Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

God separates distinctively the family line of Isaac.  It ultimately leads to Jesus. We are to be CASTING OURSELVES in trust upon it.  There is no plan B. It is thru this family that all the knuckleheads of the promise, and all the knuckleheads of the not-yet-promise, become one. The good news here is that God is LEANING IN covenantally to help ALL the family lines.  


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It sounds brutal, but we too are supposed to be "casting out Hagar" and the covenant that she represents.  That is the "covenant" of works, of effort, of trying, rather than the covenant of TRUST. To get to the object of our trust, Jesus, we've got to elevate a particular family: Abraham's son Isaac's. Watch 7 min

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Today we have a choice in our DIRECTIONAL laughing regarding Sarah.  We can either laugh AT HER, or we can laugh WITH HER.  We can mock in derision the concept that God could come down to her mercifully, or we can REJOICE with her that indeed, God's favor for some reason is with mankind.  Join me in 7 minutes of laughter, hopefully WITH HER. Watch on YouTube:
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For some reason, God has included humans, at least partially, in His redemptive plan for mankind.  It is an unruly lot, even our sometimes hero Abraham.  Here Abraham  again tries to take plans into his own hands. Ironically, a pagan king shows him how to walk righteously before the Lord.
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Lot's daughters are concerned that they will be erased from history, so they take matters into their own hands and into their own pants.  They scheme and sin rather than trust. Listen or watch 7 minutes to hear of these very bad examples. 
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Mrs. Lot "looks back" in the wrong way and gets turned into a pillar of salt.  Abraham looks back over the same real estate and nothing bad happens.  What is the difference? Listen/watch 7 minutes to find out. 
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In the story of the KNUCKLEHEAD Lot, we get a glimpse of how God saves people.  God finds zero righteous people in Sodom.  Lot is one of the zero.  Yet here begins God's ASSOCIATIVE MERCY that will end wit the ASSOCIATIVE SALVATION we'll see in Christ.  The Lord, "being merciful to him..." Listen 7 minutes.
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Abraham intercedes for the righteous people of the city of Sodom.  He intercedes for the few.  The problem is, there are no righteous people in Sodom.  Sodom is destroyed, but no righteous people are harmed in its' destruction. Without the help of God, not one of us stands before God in a blameless and confident way. 

Watch 7 minutes to see if you'd make the cut:
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Is God UNJUST? Specifically, is He unjust because He is NOT THOROUGH? Or, do we have a God who makes inquiries of perfect accuracy with full assessment?

As it turns out, God hears and sees; He goes down to visit; He knows fully.  So, if and when He judges, He does it with a full knowledge.  God is both just AND  thorough.

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Christianity is all about "being a child of Abraham" and having his type of faith. We are also asked to be a "child of Sarah" in getting submission right.  Personally, I think Sarah learned it as her servant Hagar practiced it for 13 years in their home.  I think Hagar taught SARAH submission, so Sarah could teach the world about it. 

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