The Promise Fulfilled

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0:16Good morning. It's good as we open up God's word, and I'm glad we're in Genesis 21 and not 15, otherwise, I've prepared the wrong sermon. But keep your Bibles open at Genesis 21 as we hear from God's word this morning. Why don't you join me as I pray, father in heaven, we ask that you would incline our hearts to your word this morning we come expectant to hear from you. So open the eyes of our hearts so that we would see glorious things from this book and that you would use it to satisfy our souls and hearts, that we would love Jesus more as a result of this. We pray that in Christ's name. Amen.

1:05Have you ever had an anti climactic experience? You had your hopes built up. You were looking forward to it. You, you couldn't wait for it. And when it finally took place, finally happened, it was a major let down. I know you Vikings fans are bracing for the joke, but I wasn't gonna go there this morning after seminary, Stephanie and I bought our first house in Wheaton, Illinois, and we could afford a starter home. So it was outdated, it was in need of some repair. It wasn't very attractive, but we were, I thought we were gonna be excited to own our very first home, but as I was signing all the paperwork and you sign about, you know, 45 pages of stuff, all I could think about is I'm going into the most massive amount of debt I will ever go into in my life.

1:56And, and it just felt terrible. It, it was not an excited, exciting moment for us. And my realtor was a little concerned like, are are you guys excited to buy this home? And we kinda looked at her and said, not really. Uh, life can sometimes be anticlimactic like that. And that's actually what we see in Genesis 21 this morning, the birth of Isaac. It should be the climax. It should be the most exciting moment in Abraham and Sarah's life. It, it's been 25 years, frankly, it's been a hundred years of waiting, but 25 years since God gave the promise in Genesis 12. And we come to this climactic moment when finally Isaac is born.

2:45And as you just heard, red, we hardly get that type of account at all. That's not what we get at all. Now, if this was a movie, things would go in slow motion. You know, you'd have that filter where everything would look idyllic and, and there would be that climactic swell of music and everything would just look glorious. But, but that's not what we get. Genesis 21 doesn't have Sarah's song of praise like we get Mary's Magnificat in Luke one or Hannah's prayer that's in one Samuel two. And we're just kinda left wondering why consider the drama leading up to this moment? God appeared to Abraham when he was 75.

3:25He tells him He's gonna be a great nation. All the families of the earth are going to be blessed through you. Years later, God shows up to him again in a vision and he says, I'm going to give you your very own son, even though it looks entirely impossible right now. Unlikely. He says, look, lift your eyes to the heavens. See the stars in the sky. So shall your offspring be. It's a magnificent promise. God ratifies this covenant by cutting a covenant with him in Genesis 15, despite their doubt, Ishmael born in Genesis 16, God says, no, no, that is not the son of promise. I will give you your very own son with Sarah.

4:16And then God comes back to him at 99 years old. 24 years later, God appears to Abraham again and he says, Abraham, your name's now gonna be Abraham. You're gonna be a father of a multitude of nations and this time next year you're going to have a son with Sarah. And the question that's left ringing in their ears is, is anything too hard for the Lord? But in our account, we do not get this climactic celebration with the details of the feast, what food was served, how the labor and birth when, or the overwhelming joy of Sarah or the relief of Abraham. It's a little bit like the difference between a woman and a man when they describe the birth of a baby.

5:05If, if a woman asks, a fellow woman says, tell us about the birth of the baby. You know, she'll, she'll begin with, well, this is when the water broke. Uh, and we had to be induced. So they used these drugs and then we, they were worried he was breached and then there was no time for an epidural. And, and so I labored for X number of hours and when I heard the first cry, my, my heart swelled. And yet he had trouble latching and, and, and on and on and on. When a man describes the birth, he gives three things. It's either a boy or girl, this is its name and he or she is hopefully healthy. That's all they really care about. That's it.

5:42And in Genesis 21, we get the man's version of the birth in many ways, just these seven first verses. Now just to put this in perspective, last week we had a whole chapter 18 verses devoted to Abraham's sister wife scheme with abimelech. And here we just get seven verses describing the birth of the promised offspring. And again, we're less left asking the question why, Why what? We'll answer that question at the end. But I wanted to just kind of set that up right at the beginning. So our plan is to walk through our passage in three parts. We have the birth in verses one through seven. We have the expulsion of Ishmael and Hagar in eight through 21.

6:29And then we get the treaty with a Bialek in 22 to 34. And we're gonna come back to answer the question, what unites these three sections? And then lastly, how does this apply to us today? So verses one through seven, we see that the main character of these opening verses is God. Uh, look at verse one. The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised. Then in verse two it says, which God had spoken to him. And then verse four, it says, as God had commanded him, the accent mark in these first seven verses is on what God is up to, what God is doing. He's fulfilling his divine promises.

7:11This son is finally born. Sarah at 90 years old has given birth to Isaac. God has made the impossible possible. Now the writer, most likely Moses, wants to make clear that Sarah is the birth mom. Look at verse three. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him. Isaac. So this construction, I intensifies the identity of the birth mother. He wanted to make clear that Sarah is indeed the mom. And what we read in as we go is that Abraham, circumcised Isaac on the eighth day as was commanded in Genesis 1712, and he names the child Isaac, which was what was directed in 1719.

7:59And and he does exactly as God had commanded. Now notice this, Abram gets his name changed to Abraham and Jacob gets his name changed to Israel later. But Isaac, does he ever get his name changed? No, because God had called him Isaac from the beginning. Now Isaac means he laughs, which was initially the reaction of Abraham and Sarah. This laugh of doubt. Now we get this laugh of joy and giddiness. We, we see that in verse six. God has made laughter for me. Everyone who hears will laugh over me. They won't be laughing at Sarah and they'll be laughing with her as she's given birth at age 90. They'll go from the laughing stock to objects of overwhelming joy and awe.

8:48Everyone will walk by. Everyone will speak of Sarah and say, I can't believe it. It's, it's amazing. It's a miracle and and they'll just laugh. Now Paul picks up this theme at how old Abraham and Sarah are 90 and 100. In Romans four he says this about Abraham, he did not weaken in faith. This is Romans four 19. He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old. How would you like your body to be described that way? Hebrews actually says the exact same thing, Hebrews 11, 12, therefore from one man and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven.

9:33I think that's very intentional that Abraham is 100. God could have gave him a son at age 25. He could have gave him a son at 50, he could have gave him a son at 75. That would've been impressive. But to get a son at 100 when his body is as good as dead is trying to communicate something that God can make the impossible possible. But not only that, God brings forth life from a dead man and you should begin to hear the echoes or the foreshadowing of the gospel. Life comes from a dead man. Isaac is pointing forward to the ultimate offspring that would come in Jesus. And through Jesus' death, not figurative but literal, he will bring life in a multitude of descendants and there will be spiritual children who are members of God's everlasting kingdom that come from this dead man.

10:36So the birth of Isaac is not the conclusion, but it's actually the beginning of a greater work, a greater promise that's going to be fulfilled in the future. This offspring of the woman is still to come who is going to crush the head of the serpent. And so Isaac is a pointer forward of all that God will accomplish. Now this leads us to the second part of our chapter, the Expulsion of Ishmael verses eight to 21. The summary of this is that the weaning of Isaac becomes the occasion for tensions to rise in this family. And Hagar and Ishmael are sent away even though God does indeed protect them in the wilderness.

11:20Now in verse eight, we see that Abraham hosts a feast to celebrate the weaning of Isaac. This probably would've been at age two or three and and we begin to see this drama emerging when Sarah sees Ishmael laughing at Isaac in her mind, this is no laughing matter again, this play on Isaac's name in your Bible may have a footnote that says laughing in mockery. So this was probably a type of taunting or ridiculing this mocking behavior toward the toddler. In Galatians, actually Galatians 4 29, Paul describes Ishmael as persecuting Isaac. Now Sarah's gonna have none of it. She tells Abraham, cast out this slave woman and her son in verse 10.

12:06So get rid of her. I don't want her around. And again, we see that polygamy leads to strife and tension and heartache in the family. Now imagine Abraham for this moment. You, you're thrilled about your son Isaac. You're throwing this feast, but your wife is angry and she wants you to get rid of your other son, the firstborn. And he's torn up about this prospect. Sarah sees Ishmael as a threat to Isaac's inheritance. You see that in verse 10 Again, shall not be an heir. Ishmael shall not be an heir with my son Isaac, this son of the slave woman. And in his distress, God comes to Abraham, tells him to listen to Sarah verse 12, whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

12:59So God reassures Abraham that he will make a nation of Ishmael because he is your offspring. Again. In verse 13, Abraham listens and sends Ishmael and Hagar away to wander in the wilderness. So God chooses Isaac, he doesn't choose Ishmael. Both are going to be made into great nations, but the promise is gonna flow through Isaac. Now this is significant because Paul again picks up on this theme in his letter to the Galatians. Paul was in the book of Galatians defending justification through faith alone because false teachers were coming in and saying, you need to obey the mosaic law. You need to obey the law in order to be saved.

13:44And and so in Galatians two 16, Paul writes, yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ because by works of the law, no one will be justified. And then he goes on to cite Abraham who says he he believed in God's promise and it was counted to him as righteousness. That's Galatians three, six. So Abraham didn't earn his salvation through keeping the law or through circumcision, but it was counted to him as righteousness by faith. Then in Galatians four, Paul is trying to combat legalism. And again he cites Genesis, Genesis 21. In fact, he says that there are two sons of Abraham, one born by a slave woman.

14:28This is Genesis four twenty three and twenty four one, born by a slave woman according to the flesh, and one born by a free woman according to the promise. And they can be interpreted allegorically. These women are two covenants. And now I'm not gonna read the rest of Galatians four, you can see that. But Paul's point is that Abraham and Sarah's attempt to have a child through Hagar, Ishmael Wa was this, this attempt through the flesh by trying to earn salvation. That that's what it's likened to, this lack of faith and this human attempt to fulfill God's promise. This is like trying to earn your salvation by obedience to the law.

15:10But Isaac is the child of promise because it required faith in God to fulfill what the flesh could not accomplish. And Paul is saying these two children are, are, are represent two different covenants. And for the Jews in Galatians, this would've been shocking, startling because they would see themselves as descendants of Isaac. But he says, if you're relying on trying to earn your way to get closer to God, you are in fact children of Ishmael. You're trying to earn what God gives as a free gift through faith, through his promise. So to rely on the free promise of salvation given in Christ makes you true covenant children of God, your true descendants of promise through Isaac.

16:03Uh, so why does this matter for us? Even in Genesis, we begin to see God's pattern of salvation by faith alone, by trusting in God's promise. Even all the way back in Genesis 21, we begin to see that God uses faith trusting in God's promise, not by works. Now look with me at verses 15 and 16, Hagar's water is gone. She leaves Ishmael under a bush to go a distance from him. And so she can't hear or see her son's suffering and death. Essentially she's saying, I don't want to see him die. So she goes far enough that she won't be able to hear him or see him. And in verse 16 it says, Hagar lifted up her voice and wept crying out to God for help.

16:56And once again, we see that God hears a a play on Ishmael's name. The text tells us that God heard the voice of the boy in verse 17. And we can kind of begin to see the irony here, can't we? Hagar went a far distance so that she wouldn't hear her son, but God hears her son hears her even when we think we are alone or we're isolated or we're abandoned, maybe we're feeling like we're screaming into the silence. God hears our cries for help this morning, even when we feel like we're all alone in whatever we're experiencing, no one could possibly understand what I'm experiencing. No one has ever lived through what I've lived through, which is probably not true.

17:49God hears our anguish. God hears our suffering. God hears our cries for help. And that's probably a word that some of us need to hear this morning. You have a God who hears the cries of his children. Now not only does God hear, but he's again true to his promise to Abraham. He God told Abraham back in 21, verse 13, he says, I will make a nation of the son of your, of the slave woman also because he is your offspring. Back in Genesis 17, Abraham cried out, oh, that Ishmael might live before you. And God said to him, no, Sarah will bear you a son Isaac, but I'm going to establish my covenant with Isaac.

18:33But even for Ishmael, I've heard you. Behold I have blessed him. I will make him fruitful, multiply him greatly, I will make him into a great nation. That's chapter 17, verse 20. So every word of God comes to pass. That's one of the things that we're such to see here. Every single word of God comes to pass. If he said it, it will happen. There is not a single word that God speaks that will not come to pass, that will fall to the ground without being fulfilled. Now the angel directs Hagar to a well of water and tells her that God will make him into a great nation. So again, we see God's grace in his favor.

19:18In some ways it's very similar to what we'll see next week in Genesis 22 where God provides the ram for sacrifice, God has provisions that we cannot see. Verse 20 and 21 says that God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness, became an expert with the bow. He marries an Egyptian wife, lives as a nomadic wanderer in the wilderness. And so this completes the picture of Ishmael as the rejected son, son of a slave woman married to an Egyptian living in the wilderness, remembered for his opposition to the child of promise. So what we have in this middle section is that the drama is now resolved.

20:00There were two sons. Ishmael was the first born, the older son, and Isaac is the younger. But God said that Isaac is to be the heir, the child of promise, who's to receive the covenant, who's to receive the inheritance. So now Ishmael is out of the picture in order to preserve Isaac's inheritance. What we see in this section is we see God's faithfulness. He keeps his promise to make Isaac the heir. He keeps his promise to preserve Ishmael and to make him great. God keeps his promise to Hagar saying that he would multiply her offspring. God always keeps his promise. Is there something that you've just cried out to God over and over about and you just keep saying, how long?

20:51Oh Lord, when are you going to follow through on that promise? It feels like it's not gonna come true. I don't know where you're at in this situation, in those 24 years. My guess is that Abraham asked that a lot. How long, oh Lord, I'm not getting any younger. Sarah's not getting any younger. How long? Oh Lord. And what God shows is that he will fulfill his every promise. He will deliver all that he has said and more he will do what he says he will do and he will be true to his word. And so for us this morning, be reminded that God is at work despite what we can't see. God will be true to his promises.

21:57Now this leads to our third and final section, the treaty with Ab Bialek 22 to 34. So last week in Genesis 20, we dealt with a bialek. And now Abraham interacts with ab bialek again, they kind of serve as bookends to the birth narrative of Isaac. This earlier interaction signaled a threat to the promise. And now ab bialek reveals God's favor to Abraham. So ab bialek and the general Fico come to form a treaty with Abraham. So this suggests that Abraham's reputation and his status just continues to grow in the region. So a general comes along just in case things go sideways. But it's also a show of respect.

22:41And ab bialek had just given Abraham access to his territory in chapter 20 verse 15. And now they come to establish a preemptive treaty. They probably came to the celebration, this feast for Isaac. And so they come to establish this preemptive treaty. There's probably still residual fear of Abraham's God in Aek. And so they figured now he has his son. He's a powerful man. We need to make sure that we're on good terms. So they want to deal kindly with one another so that they put together a covenant, a treaty. And then Abraham puts this treaty to the test by bringing up the well that ab bialek servants had overtaken their herdsman has surrounded the well probably with their flocks.

23:25And Abraham's men couldn't access it and water was life in that region. And ab Bialek gives three excuses. I didn't know, you didn't tell me first I heard of it. He, he wants nothing to do with it. Not responsible, plausible di deniability. And so they establish a covenant at his Abraham gives him sheep and oxen paying the kindness of a bialek in the earlier account. Now in verse 28, he takes an additional seven EW lambs and gives them to a bialek, which was unexpected. You see that in verse 29. This is a little bit like an addendum or an appendix to a contract. Like, let me add one more page there that we all have to initial.

24:05Abraham wanted specific concessions from ab bialek, namely he wanted access to this well that he had dug. And these seven lambs serve as a witness that I dug this well and that we get to still keep using it. And this results in naming the place Beersheba, which means a well of oath or a well of seven. So it's a play on the covenant. And the gift of seven lambs and Beersheba will be a significant landmark for Isaac and Jacob and Joseph. As Genesis continues to progress, it's kind of like the bottom boundary marker if you will. So abil maek returns to Canaan as Abraham responds with worship, planting a tree, kind of similar to establishing an altar that he had done previously.

24:53And then now he calls on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God or El Lum, the God of eternity. And what we begin to see in this account, which almost seems like a throwaway, like why is it here? It doesn't seem all that important. I think it's this, that as Abraham plants a tree calls on the name of the everlasting God. It suggests that Abraham now has his son, the Son of Promise, and he has a foot in the door in the land of promise. I have the son and all of my descendants will continue to multiply. God is going to bless them. And now I have a foot in the door in this land, I have a treaty where I'm gonna be kept safe.

25:39I have a witness to this well that I've dug and we can continue to dwell here. And I've planted a tree as a marker that this is going to be my land Again. It's pointing to how God is fulfilling his promises. His time horizon has just changed for Abraham. Everything for Abraham up to that point was, I'm about to die. I'm as good as dead. I'm a hundred years old. No son. No son. He, he's thinking just in terms of the short term, I have no son. What do I do? I have no son Ishmael's growing older eliezers in in my household, but I, I don't have a son through Sarah. But now his time horizon has just completely changed.

26:26He lifts his eyes and he's like, oh, I have the son. I have a foot in the door and my descendants will have this land in a few hundred years. He's beginning to see that God's timetable is not the same as his. He's an everlasting God. He's at work. Even in the short term, things don't look good. But a couple hundred years from now, we'll look back and say, oh, God knew exactly what he was doing. How many of us have experienced that in the short term in the months or the weeks or the years? We're thinking what's going on? And then in a decade from now, or three decades from now, or five decades from now, you look back and say, oh, he knew what he was doing.

27:14He, he was at work in that he was taking care of us. We, we wouldn't trade those experiences for anything. They weren't easy in the moment, but God was good, wasn't he? So, so the question that I raised at the beginning is what unites these three sections? What we've seen the birth of Isaac, we've seen God's election network and Ishmael's expulsion into the wilderness. We've seen God's favor. What unites these three sections together? Why are they here? As I was kinda wrestling with this, uh, I had two observations. First is that this reveals God's power to protect God's power to protect. We see this powerfully in Genesis 20 from last week.

27:59It was I who kept you from sinning against me. But now not only does he protect Sarah, but he protects Isaac from Ishmael ensuring that Isaac will receive Abraham's inheritance. He protects Isaac's inheritance, but he also protects Ishmael and Hagar in the wilderness. He perpetuates Ishmael's heritage. He also protects Abraham from Abimelech because he fears God. So this pagan ruler comes and forges a covenant with Abraham for his ongoing prosperity and safety. What this reveals to us is that God will always protect his children. If God is for us, who shall be against us. And and we live in a world where Christians are seen less and less as good, upstanding people that are good for society there there's people who openly dislike Christians or even call them names or think they're bad for society.

28:57And this can make some of us nervous and uneasy. Or as some of our global partners serve in dangerous and difficult places, they might be thrown into jail. And yet Jesus taught his disciples that persecution will come. Some may be delivered up by family and friends and some will even be put to death. But then he says this, God protects his people so that not a hair of your head will perish. That even if you're hated by all God will protect his people according to his sovereign design and keep his people imp perfect peace, even amid opposition. And so we do not need to fear. The last thing we need to do is to live in fear as God's people.

29:48If God is for us who can stand against us, we go with the power of the everlasting Almighty most high God. So stop living like we're on the defensive. We have been sent out by Christ to make disciples and God protects his children as we do that good work. The second thing, God fulfills his promise. We, we've already seen this throughout the passage, but let me just list them so that we feel kind of the force of it. Genesis 12, one to three, God said he would make Abraham a great nation and now he's just made a covenant with a bialek, the king of guar. Abraham is told that he's gonna be blessed by God.

30:33And so every time he runs into trouble, whether that's with Pharaoh or ab Bialek or others, he gets richer. He gets more powerful, he gets more respected even when he does exactly the wrong thing, his name and reputation begin to precede him. His name is being made great. God's blessings flow to Abraham to others so that when Abraham intercedes other people get spared, God's mercy is shown. So God is fulfilling his promises. Genesis 15, God said, your very own son shall be your heir. And now the birth of Isaac has come to pass. Or Genesis 17, he told him, you will be a father of a multitude of nations.

31:15And that has come true. And even for Ishmael, he says, he shall Father 12 princes. I will make him into a great nation. And God's promises extend even beyond Isaac to Ishmael with his lavish mercy and blessings and kindness. In Genesis 1814, the question was raised by God to Abraham, is anything too hard for the Lord? And we get our answer in Genesis 21, now, don't we? No, nothing is too hard for the Lord God can call into existence what does not exist? God establishes for himself a people for his own possession from a man who is as good as dead from a woman who is barren beyond childbearing, years postmenopausal.

32:06Nothing is too hard for God and the name for God that's drawn out in this chapter, the Everlasting God suggests that this is now just the beginning. God is going to fulfill his promises forever. This is what an eternal or everlasting God does. He is still our God. He is still at work and he's still in the business of fulfilling his promises to his children. Do you have needs ransack his word for his promises? Bring them before God and say, you're a promise fulfilling God. I'm standing on your word. I live and die by your word. Not in my own strength, not my own wisdom, not in human ability or achievement to try to fulfill God's size promises with human wisdom.

33:05But I'm gonna come to your word and seek your face. Genesis 21 begins to set the stage for the final climactic test of Abraham's faith in Genesis 22 where he's called to sacrifice Isaac. 'cause now Ishmael is sent away. There's no backup plan. Now if you kill one son, you don't have a backup to go with. And it begins to set that up and the question for Abraham and that next chapter is gonna be, do you trust me? Will you trust me? Will you take me to my word? Now to summarize our passage, God will protect and fulfill his promises to his people forever. God will fulfill his promises. God will protect his promises to his people forever.

33:58Isaac's born his inheritance protected. And all of this is written to eng encourage God's people to trust in God. As we look out into the future, Proverbs 31 25 says the Proverbs 31 woman that she's able to laugh at the time to come. Why is she able to laugh at the future when she looks out at the future? It says earlier that she's clothed in strength and dignity. And then after that it says She fears the Lord. She knows who God is and who holds the future and she knows God, who will fulfill his promises. And for us this morning, Genesis 21 is written for us so that we would look out at the future and not be shivering in our boots, but that we would laugh, a nice hearty laughter of God's.

34:45Got it. I don't care what the Minnesota legislature does, I don't care how the presidential election goes. I don't care what goes on in Ukraine. God has got it. He sits in the heavens and he laughs and his people can join him in that laughter. I'm not gonna call us all to laugh 'cause that would be like a weird Pentecostal thing that we would do in here, but, but the idea is that we can laugh at at the times to come because we have a God who holds it in his hands. In the same way God can make Isaac exist out of a man as good as dead. And a woman who was dried up like Sarah, God can call dead sinners to live.

35:27You can call callous and doll hearts to come alive through Christ. And so if you're not trusting in Jesus here this morning, we want one thing for you that you would go from death to life. Because right now, whether you know it or not, even if you're in your prime, in your twenties, your body is as good as dead. But only in Jesus can he make you alive. Once again this morning, Jesus can make dent sinners live as new creations, new creatures in Christ. And so our invitation is that you would come and believe and look to Jesus.

36:10Isaac is a wonderful character in our Bibles. He would eventually marry Rebecca. He would have Esau and Jacob. Jacob would get his name changed to Israel. He would father 12 tribes. They would become God's chosen people. And from the tribe of Judah would come Jesus the Messiah. God is stringing together the chain of his faithfulness until it comes to Christ. And there's never a break in his faithfulness. It continues. And so this story calls us to examine ourselves this morning. Where are we at? Maybe we're like Abraham in despair and still trying to figure things out on our own. Maybe we're like Sarah filled with jealousy and anger.

36:59Maybe we're like Hagar, just despairing of life itself, crying out in hopelessness. Maybe we're like Ishmael, feeling like we're cast out into the wilderness. Our texts invites each and every single one of us to call on the name of Yahweh, the everlasting God. And so we began by noticing how our texts seems to be rather anti climactic. Isaac doesn't get the airtime that he deserves in this chapter. You would almost think all 34 verses should be dedicated just to Isaac. Maybe Sarah gets a little bit of a song and we get to hear about his early years. But we realize it's not about Isaac, is it? It's about the promised offspring that was to come.

37:44It's about Jesus, the ultimate offspring, and it's calling us to see the glory and the power and the love and the majesty of the everlasting God who would reveal all of those things in the person and work of Jesus. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we do thank you that our hope is not in ourselves, not in what we can accomplish, not in what we can earn, but it's by faith in your promises that you have made to your people. So incline our hearts to you. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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