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All righty good to see you all. Hey, we're in a great book of the Bible called Genesis.

And one of my favorite things is helping people learn the Bible,

so thanks for giving me that opportunity and honor.

We're in Genesis 14, and today we're going to answer the question,

how does God deliver a family?

You're going to see a family.

They do know the Lord, but they get into quite a battle.

And so we're getting to know one of the most famous people in the history of the world his name is Abraham his wife's name is Sarah and what you're going to learn today is how faith works either when you're in a battle or you're receiving a blessing and these are the two seasons that we're going to see today in

Genesis 14 how many of you right now you're in a battle physical mental spiritual emotional political governmental global physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, political, governmental, global battle.

Amen?

So, like, don't talk about it.

Okay, so how many of you, it's a season of blessing,

like it's going really well, I'm encouraged, I'm hopeful, I'm joyful'm hopeful all right you people need to hang out

together those other people need your help and so what we're gonna how many of you are both

right now you're like I'm in the middle of it I've got good and bad going on at the same time

that's that's the bookends of life.

It's battles and blessings.

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