I thought this morning I kind of lit you in on a Yusef family secret, but you have to keep it just between us, okay?

When our children were growing up, they detested watching television with me, and for a very good reason, because I tend to figure at the end after 10 minutes of the start,

and I'll blurt it out.

Even sometimes I am predicting the next line before it was pronounced.

Whether it's a love story or war story or

adventure story, I think it's basically all predictable. I mean, you may be different people,

different circumstances and different places, but it's all predictable and goes something like

this. Boy meets girl. The problem arises, boy loses girl, the problem is overcome, and then boy gets

girl and live happily ever after, right? I think on the rare occasion that you find a story

kind of takes a different twist, And I think Abraham's story,

had it finished in the last message, would have been understandable. Of course, the supernatural

can never be forgotten. And today, as I conclude this series of messages, where God told Abraham

to start counting stars when he could

actually see none. We're going to see here in this last message how unpredictable the events

have taken their turn. Natural speaking, from the human point of view, this is the hardest message in the

whole of the series. Emotionally speaking, this is the toughest in all of the ten messages.

Even in terms of faith, it is difficult to comprehend. And while I don't deny the difficulty,

I don't want you to miss the important part. I don't want you to miss the big picture. I don't want you to miss the big vision here.

Abraham, from the time we saw the very first message where God told him at the air of Kaldians to go and to this point of his life, they're about 50 plus years or so.

In reality, what Abraham is going through is what each of us will go through. It is the school of

faith. Faith is like a muscle that it does not grow while you're just sitting there eating potato chips and watching

television.

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