Matt Norton – Class 1: The Life of Lot – Separation

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Today is Monday, July 5th. 2010
at Shippensburg, Bible School.

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Our brother Matt Norton will be
speaking to us on the subject of

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the life of light.
The first class is entitled

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separation.
Thanks Eric.

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Well guys, how are we all really
good.

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How do you have Uncle Bob this
morning?

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That was he was he got a lot of
energy as any for an older man.

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Unbelievable.
Now, where you guys at that?

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Little Intro.
We had the other night when

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yeah, I told you about my kids.
It’s not about the kids.

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I just want to have here at the
intro.

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Now who’s heard of study on lot
before.

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Hey, buddy.
Perfect.

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As I said to the adults, that
doesn’t make these studies

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special in any way, but what it
makes them is interesting

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because there’s not a subject
that you often hear much about

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the life of lot.
Okay.

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Simple as that because who do we
normally study?

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Abraham Abraham gets old and
front-page headlines a lot.

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You know, who is it?
Was even there.

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And we sing that hymn lot the
faithful.

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And I actually think we do our
minds a little bit of

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disservice.
Because in my head, I had a

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Sunday school version of like,
this is like, okay, I imagining

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walking down the street of Sodom
down the Main Street, getting

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tomatoes and rotten fruit fruit.
Throwing that in the whole time,

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because he was there like a
freelance profit Zone.

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Condemned Sodom, you guys are
sinners, Our God’s going to

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judge.
This place, it was nothing of

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the sort.
So, if that’s what you had a

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picture of, when you’re at
Sunday school, I submit to you

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up front, it’s wrong.
I had that too but the reason

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why it’s changed, simply because
I studied a little bit more

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in-depth.
And the reason why I tell you

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that story of how I studied a
lot in the first place, I think

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I did.
I won’t tell you that story

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because it’s irrelevant.
It’s a good story though.

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That’s the problem with stories,
the ability to try and make them

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relevant to what you’re saying
most of the time now.

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Okay.
Lat.

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So we have a remote.
Did you say we had a remote we

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did.
This one here.

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I got the wrong one.
Doesn’t matter.

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I can walk out and go at this.
Okay.

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Now with lot.
Okay.

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You think about this, what
chapters of the Bible do we know

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about lat?
Not all at once, okay?

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You’re not allowed to be
embarrassed.

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I mean I have to stand up in
front of you don’t know.

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That’s how embarrassing this for
me up here.

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It’s terrible.
So you guys can answer some

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questions.
I promise, you know, I’m not

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going to say that’s a stupid
question.

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We answer, rather.
How do you even think of that?

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I mean, I’m I see, here we go.
Genesis 14.

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What else?
Yep. 11.

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No. 12 and 13.
He’s there.

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Then he said he’s in chap like
chapter 14.

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Like you said, when he was Kate,
all the Army is in chapter 19

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and between the lines in chapter
18 because Abraham’s their

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interceding for him, pleading
for light.

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So is it a lot of chapters are?
Is he in the New Testament?

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It has anybody know of any
chapters in the New Testament

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where we’ve had confined lat.
Hebrews 11 because he’s not in

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Hebrews 11.
Ooh, it’s all right.

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I paid him to do that.
I painted that one.

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Thank you.
He’s not in Hebrews, 11, he’s in

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other chapters.
He’s in Hebrews 13.

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That’s what you meant isn’t.
Hebrews 13.

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It’s good answer.
One of the chapters in.

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He is in drumroll, please Luke
17 as it was in the days of lot.

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Yeah, and he’s also in that
chapter was talks about just lat

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Second Peter 2.
Okay, so he’s in those chapters

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but I want to show you something
about lot which you may not have

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known that.
We’re going to go through this

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quickly because it’s now, you
know, the silly thing.

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I have looked on my wrist about
30 times for the time.

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I’ve never worn a watch in my
life, but I’ve gone up this 30

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times last two days, what time
is it brother Bob?

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And what time do I have to sit
down Okay, okay, so I’ve got to

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finish.
The gun, okay?

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But is that in 25 minutes time
or is that 45 minutes, okay?

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Now I’ll show you this.
Look at this Hebrews chapter 13

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of Genesis.
Just have a look at that.

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He’s disrespectful and he’s
selfish and unforgiving, you

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know, he does.
He has a fight with Abraham, he

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has a big argument with his
basically, like his father,

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somebody who’s taken him on and
treated him like a son, he has a

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fight with him and he refuses to
say I’m sorry and he takes

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Frontline and chooses for
himself.

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Selfishly.
This is lot, the faithful light.

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Is anybody else hands up,
anybody?

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once in your life, if you’ve
ever been disrespectful, just

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one You’re bad all of you bad.
It’s true, isn’t it?

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But does that mean you’re not
righteous.

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You have your good days and bad
days your good moments and bad

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moments your whole life.
You’re aiming for Perfection.

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You’re trying to get there but
you keep falling flat on your

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face.
So that’s not unusual.

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I just think for you, young
people you have to know in your

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mind because I think for young
people, when they look at

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characters in The Bible
sometimes they think it’s

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unusual for a character in the
Bible to have a fault to do

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something wrong.
They’re all perfect.

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And why was me because I could
never be that perfect.

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What wasn’t always perfect.
And he certainly wasn’t born.

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Perfect.
I’m glad he wasn’t born perfect

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because if he was perfect and I
thought I had to make it up to

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his grade.
I’d be over there in that corner

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and fetal position, sucking my
thumb.

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It’d be too hard.
See chapter 14?

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Look at this.
Abraham saves him from kado

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glioma.
He actually puts his life on the

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line to save lot and lot is
ungrateful and waves.

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Goodbye to Uncle Abraham and
goes back to Sodom again.

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What is he thinking?
He should have stayed there with

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Uncle Abraham and Melchizedek
and got his life back together.

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Put it all back together but he
didn’t done great and he’s weak.

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Couldn’t say no chapter 19,
chapter 19 is when lot actually,

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finally shines.
Right at the end.

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But in chapter 19, he still do
you have the word dilly-dally?

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That’s the first thing that came
to my head, just then he’s

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dilly-dallying around.
He the Angels grabbed hold of

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his hands and placed him outside
the gates to the city and said,

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go and like those are don’t want
to scary up there up in the

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hills.
And I want to go up there, I’ll

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get i’ll get bitten by an
animal.

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Can I go down to the store this
little city?

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He can I go there and he starts
to like the angel has physically

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taking him out of the city and
offered himself vation still.

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He’s negotiating the details.
Let’s get this right.

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First, I want to go, can we go
here?

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Why do you thinking lat?
And, you know, I believe in that

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little moment, we all know the
story that we Howie’s negotiate,

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I believe in that moment.
That his wife is he’s reluctant

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and stalling.
His wife actually has time to

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go.
Hey what am I doing?

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I got to get out of here.
I’m not going up there.

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I’m staying here in Sodom and I
believe it, light through his

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reluctance.
Actually causes the death of his

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wife.
He think about that guy’s is you

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young fella?
Start to become leaders and have

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to make decisions in your life,
you got to be firm and solid,

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you can’t be dilly-dallying
around.

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Round.
Oh, will I what’s best for me?

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Got to think what’s best for
her?

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What’s best for my family?
What’s best for the truth.

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Lots got some problems, and I
feel sorry for him, if he hadn’t

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have waited.
If you had the angel had of, let

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go of him and said, now go, if
he had a said, come on, love.

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Let’s go as quick as he could,
maybe she wouldn’t have had time

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to even think about the things
that she left behind all the

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things you missed out on, I
don’t know.

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We thought about that.
So a lot is righteous and I

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think it’s strikes a blow for
reality, the study unlock

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because you are a lot and a lot
is you.

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I am lot and lot his me and
being too harsh on him and just

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saying bad bad, bad bad, bad bad
lot would be like sitting on a

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branch and on the trunk side of
it, starting to saw it off.

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Right?
Because you’re condemning

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yourself, I’m condemning me.
So when I studied a lot and I

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actually presenting to, you
believe it or not, this is what

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I’m like, I have been like, oh,
I want to be like, I’ll see him

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there is it’s holding up a
mirror and go, although I do

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like the look of that as you
can, well understand now who’s

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his dad, Who’s Lots, Dad?
I’ve got it.

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Some, I’ve got an overhead here
for you.

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Anybody know?
Well, who was Abraham’s

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brothers?
First, there was Abraham, who

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was Abraham’s?
Father, let’s start off on the

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easy one.
We go, we’ll roll it right back.

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Tara, Tara American, which is
this like I’ve got to do

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filament tonight, but I’ve been
told it’s finally mine.

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Tier is cool.
Tier is Abraham’s dead and

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Abraham had two.
Other brothers who were they?

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Not a ho and hiren.
Now, what happened to poor old?

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Hiren.
Oh by the way, who was higher

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instead, Tiara.
So just tricking you got to get

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on the boil here who is who is
Harry and son?

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Just have a wild stab at it.
Yeah, lot.

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Check this out.
Now, I think Lots righteous at

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the end of the record.
Okay, so I’m putting that up

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there towards the end of his
life like Samson like Manasseh

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like Judah Samson had problems
all through his life.

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I’m not saying he’s a whole
motivation was wrong.

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I’m not saying old Lots,
motivation was wrong, but they

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kept making bad choices and it’s
at the end, they start to shine.

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I’m like Uncle.
Bob was talking about the glow

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at the end.
Now here is a classic genealogy

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but it is anybody here?
Good with numbers.

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Anybody here?
Who wants to be an accountant

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when they get older because this
is the genealogy for you.

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Okay, I’m not an accountant.
I just put that genealogy in for

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those who need the details.
Uncle Bob likes the details, but

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if you like me, we made a
simpler one.

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Okay, so we can follow it easy.
This is Abraham’s family.

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Have a think about this.
So, they’re all coming out of

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earlier called he’s, but get
this, he’s dead.

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Hey, Rand eyes.
Lots fatherless nahor.

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He didn’t care about lot, nahor.
Basically, I read in the, you

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could, you can have it.
I don’t give a discrepancy with

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this.
You can say, no, Matt, I

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disagree.
That’s fine.

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This is the way I read.
Nee, hoor doesn’t care about

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anybody, but himself.
They leave Earth.

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I get to.
Hey, Ran, nahor says, I’m

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staying here.
Here’s and go any further, in

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fact, Does anybody know what
nahor’s name?

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Actually means what it means, a
snorer, if who would call their

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kid, the snorer.
He must have been a good baby,

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that’s all I can say.
It’s like egg Lon, you know, his

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name means.
A fat cow, imagine mum and she

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told him in houseman’s that are
darling.

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Isn’t he wonderful what we call
him?

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She was hardly.
Hi, I call him a fat cow.

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It’s just hilarious.
I can’t believe that.

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Anyway, nahor is a snorer and
Abraham had can hardly get him

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out of bed.
Come on, we’re going to leave

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Earth and Angels appear to be.
We’re going to an unknown land.

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They who rubs his eyes and says
I’ll come with you.

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He gets to.
Hey, Ran says no further.

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I’m not going any further at
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And ibrehem can’t get him out of
bed when he hears the call the

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second time.
Saying let’s go.

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Oh no horses.
No staying here.

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Abraham, I believe is taken on
lat just trying to fill you in a

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bit of details.
Abraham loves lat.

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And he provides something that
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because Sarah’s Baron is that,
right?

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Sarah can’t have any kids and I
believe Abraham sees this and

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I’m not saying he’s a little
babies, a full grown man, but he

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still fatherless and for
somebody to take him on and to

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offer him.
Now, a position of sonship, I

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will be your father and you can
be my son.

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Abraham takes a lot to himself
and actually starts to prepare

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lot to become the heir of all
these effects.

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His whole house is going to give
it to lat.

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He’s like his son in the faith,
just like Paul had Timothy and

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Titus has his sons in the faith.
So it’s really important that we

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just see this picture.
So they leave earlier called

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he’s they get down into the
land.

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Where’s the first place they
come to after?

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Hey, Ren, as they walk in the
still, don’t know where they’re

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going.
They’re walking around going.

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This is nice land.
I’d like to live here.

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How about this?
That’s not nice over there.

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Finally.
God says, this is it?

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This is the land.
At what time was that?

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This awkward silence.
I’m just going to go and have a

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bit of water, which one is Uncle
Bob use?

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Just checking.
So what was my question?

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I forgotten.
The first place they came to.

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What was it?
Bingo.

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You have so totally redeemed
yourself.

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It comes to shechem.
Look at this.

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What’s check them all about?
Will shechem?

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Believe?
Not is a is a place of

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decisions, it means between the
shoulders, the burden.

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So if I give you a burden, so he
carry this form in the old days,

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you put on your shoulders and
you go and you start to walk.

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Now, it becomes a place where
the burden is you have to make

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it.
A decision.

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That’s the symbol of shechem and
there’s always the decision to

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be made in this place.
It’s a classic the decision has

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to be made is are we going to be
like the Canaanites?

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Because it says, if you just
want to open your Bibles up,

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please to Genesis chapter up 12
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It says they when they get to
shechem it says and I quote That

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at that time the Canaanites and
verse six were in the land, the

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Canaanites were in the land.
He builds an altar.

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God says this is it surprise?
This is the land and it says the

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Canaanites are there.
No.

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What do you think the decision?
Is he has to make and I believe

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it’s this, we’re not going to be
like them.

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We’re not going to follow after
their gods.

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We’re not going to live with
them.

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We’re going to keep away from
that crowd and he backs away.

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And in verse 8, it says they
move to the Hill Country on the

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east of Bethel and he pitches
his tent with Bethel on the west

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and AI on the East and he builds
an altar to Yahweh and he calls

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upon the name of Yahweh and the
name of the Lord.

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Now, what does he do between
Bethel and AI that?

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He doesn’t do it shechem, what
does he do?

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Are you sure does he not build
an altar at shechem?

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He does.
So he’s building our chicken and

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he builds an altar between Beth
and I are he does something else

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between Bethel and II, which he
doesn’t do before this, What’s

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the record say guys?
He pitches his tent and

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something else.
He calls on the name of the law.

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Now, think about this.
In the scripture, what does it

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mean to pitch your tent?
Does anyone know if you’re in

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the scripture and you’re a tent
picture?

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Your attent, ER, you’re camping
all the time.

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Does that mean you’re always on
holidays?

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No.
So what does it mean in the

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Bible?
When you’re at enter?

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And you don’t have a firm place
of residence like in the city.

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Sojourn exactly.
Thank you.

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You’re a suggestion your Pilgrim
in those days in that time in

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Genesis a person who lived in a
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That’s the way it worked.
There were, there were, there

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were exceptions but generally
speaking, the faithful lived in

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tents, Abraham lived, in tents,
lot lived in tents for a Time.

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Isaac lived, in tents, Jacob
lived in tents.

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You might think why they get
themselves are Apartment

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somewhere.
It’s because they’re standing

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aside, they’re being
christadelphians, they’re living

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the life outside of the city
looking for a city that was to

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come searching for something
better.

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God was going to give and
Abraham says, I’m not pitching

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my tent at shechem.
I’m not going to be like them,

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he gets over to between Bethel
and Ai and what he does is

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basically it tells all the
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I don’t know how many people
were there, but you can imagine

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Abraham having some sort of
ceremony.

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Hey, get together.
And he says right everyone put

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your tents up with stopping here
for a while.

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Well can I ask a question you
down there and Abraham says,

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what do you want?
And little kid asked question.

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We just come from shechem as
between a beautiful little is in

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a valley.
There’s lovely spot.

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How can we didn’t stay there?
Abraham says, because we’re not

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going to live with the
Canaanites.

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We want to get as far away from
him as possible and people say,

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but there’s still sort of around
here in Abraham’s as I know they

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are, but We’re not going to live
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In fact, this is what we’re
going to live.

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Like and he calls on the name of
the Lord is any body here.

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Know what it means to call on
the name of the Lord?

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Have any of you guys called on
the name of the Lord that sounds

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rather Evangelical?
I know.

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You know, all I got to do is
just call on God’s name, just

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call on the Name of Love I’ve
been saved for 20 years.

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Have you ever spoken to
evangelicals like that?

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That’s what they think.
You know, we just ask Jesus to

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come into your heart and he will
and he’s going to save you.

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I’ve heard him.
They do it in Australia.

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Idolized.
Yeah I’ve called upon the name

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of the Lord, get 30 years ago.
I’ve been saved since then.

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That’s how they do it in
Australia.

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Is that what calling on the name
of the Lord means?

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No way it does.
So what does it mean?

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What is the name of Yahweh?
Tell me what the name of Yahweh

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is or speaks of His character.
Okay guys, I want you to give me

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adjectives.
That describe the character of

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God characteristics, that
they’ll tell us about the name

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of God.
Tell me what they are.

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What’s our God?
Like you guys all worship this?

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God, I’m not going to help you
out.

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If you got to tell me because
you should know what this guy’s

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like, like this is a jealous
God.

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Merciful.
He’s omnipotent.

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Loving forgiving.
Gracious.

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Exactly.
Thank you merciful

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long-suffering abundant in
goodness and Truth is Holy just

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righteous all these things and
Abraham would have expounded.

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It this is The God Who We
Worship.

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That’s the name that we’re going
to call upon ourselves and the

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little kid is always ask the
questions down the front.

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What was their Uncle Abraham?
What you can’t keep.

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What does it mean we’re going to
call upon the name of the Lord

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Abraham says with means his name
is going to become us.

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We’re going to become like him.
That’s the character that

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matters.
We’re going to become Fast like

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this God our God Abraham Our
God, Abraham would have said was

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our God’s going to make us like
himself.

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And the little kid at the front
always ask the question.

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Well, you how the other, you
know, the Canaanite Gods

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different are they different to
our god?

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Uncle Abraham and Abraham would
have said, yes, they’re very

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different.
The Canaanite gods that they

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worshipped are terrible.
They’re vengeful their lustful.

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The envious.
And vacillating.

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Their gods are made by their own
hands human hands.

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Humans.
The Canaanites make their gods

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to look like themselves and to
suit themselves as a big word

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for that.
Does anybody know what that is

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called when the gods have human
qualities?

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I’ll give it to you.
This is the biggest word I’ve

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ever used in my life, okay?
And I had to look it up.

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It’s anthropomorphic.
It’s really incredible, isn’t

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it?
Just means like man.

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Okay so the gods of the
Canaanites were like men but our

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God see our God, we’re like him.
He makes us like him.

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We’re not naturally.
Merciful long-suffering abundant

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in goodness and Truth.
The girls going to make us like

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that.
In fact, in fact, this is the

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Old Testament.
Like to being baptized, does

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anybody know the quote, where it
says arise and be baptized?

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Why tarriest thou arise and be
baptized calling on the name of

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the Lord who knows where that
quote is.

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Because this is what Abraham is
basically doing.

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He’s telling them all.
We’re drawing a Line in the Sand

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and this is what our life is now
about.

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We’re going to follow Christ,
we’re going to follow your way.

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This is the God.
We’re going to be like and all

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the Caravan would have Standing
Ovation.

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They would have been getting
pumped up now.

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Yes, this is where we want to
go.

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That’s our God, we’re for him.
That’s the characteristic.

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Go on a have, it’s far better
way to go, and they would have

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been so pumped at that and
excited.

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It’s in Acts chapter 22.
Let’s have a look.

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So Acts chapter 22.
And we read in verse 16,

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somebody somebody have a crack
at that.

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Again, not all at once.
Yep, go exactly.

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And if you’re taking notes and
it’s good to take notes, young

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people, it’s very good to take
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As we say at home, you, you
can’t take notes without

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kneecaps, okay, you can’t walk
without kneecaps.

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I know it’s a pretty bad gag,
but I want you to take notes,

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okay, it’s important.
I walk out this door and you go

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You ask get asked the question
now.

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What did he speak on?
Speak on.

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Did we even have a talk?
You guys are forget, Acts 22:16

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acts 2:21 where it also says
calling on the name of the Lord

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and it says it in Romans 10:13.
So Mark those down, it was a

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public acknowledgement of Life
Direction, it was a

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psychological cementing in the,
for the nature of this traveling

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group.
This is what we’re going to be

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like and everyone was just
jumping.

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Around that are so excited and
happy about this.

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Yes.
We’re going to serve this.

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God.
Let’s go.

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Now soon as you say, you want to
serve God and you promised to

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serve him with all your heart
mind, soul, and strength.

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What happens to your life?
What does God do for you?

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It feels sometimes like somebody
unscrews the the wheel nuts.

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Holding the wheels on the wagon
on He will send.

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What, what will he do?
Has anybody ever heard of

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Trials?
Hands up.

432
00:25:58,200 –> 00:26:02,100
You have a trials?
Okay that’s good trials.

433
00:26:02,100 –> 00:26:05,000
He’s gonna send trials in our
life and that’s nothing to be

434
00:26:05,000 –> 00:26:06,400
go.
Whoa what’s this?

435
00:26:06,700 –> 00:26:09,300
I was a surprise I didn’t expect
that trials.

436
00:26:09,300 –> 00:26:13,000
And natural trials are going to
come thick and fast.

437
00:26:14,200 –> 00:26:17,600
And God sends a trial in
Abraham’s life and does anybody

438
00:26:17,600 –> 00:26:19,500
know what the trial was that he
sent?

439
00:26:22,000 –> 00:26:25,800
Famine, she goes to the cupboard
and the cupboards bare.

440
00:26:26,200 –> 00:26:28,100
There’s nothing there.
No food.

441
00:26:28,900 –> 00:26:30,100
Now, can you imagine what it
would be?

442
00:26:30,100 –> 00:26:34,300
Like, to be Abraham.
You have to look after this

443
00:26:34,300 –> 00:26:38,800
group of people.
They’re your you have to account

444
00:26:38,800 –> 00:26:41,700
for them and you’re responsible
for them and you can’t provide

445
00:26:41,700 –> 00:26:44,500
food and the little kid who
always ask the questions down,

446
00:26:45,000 –> 00:26:50,300
Abraham I’m hungry.
And ibrehem looks the ever him

447
00:26:50,300 –> 00:26:53,100
and is usually annoyed because
he asked so many questions but

448
00:26:53,100 –> 00:26:55,800
now his heart goes out to him
and he’s feeling really sorry.

449
00:26:55,800 –> 00:27:00,000
For any things, I want to get
some food for him. now, Abraham

450
00:27:00,000 –> 00:27:04,600
decides Because everybody’s
clamoring.

451
00:27:04,600 –> 00:27:07,500
What are we going to do?
The God who you’re meant to be

452
00:27:07,500 –> 00:27:10,100
worshipping?
We’re washing I haven’t got any

453
00:27:10,100 –> 00:27:11,600
food.
How is this possible?

454
00:27:13,800 –> 00:27:15,800
Abraham decides to go into
Egypt.

455
00:27:16,900 –> 00:27:19,800
Now, I’ve got a question for you
was going into Egypt, right?

456
00:27:19,800 –> 00:27:23,800
Or wrong.
Hands up who thinks it’s right.

457
00:27:25,400 –> 00:27:26,700
Of Abraham to go and eat your
hands up.

458
00:27:26,708 –> 00:27:31,400
He thinks it’s wrong.
Hands up, who want to abstain?

459
00:27:33,900 –> 00:27:38,600
Hands up, who haven’t got arms?
The thing is, I don’t know why

460
00:27:38,600 –> 00:27:41,100
you’re so scared for.
You’re getting progressively,

461
00:27:41,100 –> 00:27:45,400
even more scary to me as the
time goes on.

462
00:27:45,600 –> 00:27:49,100
Now what happened was Abraham
shouldn’t have gone into Egypt.

463
00:27:51,100 –> 00:27:54,100
It’s not that it’s wrong to go
to Egypt because even the Lord

464
00:27:54,100 –> 00:27:56,800
Jesus Christ had to go to Egypt
with Mary and Joseph, his

465
00:27:56,800 –> 00:28:00,100
parents.
But why was it wrong for Abraham

466
00:28:00,100 –> 00:28:01,700
to go?
Do you think

467
00:28:12,700 –> 00:28:15,200
It didn’t pray about it.
He didn’t ask his Heavenly.

468
00:28:15,200 –> 00:28:18,500
Father didn’t say father, I am
so super stressed.

469
00:28:18,500 –> 00:28:21,300
I don’t know which way to go.
You’ve told me to come to this

470
00:28:21,300 –> 00:28:22,800
land.
A land flowing with milk and

471
00:28:22,800 –> 00:28:24,500
honey is meant to be good.
There’s nothing growing out of

472
00:28:24,500 –> 00:28:25,800
the ground.
What am I going to do?

473
00:28:26,000 –> 00:28:30,100
God would have said, calm down.
It’s okay.

474
00:28:30,800 –> 00:28:34,200
I will provide, he may have
said, go into Egypt, I don’t

475
00:28:34,200 –> 00:28:37,700
know but he didn’t ask God, you
exactly right young people.

476
00:28:37,700 –> 00:28:39,100
What do you do when you got a
problem?

477
00:28:40,900 –> 00:28:44,400
What do you do?
The first point of call before

478
00:28:44,400 –> 00:28:48,900
you do anything every day should
be asking the father every day.

479
00:28:50,800 –> 00:28:55,800
You should be praying every day.
Think about it, guys.

480
00:28:55,900 –> 00:28:57,600
You should be on your knees
asking.

481
00:28:57,700 –> 00:28:59,900
How do you know, which way your
life’s going to go tomorrow?

482
00:29:00,200 –> 00:29:02,100
How do you know which way your
life is going to go today?

483
00:29:02,800 –> 00:29:06,600
You know, know And Abraham makes
this choice.

484
00:29:06,600 –> 00:29:10,400
And it’s just, it’s so sad.
What happens?

485
00:29:10,400 –> 00:29:12,900
Because he goes down to Egypt,
we know it happens.

486
00:29:12,900 –> 00:29:15,300
He tells a little Li doesn’t
it’s just a little lie.

487
00:29:16,200 –> 00:29:21,400
He tells a lie about Sarah being
his wife, she’s just my sister

488
00:29:22,100 –> 00:29:31,700
and Pharaoh take Sarah into his
harem End other than what you go

489
00:29:31,700 –> 00:29:36,500
where you go is this, but add a
gratefulness because fair, I

490
00:29:36,508 –> 00:29:38,800
think she is gorgeous.
She’s so beautiful.

491
00:29:38,800 –> 00:29:42,300
He says here Abraham had some
donkeys, and have some more

492
00:29:42,300 –> 00:29:48,200
donkeys, have some camels and
oxen, and all these herds have

493
00:29:48,200 –> 00:29:51,100
silver and gold, and all this
money.

494
00:29:52,400 –> 00:29:53,900
How you going to get out of this
one?

495
00:29:55,300 –> 00:29:59,500
Because as the gifts are pouring
in through the Tandoor Abraham’s

496
00:29:59,500 –> 00:30:02,600
gilts getting worse and worse
and the whole and which he is in

497
00:30:02,600 –> 00:30:04,600
is getting deeper and deeper and
deeper.

498
00:30:04,600 –> 00:30:08,000
He can’t get out, not without a
miracle, not with about about

499
00:30:08,000 –> 00:30:11,500
some divine intervention.
He is in a hole and who’s

500
00:30:11,500 –> 00:30:19,200
watching all of this.
Light is watching it.

501
00:30:19,200 –> 00:30:21,200
You have to see it from Lots
point of view, you know what

502
00:30:21,200 –> 00:30:23,900
he’s doing.
Lots actually getting his first

503
00:30:23,900 –> 00:30:29,800
lesson in hypocrisy 101.
He’s watching, he’s learning

504
00:30:29,800 –> 00:30:32,800
this one.
If you tell a lie and hide the

505
00:30:32,800 –> 00:30:34,600
truth.
What happens to you?

506
00:30:37,900 –> 00:30:40,700
You get filthy rich.
You think about?

507
00:30:40,700 –> 00:30:43,100
That’s what Lots learning.
That’s the example.

508
00:30:43,300 –> 00:30:46,400
Faithful father.
Abraham’s giving him Abraham’s.

509
00:30:46,400 –> 00:30:50,800
Not having a good day.
He’s having a down day, he’s

510
00:30:50,800 –> 00:30:54,600
having a bad moment.
Lot is learning if I hide the

511
00:30:54,600 –> 00:30:58,400
truth and he’s sitting, he’s a
little cave with that, Wicked

512
00:30:58,400 –> 00:31:04,700
laughter, and I can get rich.
A lot of money there.

513
00:31:04,700 –> 00:31:06,500
Tuck that away in your mind
because that’ll come out in the

514
00:31:06,500 –> 00:31:10,500
next over the week.
Also, what almost happens to

515
00:31:10,500 –> 00:31:16,300
Abraham in so many occasions.
Similarly happens to lat.

516
00:31:16,300 –> 00:31:20,400
It’s amazing because here
although Abraham gets so when

517
00:31:21,200 –> 00:31:24,300
Pharaoh finds out it gets set
out of Egypt and his passport,

518
00:31:24,300 –> 00:31:28,300
turn up and revoke, don’t come
back, it’s dirty money.

519
00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:31,600
You think Pharaoh take all his
money back so it’s my money, but

520
00:31:31,600 –> 00:31:33,400
Pharaoh doesn’t.
He doesn’t want the money.

521
00:31:33,700 –> 00:31:36,100
He sends him out there and says,
take your money with you.

522
00:31:36,108 –> 00:31:41,100
So Abraham still maintains the
wealth and by the skin of his

523
00:31:41,100 –> 00:31:47,400
teeth is saved and he almost
lost his wife.

524
00:31:48,300 –> 00:31:51,300
Because of that decision, does
that ring a bell with anybody

525
00:31:51,300 –> 00:31:58,500
else in this record?
Lot goes down to Sodom and he

526
00:31:58,500 –> 00:32:01,800
gets redeemed in chapter 14 by
Abraham and he’s got his wife

527
00:32:01,800 –> 00:32:04,700
there, but he decides to go
back.

528
00:32:06,700 –> 00:32:10,900
And he loses his wife.
These choices have a huge

529
00:32:10,900 –> 00:32:14,400
impact.
In their lives.

530
00:32:15,000 –> 00:32:20,300
And in the lives of a, I’ve lot,
rather, it’s a massive thing.

531
00:32:20,700 –> 00:32:24,200
And guys, you’re all sitting
there and I know how old are you

532
00:32:24,200 –> 00:32:27,400
like is anyone 1818 or below
basically?

533
00:32:28,300 –> 00:32:32,600
Okay, you’re in that age
bracket, you know the your life

534
00:32:32,600 –> 00:32:35,200
is full of Promise, you’ve got
all these choices ahead of you,

535
00:32:35,700 –> 00:32:38,300
you’re all young and you’re not
old and crusty like me.

536
00:32:38,900 –> 00:32:42,900
And you think, you know, I’m
glad I’m not like him anyway but

537
00:32:43,100 –> 00:32:46,100
You think to yourself, I have
got all these wonderful choices,

538
00:32:46,100 –> 00:32:50,400
and I can do whatever I want.
Young people take heed, make

539
00:32:50,400 –> 00:32:54,000
good choices.
Abraham had the choice between

540
00:32:54,000 –> 00:33:01,400
blessing and cursing.
Between ebal and gerizim here is

541
00:33:01,400 –> 00:33:05,800
between AI.
And Bethel between the house of

542
00:33:05,800 –> 00:33:08,900
God and ruin every single day of
your life.

543
00:33:09,100 –> 00:33:12,100
Those same choices, arise every
day.

544
00:33:12,200 –> 00:33:16,000
Anything it’s a little Choice.
It’s not going to matter if I

545
00:33:16,008 –> 00:33:19,800
just make a small Choice, it’s
not going to change my whole

546
00:33:19,800 –> 00:33:23,400
life young people.
It’s not the one small

547
00:33:23,600 –> 00:33:26,900
insignificant trivial choice,
that matters.

548
00:33:27,300 –> 00:33:32,800
It’s the daily choices that we
make that will in the end.

549
00:33:33,700 –> 00:33:36,900
Lee make an unimaginable impact
in your life.

550
00:33:37,500 –> 00:33:39,200
Huge impact.
I’ll give an example.

551
00:33:40,800 –> 00:33:44,300
Lots of good example of the
choices he made, which you think

552
00:33:44,300 –> 00:33:47,000
what’s so bad about moving down
to Sodom?

553
00:33:47,600 –> 00:33:50,800
It’s nothing bad about that
shifting houses but in the end

554
00:33:50,800 –> 00:33:52,900
he just kept making these little
choices too.

555
00:33:54,700 –> 00:33:57,400
We have a picture of him with
absolutely nothing.

556
00:33:57,500 –> 00:34:02,400
So there’s this guy on a plane
and the planes grounded.

557
00:34:03,800 –> 00:34:06,500
And he doesn’t want to talk to
the fellow texting because I

558
00:34:06,508 –> 00:34:08,800
know do you guys like chatting
to people when you’re on planes?

559
00:34:09,300 –> 00:34:13,699
I don’t always like it.
But he’s punching the buttons on

560
00:34:13,699 –> 00:34:15,400
his computer.
He’s typing, something away,

561
00:34:15,400 –> 00:34:17,199
they’re doing anything, he can
to distract himself.

562
00:34:17,199 –> 00:34:20,000
Not to talk to him.
And in the end, the laptop

563
00:34:20,000 –> 00:34:24,400
battery just dies.
Okay, so he is gone and the

564
00:34:24,400 –> 00:34:27,300
sitting there for that long and
thinking, man, how come this

565
00:34:27,300 –> 00:34:31,000
plane won’t take off?
Any thinks I can say, I’ll talk

566
00:34:31,000 –> 00:34:33,000
to him.
They talk to the person next to

567
00:34:33,000 –> 00:34:35,500
me finds out.
He’s an engineer but not just

568
00:34:35,500 –> 00:34:37,800
any engineer.
He’s a flight engineer and he

569
00:34:37,808 –> 00:34:41,300
works for NASA and he was in the
flight control.

570
00:34:41,400 –> 00:34:44,400
All room when the Apollo 13
incident.

571
00:34:44,400 –> 00:34:48,100
Actually a a true story as
opposed to some other ones.

572
00:34:49,000 –> 00:34:51,800
And he’s right there and he
says, you’re joking.

573
00:34:51,800 –> 00:34:54,400
That is so cool.
I can’t believe how dramatic was

574
00:34:54,400 –> 00:34:57,500
that and he says, do they really
say, you know, Houston, we have

575
00:34:57,500 –> 00:35:00,200
a problem and he went.
Yeah, yeah, everyone asks me

576
00:35:00,200 –> 00:35:03,200
that they said that really.
Oh, man, that was so close with

577
00:35:03,200 –> 00:35:05,500
them because you guys only had,
you know, a couple of chance and

578
00:35:05,500 –> 00:35:09,900
no, we only had one chance.
We had one chance to burn the

579
00:35:09,900 –> 00:35:12,700
engines and send them.
Back to Earth and we had to make

580
00:35:12,700 –> 00:35:16,000
sure it was dead on Target and
the guy said well, you know, I

581
00:35:16,000 –> 00:35:18,800
know you say dead on target but
wouldn’t have mattered what it

582
00:35:18,800 –> 00:35:22,800
if you were like one or two
degrees off and the guy only

583
00:35:22,800 –> 00:35:28,000
coughed up blood is had two
degrees 22 degrees off and he

584
00:35:28,008 –> 00:35:29,900
reached into his bag and he
pulled out.

585
00:35:29,900 –> 00:35:33,300
You know, one of those rocket
fueled Castillo 1000 calculators

586
00:35:33,300 –> 00:35:36,500
that you have to kick-start.
He pulled this out of his bag

587
00:35:36,500 –> 00:35:39,100
and he started punching in the
numbers and he said, look, I

588
00:35:39,107 –> 00:35:41,200
don’t want to be, I just want to
give you this.

589
00:35:41,400 –> 00:35:44,600
From Earth to the Moon.
If we were to degrees out at

590
00:35:44,600 –> 00:35:51,500
burn, we would have missed the
Earth by 11,000 miles 17,000 km

591
00:35:51,500 –> 00:35:54,800
for the Aussies.
Okay, at 11,000 miles is a long

592
00:35:54,800 –> 00:36:00,500
way, haven’t 11,000 miles.
It was a two degrees in you.

593
00:36:00,500 –> 00:36:02,900
Make the decision young people.
When I’m going to go to the

594
00:36:02,900 –> 00:36:05,700
class tonight, why not?
I don’t know other stuff to do.

595
00:36:05,700 –> 00:36:06,600
I’m going to go do something
else.

596
00:36:06,600 –> 00:36:09,400
Going to go catch a game or will
go to the cinema or something?

597
00:36:09,400 –> 00:36:12,400
Go catch a movie.
It’s only One little decision,

598
00:36:12,700 –> 00:36:14,400
doesn’t matter.
What about the readings?

599
00:36:14,400 –> 00:36:16,800
Well, I’m too tired.
I got homework to do.

600
00:36:17,100 –> 00:36:20,300
What about, you know, praying
with your brothers and sisters?

601
00:36:20,500 –> 00:36:22,200
Well, they can pray by
themselves.

602
00:36:23,600 –> 00:36:27,600
You think about the little
decisions which if you make one

603
00:36:27,600 –> 00:36:30,400
of them it’s not going to make
one iota of difference.

604
00:36:30,400 –> 00:36:34,700
But in perceptibly if you
continue to make these decisions

605
00:36:34,700 –> 00:36:36,900
over a long period of time, they
will have.

606
00:36:36,900 –> 00:36:40,600
As I said, an unimaginable
impact in your life.

607
00:36:41,800 –> 00:36:47,300
Huge and you might wake up one
day. 17,000 kilometers off

608
00:36:47,300 –> 00:36:51,000
course and away from God and not
even feeling like ever go into

609
00:36:51,000 –> 00:36:55,200
the meeting again, and not even
knowing why, you might not, if

610
00:36:55,200 –> 00:36:56,800
you get that far, off course,
generally.

611
00:36:56,800 –> 00:36:58,400
Don’t even ask yourself the
question.

612
00:36:58,800 –> 00:37:01,000
What am I doing here?
Off course, you don’t even know

613
00:37:01,000 –> 00:37:05,200
you are off course.
And lot is about to get way off

614
00:37:05,200 –> 00:37:07,500
course, we’re going to write for
time, still.

615
00:37:09,600 –> 00:37:11,600
Okay, he’s getting way off
course.

616
00:37:11,600 –> 00:37:15,900
In fact they get down there,
they come back Abraham, so

617
00:37:15,900 –> 00:37:17,500
sorry.
Can you imagine him all the way

618
00:37:17,500 –> 00:37:19,800
out of Egypt saying to stare?
I’m sorry, sir, I love.

619
00:37:19,800 –> 00:37:21,400
I love you.
I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

620
00:37:21,400 –> 00:37:23,800
How do you make up with your
wife like that?

621
00:37:24,500 –> 00:37:27,900
Like I’ve thought about before
like if I gave her a bouquet of

622
00:37:27,908 –> 00:37:29,500
flowers would that make up for
it?

623
00:37:30,500 –> 00:37:33,800
And a box of chocolates, it
wouldn’t make up for it with it.

624
00:37:34,000 –> 00:37:36,300
It would take months to heal
that breach in their marriage.

625
00:37:36,300 –> 00:37:38,700
And, oh, here you just put her
in the most dangerous situated

626
00:37:38,700 –> 00:37:42,400
about a virtue.
What about how, emotional

627
00:37:42,400 –> 00:37:46,200
well-being, the decision Abraham
made just to save his own, sorry

628
00:37:46,200 –> 00:37:49,500
skin.
He gets back.

629
00:37:49,500 –> 00:37:53,100
Now he comes back into the land
and he’s determined to make a

630
00:37:53,100 –> 00:37:56,600
difference and they come to
shechem, not to shechem, sorry.

631
00:37:56,600 –> 00:38:00,700
They don’t come to shechem.
No siree, they come to between

632
00:38:00,700 –> 00:38:03,300
Bethel and AI.
That’s where they come to.

633
00:38:03,700 –> 00:38:07,900
And they make this great
rebuilding of the Altar and

634
00:38:07,900 –> 00:38:10,800
Abraham again has some sort of a
ceremony where he calls on the

635
00:38:10,800 –> 00:38:13,400
name of the Lord.
And he probably just imagine you

636
00:38:13,400 –> 00:38:15,200
got, I’m Abraham.
You guys are all the Caravan

637
00:38:15,200 –> 00:38:18,900
with me and I say look, I’m so
sorry for what happened Should

638
00:38:18,900 –> 00:38:20,200
never have done it.
I should have.

639
00:38:20,400 –> 00:38:23,000
I should said somebody to.
I should have called upon the

640
00:38:23,000 –> 00:38:24,300
name of the Lord.
Before I went I should have

641
00:38:24,300 –> 00:38:28,000
asked God and what I’ve done to
my wife is just despicable, I’m

642
00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:29,800
so sorry.
Sarah in front of all these

643
00:38:29,800 –> 00:38:31,600
people.
I’m sorry for you to have seen

644
00:38:31,600 –> 00:38:34,400
that lat your bat.
My bad example that have given

645
00:38:34,400 –> 00:38:39,100
to you, he would have gave given
some ceremony like this and said

646
00:38:39,100 –> 00:38:41,600
to everybody, we’ve got a serve
God plus.

647
00:38:41,600 –> 00:38:45,000
They’ve also got all these
Egyptian characters, heaps of

648
00:38:45,000 –> 00:38:47,200
people who else came out of
Egypt, at this time, who do we

649
00:38:47,200 –> 00:38:51,400
know?
That’s right.

650
00:38:51,900 –> 00:38:55,400
Hagar the Horrible comes out of
Egypt of this time with them.

651
00:38:56,800 –> 00:38:59,700
And they all think, well, I got
this whole bundle of Idols.

652
00:38:59,700 –> 00:39:03,500
Here, my Egyptian gods are good
enough and Abraham says because

653
00:39:03,500 –> 00:39:06,500
a little kid at the front said
Abraham, he got all these

654
00:39:06,500 –> 00:39:09,700
different gods and I begin to
thank you for bringing that to

655
00:39:09,700 –> 00:39:11,700
my attention.
I’ll just now deal with that.

656
00:39:11,700 –> 00:39:15,900
That was next on the list.
Anyway, You got a barium, get

657
00:39:15,900 –> 00:39:18,900
rid of them, put them all away,
this is the God, we worship.

658
00:39:18,900 –> 00:39:21,900
He’s merciful long-suffering and
abundant in goodness and Truth,

659
00:39:21,900 –> 00:39:26,000
he’s not like your Egyptian
gods, we call upon this name.

660
00:39:28,000 –> 00:39:33,500
And I go from there and it says,
notice what the record says, and

661
00:39:33,500 –> 00:39:36,900
I’ll just summarize what’s going
to happen now because in Genesis

662
00:39:36,900 –> 00:39:43,300
chapter 13, if you’ll notice it
says in verse 2, that Abraham

663
00:39:43,300 –> 00:39:47,100
was very rich in Livestock in
silver and gold.

664
00:39:47,800 –> 00:39:51,300
What does it say about lat, has
anybody read the next few verses

665
00:39:51,300 –> 00:39:53,400
on?
It says, Abraham was very rich

666
00:39:53,400 –> 00:39:55,900
in livestock and in silver and
gold.

667
00:39:56,400 –> 00:39:59,700
What does it say about Abraham
about lot, rather?

668
00:40:11,400 –> 00:40:14,800
He was rich exactly, but what
was he lacking want it looking

669
00:40:15,000 –> 00:40:18,400
at Abraham were not raised
overlooked, in Abraham’s bags.

670
00:40:18,600 –> 00:40:21,800
He saw herbs and cattle, and
silver, and gold.

671
00:40:21,800 –> 00:40:23,900
And when he took his own
inventory and looked in his

672
00:40:23,900 –> 00:40:26,000
bags, what was he lacking?
He goes.

673
00:40:26,000 –> 00:40:30,500
Hey I’ve got cattle and goods,
he’s got cattle and goods but

674
00:40:30,500 –> 00:40:32,300
he’s all.
What’s that shiny stuff there?

675
00:40:33,100 –> 00:40:35,400
He’s got silver and gold and he
went and checked again because

676
00:40:35,400 –> 00:40:38,300
he liked the look of that.
And he said I haven’t got any

677
00:40:39,000 –> 00:40:42,200
There’s a crack appearing in the
record lot.

678
00:40:43,800 –> 00:40:48,700
Is a lover of silver as will
show later.

679
00:40:49,000 –> 00:40:51,500
And that’s the first occasion,
where the word silver appears in

680
00:40:51,500 –> 00:40:54,000
your Bible and it’s ringing
Bells.

681
00:40:55,300 –> 00:41:00,000
Lot season Abraham doesn’t
notice because why would lot see

682
00:41:00,000 –> 00:41:01,800
what sort of characteristic
loves silver.

683
00:41:01,800 –> 00:41:07,800
What’s the word for it?
As a special word lover of

684
00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:11,800
money.
What’s it mean, greedy?

685
00:41:11,800 –> 00:41:13,300
Yet?
Let’s yeah.

686
00:41:13,300 –> 00:41:22,200
There’s another word for it.
Calvert test nurse covetousness.

687
00:41:22,200 –> 00:41:24,700
Thank you.
Covetousness lot was Covetous

688
00:41:25,100 –> 00:41:29,100
and you might say well Matt you
too hard on lat just relax we

689
00:41:29,100 –> 00:41:33,000
have this terminology in English
called suspend disbelief if you

690
00:41:33,008 –> 00:41:36,300
ever heard of it, No.
Ok.

691
00:41:36,300 –> 00:41:37,500
Well you have now.
Okay.

692
00:41:37,800 –> 00:41:39,400
Just you think.
I don’t believe that.

693
00:41:39,400 –> 00:41:43,500
We’ll just hold on, just suspend
all disbelief for one moment.

694
00:41:43,500 –> 00:41:45,800
Just for the end of the week and
at the end of the week, if you

695
00:41:45,800 –> 00:41:48,300
take have taken on board, the
things we’ve discussed and you

696
00:41:48,300 –> 00:41:51,300
don’t like it.
Just dismiss it, no problem, but

697
00:41:51,300 –> 00:41:54,500
just hold on.
Lots covered us and they got a

698
00:41:54,508 –> 00:41:58,900
problem and this becomes the
Catalyst for the conflict plus

699
00:41:59,200 –> 00:42:02,900
my brother.
Abraham has changed from.

700
00:42:04,200 –> 00:42:10,000
Adjust man, in lot size to just
a man, he was the chosen one.

701
00:42:10,700 –> 00:42:14,500
He was the faithful one.
Everything was hinging on him

702
00:42:14,600 –> 00:42:17,700
and now Lots at him as the Halo
falls off Abraham’s head and he

703
00:42:17,700 –> 00:42:23,900
says, he’s nobody, he’s a
nothing, nothing at all. and

704
00:42:23,900 –> 00:42:31,100
things start to change in the
relationship between Abraham and

705
00:42:31,100 –> 00:42:34,600
lot.
And I haven’t got time to finish

706
00:42:34,600 –> 00:42:39,200
this.
So, what I might do quickly is

707
00:42:39,500 –> 00:42:43,600
wrap it up by saying, this is
what they did lot fines.

708
00:42:45,500 –> 00:42:49,100
This lot makes this decline in
his life.

709
00:42:50,400 –> 00:42:55,800
He fights with Abraham, they
choose to separate and leave and

710
00:42:55,800 –> 00:42:59,200
it’s the most satisfying.
Saddest picture in the Bible as

711
00:42:59,200 –> 00:43:01,500
lot turns his face away from
Abraham.

712
00:43:01,600 –> 00:43:05,200
His father in the faith and he
starts to head down towards

713
00:43:05,200 –> 00:43:08,700
Sodom and he pitches his tent.
So that in a more in the morning

714
00:43:08,700 –> 00:43:11,000
when he wakes up, it’s like
tunnel vision.

715
00:43:11,400 –> 00:43:16,000
Looking down the barrel.
To Sodom, that’s where he’s

716
00:43:16,000 –> 00:43:18,100
life’s now.
He’s got his whole Direction off

717
00:43:18,100 –> 00:43:24,600
course and he’s going down there
towards Sodom Abraham, but it

718
00:43:24,600 –> 00:43:27,300
would have broken his heart to
see his son in the faith walk

719
00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:30,700
away like that.
But Abraham hasn’t got control

720
00:43:30,700 –> 00:43:33,300
over that they couldn’t get on
anymore.

721
00:43:33,500 –> 00:43:36,100
And it wasn’t because there
wasn’t enough room.

722
00:43:36,300 –> 00:43:39,100
There’s not enough room.
Sell a few of your sheep and

723
00:43:39,100 –> 00:43:43,300
herds, get some money.
The real issue was they couldn’t

724
00:43:43,300 –> 00:43:45,900
get on together because lot was
covered us.

725
00:43:46,000 –> 00:43:51,100
His eyes were like cue balls and
all he saw was dollar signs, and

726
00:43:51,100 –> 00:43:54,500
that was what he was chasing
after at this time in his life

727
00:43:54,600 –> 00:43:57,800
and it’s a sorry, sorry
situation to see.

728
00:43:58,200 –> 00:44:02,300
But that’s the way it was there
any questions guys, because it

729
00:44:02,300 –> 00:44:04,500
what I might do tomorrow is
finish off a little bit more out

730
00:44:04,500 –> 00:44:08,000
of that and then we’ll come back
and we’ll have a little bit more

731
00:44:08,000 –> 00:44:10,700
of a look at our money and
covetousness, but has anybody

732
00:44:10,700 –> 00:44:24,000
got Any questions?
Romans 10:13, was it?

733
00:44:25,100 –> 00:44:36,700
Yep.
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