit yourself under her hands.

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And the angel of the Lord, remember, Lord's all capitalized here.

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So that means Elohim, the angel of the Elohim said unto her, I will multiply your seed exceedingly.

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I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, that it should not be numbered for the multitude.

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And the angel of Elohim said to her, behold, you are with child.

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You shall bear a son and you shall call his name Ishmael because the Lord has heard your affliction.

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Ishmael actually means God shall hear.

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We use the terminology in our example yesterday.

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And that Ishmael is basically a compromise offering here.

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Now here he says, your witch house a bear a son.

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You should call his name Ishmael because the Lord has heard your affliction.

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And he will be a wild man.

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And yes, his descendants are.

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His hand will Be against every other man.

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Yes, his descendants are.

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Every man's hand will be against him.

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Yes, his descendants are.

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And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

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Yes, his descendants do.

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And she called the name of the Lord the name of hello that spoke unto her.

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You God see me.

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For she said, here have I also here looked after him that sees me.

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Therefore the well was called Bear Lahai Roy.

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Bear Lahai Roy, which is the well of him that lives and sees me.

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And it is between Kadesh and bered, verse 15.

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And Hagar bore Abram a son.

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And Abram called his son's name, which Hagar Bear, Ishmael.

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And Abram was 86 years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

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That concludes chapter 16.

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Let's continue now in verse 17 between what I just finished right there in chapter 16, verse 16, and chapter 17, verse 1.

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We see here verse 16 says Abram was four score and six years old, 86 years old.

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When Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram, verse 7, or chapter 17, verse 1.

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And when Abram was 90 years old or 99 years old.

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So we have Abram was 86 years old.

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Now he's 99 years old.

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13 years.

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13 years.

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Between chapter 16, verse 16, and Chapter 17, verse 1.

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Abram does not hear anything from God.

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Not one recorded word.

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Why?

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Because Abram decided he was going to try and do it on his own.

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Him, Sarai and Hagar got together and developed a plan.

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And it was not God's plan.

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Don't shut me down when I'm preaching.

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Good.

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Now, some of you out there have done the same exact thing.

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I know Pastor Bob raises his hand.

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I'm not perfect.

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I've developed my own plans outside of God's plans.

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And guess what?

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They didn't work out either.

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Amen.

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So don't shout me down when I'm preaching.

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Good.

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Because I know I'm stepping on some spiritual toes out there.

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So chapter 17, verse 1.

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When Abram was 99 years old, Elohim appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God.

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That's a different name.

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That is a different name.

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He's been Elohim.

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Now he says, I am the almighty God.

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That is translated as El Shaddai.

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El Shaddai is.

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Is actually like the breasty one.

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In other words, the nourisher.

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The reference here is to female breasts.

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Nursing children, okay?

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Provides all the nourishment they need.

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The mother provides everything that baby needs to sustain itself.

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Here God says, I am El Shaddai, I am the almighty God.

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I am the El Shaddai.

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And you walk before me and be thou perfect.

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Be thou perfect, straight, upright, be sincere when you're dealing with me.

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That's what the middle reference talks about.

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He said, if you'll do that, if you'll walk before me and be sincere in what you're doing.

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Verse 2.

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I will make my covenant between you and me and will multiply you exceedingly.

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Here's the same promise he had 13 years before.

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Remember, he walked, Abram, seeing God's footsteps in that offering where he made a covenant with him, making these promises.

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But Abram decided he needed to help God out a little bit.

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And that was the result of.

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And that resulted in Ishmael.

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And we went into detail of that.

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Go back, listen to the prior episode and you'll catch up on that.

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But here he says, you do this.

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You walk before me, upright and sincere in your heart.

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I'll provide everything you need.

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I'm El Shaddai.

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Hallelujah.

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Praise God.

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Don't shut me down.

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I'm preaching.

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Good.

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Verse 3.

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Abram fell on his face.

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He's worshiping now.

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Praise God.

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Thank you for coming back, talking to me again.

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God, always so good to hear from you.

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I can just imagine he is just thrilled right here.

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Thirteen years, he was seeking God and God hadn't said a word.

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How many of us have gone through a period of time where your spouse did something just rub you the wrong way?

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And you're gonna let them know?

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How you gonna let them know?

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You give them the silent treatment.

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Ladies are real good at that.

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And guys, here's a hint.

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You ask her what's wrong, she says, nothing.

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Don't believe it.

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Don't believe it.

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I made that mistake.

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Well, if nothing's wrong, then get your attitude straight.

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Oh, no, no, no, no.

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Anyway, different story for a different day.

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Amen.

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The point being here 13 years, Abram, he was, you know, remember he.

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He had a covenant with God.

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He seen God.

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God come down and fellowshiped with him.

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And Here he goes, 13 years without hearing a word.

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And now Harry shows up and he says, I am he.

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Abram knew who it was because it says, elohim showed up, appeared to Abram and said, I am now going to be your El Shaddai.

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I am going to be your provider.

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All you got to do is walk before me and be sincere when you do it, in all your ways, you do this.

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Verse 2.

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I'll make my covenant between you and me and will multiply you exceedingly now he's renewing that promise of giving him some descendants.

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Abram fell on his face and God talked with him saying, as for me, behold, my covenant is with you.

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And you shall be the father of many nations.

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Neither shall your name anymore be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham.

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Now I want you to stop here.

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Abram and Abraham.

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There's an H in the middle of his name.

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Now God himself has said.

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God has sheen.

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He has put himself in the middle of Abram's name.

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So you can't say Abram anymore because that's not his name.

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But when you say Abraham, you're That is that covenant relationship right there.

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God is in the midst of Abraham.

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Amen.

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I hope you see that.

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Look, get your Bible out and look at it now.

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Verse 7.

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Your name shall be Abram with an H in the middle makes it Abraham.

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For a father of many nations, I have made you.

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And I will make you exceedingly fruitful.

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And I'll make nations out of you.

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And kings shall come out of you.

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And I shall establish my covenant between me and you and your seed, your descendants after you in their generations.

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For an everlasting covenant to be a God unto you and to your seed, a God unto you and a God unto your descendants after you.

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And I will give unto you and to your seed after you, to your descendants after you, the land wherein you are a stranger, all of the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession.

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And I will be their God.

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Amen.

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Praise God.

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We'll stop right there for today.

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And that is when God gave him that land of Canaan.

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He gave him the land of Canaan.

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God gave it to him.

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So the.

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The Muslims claim that that land belonged to them.

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Well, not according to God.

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Period.

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End of story.

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You got an issue, take it up with him.

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Amen.

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Don't shut me down.

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I'm preaching good.

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Praise the Lord.

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Don't send me your nasty emails either.

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I don't read them anyway.

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Praise God.

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The point being, the point that I want to take from today.

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When Abram tried to do God's job, put it like that.

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And that was getting a boy born into this earth from Abram's loins.

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They came up with the plan, going to Hagar, have a.

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Have a baby with this young spry 20 year old or whatever.

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And it became a thorn in Abram's side.

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It was a compromise.

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Ishmael has been bothering the descendants of Abraham ever since.

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Thirteen years went by till God came back down to renew the covenant and said all right, you messed up, boy.

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Why 13 years?

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We didn't go over that.

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Why 13 years?

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Because in that culture, remember bar mitzvah and all that, at age 13, that's because at that point in time, he's considered an adult.

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He is able to take care of himself and his family.

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So up till then, it was up to the boy, up to the man of the house to take care of that boy.

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Age 13, a boy is going to take care of himself.

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So God say, okay, you wanted this boy see you when he.

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When there's no longer be an issue here.

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And that's when God showed back up 13 years later and said, now let's try this again.

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But this time, instead of having Sarah, I call you Abram, she's going to call you Abraham so that she has to say God's name, too.

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Amen.

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Think about that.

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God put his name in the midst of Abram's name.

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So every time someone says Abraham, they're actually saying Abram.

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And the God of Abram, that's what they're saying here.

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We'll leave it right there.

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Drop down the show notes.

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Leave your comments down below.

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Let me know what you think about this.

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This is a huge, huge revelation for somebody out there that's just hearing this.

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I know it is.

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Till next time, it's Pastor Bob reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.