Emulating Abraham: Spiritual Leadership in Family Faith
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"Then you are Abraham's descendants. I'm a descendant of Abraham, heirs according to the promise. So when the New Testament, the Holy Spirit, calls me a descendant of Abraham, it's obviously spiritually because physically I'm not. It means there's something in Abraham that I need to understand, which calls me his spiritual descendant. It never says that I'm a descendant of Moses or a descendant of David. Some of these are great men. It only says I'm a descendant of Abraham." [00:45:57]
"I have chosen him. Why? What purpose? So that he may command his children and his family after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness. And when he does that, then the Lord will be able to bring upon Abraham what he has spoken about. So if God is to fulfill what God has promised Abraham to do, there's a condition. The condition is first of all God has chosen him, but he's chosen him with the primary purpose that he will command his children." [03:29:09]
"Abraham commanded his children and his family, and this is where we are to be descendants of Abraham, to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice. So that, I mean, that's the condition. If that's not done, the Lord will not be able to bring, and through you, but he chose you and me, that we might command the children God has given us." [04:21:66]
"God has given you children, he's given me children, and it's not Sarah's job to bring them up. God did not choose Sarah for that. Sarah can help Abraham like God said that Eve could be a helper to Adam to whatever Adam's job was to be a gardener in Eden, and Eve could help him. So God has given a woman to be a helper, not to be a leader." [05:21:78]
"Abraham took Isaac up to the Mount Moriah to the top of Mount Moriah. This is very significant because you know if you study scripture, I don't have time to show it out, show it to you, but this is the exact spot where the Lord built his Temple through Solomon. You read that in second chronicles three one in the place where Abraham offered up Isaac God told Solomon build the temple there." [06:21:60]
"Isaac says where's the sacrifice, and Abraham said to Isaac what no man has ever told his son, you are the sacrifice. Now go and lie down there. Now remember Isaac was not a small boy. It says in we read carefully he carried the wood up all the way up that mountain. I guess he was must have been around 20 years old to carry all that wood up the mountain." [07:16:40]
"Imagine telling your 20-year-old son, lie down on the altar. I've got a knife here. I'm going to kill you. I'm offering you up to God. You have been a wonderful father. You have been a wonderful father if you're 20-year-old or busy. You're a true descendant of Abraham, but you can't expect that from a 20-year-old if you don't start when he is one." [07:49:56]
"Abraham would not tolerate that in his child even when he was three or four years old. Isaac, you dare not talk like that to me. He commanded his children so that God could bring upon him all that he promised. There was a condition, and what a testimony that was is not a testimony like that anywhere in the scripture but of a man of a young man who obeyed his father like that." [08:48:00]
"When will God say to you and me, now I know that you fear God? When I come to church regularly? No. Can I sing well? No. When I can preach well? No. When I have learned to obey what he told me, when I've learned to bring up my son in obedience, the Lord on high will say to you, now I know that you fear me." [12:32:36]
"There is no limit now to how much I'll bless you. That's the meaning of what he's saying in verse 17. Abraham, there's no limit now of how much I'm gonna bless you. I want to be in that if I'm a descendant of Abraham. I want to be in that line where God says to me there's no limit to how much I will bless you and I will use you." [13:15:36]
"The promise that Abraham's descendants would possess the gates of their enemies is a call for us to raise children who are spiritual overcomers. This involves instilling in them a deep reverence for God and a readiness to obey His commands. Our role as spiritual leaders in our families aligns us with God's promises, opening the door for His blessings to flow through us and our children." [14:00:00]
"To turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children. What's the meaning of that? Is there any father who doesn't love his child? It's not bad, but turning the hearts of fathers in the last days to take responsibility for their children and not blame the mother if the children are Wayward. It's got nothing to do with the mothers, fathers." [15:22:19]
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"I have chosen him. Why? What purpose? So that he may command his children and his family after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness. And when he does that, then the Lord will be able to bring upon Abraham what he has spoken about. So if God is to fulfill what God has promised Abraham to do, there's a condition. The condition is first of all God has chosen him, but he's chosen him with the primary purpose that he will command his children." [03:29:09]
"Abraham commanded his children and his family, and this is where we are to be descendants of Abraham, to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice. So that, I mean, that's the condition. If that's not done, the Lord will not be able to bring, and through you, but he chose you and me, that we might command the children God has given us." [04:21:66]
"God has given you children, he's given me children, and it's not Sarah's job to bring them up. God did not choose Sarah for that. Sarah can help Abraham like God said that Eve could be a helper to Adam to whatever Adam's job was to be a gardener in Eden, and Eve could help him. So God has given a woman to be a helper, not to be a leader." [05:21:78]
"Abraham took Isaac up to the Mount Moriah to the top of Mount Moriah. This is very significant because you know if you study scripture, I don't have time to show it out, show it to you, but this is the exact spot where the Lord built his Temple through Solomon. You read that in second chronicles three one in the place where Abraham offered up Isaac God told Solomon build the temple there." [06:21:60]
"Isaac says where's the sacrifice, and Abraham said to Isaac what no man has ever told his son, you are the sacrifice. Now go and lie down there. Now remember Isaac was not a small boy. It says in we read carefully he carried the wood up all the way up that mountain. I guess he was must have been around 20 years old to carry all that wood up the mountain." [07:16:40]
"Imagine telling your 20-year-old son, lie down on the altar. I've got a knife here. I'm going to kill you. I'm offering you up to God. You have been a wonderful father. You have been a wonderful father if you're 20-year-old or busy. You're a true descendant of Abraham, but you can't expect that from a 20-year-old if you don't start when he is one." [07:49:56]
"Abraham would not tolerate that in his child even when he was three or four years old. Isaac, you dare not talk like that to me. He commanded his children so that God could bring upon him all that he promised. There was a condition, and what a testimony that was is not a testimony like that anywhere in the scripture but of a man of a young man who obeyed his father like that." [08:48:00]
"When will God say to you and me, now I know that you fear God? When I come to church regularly? No. Can I sing well? No. When I can preach well? No. When I have learned to obey what he told me, when I've learned to bring up my son in obedience, the Lord on high will say to you, now I know that you fear me." [12:32:36]
"There is no limit now to how much I'll bless you. That's the meaning of what he's saying in verse 17. Abraham, there's no limit now of how much I'm gonna bless you. I want to be in that if I'm a descendant of Abraham. I want to be in that line where God says to me there's no limit to how much I will bless you and I will use you." [13:15:36]
"The promise that Abraham's descendants would possess the gates of their enemies is a call for us to raise children who are spiritual overcomers. This involves instilling in them a deep reverence for God and a readiness to obey His commands. Our role as spiritual leaders in our families aligns us with God's promises, opening the door for His blessings to flow through us and our children." [14:00:00]
"To turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children. What's the meaning of that? Is there any father who doesn't love his child? It's not bad, but turning the hearts of fathers in the last days to take responsibility for their children and not blame the mother if the children are Wayward. It's got nothing to do with the mothers, fathers." [15:22:19]
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