Sermon
Celebrating God's Goodness: Sacrifice that honors God - Part 2
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We will sell ingredients how our Lord, let us by now be raised,
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let us glory be seen. We will sell ingredients how our
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Lord. Amen.
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Amen. Celebrating God's goodness,
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Sacrifice that honest God. Briefly I want to touch on
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celebrating God's goodness. Then from there we zoom into a
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sacrifice that honest God. Amen.
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If there is, and when we talk of celebrating God's goodness, it
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is good as a church to celebrate God more.
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Especially when God does something good for you.
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It is very good to celebrate God's goodness.
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For SK Badu Islands, you are celebrating your sixth year
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anniversary. God has been so kind, good and
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faithful to you. I know this local assembly has
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gone through challenges and problems, but God has been so
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good, so kind. God has taken you through all
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the challenges over the years. And here we are celebrating the
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6th anniversary of this. Lucas.
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In fact, God has done a lot. Amen.
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So we have every cause to thank God.
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We have every cause to celebrate the goodness of the law.
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So let us lift, be on our feet, lift up our hands, and say, God,
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we thank you for the second time and for the third time, Amen.
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Please. You may be seated.
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Yeah, it is very good to thank the Lord more, especially when
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he does something for you there. There were this 10 lepers who
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made Jesus on his way, on their way.
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And the Bible says they cried unto the Lord Jesus.
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And the Bible says he told them to go and show themselves to the
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priest. And when they're on their way
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going, the Bible said they realize that they've been
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healed. Then out of the 10 one turn back
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to the Lord Jesus and try to celebrate or appreciate what the
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Lord Jesus has done. Then he asked him, is it not ten
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that were healed? Where are the 9?
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And one astonishing thing is that out of the 10, the nine
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that came back to celebrate or give turns to the Lord Jesus was
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not from Israel. He was not a Jew, He was a
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foreigner. But the people who belongs to
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Jesus, the Israelites, the nine of them, none of them came back.
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And Jesus made some comments about that.
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He said, is it not nigh that were healed?
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Where are the 9? Is it not ten that were hid well
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at the 9? Go and you will be made whole.
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It means that only the one, even though they were healed but they
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were not made whole. It is only the one who returned
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to Jesus. This means that Jesus lives or
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God lives appreciation. So it is very good for escape.
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Baby English assembly to celebrate God's goodness for
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this says here's what the Lord has done.
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Amen. When you read Exodus chapter 15
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verse 20 to 21, something happened.
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I want us to read. I want us to read Ezodus 1520 to
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21 Ezodus 1520. Then Miriam the prophetess, the
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sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all
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the women went out after her with tambourine and dancing,
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praised the Lord, and Miriam sang to them.
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Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously The horse
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and its rider. The horse and his rider he has
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thrown into the sea. Amen.
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This was after the Lord has taken his ride through the Red
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Sea. And in the course of passing
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through the Red Sea, Pharaoh and his soldiers tried to capture
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them even in the middle of the Red Sea.
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And the Bible said God delivered the Israelites and the
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Egyptians. Pharaoh and his army were
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drowned. And after the Israelite has
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crossed the Red Sea, the Bible said Miriam took a tambourine
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and all the women followed her, and they sang and danced to the
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glory of God. Brothers and sisters, the Lord
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has done a lot for us. As I have already said, He has
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taken us through many challenges and problems all all over these
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years. And today we have come out of
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the Red Sea and we have got the cause to bless the name of the
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Lord. So throughout this week up to
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Sunday, I want you to with 1 accord with one heart, celebrate
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the goodness of the Lord, Rejoice together, bless the name
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of the Lord, worship him, give chance to him for his worthy to
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receive Thanksgiving and praise, Amen.
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For great things he has done, Amen.
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And so Miriam took this tambourine and he sank.
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And the Bible says the women danced to the glory of God.
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And this time around, it is not only the women who are going to
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sing and dance, but all of us together celebrating the
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goodness of God. For this six years we are going
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to sing, dance, and bless the name of the Lord, Amen.
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So this will be part of whatever is going on.
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If you know how to dance, please dance.
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Don't wait for anybody, somebody, to come forward to
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dance before you follow. If you know how to dance, please
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know what the Lord has done for you and know what the Lord has
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done for this great church and celebrate the goodness of the
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Lord. Amen.
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Then in Second Samuel chapter 6 verse 13 to 14, I'm still on
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celebrating the goodness of the Lord.
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Second Psalm, where 613 reading through to 14.
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And when those who bore bore the ark of the Lord had gone
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sisters, take note, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened
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animal. The he there is David.
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And when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone, sisters,
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David sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal, and David
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danced before the Lord with all his might, and David was wearing
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a linen effort. Amen.
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This was when the ark of the covenant of God was captured and
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taken to the enemy camp. And after some time the Lord
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performed some wonders there in the camp of the enemy.
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And the people decided that they can no more stay with the ark of
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the Lord because the ark of the Lord is killing them.
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So they decided to bring it back to its original place.
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And when the ark of the covenant of God, you know, the ark of the
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covenant of God represents the presence of God, represents the
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presence and the power and the glory of God.
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So when the ark of the Lord was taken away by the Philistines to
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the enemy can what it means is that the glory of God, the
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presence of God to the Israelites, the glory of God,
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the presence of God and the blessings of God has been taken
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away. Then after some time, because
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God was putting pressure on them, they decided to bring it
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back. And when they brought it back,
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David and his people, his musicians, you know, David
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himself was a musician. David and his people, his
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musician and his kingmakers and all of them met the Ark of the
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Covenant. And as the Ark of the Covenant
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was coming into the city, the Bible says David was singing.
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All the group was singing, dancing.
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And one man was telling that the Bible said when David misses
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steps 123, 456, then he will sacrifice an ox every six steps.
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It tells you that David recognized what the Lord has
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done. David knew the value of the ark
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of the covenant in the presence of Israel.
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In fact, whenever the ark of the covenant of God is with Israel
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and they go into a warfare, the presence of the covenant alone
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puts fear on the enemies. Only the presence without
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starting the war. When the enemies lend that the
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ark of the covenant of God is with Israel, because whenever
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they are going to war, they will carry the ark of the covenant of
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God with them. And whenever the enemy got to
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know that the the ark of the covenant of God has come to the
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warfront, that alone puts fear on the enemy.
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So David knew very well when the ark of the covenant of God was
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taken away, and by God's grace, the ark of the covenant of God
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was brought back. So he sacrificed a bull or an
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animal to the Lord. Every sin steps this evening, I
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pray whatever has been taken out away from you for this week,
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that you are celebrating the sexiest and the goodness of the
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Lord. May God bring it back to you.
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May God bring back to you whatever has been taken by the
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enemy in the name of Jesus, and by so doing you have every cause
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to sacrifice unto the Lord, to give an offering to the Lord, to
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dance before the presence of the Lord, to give your worship unto
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the Lord, to sing and praise God for what He has done.
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Amen. Then let us move to chairman.
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We say the big one, we going to the second part of the team
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where we read that is first, second somewhere 2424 David said
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I will not sacrifice unto the Lord anything that does not cost
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me. And Psalm 50 also says gather
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unto me my people who have covenants, gather to me, my
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faithful ones who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
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Amen. So we talking about celebrating
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the goodness of God, and if God has been so kind, so good and
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faithful to us, if God has taken us through all these years, then
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we have every cause to also sacrifice or offer unto the Lord
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for what He has done for us. Amen.
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So we are going to look at some two or three biblical characters
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who sacrificed unto the Lord. The first one is let us move to
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one to five, Genesis chapter 4 verse one to five.
Genesis 4 chapter mention
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Now Adam knew his Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and
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both came saying, I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.
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And again she bore his brother Abel.
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Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and came a worker of the ground,
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and in the and in the course of time came brought the Lord an
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offering of the fruit of the ground.
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And Abel also brought of the first born of his flock and of
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their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel
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and his offering. This is, I don't know, this kind
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of the other version says that the Lord was pleased with Abel
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and his offering and the Lord also and Abel also brought an
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offering offering five portions from some of his first of the
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first born of his flock. The law looked with favor.
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This is another version on Abel and his offering.
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Yes. No, please go forward.
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But he did not accept Cain and his gifts.
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This made Cain very angry and he looked dejected.
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I want you to take no, please go back.
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A later Abel also brought gifts to the gifts, the best of the
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first born lambs from his flock. The Lord accepted Abel and his
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gift. Take note.
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The Lord accepted #1 Abel. There is A&D there, that is.
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And the Lord accepted Abel and his offering.
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So #1 God accepted Abel himself before accepting his offering #2
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let's, let's go for it. Take note of this one too.
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But the Lord did not accept. Take note.
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But the Lord did not accept Cain and his offering.
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Here too there is something I want you to take note.
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So in the 1st place, Cain himself was not accepted.
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That is why his offering was not accepted.
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Please are you following me? Abel was accepted and his
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offering also was accepted and the Bible said can the Lord was
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not pleased. That means he was not accepted.
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That young man was not correct even before then went in to
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offer sacrifices. That guy, he was not correct.
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He was not correct. That is why the Bible says God
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did not accept. God did not accept that His cane
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and His offering. I pray this evening that God
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will accept you, that God will accept the praises and the
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worships that you make you make unto the Lord every time,
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anytime that will come in His presence.
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Because if God does not accept you, anything, everything about
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you is useless. It is a fact.
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These are realities in the Bible.
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If God does not accept you, you in person, if God does not
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accept me as a minister of the gospel, then everything I do, it
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doesn't matter what I do, the end result is useless.
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So I pray that May God accept accept you as a person, May God
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accept your offering and May God accept your sacrifices.
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Everything, anything that you do unto the Lord, May God accept it
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in Jesus name. God accepted a bell, but the
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Bible says he accepted a bell and his.
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God accepted a bell and his offering but for Cain, the Bible
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said God did not accepted his offering.
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He did not accepted him #1 and #2 he himself his offering was
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also not accepted. I heard this story, some people
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used to say that Cain brought in some rotten Coco yams and
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plantains and too bad of yams. And so it is not, it is not
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biblical, it is never in it is not in the Bible at all.
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But the fact is that the guy was not correct.
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And I'll prove it to you. Let's move on to verse.
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Verse. Why are you so angry?
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The Lord asked him. Ask him, why do you look so
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dejected? Yes.
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You will be accepted. Take note.
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You will be accepted if you do what is right, if you behave
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well, if you conduct yourself well, you will be accepted.
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But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out.
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Sin is crouching at crouching at the door, eager to control you,
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but you must subdue it and be its master.
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Please let's go for him. One day, Cair suggested to his
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brother. Let's go out into the 1st, and
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while they were there in the third, Cain attacked his brother
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Abel and killed him. It tells you who that guy is.
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He attacked his own brother and the Bible said he killed him.
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So there was some kind of bitterness and some kind of evil
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seed in that young man. Yes, let's move on.
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After all, the Lord asked Cain, where is your brother?
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Where is Abel? I don't know, Cain responded.
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Am I my brother's guardian, Adama?
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She says, am I my brother's keeper?
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You see the kind of response that he gave to God, It tells
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you if there was no response even after he has sent, after he
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has killed his own brother. And God himself came in to
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enquire of whereabout of his brother and he said am I the
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keeper? I don't know.
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I don't know his whereabout. Am I the keeper of my brain?
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If you are looking for a bird, are you know God?
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Can't you find where he is? Why do you come and ask me?
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Yeah. When you read some Bible
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commentary, this is what he says.
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So you could see that the guy himself was not correct.
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I was reading some Bible commentary and said that after
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Adam and Eve sin and they were drove drove out of the garden of
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Eden, they conceived and gave birth to Eve.
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So the sin Incarnate in they conceived and gave birth to a
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cave. So the sin Incarnate in cave was
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so strong. This is by the way.
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But what I'm saying is, God said he told him that if you had done
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what is good, will you not be accepted?
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It means that you have right to do what is good and you have
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right to do what is evil. Then he warned him, be very
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careful because sin is encroaching at your door.
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It desires to destroy you. It desires to kill you, but take
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control. Don't give him master it.
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Yet God gave him this one. Yet this guy, because of the
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state in which he was, he couldn't repent.
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I pray that as we celebrate the six years of this great church,
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May God have mercy on us, and may no bitter root begin to grow
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in any of us. And May God accept you even just
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as you are. May God accept you as a person.
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May God accept you young lady. May God accept you young man,
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and may everything that you do, even you are clapping when you
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come to church and you are singing, you are dancing.
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Even the dress that you come to church with, May God accept it
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in Jesus name. And when God accept everything
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of yours, then you are done. Amen.
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When God accepts everything that you do, then you have God on
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your side. Amen.
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So May God accept the tides and the offerings that you've been
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given. These days on the social media,
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you hear people saying a whole lot of things about Titan and
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about offering and so on. And so my especially attacking
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the Church of Pentecost. So when I was studying this
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afternoon, I came to this point and this one came to me.
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If there are people who don't know our God, that one is a.
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But to us, those of us who know our God, one, one name.
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Yeah, yeah, me one someone. So in celebrating the goodness
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of God, we have to get a good heart before our sacrifices will
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be accepted by the Lord. Amen.
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So if there are sacrifices that honest God on the opposite side,
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what it means is that there are other sacrifices to who which
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does not honor God. And that is exactly what
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happened in the case of Cain. His brother sacrifice was
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accepted, but his was not accepted this evening.
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May God accept you and even the very mind, the thoughts that you
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have, your imaginations, May God accept it.
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Amen. May God accept you.
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So there was a time that Jesus was in the church auditorium and
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offerings and sacrifices were being made.
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It's one of your one of your quotations that is a mark 1241
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And as Jesus was standing by the offering war, people were giving
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off friends, fast envelope and so on and so forth.
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Then a woman came along, dropped in some money, went and sat
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down. Then Jesus called his disciples
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and said, I tell you the truth, this woman has given more than
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everybody in the room. Why was Jesus?
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Why did Jesus made that comment? He saw the mind and the heart of
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that woman. He saw the mind and the heart of
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that woman. Of course it is good to give fat
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envelopes and big man. We need it to develop the
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church. But whatever you give or
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sacrifice unto the Lord, whatever you do unto for the
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Lord, either by sacrificing money, giving an offering,
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paying of tithe, and so on and so forth, let your heart be part
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of what you are doing or giving unto the Lord.
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If not, you give it, and at the end of the day you gain nothing
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out of it. So Jesus saw the woman's heart
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and said, this woman has given more than anyone in this
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auditorium. May God accept your offerings
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and whatever you give unto the Lord.
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If I when I got to know about this mystery, I realized that
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whatever I do, every step that I take, everywhere that I speak,
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anything and everything that I do, I have to make sure that God
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accepts it. If not, the rest of whatever I
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do as a minister will be useless.
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So May God accept you, May God accept you.
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I say, May God accept you. And the Bible said after Cain
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has killed his brother, when God appeared to Cain, he said, your
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brother's blood is calling out for you.
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And when you read the book of Hebrew, the heroes of faith, the
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Bible said by faith Abel sacrifice an offering unto the
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Lord, and through that even he died.
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And the Bible said he still speaks.
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What does this mean? It means that people who
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sacrifices wholeheartedly unto the Lord, even after their
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death, the blessings continues in their family.
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It is true, it is happening in this church.
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We have seen it over and over again and it is still happening.
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Praise the Lord. So please, whatever you are
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doing, cleaning of the temple gander, cleaning of chairs,
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choirmaster, bandsmen, instrumentalists, Deacon,
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deaconess, elders, whatever you do, please do it with all your
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strength and do it with all your heart.
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It's a form of sacrifice unto the Lord.
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And when God accepts that one, the Bible says seek ye fails the
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Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all the other
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things, all the other things will follow.
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Amen. So May God accept you this
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evening even as he accepted Abel, and may the offering and
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the sacrifices that you are making daily in the temple of
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God, may He, may He continue on throughout the generations to
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come. Amen.
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Then we move to another man who sacrificed to the Lord, and his
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sacrifice was so much so that it baffles me.
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Let us move to Genesis 22 one to 8.
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Genesis 22 one to 8. I want somebody to read for me.
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Genesis 20, somebody who can read, if you can give it the new
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international version. I prefer that.
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The NIV. Yeah.
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Who is reading for us? Yeah, Genesis 2822, one to 8.
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Sometime later God tested Abraham.
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He said to him, Abraham, here I am, he replied.
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Then God said, take your son, your only son whom you love,
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Isaac, and go to the region of Moria.
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Sacrifice him there as a bent offering on a mountain.
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I will show you. Please wait, please go back, it
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says some time later, after some time after Abraham had gone
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through all these challenges, God called Abraham when he was
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75 years and he promised to give him a son.
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And for 25 years later, this promise had not come to pass.
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Even in the course of time, his wife Sarah told him to at least
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take her maid servants. And we all know what happened,
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but at the end of the day, God fulfilled his promise and Isaac
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was born. Then the Bible said after Isaac
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was born, after some time, some time later God tested Abraham.
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He said to him, Abraham. Then he said, here I am Lord.
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Then his God said, take your son.
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You are only, take note, your only son that time.
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Is it true that Abraham had only one son?
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There is a mystery here. Is it true that Abraham had only
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one son? Ishmael had been born.
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But you know God did not accept Ishmael as a son of Abraham.
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That is why he told him, after Abraham took that young lady and
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and the lady conceived and gave birth, God came to Abraham and
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said, Abraham Nantimanim Nayapet, walk before me and be
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perfect when you study the Bible.
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Very well, after some years that that young lady conceived in the
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House of Abraham, till he gave birth God never appeared to
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Abraham. It was after some time that God
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appeared to him. Then he told him, drive away
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this house and the child. So Ishmael and the mother were
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taking us from Abraham's household.
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They were driven away. God didn't even want to look at
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them, so they went. So the time that Abraham Isaac
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was born to God, Abraham had only one son.
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That is why he said take your only son, take your only son.
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And Abraham knew that to God he had only one son.
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Abraham also knew that and go to the region of Moria sacrifice
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him there as an as a band offering on on a mountain that I
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will show you just go and when you study the Bible very well.
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They traveled for three days amounting to 50 to 60 kilometers
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miles, sorry, not kilometers miles 50 to 60 miles.
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Then at the end of the third day, please continue.
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Yes, uh huh. Only the next morning Abraham
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got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his
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servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for
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the bent offering, he set out for the place God had told him
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about. On the third day, Abraham looked
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up and saw the place in the distance.
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After the third day. After the dead, he.
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Saw the place in the distance, He saw Mount Moria far away.
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So you ask yourself, all these were working for three days, 50
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to 60 miles. What was going through the mind
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of this man? So after the three days, he saw
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it. After three days, he hadn't even
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read the place. He saw the place in a far away.
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Then he did something. Yes, verse.
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He said to his servants, Stay here with the donkey while I and
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the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will
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come back to you. Amen.
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Amen. He knew very well that God has
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asked him to when sacrifice his Son has bent off him.
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But after three days he got to a place he saw Maria far away.
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I had in front of him. Then he told the servant to sit
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there and wait for him. And he said, I and the boy who
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go over there, we will worship the Lord and we will come back
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to you. I pray that God will open up
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your eyes and your understanding that you know who Goddess when
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you read the Bible very well. The Bible says He knew that even
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though when he calls the Son, God is able to bring him back.
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That is why he did not ask question.
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I call this expensive sacrifice. Yes, we are about to finish.
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Yes. Abraham took the wood for the
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bench offering and placed it on his son's head.
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On his son Isaac, Yes, and he himself carried the fire and the
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knife. As the two of them went on
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together, Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham,
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Father. Yes, my son, Abraham replied.
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The fire and the wood are here, Isaac said, But where is the
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lamb for the bent's offering? Abraham answered.
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God himself will provide the Lamb for the Bent's offering.
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My Son. And the two of them went on
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together. Amen.
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Amen. May God provide for you, I said.
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May God, the Bible says he collecting that be not as though
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they were stored somewhere when the world was being created.
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God had no natural resources, He had no materials.
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The Bible says he collecting that be not, although they were
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stored somewhere. This building that we see the
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pillars and so are made of of iron rods and cement and sand
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and stones and so on and so forth.
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These are artificial flowers. It is made out of something.
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They took it through some machines and at the end of the
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day we had this end product. But when God was creating the
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world, the Bible says there was nothing.
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Like raw materials, he just collect things into being and
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they came forth. Amen.
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I pray that God will call the impossibility to be possible in
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your life. This young man, he had been
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seeing the Father going out there to offer sacrifice
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whenever the Abraham is going. He had a lamb, a sheep or
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whatever with him. But this time around he told
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him, we are going to offer sacrifices unto the Lord.
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They were carrying the fire, the wood, and all the knife and so
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on and so forth. But he saw no sheep.
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There was no sheep, the lamb or the animal.
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For the sacrifice for the for the sacrifice was not part of
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the agenda. So this young man had been
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thinking about it for all these three days.
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Then he opened his mouth. And as Father, so you said we
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are going to offer sacrifices unto the Lord.
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Yes, the firewood. I've seen that you are holding
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the knife with which you used to cut the throat of the animal.
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This is the fire. And the other thing that we went
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to made the offering and so on and so forth.
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But please, where is the animal? And the Father said the Lord
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would provide. May God provide for you, and
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indeed the Lord did provide. At the end of the day, when the
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God to Manmaria, the Bible says he set up that fire altar.
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He put the son Isaac on it, covered the fence and drew his
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knife. For the sake of time we cannot
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read. Or when you go, you can
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continue. He lifted up the hand, the knife
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and was about to slash the throat of this young man and the
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Bible said a voice from the from heaven shouted Abraham.
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Abraham, don't touch the child. Just lift up your eyes and look
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into the thick Bush over there. There is around.
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May God provide for you. Sometimes certain things in our
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lives seem to be impossible. We think where we are, where we
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have gotten to, there is nothing we can do and so on and so
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forth. But I want to assure you tonight
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that God is on your side and it is possible you provide it.
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The vision is yet for an appointed time, even though it
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tarries, the Bible says wait for it, it shall never prove false.
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It shall surely come to pass. And the right and the appointed
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time God provided a sheep, and which was used for the
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sacrifice. May God provide for you.
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And may the will and the purpose of God concerning your life be
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established. Even as we sacrifice unto the
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Lord, as we celebrate the goodness of the Lord, and also
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sacrifice unto the Lord a sacrifice that honors God.
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May God fears and foremost accept you, and may He accept
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your offering, and may He provide for you even as you
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sacrifice unto the Lord. God bless you in Jesus name.
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Amen. Please let us be on our feet,
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Let us be on our feet. Just be quiet.
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Just be quiet before the presence of the Lord.
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Kapasura tabi kadabaya LAN tuba shiki bredabayan dala Baba libro
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sabada yandala. My.
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Oh. Can you
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please forward? None.
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None. Brothers and sisters, God has
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been so kind, good and faithful to us.
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My special escape to English assembly for this past six
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years. As I did mention when I was
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starting to preach, you have gone through a lot challenges
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and problems, but God has been faithful, God has been kind, God
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has taken you through and God has brought you this far.
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None. None.
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The. None.
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The. As we celebrate the goodness of
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God for what He has done for us, I want you to turn back and look
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into your life. Go back into yourself and look
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into your life, where God brought you from and where you
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have reached the deliverance. God's divine guidance is
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provision. Just last week, young men and
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women who are going in for employment in the army.
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Some young men who has gone through to the university, they
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just told their parents, Mommy, I'm going, I'm going to a work
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stadium and I'll be by, I believe by one, one in the
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afternoon I'll be at home. And six of them never came back.
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God has been kind to you. God has been good to you.
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The God has been kind to you. So as we celebrate the goodness
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of the Lord this week for bringing escape to English
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assembly this far for this six years, I want you to look back
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into your own life, what the Lord has done for you, and begin
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to celebrate the goodness of God.
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Begin to bless the Lord. Begin to lift up the name of the
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Lord in the name of Jesus. Holy Ghost, we want to thank
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you, Lord, we want to. The.
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None. None.
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None. We studied, we studied Genesis
Genesis 4 chapter mention
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chapter 4, and I made mention that if there is a God who
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honest, if there is a God who honest sacrifices, if there is a
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sacrifice that honors God, Yeah. If there is a sacrifice that
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honors God, it means that there is also a sacrifice that does
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not honor God. And we saw it in the life of
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these two young men, Cain and Abel.
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The Bible said God was pleased with Abel and his offering.
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He was pleased with Abel himself before he was pleased with his
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offering. The Bible said again that God
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was not pleased with Cain and he was not pleased with his
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offering. We are praying this evening,
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committing ourselves into the hands of the Lord.
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The first thing that you need from God as we celebrate the
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goodness of the Lord is that you will be pleased unto the Lord
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Jesus, that the Lord will accept your offering, that the Lord
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will accept you even just as you are.
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We are praying, committing ourselves into the hands of the
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Lord, that May God accept us. May God be pleased with us in
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the name of Jesus. Pray, pray, pray.
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I. In the name of Jesus.
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None. Yes, yes.
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The. None.
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None in the name of Jesus. We also studied about Abraham
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who sacrificed, who was about to sacrifice Isaac unto the Lord.
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And when you read from verse 15, after the Lord called from
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heaven to Abraham to stop killing his son, verse 15 and
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the Angel of the Lord called Abraham out of heaven the second
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time and said, I swear by myself, for because you have
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done this, I will not withheld. Because you have done this and
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has not withheld your son from me, your only son, I will bless
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you and multiply all your seed. Because you have done this, we
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are praying, committing escape to English assembly, to the
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hands of the Law. We are committing all the
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members into the hands of the Law because of your obedience to
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the law, because of your sacrifices unto the law, even as
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we celebrate the goodness of the law.
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May God call from heaven, May God call from heaven, May God
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call from heaven and shower down blessings unto this.
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Let us pray. Let us pray.
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None. Now take note of the 17 I will
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surely bless you and make your design descendants as numerous
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as the stars in the sky and as the sun on the seashore.
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Your descendants would take possession of the cities of
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their enemies. This is thousands of years ago
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that God said, but as we speak now, Israel is taking control
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over Gaza as we speak now. Well, superpowers has spoken by
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Netanyahu, stands where he stands.
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That small nation, that small nation is right.
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He was able to stand before Trump and say I won't do what
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you are saying. And no nation on that can stand
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before American President do what Netanyahu is doing and
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still go on fighting and possessing the land of the
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enemies tells you that what God said is true.
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He says your descendant to possess the cities of the
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enemies. We are praying as we we
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celebrating as we celebrating the goodness of the Lord.
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We are asking God the Holy Spirit, Jesus, because of our
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sacrifices. May God cause us to possess the
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gates of our enemies. Pray and commit yourself.
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We are praying our last prayer for this evening.
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We are praying committing Escapedu Worship Center, more
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especially English assembly into the hands of the Lord.
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For this says yes. God has been so kind, good and
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faithful. We are asking God for the years
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ahead to be with us, to strengthen us, that this
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assembly will possess the gates of the enemy, that the blessings
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of God will be poured abundant in this local assembly, that the
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glory of the Lord will be revealed, that God will accept
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our offering, and that God will accept the members of escaping.
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And. Let us resume our seats.
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The. This song is so we were praying
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somewhere in Kumar say and one minister had this song the same
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tune by a different May God.
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Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we want to thank you.
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We want to bless you. We'll lift up your name on high
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for great things you have done. We thank you for what you have
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done, for escaping the English assembly, for this says yes.
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We thank you for what you have done.
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We thank you and bless you for what you are doing.
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And we worship you and assault you for what you are about to
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do. Our Lord and our God.
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We bless you even as we celebrate the goodness of the
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Lord and sacrifice, A sacrifice that honors God.
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We commit this assembly into your hands, O Lord, that first
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and foremost you accept this local assembly and the members
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in this assembly. Then secondly, Lord, you accept
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their sacrifices, you accept their offerings, you accept
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their services, you accept their worship and everything that I do
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here to be accepted unto you. Lord, let it be so in the name
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of Jesus. We also commit leadership of
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this assembly, our pastor Emmanuel Osakosan, the wife and
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children, our presenter, the elders, the kings and
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deaconesses, and every member of this great church, even Sunday
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school children. We commit them into your hands.
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O Lord, you started six years ago with them, and that's far as
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you brought them. That's far have you brought
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them? We are asking God in the name of
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Jesus, the Bible says you start a good word and you bring it to
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a good conclusion. So we are praying, asking that
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your presence will continue to abide with this church, and that
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the will and the purpose of you God concerning this assembly
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will be established. May the desires of the heart of
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your heart be established, and may the will and the purpose of
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God concerning your lives be established.
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Even as you celebrate the goodness of the Lord and
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sacrifice A sacrifice that honest God.
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May the will and the purpose of God concerning your life be
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established, and may He accept you and your offering.
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In the mighty name of Jesus. I've prayed with Thanksgiving.
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Amen. Let's clap on to the Lord.
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Let's clap on to the Lord.