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Hello, everyone, everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to your 15 minute daily Bible walk for today.

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We're so blessed that you are joining us.

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Praise the Lord.

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Today we're gonna.

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We left off last time finishing up with chapter 17.

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And today we're going to start off in Genesis, chapter 18, verse number one.

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And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre.

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And he sat in the tent in the heat of the day.

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And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him.

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Two people.

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And the Lord is who it is, because we will read that here in a little bit.

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And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself towards the ground and said, my Lord, if now I found favor in your sight, do not pass away from here, I pray thee, from thy servant.

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He said, let a little water.

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Let me get a little water for you.

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Be fetched.

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Wash your feet, rest yourselves under the tree.

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And I'll fetch a morsel of bread and comfort your hearts so that afterwards you shall pass on.

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For therefore have you come to your servant, or you've passed by this way to your servant.

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And they said, so, do as you have said.

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And Abram hastened unto the tent to Sarah and said, make ready quickly three measures of fine meal.

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Knead it.

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Make cakes upon the earth.

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And Abraham ran unto the herd and fetched a calf, tender and good.

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Gave it to a young man, and he hastened to dress it.

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And he took butter and milk and the calf which he addressed and set it before them.

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Now, this wasn't something that took, you know, 10 minutes.

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They'd been there probably a couple hours by this point in time, all right.

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And he stood by them under the tree and watched them eat.

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And they said unto him, where's Sarah, your wife?

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And he said, she's in the tent.

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Behold, in the tent.

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And he said.

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Now he.

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He said, this is the Lord.

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Abram didn't realize it at times, said, I will certainly return unto you according to the time of life.

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And lo, Sarah, your wife shall have a son.

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And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

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Now, Abraham and Sarah were old, well stricken in age.

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And it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

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In other words, she'd already gone through menopause years ago, okay.

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And had never had a baby at that time, despite all the trials that.

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That they had been doing prior to Ishmael.

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And you got to remember, this has been now like 13 years or so, right?

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So it says.

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Verse 11, Abraham, Sarah were old, well stricken in age.

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And it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

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Therefore, Sarah laughed within herself, saying, after I've grown old, shall I have pleasure again with my Lord being old also?

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And she, like these things, haven't been working in a while.

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All right.

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And the Lord said unto Abram, why did Sarah laugh, saying, shall I of surety bear a child which I'm old?

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Is anything too hard for the Lord?

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Is anything too hard for Halloween?

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Oh, there it is, right there.

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Is anything too hard for Elohim, Abraham?

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And at that time, at the time appointed, I will return unto you according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

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And then Sarah denied it, saying, I didn't laugh, for she was afraid.

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This he already identified himself as Halloween.

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And she said, no, you did laugh.

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Now, we're going to stop right there in verse 15, because I want to talk about this a minute.

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We already established the fact that Sarah was old.

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Abram was old.

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And 13 years prior.

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Well, 12 years at this time, because you got to have, you know, the conception time and all that.

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So, you know, 12, 13 years have gone by.

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And, you know, they've had Ishmael.

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They've kind of given up on everything else.

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Everything circles around Ishmael.

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And now here we have the demonstration from the Lord with his angels has said, is anything too hard for Elohim Abram?

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Why did Sarah laugh?

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And we get on Sarah.

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We.

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We get down hard on Sarah sometimes, okay?

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Oh, she laughed at the promises of God.

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And one time I was preaching in, I believe was Abilene, Texas, and it was a.

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A convention.

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I was preaching at a convention, and I asked the audience, I said, how many.

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How many grandmothers we got out there in the audience?

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And, you know, hands went up all over the place.

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And I said, okay, now, Grandma, what would you think if after the meeting tonight, you went home and your husband leaned over to you and said, you know, God spoke to me at that convention tonight that we're going to have a baby.

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You could hear the laughter go through the crowd, right?

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Because these old ladies, they're like, it's just no way, Jack.

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And I said, now you just laughed.

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We get on Sarah for laughing.

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Amen.

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Those shout pastor Bond.

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Now, when you're preaching good now, praise the Lord, Here we go, right?

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And it makes sense when you look at it in that vein, right?

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And so why.

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Why did we get down on Sarah?

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Because she laughed.

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She's like, it's not happening.

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It's impossible.

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You know that.

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That ship has sailed, you know.

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And now the Lord said, why did Sarah laugh?

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She's oh, I didn't laugh.

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I didn't laugh.

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Oh, you, you did laugh.

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You did laugh.

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Is anything too hard for Halloween?

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And then he turned back and said, at the time appointed, I'm going to return unto you at the time of life.

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In other words, about nine months from now, I'm going to come back and Sarah will have not just a baby, she will have a son.

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And that's like I said, when Sarah laughs at oh, who said, oh, you did laugh.

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And then verse 16, we're going to leave it here and then we'll take it up here again tomorrow is that the men rose up from there and looked towards Sodom.

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Abram went with them to bring them on their way.

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So we're going to stop right there.

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Amen.

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Praise God.

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I hope you got a lot out of this one today because sometimes God's promises just seem too good to be true.

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If God turned around, told you, by this time next year, money problems are no longer an issue.

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By this time next year, you're going to have a job that people are going to be envious about.

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By this time next year, your children who have been wayward, stray word and running from God, one of them is going to be in the ministry, the others are going to be saved and going to church.

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Whatever the case may be that you're praying about, that you've been deep in prayer about, is anything too hard for Elohim.

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Amen.

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Praise God.

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We're gonna leave it right there.

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Drop down the show notes, leave your comments down below.

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Tell me if you laughed.

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Amen.

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If you laugh, if you know, if you're a senior citizen and you're listening to this and when I mentioned that example, what if the Lord told your husband, by next year we're gonna have another baby.

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I'm laughing because I know my wife would say to me, so you better get out of here, Jack.

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Amen.

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Praise God.

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We'll leave it right there.

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TedX Last Pastor Bob, reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.