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Welcome to the Word of the Lord endures forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

Perhaps he even had his eyes shut.

But you know that feeling you get when someone's looking expectantly at you?

You feel their eyes on you somehow.

With the start, Abraham looked up and realized that three men were standing right there in front of him.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present. Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Genesis, chapters 12 through 23. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God.

Well, in our last study, we contemplated the obedience of faith.

Remember how when God had finished talking with Abraham,

laying on the man more than he even dared to hope and dream,

changing his and Sarah's names, giving him the covenant of circumcision and telling him how he would become the father of a son through Sarah.

Old Abraham didn't delay a single day. He promptly received circumcision himself in his nearly

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