Connecting Promises To Fulfillment

1 BROTHER KUYKENDAL WAS A PASTOR IN TEXAS 2 • H. Z. DUKE, FOUNDER OF DUKE AND AYERS NICKEL STORES, • ASKED HIM IF HE BELIEVED IN TITHING • TO WHICH HE REPLIED THAT HE DID. • MR. DUKE THEN ASKED HIM IF HE PRACTICED TITHING. • HE ANSWERED, “NO, I DO NOT. • I BELIEVE IN TITHING, BUT I CANNOT PRACTICE IT. • YOU SEE, I HAVE THIRTEEN CHILDREN AT HOME. 3 4 • EVERY MEAL FIFTEEN OF US SIT DOWN AT THE TABLE. • I RECEIVE ONLY $125 A MONTH, • I HAVE TO MAINTAIN MY OWN HORSE AND BUGGY FOR CONSTANT TRAVELING. • IT IS JUST IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THE NEEDS 5 • OF A FAMILY OF FIFTEEN OUT OF $125 A MONTH • AND HAVE MONEY LEFT TO TITHE. • SO I BELIEVE IN TITHING, AND I PREACH IT, BUT I CANNOT PRACTICE IT.” • MR. DUKE THEN SAID, “I WANT YOU TO GIVE GOD AT LEAST $12.50 EVERY MONTH 6 • AS SOON AS YOU GET YOUR SALARY. • THEN AS YOU FEEL LED, YOU MAY GIVE MORE. • I PROMISE YOU THAT IF YOU NEED HELP, I WILL GIVE IT. • SIMPLY WRITE ME A LETTER AND SAY, ‘BROTHER DUKE. 7 • I AM GIVING A TITHE, BUT I MISS THE MONEY. • I NEED IT FOR MY FAMILY. I HAVE GIVEN THIS YEAR SO MUCH.’ • I PROMISE YOU THAT I WILL SEND YOU A CHECK BY RETURN MAIL. 8 • ARE YOU WILLING TO TRY TITHING ON THAT BASIS?” • BROTHER KUYKENDAL WAS VERY EXCITED AT THE OFFER AND BEGAN TITHING. • THAT YEAR GOD TOOK CARE OF HIS NEEDS IN UNEXPECTED WAYS 9 • SO THAT HE NEVER HAD TO SEND THAT LETTER TO MR. DUKE. • NEAR THE END OF THE YEAR HE REALIZED • THAT HE HAD TRUSTED MR. DUKE’S PROMISE TO PROVIDE FOR HIM 10 • MORE THAN HE HAD TRUSTED GOD’S PROMISE. • HE SAID, “I HAD TAKEN THE WORD OF A MAN • WHEN I DID NOT TAKE THE PROMISE OF GOD! • NOW I HAD PROVEN GOD’S PROMISES 11 • AND FOUND THAT HE TOOK CARE OF ME • AND MY BIG FAMILY ON A SMALL SALARY. • I FOUND THAT $112.50 PER MONTH TOOK CARE OF OUR FAMILY BETTER, • WITH GOD’S BLESSING, • THAN $125 DID WITHOUT IT 12 • IN LIFE WE HAVE A CHOICE • WE HAVE TO CHOOSE WHO WE ARE GOING TO TRUST • WE CAN TRUST IN OUR SELVES • WE CAN TRUST IN OTHER PEOPLE • WE CAN TRUST IN THE GOVERNMENT 13 • OR WE CAN TRUST IN GOD • WE NEED TO KNOW THAT TRUSTING • IN ANYONE OTHER THAN GOD IS FOOLISHNESS • GOD HAS MADE PROMISES • GOD HAS OFFERED BLESSINGS • AS CHRISTIANS WE SHOULD KNOW THESE PROMISES • WE SHOULD KNOW THE BLESSINGS HE HAS OFFERED US • WE SHOULD UNDERSTAND JUST HOW SECURE • GOD’S PROMISES AND GOD’S BLESSINGS ARE 14 15 • TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LOOK • AT A LIST OF NAMES, A GENEALOGY • THIS GENEALOGY SERVES TO CONNECT • SOME OF GOD’S PROMISES AND GOD’S BLESSINGS FROM ONE POINT IN TIME TO ANOTHER 16 • TURN TO GENESIS 11:10 • MOSES HAS JUST TOLD HIS AUDIENCE • HOW THE DESCENDANTS OF NOAH HAD DISOBEYED GOD • THEY REFUSED TO SPREAD OUT AND FILL THE EARTH 17 • THEY HAD GATHERED TOGETHER TO BUILD A CITY AND A TOWER • SO THAT THEY MIGHT MAKE A NAME FOR THEM SELVES • SO GOD CONFUSED THEIR LANGUAGE • AND THEY SCATTERED OVER THE EARTH • MOSES CONTINUES GENESIS 11:10–15 18 THESE ARE THE RECORDS OF THE GENERATIONS OF SHEM. SHEM WAS ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD, AND BECAME THE FATHER OF ARPACHSHAD TWO YEARS AFTER THE FLOOD; AND SHEM LIVED FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF ARPACHSHAD, AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 19 ARPACHSHAD LIVED THIRTY-FIVE YEARS, AND BECAME THE FATHER OF SHELAH; AND ARPACHSHAD LIVED FOUR HUNDRED AND THREE YEARS AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF SHELAH, AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 20 SHELAH LIVED THIRTY YEARS, AND BECAME THE FATHER OF EBER; AND SHELAH LIVED FOUR HUNDRED AND THREE YEARS AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF EBER, AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 21 GOD’S PATIENCE IS AMAZING • ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GENEALOGIES LIKE THIS • SHOULD HELP US TO UNDERSTAND IS GOD’S PATIENCE • GOD’S PLAN FOR SALVATION WAS FORMED BEFORE TIME BEGAN 22 • GOD KNEW MANKIND WOULD FALL IN THE GARDEN • GOD ALREADY KNEW CHRIST WOULD COME AND LIVE A SINLESS LIFE • HE KNEW CHRIST WOULD DIE ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS • HE KNEW THE NAMES OF ALL THOSE WHO WOULD TRUST IN CHRIST’S DEATH 23 • AND YET HE WAS SO VASTLY PATIENT • THAT HE ALLOWED SO MANY GENERATIONS OF MEN • TO BE BORN, LIVE, HAVE CHILDREN, AND DIE • GOD IS TRULY OMNIPOTENT ALL POWERFUL • AT ANY POINT HE COULD HAVE • SKIPPED ALL THE STUFF IN THE MIDDLE • AND JUMPED RIGHT TO THE CROSS • IN THIS PATIENCE IS IMMENSE LOVE 24 • LOVE FOR ALL MANKIND • PATIENCE WITH ALL OUR SIN AND FAILURE • THIS PATIENCE IS NOT FOR HIS BENEFIT • HE DOES NOT GAIN ANYTHING BY WAITING FOR SO MANY GENERATIONS 25 26 • THIS PATIENCE IS FOR OUR BENEFIT • THIS GENEALOGY STARTS WITH SHEM WHO NOAH PRONOUNCED AS BLESSED • THE GENEALOGY WILL TRACE THE LINE FROM SHEM TO ABRAM • THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS 27 • IS TO CONNECT THE BLESSING ON SHEM TO ABRAM • IF THE BABEL ACCOUNT HAD BEEN THE END • OF WHAT IS SAID ABOUT THE EARLY EVENTS IN GENESIS • HOW COULD WE UNDERSTAND HOW WE GOT FROM THE FAILURE OF BABEL 28 • TO THE ONE GOD WOULD CHOOSE TO BRING FORTH THE NATION OF ISRAEL • SOME PEOPLE WANT TO SAY THAT THIS GENEALOGY HAS GAPS IN IT • THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TIME BETWEEN SHEM AND ABRAM 29 • THEY BASE THIS IDEA ON THE PHRASE “BECAME THE FATHER OF” • IN SOME CASES THIS PHRASE CAN MEAN… BECAME THE ANCESTOR OF • AS IN THE GRANDFATHER.. OR GREAT GRANDFATHER OF. 30 • BUT IF WE LOOK AT THIS PARTICULAR GENEALOGY • WE SEE THE WORDS “LIVED SO MANY YEARS” • EACH TIME BEFORE THE PHRASE “BECAME THE FATHER OF” 31 • IN EVERY CASE THAT THESE TWO PHRASES ARE USED TOGETHER • IT MEANS BECAME THE FATHER OF • IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO THINK THERE ARE GAPS IN THIS GENEALOGY 32 • IT IS QUITE INTERESTING HOW SIMILAR • THIS GENEALOGY IS TO THE ONE BACK IN CHAPTER 5, RIGHT BEFORE THE FLOOD • IN THAT GENEALOGY WE SEE THE LINE FROM ADAM TO NOAH • THERE ARE EXACTLY 10 NAMES IN THAT GENEALOGY • IN THIS GENEALOGY THERE ARE 10 NAMES FROM SHEM TO ABRAM • BOTH GENEALOGIES USE A VERY SIMILAR FORMAT • STATING HOW LONG EACH MAN LIVED • BEFORE HE FATHERED THE NEXT MAN IN THE GENEALOGY 33 34 • BOTH HAVE THE PHRASE “AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS” • BOTH END BY LISTING THE THREE SONS OF THE LAST MAN • THERE IS ONE VERY INTERESTING DIFFERENCE 35 • IN THE GENEALOGY BACK IN CHAPTER 5 • WE FIND THE PHRASE “AND HE DIED” • AFTER EACH MAN, EXCEPT ENOCH • THIS CHANGE STRESSES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 36 • THE WORLD BEFORE THE FLOOD • AND THE WORLD AFTER THE FLOOD • THE PRE-FLOOD WORLD WAS HEADING FOR DESTRUCTION • THE POST FLOOD WORLD WAS HEADING TOWARDS SALVATION 37 • MANKIND WAS HEADED TO THE CROSS • BUT MAN WAS HEADING THERE VERY SLOWLY • AT LEAST SLOWLY BY THE WAY WE MEASURE TIME 38 2 PETER 3:8 BUT DO NOT LET THIS ONE FACT ESCAPE YOUR NOTICE, BELOVED, THAT WITH THE LORD ONE DAY IS LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND YEARS LIKE ONE DAY. • MAYBE THIS IS PART OF GOD’S PATIENCE • HE JUST DOES NOT SEE TIME THE WAY WE DO NEW ENGLAND PREACHER PHILLIP BROOKS • WAS KNOWN FOR HIS CALMNESS AND POISE. 39 40 • HIS INTIMATE FRIENDS, HOWEVER KNEW THAT HE, TOO, • SUFFERED MOMENTS OF FRUSTRATION AND IRRITABILITY. • ONE DAY A FRIEND SAW HIM PACING THE FLOOR LIKE A CAGED LION. • “WHAT IS THE TROUBLE DR. BROOKS?” ASKED THE FRIEND. 41 • “THE TROUBLE IS REPLIED BROOKS, “THAT I’M IN A HURRY, BUT GOD ISN’T.” • CONSIDER THIS, IT TOOK GOD 6 DAYS • TO CREATE THE HAVENS, EARTH, SUN, MOON AND EVERY LIVING THING; 42 • 1 DAY TO FASHION MAN IN HIS IMAGE BEFORE THE FALL OF MAN. • EVER SINCE THE FALL GOD HAS BEEN WORKING ON RESTORING US TO HIM. • PART OF TRUSTING CHRIST IS UNDERSTANDING GOD’S PATIENCE 43 • WE LOOK AT THE WORLD AND SEE EVIL AND SUFFERING • AND WE WANT SOMETHING DONE ABOUT IT NOW • BUT THE TRUTH IS GOD IS CURRENTLY DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT NOW • HE IS DOING SOMETHING VERY PATIENTLY ABOUT IT GENESIS 11:16–21 44 EBER LIVED THIRTY-FOUR YEARS, AND BECAME THE FATHER OF PELEG; AND EBER LIVED FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF PELEG, AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 45 PELEG LIVED THIRTY YEARS, AND BECAME THE FATHER OF REU; AND PELEG LIVED TWO HUNDRED AND NINE YEARS AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF REU, AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 46 REU LIVED THIRTY-TWO YEARS, AND BECAME THE FATHER OF SERUG; AND REU LIVED TWO HUNDRED AND SEVEN YEARS AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF SERUG, AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. GOD USES PEOPLE • SOME OF THE MORE INTERESTING NAMES IN THIS GENEALOGY • APPEAR IN THIS SECTION • WE SEE THE NAME EBER MENTIONED HERE 47 • THE HEBREW PEOPLE ARE CALLED HEBREW • AFTER THE NAME EBER HEBREW MEANS THE PEOPLE OF EBER • THEN WE HAVE PELEG HIS NAME MEANS DIVIDED 48 GENESIS 10:25 49 TWO SONS WERE BORN TO EBER; THE NAME OF THE ONE WAS PELEG, FOR IN HIS DAYS THE EARTH WAS DIVIDED; AND HIS BROTHER’S NAME WAS JOKTAN. 50 • MOST BIBLE SCHOLARS TAKE THIS TO MEAN • THAT PELEG WAS BORN SHORTLY AFTER GOD • CONFUSED THE LANGUAGE OF MAN • THE TRUTH IS WE REALLY DON’T KNOW MUCH 51 • ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN THIS GENEALOGY • MOST OF THEM ARE ONLY MENTIONED HERE OR IN OTHER GENEALOGIES • WE DON’T KNOW THE DETAILS OF THEIR LIVES 52 • BUT WE DO KNOW THEY SERVED GOD’S PLAN IN A VERY IMPORTANT WAY • THEY WERE THE LINKS BETWEEN NOAH AND ABRAM • THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS • ABOUT GOD’S PLAN HE USES PEOPLE TO MOVE THE PLAN ALONG • SOME PEOPLE DO GREAT THINGS IN THE PLAN • NOAH, ABRAM, MOSES • OTHERS ACTIVELY SERVE GOD IN THE PLAN 53 54 • JOSHUA, GIDEON, SAMUEL • AND SOME SERVE GOD’S PLAN BY BE LINKS IN THE PLAN • WE MAY BE TEMPTED TO THINK LESS OF THOSE THAT SERVE AS LINKS • WE NEED TO REMEMBER 1 CORINTHIANS 12:15–18 55 IF THE FOOT SAYS, “BECAUSE I AM NOT A HAND, I AM NOT A PART OF THE BODY,” IT IS NOT FOR THIS REASON ANY THE LESS A PART OF THE BODY. AND IF THE EAR SAYS, “BECAUSE I AM NOT AN EYE, I AM NOT A PART OF THE BODY,” 56 IT IS NOT FOR THIS REASON ANY THE LESS A PART OF THE BODY. IF THE WHOLE BODY WERE AN EYE, WHERE WOULD THE HEARING BE? IF THE WHOLE WERE HEARING, WHERE WOULD THE SENSE OF SMELL BE? 57 BUT NOW GOD HAS PLACED THE MEMBERS, EACH ONE OF THEM, IN THE BODY, JUST AS HE DESIRED. • THOSE THAT SERVE AS LINKS IN GOD’S PLAN • HAVE BEEN PLACED JUST AS GOD DESIRES THEM TO BE PLACED • WE CANNOT KNOW TO WHAT EXTENT WE SERVE AS LINKS • SOME NUMBER OF GENERATIONS FROM NOW 58 59 • SOME DESCENDANT OF OURS MAY SERVE GOD IN A MIGHTY WAY • WE SHOULD ALWAYS SERVE GOD TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES • WE SHOULD RAISE OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN TO KNOW GOD • WE SHOULD ALSO BE AWARE THAT WE MAY BE SERVING GOD 60 • AS A LINK TO SOMEONE WHO WILL COME AFTER US • SOMEONE WHO HAS A MUCH BIGGER PART IN GOD’S PLAN • THAN WE COULD EVER IMAGINE • GOD’S PLAN INCLUDES ALL OF US 61 • THERE IS NONE THAT GOD CAN NOT USE TO ACCOMPLISH HIS PLAN • MOSES THE MURDERER, SAMSON THE GUY WITH THE BIG MOUTH, • JOSHUA THE LIAR, JOSEPH THE BRAGGART, 62 • ABRAHAM THE LYING COWARD, DAVID THE ADULTERER AND KILLER, • RAHAB THE PROSTITUTE, GIDEON THE GUTLESS WONDER, • PETER THE BETRAYER OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, 63 • PAUL THE PERSECUTOR OF THE CHURCH. • GOD CHOOSES THE LEAST LIKELY TO DO GREAT THINGS. • AND SOME HE CHOOSES TO BE THE LINKS IN HIS GREAT PLAN 1 CORINTHIANS 1:26–29 64 FOR CONSIDER YOUR CALLING, BRETHREN, THAT THERE WERE NOT MANY WISE ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, NOT MANY MIGHTY, NOT MANY NOBLE; BUT GOD HAS CHOSEN THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD TO SHAME THE WISE, 65 AND GOD HAS CHOSEN THE WEAK THINGS OF THE WORLD TO SHAME THE THINGS WHICH ARE STRONG, AND THE BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD AND THE DESPISED GOD HAS CHOSEN, THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT, 66 SO THAT HE MAY NULLIFY THE THINGS THAT ARE, SO THAT NO MAN MAY BOAST BEFORE GOD. • WHEN WE TRUST IN CHRIST WE BECOME PART OF GOD’S PLAN • BECAUSE WE ARE NOW PART OF GOD’S PEOPLE • WE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD, WE ARE CITIZENS OF HEAVEN 67 • WE NEED TO BE ABOUT HIS BUSINESS • IT NEEDS TO BE THE FOCUS IN OUR LIVES • DOING HIS WILL, WORKING HIS PLAN, SERVING HIM 68 GENESIS 11:22–26 69 SERUG LIVED THIRTY YEARS, AND BECAME THE FATHER OF NAHOR; AND SERUG LIVED TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF NAHOR, AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. 70 NAHOR LIVED TWENTY-NINE YEARS, AND BECAME THE FATHER OF TERAH; AND NAHOR LIVED ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN YEARS AFTER HE BECAME THE FATHER OF TERAH, AND HE HAD OTHER SONS AND DAUGHTERS. • TERAH LIVED SEVENTY YEARS, AND BECAME THE FATHER OF ABRAM, NAHOR AND HARAN. 71 GOD MAKES PROMISES 72 • ONE OF THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF THE GENEALOGIES WE FIND IN THE BIBLE • IS TO CONNECT A PROMISE OF GOD TO THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROMISE 73 • THIS PARTICULAR GENEALOGY IS ACTUALLY CONNECTING TWO PROMISES • IN THE LOCAL CONTEXT THE PROMISE OF THE BLESSING OF SHEM • IS BEING CONNECTED TO ABRAM 74 • WHO WILL BE PART OF THAT PROMISE BEING FULFILLED • IN THE GRAND PLAN OF GOD THIS GENEALOGY • CONNECTS THE PROMISE GOD MADE IN THE GARDEN RIGHT AFTER THE FALL TO THE CROSS GENESIS 3:15 75 AND I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN, AND BETWEEN YOUR SEED AND HER SEED; HE SHALL BRUISE YOU ON THE HEAD, AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIM ON THE HEEL.” 76 • THIS IS THE FIRST MENTION OF A SAVIOR • IT IS SAID HERE THAT THE SEED OF EVE, NOT SEEDS OF EVE, BUT SEED OF EVE • WILL BRUISE, OR REALLY CRUSH, THE HEAD OF SATAN • THIS IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE PROTO OR PRE-GOSPEL • THIS IS GOD PROMISING THE FALL WILL BE REPAIRED • ALL THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT WE SEE CONNECTIONS MADE • BETWEEN ADAM AND CHRIST, LINKS, LIKE THIS GENEALOGY 77 78 • THAT SHOW HOW GOD CONNECTS THE GARDEN TO THE CROSS (PAUSE) • AT THE END OF THIS LIST WE SEE TERAH FATHERED ABRAM, NAHOR AND HARAN • DESPITE THE REMARKABLE THREATS AND DETOURS OF ELEVEN CHAPTERS, • MURDER, FLOODS, BUILDING TOWERS, BEING SCATTERED • THE PROMISE HAS BEEN KEPT ALIVE BY THE FORBEARANCE OF GOD. • GOD’S PROMISES ARE ROCK SOLID (PAUSE) 79 I DO NOT DO WELL WITH FRAGILE THINGS • THE FIRST YEAR ERIN & I WERE MARRIED • I BROKE THE TOASTING GOBLETS FROM OUR WEDDING THREE TIMES. • WHEN I WAS LITTLE MY DAD WOULD BRAG THAT 80 • I COULD BREAK A BALL BEARING. • THE FIRST TIME I BROKE A BALL BEARING SKATEBOARDING • HE GOT QUITE A KICK OUT OF IT. • SOME THINGS ARE FRAGILE AND EASILY BROKEN 81 82 • OTHERS ARE BROKEN BECAUSE WE WORK THEM TOO HARD • WE RELY ON THEM TOO HARD, WE LEAN ON THEM TOO HARD. • WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND • YOU CAN'T BREAK GOD'S PROMISES BY LEANING ON THEM! • GOD'S PROMISES ARE INFINITELY DURABLE. • GOD'S PROMISES ARE BASED ON WHO HE IS. 83 • WE CAN LEAN ON THEM WITH ALL OUR MIGHT • WITH ALL OUR HEART WITH ALL OUR MIND WITH ALL OUR SOUL, • AND GOD'S PROMISES WILL NOT BREAK. • GOD MADE A PROMISE BACK IN GENESIS 3:15 84 85 • HE PROMISED THAT THE SEED OF EVE WOULD CRUSH THE HEAD OF SATAN • FOR GOD TO SEE TO IT THAT THIS PROMISE WOULD BE FULFILLED • HE HAD TO GET THE WORLD FROM ADAM TO CHRIST • PART OF GETTING FROM ADAM TO CHRIST 86 • IS GETTING FROM NOAH TO ABRAM • THE MEN LISTED IN THIS GENEALOGY • ARE HOW GOD GOT FROM NOAH TO ABRAM • FROM THE FLOOD TO THE CALLING OUT OF ONE MAN 87 • TO LEAVE HIS HOME AND GO WHERE GOD CALLED HIM TO GO (PAUSE) • THE BIBLE IS FILLED WITH THE PROMISES OF GOD. • WE BECAME CHILDREN OF GOD WHEN WE TRUSTED • IN THE PROMISE THAT CHRIST DIED TO PAY FOR OUR SINS • WE NEED TO KNOW AS CHILDREN OF GOD 88 GOD HAD A PLAN FROM BEFORE TIME STARTED 89 • WE HAVE THE CHOICE TO TRUST IN OURSELVES, OTHER PEOPLE, THE GOVERNMENT, • OR TO TRUST IN HIS PLAN, HIS PROMISES, HIS BLESSINGS. • GOD IS VERY PATIENT IN HOW THE PLAN UNFOLDS • HE HAS TO BE PATIENT BECAUSE HE USES PEOPLE • FLAWED PEOPLE.. TO WORK THIS PLAN 90 • BUT EVEN THOUGH FLAWED PEOPLE ARE CARRYING OUT THE PLAN • WE CAN TRUST THAT IT WILL HAPPEN • BECAUSE GOD MADE A PROMISE 91 • ONE OF THE GREATEST PROMISES GOD HAS MADE • IS THAT IF WE HAVE FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST • THAT HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS PAID FOR OUR SINS 92 • THEN WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE • THIS IS THE PROMISE WE ARE TRUSTING IN • WHEN WE PLACE OUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST • AS OUR SAVOIR • IF THERE IS ANYONE HERE…. 93 94