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0:00 You're listening to Waters Church podcast, where faith meets real life. Where 1 church, many locations, and 1 mission, to see lives changed by Jesus. No matter where you're listening from, you0:12 are a part of Waters Church family. Now, let's dive into today's message from our pastor.0:20 Okay. Let's get into this message, and let's talk about this. Take out your notes. In all locations, they look like this, and I wanna talk to you on the subject of faith 1 more time. Not 1 more. 10:32 another time. Got a lot more to go through in this hall of fame of faith chapter, the book of Hebrews chapter 11, keeping your Bibles open, writing things down in the notes, in the margin of0:44 the notes, underlining words, making sure that you're following along. I wanna talk to you on leave the details to God. Leave the details, excuse me, to God.0:56 So last week, we talked about Abraham. Abraham shows up in verse 8. It says that he went to a place that he was called to go to. Remember this phrase,1:08 not knowing where he was going. And here was the theme of last week just so that you remember it. Last week, we said this, trust God with what he says. Write this1:19 down. Trust God with what he says and leave the results to him. That obedience is more important than1:31 outcome. Obedience is more important than out you cannot serve God properly if you've got qualifications for what you expect him to1:43 do accordingly. Are you hearing me? You cannot serve God on your terms. Serving God by nature is1:54 serving him, his purposes. The the Lord's model prayer, your kingdom come, your will be done, not my will. Jesus said in the Garden of
2:06 Gethsemane, your will. So I don't know where you're at in your walk with the Lord. You might have just gotten saved. You might have just gotten baptized. Might just receive the Holy Spirit. Maybe you're speaking
2:18 in a new tongue. Praise God for that. I'm all for all the gifts of the holy spirit, but but here's what the lord says through Abraham. Sometimes you've got to obey when you
2:30 have no guarantee of the outcome you prefer. Oh, I I wish I had a morning service ready to say amen to the preacher when he's when he's talking
2:41 truth. Trust God with what he says and leave the results to him. This week, we're talking about Abraham's wife, and
2:53 she gets mentioned here in verse 11. Just 1 verse is attributed to her, but what a powerful phrase. And and she it says, by by faith, Sarah herself received. If you've got your
3:05 notes, please circle the word received. Now I just want you to see something that the scripture says in this big list of
3:16 people who pleased God with their faith. Let's circle back. Abel, the 1st name on the list, offered to God. Enoch
3:29 walked with God because he pleased God. Noah, what did he do? Built for God.
3:40 Abraham obeyed and went for God, and yet when we get to Sarah, the 1st female on the list,
3:51 ladies, today is your day. What did she She received. She received what?
4:03 Power to conceive when she was past age. Now here's what we're gonna do as we walk through the life of this noble woman of faith. Here's what we're gonna
4:15 do. We're gonna find out that the story is a lot more complicated than Hebrews chapter 11 verse 11 lets on. And, if you can say the same about your walk with God, give me a good amen. Amen.
4:27 What I meant to say was, if your walk with God is a little bit more complicated than you'd like to admit, say amen. Amen. This is good news for someone today. You blew it last week. You're
4:39 blowing it this month. You feel like God's not really gonna use you. I got good news. He's not done with you. Amen. Sarah received e and and I love this I love what the scripture says. We read
4:51 from the ESV, that's the English version, but I like the other translations as well to just give me, like, insights to share with you. Look at how the NIV says this. And by faith, even, Sarah like, it's like
5:03 you know, when you make a list of people and then you put the even word in front of the name of 1 of them? You know what you're saying. Right? This
5:15 person's really not you wouldn't expect this per but I I I grew up in the 19 eighties. I think that was the greatest decade in history. I love the 19 eighties. Makes me old now, but nonetheless,
5:27 back in the 19 eighties, Michael Jordan was winning slam dunk contest, was blowing the world away. And I remember that he won, like, I don't know, 2 or 3, and then there was other guys. Dominique
5:38 Wilkins was winning. And then there was this little man. How many remember Spud Webb? Remember this guy? He had a perfect name. He was 5 foot 8, and he
5:50 won. I believe he won the NBA dunk competition at 5 foot 8. I'm 5 foot 10. I can't even touch the net. So it's like this. Michael
6:02 Jordan, Dominic Wilkins won the NBA, you know, dunk slam dunk contest, and even Spudweb won even little guy Spudweb. This is what the
6:14 scripture's saying. Even she. Somebody say this. Even me. Even me. If your faith is complicated, if you don't think God's for you, if you feel like you've blown it too much for him to use you, I got a
6:26 good word for you to receive, even you. Even God. Even you. God can use even you. But here's the here's the theme for this week, and
6:38 you're not gonna like it. Alright? Last week, trust God with what he says and leaves the results up to him. Here's this week. Trust God with what he says and leave the process up to him.
6:50 Leave the process up to him. I have specifically believe that the holy spirit has specifically tailored this message for all the control
7:02 freaks in the house. I'm talking about the people who have lists upon lists. I'm talking about the people who, you
7:14 are you willfully join the HOA board. That's like a punishment to me. You you're the person who is leading the
7:25 PTA. You're you're the person who's on task in the morning. You probably got up at 5 AM today just to make a plan for the Sabbath.
7:38 You know you're a control freak when you make a plan for the day you're supposed to rest. Come on, somebody. And this is this is a picture for you and for me of a person that some of you ladies, you're gonna get a hold
7:49 of this today. Need to learn a little bit from Sarah and men this morning. You're gonna learn a little bit about women, today through this text. And it says that she received
8:00 herself. See, the the word here, autos received, Sarah, autos, meaning, you know, focus. Scripture wants us to see her. Scripture wants us not to just brush over the
8:12 fact that this guy Abraham moved his entire life across the world on faith, but his wife did too. There was a woman in the mix. And I I wanna say something
8:24 to all the single men at Waters Church. Get yourself a woman who believes in Jesus. So you should've waited for the
8:36 in Jesus part. Women, it is it is not good for you right now. We're we're we're we're seeing a lot of things. It's just not making sense. And and
8:48 and and now more than ever before, the ladies need Jesus. I I if I talk about the things of the day, I know some of you are gonna write me off, but I'm not going to. I'm gonna
9:00 resist the temptation. But some of you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's not good. The mental health thing is not good. The, the value
9:11 system that this world is pushing on young women is not good. And now more more more young 18 to 29 girls are on more
9:23 medication for just staying somewhat reasonably put together than ever before in our history as a country. Something is wrong
9:36 with the female species. I'm not talking about it innately. I'm talking about this culture and what's happening and what the enemy has already worked into the
9:48 system to corrupt your mind and your spirit, ladies. You have to understand that we're fighting a spiritual battle in the heavenly realms, and there's a real
9:59 devil who wants to destroy your life. And and this is so important. I am so I am so passionate about this be because we are the church.
10:11 We are the people of truth, and truth destroys the lies of the enemy. And and and some of you ladies in our churches at all locations, you've been hijacked by the
10:23 lies of this culture. You don't even realize it. Let me just say, ladies, if you're spending more time on TikTok than in God's word, you're already falling into the lies of the
10:34 enemy. See how quiet it's getting. It's amazing how quiet it gets when I talk to the ladies. I talk to the men, and it's like, amen. Yes, pastor. But I talk to the lady, this is like,
10:47 crickets. Crickets. Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp. It's okay for the ladies to be challenged as well as the men. By the way, if you did not get your man
10:59 to forge this Tuesday, ladies, you missed out because they were challenged heavily on Tuesday night. Probably the most heavy I've ever challenged the men
11:11 of this church. Well, ladies, today's your day. Watch out for the lies that are coming for you. Can I tell you again, back to the young men? The greatest
11:22 blessing that you can find is a wife that fears God. Fears what he says over what the world
11:34 says. And this is a a commandment of scripture throughout the book of Proverbs. The book of book of Proverbs is a book of wisdom, and there are 3 chapters in Proverbs that talk about the immoral woman.
11:47 3 chapters talking about the woman who seduces, the woman who stands on the corner, the woman who winks her eyes, the woman who, adorns herself sexually and sensually.
11:59 And and and men, this is this is a program that has never stopped. It has never stopped. It's just been digitized. It has been flooded into our system that is, like, the only way to get
12:11 people to pay attention to anything anymore is to put a sexy, 0.5 naked woman in front of your eyes. And and this 3 chapters of the bible warn the man
12:23 in wisdom, run for your life from that woman. Samson was a mighty man of God. He took gates of a city, pulled them out of their their
12:34 foundations, and brought them up a hill and planted them there. He killed 1000 men with the jawbone of an ass. And 1, not 1, but 2 women took him down. Beware
12:46 of the immoral. Beware of the what's the word? Lavicious. Lavicious. The lustful. There's another l word that I can't think right now.
13:00 Lashivistness. Let's just stay with lustful. Beware of the woman who does not follow scripture.
13:13 This is so important. The the most you know, she drives me crazy, but my wife is the greatest blessing in my life. You should clap for that.
13:27 She she's a a mighty woman of God who the you know, and and we have fought and and and we have, you know, at times hated each other. That's real marriage.
13:40 Can I get real with you? Let's take off our Christian I'm at church now. I'm supposed to be put all together. No. No. No. No. There's times when you're gonna hate each other. If you're not hating each other at times,
13:51 someone's not being honest. And I just gotta say, thank God this woman that I married fears the Lord. Because when we're both at our absolute
14:03 worst, this has happened again and again and again, and our kids had a front row seat to this, We've had to come back to each other and apologize deeply for how we failed each other.
14:14 Amen. And I wonder who's sitting in a marriage right now and the other person, no. You're not willing to do the same because you've been hijacked by this culture of blame everybody
14:26 but you. Are you hearing me? Because we're in a war here for the mental health of our society. And it's not really mental
14:38 health. It's just health. You you can use it as an excuse for the most insane things today. And scripture is very clear about this. Each man will give an account of
14:50 himself to God, and there will be no excuses before the throne of judgment. I'm just I'm just telling you what the scripture says. Now now listen to
15:02 what the book of Proverbs ends with. Proverbs 31 30 says, charm is what? And beauty is Another translation says, fleeting.
15:13 Beauty is fleeting. So men, you better love something other than just her looks because they don't last. We
15:26 we giggle about that, but it's, you know, it's the giggle of, yeah, that's true. But a woman who fears the Lord is to be what? Praised. Let's honor
15:37 the women in our lives who fear the Lord. And men, don't waste your time. Don't waste your time with the women who have nothing to offer you but a sexy curve.
15:53 Nobody knows whether they should say amen to that line or not. So here we go. Let's take a look at Sarah's story because it begins in Genesis, chapter
16:05 11 verse 30. Here's the 1st thing scripture says. Now Sarai was barren. She had no child. This was an incredible weight on this woman's
16:16 life. And she's the wife of Abraham. Abraham, the scripture says, who left his homeland. Turn the page to Genesis 12 and go to verse 5, and it says
16:28 this, that he took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And, it doesn't go well real
16:40 quickly. Look at this. Someone's someone's gotta hear this. You know, you can obey God, and things can go terrible. Amen. Amen. Verse 11.
16:52 Well, let let's back up. They come into the land, and there was a severe famine. There was a famine in the land. So he went down to Egypt. This is not a good move. This is not a good move. The Lord told him to go to
17:03 Canaan. He's broke, starving, goes to Egypt. Now God does not tell him to go to Egypt. Does not tell him, but he does
17:15 it anyway. Poor Sarah, she's dragged along with him down this journey. And when he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, I know that you are a woman. Look at this. What? Beautiful
17:27 in appearance. By the way, husbands, compliment your wives. But this is not a very good compliment here. It's not. Because
17:38 it says, and when we and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, this is his wife, then they will kill me and let you live. Okay. This is a woman that is what? Say it again. Beautiful. Beautiful
17:50 in appearance. By the way, her name Sarai means my princess. Alright. Let's put this together. You have a child,
18:03 fathers, and you name that child my princess. And then she grows up, and she's beautiful. And by the way, you know how old she is here? This is
18:15 crazy. She's 65 years old. By this time, she's 65 and I'm just saying, I don't wanna be mean here, but usually 65 years old and beautiful in
18:27 appearance don't go together for men or women. Alright. I'm just telling you that the looks fade. The scripture says it. I just said it to you from Proverbs
18:39 chapter 31. Don't get mad at me. Beauty fleeds. But she's still got it going on at 65.
18:50 And her name given to her by her father is my princess. How many wanna think that Sarah was a bit of a handful?
19:02 I'm just saying. When they see you, they say, this is wife. Let's they'll kill him and let you live. Say that you're my sister, verse 13, it will go well with me because of you, and my life will be spared for your sake.
19:13 And when Abraham entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. And when the princes, not even Pharaoh, the princes are the sons of the king. When the
19:25 princes these men would have been, oh, I don't know, 18 to 25 years old. 18 to 20 when they saw 65 years old woman, they praised her to pharaoh. Sarah was a cougar.
19:40 I'm just the scripture's being real with us right now. I love the fact that the Bible does not sugarcoat anything. The the these are facts in the scripture we didn't sing about in high school.
19:51 I'm sorry. Sunday school. Right? No one's saying about this. Sarah was hot at 65. So much so that the 25 year old
20:03 princess of heroin were like, woo. Somebody tell dad. And and and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house, and for her sake, he
20:14 dealt well with Abram. So the ruse works and Abram's getting all the goodies from Pharaoh. Because the goodies thing goes down here is just let this mess up the plan.
20:27 And and the scripture says that the Lord, verse 17, the Lord afflicted pharaoh at his house with great plagues. That's a little bit of a preview. That's foreshadowing plagues in Egypt. Sound
20:39 familiar? Yeah. The 1st 1 who was saved from plagues in Egypt was Sarah. And she saved from her stupid husband
20:52 who wanted to use her beauty to benefit himself. So before you start looking nasty at your husbands for a 2nd or elbowing him, let's talk about how she
21:04 had to be saved from herself as well. She's barren. We're 4 chapters later in verse in chapter 16 verse 1, it opens up again and says she had born no
21:15 children, and she had a servant, a female servant. We know who she is. What's her name? Hagar. But have you ever put it together
21:27 that she was Egyptian? Where did he get her? In Egypt. Why was he in Egypt? Because there was a famine in the land that
21:39 God promised him, and he wasn't willing to trust God through the famine, so he ran to Egypt for safety. And sometimes when you decide to freak out in what God has asked you to do and run from his plan,
21:51 you pick up yourself an Egyptian servant that becomes a thorn in your flesh. At 1st, it's not a thorn. At 1st, it's a plan. She's got no children.
22:03 So Sarai comes up, and I keep going back and forth between Sarai and Sarai because her name's gonna change. And Sarai said to Abram, behold now the Lord look at how she puts this. The Lord has prevented me from bearing
22:14 children. It's the Lord's fault. You you you understand that there is a process to discipleship. There's a process to walking with God that
22:26 oftentimes is gonna test your spirit about how much you trust him. And if you're not careful, the enemy will come
22:37 in and give you words and ideologies to blame him. You where are you? Are you trusting or are you
22:48 blaming? Oh, you prayed for the child. Now the child has trouble. You You know what I'm talking about? You prayed for the house, and now the house is big,
23:00 but the family is divided. You prayed for the job, and now the job's got you running around like a chicken with your head cut off. And and and God what God gives you and God allows
23:12 in you, sometimes, it becomes a place where you start to blame him for the trouble he's brought on you. And she doesn't have a child, so she starts blaming God. She says, okay. I got an idea. I got an idea. Go into my
23:24 servant. Have sex with this servant that we picked up in Egypt, and and I shall obtain children by her. So Sarah becomes a sex trafficker.
23:39 She becomes a user of people. Be careful how quickly this can happen in your own life, where people are moved from objects of God's
23:50 mercy and love to objects that you use to get ahead in life. Are you hearing this? And Abram
24:03 listened to the voice of Sarah. This should echo in every man's heart right now because you gotta go back to Genesis chapter 3 when God pronounces the judgment of the curse
24:14 on Adam. And he says, because you listened to the voice of your wife, Cursed is the ground because of you. So what we have here is a
24:26 disordered family. What we have here is a man who is following the lead of his wife. And this is, of course, this is not, you know, 20
24:38 sick 21st century American values. This is biblical values. The man is the head of the wife. 1st Corinthians chapter 11, the man is the head of the wife. Ephesians chapter 5
24:50 verse 23, wives, submit yourselves to your husband as to the Lord. 1st Peter chapter 3, obey your husbands. These
25:02 are these are 4 letter words in our culture for women. And, for the last 60 to 70 years, women have been trying desperately to shake themselves free from
25:13 the horrible confines of God's protective word, and it's no wonder why they're mentally ill more now than ever before. Because if God is not in your
25:25 house, your house is a home for hell. And this is a disordered family. And she and she offers something. Of course, Abraham's gonna live. Have sex with another
25:37 woman. And Abram's, alright. Sure. So he does. He took Hagar, the Egyptian, her servant, gave her to
25:48 Abram, and he went in. She conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. The whole house is disordered. There's all kinds of confusion, and now the
26:00 maid is thinking she's better than the wife. Husbands, don't let this happen in your family. And then the look at this. Verse 5, and Sarah said
26:11 to and Sarah said to Abram, may the wrong done to me be on you. I gave you my servant. And when
26:23 she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the lord judge between you and me. Who came up with the plan? This is why I love having the Bible here. So you
26:35 could just remind yourself in verse 2 that she's the 1 that suggested he do it. Husbands. Just because she said
26:47 it doesn't mean you should do it. Here here's the great trap that so many men fall into. When your wife asks you, if I
26:58 die, would you get remarried? And the answer to that question is, honey, I'll be too busy mourning at your grave every single evening after
27:10 work. That's the only that's the only answer that works, gentlemen. Because if you say yes, the next question, I just you
27:22 know, it's gonna go places you don't wanna go, and you're gonna end up on the couch. The house is disordered. Let me by the way, let me show you from Proverbs chapter 30 that the house is
27:34 disordered. Because Proverbs chapter 30 verse 21, it says, under 3 things the earth cannot bear up. And it says, a slave when he becomes king, a fool when he is filled with food, and an unloved woman when she gets a
27:43 husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress. This is exactly what happens to Abram. The maidservant took charge of the home. And what you see
27:55 here is this incredible mess that Sarah makes. This is an incredible mess. Yes? It is. Right? Yes. And now you understand
28:07 why the NIV says, Eve and Sarah. Write this down. Faith is a work in progress.
28:19 Faith is a work in progress. I I gonna be honest with you. I wouldn't have put Sarah on this list in Hebrews chapter 11. The Holy Spirit did. A symbol of mercy.
28:31 It's not too late for somebody who's ruined their life with stupid decisions that you came up with. It's not too late for the marriage who is at the house of God today,
28:43 and you came here ready to get each other out of your life. You came here at wit's end about how you're gonna move forward as a family. And I gotta tell you, it's not too late. I got a couple right here,
28:55 elders, founding elders of this church. Do you know how they got saved? They went to the divorce attorney to end it, like, 30 years ago. And
29:07 the divorce attorney was a born again child of God and said, have you given God a chance? Before we go forward with it, have you given god a chance? And he brought them to their church
29:18 and their family was saved. Founding elders of our church, pillars in the house of our god,
29:30 who here today at all of our locations, you are gonna save people that you have never even seen yet because instead of going the way of the world, you're
29:42 gonna go the way of faith Amen. In spite of the problem, in spite of the hardship, in spite of the stupid decision that you came up with yourself. Because the scripture says check this out. The scripture says in
29:53 Genesis chapter 17, and you just gotta skip down to verse 15, and look at this, God is not done with this foolish woman. Verse 15, and God said, Abram, as for Sarah, your wife, you shall not
30:05 call her Sarah. You shall call her Sarah for that'll be her name. And I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. You got you got hay you got Ishmael running around the house right now. You got Ishmael running
30:16 around the house. And and and and God says, I'm gonna give you a son by Sarah. And and by the way, this is 80, this is she's now 89. So
30:27 65 to 89 is how many years? 24. 24 years. By the way, Ishmael is 13 years old. And she's had to live in a house
30:39 disjointed by her own stupid decision, blaming her husband. And she's had this bad attitude all this time, and God says, I'm not done. I'm gonna bless you, and she's gonna have kings and
30:51 nations, and they're gonna come from her. And Abraham fell on his face and laughed. And he said, I'm 100 years old. And look at what it's even he gave up on
31:03 her. Oh, that Ishmael might live before you. I've got a son that you can use, Lord. Just use him. And he says, no. No. No. No. I'm gonna do what I said I would do. Can I tell somebody today
31:14 that you gotta understand that just because the promise isn't there yet doesn't mean the promise has been nullified? He is faithful to do what he said he would do in your life. So I
31:26 got 3 points, and then we're done. Number 1, faith leaves the how in God's hands. See, this is what Sarah didn't understand about about this idea because she's she's
31:38 told, you can have a son at 89 years old, and you kinda understand that she's just frustrated. How is this gonna work? I'm beyond
31:50 what I should be. Who's here today? And that's how you came to church with a great big howl on your forehead. A great big howl on on on your
32:02 windshield as you're driving through life. I got a lot of hows in my life. I got a lot of dreams for this church. I do. How are we
32:13 gonna start a church in Orlando? By the way, they had 23 people in attendance last weekend. Praise God for that. But we're long way to go. We we learned our lesson from South Carolina. We know what we're gonna do now.
32:26 How are we gonna build out Waters Academy? It's gonna take millions of dollars. We've got 1000000 dollars in the bank. How? How how are we gonna do the things that God wants us to do? How are we gonna
32:37 expand? How how are we gonna maybe you're asking yourself, how am I gonna pay the bills? How am I gonna make this marriage work? I'm married to an unbeliever, pastor. All that you're saying is all good for all the people
32:46 who are believers, but I'm married to an unbeliever. How? Listen. This is where faith steps in. Amen. Faith is the bridge between what you can do and what God can do.
32:58 How is in his hand. And you gotta understand that this mess of Hagar and Sarah becomes an illustration that Paul the apostle uses in Galatians. Check
33:10 this out. In Galatians oh, I love this passage because it's so powerful. Galatians chapter 4, verse 28. He's talking about,
33:22 the 2 sons, Ishmael, the son of Hagar, and Isaac, the son of Sarah. One's the son of the promise. 1
33:34 1 is the son of the flesh. And so Hagar's son is the work of the flesh. Somebody say flesh. Flesh. And Sarah's son is
33:46 the work of the spirit. Somebody say spirit. Spirit. And and Paul the apostle says this. Look. He says, it is written Abraham had 2 sons, 1 by a slave woman, 1 by a
33:58 free woman, but the son of the slave was born according to the flesh. The son of the born to the Holy Spirit. And he says may be interpreted
34:09 allegorical. This is picture for our faith saying, listen. You don't become a Christian through the works of the flesh. You don't become a Christian because you're a good
34:21 person. You don't become a Christian because you're moral. No. No. No. Your works are not enough. Somebody needs to hear this today because you come to the church on the assumption that
34:33 because you do enough good things that God's gonna accept you into heaven. Nothing could be further from the truth. God does not accept you on the basis of your works. You are saved not of works, scripture says. You
34:45 are saved by faith as a gift from God Almighty. And so you are either trying to get to heaven on your works of the flesh, or you're going to get to heaven because you
34:57 know that God saves not because you're good, but because he's good. And it says in verse 28, verse 28 of this chapter, look at this. Now you brothers, like Isaac, are children of
35:09 promise. And just as at that time, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to spirit, so it is now. Saying, listen. The people who think they're good enough to get to God, the people
35:20 who think that law abiding, obedient level living is gonna lead them to heaven, they are going to persecute you because faith looks stupid to them. Because the idea that a Jewish carpenter from Nazareth who died
35:31 on a cross 2000 years ago is the payment for my sins is foolishness to people who don't believe. But to the people who believe, it is the power of God unto salvation.
35:43 And there's not there's not a bunch of different kinds of people in the world. I got news for you. There's not a bunch of different people in the world. There's not a bunch of different races. There's 1 race. It's the
35:54 human race. And we all stand before God on the basis of 1 single decision. Have we decided to get to God on our terms, or have we decided to surrender our life and
36:06 let let him lead us to himself on his terms through the shed blood of his son, Jesus Christ. I'm not getting to heaven because I'm a good person. I'm getting to heaven because Jesus died for me.
36:17 That's faith. That's what it means to be a son of the promise. And verse 31, it says, so brothers, we are not children of the slave, but the free woman. And this is so powerful, and this is how you understand
36:29 everything that God does in your life. Everything that God does in your life, from salvation all the way until he takes you to heaven, is the work of God and not the work of yourself.
36:41 Now I just got a simple question. If God is the 1 who gets you to heaven, why do you think it's you who can get you where you wanna go in life? If you can trust him with your eternal
36:53 salvation, can't you simply trust him with the things that you're wrestling with right now that are far less difficult? Because getting to heaven, that's hard. You can't on your own, and
37:05 God took care of that. So who here today is wrestling with a trouble in your life and you have no idea how it's gonna break free in your life? God is in charge of how. Amen. Number 2, faith lead the
37:17 win and God's timing. The win. I'm not done with story yet. Genesis 18, God appears, and
37:29 this is when the Lord shows up to announce that he's going to, destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. And, 3 come
37:40 Abraham. And
37:56 angels unaware. And Abram is entertaining an angel, but he's not just the angel he's not just an angel. The scripture says that he's the Lord. This is the pre incarnate person of Jesus Christ. This is the angel whenever
38:07 you see the word angel of the Lord in the Old Testament, it's talking about the Lord Jesus Christ. And it says, the Lord says, I will surely return to you about this time next year. How old was how old was Sarah in
38:18 chapter 17? 89. 89. Oh, good. You're listening. So he says, when she's 90, she's gonna have a son. And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him. Now Abraham and
38:30 Sarah were old and advanced in years, and the way a woman had ceased to be with Sarah. So Sarah laughed to herself. Didn't laugh out loud. Didn't laugh out loud. And said, after I'm worn out and my Lord is old, shall I
38:42 have this pleasure? By the way, don't miss this. What got their house into holy mess? When it was disjointed and she started to take charge and Abraham started to
38:54 listen to her voice? Did you see what she said in this text? My lord. She referred to him now as he's in charge.
39:06 The house has been put back into order. It's really quiet, but it's so biblical. I do not expect secular people
39:18 to agree with me, but I sure as heck expect people who believe in Jesus to agree with me. This is this is your house. You say, pastor, what if my my husbandShow more
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