1 00:00:00,000 –> 00:00:05,440 Thank you for your welcome. Hello everybody. It is wonderful to be here. 2 00:00:06,240 –> 00:00:14,640 I tell you, you look pretty good from here, but I’ll tell you, you look far better from up there. 3 00:00:15,760 –> 00:00:23,120 See, you don’t know, but there is a glory in all of you who know Jesus Christ that 4 00:00:23,120 –> 00:00:30,959 we see from up there, you can’t see it here, but when you’re with us, and when you see it in each 5 00:00:30,959 –> 00:00:37,919 other, you are going to be overwhelmed with joy. It’s great to be with you. 6 00:00:38,880 –> 00:00:44,720 I hear, by the way, that your pastor’s been complaining about a sore back. 7 00:00:46,000 –> 00:00:50,799 Well, I could tell him a thing or two about aching bones. You see, 8 00:00:50,799 –> 00:00:59,200 I live to the grand old age of 175 years, and if you live to be 175 years old, I can tell you 9 00:00:59,200 –> 00:01:07,760 the last 50 years can be pretty difficult. But all that, my life on earth here, was 4,000 years 10 00:01:08,239 –> 00:01:16,879 ago. 4,000 years. Imagine that. But of course, being up there 1,000 years is just like a day, 11 00:01:17,599 –> 00:01:24,559 and it’s gone by like a flash for me. I can’t describe to you the joy of life 12 00:01:24,559 –> 00:01:30,559 in the presence of God. Now, you’re probably wondering why they would invite 13 00:01:30,559 –> 00:01:37,680 me to tell you the Christmas story. In fact, seeing that I lived 2,000 years before the Lord 14 00:01:37,680 –> 00:01:43,279 Jesus Christ was born, some of you might really think I had nothing to do with the Christmas story, 15 00:01:43,279 –> 00:01:51,599 but that’s where you would be wrong. See, God spoke to me about the birth of the Savior. 16 00:01:51,599 –> 00:01:56,720 You can check it out in John’s Gospel. Jesus actually spoke about me. Did you know that? 17 00:01:56,720 –> 00:02:06,720 He said, Abraham rejoiced in the thought of seeing my day. Then Jesus said about me that Abraham 18 00:02:06,720 –> 00:02:15,279 saw my day and he rejoiced in it. That’s true. I saw while I was still here on earth 2,000 years 19 00:02:15,279 –> 00:02:23,119 before Jesus was born. I saw His day and I can tell you that His day coming changed my life 20 00:02:23,119 –> 00:02:30,720 even 2000 years before, and it has changed my eternity ever since. So let me tell you my story. 21 00:02:31,520 –> 00:02:40,479 I grew up in Ur of the Chaldees. It was in Mesopotamia, the area you would refer to today 22 00:02:40,479 –> 00:02:49,520 as southern Iraq. I grew up not knowing the first thing about God. In fact, I worshiped idols. All 23 00:02:49,520 –> 00:02:56,479 of my ancestors had done that. Isn’t it interesting? When folks don’t know the living God, 24 00:02:57,199 –> 00:03:05,360 what they do is they worship something else. That’s what I did for years. I enjoyed a comfortable 25 00:03:05,360 –> 00:03:11,339 life in the city with my extended family. There was my father, Terra. There was my nephew, Lot, 26 00:03:11,339 –> 00:03:20,240 and of course my marvelous wife, Sarah. Boy, she was a very remarkable woman. Why she married me, 27 00:03:20,240 –> 00:03:26,399 I will never really know and she said sometimes she’s not very sure why she did. 28 00:03:26,779 –> 00:03:37,160 But you know one day God broke into my life. All I can tell you is that he appeared to me just 29 00:03:37,160 –> 00:03:46,639 like God appeared to Adam and to Eve in the Garden of Eden. I saw the glory of the Lord. It 30 00:03:46,639 –> 00:03:54,279 was absolutely overwhelming to me. I can’t really describe it to you except to say that it was like 31 00:03:54,580 –> 00:04:00,639 being surrounded with radiant lights and to know that you were in the presence of one who was 32 00:04:00,639 –> 00:04:08,919 unlike anyone else you had ever met or ever could meet. Years later, Isaiah described it when he 33 00:04:08,919 –> 00:04:15,679 said, the people who walked in darkness. They’ve seen a great light. That’s what happened to me. 34 00:04:15,679 –> 00:04:22,399 And you know the same thing happened to the shepherds. Luke says in his account of the 35 00:04:22,459 –> 00:04:29,320 Christmas story that the angels of the Lord appeared to them and did you notice that he 36 00:04:29,320 –> 00:04:39,179 says the glory of the Lord shone around them. They saw God’s glory and that’s just what happened to 37 00:04:39,179 –> 00:04:50,760 me. I saw His glory. Here’s something wonderful that I still can’t explain to you. The God of 38 00:04:50,880 –> 00:04:58,239 the Bible breaks into the lives of people who don’t even know him. Breaks into the lives of 39 00:04:58,239 –> 00:05:04,760 folks who aren’t even looking for him. That’s what happened to the shepherds. That’s what 40 00:05:04,760 –> 00:05:12,459 happened to me and I’m praying that’s what’s gonna happen in your life over this Christmas 41 00:05:12,619 –> 00:05:23,619 season. And God blessed me. In fact God gave to me a sevenfold blessing. You can count the 42 00:05:23,619 –> 00:05:29,579 blessings with me. Here’s what he said. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless 43 00:05:29,579 –> 00:05:36,459 you he said to me. I will make your name great. I will make you a blessing. I will bless those 44 00:05:36,459 –> 00:05:41,820 who bless you. I will curse those who curse you and all peoples on earth will be blessed 45 00:05:42,179 –> 00:05:47,980 through you. This was more than I could take in. First I couldn’t understand why God would 46 00:05:47,980 –> 00:05:53,940 bless me. I hadn’t even known him. I certainly hadn’t done anything for Him. I wasn’t a worshiper 47 00:05:53,940 –> 00:06:00,779 of him. Why would God break out of heaven and bless me? You have a word for that. Grace. 48 00:06:00,899 –> 00:06:07,899 Grace, the mercy of God. God just picked me out, and He blessed me. His love was poured 49 00:06:13,279 –> 00:06:19,880 out on me for no other reason than that God is merciful and God is compassionate. He had 50 00:06:19,880 –> 00:06:26,880 mercy and he had compassion on me and that means He has mercy and compassion for you. 51 00:06:31,160 –> 00:06:36,859 But then there was something else in what he said that really blew me away. God said, 52 00:06:36,859 –> 00:06:45,500 all people on earth will be blessed because of you. Now how could that be? How could 53 00:06:45,500 –> 00:06:52,519 one life in this world bring blessing to all people? I just couldn’t understand that! 54 00:06:52,519 –> 00:06:57,000 Later God spoke to me again and He made it clear that this blessing was going to come 55 00:06:57,739 –> 00:07:03,640 through a son. That seemed absolutely crazy to me because Sarah and I didn’t have a family. 56 00:07:03,640 –> 00:07:08,059 We’d been trying to start a family for years, but absolutely nothing had happened. 57 00:07:08,059 –> 00:07:16,059 So when God spoke about us having a son I laughed. I said, will a man have a child when 58 00:07:16,059 –> 00:07:21,899 he is 100 years old and he’s got a wife who is 90? Let me tell you something from 59 00:07:21,899 –> 00:07:32,019 my experience. Never laugh at the promises of God because what God said is 60 00:07:32,019 –> 00:07:39,019 exactly what happened. When the little fellow was born, Sarah and I were full of 61 00:07:39,019 –> 00:07:45,799 joy. We called him Isaac, which means he laughs, which we thought was an 62 00:07:45,799 –> 00:07:51,619 appropriate name for a baby born to a couple of Geriatrics. It soon became 63 00:07:51,619 –> 00:07:58,299 pretty obvious though, that Isaac wasn’t gonna change the world. I mean, most 64 00:07:58,299 –> 00:08:04,579 people cannot name a single thing that Isaac accomplished in his life, can you? 65 00:08:04,579 –> 00:08:11,880 So we began to think over time, that maybe God’s blessing to the world would 66 00:08:11,940 –> 00:08:16,700 come through my grandchildren. And I know some of you dote on your grandchildren. 67 00:08:16,700 –> 00:08:23,519 You want to of met mine? Boy, these two lads were a pair of rascals. The older 68 00:08:23,519 –> 00:08:27,519 one was a wild kid, you don’t want to get on the wrong side of his temper. The 69 00:08:27,519 –> 00:08:34,820 younger one, they called Jacob, and he was as slippery as an eel, that boy could 70 00:08:34,820 –> 00:08:41,719 lie to your face, without blinking an eye. In fact he told so many lies, it was 71 00:08:41,719 –> 00:08:46,640 very hard to know when he was telling the truth. I said to Sarah, where in the 72 00:08:46,640 –> 00:08:55,640 world does he get that from? And she just gave me one of her withering looks. 73 00:08:55,640 –> 00:08:58,440 Anyway it didn’t take me long to figure out that neither of them were going to 74 00:08:58,440 –> 00:09:09,340 bring blessing to the world, and then I died. By the way some of God’s promises 75 00:09:09,340 –> 00:09:18,900 happen in your lifetime. Some of them happen after you die. That’s worth 76 00:09:18,900 –> 00:09:24,400 remembering. If we only hope in Christ for this life we’re gonna be the most 77 00:09:24,400 –> 00:09:30,179 miserable people in the world. I knew God’s blessing during my life here in 78 00:09:30,179 –> 00:09:35,820 this world but when I died I was still looking for and waiting for the great 79 00:09:35,960 –> 00:09:42,840 blessing that he had promised. Of course, after I died I had a grandstand view to 80 00:09:42,840 –> 00:09:49,039 watch how God would fulfill his marvelous promise. Well, Matthew takes up 81 00:09:49,039 –> 00:09:54,599 the story at the beginning of your New Testament. He says that there were 14 82 00:09:54,599 –> 00:10:02,400 generations from me until the time of David. David. Now there’s a son I was 83 00:10:02,400 –> 00:10:10,960 really proud of, at least most of the time. And then another 14 generations 84 00:10:10,960 –> 00:10:16,960 from David until the exile— what a miserable business that was! And then 85 00:10:16,960 –> 00:10:22,119 another 14 generations from the time of the exile until the coming of the Christ, 86 00:10:22,119 –> 00:10:29,280 that is, the one who God had promised to me. Now here’s what you need to 87 00:10:29,280 –> 00:10:36,380 understand about him—he was different from any of my other descendants. 88 00:10:36,380 –> 00:10:41,460 You look at the list of them there in Matthew and Chapter 1—I tell you what a 89 00:10:41,460 –> 00:10:48,099 family tree. There are a bunch of rascals in that list, I’ll tell you, but he was 90 00:10:48,099 –> 00:10:58,580 different. I said to Sarah, they all came from us, but he came to us. 91 00:10:58,580 –> 00:11:06,020 Thank God he didn’t have my old nature like all the others did. See that’s why 92 00:11:06,020 –> 00:11:12,460 he was born of a virgin. The 42 generations that came after me gave 93 00:11:12,460 –> 00:11:18,179 clear evidence to you and to everybody else that nobody that was coming from my 94 00:11:18,179 –> 00:11:24,080 seed could actually fulfil the promise of God. No the Son of God did not come 95 00:11:24,080 –> 00:11:32,000 from us, he came to us, and the miracle of grace was that he was born into my 96 00:11:32,000 –> 00:11:41,239 line. Now I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this but when he came one of the 97 00:11:41,239 –> 00:11:48,520 greatest conflicts of his life was an argument that was mainly about me. In 98 00:11:49,260 –> 00:11:55,419 fact the folks who opposed Jesus used my name, can you believe this they used my 99 00:11:55,419 –> 00:12:00,580 name to try and renounce him. Can you imagine what that was like for me? John 100 00:12:00,580 –> 00:12:04,239 records this story in chapter 8 of his Gospel and you can check it out there if 101 00:12:04,239 –> 00:12:10,419 you want to. It all began when Jesus said the most amazing thing he said, I am the 102 00:12:10,419 –> 00:12:16,460 Light of the world whoever follows me will never be in darkness but will 103 00:12:16,960 –> 00:12:22,239 have the light of life. Well the Pharisees who were listening to him 104 00:12:22,239 –> 00:12:27,020 didn’t like that and so they began to challenge him what right did he have to 105 00:12:27,020 –> 00:12:34,140 talk like this and to say these things. Jesus began to speak about his Father he 106 00:12:34,140 –> 00:12:41,020 said I stand with the father who sent me but they didn’t understand what he was 107 00:12:41,020 –> 00:12:45,880 saying about his father and so he said to them when you have lifted up the Son 108 00:12:45,960 –> 00:12:51,039 of man that was the name Jesus liked to use to refer to himself when you’ve 109 00:12:51,039 –> 00:12:57,340 lifted up the Son of man then you will know that I am the one that I claim to 110 00:12:57,340 –> 00:13:03,159 be. Well some folks started to believe on him as he was speaking to them and 111 00:13:03,159 –> 00:13:09,799 Jesus said to them if you hold to my teaching you will really be my disciples 112 00:13:09,919 –> 00:13:18,140 then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Now you only 113 00:13:18,140 –> 00:13:22,400 needed to say the word free and that one really got them going rather like I hear 114 00:13:22,400 –> 00:13:27,419 the word freedom gets you going in your country as well. It really annoyed them 115 00:13:27,419 –> 00:13:31,659 that Jesus was suggesting that somehow they weren’t free. They said we’re 116 00:13:31,659 –> 00:13:36,919 Abraham’s descendants. Well when they said that it got my attention you can 117 00:13:36,919 –> 00:13:41,700 imagine. We’ve never been the slaves of anybody they said which made me nearly 118 00:13:41,700 –> 00:13:46,559 fall off my chair. Had they forgotten the 400 years of slavery in Egypt? What 119 00:13:46,559 –> 00:13:49,919 about the seventy years in exile and what did they think was going on with 120 00:13:49,919 –> 00:13:55,239 the Roman army right outside the temple that where they were speaking? Never been 121 00:13:55,239 –> 00:13:59,979 slaves of anybody. Of course Jesus was talking about a 122 00:13:59,979 –> 00:14:07,979 deeper kind of slavery. I tell you the truth he said, everyone who sins is a 123 00:14:07,979 –> 00:14:17,299 slave to sin. I’ll tell you the 42 generations that came after me there 124 00:14:17,299 –> 00:14:27,760 wasn’t a single one who was without sin until he came and he said, if the Son of 125 00:14:28,099 –> 00:14:36,179 God sets you free then you will be free indeed. Well the crowd was getting really 126 00:14:36,179 –> 00:14:39,020 worked up about this. They began to appeal to me again. 127 00:14:39,020 –> 00:14:45,619 Abram is our father they said, as if that would make you free from sin. Isn’t it 128 00:14:45,619 –> 00:14:52,099 interesting how people get all worked up about race, as if the family or the 129 00:14:52,099 –> 00:14:57,419 country you were born into could somehow change or define your relationship with 130 00:14:57,440 –> 00:15:03,340 God. I wanted to shout down to them, don’t say Abraham’s our father. Abraham needed a 131 00:15:03,340 –> 00:15:09,780 Savior and so do you! But of course they couldn’t hear me. Then Jesus said 132 00:15:09,780 –> 00:15:17,520 something that really pushed them over the edge. He said, I tell you the truth, if 133 00:15:17,700 –> 00:15:27,780 anyone keeps my word he will never see death. I’ll tell you I was smiling when 134 00:15:27,780 –> 00:15:33,000 he said that because I’m the living proof of it. Here I was, someone who had 135 00:15:33,000 –> 00:15:38,059 lived centuries before and had died and along with all the others with me we 136 00:15:38,059 –> 00:15:45,760 were rejoicing in the Lord. But the crowd went wild, now we know your demon 137 00:15:45,760 –> 00:15:54,900 possessed. Someone said. Demon possessed? Abraham died, they said, and you say that 138 00:15:54,900 –> 00:15:59,020 if anyone keeps your word they will never see death? Do you think you’re 139 00:15:59,020 –> 00:16:02,760 greater than Abraham? I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, I wanted to shout 140 00:16:02,760 –> 00:16:11,580 at them, of course he’s greater than me. But they couldn’t hear that. Who do you 141 00:16:11,580 –> 00:16:16,799 think you are they said to Jesus. I cringed as they said that don’t they 142 00:16:16,799 –> 00:16:25,840 know who he is? And then Jesus said to them your father Abraham rejoiced at the 143 00:16:25,840 –> 00:16:35,159 thought of seeing my day. He saw it and rejoiced in it and then he said I tell 144 00:16:35,299 –> 00:16:47,679 you the truth before Abraham was I AM. The Son of God whose glory had appeared 145 00:16:47,679 –> 00:16:57,460 to me was now standing in the flesh before them and you know what they did? 146 00:16:58,280 –> 00:17:10,400 They picked up stones to kill him but Jesus time had not yet come He slipped 147 00:17:10,400 –> 00:17:19,920 away from that crowd but I’ll tell you when his time did come his death was 148 00:17:19,920 –> 00:17:28,140 much worse than stoning. I can’t tell you what it was like for me to watch the 149 00:17:28,140 –> 00:17:32,979 suffering of the one who had been promised, the one whose glory appeared to 150 00:17:32,979 –> 00:17:44,060 me but he was arrested and he was condemned and he was scourged and they 151 00:17:44,060 –> 00:17:57,119 spat on him and he was nailed and he was crucified. I’ll tell you my mind went 152 00:17:57,119 –> 00:18:05,020 back to a story you might have heard about me. God had told me to take my son 153 00:18:05,020 –> 00:18:13,180 Isaac up a mountain called Mariah and sacrifice him there. I can’t tell you 154 00:18:13,339 –> 00:18:21,180 what agonies I went through but when the moment came God intervened and he said 155 00:18:21,180 –> 00:18:26,199 don’t lay a hand on that boy, don’t do anything to him and I looked up and 156 00:18:26,199 –> 00:18:33,540 there was a ram caught in a bush. God provided a sacrifice to save my son’s 157 00:18:33,540 –> 00:18:42,920 life and mine as well so I called that place the Lord will provide. Now here’s 158 00:18:42,920 –> 00:18:49,459 the amazing thing the one who called to me from heaven and saved my son’s life 159 00:18:49,459 –> 00:19:00,400 and mine, I was now watching him hanging on a cross becoming the sacrifice God 160 00:19:00,400 –> 00:19:09,900 provided in my place. God spared my son but he did not spare 161 00:19:09,900 –> 00:19:21,260 his own son but gave him up freely for all of you. You often think about what 162 00:19:21,260 –> 00:19:28,300 it cost the Son of God to give himself for you. I often think about what it 163 00:19:28,339 –> 00:19:40,900 cost God the father to give his son for you. That’s an amazing love. God 164 00:19:40,900 –> 00:19:48,000 demonstrates his love for us in this. That while we were still sinners, rebels 165 00:19:48,699 –> 00:19:52,300 there was justice against him. 166 00:19:52,300 –> 00:19:56,140 Christ died for us. 167 00:19:58,959 –> 00:20:04,520 When he died there was silence in 168 00:20:06,920 –> 00:20:09,819 But that’s not the end of the story. 169 00:20:09,819 –> 00:20:14,939 Jesus said No one takes my life from me. 170 00:20:15,380 –> 00:20:19,119 And I have the power to take it up again. 171 00:20:19,119 –> 00:20:22,260 And on the third day he burst out of the grave, 172 00:20:22,260 –> 00:20:24,359 triumphing over death. 173 00:20:24,359 –> 00:20:28,079 No wonder he said if anyone keeps my word 174 00:20:28,079 –> 00:20:30,119 he will never see death. 175 00:20:30,119 –> 00:20:32,699 The sting of death is sin. 176 00:20:32,699 –> 00:20:36,719 And the power of sin is that we have broken God’s law. 177 00:20:36,719 –> 00:20:40,300 But thanks be to God he gives us victory 178 00:20:40,300 –> 00:20:43,640 through Jesus Christ our Lord. 179 00:20:43,640 –> 00:20:48,140 See, Jesus did not come to join his people in our sins, 180 00:20:49,000 –> 00:20:51,699 like all of the 42 generations that came after me 181 00:20:51,699 –> 00:20:53,219 and have ever lived since him. 182 00:20:54,140 –> 00:20:58,880 No, he came to save his people from our sins 183 00:20:58,880 –> 00:21:01,680 and from death and from hell 184 00:21:01,680 –> 00:21:04,640 and to give us life in his presence forever. 185 00:21:04,640 –> 00:21:07,599 And that is the promise of the gospel. 186 00:21:09,359 –> 00:21:13,160 Do you know, Jesus said something else about me 187 00:21:13,239 –> 00:21:14,599 that’s very important. 188 00:21:15,760 –> 00:21:17,359 He said this, 189 00:21:18,599 –> 00:21:21,560 many people, he said, 190 00:21:21,560 –> 00:21:26,119 will come from the East and from the West. 191 00:21:26,119 –> 00:21:28,520 And he said these folks from the East and the West 192 00:21:28,520 –> 00:21:31,780 would take their places at the feast 193 00:21:31,780 –> 00:21:36,780 with Isaac, Jacob, and Me in the kingdom of heaven. 194 00:21:37,160 –> 00:21:38,540 Don’t you love that? 195 00:21:38,540 –> 00:21:42,500 Many from the West, you’re about as far West 196 00:21:42,500 –> 00:21:44,579 from where I lived, as you can go. 197 00:21:46,119 –> 00:21:48,040 That means many from among you 198 00:21:49,000 –> 00:21:52,280 will be at the feast with Me and Isaac and Jacob 199 00:21:52,280 –> 00:21:53,420 in the kingdom of heaven. 200 00:21:53,420 –> 00:21:56,760 And I hope that I will be seeing you there. 201 00:21:59,040 –> 00:22:02,020 And then Jesus said something else about Me 202 00:22:02,020 –> 00:22:03,660 to those who rejected Him. 203 00:22:04,739 –> 00:22:09,260 He said that they would see Isaac and they would see Jacob 204 00:22:09,260 –> 00:22:10,780 and they would see Me. 205 00:22:11,780 –> 00:22:14,199 Feasting in the kingdom of heaven 206 00:22:14,199 –> 00:22:17,739 but they themselves would be thrown outside. 207 00:22:19,959 –> 00:22:22,739 I hope that won’t be true of any of you. 208 00:22:24,800 –> 00:22:26,859 Let Me tell you in this last moment 209 00:22:28,699 –> 00:22:33,699 how you can be sure that you will be with Me 210 00:22:35,060 –> 00:22:40,060 in that great feast that launches the eternal joy 211 00:22:40,060 –> 00:22:44,239 of Life that is promised through Jesus Christ. 212 00:22:45,500 –> 00:22:47,400 I want you to understand this clearly 213 00:22:47,400 –> 00:22:51,020 that I lived 2,000 years before Him. 214 00:22:51,020 –> 00:22:53,339 You guys lived 2,000 years after Him. 215 00:22:54,599 –> 00:22:58,800 But we are saved in exactly the same way. 216 00:22:59,739 –> 00:23:03,160 Paul describes how that happened for me 217 00:23:03,160 –> 00:23:05,959 and it’s exactly the same for you. 218 00:23:05,959 –> 00:23:07,459 Here’s what he says, you can check this out 219 00:23:07,459 –> 00:23:08,739 in Romans chapter four. 220 00:23:08,739 –> 00:23:13,119 He said, Abraham believed God 221 00:23:13,119 –> 00:23:17,839 and it was credited to him as righteousness. 222 00:23:18,819 –> 00:23:20,180 Here’s what that means. 223 00:23:21,060 –> 00:23:24,920 Faith is the way in which Christ’s death 224 00:23:24,920 –> 00:23:27,599 becomes my righteousness. 225 00:23:27,599 –> 00:23:31,040 It is by faith that what Jesus Christ 226 00:23:31,040 –> 00:23:34,140 accomplished on the cross was applied to me. 227 00:23:34,140 –> 00:23:36,839 It is by faith that what Jesus accomplished 228 00:23:36,859 –> 00:23:40,000 on the cross is applied to you 229 00:23:40,000 –> 00:23:41,560 so that we might be brought 230 00:23:41,560 –> 00:23:44,739 into a right relationship with God. 231 00:23:44,739 –> 00:23:47,020 Although I was a sinner, 232 00:23:48,459 –> 00:23:51,339 by faith what He did on the cross 233 00:23:51,339 –> 00:23:54,459 is applied to me so that I in Him 234 00:23:54,459 –> 00:23:57,020 am counted righteous before God. 235 00:23:57,020 –> 00:23:59,260 That’s what God did for me. 236 00:23:59,260 –> 00:24:01,300 That’s what He did for Isaac. 237 00:24:01,300 –> 00:24:02,900 That’s what He did for Jacob. 238 00:24:02,900 –> 00:24:05,260 And that is what God will do 239 00:24:05,359 –> 00:24:10,140 for all who believe in His Son Jesus Christ. 240 00:24:10,140 –> 00:24:13,300 I trusted Jesus looking forward to Him. 241 00:24:13,300 –> 00:24:15,339 You must trust this same Jesus 242 00:24:15,339 –> 00:24:17,400 looking back to Him, the One who 243 00:24:17,400 –> 00:24:20,939 came for you, who died for you, 244 00:24:20,939 –> 00:24:22,859 and who rose again for you. 245 00:24:23,719 –> 00:24:27,119 Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ 246 00:24:28,079 –> 00:24:31,359 and His righteousness will be yours. 247 00:24:32,239 –> 00:24:35,300 My Savior will be yours 248 00:24:36,280 –> 00:24:39,079 and together for all eternity 249 00:24:39,079 –> 00:24:44,079 we will share the blessing of God in His presence.