Dr David has devoted both sermons and written materials to the subject of on ring the biblical foundations of America join us on behalf of Dr Jeremiah as we present our national anthem a tribute to the men and women of the American military past and present here to sing The Star-Spangled Banner the combined choirs of the u.s. Naval Academy the u.s. Air Force Academy the u.s. Military Academy at West Point and the u.s. Coast Guard Academy accompanied by the u.s. Army herald trumpets this is the national anthem of the United States of America. As. We can. Close. The. Logo. Was the sun. The. Sun the them loads. And. Loads. And loads. Will. Genesis 22 and one the book of beginnings 22nd chapter 1st verse will be reading from the New King James version of Word of God reads this way . Came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham feel can said to him Abraham and he said here. And then he says. Take Now your son your only son Isaac. And go to the land of Orion and offer him there is a burnt offering one of the mountains of which I Shoto. So I was only in the morning and donkey and took 2 of his young men with him and Isaac his son and he split the road for the boat offering a rose and went to the place of which God had told him that on the 3rd day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place so far off. And Abraham said to his young man stay here with the donkey the lad and I will go yonder and we will come back to you so Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and the 2 of them went together but I was expelled to Abraham his father and said my father. And he said here are my my son and he said Look the father in the road is the lamb for a burnt offering. Abraham said my son God will provide for himself a lamb for a burnt offering so the 2 of them went together then they came to the place of which God a told him and Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the would a neighbor have stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay a son but the angel of the lower court took him from heaven saying Abraham. And he said Do not lay your hand on the lad or do. Any thing to him. For now I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son. Your only son from me then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for burnt offering instead of his. Neighbor I have caught the name of the place the Lord will provide as it is said to this day and the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided. And then the angel of the Lord called Abraham a 2nd time out of heaven and said by myself I have sworn says the Lord because you have done these thing and have not withheld your son your only son blessings I will bless you and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the sea shore and your descendants show possess the gates of their enemies. And you will see. All the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed my voice so I am returning to his young men and they rose and went together to. And Abraham and may God bless the readers and doers of his word have a question to ask you today is a pretty simple question. Do you love God anough to let go do you love God anough to let go my 1st born today is. God knows what you love united able to hide it from him for god knows what it is that is the apple of your he knows what you covet he knows what you. Verse to says then he said Take Now your son your only son Isaac whom you what. God knows what it is that you love he knows even though you may not know that you love him there are some things that we love and we don't even know we love there are times when the saying is true you never measure water. To your well runs dry. There's some friendships and relationships that some of you have been privy to and you never thought much of them until they were no longer and then you miss those relationships because you didn't understand how much you love that person am I right about it there are sometimes things that we love. More than God Some folk loved a car Hello I didn't say everybody. But some folks loved. A man. The truth of the matter is. There's some funky love their car more than their spouse. A man. Some callers of a. Man folk without a kitchen past. Mains as we went out and bought something we thought we were big enough to buy. And then came back to explain to the wife father going to help us pay for a problem is why were 11 on the car every time your wife walks past that vehicle she is reminded. Of what that vehicle represents. A vehicle represents mistrusts it represents a lack of communication. Every time their child needs new clothes they think of that vehicle. You need a new deck out back but that car's sitting in the garage. He thinks about. The truth of the matter is sometimes God knows what you care about and what you love and sometimes he will have you to get rid of what you care about and what. Hello so I wife may come up to you and say you know what that Corvette does in the garage we need to sell that. We sold that car we could pay off. Hello. That bone I'd been in a waiter in 2 years now annoying to annoy me as from the god. You women should be shout because the bottom line is. Done things that we attach our affections to God and do with. And sometimes God knows what we love and sometimes he will allow those things to come under attack and as my 2nd point guard will challenge your faith using the things that you love. A man you know science we got to ask ourselves the question do we love God enough to let go of stuff he tells us to let go because necessary everything that God wants us to let go of isn't necessarily bad it I mean the bad stuff is easy to figure out God don't want me to say and if I do this I'll say and I won't do that anymore it's the stuff that you know it's not sin but God doesn't want you doing that anymore. We want God to bless us and we want God to take us to higher heights but unfortunately we're not prepared to allow God to prepare the ground to build on You see whenever you build something you can't just go out and star land bridge. You have to survey the land make sure it can hold the structure. You have to make sure there's no clay especially in Colorado so it doesn't expand on you later on buckle your car so you have to do a cypress and some of us don't want God to do a side prep in our lives we want him to bless us and build us just the way we are. But the truth of the matter is and your thought of the day says it sometimes there's things between us and God to keep them from building. And they have to be rooted out. Now sometimes when you build in the natural you run against some things that are a little more stubborn to deal with. Clay you can just see the new true. There were chemicals or you can go down deep enough and mix it in with other dirt so that the vein is no longer intact because it's the clay vein that causes the pop up. But what if you run into as bestest then you've got to do a special chemical cleanup because asbestos is awful so. Now some people may say well why you got even messed with it it's been there it's been finding nobody must want because if you build with as best as somebody is going to pay the penalty for that later. And saying there's some sin in our lives that if God doesn't clean out now it is going to impact what's go on in our lives late. And it's got to be cleaned out and sometimes that's painful sometimes you gotta let go of relationships that you covet sometimes you've got to let go of playing that you think highly of most of all you've got to trust. Abraham say at this let's go up and let's sacrifice what he says here. And Abraham said to his young man stay here with the donkey. Lad and I will go yonder and worship and we will. Ok Before Abraham went up on the mountain before he saw the ram in the bush before he heard the voice he told the young man who travel with stay here my son and I are going to worship and we will return that's an act of faith. It is saying Abraham is saying God I know you require my son but you promised me a son. So you know shorter than your word. So if I sacrifice him I guess you're going to bring him back to life or you're going to do something up there on the mountain I don't know what it is but I. No this much your promise is that I'm going to go back. Some of us are afraid to give up stuff that are in our lives because we feel we won't get it back. We're for it that we suffer loss how many and here like your jobs. It's not a crime to say you like your job. How many thing for you got a job thank you Jesus with some folks really like their jobs and it could be said that they love their job. And sometimes those jobs consume them sometimes they spend more time at the job than they do at home. And God knows what it is you love Remember we said that on the onset. He knows what it is that you really really do. So some times. When your company downsize. And you lose your job. It may take the response necessary to humble yourself and seek God's face and trust him more than you trust that the job. This job situation. Sometimes when we have our jobs we take them for granted until we lose we complain about every single day. And then all it takes is somebody to mention we're going on strike and all of a sudden you're not complain and any more you say at all what am I go and do. Oh you know what I've been on 15 years you know what I've been good to me is like you to change it. And science what we've got to recognize is that we have to we have to trust the guy who gave you the job we have to not be defined by what we do in the world we live in today when you meet people the question is often asked maybe what's your name but after. You find out what the person's name what's the next question. What do you do. And it's like we're defined by what it is we do. And we put too much emphasis on that I mean we lose our job we won't take a job because it's not up to our standard Listen folks when you got a job a job is a good thing. Or live off of our credit cards we'll file for bankruptcy some people commit suicide because they lost their job. But when you learn not to love what God's given more than you love God you're able to release it you know what you ought to be saying. I was downsized yesterday pastor but you know what I'm doing tomorrow or today I'm going up to call the Arapahoe works up here and I'm going to follow some paperwork and I'm trusting God for the next job because you know God knows you need a job. Abraham was so steadfast to do what God said to do that as you take a look at scripture you find a verse 11 that the angel Have to Call from Heaven twice to get his attention not once but twice. To adopt him from his purpose and when you know it when God said Now I know you trust me he said turn around there's a ram in the bush. Not science can I say this to you Abraham did not see the ram into he moved forward in obedience he didn't see the ram on the way up there he didn't see the ram when he built the altar he didn't see the ram when he tied Isaac he didn't see the ram when he laid Isaac on the altar but it wasn't until he moved forward in obedience that he saw the rain and the ram was the substitute for the. Pain and suffering he would otherwise have to endure by losing this. As saying sometimes we won't move forward in obedience. Because we think that where God is asking us to go it's too hard and it's too much force and it's too difficult and we will move forward in obedience and so we will never get to the point of the Ram substitution but don't you know it isn't God providing that the blessing is Abraham called this place God provides. For you who do Hebrew. It means God provide Jova Gyra. That God provides in his mouth is what Abraham called the place he knew no matter what he would go through in life at that point he knew God will provide. And saying we've got to know God will provide enough to release and to let go. Number 3 if you love your love for God is greater than people or things he promises he promises you great blessings science one of the hardest things that I deal with relationships with folks in the ministry is helping them to let go of relationships. As one to harvest very folk are looking for God to give confirmation and let me help you with something if you got someone slapping you upside the head every other night. That is confirmation that's confirmation to get away. And get it get a restraining order that's what that's confirmation that it passed all of maybe the law would change and what not at your expense let the Lord work on it not you some of us got to love folk enough to let him go. And as you know ours my story my wife and I asked her to marry me and 19. 1976 she termed me down. She said that I wasn't saved. And God had a save guy in line for her to marry. But it's interesting to me she didn't quit dating me she just continued to pray. She must believe one day you'll be saved Lord turn me down I've never asked anyone to marry me before so I've never been turned down before not that I thought I was that big of a cat but she said no but she trusted. She release me she took the risk and as God would have it almost a year to the day later I ended up receiving Jesus Christ not by her hand but by God's direction God be willing the left. Trying to drag them in the year and dust them off and get a holy number 2 with they just get same let him learn something and don't pick him Green off the tree. Somebody open the door for you and you're thinking you're picking all curtains. Wait on the Lord there are great blessings waiting for you and I'm almost through. There are great blessings waiting for you if you're obedient to God look at scripture again it says in 15 the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a 2nd time out of have it. Myself I've sworn say as the Lord because you have withheld your son your only son on blessing I will bless you multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven and sans which is on the seashore and your descendants. Shall possess the gates of their enemy and that means that they're going to have favor with their enemies folks and they want to know why. $800.00 is in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed my voice and so it is Abraham's obedience that not only brought blessings upon himself but have brought blessings upon those associated with him and those that come after him that would mean to you and to me on our legacy it would be our children our grandchildren and all voles that we have are an arse fear of interest you all follow me with that well with a clear understanding of that is that therefore plausible to some make the statement that there are people. That are beyond your immediate family that are in your sphere venture that are waiting on your obedience for the blessing that's remarkable to me that God is going to use me in my obedience. To bless somebody else but 1st I gotta be obedient Now if you're scared folks some of you know what God has told you to do you just been sitting on it you know what God told you to do all it takes is for you do it. If you're scared of the. Remember. The ram caught in a bush isn't seen in till you act. So take the 1st step. God will show you. Show you what the planet. But saying if you don't take the 1st step there's no need for God to show you the rain if you won't step out of faith a man you need to do that you need to number 2 maybe God called you to do so maybe for years good Lord it wouldn't be placing on your heart to become a teacher and you go well in 2 or 3 classes away from it not only do. The classism become a teacher there may be a young man or young woman that's waiting on you. Back and. Influence. In our class reunion our we had a teacher show up I was telling my wife about this guy its name was Mr Ritz is my favorite class he made history find he used to come dressed up as historical characters and discuss Have It was amazing he made you want to study history and he showed up at our classroom. And I said wow that's kind of cool you know we did a show up at our class reunion like this I mean if he got a hit one ever you know I mean you know all the kids that you probably in fact he says I'm always curious to see how you guys turned out. Curious to see what my little piece may have contributed to curious and right now folks there are people who are waiting on you to make some moves to make some steps so that they will. That's what this is about. Do you love God enough to let it go that's the question let me go part isn't hard that's the question I have a personal testimony for you as most of you know for 4 years. We've had 2 children in college they both attended private schools. I remember writing a check for $5000.00 and saying Ok that should handle that for a minute and after a month and a half 2 months went by we got another. 2 children in college and we're in our last year here but you know many of you may not know it but we also ran a business with 2 stores and also our rights on the 3rd store actually did begin we ended up selling that chain to. To a company that runs that type of business but we are running 2 stores were pastoring here we have the kids in college I was talking with Digger Robison and we had some real estate and some other investments that wasn't liquid but it was something we could tap into and he said hey he says God bless you with that stuff you go ahead and let it go he can always give it back to you. 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