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Let's take one by one.

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You say the promise of
Abraham - father of nations.

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Then Jesus will come

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to gather the children of Abraham.

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Is that right?

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Thank you.

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You all know Abraham?

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I'm not here for the theology school.

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I'm here for the divine
meaning of the Bible.

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We have the Letter of the Scripture

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and we have the divine
meaning of the Bible.

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Before I answer this question,
let me give an example -

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Apostle Paul.

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Paul knew the Torah very well,

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the five books of Moses,

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the Law and the prophets.

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And Saul stood against
the revelation of Jesus.

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He persecuted the church.

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Because he thought that Jesus
was not the promised Messiah.

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He thought that the Gospel

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is not representing the lost tribe.

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Because he felt the Gospel of Jesus,

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that is not the promise of Abraham.

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That's why all the Pharisees,

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all the teachers of the law stood

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against the revelation of Jesus.

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So, Jesus said in the Book
of John 8, Jesus said,

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why can't you believe my words?

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I'm here to tell you the truth,
which Abraham has not done.

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And he said to them,
before Abraham was, I am.

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And they were shocked.

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They said, how can you,
this little boy, small boy,

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you have not 50 years.

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And you said, you have seen Abraham.

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Jesus said to them, they said to Jesus,

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we are the children of Abraham.

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Jesus said, if Abraham was your father,

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you would do the works of Abraham.

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Abraham saw my day.

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And he rejoiced.

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If you want to understand
the promise of Abraham,

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for the Christians, you have
to understand what Paul said

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in the Book of Galatians 3:13-15.

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Can somebody read?

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Galatians 3.

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Yes, listen to Paul.

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I said from verse 12.

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Paul said,

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Do you hear that?

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The law of Moses is not of faith.

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Why he said that?

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God made a promise to Abraham, right?

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Abraham said in Genesis 17:16,

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"God, You said I will be a father of nations

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and I will possess this land.

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How am I going to possess it?

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How will I know?”

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That's what he asked.

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God said, you will grow old, you will die.

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In four generations,
your children will come to a free land

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where they will be enslaved.

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I will come down and deliver
them and set them free

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and I will lead them
to the land of Canaan.

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And I will give it to them.

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Before God fulfilled the promise,

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God put Abraham to the test.

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In Genesis 22:8,

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God said to Abraham,

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"Take your son, Isaac, whom
you love and offer him to me

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in sacrifice to one of the
mountains I will show you."

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God said it to him.

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Abraham never doubted.

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The Bible says Abraham
took his son, Isaac,

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and traveled towards the land of Moriah,

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where the mountain of
sacrifice should take place.

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The Bible says, when Abraham drew near

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to the place of sacrifice,

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his son, Isaac, said to him,

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“Father, this is the wood,

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where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"

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Abraham looked and said, "Jehovah Jireh,

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the Lord will provide."

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God, in this scripture,
has revealed to Abraham

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what God Himself will
do to bring this promise

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to all the nations of the earth.

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God spared the life of Isaac.

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He saved the life of Isaac,

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and he provided a ram,
a ram for the sacrifice.

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But God did not spare the life of Jesus

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on the Cross for you and me.

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That promise has to be
fulfilled by Jesus himself.

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That's why Jesus went to the cross

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to take all the curses we deserve.

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Let me continue.

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Don't forget, before this happened,

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to understand the Bible, to
understand the Old Testament,

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you have to go back to Genesis 3:15.

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When Adam sinned, death came.

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And God said to the snake
that I will put enmity

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between you and the woman.

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His seed and your seed.

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So, that's the first promise God made.

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A seed will come from a woman

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and will break the dominion of Satan

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and restore the relationship.

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That's righteousness.

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Righteousness.

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So, when the time came for
God to fulfill that promise,

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to bring man back to God,

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that's what the Bible is all about.

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The gift of righteousness,
which we shall receive by faith

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in the cleansing power

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of the Blood of Jesus Christ.

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That's why the Bible says
in the Book of John 1:35,

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"This is the Lamb of God

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who takes away the sins of the world."

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In Genesis 15:6, when
God brought Abraham out,

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look at the stars, such
will be your descendant.

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So, there were two promises,

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a promise on the earth, territory,

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and a heavenly promise.

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The real promise of
Abraham, as Galatians said,

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is when the Holy Spirit
comes, you are born again.

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That's the divine inheritance of the sins.

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That makes you a descendant of Abraham.

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Let's go to Romans 2:28-29.

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Let's listen to what Paul said.

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So, when Paul said in Galatians 3,

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that the law is not of faith,

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because the promise can
only be accepted by faith.

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If I make you a promise

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that tomorrow I will give you
this, if you believe in me,

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you will wait for me
to fulfill the promise.

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Am I right?

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But if you don't believe in me,

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you will just listen to me and go.

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You will not come.

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Faith is expecting God
to do what he promised.

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Faith is the heart that believes God.

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Abraham was 99 years old

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when the promise was fulfilled,

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But when God made a promise
to him in Genesis 15,

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the Scripture says that Abraham waited

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for more than 25 years.

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But Abraham never doubted.

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Why?

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Because if God speaks to you today,

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and your heart believes it,
you have the promise.

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If truly you believe that God is faithful,

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if you believe that God is trustworthy,

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all that you need is to hear his word.

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Because God's word can
never fail unless God fails,

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and God never fails.

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You know Moses?

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God used Moses

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to deliver the children of Israel

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and bring them to the promised land.

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God used Moses

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in Exodus 20

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to reveal his law and commandment to Moses

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for the children of Israel.

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Moses built a tabernacle.

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Moses wrote the law and gave
them guidelines on how to live

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as a holy people when they were
entering the promised land.

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But Moses said something

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that confirms the word of
Paul in Galatians 3:12.

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Paul said the law is not faith.

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Why?

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In Deuteronomy 29,

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Deuteronomy 29:4,29,

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Moses was saying to the children of Israel,

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That's faith.

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It means faith has not come yet.

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Because with the heart you perceive,

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with the eyes you see by faith,

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with the ear you hear the voice
of the Holy Ghost by faith,

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so faith comes by hearing the Word of God.

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And 2 Corinthians 5:7 said,

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"We walk by faith, not by sight."

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Moses is saying that to them.

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Why did Moses say God has not
given them heart to perceive

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and eyes to see and ears to hear?

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Because on Deuteronomy 29:29

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Moses said:

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Moses is saying it takes revelation

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to do the work of the Law.

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It takes the heart to perceive revelation

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to understand what the law means.

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Prophet Isaiah said the
same thing in Isaiah 6:9.

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See their eyes so they could not see.

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See their ears they could not hear.

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Make their heart dull,
they would not understand.

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And the prophet said God for how long?

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God has to wait till the nations

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like you and me will believe Jesus,

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will be saved, will receive
the promise of the Holy Spirit.

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But one day the time will come,

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the time will come

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where the people of Israel

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and the nations will come together

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to worship the same Jesus.

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Romans 11:1-2

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So, this, the summary of
the Bible is all this.

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Adam sinned, man was separated from God

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and God made a promise of righteousness

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that God will put the Holy
Spirit will come back again

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for man to have relationship with God.

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But for that to happen,
someone has to come,

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the seed of Abraham

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which is Jesus the promised Messiah.

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Jesus is the fulfillment
of the promise of Abraham.

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If you read the Book of Genesis 19,

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before judgment came
to Sodom and Gomorrah,

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in Genesis 18, God said to Abraham,

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"Will I hide to Abraham
what am I going to do?"

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Will I hide from Abraham
what I am about to do?

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Many say God is coming to
destroy So,dom and Gomorrah,

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but that is not it.

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God is saying to Abraham,

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I came down from Heaven

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to fulfill the promise I made.

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Right from Genesis 3:15,

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"I will have a righteous branch

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that will bring my
righteousness back on earth."

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When all the nations of
the world will come to me

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through Jesus Christ.

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That's why God put him to the test

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and asked him to sacrifice his son.

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Galatians 3:7 says that
God has preached the Gospel

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to Abraham in advance

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where God will send His
son to redeem us from sin

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when we believe in Jesus Christ,

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when we repent of our sins,

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when we accept Jesus
as our Lord and Savior,

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when we believe His
resurrection from the dead,

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we receive the gift of righteousness.

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So, Jesus Christ is the
fulfillment of the Law.

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Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Holy Bible.

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Thank you.