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Introduction
Have you guys ever seen the movie, “The Pursuit of Happyness.”
Staring Will Smith.
It’s an underdog story of a man that has nothing and is determined to provide a good life for his son.
I love underdog stories.
I am constantly rooting for the underdog.
I might even be watching a football game and my team start stopping the other team, I’m liable to flip and start rooting for the other team.
I have been asked more than once.
Who’s side are you on?
It’s not that I’m not loyal.
I just love the underdog story.
I really think that is why I love the ministry.
It’s full of underdog stories.
God has a way of taking the most unlikely people and doing the most extraordinarily things with them.
When we talk about God having great plans for you, Do you really believe it?
Great plans are hard to believe for the underdog.
Maybe you weren’t born with privileged or promise.
Maybe you didn’t grow up with opportunities at your finger tips.
That just makes you an underdog and I have come to understand that God is looking for the underdog.
So when we talk about God having great plans for you, Do you really believe it?
Abram and Saria were underdogs.
It didn’t seem like they had what it takes.
But yet God chose them to do extraordinary things.
Turn with me to and let’s pick up our story.
The Circumcision of Abraham
The Separation of Abram
Genesis
When God appears the natural response is the fall on your face.
When God appears the natural response is the fall on your face.
God’s vision is expanded through a new name
Abram means “exalted father”
Abraham means “father of many nations”
God’s covenant finalized
Genesis
God commits himself to Abraham and his offspring.
God give the land as a everlasting possession.
The Sanctification of Abraham
Circumcising the foreskin was not a common practice.
Circumcision was a token of the covenant, not the covenant
There was no undoing the covenant that God was making with his people.
The Silliness of Abraham
Genesis 17:15
What we pray to God and what we say to ourselves is two different things.
Genesis 17:18
What we pray to God and what we say to ourselves is two different things.
What you produce in the flesh will never take the place of what God produces in the Spirit.
What you produce in the flesh will never take the place of what God produces in the Spirit.
The Circumcision of the Cross
Christ has cut off our flesh with it’s deeds raised us in the Spirit.
What we receive and what we believe are two different things.
Col
Jesus has cancelled the record of your debt.
You are free from sin and death.
If you don’t receive this circumcision in the Spirit than you have no covenant with God.
If you have no covenant with God you stand condemned in your sin.
You will be banished from his presence.
Please bow your heads for prayer.
The Circumcision of the Cross
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