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Genesis chapter 12, verse 3.

I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you, I will curse.

And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

This verse is the initial promise that God gives to Abraham, that he's going to

pour out blessing on him, like descendants, land, like when God says, I'm going to bless you and those who

bless you, that is a loaded picture.

God is pouring out blessing on Abraham.

Now the pictures that I want you to see, we've got to hear as this verse goes on is this blessing is not just for Abraham.

The whole point is, and in you, so in you, Abraham, all the families of the earth

shall be blessed. So this is the very beginning of the people of Israel, Abraham, the father of God's

people, receiving this blessing from God, but it was never about just the people of Israel.

Through you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

This wasn't just about Abraham's family.

This was about the blessing of God being made known among all the peoples of the earth.

And God was establishing Abraham as the conduit of his blessing, as the means

through which his blessing would spread to the ends of the earth. So think about this. And we see this

all over scripture, that we're never the end. Like God's blessing among all peoples, like that's the end.

When God blesses us in all kinds of ways, it's not just for us.

When God blesses us, it's for the spread of his blessing.

When God shows grace to us, it's not intended to stop with us.

It's intended to spread through us that more and more

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