7. Ablazing Grace: The Covenant with Abraham

[@graceyow3392]

9:40 you nailed it david. differences are god-designed. each of us is designed to be unique. it is when one's difference over another is held as superior that creates evil.

[@graceyow3392]

10:35 "in you all the families of the earth will be blessed." this is qualified by the statement by god that only those who bless abraham will be blessed. those who curse him will be cursed (v.3).

[@RusKXM]

Watching from Texas-much blessed by this series.

[@esrasambuari7974]

#Hallelujah .. #Shalom Pastor David .. Im Amen for this GOD 's #Vision #Inspiration by cooling to Hi's people . The some to #Samuel , GOD Haas cooling him , This amizing .. Amen ! #Immanuel = GOD B wiht us N Bless us :)

[@leemary4833]

Thankful for the good news!!! Thank you.

[@graceyow3392]

11:00 "put the earth back through you (abraham)." only in the sense that jesus was to be a descendant of abraham. it is only through jesus that salvation can be obtained. that is why he is prophesied to die alone. no one else but the lamb slain from the foundation of the world can offer redemption of man.

[@annettemacintosh117]

Sarai was 10 years younger that Abram - he was 75 years old when they went to Canaan therefore Sarai must have been a 65 years old beauty when they went to Egypt, not 35 ...

[@blueticks8423]

You missed what he said, he said “by todays standards” she would have been in her late 30’s, early 40’s. He was simply making a comparison, people lived longer back then so Sarai would have been “middle aged”.

[@graceyow3392]

22:23 one does not "hey god" god. may be david you would consider a more reverend way of addressing the creator and master of the universe, its sustainer, its redeemer?

[@KJG-KJV]

Listen closely to 37:10-37:25 He says "Jesus shows up again and again in the old and new testament as light. In fact the new testament would say, he is the light that lighteth every man that comes into the world. You have passages like this, in the very beginning of scripture; let there be light there was light." I posted the quotes verses as follows. John 1:9 KJV That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ☝️ used correctly 👇 misused Genesis 1:3-5 KJV And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. [4] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. [5] And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. To say this "light" referred to in Gen. 1:3 is Christ is false and misleads others to believe Christ was created, and that he had a beginning.

[@blueticks8423]

I see your point and you would definitely have a point if that was the point that was the point that pastor Asscherrick was making (which it clearly wasn’t). David is a staunch Trinitarian, therefor he is definitely not insinuating Jesus was created.

[@KJG-KJV]

@@blueticks8423 His point or not his point is irrelevant. The fact is this pastor literally references Jesus Christ as the "light" from Genesis 1:3-5. And to say such a thing is false doctrine. I don't care what he meant, what he believes, I am talking about what he said. Go back and listen.

[@blueticks8423]

@@KJG-KJV like I said, I understand What you are saying, but that is clearly not what he is saying so it just seems kinda nit-picky . Just sayin. The overall message is what counts, heck maybe he had a brain fart at that moment and misstated that one sentence, but the overall content of the message, including the stream of other verses he sites are well within context and definitely apply. But, to each his own, I concede your point.

[@this_mfr]

I don't understand the "lie" thing about Abraham and his sister. It was never a lie. The Bible blatantly states in later chapters that Sarah in fact was his blood sister (half-sister). So there was no "lie", as it were, but a leaving out of information, which in and of itself isn't sinful. Consider Esther and how she conveniently left out the fact that she was a Jew for so many years. Leaving out information in a way that purposefully causes harm to another or causes unfair gain for yourself is manipulative, but leaving out information to protect people is not bad or wrong in any sense whatsoever. What I find to be the "sin" in the whole thing is how Abraham and Sarah both must have known that if they only say she is a sister then SURELY the Pharaoh would take her in and sleep with her. So they were both willing to let Sarah undergo this adultery for the sake of Abraham's life. That's the real sin and doubt in God's promise. Abraham felt he needed to save his own life to make God's promise come true, rather than let God handle it.

[@asyncawaited]

To quote Pastor David: "to lie about the precise nature of his relationship with Sarah." Which is accurate. He withheld the fact that they were married, telling them only that she was his sister. His sole intention was to deceive them lest he would die, instead of trusting in God. So yes, that would be lying and it would be, as you said, not trusting God's plan. A lie in biblical terms covers more than what is merely said, but sometimes the acting out or the intentional deceit without saying anything false at all. If you look in Jeremiah 23:14 we see that people can live a lie, under false pretenses; Isaiah 59:4 we lie by giving birth to idols. There's more to it than merely saying or not saying something and it's very clear that the intent behind it is the definition of the lie. In our case, Abraham was intentionally deceiving the Egyptians, which by it's very essence is a falsehood. Leaving out information to protect people may not be bad, but intentionally deceiving people is. Romans 3:7 says "For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?". -Let us do evil that good may come of it, is how I interpret that. Just my two cents, friend. God bless.

[@annettemacintosh117]

Abraham manipulated the truth so as to save his life instead of trusting God...I can say my husband is my friend in some situations that might cause a problem, say, I need a benefit but can only acquire it if I am single...see the lie now?

[@matno1949]

Leaving out information is called a "lie of omission," and in Abraham's case could have caused his wife and another to commit adultery