WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:04.557 Let's just lift our bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:04.557 --> 00:00:09.852 Let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, I'm so glad for Wednesday night live stream. 00:00:09.852 --> 00:00:24.859 I'm hungry for the Word and the Spirit, because I know the Word, working in conjunction with the Holy Spirit, puts me over in every circumstance I face. 00:00:24.859 --> 00:00:43.979 I believe I received tonight revelation, understanding of the Word that will build my faith, nourish my spirit and cause me to accomplish my destiny in Jesus' day, amen. 00:00:43.979 --> 00:00:50.500 And let's look in Genesis 22 and this is in my normal reading right now. 00:00:50.500 --> 00:00:57.353 I'm just reading this and I read it today and it's just fresh and I just thought we would look. 00:00:57.353 --> 00:01:16.079 And tonight I want to talk about the power of the New Covenant, the power of the New Covenant, and I want to take us back into Genesis 22, when God fully executed the Old Covenant, which is a type and shadow of what we have in the new. 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:19.528 The Old had to happen so that we could have the new. 00:01:19.528 --> 00:01:22.036 So let's just look at. 00:01:22.036 --> 00:01:27.120 Instead of reading all of it, I'm going to kind of read and teach it as we go, line upon line. 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.519 I haven't done that type of teaching in a long time. 00:01:31.141 --> 00:01:33.429 So Genesis 22, verse one. 00:01:33.429 --> 00:01:34.251 We'll start there. 00:01:34.251 --> 00:01:42.751 And this, of course, is after the, the, after the birth of his son. 00:01:42.751 --> 00:01:50.204 His son is, let's see, it really doesn't tell you how old he is, but he's a young man, all right. 00:01:50.204 --> 00:01:53.971 So, isaac, and it came to pass verse one. 00:01:53.971 --> 00:02:02.359 After these things, that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him Abraham, and he said behold, here I am. 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:21.623 And God said take now thy son, thine only son, isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 00:02:21.623 --> 00:02:25.893 So let let's just hold up there and look at that. 00:02:25.893 --> 00:02:31.186 This, this is kind of increasing the pressure. 00:02:31.186 --> 00:02:34.737 You know, notice, he kind of, he kind of paints this picture. 00:02:34.737 --> 00:02:45.447 He said take your only son, your only son, isaac, whom you love, and, and now you're going to sacrifice him, he's going to die. 00:02:45.447 --> 00:02:48.098 You're going to, you're going to cause him to die as a sacrifice. 00:02:48.098 --> 00:02:54.896 So this was a test, a temptation, and you might say well, I thought God wasn't supposed to tempt us. 00:02:54.896 --> 00:03:07.911 Well, the, the new covenant had, it depended on obedience of this right here, that there had to be a sacrifice for that old covenant to to be ratified. 00:03:07.911 --> 00:03:16.097 And so he told him where to take him and and to to the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt sacrifice. 00:03:16.097 --> 00:03:20.471 So that meant he had to kill him first, and then he was going to burn his body on a pile of wood. 00:03:21.854 --> 00:03:34.794 So, in verse three, abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey, took two of his young men with him and Isaac, his son, and he chopped the wood and prepared the wood for the burnt offering. 00:03:34.794 --> 00:03:39.768 And he rose up and he went unto the place of which God had told him. 00:03:39.768 --> 00:03:42.395 Now look at this one here, verse four. 00:03:42.395 --> 00:03:48.592 Then, on the third day, abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place of far off. 00:03:48.592 --> 00:03:51.139 On the third day Isn't that interesting? 00:03:51.139 --> 00:03:52.925 The third day. 00:03:52.925 --> 00:04:03.694 So really on the very, at the very word of God, god said I want you to offer your son, your only son, whom you love, isaac, I want you to offer him as a burnt sacrifice. 00:04:03.694 --> 00:04:07.866 On that day he reckoned him dead. 00:04:07.866 --> 00:04:14.145 As far as as Abraham was concerned, he was still alive, but he reckoned him dead why? 00:04:14.145 --> 00:04:16.432 Because God said take him and sacrifice him. 00:04:16.432 --> 00:04:22.413 And so then, three days later, he's going to take him to the place where he's going to sacrifice it. 00:04:22.413 --> 00:04:33.853 And I've heard preachers say you just imagine how hard, horrible this was and what a terrible thing it must have been, how he must have wept all the way there for three days. 00:04:33.853 --> 00:04:35.800 I've heard one guy just going on and on and on. 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:40.848 Let's hold our place there and go back to Hebrews 11. 00:04:40.848 --> 00:04:45.437 And let's let's see the real Abraham. 00:04:45.437 --> 00:04:50.007 See the real Abraham, abraham 11, 17. 00:04:51.350 --> 00:04:56.338 By faith, abraham, when he was tried, what was the trial? 00:04:56.338 --> 00:05:01.329 Hey, offer your only son, whom you love, as a sacrifice. 00:05:01.329 --> 00:05:03.995 That was a trial, that was a test. 00:05:03.995 --> 00:05:09.487 And he, he said, by faith, abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac. 00:05:09.487 --> 00:05:14.819 And he that had received the promises. 00:05:14.819 --> 00:05:17.036 Well, when did he receive the promise? 00:05:17.036 --> 00:05:21.793 When Isaac was born, isaac was the promise, he was the son of the promises. 00:05:21.793 --> 00:05:22.898 His name meant laughter. 00:05:22.898 --> 00:05:24.615 They had laughter in their old age. 00:05:24.615 --> 00:05:26.975 You know, sarah was 90, he was 100. 00:05:26.975 --> 00:05:30.276 And this was the one that they'd believed for. 00:05:31.870 --> 00:05:33.716 And notice what it says here in Hebrews. 00:05:33.716 --> 00:05:51.675 And he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said that in Isaac shall by seed, be called Accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead. 00:05:51.675 --> 00:05:55.920 From whence also he received him in a figure. 00:05:55.920 --> 00:06:12.137 We're gonna keep reading and we're gonna find out that he, before he could plunge the knife in, god stopped him and he took his son off of the pile of wood and untidy, and that's when he received him alive. 00:06:12.137 --> 00:06:15.276 But he did that in his faith for three days. 00:06:15.276 --> 00:06:27.637 So that three days you could just basically because of his attitude of faith, when he looked up and he saw in the distance after three days, the place where the sacrifice was gonna be, that's the place of resurrection. 00:06:27.637 --> 00:06:32.814 So Jesus was dead for three days in the grave and risen from the dead. 00:06:33.151 --> 00:06:44.213 Isaac was dead three days, risen from the dead and then, on the third day, types and shadows, folks, that's what's necessary for the covenant to be perfected as you've got to. 00:06:44.213 --> 00:06:49.553 They had to perform the type and shadow correctly, praise God. 00:06:49.553 --> 00:06:52.755 And so he lifted a verse forward. 00:06:52.755 --> 00:07:05.658 Then, on the third day, abraham lifted up his eyes, saw the place afar off and Abraham said unto his young man okay, abide ye here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you. 00:07:05.658 --> 00:07:11.821 The lad and I will go and come again. 00:07:13.430 --> 00:07:24.213 Well, I thought he was gonna kill him, yeah, but he believed that he was gonna kill him and God was gonna have to raise him from the dead, because that's where his seed has got to come, the rest of his seed. 00:07:24.213 --> 00:07:25.298 He has no other seed. 00:07:25.298 --> 00:07:27.377 This is the seed right here, a promise. 00:07:27.377 --> 00:07:29.798 And if he's dead he can have no seed. 00:07:29.798 --> 00:07:33.750 But God is not a man that he should lie, nor the son of man in whom he should repent. 00:07:33.750 --> 00:07:40.956 So he had a covenant with God, you see, and so he knew look, if I've got to kill him, then God's got to raise him. 00:07:40.956 --> 00:07:45.257 It wasn't even a question, it wasn't even, it was no question. 00:07:45.257 --> 00:07:47.596 God is going to raise my. 00:07:47.596 --> 00:07:51.132 Hey, y'all wait here, we'll be right back, we'll be right back. 00:07:51.132 --> 00:07:52.276 His faith is talking. 00:07:52.276 --> 00:07:55.509 Oh, I tell you, come on, just praise God. 00:07:55.610 --> 00:07:58.560 Look at the faith that our father Abraham exited. 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.975 I mean he didn't shed a tear, he wasn't nervous, nilly. 00:08:01.975 --> 00:08:04.658 I mean he just he held everything back. 00:08:04.658 --> 00:08:07.119 He didn't tell his son everything that was going on. 00:08:07.119 --> 00:08:11.252 You know, he sure didn't tell Sarah before he left Left. 00:08:11.252 --> 00:08:14.531 Hey, by the way, we're going to go, I'm going to go down and I'll be back. 00:08:14.531 --> 00:08:15.552 I'm going to kill our son. 00:08:15.552 --> 00:08:19.372 Well, come back, he'll be raised from that, don't worry, he didn't tell her anything. 00:08:19.372 --> 00:08:27.274 And so verse six I trust you're getting something out of this. 00:08:27.274 --> 00:08:28.641 I like it. 00:08:28.641 --> 00:08:31.095 I like to teach right out of the word rest, line by line. 00:08:31.095 --> 00:08:33.095 Sometimes it's just like this is so powerful. 00:08:33.820 --> 00:08:41.363 Abraham took the wood of the burn, offering so you remember he had prepared that for he left town and he laid it upon Isaac. 00:08:41.363 --> 00:08:44.317 So, isaac, make yourself useful here. 00:08:44.317 --> 00:08:45.000 Here's this wood. 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:46.642 Now you carry this wood for me. 00:08:46.642 --> 00:08:49.102 I'm going to burn you on the wood here. 00:08:49.102 --> 00:08:54.914 Just think about what all had to happen for him to believe that God was going to raise him for the dead. 00:08:54.914 --> 00:09:00.034 First of all, he's going to kill him and his weapon of choice was a knife. 00:09:00.034 --> 00:09:06.083 So he's going to plunge the knife into his son's heart and then he's going to lay dead and bleeding on this pile of wood. 00:09:06.083 --> 00:09:12.174 He's going to light this pile of wood and he's going to burn his son's body on that pile of wood until it's a sacrifice. 00:09:12.174 --> 00:09:17.022 And then God's going to raise him from the dead, and I mean this man doesn't doubt it. 00:09:17.022 --> 00:09:22.378 I mean he's saying to the boys hey, y'all wait here, we're going to be in the ladder, be back, we're coming back. 00:09:23.514 --> 00:09:30.601 So he took the wood of the burn offering and allowed Isaac to carry it, and he took the fire in his hand. 00:09:30.601 --> 00:09:31.445 See what does that mean? 00:09:31.445 --> 00:09:33.001 Well, they had to eat on the camp. 00:09:33.001 --> 00:09:38.644 They camped for three days on the way to the place, and so they had to have fire back in those days. 00:09:38.644 --> 00:09:40.522 You didn't start a fire from scratch. 00:09:40.522 --> 00:09:43.082 I mean, that took a lot of work, you know. 00:09:43.082 --> 00:09:55.557 So once you got a fire burning, you kept it burning and you carried it with you, you carried the embers, you carried something that that was heat so that you could lay it down in the next place, and and a lot of fire for fairly shortly. 00:09:55.557 --> 00:10:00.197 So they kept that fire burning that they used on the camp and here. 00:10:00.259 --> 00:10:03.716 So he carried the fire in his hand and he carried a knife. 00:10:03.716 --> 00:10:14.140 The fire stands for the Holy Ghost, the knife stands for the Word of God, the Word and the Spirit, that Glory to God. 00:10:14.140 --> 00:10:25.317 You had to have the Word and the Spirit to execute this covenant, this power of the new covenant, which was totally linked to the old covenant. 00:10:25.317 --> 00:10:39.183 And so he took the fire in his hand, the Holy Ghost, he took the knife, the word, and they went, both of them together, and Isaac spake unto Abraham, his father, and said my father. 00:10:39.183 --> 00:10:41.961 And he said here am I, my son. 00:10:41.961 --> 00:10:47.778 And he said behold the fire, behold the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 00:10:47.778 --> 00:10:51.357 He still doesn't get it. 00:10:51.357 --> 00:10:53.302 Where is the lamb? 00:10:53.302 --> 00:10:55.360 Where is the lamb? 00:10:55.360 --> 00:11:00.318 In fact, where is the lamb that was slain from before the foundation of the world? 00:11:00.318 --> 00:11:01.278 Where is that lamb? 00:11:01.278 --> 00:11:04.198 And Abraham said verse eight. 00:11:04.198 --> 00:11:05.945 Now you following me, verse eight. 00:11:06.154 --> 00:11:12.778 Abraham said my son, god will provide himself a lamb for the burnt offering. 00:11:12.778 --> 00:11:23.385 We can say it this way without doing damage to the Word God will provide himself as a lamb for a burnt offering. 00:11:23.385 --> 00:11:32.784 God, the second person of the Godhead, jesus, will provide himself as the lamb for the burnt offering. 00:11:32.784 --> 00:11:34.139 And he said and that exactly what happened. 00:11:34.139 --> 00:11:44.600 And so they went, both of them together, and they came to the place verse nine which God had told him of, and Abraham built an altar there still no lamb. 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:48.722 And he laid the wood out still no lamb. 00:11:49.855 --> 00:11:53.278 And then he ties up Isaac, he binds him with rope. 00:11:53.278 --> 00:12:01.179 He bound Isaac, his son, and he laid him on the altar upon the wood, and Isaac started screaming. 00:12:01.179 --> 00:12:03.894 And Isaac started yelling at his father. 00:12:03.894 --> 00:12:06.442 He fought, he fought, he screamed bloody murder. 00:12:06.442 --> 00:12:07.960 Nobody came to his. 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:14.442 No, he just he knew when he was laid on there that he was the sacrifice and he went willingly. 00:12:14.442 --> 00:12:15.916 He did not. 00:12:15.916 --> 00:12:19.817 He yielded to his father, he yielded to God. 00:12:19.817 --> 00:12:33.219 He allowed himself to be laid on the altar of sacrifice without and it's just exactly like Jesus, I mean, he didn't lift his, he didn't lift his supernatural power to defend himself. 00:12:33.219 --> 00:12:35.701 He willingly went to the cross. 00:12:35.701 --> 00:12:41.937 He, he was the lamb slain and he and he willingly took all of the punishment they gave him. 00:12:43.934 --> 00:12:50.277 And Abraham stretched forth his hand Just think about him leaning over his son with that knife glittering in the morning sun. 00:12:50.277 --> 00:13:04.985 He took the knife to slay his son and the angel of the Lord called out of him, called unto him out of heaven, and said Abraham, abraham, the double enunciation of God, abraham, abraham. 00:13:04.985 --> 00:13:06.087 And he said here am I. 00:13:06.087 --> 00:13:22.028 And he said lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him, for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 00:13:22.028 --> 00:13:28.467 Now, notice now in verse 12 or verse 11, it says the angel of the Lord, oftentimes. 00:13:28.467 --> 00:13:34.682 There was another time when the angel of the Lord appeared to Abraham and Sarah in the heat of the day. 00:13:34.682 --> 00:13:36.246 And it wasn't an angel, it was Jesus. 00:13:36.246 --> 00:13:41.250 It was Jesus in his pre-incarnate form. 00:13:41.250 --> 00:13:44.659 He had not yet been born of the virgin. 00:13:44.659 --> 00:13:47.669 So he's in his pre-incarnate form. 00:13:47.669 --> 00:13:52.008 So they call him the angel of the Lord, but really he's Jesus. 00:13:52.008 --> 00:13:57.645 And so this is God telling him, this is God saying you know, don't lay your hand on the lad. 00:13:57.645 --> 00:14:00.168 Now I know that you fear me. 00:14:00.168 --> 00:14:05.346 Now I know, seeing you've not withheld your son, even your only son, from me. 00:14:05.346 --> 00:14:07.985 So he had. 00:14:07.985 --> 00:14:08.788 You know. 00:14:08.889 --> 00:14:12.265 I preached a message on Sunday night called the blessings of obedience. 00:14:12.265 --> 00:14:21.345 There had to be the reason we're blessed today, and the reason Abraham was blessed and the seed of Abraham was blessed is because of obedience. 00:14:21.345 --> 00:14:31.710 There had to be one more sign of obedience for Abraham in order for the covenant to be fully enacted. 00:14:31.710 --> 00:14:37.149 There had to be proof that he feared God above all, that he trusted God above all. 00:14:37.149 --> 00:14:38.927 And he did pass a test, didn't he? 00:14:38.927 --> 00:14:42.649 And so now he held him back from killing his son. 00:14:42.649 --> 00:14:45.347 He said don't touch, don't do anything to him. 00:14:45.841 --> 00:14:54.202 And Abraham lifted up his eyes verse 13, and looked and behold, a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. 00:14:54.202 --> 00:15:07.169 There's the sacrifice, a ram caught in the thicket, and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 00:15:07.169 --> 00:15:10.606 So here you had the substitute. 00:15:10.606 --> 00:15:28.085 So you had the substitute for Isaac, but in Isaac's faith excuse me, in Abraham's faith he actually sacrificed Isaac in his heart for three days, all the way up there. 00:15:28.085 --> 00:15:29.543 He sacrificed him. 00:15:29.543 --> 00:15:35.206 When he lifted that knife up, when he tied his son up and put him on that wood, he sacrificed him. 00:15:35.206 --> 00:15:41.446 And so it obligated God, the Father, to sacrifice his only son, whom he loved. 00:15:41.446 --> 00:15:46.889 Even Jesus and Isaiah had said it pleased the Lord to bruise him. 00:15:46.889 --> 00:15:48.659 How could that please him? 00:15:48.659 --> 00:15:58.008 It pleased him because he knew that the sacrifice was gonna free untold millions and millions of people and they would become sons of God. 00:15:58.008 --> 00:16:04.587 I'm telling you what an amazing Bible we have and what an amazing covenant that we have. 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.806 And it was all hinging on the obedience of one man, abraham. 00:16:08.806 --> 00:16:10.239 Aren't you glad he obeyed God? 00:16:10.239 --> 00:16:12.567 Aren't you glad he didn't shake his fist as God? 00:16:12.567 --> 00:16:18.668 Aren't you glad he wouldn't like a lot of modern folks that just think it's optional? 00:16:18.668 --> 00:16:20.000 Obedience is optional? 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:20.942 No, it's not optional. 00:16:20.942 --> 00:16:22.448 It's not optional. 00:16:22.448 --> 00:16:23.865 Obedience is required. 00:16:23.865 --> 00:16:29.548 And so he took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. 00:16:29.548 --> 00:16:37.025 So in the sight of God, the ram was just as if Isaac had been sacrificed. 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:41.570 And Abraham called the name of that place, verse 14,. 00:16:41.570 --> 00:16:47.703 Jehovah Jireh, and the Lord will see, or the Lord will provide. 00:16:47.703 --> 00:16:50.585 Jehovah Jireh, the Lord, our provider. 00:16:50.585 --> 00:16:51.705 He provided the lamb. 00:16:51.705 --> 00:16:54.980 He also provided himself a lamb, say. 00:16:54.980 --> 00:17:02.647 Jesus provided himself as the lamb that was slain, and God provided him too, but it was with his full cooperation. 00:17:02.647 --> 00:17:06.865 Jesus didn't kick and scream, he just went right to the cross. 00:17:06.865 --> 00:17:13.946 So Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah Jireh, as it's said to this day in the mount of the Lord, it shall be seen. 00:17:15.259 --> 00:17:19.946 And the angel of the Lord called under Abraham out of heaven the second time. 00:17:19.946 --> 00:17:25.829 And he said by myself, have I sworn? 00:17:25.829 --> 00:17:27.326 See, that proves it's not an angel. 00:17:27.326 --> 00:17:31.382 This is God, this is God, this is Jesus speaking by myself. 00:17:31.382 --> 00:17:32.105 Have I sworn? 00:17:32.105 --> 00:17:36.469 Says the Lord, for, because, because, because, save the cause three times. 00:17:37.380 --> 00:17:38.123 See, there's a reason. 00:17:38.123 --> 00:17:42.086 Because, because, because, because you have done this thing. 00:17:42.086 --> 00:17:42.548 What thing? 00:17:42.548 --> 00:17:44.345 You sacrificed Isaac. 00:17:44.345 --> 00:17:47.248 You went all the way to the end. 00:17:47.248 --> 00:17:49.146 You didn't hold the knife back. 00:17:49.146 --> 00:18:15.372 I had to stop you at the last second, because you have done this thing, I, and has not withheld thy son, thy only son, verse 17, that in blessing, I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore. 00:18:15.372 --> 00:18:27.559 And thy seed listen, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies, and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:46.898 Because that, because everybody say because, again, because, three times, come on, because, because, because, because, because thou hast obeyed my voice, it was absolutely non-negotiable that the old covenant hinged. 00:18:46.898 --> 00:18:47.320 Even. 00:18:47.441 --> 00:18:50.490 See, god made those promises when Abraham was 75. 00:18:50.490 --> 00:19:03.230 I mean, he made the promise, you know, and then, and then, and then, later on, he had the he'd get me a heifer, and then he killed the heifer and God's glory went, like the infinity sign figure of eight, through the, through the pieces that he divided. 00:19:03.230 --> 00:19:11.619 God did all his parts, but there needed to be a point of obedience, where, where he would not withhold his son. 00:19:11.619 --> 00:19:19.625 See, that's covenant God required of him, as a covenant partner, to sacrifice his only son. 00:19:19.625 --> 00:19:22.289 See, that was, I mean you. 00:19:22.289 --> 00:19:27.369 If he hadn't done that, you'd never know if Abraham was really a solid person. 00:19:27.369 --> 00:19:31.619 The Bible says that God accounted to him for righteousness because he believed God. 00:19:31.619 --> 00:19:40.191 He, you know, he was circumcised, he did all those things, but the hardest thing, really the hardest thing of all, is to have Jesus die for the sins of the whole world. 00:19:40.191 --> 00:19:44.039 And for that to happen, there had to be a type and shadow of that sacrifice. 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:47.770 There had to be an equal and a great loss. 00:19:47.770 --> 00:19:51.843 There had to be a great loss by the other covenant partner, which was Abraham. 00:19:51.843 --> 00:19:58.506 But he didn't have to lose, he just he saved him from doing it because he knew it was going to, he knew he would carry it through. 00:20:00.020 --> 00:20:03.926 I hope you're getting this, because this is so powerful, let's call the power of the new covenant. 00:20:03.926 --> 00:20:05.223 Well, this is the old. 00:20:05.223 --> 00:20:07.986 I know well, we wouldn't have the new if the old hadn't been ratified. 00:20:07.986 --> 00:20:12.603 If the old, if the obedience of Abraham had not been shown, we would not have been. 00:20:12.603 --> 00:20:14.028 Jesus would have never showed up. 00:20:14.028 --> 00:20:16.113 That's where we, that's what, what. 00:20:16.113 --> 00:20:21.673 There would have never been a lamb, the lamb, that whole thing would have been destroyed. 00:20:21.673 --> 00:20:22.859 What would have God have done? 00:20:22.859 --> 00:20:23.342 I don't know. 00:20:23.342 --> 00:20:26.942 He would have had to find another Abraham, no, no, no. 00:20:26.942 --> 00:20:28.047 Telling how long that take. 00:20:29.740 --> 00:20:37.799 And so I want to leave you with some things here that you can, that you can take away from this message. 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:40.749 Number one blessing is conditional upon obedience. 00:20:40.749 --> 00:20:46.047 I made that point the other night, sunday night, but here it says it right. 00:20:46.047 --> 00:20:47.339 Here Jesus said it. 00:20:47.339 --> 00:20:59.140 He said, because you have done this thing, that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed upon the earth, and we're all the seed of Abraham by faith in Christ. 00:20:59.140 --> 00:21:01.366 That's what Galatians three, 29, says. 00:21:01.366 --> 00:21:04.359 So blessing is conditional upon obedience. 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:06.807 Do you want the blessings to keep flowing in your life? 00:21:06.807 --> 00:21:09.488 Be obedient to the word and the spirit. 00:21:09.488 --> 00:21:17.127 I mean, obey the word and what it says and obey the promptings and the urgings of the spirit of God on the inside of you. 00:21:18.681 --> 00:21:25.429 Number two the type and shadow of our substitutionary sacrifice had to be performed flawlessly. 00:21:25.429 --> 00:21:28.606 It had to be performed flawlessly. 00:21:28.606 --> 00:21:43.480 Without the flawless performance of this sacrifice, if Abraham had had resisted, or even if Isaac had resisted, it would have spoiled the type and shadow of Jesus sacrifice. 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:53.329 Do you see that the type and shadow of Jesus sacrifice had to be had to be done in real time on the earth for it to be legal? 00:21:53.329 --> 00:22:02.637 And it was Number three In Galatians 3 29 believers are the seed of Abraham, through faith in Jesus Christ. 00:22:03.244 --> 00:22:07.977 Now, in us, the church, all of the nations of the earth are blessed. 00:22:07.977 --> 00:22:14.184 Those nations don't really know it, but they're blessed that the church is on the earth. 00:22:14.184 --> 00:22:14.605 Why? 00:22:14.605 --> 00:22:17.095 Because they have an opportunity to hear the gospel. 00:22:17.095 --> 00:22:24.750 They have an opportunity to turn away from sin and be born again and be brought into the body of Christ. 00:22:24.750 --> 00:22:30.137 They can be baptized by the Holy Spirit, like we all were, into the body of Christ and they can be saved. 00:22:30.137 --> 00:22:35.356 They are blessed because they have the privilege and the opportunity for that to happen to them. 00:22:35.356 --> 00:22:49.736 So let's not ever forget, even in the midst of all of what we're going through in this country and all around the world, with this, all this fake panic and well, the panic is not fake, but it's panic over fake. 00:22:49.736 --> 00:22:53.595 If people really knew the truth, they wouldn't be so afraid. 00:22:53.595 --> 00:23:04.596 And let's keep in mind that we've got good news for them that even if they are afraid, they can turn to God and they can be saved. 00:23:04.596 --> 00:23:10.457 And so all the nations of the earth are blessed in the church, because of the church. 00:23:11.545 --> 00:23:18.959 And then the fourth, because the church, believers, we possess the gates of our enemies. 00:23:18.959 --> 00:23:28.238 And remember we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness in this present age. 00:23:28.238 --> 00:23:36.265 In other words, we can close the door on the demonic powers that are acting in our society right now. 00:23:36.265 --> 00:23:54.487 I'm telling you, every time there's one of these looting and rioting things and all of these crazy things that are going on right now, people are just wanting to defund the police and all like they're just going crazy we can slam the door shut on the devil. 00:23:54.487 --> 00:23:57.115 Let's remember the devil's behind all of that. 00:23:57.115 --> 00:24:01.696 I mean the devil's behind it, and we possess the gates of our enemies. 00:24:01.696 --> 00:24:13.005 Hallelujah, thank God that Abraham shined and he went all the way through to obedience, and because of his obedience we're blessed in the new covenant. 00:24:13.005 --> 00:24:15.834 So, the power of the new covenant. 00:24:15.834 --> 00:24:18.902 Tonight let's just lift our hands and receive. 00:24:18.902 --> 00:24:24.464 Praise God, thank God for that power that we have and that we have the answer the world needs. 00:24:24.464 --> 00:24:26.605 Let's just keep giving them the gospel. 00:24:26.605 --> 00:24:28.896 Amen, amen.