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Well, good morning everyone, welcome to Mountain Baptist Church. Take your songbooks and turn to song 377. Song 377 in your songbooks, we'll sing Rescue the Perishing. And if you would stand, we'll sing song 377. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, snatch them from pity, from sin and the grave. We bore the erring ones, lift up the fallen, tell them of Jesus the mighty to save. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save. Though they are slighting him, still he is waiting, waiting the penitent child to receive. Plead with them earnestly, plead with them gently, he will forgive if they only believe. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save. Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, feelings labored in that grace can restore. Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, cords that are broken will vibrate once more. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save. Rescue the perishing, duty demands it, strength for thy labor the Lord will provide. Back to the narrow way, patiently win them, tell the poor wanderer a Savior has died. Rescue the perishing, care for the dying, Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, we just want to thank you for another day that we get to meet in your house and to hear your word preached. I pray, Lord, that you would just bless in everything that's said and done. Lord, help us to hear the message, but also to obey your word as well. In Jesus' name we ask all of it, amen. All right, you may be seated and turn your songbooks to song 306. Song 306, we'll sing Have Thine Own Way, Lord. Song 306. Have Thine Own Way, Lord. Have Thine Own Way. Thou art the potter, I am the clay. Mold me and make me after Thy will, While I am waiting yielded and still. Have Thine Own Way, Lord. Have Thine Own Way. Search me and try me, Master today. Wider than snow, Lord, wash me just now, As in Thy presence humbly I bow. Have Thine Own Way, Lord. Have Thine Own Way. Wounded and weary, help me, I pray. Power, all power, surely is Thine. Touch me and heal me, Savior divine. Have Thine Own Way, Lord. Have Thine Own Way. Hold o'er my being, absolute sway, Fill with Thy Spirit, till all shall see, Christ only always living in me. Amen. Amen. So as you can tell, we have, well, welcome to the Mountain Baptist Church, first of all, but we have some new lighting here, so thanks, Brother Shane, for hitting that up there, and then also we got some better outlets and everything so that we're not just kicking breakers off constantly, but just appreciate that help there, and just some general church announcements here. Everything is normal as far as the service times this morning, so we'll have our afternoons service at 4 p.m., and then before that, though, we'll have our soul-winding time at 1 p.m. We are going to be starting something, basically, when we go out soul-winding, we're going to have one, at least one man that stays back that's strapped, meaning like they, meaning like if someone's staying back, then they're carrying, so, and this is just a safety precaution. Not that we haven't, not that we've had any threats or anything like that, but this is just kind of, just to be on the up and up when it comes to safety with the women and children that are usually staying back, so we're going to kind of go through a rotation. Brother Charles, you've probably seen that the men, at least, have seen a message that's gone out, basically kind of having a certain, certain men that will basically, will go through a rotation, so since we have a lot of men that carry and all that, it could be like every two months or something like that, or something to that effect, or maybe every, you know, every month and a half that you'd even be staying back on the soul-winding time on Sunday, and so that's just a safety thing that we're going to be doing, so just kind of giving you a heads up, and so ladies, you'll know that like, hey, you have someone that can, you know, get here faster than the police, anyway, so, but, so, soul-winding time, time today, I'm not sure who's on the rotation as far as staying back today, but we'll figure that out, and then, and then we have the regional soul-winding times, and so Monday, Brother Charles has something he's got to do on Monday, right, oh, is that next week, or is that last week? Oh, okay, you're not doing it tomorrow, okay, never mind, so, but yeah, get on the WhatsApp there for Brother Charles leading up to Monday time, and then Wednesday, Brother Richie leading up to Wednesday time, and then Brother Matt, are you still doing Tuesday or Thursday? Tuesday. Tuesday, so Tuesday, the regional soul-winding time there in Salem, Brother Matt's leading that up, and then, yeah, so, and then we have this coming Saturday, we have a soul-winding marathon that we're going to be doing out in Wheeling, so this is our, this is our Dan, so we did Bear Sheba already, which is Charleston, and we're going to do the northern portion of West Virginia this coming Saturday, so we'll be meeting up with Panera Bread at Cabela Drive, Cabela's Drive, whatever it is, where Cabela's is at up in Wheeling, that we're going to be meeting up with Panera Bread around 930, 10, around that time, we're going to eat some breakfast, get teamed up, and we'll be sent out from there, and then come back for lunch slash dinner after we get done with that, so, basically we'll bring all the stuff, you just need to show up if you want to go, and then hopefully we'll have a good turnout there, and then the next day is our fifth year anniversary, so five years, it's hard to believe it's been that long, but five year anniversary, so we're going to have kind of a big celebration, fellowship, so we've got some fun stuff planned, as far as some stuff for the kids, we've got a dunk tank, so particularly I think Brother Dave and I are going to be in that tank at some point, and so if you want to take your frustrations out on us for what we preached against, something, you know, then you can do this in a playful, you know, nice manner, and then we have a bounce house, so for the kids and stuff like that, so, obviously with all that, we want to be careful and watch your kids and make sure they don't hurt themselves on that, but we're going to have food, all that, we have a list on the refrigerator, if you want to bring any type of side or dessert or anything like that, the list is really just meant for, so everybody doesn't bring the same thing, like everybody just said, hey I'm bringing apple pie, and then we have like 15 apple pies or something like that, that's all that list is really for is to just say, hey, this is coming, so I'm not going to bring that, you know, kind of thing, you don't have to bring anything, we'll provide, and if there's no sides on there, which I think there already is, stuff that people have wrote on there, then we'll get some other sides, so, me, just give me some buttered bread and some chicken and I'll be good to go, so, but I guess other people like sides and different things like that, so, but that'll be this coming weekend, and then the retreat is on the list there, and so we have, we've already got the rooming list sent in, and so, should be good to go for the schedule there, what they, did we get Friday night for that conference room? For Thursday and Friday? Oh, okay. Oh, the whole time, okay, so we might have it more than one night, essentially, so, either way, men, you know, get a 10 minute sermon together, even if you want to get up and give like a testimony about what the Lord has, you know, done, you know, maybe this past year, or whatever, as far as that goes, and just give some praise to the Lord, that's always welcome, too, but we'll be inside this time, so, not freezing to death outside, so, and then we have Bible memory, the chapter for the month is 3 John, and then Luke 10 2 is our memory verse for the week, therefore said he unto them, the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few, pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labors into his harvest, and so, that's our memory verse for the week, and then birthdays, we need to get Kenji, I know that, so he just had a birthday last week, and so we already got Olive, we got Clara last week, and so now is it, we got Tabby, Dave, and Avery, and then Jasmine is on the Sunday, so, so yeah, so pretty much the Gandy family, so we'll sing happy birthday to Kenji, but then we'll sing happy birthday to Tabby, Dave, and Avery, so does that mean I need to sing it? Is that how that works? Yeah, that's probably how it's gonna have to work, so, and then anniversaries, we got some coming up in here in September, but that's not till next week, so, so yeah, and then pregnancy list there, be in prayer for my wife under the pregnancy list, and offering boxes in the back there, the mother baby rooms for the mother babies only, I guess we'll do the birthday stuff now, so, so who do we have here, we have Kenji, so if Kenji wants to stand, and then we have Tabby, Dave, and Avery, so now I know how old Avery is, because she's just a week after Clara, so she's seven, Kenji how old are you now? Eight, eight, and then, I know how old you, old man, 38, how does that make you feel, do your joints hurt this morning? I don't turn 38 until next year, I'm gonna say that until December 31st, and then I'm not gonna ask Tabby, I don't ask the ladies how old they are, but we'll sing happy birthday to all of these, so, sing it good and loud. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday God bless you, happy birthday to you. Alright, that's so brother Dave will come and sing one more song, and then brother Joseph's gonna be reading Hebrew chapter 11 for us this morning. Alright, take your song books and turn to song number 12, song number 12 in your song books. We'll sing blessed redeemer, song number 12. Up Calvary's mountain, one dreadful morn, walk Christ my Savior weary and worn, facing for sinners death on the cross, that he might save them from endless loss. Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer, seems now I see him on Calvary's tree, wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading, blind and unheeding, dying for me. Father forgive them, thus did he pray, eaten while his lifeblood flowed fast away, praying for sinners while in such woe. No one but Jesus ever loved so. Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer, seems now I see him on Calvary's tree, wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading, blind and unheeding, dying for me. Oh how I love him, Savior and Friend, how can my praises ever find end, through years unnumbered on heaven's shore, my tongue shall praise him forevermore. Blessed Redeemer, precious Redeemer, seems now I see him on Calvary's tree, wounded and bleeding, for sinners pleading, blind and unheeding, dying for me. All right, take your Bibles and turn to Hebrews, chapter number 11. Hebrews chapter 11, we'll have brother Joseph read that for us. Hebrews chapter 11, and if you found your place there, you'll say amen. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, for by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found because God had translated him, for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house. By the which he condemned the world, and became heir of righteousness which is by faith. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed, and he went out not knowing whether he went. By faith he so adjourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked for a city which half foundations whose builder and maker is God. Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country, and truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned, but now they desire a better country that is and heavenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city. By faith when he was tried, by faith Abraham when he was tried, offered up Isaac, and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, of whom it was said that in Isaac shall thy seed be called. Counting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from whence also he received him in a figure. By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph in worship, leaning upon the top of his staff. By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones. By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child, and they were not afraid of the King's commandment. By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, steaming the reproach of Christ's greater riches than the treasure in Egypt, for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible. Through faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land, which the Egyptians, as saying, do to do, were drowned. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days, by faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not when she had received the spies with peace. And what shall I say more? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barakah, and of Samson and of Jephthah, of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets, who through faith subdued kingdoms, brought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of the weakness were made strong, waxed, diligent in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead, raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yay moreover of bonds and imprisonment. And they were stoned, and they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, were slain with a sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in the mountains, and in dens, and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Let's pray. Lord, thank you for this pure and holy word you've given to us. Lord, I ask you be with Pastor Robinson and advise this morning, in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. So you're there in Hebrew chapter 11, and I'm continuing basically, I guess a series if you will, on major Bible stories. And we hit on obviously the creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel. We got to Noah and the flood. We were dealing with, I think the last one I did was the Tower of Babel. And this next sermon, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna, the sermon is just entitled Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Okay, now I remember when I first started reading the Bible, and going through Genesis, and just reading the stories, is that understanding that this line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and understanding that Jacob's after Isaac, and just understanding just in sequence, Abraham has Isaac, and then Isaac has Jacob, and just remembering that. So listen, children, if you remember anything from this sermon, just remember that's the order it goes in. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And if you remember anything out of this, is that at least if you get that the outer view of, okay, there was Noah and the flood, then there was Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, right? And you say, well, is that a big deal? I think it is. I think when you're reading through the Bible and you understand, okay, who came first, it'll help you understand a lot of stuff. And it seems simple. I remember when I was teaching the Sunday school over at the church I was sent out from, and I made these different lists of different things as far as, you know, six-day creation, and then I would, you know, the 12 apostles, and it came down to where I was talking about the seven trumpets, the seven vials, and like everything, right? But these lists of things that, you know, Ten Commandments, right? Could you list off the Ten Commandments? Could you list off the 12 apostles? Could you list off the 12 tribes of Israel in order from birth, the birth order of the 12 tribes of Israel? And things like that that, you know, are kind of easy if you really wanted to memorize that type of stuff, and I think sometimes we'll get deep into the weeds on certain doctrines, and then we'll be like, yeah, I couldn't tell you the 12 apostles. You know, the 12, and obviously Judas is, everybody usually remembers Judas, but who replaced Judas, you know, and it's like, okay, Matthias, and then just remembering those things I think will help you with your Bible reading, and just having that type of knowledge. So if you have this knowledge that Abraham, then Isaac, then Jacob in this line, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, then I think that'll help you, and here's the thing, that is from Genesis 11 really, because Genesis 11 you have the Tower of Babel, but at the end of Genesis 11 you deal with Abraham, where Abraham came from, and then chapter 12, all the way to the end of the book, you're dealing with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob dies at the end of Genesis, and they go into Egypt, but he dies there in Egypt, and then they take him and bury him back in the land of Canaan, right? But the thing that I want you to see there is that that's a huge portion of the Bible there, as far as that, you know, you're dealing with close to 40 chapters of the Bible are dealing with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they're mentioned a lot in the Bible later on. Now go to Exodus chapter 3 and verse 6. Now I don't want to belabor this point, but I want this to be very clear that a lot of times when it, when God would be brought up, we said, I'm the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, right? And this is something that's brought up, you know, to Israel in a lot of cases to just say, hey, this is the God of your fathers. This is the same God that was the God of Abraham. This is the same God that was the God of Isaac. This is the same God that was the God of Jacob, but just knowing that order of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now I'm going to get into each character and just kind of talk about them a little bit, but I want this to be kind of an overview sermon. So you're like, you didn't talk about this story with Abraham. You didn't talk about this story with Isaac. It's like, yeah, well, if you want to be here for three hours and maybe we can get into more stories, but this is an overview of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, just so you can kind of get a, just kind of a, just a real quick view of who these men were and just the order that they go, okay? And so go to Exodus chapter 3 and verse 6. This is dealing with Moses at the burning bush, and so Exodus chapter 3 and verse 6 says Moses, I'm sorry, moreover, he said, I am the the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. Now throughout that chapter, it keeps saying that. He's saying, you're going to say to Israel that I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and then you're going to go to the elders and you say, I'm the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And go to Matthew chapter 22. Jesus brings up this story, and the thing that I want to get across here is that, one, it's brought up Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These are like the, I don't want to say the trifecta, but they were, they were basically the three patriarchs that are known about Israel, right? I mean, obviously Israel we're gonna get to is that, that's Jacob. Jacob's name was changed to Israel, and the whole nation is just known as Israel, and they all descended from Jacob, right? But they go back to Isaac, and then you go back to Abraham as well. And even the book of Matthew starts off, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Then it goes Abraham, we got Isaac, and Isaac, we got Jacob, and it goes down the line, okay? That's how the New Testament even starts. So you say, well is it important for me to know who Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are? Yes, okay? And there's gonna be a lot of things in the New Testament that are gonna look back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to where, and if I say that enough, maybe you'll remember it. So when you're, when you're playing Bible trivia, you're like, which one's first? You're like, well pastor said Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob like 56 times during that sermon, so I know. And you know what, if that's what it takes, then I'll keep saying it, so. And so, but Matthew chapter 22 verse 31, Jesus is actually using this story about the burning bush to prove a point about the resurrection. It says in Matthew 22 verse 31, it says, but as touching the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying I am the God of Abraham, the God, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You know what he's stating there, is that when Moses was there at the burning bush, Abraham is alive, Isaac's alive, and Jacob's alive. And we're gonna get to Hebrews 11 here in a minute, but Hebrews 11 is what we'd call the hall of faith, okay? Meaning that it goes through this list of people that had faith that were believers, that obtained a good report, they're all in heaven, okay? They're all still alive right now. Like, how do you know Moses is still alive? Well, I mean, when Jesus was on the Mount of Transfiguration, he was there standing talking to him, so. But it, obviously not in a resurrected state yet, but at the same time, they're in heaven, they're still alive, because whosoever believeth in him shall have everlasting life, right? You know, very literally saying that he believeth in me shall have everlasting life, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. And so, he's making a point that when he says I'm the God of Abraham, he's not saying he's the God of some dead guy. That make sense? He's the God of Abraham, and Abraham's alive. And remember, Abraham rejoiced to see my day. That's what Jesus said. Before Abraham was, I am. And he talks about how Abraham rejoiced to see his day. That means that Abraham was alive when Jesus was walking on the earth, because he was rejoicing to see his day. Now, not to get too deep with that, but go to Acts chapter 3 and verse 12, just to show you another place. Peter brings this up. Now, I could have done a whole sermon on Abraham, and I could have done a whole sermon on Isaac, and I could have done a whole sermon on Jacob. Trust me, there's enough material to do that. But what I really want to do is just show you that these three men, there's this pivotal information about them that everybody's pointing back to. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These three men, there's something to look to about them that we need to look to in the New Testament. And there's different pieces and parts to each one of them, as far as why we're looking back to Abraham. Why are we looking back to Isaac? Why are we looking back to Jacob? What happened in their lives? What do these stories tell us, right? And so, this is just an overview to kind of show you a little bit about who these men are. But in Acts chapter 3 and verse 12, Acts chapter 3 and verse 12, it says, And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his son Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. Now obviously, he's talking to the men of Israel, and he's basically stating that this is the same God. The same God that was at the burning bush, the same God that was God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, is the same God, God the Father, that glorified his son, that he's basically pointing out that you slew, that you crucified, and hanged on a tree, right? And so, he's making a point, but the idea there is that the same God. It's not a different God, you know, it's not like in the New Testament we have a different God or something like that. It's just that the New Testament really clarifies that we have the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, which is mentioned in the Old Testament, but it's super clear in the New Testament, okay? Now, let's get to Abraham here. Go to Genesis chapter 12. And Abraham's kind of this pivotal character, because if you think about it, you had the characters like, if you look through Hebrews 11, you have Abel, and Enoch, and Noah, right? So these are the three that are kind of mentioned before the flood, right? And obviously you had Adam and Eve before the flood too, but you have Abel, Enoch, and then Noah, then you have this flood, and if you think about it, that's a big chunk of history there. I mean, if the earth is like 6,300 years old, you're dealing with like 1,500 to 2,000 years of history before the flood. That's happening from Genesis 1 to Genesis chapter, you know, 9, you know, around that time, right? And Abraham is really where we pick up with like history, if you will. Like you have the Tower of Babel, you kind of see a little bit there, what's going on, but Abraham's like the character we see that this guy is like after the flood. And what you'll notice when you read about Abraham is that Abraham lived to 175 years old. Isaac lived to like 180, and then Jacob lived a little less than that, or he lived like 130 some. And that's why when he comes into Egypt, if you remember, Pharaoh asked him how old he was, and he's basically saying, you know, I'm this, but you know, I have not attained unto my fathers, because he's basically talking about how Abraham and Isaac, they were, you know, pushing 180, you know. But as you go down the line, people start living less, less, less than us, right? You know, you get the Moses, he lives 120, which is not nothing, but at the same time, like that's not 180. And then you go down the line, and now people are, you know, it says that that David lived to a good old age, and he died at 70. Okay, so that's kind of giving you some perspective there when you go down the line. But, you know, Abraham's a good character to remember, because you're like, okay, we have Noah in the flood, and then Abraham, then Isaac, then Jacob. Now, Genesis chapter 12 and verse 1 here, it says, now the Lord had said unto Abram, notice it says Abram, right? I'm gonna get to the fact that his name is changed, but now the Lord had said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee, and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, thou shalt be a blessing, and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him, and Lot went with him, and Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all his, their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan, and into the land of, and into the land of Canaan they came. So basically, it starts off with Abraham and the fact that chapter 11 talks about how his wife basically is barren, she can't have any children at the moment, and God comes to him and says go out to this country. Now go to Hebrew chapter 11, Hebrew chapter 11 verse 8, Hebrew chapter 11 verse 8. One thing to notice is that Abraham had faith before he left, okay, and it does say in Genesis chapter 15 that famous passage about Abraham believed God and it was imputed on him for righteousness. It states that in Genesis chapter 15, but I believe it's just stating a fact, right? It's not stating like right now, like this is the time he had faith, like he didn't have faith before, but now he does, okay, in Genesis 15. Because Hebrews 11, notice what it says in verse 8 here, it says, by faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for inheritance, obeyed, and he went out not knowing whether he went. So I believe Abraham was a believer and that faith that he had already is, you know, what caused him to obey God's voice to go out into this country and come out of his land. And if you remember there, in Genesis chapter 12, it says, I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee. Notice that it says thee and not them or you, right? Meaning this is that, this promise is to Abraham himself, okay? And this is where people are like, well, you know, God said that he would bless them that bless the Jews. Is that what it says there? By the way, the term Jew isn't even mentioned until you get into like first Kings, when you're dealing with the fact that you have northern Israel and southern, and the southern kingdom of Judah, who are known as Jews because of Judah. And in the New Testament, that Judah is called Judea, which is why they're called Jews. It's because it's based off the location of where they're at. Now that can also be synonymous with the religion of Judea, or the religion of Judah, which, you know, was the only, that was the place where you would find the true religion, if you will. Not that there wasn't imposter religions within it, and there wasn't obviously fake religions within it. Just as much as in America today, salvation is of America, but there's a lot of false religions in America right now. But there is the true religion that's found in America, as far as the true belief and the true gospel. But when it comes to this, he's talking to Abraham himself. He's saying to come out from his land and go into a place where he didn't know. Basically, it's stating in Hebrews that he went out not knowing whether he went. And that takes faith, my friends. I mean, if God were to tell you, like, I need you to go out of your country and go into a place that you have no idea where you're going, that's just a step of faith right there. And so then it goes on to say in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 9, it says, by faith he sojourned in the land of promise in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. So they became heirs, and I'll get to that, of the same promise. And it really comes down to this, they were all believers. And the reason that they're heirs of the promise is because of their faith. And we're heirs of that promise too, I'll get to. And the fact that if you believe on Christ, then you have the same promises that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have. And it's not because of who you were born by or what your lineage is. It's all based off are you of faith or not, okay? Now, the thing that's interesting about this, and we're talking about Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, did you know that Abraham was alive when Jacob was born? Did you know that? And just an interesting fact, that Abraham was still alive when Jacob was born. There's a lot of times you think about, like, well Abraham died and then Isaac had, had Jacob, right? You know, or somehow down the line you think about, like, well Abraham had Isaac and then Abraham died and whatever the case may be. But if you think about it, I'll get to it later, but Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah. How old was Isaac, or how old was Abraham when he had Isaac? A hundred, okay? A hundred years old. So that means that Abraham was 140 when Isaac married Rebekah. And then it says that he was 60 years old when Jacob and Esau were born. So they had to wait 20 years because remember Rebekah was barren there for a little bit. And so that means that Abraham was 160. How old was Abraham when he died? 175. So this little information, this little sentence here shows you that, hey, Abraham was sojourning in that land when Jacob was born and Esau was born, that Abraham was still alive. And when you're reading through Genesis, you may not even see that because he's not really mentioned. It's more about Isaac and Jacob and Esau and it's about that story. And then you don't realize that Abraham's still alive over here. And, you know, going down the line that, that when Joseph was born, Isaac, Isaac is still alive. And, which kind of throws you off because you remember that Jacob leaves and flees from Esau because Esau's like ready to kill him. And basically he's like, you know, the time of mourning for my father's at hand, you know, basically like my father's about to die and I'm going to kill Jacob. Little did he know it's going to be a long time before that happens, right? And poor Isaac, he was like already couldn't see and everything else and he lived for like a long time after that. And anyway, so going down the line here with Abraham, he was dwelling with Isaac and Jacob, okay. And it says, for he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God. Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to receive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age because she judged him faithful who had promised. Now I'll give you an idea, she was 90 years old. That's a 90 year old woman giving birth to a child, okay. Now obviously I know this was pretty recently after the flood so it may not be as extreme as what we would think about a 90 year old giving birth, right. It'd be like the Queen of England giving birth. She's dead now but it'd be kind of like that age group, you know, of giving birth. It'd be insane to think about, right. But going on here, it says that in verse 12, therefore sprang there even of one and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky and multitude and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable, these all died in faith, not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth for they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country and truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out they might have had opportunity to have returned but now they desire a better country that is in heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for they for he had prepared for them a city. Now when he's talking about they, you know, them, you know, like dealing with this, he's talking about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now obviously Sarah is in that group as well, but the idea there is that he's talking about Abraham and how he has this child that when he's, you know, he's 100, she's 90, you know, that obviously is a miracle that happened, but he's talking about that he's sojourned with Isaac and Jacob that were heirs of the same promise. And he's stating about these men is that that they sought a better country. They were in this strange land where they didn't own anything they were standing on. They were basically living, renting where they were at, right? I mean they didn't own anything. They didn't own any property. It was promised to them that it was going to come to them, but they never received it in their lifetime. And it says that if they would have been mindful of the land they came out from, they could have returned. Does that make sense? Like they could have said, you know what, I'm going back to the country where I came out. I'm going to go back to Ur of the Chaldees and we're going to go back there. I mean that's where our family's at. They have a whole bunch of substance. We have land back there. What are we doing just living by rent over here in this land? But they basically confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims in this world in general. And their mindset was, you know, we're just passing through as it is. And they sought a better country, meaning that they were looking at the heavenly Jerusalem. They were looking at that city to come and it didn't really matter about the material things in this world, whether they had land here for this short period of time or not. And they had this faith and they were looking and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims. And that's Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Because if you remember, I mean they went into Egypt. Jacob goes into Egypt. He dies there. And then basically all the 12 patriarchs of Jacob, they keep reproducing and then they come out and then they go into the Promised Land. But Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob never saw the Promised Land. I mean they saw it. They were there, right? They lived in Sojourn there, but they never owned it. It was never theirs. It was never, it wasn't given to them in their lifetime. And so when it comes to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they are great, just in general those three men are great pictures of just having the eye on eternity. Looking at things which are eternal compared to those things which are temporal. And just having that eye on eternity and saying, you know, that's what I'm looking for. I'm looking for that better country. And obviously in Hebrew chapter 11 it talks about how those are seeking a better resurrection, right? Because if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you're going to have a resurrection. You're going to have the resurrection of the just. You're going to have a whole glorified body. But those that suffer for Christ will not only be heirs with Christ, they'll, or heirs, they'll be joint heirs with Christ. And you'll be given, you know, basically you can roll over many cities and just different things that there's going to be a better resurrection for those that follow the Lord, for those that seek that better country, those that lay hold on eternal life, if you will, that not only get saved but actually live for the Lord, okay? And Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are great examples of this. Now going on from that as far as with Abraham, if you're to look at Abraham and say, well what's the, what's the one thing that you would think about when you think about Abraham? Is the fact that he's the model of faith. I mean he is the model of what we should, what we need to believe to be saved, okay? Now he's not the father of faith, okay? That's not in the Bible because he is not the first one to ever believe, okay? Father of something means like, it's kind of like the devil's a liar and the father of it, right? He's the one that basically invented the lie, if you will, right? He's the first person to lie. He's lying to Eve before she even ate the fruit, right? But when it comes to, he's not the father of faith because obviously Abel believed. Abel had faith. Enoch had faith. I mean the Bible just explicitly says it. But look at what it says in Roman chapter 4. Go to Roman chapter 4 and Abraham, if I had anything that I would point back with Abraham is the fact that he, what he believed is what you need to believe to be saved. You're like, how in the world is that? I mean we're in the New Testament. Well, Hebrew chapter 4 annihilates any type of dispensationalism when it comes to the fact that people are saved differently in time past. The thing that's interesting about Abraham is that he's pre-Old Testament. That's the great thing about this is that Abraham is before the Old Testament. He's before Moses. He's before the law was given as far as the Ten Commandments. Now obviously murder and adultery and all that stuff was wrong before the law that came down out of Mount Sinai, okay? It's just the fact that was the covenant that was given to the children of Israel and these are the criteria for them to not break the covenant to where he doesn't regard them anymore as a nation that he's blessing, okay? But look at verse 12 here and I want this to kind of sink in. Abraham is the model of faith, if you will. He's the guy to look to to say, hey here's here's what you do to get saved, okay? That's what it says here in verse 12. In the, so he's the father of circumcision. It says, in the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but notice this, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised. Now I'm going to read the beginning of this chapter, but I want this to really stick out that that we are to follow the steps of the faith of our father Abraham. They're like, is Abraham our father? Yes. And the reason that that we get into that is because we're of Abraham's seed and that seed is Christ. So Christ came through the seed of Abraham, through Isaac, through Jacob, through Judah, going down the line through David. And yeah, well I mean if we're in Christ then we're Abraham's seed and there's according to the promise. But what I want to point out here is that we're walking in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham. Now what does that mean? You know, what did he do? Like how did he get saved? Well he did all the good works that he had to do and he never sinned and he made Jesus Lord of his life and prepented of everything daily on a daily basis and you know. No, he didn't do any of that. I mean, I'm not saying he didn't do some of those things at some point in his life, but what does the Bible say in Romans chapter 4 verse 1 here? Romans chapter 4 verse 1 it says, what shall we say then that Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found? And I want to point out who is Paul talking to? The Romans, right? So this isn't an epistle written to like the Jews in Israel, okay? He's talking about Abraham our father because you know if you're of faith then you're the children of Abraham the Bible says. Okay, now keep reading there. It says verse 2, for if Abraham were justified by works he hath where of the glory but not before God. For what set the scripture Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt but to him that worketh not but believeth on him to justify the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness. So it's clarifying here that when it says that Abraham believed God works weren't involved at all. It's saying that if works were involved then that's not by grace that's debt and if works were involved then basically he's stating here that here's a guy that doesn't work at all and by the way the works of the law are a lot of those negative commandments thou shalt not kill thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not you know steal going down the line that these are all negative commandments of not doing certain things and when it comes to this that he's saying but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justified the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness. What is this? This is salvation by faith not by works. Now that's before the Old Testament. This is when you had Melchizedek that Abraham was giving a tenth of his spoils to Melchizedek the high priest which by the way was a pre-Old Testament appearing of the Lord Jesus I believe. He was made like unto the son of God he had not at the beginning of days nor the end of life having neither father nor mother and it's basically stating that he wasn't born into this world at all. He didn't have flesh as far as like flesh and blood but the Bible says is that that Abraham gave a tenth of his spoils but then notice what it says in verse 6 here. How about David? David was in the Old Testament. I mean he was in the center of the Old Testament if you will as far as when that whole covenant was going on. It says even as David also described the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. In Psalm 32 where this is being quoted it also says and whose spirit is no guile because whoso is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he's born of God. Whoso is born of God sinneth not the Bible says. Why? Because inwardly the moment you get saved you're completely purified from sin. That was the way with David but you know what's interesting about this is that that was the way with Abraham because notice what it says in verse 9 there. It says come at this blessedness then upon the circumcision only. What blessedness? The blessedness of the man under whom God imputeth righteousness without works that he's talking that David described but it's all going back to Abraham. Do you see that? Basically saying that Abraham believed this the blessedness applied to him but David it also applied to him and then it's going back to talk about Abraham to say when did this happen? When did he get this blessedness? Was it when he was circumcised? And notice it says or was it with the circumcision only or upon the uncircumcision also? So he's basically saying is it is it just for the circumcision those that get circumcised? And notice what it says here in verse in verse 9 there finish that off it says for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision or uncircumcision? Not in circumcision but in uncircumcision. They basically very clearly like he was not circumcised when he when he had faith and was justified and had righteousness. Now even if you were to believe that he got saved in Genesis chapter 15, Genesis 17 is when he got circumcised. So even if you were to believe that's when he got saved I believe he got saved before he ever left or the Chaldees. Okay I believe chapter 15 stating a fact that Abraham believed in the Lord and it was imputed on him for righteousness and that's why it's just stating a fact that he's saved he righteous because he believed. But either way in Genesis chapter 17 is when he's circumcised and that's when he's called Abraham. He's no longer called Abram he's called Abraham when that covenant was given. But what is that covenant what is what circumcision for? Well so you get saved. You know you got to be circumcised to be saved. It's interesting because in the New Testament that's like a common theme where they're having to rebuke this false doctrine. Notice what it says here in verse 11 there. It's basically very clear he wasn't circumcised when he had the righteousness when it was imputed unto him. Verse 11 it says and he received the sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised that he might be the father of all them that believe though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them also. Now when it says he's the father of all them that believe that's different than being the father of faith. Does that make sense? Like he's the father of all them that believe because once we believe we're of Abraham's seed and we're heirs according to the promise. Okay and that's why because Christ is of Abraham and we're of Christ and we're a part of that seed. But notice that it's the sign the sign of circumcision and that's why also circumcision is not this moral law that has to be kept just as much as what was the sign that we were just talking about on Wednesday? The Sabbath. The Sabbath was a sign the Bible says and signs are not moral law that is to be kept no matter what. Obviously that sign was given to Abraham before the Old Testament and that was adopted in the Old Testament and pulled in as far as being also something they were to keep. But the Sabbath was one of those as well and what is it? It's a sign. It's to signify the circumcision that happened in the heart. Okay that the Bible says to rend your hearts and not your garments. The Bible says you know rend you know it talks about circumcised the flesh of your heart. So it's talking about being circumcised in spirit meaning that you are believing on Christ and it's a spiritual thing. The outward circumcision that they would do to you know male children right was a picture it was a sign it was to basically show like hey we're we're set apart you know that this is a picture of what happens in the heart okay. Now the last verse there we already read but it says in the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only so basically saying that he's the father of circumcision even those that aren't even physically circumcised. Why? Because circumcision is that of the heart and not of the flesh. He's a Jew which is one inwardly. The Bible says in Romans chapter 2 but it says but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised. Go down to verse 21 and then I'll be done with Abraham here. Basically to give you another instance here it's very clear what did Abraham believe to be saved? What did he do? He believed right. I mean the idea is that it's by faith not by works. Very clear. But to him that worketh not but believes on him to justify the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness. But how about on top of that when we go out soul winning what is something we always emphasize? Eternal security isn't it? That someone needs to believe that he's given you everlasting life. Notice what it says here in Romans 4 and verse 21. And being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform and therefore is imputed to him for righteousness. So another way of saying he believed in God you know Abraham believed God and is imputed on him for righteousness. What did he believe God about? Did he believe in God like as far as like well I believe he exists. He's real. No. He believed God. What? What did he believe? He was fully persuaded of what he had promised he was able also to perform. What was the promise that was given to him that through him the seed should come? What seed is that? Christ. The Bible says and this is the promise that he had promised us even eternal life and hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie promised before the world began. He has fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform. So if someone is out there and they say I don't believe it's eternal life I don't believe he's actually going to perform that because if I do any sin I will go to hell. Then you're not fully persuaded. Then you're not really believing because Abraham believed it. David believed it. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob believed it and that is the steps that we are to walk in of the faith of Abraham to be saved. He is the model of faith. You say well Abraham was an exception. Yeah that's what the dispensation was like he's an exception to the rule. Okay we'll keep reading verse 23. Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him. It's almost like it was I mean you may say to yourself do they really say that Abraham is an exception? Yes they do. Like what? So you didn't make it to the end of the chapter apparently. Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. Is there any doubt that salvation is by faith and not by works from the beginning to the end? Abraham is that picture. Abraham is that he is obviously the father of circumcision he's the father of all them to believe because once you believe you are the seed of Abraham now but it's the steps that we need to walk of the faith of Abraham right as Abraham believed so do likewise. That's essentially what it's stating here is that he believed he was fully persuaded what he had promised he was able to perform do the same right do the same believe the same exact way okay now let's go to Isaac so Genesis chapter 21 go to Genesis chapter 21 and I kind of parked it on Abraham a little more there but Abraham he's a he's one that you need to remember okay there's that song our father Abraham right I mean it's funny because like the Zionism stuff that creeps in it's like you need to get back to that song you know our father Abraham and so you know it talks about and I'm gonna mess up that song now but they was how that song go had many sons and then it basically says and so am I you know it goes down the line it basically says that we're all children of Abraham and the idea there that well you know the Jews are children of Abraham and we need to bless them and bless them the uh we'll bless them to bless the you know and going down the line bless the Jews and we'll be blessed and if you curse the Jews then you'll be cursed no actually if you bless the Jews you're going to be cursed that's the facts of the matter because who's a liar but he's denied the Jesus of Christ he is anti-christ that denied the father and the son you bless the Jews you're blessing anti-christ facts hard-hitting facts that the Jews they believe that Jesus is a devil they believe that he was like Balaam that he was like doe egg that basically he's in hell right now and uh you know that's not uh that's not something we should be blessing and uh you know the bible says not to give him god's feet and they don't bring this doctrine of Christ to you and they're a deceiver that's saying that Jesus Christ is not come in the flesh he's a deceiver and an anti-christ and if you receive that person into your home or you bid them godspeed you're a partaker of their evil deeds so no we're not to bless the Jews now listen do I want Jews to get saved yes of course right if you run into somebody like hey I'm a Jew and be like hey let me show you how you can know 100% sure you're going to heaven I want them to get saved I want them to believe but they're not to just be blessed for no reason you know you're not to just give them your blessing when they're rejecting your savior okay now isaac chapter uh isaac genesis chapter 21 we're talking about isaac here in verse one here it says and the lord visited sarah as he had said and the lord did unto sarah as he had spoken for sarah conceived and bear abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which god had spoken to him and abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him sarah bear to him isaac and abraham circumcised his son isaac being eight days old as god had commanded him and abraham was 100 years old when his son isaac was born unto him and sarah said god hath made me to laugh so that all that that here will laugh with me and she said and she i'm sorry and she said who would have said unto abraham that sarah should have given child suck for i have borne him a son in his old age okay so what what i get from isaac i think is this this child of promise this is basically a child that in normal circumstances would have never been born i mean she was past the age of where she could have children okay ladies i mean obviously you know what this is talking about more than anybody else as far as the fact that there's a biological clock of when you can have children and when you can't and there's a point where that just isn't a possibility anymore okay and when when sarah's 90 years old and i mean at that point you're probably yeah that's past that that time and so this is obviously a miracle child this is a child of promise the bible says this you know what you know why i believe they had isaac in such an old age because it was clear that only god could have done it because the bible talks about him as good as dead meaning this is that is is pretty much like there was a resurrection story just in the birthing process okay and the fact that bringing from the dead that which is life he talks about the deadness of sarah's womb and the idea there that isaac is like this resurrected child coming from these the you know these two older uh couple there or the older couple that is um so uh go to hebrew chapter 11 hebrew chapter 11 or verse 17 and say why why should i remember isaac because isaac is really that that child that represents jesus when it comes to all these pictures of isaac in the old testament i'm not going to go to all of them but i mean one of the biggest pictures of isaac being uh you know like a picture of jesus is the fact that he was that abraham was offering him upon an altar i mean that story if you read genesis 22 and you can't see the picture of jesus in there then you need to read your bible a couple more times i don't know i don't know how to if you can't find some application of like oh this is like when jesus you know died on the cross this is picturing jesus because throughout i mean there's so many and when i went through that chapter when i was going through genesis i just found so many that i never even saw before and i know i probably missed some i guarantee i missed some pictures in there that were picturing uh jesus and what he was going to do in the future but in hebrew chapter 11 verse 17 it says by faith abraham when he was tried offered up isaac and he that received i'm sorry and he that received the promises offered up his only begotten son of whom it was said that in isaac shall thy see be called accounting notice this accounting that god was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure so if you want to say to you you were like well how did he know about the you're telling me that he believed in the resurrection well it says that he was fully persuaded that what he has promised he was able to perform and even if you were going to put that on a physical level as far as talking about isaac isaac was the promised child that was that was given to abraham when he offered up isaac it says that he knew that if he were to kill isaac he had faith that god had to raise him from the dead he had to because he said in isaac shall thy see be called how else could that be true unless he was gonna bring him back to life the resurrection was something that he believed so hardcorely if that's a word so hardcore anyway he believed it so heartily you know so firmly so steadfastly that that he was even to the point where he would sacrifice his own son which obviously god didn't you know was just trying him to see will you obey my voice and and he wasn't gonna actually have him kill his son but that is faith right there now i hopefully have some faith anna you need to listen up and look up here stop talking now when it comes to faith you know hopefully i have some mountain moving faith at some point in my life and you know i i want to increase my faith but i don't think i could do what abraham did i mean that type of faith right there is another level okay because when it talks about him offering up his son isaac and i want this to really ring true here for you is that in james chapter 2 it talks about how his faith was perfected when he offered up isaac that it talks about you know by his works was his faith made perfect and that is not just a throwaway verse there or throwaway passage i want you to understand that he was called the friend of god for a reason that i mean that is faith that that abraham had there but isaac is that picture that seed that should come okay that it says that and isaac shall thy seed be called why because that seed was going to be christ okay and isaac pictured that which is why this whole picture of him being sacrificed and and actually living and all that and the ram caught in the thicket and the ram he'll provide himself a lamb there's so many things different in that story but of how isaac represents that uh go to roman chapter 9 roman chapter 9 roman chapter 9 and verse 6 so children if you get this abraham isaac and jacob right abraham was really old when he had isaac so if you remember anything out of the story abraham was a hundred years old when he had isaac and sarah was like 90. okay so if you remember that at least you understand hey that was a miracle that that isaac was born so and so isaac was obviously this miracle child this promised child so god promised to abraham you're going to have a son of sarah it happened he performed that which he promised and abraham believed that before it ever happened and then basically with isaac you know isaac is that that picture of christ he's that seed that should come that that promise of the seed that should come and he pictures in so many different ways but in roman chapter 9 and verse 6 here it says not as though the word of god had taken effect for they are not all israel which are of israel neither because they are all are the seed of abraham are they all children but in isaac shall thy seed be called that is they which are the children of the flesh these are not the children of god but the children of the promise are counted for the seed for this is the word of promise at this time i will come or will i come and sarah shall have a son he is the child of promise if you will okay and all of us that believe are in their children of promise the bible says this i want you to go to galatian chapter 4 but galatian chapter 3 says this now the abraham and his seed were the promises made he saith not into seeds as a many but as a one into thy seed which is christ so when it says that abraham and his seed you know he'll bless all nations and all families and tribes of the earth through abraham and his seed isaac pictures that but he wasn't the seed that was promised does that make sense like the true seed that was promised was christ now christ came from isaac though because it did come through the line of isaac but isaac is that picture right if you're gonna see if you want to know where is there a good picture of christ in the old testament or in genesis right isaac now obviously there's other characters that have pictures of christ as well but i mean if there's one you're going to point back to it's going to be isaac isaac is that picture to be like hey this this guy this guy really pictures christ and and how he was born and what happened to him in his life and all that but the bible also says in galatian chapter 3 and if you be christ then are you abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise okay and this is what it gets down to is that if you believe on christ if you're of christ then you're also abraham's seed and your heirs according to that same promise that i will bless them to bless thee i will curse them to curse thee and it talks about the fact that all nations of the earth shall be blessed through his seed okay now uh in galatian chapter 4 and verse 28 here he says now we brethren as isaac was are the children of promise isn't that a great promise i mean think about that when it talks about a when i talked about isaac being born it says that him as good as dead now i'm not going to get into the anatomy of this but when it comes to like if a woman is past the age of childbearing there's there's something there's something that's going on there that basically uh you know it takes two to obviously have children but the idea there is that uh you know where the woman would have the opportunity to have children that's kind of died if you will it's kind of done and that's why it's basically as good as dead what is that basically a resurrection if you will and that's an inward resurrection if you will and when we get saved what are we we're inwardly resurrected now physically we'll be resurrected eventually at the last day you know when when christ comes in the clouds there'll be the resurrection of the body as well but you can see this picture that as isaac was we are the children of promise meaning that we are children of the resurrection we are the the saved if you will but the the idea there is that as isaac was you know we are the children of promise and it says but as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit even so it is now nevertheless what set the scripture cast out the bond woman and her son for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman so then brethren we are not children of the bond woman but of the free and that gets into the fact that the children of the flesh of israel and the the children of the spirit if you will that of israel and it gets into those two covenants and all that so isaac you know you can go so much further with isaac when it comes to that but just get that surface area there that he was born of parents that were really old which means he was kind of like this this this special like promised child that was as good as dead but was brought to life and was brought into this world and that's what happened that's what we were dead in trespasses and sins but we were quickened we were we were you know saved by the blood and all that now jacob last one here uh and and hebrew chapter 11 verse 12 it says by faith isaac blessed jacob and isa concerning things to come so isaac gives birth to jacob and isa so they're twins and isa is the firstborn but let's look at the story here in verse 25 i'm sorry verse 25 genesis chapter 25 genesis chapter 25 and verse 19 and the only other thing that i kind of want to mention is the fact that jacob's name so i kind of talk about this story with how he was born but uh the thing with jacob that you really see with the story is that this feud with his brother isa right and uh obviously there's the picture of the two covenants you know like the first covenant the second covenant um and isa was born first he was rejected and jacob was the promised right or he's the one that carries on going down the line but um but i i i want to get into the fact that jacob is called israel so when you see israel israel israel israel israel israel that's jacob's name and that name is that name that sticks down the line so you could say abraham isaac and israel but abraham isaac and jacob are the three men and jacob's name is going to be changed to israel and that's why you'll see that you know as far as the children of israel because that's the children of jacob essentially now in genesis chapter 25 verse 19 it says these are the generations of isaac abraham's son abraham begat isaac and isaac was 40 years old when he took rebecca the wife the daughter of bethuel the syrian of paid in aram the sister of lave and the syrian and isaac entreated the lord for his wife because she was barren and the lord was entreated of him and rebecca his wife conceived and the children struggled together within her and she said if it be so why am i thus and she went to inquire of the lord and the lord said to her two nations are in thy womb and two manner of people shall be separated from thy vows and the one people shall be stronger than the other people and the elder shall serve the younger now i want you to know this that there was only two people in the womb there this is obviously talking about future what applies to jacob and isa and that's the thing i want to get across here is that there's going to be this this famous idea or throughout malachi and the new testament all that of the fact that jacob have i love but isa have i hated it's not talking about the person isa or the person jacob necessarily because i personally believe both of them were saved individuals obviously isa had his problems but when it's talking about jacob have i love isa hated or even the elder shall serve the younger that's clearly talking about the nation of edom and the nation of israel because isa was given the name edom because he was faint and then jacob's given the name israel because he had power with god okay and those are going to be the two nations that you're going to see that are like brother nations if you will and isa definitely serves israel in the future israel is the bigger he has israel always has more than than edom and you know when they take when they get the promised land all that and that being said is that that is a prophecy of what's going to happen in the future that is not applying to the the person isa and jacob because actually jacob's serving isa later on you know after he comes back and he's actually given him a whole bunch of stuff and giving him gifts and everything um but it says and when he her days to be delivered were fulfilled behold there were twins in her womb and the first came out red all over like in hairy garment and and they called his name isa and after that came his brother out and notice this his hand took hold on isa's heel and his name was called jacob and isa was three score years old when he bare them so he was 60 so he's 40 when he got married 60 when he had them that means that there's 20 years difference there from when they got married when they had children okay and the boys grew and isa was a cunning hunter and a man of the field and jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents and isa love isa because he did eat of his venison but rebecca loved jacob so obviously there's the whole feud between those two and the black you know the stealing of the blessing and and you know where he took his birthright you know and all this other stuff where jacob takes isa's birthright and there's that whole story that goes along there and obviously jacob has 12 tribes you know the 12 patriarchs of the 12 tribes so he has 12 sons that make up the 12 tribes of israel but the the one thing that i want to get across is that his name was changed to israel when he wrestled with this angel now you could dispute whether this angel that he wrestles with in genesis 32 is is god or not but go to uh josea chapter 12 and verse 3 just to kind of give you a little glimpse in that but you can read genesis 32 in your own time uh and see that but it does say in genesis 32 that says for i have seen god face to face in my life is preserved so it's possible that this was like a pre-old testament appearing of the lord jesus which happens in the bible i mean there's places where the lord is there physically walking on the earth talking to people i mean he was talking to abraham before he destroyed sodom and amorah and uh so we see that that could definitely be the case but no so it says here in josea chapter 12 and verse 3 and it says he took his brother by the heel in the womb and by his strength he had power with god so there's two things that are stated there right he took his brother by the heel and that's when he was called jacob and then it says by his strength he had power with god and that goes back to the story where in genesis 32 he says in verse 4 yay he had power over the angel and prevailed he wept and made supplication unto him he found him in bethel and there he spake with us even the lord of god of hosts the lord is his memorial so this is where you could probably look at him like well the angel is actually the lord because sometimes the angel lord is actually talking about the lord jesus in the old testament um appearing physically um so it could be the fact that when it says he had power of the angel even the lord but that even the lord and it says he he wept and made supplication unto him could be going back to uh he had power with god you know but i think it probably is you know he was actually wrestling with the lord you know he came down physically he was talking with kind of like hey he talked with abraham only abraham didn't wrestle with him he just fed him and like talked with him but uh but it does talk about how when he when he wrestles with this man it says that there was a man that he wrestled with all night and it says that he blessed him so that's interesting you know the fact that that makes sense if it's the lord right the lord is blessing him and even asked him what his name was the only reason i say this could just be an angel is because in the story of samson manoa his father there is this angel that was there and they're asking after his name and he says why why does this have to ask after my name seeing it a secret and he was clearly an angel okay because they were trying to do sacrifice unto him it's like you need to sacrifice unto the lord okay so that one is definitely an angel and they said you know they were afraid they were going to die because they've seen god so there's very similar stories so whether this is an angel or if this is like the lord there physically and he's wrestling with him either way this is where he's called israel it says his name shall no more be called jacob but his name shall be called israel because he had as a prince he had power with god so there you have abraham isaac and jacob and really that's a lot of genesis okay i mean if you're looking at the book of genesis abraham isaac and jacob that's that's gonna be your big big uh portion of that book and not to say that the the creation and the flood knowing the flood isn't like big stories but it's just obviously there's not a lot of information there's there's fewer chapters on that stuff whereas abraham isaac and jacob there's a lot more information about them and it shows you a lot more about their lives and their lives do show us a lot of information about one what we need to believe to be saved two about christ coming in the picture of christ and then three with jacob you can see a lot of things dealing with okay we're gonna have a first covenant we're gonna have a second covenant and isn't that exactly what happens when you see deal with exodus you have the first covenant going down the line then you have the second covenant which is the new testament and there's a lot of other pictures in there okay there's a lot of other things you can apply to jacob there's a lot of other things you can apply to isaac there's a lot of other things you can apply to abraham but if you get this abraham's first, then Isaac's second, and then you have Jacob third. If you remember that children, then I'm happy. Okay, then you remember that, that gets stuck in your head, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, then I feel like I've done my duty when it comes to this sermon on trying to get the basics. You know, you want these basic stories, basic principles of the Bible, and when you're reading through Genesis and you're reading about Isaac, you're like, okay, Abraham became before him, Jacob's coming later, I know where I'm at. Okay, so let's end with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for today, thank you for your word, and just pray to be with us throughout the rest of the day. Pray to be with us as we go out, soul winning, and I pray to you to help us to understand just the overview of the Bible in a lot of cases, and just the big major stories in the Bible, and just help us to understand it, so that we can get into the deeper things on top of that. And Lord, we just pray to you, we'll be glorified in everything that you do, everything that we do, and we pray all this in Jesus Christ's name, Amen. So Brother Abel, come and sing one more song, and then we'll be dismissed. All right, take your song books and turn to song 343. Song 343, if you would stand, we will sing, revive us again, song 343. Amen.