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Why You Need Jesus As Your Substitutionary Atonement — @MyNameIsJackieHill
How are you saints i heard about 1200 of you i said how are you saints okay because i’ve seen about 50 of y’all  getting starbucks all day so i know you’re woke uh i i i say this every tgc conference that i Â
Have the opportunity to teach it i i need to let you know i’m from a country called black church  okay you might have heard me say that before what that means is when someone is speaking or  teaching it’s not a monologue it’s a conversation okay so when when i say something that moves Â
You in your spirit you have the right and the authority and the permission to talk  back to me you can clap you can speak in the tongue just find a translator but don’t throw don’t throw no shoes though okay you can do everything else but don’t throw your shoes Â
Up here unless i like them throw the other one and i’m gonna take it take it back home  please turn in your bibles to genesis chapter 22. say amen when you got it sorry to get verse one it says after these things god tested abraham and said to him abraham and he Â
Said here i am he said take your son your only son isaac whom you love and go to the land of  moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which i shall tell you Â
So abraham rose early in the morning saddled his donkey and took two of his  young men with him and his son isaac and he cut the wood for the burnt offering and rose  and went to the place of which god had told him on the third day abraham lifted up his eyes Â
And saw the place from afar then abraham said to his young men stay here with the donkey i  and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you and abraham took the wood of Â
The burnt offering and laid it on isaac his son and he took in his hand the fire and the knife so  they went both of them together and isaac said to his father abraham my father and he said here i am Â
My son he said behold the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering  abraham said god will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering my son so they went both of Â
Them together when they came to the place of which god had told him abraham built the altar there  and laid the wood in order and bound isaac his son and laid him on the altar on top of the wood then Â
Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son but the angel of the lord called  to him from heaven and said abraham abraham and he said here i am he said do not lay your hand on Â
The boy or do anything to him for now i know that you fear god seeing you have not withheld your son  your only son from me and abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him was a ram Â
Caught in a thicket by his thorns horns and abraham went and took the ram and offered it  up as a burnt offering instead of his son so abraham called the name of that place the lord Â
Will provide as it is said to this day on the mount of the lord it shall be provided let’s  pray lord i thank you for this moment thank you for your word i thank you for your spirit Â
I thank you for your church i thank you for our feelings and our emotions and how they are so  involved in the way we read your scriptures i pray that you would do whatever it is that you want to Â
Do with us in this moment i pray that you would help me that you would use me that you would speak  in jesus name amen this narrative opens up with the words after these things god tested Â
Abraham i think before we even get to the nature of the test we need to know something about the  one being tested we are introduced to abram his original name in genesis 12. when out of nowhere Â
God calls abram an idol worshiper to leave his home leave his family leave his country and then  god gives abram a promise he tells them that he will make him a great nation and that all the  families of the earth shall be blessed through him we also learn some about his wife’s arrive Â
And how she is barren they have no children which makes god’s promise a smidge complicated because  if abram is going to be a nation then abram needs a child in genesis 15 god speaks to abram again Â
This time he expands on his original promise he made he tells abram he’s going to give him a son  but not only that god gets all built now the science guy on him and tells him to head outside Â
Look at the stars and that the amount of stars he sees is the amount of offspring abram will  have this is a big promise because remember abram ain’t got no kids sarah’s womb is bearing barren Â
So abraham is like god how i know that’s going to happen this is the jhp version by the way so god backs up his promise by entering into a covenant with abel a covenant is a promise  made between two parties to perform certain duties one party might promise to share their resources Â
Their strength and protection while the other party promises their loyalty if abram were one  of us hypothetically speaking and he wanted to buy a house in 2022. he would have to get  a realtor get on zillow redfin whatever’s your your thing find a house hopefully his Â
Credit score is in order that’s a word for some of y’all know some of y’all in the 500s god is able  he’s able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all we can never ask i think his lender Â
Would then have to give him a decent loan to purchase the house when it’s time to close on  the house he would sit down with a lawyer with a realtor they would give him a big old stack of Â
Papers for him to sign these papers and contracts between him and the bank he’s getting the loan  from the contracts have a bunch of words but the bank is basically saying hey we promise to give Â
You this money you promise to give us the money back if you don’t you’re going to be homeless so  when you purchase a home then you are entering into a loose kind of covenant both parties Â
Are making a promise to do a certain thing and if one party fails to keep that promise there’s a  consequence in abram’s cultural context covenants weren’t ratified by signing a bunch of contracts  they were a little bit more dramatic than that what would happen is that uh they would get Â
Some particular animals who would be killed sliced in half laid side by side creating a path for both  parties to walk through the bodies by making a covenant this way the parties were reenacting what Â
Would happen to them if they didn’t do what they said they would do is them saying if i don’t keep  my promise to you let me be put to death like these dead animals that i just walked through  to establish his covenant with abram then god has abram get a heifer Â
A goat a ram two birds basically the whole meat section of the grocery store and abram  cuts the animals in half except the birds because that’s odd and lays them side by side usually both  parties that are ratifying the covenant would walk through the animals but this time shockingly abram Â
Isn’t awake for the ceremony abram goes into a deep sleep similar to the one that adam went into  in genesis 3 and the bible says that a great and dreadful darkness came over him but what i don’t Â
Want you to do is take this as a abram laying down and taking a nap taking going to bed it’s  probable as some commentators say that he is made unconscious by god’s presence and as that happens  god manifests himself as a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch and god Â
Himself walks in between the dead animals god himself all alone walks in between  their bodies walks in between their blood and by doing so god is saying that he is putting  his very own nature on the line so as to make sure that this covenant is maintained remember Â
Abram asked god to give him evidence that god was going to do what he said he would do and god  responded by saying if i don’t give you what i promised you the blood will be on my hands Â
Now that didn’t convince abram that god was worthy to be trusted i don’t know what else god could do  moving forward you might be thinking okay now god then showed up as a pot in the torch and walked Â
Through some heifer blood sari is definitely going to get pregnant next week but nope abram  and sarah just get old and older and older making god’s promise seem that much more impossible  in genesis 17 when abram is 99 and sarai is 90 god shows up again adding even more specificity to Â
His promise he tells abram that sarah will have a son from her own womb whose name will be isaac in  genesis 18 god shows up again and tells abram now named abraham that this time next year god will Â
Give him a son sarai now called sarah was being a little nosy don’t know if you remember the story  she heard what the lord had said and the text says that by this time the way of women had Â
Ceased with sarah what does that mean it means sis ain’t got no time in the month no more okay her uterine lining ain’t shedding nothing but dust she ain’t used always she ain’t had kotex in her cabinet in decades and now god is saying it’s a women’s conference i can say that
Now god is saying she’s going to give birth to a son which is absolutely crazy so sarah  laughs she like god must don’t know how old i am how in the world am i going to have a whole baby Â
This is one of my favorite parts of the bible the lord says to abraham because sarah had  laughed when god said what he has said uh god says why does sarah laugh is anything  too hard for the lord to which sarah responds like she ain’t talking to god i didn’t laugh
Then god was like no but you did let’s be clear but in all seriousness i think we all need to remember the reality of god and that there is nothing too hard for him  all of us have something in our life where this truth needs to be applied Â
It may be the salvation of a family member the restoration of a marriage  deliverance from addiction the opening of a barren womb the resources to adopt the power  to forgive the ability to put to death your favorite sins whatever it is god can do it Â
Because this is the thing god is not like anyone you have or will ever know he has no limitations  he is the one that made the heavens and the earth he is the one who has all power he is completely Â
Sovereign always strong and never tired but unbelief will move you to construct a god in  your own image and therefore you will start to believe that either god has a weakness and  cannot do the impossible or that god isn’t good and therefore he won’t do the impossible for you Â
Which isn’t to say though everything we ask of god he is obligated to do  god is god so he has the right to move however and whenever and wherever he pleases but the  challenge is this to believe that god is god which means god can answer my impossible prayers Â
And god can give me an impossible faith to still trust him if he doesn’t  is anything too hard for the lord in genesis 22 or 21 the impossible happens it says the lord  visited sarah as he had said and the lord did to sarah as he had promised and sarah conceived Â
And bore abraham a son in his old age at the time of which god had spoken god is not a liar  so by quickly walking through genesis chapter 12 to genesis 21 we are clear on three things Â
God has promised to make a nation out of abraham that all families of the earth will  be blessed through him and that god will do this through abraham seed isaac with that in mind now  when we get to genesis 22 the first two verses should be shocking it says after these things god Â
Tested abraham and said to him take your son your only son isaac whom you love and offer him  there as a burnt offering if you’re like me the first time i read this passage i was like now god Â
You promised this man that all nations of the earth will be blessed through his seed  isaac you don’t make covenants you don’t walk through blood and became pots and stuff and now  you’re telling him to sacrifice the son he done waited decades for not only that god’s promise Â
To abraham hinges on isaac being alive it’s crazy but what helps us to give us some pause is  the beginning of this verse and how it begins by saying that this is a test the concept of testing Â
Is all throughout scripture usually it’s explicit like in exodus when god said he allowed israel to  be in the wilderness for 40 years to test them or in luke 4 when it says that the holy spirit led Â
Jesus in the wilderness to be tested god tests for two reasons usually to reveal and to refine when a  test is used to reveal something what is exposed is whatever is in your heart testing reveals Â
What you really believe if you really have faith if there are a few idols hiding in a corner  somewhere a little pride that you didn’t know you had which is such a merciful thing for god to do  because i don’t know if you know this we tend to think really highly of ourselves Â
The natural state of the sinner as described in romans 1 is that we think we are wise when we are  full so we may have a self-conception that has nothing to do with reality but also we can get Â
Therapy we can take enneagram tests enneagram three wing four and b as be as self-aware as  possible and even then it is impossible for you to discern everything about yourself so in god’s  sovereign compassion he will allow your kids to act up so you can see how impatient you are Â
He’ll let your money get funny so you can discern your greed or your distrust in god’s provision  tests reveal but tests also refine peter said in first peter 1 6 though now for  a little while if necessary you have been grieved by various trials so that the tested Â
Genuineness of your faith more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire imagine  who you’d be if you didn’t go through anything if your faith was never challenged if life never got  hard intense if you never had any angst or confusion or anxiety about what to do or where Â
To go and and who to trust without the refiners fire what would the quality of your life look like  i can bet that it might be easier but would it be fruitful why because tests  purify your faith it is only fire that refines gold and it is only trials that will refine Â
You and yes i know trust me no discipline seems enjoyable at the time but it will yield the  peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it circling back to genesis 22  since this narrative is fr as a test we can know that whatever god is doing with abraham it will Â
Reveal something to him and reveal something out of him and what greater test is there for abraham  than for god to tell him to sacrifice his son the son he loves note that this is the first mention Â
Of the word love in the bible which is really fascinating to me that it’s set in the context of  sacrifice and not self-centeredness but that’s a completely different conversation anyone one thing  about this test is that if you’re familiar with abraham’s story at all Â
If you followed his life up until this point you know that this test actually isn’t unfamiliar  do you remember when god commanded abraham in the beginning in genesis 14 what he commanded  him to do he told him to leave his country leave his family leave his home and go where god wanted Â
Him to go abraham then is well acquainted with god telling him to sacrifice stuff that he loves  since abraham was called he was repeatedly tested so even though sacrificing isaac is an extreme  test god didn’t start there he has been readying abraham’s faith so as the test got more intense he Â
Had the stamina to endure it charles spurgeon said this he said the lord knows how to educate you up  to such a point that you can endure in your years to come what you could not endure today Â
Just as today he may make you stand firm under a burden which ten years ago would have crushed you  into dust perhaps this is the reason you don’t he read anything about abraham pushing back or asking Â
Questions he just he just gets up and obeys verse three abraham rose early in the morning saddled  his donkey and took two of his men with him and his son isaac and they cut the wood for the burnt Â
Offering and arose and went to the place of which god had told him in other words abraham obeyed  immediately why because he had faith the writer of hebrews says that faith is the assurance of Â
Things hoped for the conviction of things not seen another way to see it is that faith is an inner  certainty regarding things you cannot see that engages your will leading you to act in relation  to what you believe i’ll say it again because y’all taking notes faith is an inner certainty Â
Regarding things you cannot see that engages your will leading you to act in relation to what you  believe for example you ever seen one of those team-building exercises called the trust fall  it’s weird basically one person stands on a platform with their eyes clock closed and Â
Their arms folded looks like they’re about to die beneath them behind them  are co-workers or their team standing in the line with their arms out ready to catch not the bouquet  but the person the reason it’s a trust fall is that the person on the platform can’t see nobody Â
Can’t see the people behind them so they have to trust what they cannot see but it wouldn’t  be enough for them to just say they trusted their team like yeah i trust you and stay there that’s  not good enough words are easy trust is actually realized when the person chooses to fall backwards Â
The inner certainty gave them confidence that their team would catch them even though they  couldn’t see them and that certainty engaged their will which was why they chose to fall i  use this example because faith cannot be separated from behavior faith is at work in abraham because Â
Remember god has made him a promise and isaac is a pivotal piece of that promise is isaac dies  the promise does too the irrationality of it all doesn’t seem to hinder abraham though i think any Â
Rational person would be like um god this test ain’t it there has to be another way tell people  to steal my donkeys and burn down my tents but don’t make me sacrifice my son but the thing Â
Is abraham isn’t like me he doesn’t barter with god he is certain that god is going to do what  he said he would do because he is god so because he believes and trusts god he behaves accordingly Â
It says that he woke up early in the morning cut the wood that he would sacrifice his son on  and he goes to the place that god told him to go to then we finally get an idea of what’s in Â
Abraham’s mind in verses five and six look at it it says on the third day abraham lifted up  his eyes and saw the place from afar then abraham said to his young men stay here with the donkey Â
I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you do you hear his faith  somewhere in between god telling him to sacrifice isaac and him getting the wood he has concluded  that after he has killed his son isaac is going to come back how does he know that Â
Who or what is he trusting to make him so certain it’s simple he believes  god not merely the promise of god but the person of god because the promise is only trustworthy  because the one who made the promise cannot lie so so it’s the very nature of god that abraham has Â
Considered and in so doing he has reckoned that because god cannot lie he is obviously going to do  something to ensure that isaac ultimately doesn’t die the writer of hebrews said this by faith  abraham when he was tested offered up isaac and he who had received the promises was in Â
The act of offering up his only son of whom it was said through isaac shall your offspring be named  he considered that god was able even to raise him from the dead wait we are in genesis 22 right Â
Amen no yes okay so we are centuries before elijah raises a widow’s son from the dead  we are we are centuries more for when jesus raised lazarus easter ain’t on abraham’s radar  he don’t got a clue about pastel outfits and shiny white shoes there has yet there has yet to be an Â
Empty tomb for him to base his faith on so how is it then that abraham knew the very concept of  resurrection was even possible i think that before abraham rose early in the morning while he thought Â
About what god was calling him to do and that it meant that he have to put his son to death i think  i think abraham remembered his own body and how god had brought life from death before Â
So surely he could do it again unless you think i’m just making up stuff i want you to remind  your romans 4 19 which says this he abraham did not weaken in faith when he considered his own Â
Body which was as good as dead or when he considered the barrenness of life or lifelessness  of sarah’s womb the word dead here literally means corpse-like so then god had to resurrect  their bodies in a real sense so as to give them the power to create life in the form of Â
Isaac abraham had the audacity to say that he and isaac would go worship and return  because he remembered that god had did it before in 1953 this guy by the name of henry malaysian  went in for brain surgery to treat his epilepsy during the procedure the doctor Â
Removed a piece of henry’s brain affected his memory especially his short-term memory  and one recording a doctor doing a study this on netflix by the way i ain’t making it up a doctor doing a study on the brain in memory asked henry if he remembered what Â
He did yesterday henry said i don’t know the doctor asked him again what he did that morning  henry said i don’t remember that either then they asked him if he knew what he’d do tomorrow to  which henry responded whatever is beneficial you’d expect henry to have some kind of loose schedule Â
I’m gonna wake up i’m gonna get some coffee i’ma watch the news but he didn’t because  henry couldn’t tell you what he would do tomorrow because he couldn’t remember what he did yesterday  he answered the question the way that he did because the portion of henry’s brain that was Â
Removed affected henry’s ability to make new memories and since henry couldn’t remember the  past he had no context for how to imagine his future without his memories henry had  no expectation when abraham thought about the sacrifice that he had to make in the future Â
He remembered the resurrection in the past and that if god could do a miracle then then god  could do a miracle now almost all of us have a hard time trusting god to do what he said Â
He would do in his word through his son and it might be because we have a memory problem  how quickly we forget that he made the heavens and the earth that he split the sea and delivered his Â
People out of bondage how he brought life from a dead womb we forget how faithful he’s been to us  and our family how he’s provided for us when we didn’t even ask how he’s protected us from all Â
Kinds of mess but when trials show up now all of a sudden is i don’t know if god is going to come  through i don’t know if god is going to do this i don’t know if god is going to do that i don’t Â
Know if god is going to show up hasn’t god always showed up hasn’t god always been good hasn’t god  always been faithful just because you change your mind every six seconds doesn’t mean that god does Â
He is the same god today as he was yesterday some of us don’t need to fast we need to remember  and it isn’t isn’t this true that the word of god has provided for us 66 books worth Â
Of memories of who god is and how god works which will inform our faith so that we can obey without  hesitation because abraham has faith in his god he is willing to sacrifice his only son the text says abraham took the word of the burnt offering Â
And laid it on his son isaac he took in his hand the fire and the knife and they went both of them  together to the place that god had told him i want to be clear about something  a burnt offering was a total sacrifice there were other offerings that would allow you Â
To sacrifice an animal and the priest could take a portion of it home to eat  but a burnt offering was the one offering where the whole animal was totally consumed the process  went something like this as described in leviticus 1 a male animal without blemish was taken Â
The offerer would lay his hand on the animal which was symbolic of the transferring of the offer  ascends onto the sacrifice an act of atonement then they’d kill the animal blood would be  collected and thrown on the altar then the animal would be cut into pieces and arranged on the wood Â
Then the animal would be burned and totally consumed and as the smoke of the animal  rose towards heaven it was said to be a pleasing aroma to the lord and god told abraham to do that Â
To his son the son he loved if this were not a test god’s character would be questionable at best  seeing that god himself said that human sacrifice was detestable in deuteronomy 12 and 18.  but since it is a test sacrificing isaac or at least being willing to do it resolves god of any Â
Guilt and refines abraham of any potential sin this test solidifies abraham’s loyalty to god  over and above love for his son it is clear that abraham has a deep affection for isaac  god even acknowledges it by saying take your son your only son isaac whom you love Â
And this love is natural this love is good we should love our children they are good  gifts from a creative god but how easy it is to take these good gifts and make them god  isaac was special he was the promised child the seed through whom the whole world Â
Would be blessed abraham had parted ways with his son ishmael years earlier so this was the  only son he had and maybe god knew abraham’s potential abraham was an idol worshiper before  he was called so it wouldn’t have been out of character for him to worship something other than Â
God maybe god knew that the son he loved could become the lord he worshiped so to set him free  from any inkling of idolatry god had to put him in a position to choose and he did he built the altar
He laid the wood he took some rope and wrapped it around his son’s body so he couldn’t move  and i can only imagine the pain because it wouldn’t be a sacrifice if it didn’t hurt  a sacrifice isn’t a sacrifice if it doesn’t cost you something Â
This body on this altar is his boy who he saw every day ate dinner with every  night on the altar he probably looked at him and saw his own features in his face  alongside fear but either way even with all the faith in the world sacrificing what you love is Â
Devastating but even then god must be worthy of it all and abraham knows that so with inner certainty  engaging his will leading him to act in a way that is relative to what he believes he takes the knife Â
Ready to slaughter his son then he hears his name verse 11 abraham abraham and he said  here i am he said do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him for now i know  that you fear god seeing you have not withheld your son your only son from me Â
If there was any doubt who abraham’s god was this moment made it clear god had refined  abraham’s heart removing any other allegiances and now he’d revealed it to for god to say  i know that you fear god this anthropomorphic language god knows everything so it doesn’t Â
Mean that god didn’t know it it means that god is affirming that abraham’s faith is real  and isn’t that what we all want the affirmation that our faith is authentic because there are  those who will present themselves before jesus with a bunch of evidence for why they deserve Â
Glory did not prophesy in your name did not cast out demons and perform miracles on your name i  think some of us in this room we would say god did not preach and expose at the passage correctly Â
Did not tithe didn’t i go to seminary and lead worship and go on mission trips and  vote though certain ways surely that’s proof of my faith all of which looks impressive  it looks like power it looks like the fruit of faith but jesus turns to these kinds of people Â
And calls them workers of lawlessness god forbid you have to wait till judgment to find out who  you really are but the irony of it is this the very act of looking to what you’ve done for jesus Â
As evidence of that you know jesus might be the proof that you don’t because the truly faithful  ones know that they have never done anything apart from jesus so when they stand before god  they stand before him like the men and the parable of the talent saying this is what i’ve done with Â
What you have given me and do you know what the master will say to them he’ll say well done  my good and faithful servant and that is the point of everything my friends  when all the tests and all the trials and all the pain and all the angst and all the discipline Â
And all the suffering is over the point of it all is that the god of the glory the judge of  the universe the one who cannot lie seated on the judgment say will say i know that you fear god Â
Verse 13 and abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him was a ram caught  in a thicket by his stars and abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering  instead of his son so abraham called the name of that place the lord will provide Â
This moment right here is an act of substitutionary atonement  instead of isaac being sacrificed the ram is killed in his place  with substitution one person takes the place of another bearing the penalty that we reserved for  someone else if isaac was killed as a burnt offering a few things would have happened Â
He would have experienced the death and thus he would have been separated from his father  he also would have experienced the desecration of his body as it burned in the fire  and all of this would have happened at the hands of his father it is because Â
God provided the ram that saved isaac from death separation and destruction but there’s a problem  with all of this sacrificing the burnt offering functioned as atonement abram and isaac were both  sinners and the wages of sin is dead god’s justice had to be satisfied by virtue of blood Â
Being spilled a life being taken either their own life or somebody else’s life so the realm  was not only sacrificed instead of isaac before isaac but even then the ram wasn’t good enough  why because hebrew 10 4 says it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin Â
Meaning that this ram though it was a sacrifice it wasn’t a sufficient one if anything this ram was a  shadow pointing forward to a better sacrifice one that would not be accomplished by jehovah Â
Providing a ram in a bush but by jehovah jireh providing his son in the flesh and who is this son  i’ll tell you first of all the son was born to a woman by virtue of a miracle Â
His mother wasn’t barren but she was a virgin named mary who by all accounts should not have  been able to get pregnant seeing as though she had not been with a man but because nothing is  too hard for the lord she conceived by the power of the spirit the son grew up Â
Learned obedience through what he suffered being tested by the devil to turn stones  into bread and to worship and thus love anything more than god but he resisted  every single time to which god publicly affirmed that his son’s faith was real by saying that this Â
Is my beloved son with whom i am well pleased by then or but then the scenario for which the son  habit was born came to pass the night before the son had prayed to his daddy prayed to his father Â
Said that he wanted this cup to pass from him he was in a position where he had to choose he  had to choose either his will or his father’s will and he did this son was made to carry his own wood Â
On his own back as he walked toward the top of a mountain and while up there this son’s body  was secured to the woods so that he couldn’t move the people said if you are the son of god Â
Come down the cross what they didn’t understand is if he came down they would have had to go up  in his place not dying for them but receiving the penalty of death that belonged to us because Â
It’s easy to forget that since i was born a sinner and the wages of sin is death that if jesus did my  sins i would have had to pay for my own that even if i sinned once that meant i deserve the judgment Â
That through this death i would be eternally separated from the life of the father that i would  endure the the pain and the desecration of eternal destruction and that all of this would happen  at the hands of god the father but for these people to tell jesus to come down the cross Â
They clearly didn’t realize that if he came down there would be no substitution and that the reason  he stayed is because he loved them to death maybe they didn’t remember that day when abraham was  asleep and god himself walked through a line of death walked through blood making it known Â
That he was going to keep his promise and do you know what on the cross god got blood on his hands  god became man so that he could die so as to maintain a covenant relationship with his people Â
There he was god in the flesh being killed like an animal being slaughtered like the animals  that he walked through becoming a lamb that he promised to be and there were no rams this time  there was no voice to cry out from heaven to stop it there was only silence and then those Â
Three hours and the dreadful darkness of god’s presence was the only begotten son whose very own  father was pleased to crush him jesus became sin so that you could be declared righteous  jesus died so that you could have life jesus was bruised so you could be healed jesus rose Â
From the dead so that you could too that is the beauty of substitution jesus is the ram  and the bush and jesus is the son who returned from the dead to worship with his daddy and now  it is through this son jesus that all who have faith in his name are called Â
The sons and daughters of abraham and look at us a people from every tribe and every tongue and every  nation a church that has lasted for centuries with millions of saints that have gone before Â
Us and who will come after us and if you just look into the crowd don’t we look like stars what god  promised to abraham in genesis 12 has been realized in us the children  of the promise is there anything too hard for the lord lord we thank you for this day we thank Â
You for your faithfulness we thank you for your nature and how you have revealed it through christ  by the spirit in the scriptures we pray god that this would be more than words that this would be Â
More than knowledge that it would actually inform the way we do life the way we love people the way  we engage on social media the way we engage with our families and our friends in our local churches Â
I pray that it even changes the way we pray that we would pray with power that we will pray with  confidence knowing that we are praying to a good and a faithful god we love you in jesus name amen
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Biblical diversity vs. secular diversity
– Greetings, I’m Dr. Harold D. Lewis Sr., Vice President of Biblical Diversity, servin’ outta the national office in Orlando, Florida of the Converge movement. One of the questions I get asked often as I go around the Converge community facilitating biblical diversity workshops and seminars, Dr. Lewis, what’s the difference between biblical diversity
And secular diversity? Let that question sink in. What’s the difference between biblical diversity and secular diversity? Very good question and I’m goin’ to try and unpack it for you right now. Let’s start with the premise, first and foremost, that biblical diversity is a God idea.
Ah, let me say that again, biblical diversity is a God idea. Man did not concoct this idea about biblical diversity, however, they did co-opt it and went into a general kind of diversity, played with that diversity. God’s love letter, his word, the scripture, are littered with a number of texts
That talks about biblical diversity and God’s eternal expectation on how we should get along on the planet, not just as baptized and born again believers, but humanity in general. So let’s answer the question. What’s the difference between biblical diversity and secular diversity? Here it is, I’m afraid a mess up someone’s theology,
But it is what it is. Biblical diversity is predicated upon the word of God. Secular diversity is predicated upon the ways of the world. Biblical diversity submits only to God’s theocracy. Theocracy, yes, see God has a kingdom and in his kingdom he is a king and is not subject
To popular opinion or polls. Whereas secular diversity submits to government democracy. All you have to do is put a bill in place and folks vote on the bill and then whether or not God’s word commands it or not, people go contradiction towards it. Biblical diversity yields only to the commandments of God
Where secular diversity yields to polls, politician, and popular opinion. Case and point, in our world, we have all these different laws that are bein’ legislated how we should govern ourselves as, not only, general constituents in the country as citizens, but also regulatin’ the church. But God’s word specifically defines
How we should treat each other. God’s word specifically defines how we should not trespass against each other’s property, each other’s families. God’s word is distinct, the divinely distinguished, between biblical diversity and secular diversity. And so when we look into the world, the church is supposed and is called to be counter culture.
Counter culture, whatever racial tension that’s goin’ on in the world, we shouldn’t have that same racial tension in the church. We oughta come together on the Matthew chapter number 18 we talked about if you have ought against a brother or sister, go to that brother, one on one.
If that doesn’t work, take another disciple with you. If that doesn’t work, bring them before the council or the body and if that doesn’t work, bring them before the congregation. Biblical diversity, again, is predicated upon God’s word. Secular diversity is predicated upon the ways of the world. Until the next time.
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