199: Nate Soucy – Exhortation: Here I Am

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Welcome to the good Chris at
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This is brother Brian.
This week’s talk is an

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excitation that was sent in by
recommendation.

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A few months ago, it’s an
excitation by brother Nate Susi

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that was given this past
February at the Stoughton, or

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Boston, Ecclesia here in the
states.

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But their need focuses on
biblical accounts of when

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Faithful Believers answer the
call from God specifically with

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the phrase, here I am.
And he connects the lessons that

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we can draw from them
specifically.

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He reflects on what it means to
make ourselves available to God,

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what it means to make ourselves
available to our own families to

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those in the community.
As the pandemic will just

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continues to drag on there, have
been a lot of personal wants and

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needs and distractions that can
cause us to be selfish or want

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to do things in our own time.
And brother neat shows, how

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these are the same situations
and feelings that had been felt

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and dealt with all throughout
scripture by these faithful, men

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and women, and they like us,
Have their reasons to doubt or

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delay but ultimately what our
faith is built on is how we

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answer when God is calling us.
So as always, we hope this

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strengthens your faith and
brightens your day brother.

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Nate Susie here.
I am.

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Good morning, brothers sisters,
family, and friends.

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Here I am.
What does that mean when we read

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these words in Scripture?
Sister Karen spy, this

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excitation when she recommended
that.

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We study this exact phrase and
the meaning behind it.

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This is the seventh Sunday to
start 2022.

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So as we go through the Old
Testament Genesis and exodus, we

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saw there was a pattern there
and our goal.

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This morning is to explore the
context and characters who use

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the words here I am.
And what do they do with that

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calling?
As we go through this, the hope

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is that this provides us with
extrication encouragement.

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When God calls us personally in
our lives.

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And I want to thank brother
Gabriel for that fantastic

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reading of Genesis 22 for us.
We’re going to start right there

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and our reading Genesis 22
verses starting in verse 1.

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After these things God tested
Abraham.

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And said to him Abraham and he
said, here I am.

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The Hebrew word tested in the
ESV or tempt in the King, James

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version is NASA.
Defined by Strong’s as a test to

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prove or to try.
God is proving the faith of

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Abraham and how does Abraham
respond?

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God says take your son, your
only son Isaac whom you love and

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go to the land of Moriah and
offer him there as a burnt

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offering upon one of the
mountains that I shall tell you,

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God here is acknowledging.
This is your only son whom you

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love a parallel.
Certainly to the table here.

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But also God’s acknowledging.
I understand the gravity of this

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request.
What does Abraham do?

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Does he ask around and see sit
on this to see, does he mold

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over?
Whether he should act?

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No, he rises early in the
morning, saddled, his donkey

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took two of his young men with
him and his son.

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Isaac.
And he cut the wood for the

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burnt offering in a rose.
And went to the place to which

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God has told him.
And I read over this every

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single time, but this time it’s
stuck with me on the third day,

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Abraham lifted up his eyes and
saw the place from afar.

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He had to sit with not only the
physical burden of carrying this

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wood but more.
So the emotional and spiritual

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burden Awaiting hundreds, 100
years for his son.

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Only now to be tasked with
sacrificing him.

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Verse 5 and Abraham said to his
young men stay here with the

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donkey Ian.
The boy will go over there and

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worship and come again to you
and Abraham took the wood of the

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burnt offering and laid it on
Isaac, his son and he took in

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his hand, the fire and the
knife.

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So they went both of them
together.

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And Isaac said to his father
Abraham my father and he said

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here, I am my son.
Here we have a next-door for

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both parents and for children
for parents.

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Think about how often you make
yourself available to your kids.

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For kids children, how often
your parents answer the call.

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When you ask for help?
I’m directing this to children.

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But I mean are my mom right now
or Joel’s GG as he calls her is

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looking after him right now.
We ask we said hey we’re going

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to need help Corral in him and
we’re still calling our parents

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for help.
And it’s and it’s a beautiful

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thing because the unrelenting
love of parents, they’re always

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there to help its intuitive for
parents to be available for our

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children.
But are we also just as

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available to God when he calls
us to action?

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If you’re reading from the King
James, you will notice that in

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Genesis 22 verse 1 Abraham says
behold here I am to God.

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But in Genesis 22 and 7 he says
here.

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Am I But the root Hebrew word
for both instances, the exact

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same and and brother Brian’s
going to have to correct me

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afterwards on the true
pronunciation.

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But it’s henna henna, which is
Strong’s 2009.

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Behold, Lo, or see it occurs 843
times in 799 versus So it’s used

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often, so it’s ultimately, the
contextual clues that creates

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the translation of here.
I am or here am I?

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It can be used interchangeably,
but ultimately, The passage that

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we read today, think of here, I
am.

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As behold God, I am available.
and we read the miraculous

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occurrence continuing in verse
11, but the angel of Yahweh

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called to him from Abraham
called him from heaven and said,

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Abraham Abraham, you can sense,
the urgency Abraham was ready,

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And he said, here, I am.
Can you imagine how impactful

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this must have been for Isaac as
a young man?

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Not a child?
A boy able to carry his own

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weight.
We read when Isaac personally

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utters this phrase in Genesis
27, We’re picking this up in

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Genesis 27, verse 1, when Isaac
was old, and his eyes were dim

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so he could not see, he called
Esau his older son and said to

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him.
My son.

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Esau answered here I am.
He said, behold I am old.

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I do not know the day of my
death.

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Now then take your weapon to
quiver and your bow.

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Go out to the field and Hunt
game for me and prepare for me

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delicious food such as I love.
And bring it to me that I might

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eat that my soul mate.
Bless you before I die.

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We know how this turns out
Rebecca prepares Jacob brings

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them over and convinces him to
feel like Esau to deceive his

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father Isaac for the blessing.
Picking back up in Genesis 27

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verse 18.
So now Jacob went to his father

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and said, my father And Isaac
says, here I am, who are you?

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My son, Jacob said to his
father.

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I am Esau your first born I have
done as you told me.

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Now, sit up that I might eat a
my game.

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That your soul may bless me.
It is no coincidence that the

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people who say here I am in this
exchange is Esau in verse 1,

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Isaac in verse 18, but not
Jacob.

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The phrase is only presented
when it is, genuine preserving

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the authenticity of the phrase.
Even Jacob in this deception.

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Can’t utter the words here I am.
but he does ultimately in his

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life after many years of
spiritual maturation, We’re in a

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skip from Genesis 27, and now
hop into Genesis 30:1 Jacob.

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Now, a married man has two wives
the daughters of Laban And

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starting in verse 1.
Now, Jacob heard that the sons

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of Laban were saying Jacob has
taken all that was our fathers

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and from what was our father’s,
he has gained all this wealth

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and Jacob saw that Laban did not
regard him with favor as before

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then Yahweh said to Jacob
returned to land of your

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father’s into your Kindred and I
will be with you So Jacob sent

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and called Rachel and Leah to
the field.

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Were his flock were and said
unto him.

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I see that your father does not
regard me with favor as he did

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before.
But the god of my father has

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been with me.
And Jacob Perkins to his two

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wives.
How their father Laban has

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deceived Jacob Time After Time
and picking up in verse 10 in

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the breeding.
Season the flock, I lifted up my

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eyes and I saw in a dream that
the goats that mated with the

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flock, with stripes bottled the
modeled And the angel of the

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Yahweh said to me in a dream.
Jacob.

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And I said, here I am.
And he said, lift up your eyes,

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and see, all the goats that made
with the flock of Stripes.

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Spotted and modeled for I have
seen, all that Laban is doing to

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you.
I am the god of Bethel where you

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anointed a pillar.
Made a vow to me now, arise, go

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from this land, and return to
the land of your kindred.

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Jacob shows immense spiritual
growth as he migrates.

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His family.
His family and alone should cost

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you as a flock.
But not only that but his entire

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flock as well.
And we understand the immense

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Potential Threat of a brother.
That’s trying to enact Revenge

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Esau coming upon Jacob with his
band of men.

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We see the faith, the humility
of Jacob saying here, I am and

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making a tumultuous Journey.
We know that Jacob also

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ultimately makes it to the
promised land. but that’s not

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the last time that Yahweh asked,
Jacob, and now Israel to move

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Picking up in Genesis 46.
So Israel.

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Took his journey with all that
he had and came to Beersheba

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offered sacrifices to the god of
his father.

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Isaac And God spoke to Israel
and visions.

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And then the night and said,
Jacob, Jacob and he said, here I

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am, then he said, I am God the
god of your father.

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Do not be afraid to go down to
Egypt for there.

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I will make you a great nation.
I myself will go down with you

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to Egypt and I will also bring
you up again and Joseph’s hand

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shall close your eyes, it’s
fitting that, Yahweh tells

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Israel, That Joseph will be
closing his eyes for it is

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Joseph.
Who uttered the phrase here I am

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to Israel and a couple chapters
prior to that jumping into

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Genesis 37.
Now, Joseph Brothers, went to

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Pastor their fathers flock near
shechem in Israel.

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Said to Joseph.
Are not your brother’s

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pasturing, the flock of shechem,
come, I will send you to them

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and he said to him, here I am.
So he said to him, go now, see

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if it as well with your
brothers, and with the flock and

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bring me word, we all know what
happens after that.

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We know the immense Trials of
Joseph being cast into the pit

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sold to ishmaelites and that was
a better outcome than being

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killed by his own Brothers.
Going to being bought by

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potiphar going to his house
diligently serving him only to

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be accused of a terrible sin
cast into jail interpreting

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dreams to only then wait and say
and say remember of the Butler

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and Baker remember me only to be
forgotten for two additional

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years.
We get down on ourselves when we

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have a bad day.
This is, this is a bad decade.

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But Joseph contextualizes this
and understands the providential

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nature of this, his brothers,
however, do not.

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They’re very concerned because
ultimately how this transpires

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when the brothers Joseph stream.
Ultimately comes to reality.

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The brothers are bowing at his
feet, he saves them, which is

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what which what compels Yahweh
to tell Israel.

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No, you can leave the promised
land.

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Go back into each.
Go back to Egypt.

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And I’ll bring you back again.
We understand this difference in

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understanding perspective.
In Genesis 50 when Joseph’s

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brothers saw ultimately that
Israel was dead.

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They said it may be that Joseph
will hate us and pay us back for

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all the evil that we did to him.
So they sent a message to

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Joseph, saying, your father gave
us this command before he died.

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Stated Joseph, please forgive
the transgressions of your

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brothers and their sin.
Because they did Evil to you.

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And now please forgive the
transgressions of the Servants

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of God.
Your of your father.

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You can see where they would be
anger there.

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But Joseph shows his heart is
availability to God Joseph wet

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when they spoke to him.
His brothers also came and fell

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down before him and said,
behold.

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We are your servants but Joseph
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Where am I in the place of God?
As for you, you meant evil

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against me.
But God meant it for good.

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How often do we encounter people
in our daily lives?

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That we think that, they mean,
evil against me.

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They mean ill will But is it
possible that God means it for

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good?
Joseph continues, but God meant

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it for good to bring it about
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Many people should be kept alive
as they are today, so do not

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fear.
I will provide for you and your

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little ones.
Thus he comforted them and spoke

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kindly to them.
We know ultimately what

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transpires.
At the generations past that

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providential Sanctuary that
Egypt offered.

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Now, turns to slavery.
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And we come to Moses in Exodus
chapter 3 now.

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Moses was keeping the flock of
his father-in-law Jethro, the

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priest of Midian and he led his
flock to the west side of the

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Wilderness and came to Horeb,
the Mount of God and the angel

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of Yahweh appeared to him in a
flame of fire in the midst of a

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bush.
He looked and behold the Bush

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was burning, it was not consumed
and Moses said, I will turn

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aside to see this great sight.
Why the bush is not burned. when

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Yahweh saw that, he turned aside
to see God called him out of the

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Bush Moses, Moses. and Moses
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This interaction, this
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Moses being a completely
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in Egyptian.
Being called.

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Making himself available in a
distant land to do the

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unthinkable, liberating his
people.

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And that Liberation brings us to
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As we’re migrating.
From Egypt to the promised land.

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and once there we have a prophet
Samuel, which we read our him

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this morning about We know the
story all too.

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Well, in first Samuel 3, when
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He’s saying here I am.
And here Annie thinks it’s Eli

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as a young boy but he’ll I
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This is real yahweh’s calling to
you. he instructs him, when you

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When Yahweh calls to you you are
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And that’s exactly what Samuel
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on first Samuel, chapter 12,
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Because despite his Faithful
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boy, the nation of Israel is
asking to be like every other

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Nation around them.
They want a king.

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And Samuel is devastated by
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For he says, in front of all of
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In verse 12, verse chapter, 3,
chapter 12, verse 1 behold, I

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have obeyed your voice and all
the ways you’ve said to me and

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have made King over to you.
And now behold the king walks

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before you, I am old and gray
and behold.

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My sons are with you.
I have walked before you from my

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youth.
Until this day.

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Here I am.
Testify against me before Yahweh

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and before his anointed saying
essentially search me I am

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before you I have been available
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But Israel wanted a king.
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We know how this transpires
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A man who physically checks all
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Doesn’t make himself personally
available to Yahweh. so instead

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God appoints a man after his own
heart, King David, Who gives us

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a amazing exhortation and how we
are to be available to God in

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all circumstances.
But we find the specific phrase

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here I am.
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In second, Samuel chapter 15.
And a messenger came to David in

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verse 13 saying, the hearts of
men of Israel have gone after

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Absalom.
And David said, all his servants

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were with my truism are all
arise.

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Let us flee or else.
There will be no Escape for us.

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From Absalom go quickly.
Lets you overtake us quickly,

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and bring down to ruin on us,
and strike.

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The city with the edge of the
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This isn’t a Philistine.
This is Absalom.

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His own, son in a resurrect and
insurrection.

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Continuing in verse 23 in all
the land wept aloud and all the

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people pass by and the King
crossed the brook kedron, and

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all the people passed on towards
the Wilderness and abathur, came

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up and behold zadok came with
them, with all the Levites

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bearing, the Ark of the Covenant
of God, and they said it down

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the Ark of God until the people
had all passed out of the city.

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Here’s Dave and his humility.
The king says to zadok.

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Carry the Ark of God back into
the city.

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If I find favor in the eyes of
Yahweh, he will bring me back

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and let me see both it.
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Both the ark and the temple. but
if he says, I have no pleasure

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in you, essentially, if David
does not return if David Fails,

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David says, behold.
Here I am.

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Let him do to me.
What seems good to him.

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This amazing City that David
built up.

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For the God that he loves the
one true.

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God, he is now climbing the
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And saying, essentially I am
available.

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It Is Well with My Soul.
We continue on to Isaiah who has

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some of the most memorable
verses about being available,

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Isaiah 6:8 through 9 and I heard
the voice of the Lord saying,

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whom shall I send?
And who will go for us?

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Then I said, here I am send me.
And he said, go and say to his

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people keep on hearing but do
not understand.

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Keep on seeing, but they do not
perceive.

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And the parallel of Yahweh
asking Abraham to sacrifice his

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son, after three days journey.
Is seen is brought to light.

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Furthermore, in Isaiah God’s not
asking of us, anything that he’s

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not willing to do.
For God’s asking us to be

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available.
We’re seeing in some of these

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verses now and Isaiah 52 verses
three through six that God

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himself is available for thus,
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You were sold for nothing and
she’ll be redeemed without money

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for thus, says the Lord.
God, my people went down at

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first to Egypt to sojourn there
then this area depressed, and

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for nothing.
Now, therefore, what I have

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here.
Declares Yahweh seeing that, my

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people are taken away for
nothing.

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The ruler shall where to As
Yahweh continually all the day,

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my name is despised.
Therefore, my people shall know

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my name therefore, in that day.
They shall know.

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It was I who speak?
Here I am.

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Again, and Isaiah 58 verse 9,
then you shall call and Yahweh

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will answer.
You shall cry and he will say,

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here I am.
Sometimes when I pray, I feel

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like I’m in a I’m in a bad
relationship because all I do is

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talk about me.
All I do is I ask for help them.

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I’m always and I’m not faulting.
God enough talking about his

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Beauty and his majesty.
And here we have some absolute

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spiritual heavyweights.
And all their examples, but

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what’s not forget every single
instance, right?

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Today, tomorrow forever.
God will be available.

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And Isaiah concludes the Old
Testament references of here, I

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am.
And we have one direct New

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Testament reference.
That really brings to light a

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supporting actor ananias in Acts
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We all know the story of Paul
being struck blind, on his way

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to persecute those belonging to
the way in Damascus.

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Starting up in verse 9 of Acts 9
and for three days.

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After being struck blind, and
called by Jesus.

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He was without sight and neither
ate nor drank.

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Verse 10.
Now there was a disciple at the

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mascis named ananias.
The Lord said to him in a vision

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ananias and he said, Here I Am
Lord.

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Lord said to him rise and go to
the street called straight at

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the house of Judas.
Look for a man of Tarsus named

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Saul for behold.
He is praying and he has seen in

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a vision him.
A man named ananias come in and

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lay his hand on him that he
might regain his sight.

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But ananias answered Lord, I
have heard from many about this

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man.
How much evil he has?

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Done to your Saints in Jerusalem
and here he has Authority from

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the chief priests to bind all
who call on your name.

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But I always said to him.
Go.

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For he is a chosen instrument of
mine.

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Carry my name before the
Gentiles and Kings and the

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children of Israel for.
I will show him how much he must

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suffer for the sake of my name.
Without any further, objection

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and I departed into the house.
And this is, this is my favorite

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part of this entire account.
Ananias is fully aware of the

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power, the legal Authority,
that’s all has to put him in.

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An is in prison, but what is the
first word that ananias says to

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Saul?
We read this in verse 17 and

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laying his hands on him.
He said, brother Saul The Lord

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Jesus who appeared to you on the
road by which you came has sent

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me so that you may regain your
sight and be filled with the

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Holy Spirit and immediately
something like the scales fell

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from his eyes and he regained
his sight and then he rose and

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was baptized taking food.
He was strengthened For some

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days, he was with the disciples
at the mascis, the ones that he

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was supposed to persecute and
throw in jail and he immediately

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proclaimed.
Jesus in the synagogues saying

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he is the son of God.
This is the same Saul brother

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saw.
Converted to Paul renamed as

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Paul who wrote in Romans 12
verse 1 that we are to offer our

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body as a Living Sacrifice.
How do we do that?

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How do we offer our body as a
Living Sacrifice?

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Any time we’re being called.
It’s about us saying here I am.

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I am available.
I can shut the TV off.

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I can get a sitter.
I am available for a moment,

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please, brothers and sisters
here in online reflect on the

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past year.
How has God called you to

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service?
And how have you responded to

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that call?
Did you embrace it?

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Did you say I am available or
are you like me and making

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excuses?
During the announcements, we

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just had a call to action 8,000
christadelphians.

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Brothers and sisters are in need
dire need of our help.

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We think a snow day, makes it
tough. this is flooding, that is

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displacing.
Countless people three-year-olds

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being lost in these camps as
they’re trying to seek Refuge.

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This is trial.
Like, we don’t even understand.

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But we find a way to make an
excuse, right, but we have these

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biblical champions of Faith to
look to for excitation.

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There’s some who might say, you
know, I’m just too old.

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Abraham was over 100 years old.
When he said here, I am.

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And Jacob wasn’t too far off
either when he went to Egypt.

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So, maybe you shouldn’t be
shoveling the steps but you can

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still become a spiritual Mentor,
mentor to younger, brother

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sister.
Some might say conversely, I’m

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too young.
Josephus claims Samuel was 12

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years old when he answered the
call from Yahweh.

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Here I am.
So maybe there’s some friends

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out there that you know I still
don’t feel comfortable enough.

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Yeah.
I don’t feel mature enough yet

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to get baptized I don’t quite
feel comfortable yet to speak.

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That’s fair.
You can still pick up a shovel

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with all due respect to our snow
shoveling crew.

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They’re getting kind of tenured.
If you notice last Sunday, they

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were kind of there was there
were, there were some tough

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walking around.
That’s a call to action for us

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young people.
Well, you see I can’t speak.

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Well, I can’t serve from the
platform.

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Well, that’s exactly what Moses
said to when he was called to

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action.
He made some objections.

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Granted but God provided him.
His brother.

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Aaron said, Aaron will speak for
you.

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I need a leader leaders, do not
have to be up here.

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Well, not in the right place in
my life.

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I can’t answer the call.
I’m not in a good spot

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professionally.
Physically.

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Well, move Jacob had to relocate
his entire Ferrum family, herds

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of livestock to where God wanted
them to be the promised land.

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Oh, and then in his old age, he
had to move again.

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If there’s a career, if there’s
a profession, if there is

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relationship something that’s
avoiding us from answering the

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call.
Then we have to make these

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adjustments in our lives. it’s
not that, I’m just I’m in a low

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Place, spiritually.
In my life.

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That I can resonate with.
You know, who else can to King

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David?
As he’s climbing the Mount of

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Olives weeping as he flees his
own son Absalom.

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David shows.
That faith is kinetic.

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Sometimes it takes just looking
out for someone else and helping

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them, and you somehow feel
better with your own spiritual

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well-being.
All right, fair enough.

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But it’s it’s challenging, it
might be risky.

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Well, look to ananias, you want
to talk about risky, he

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extended.
The right hand of Fellowship,

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brother saw to the same man that
had documents to put him in

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jail.
We see in all of these

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instances, a theme of objections
at times or sometimes

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availability, but there’s going
to be challenges.

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Every single one of them is
every single one time we hear

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here, I am, there’s a challenge
spiritually physically.

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But God sees us through it.
And he helps every single

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champion of Faith to produce a
favorable, providential result.

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It almost makes me think, What
miracles have I been missing?

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What action, what service have I
missed?

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Because I personally making
excuses.

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Makes me feel.
Les.

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But then we have the blessing.
Of looking towards this table.

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To relieve these burdens.
As we think about not only

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Jesus. and, His burial for three
days.

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Similar to how Saul was blind
for three days, not being able

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to eat or drink.
But we also think about our

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heavenly father Parallel to
Abraham having to walk for three

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days with his son.
Dealing with the emotional

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burden.
Of sacrificing his beloved Son.

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The Gospel of John chapter 8
verse 42, gives us perspective

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into how all of this is made
possible through Christ.

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First 42, John chapter 8, Jesus
said to them.

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If God, we’re your father you
would love me for I came from

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God.
And I I am here.

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I came out of my own accord, but
he sent me.

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