I pray you all bear with me today.
I just struggled a lot with this text. I know what I want to tell
you. I know what I want to say. I just couldn't get it on paper. So I hope it comes out. I hope
the Lord gives me the word for you, for your heart today. The
title of this message, Abram, Us, and Christ. That's what we're
going to see in our text. This is Abram. And we're going
to see us in this. But this picture's Christ. That's
what he told those that rode with Emmaus. He said, Moses rode
with me. This is a picture of him. Abram's
a picture of Christ in this. A covenant of mercy that took
place before time began. A covenant of grace for his people.
I hope we can see that, but this also applies to me and you. This
applies to the Lord's sheep. Applies to Abram, doesn't it?
This here's a picture of how God saves sinners. Yes, we're
sinners. We were sinners when the Lord
came to us and revealed himself to us, and that old man hasn't
changed. That faith will be evident. The faith the Lord gives, it's
going to manifest itself throughout our lives. There was a great
article in the Bulletin this morning about that. It's going
to be seen. We won't kick at dogs near as
much, and we won't be mean to our boss near as much. There'll
be some evidences, but that old man's still with us. It doesn't
go away. And Abram was a sinner. That's
what he was. God called him out of idolatry,
and his daddy was an idolater, and his whole family was an idolater,
and they were practicing religion absolutely as hard as they could.
They was going through the bodily exercise, what Paul say, that
profits little, doesn't it? There's just so many exercises
we do, we don't even know we do. We don't know we don't. We
don't know we do until we quit doing them. Hey, stop doing that.
Why? I don't want to. Why? Why? Like little children, ain't
we? You ever have a child ask you why? Why? Quit it. It's for your good. But Abram
was a sinner just like us. Let's read it here in chapter
12, verse 1. Genesis 12, verse 1. Now the
Lord said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from
thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will
show thee. And I will make of thee a great
nation. And I will bless thee, and make
thy name great. And thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless
thee. and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall all families
of the earth be blessed." God came to Abram and gave him a
commandment. He gave him a covenant is what
it was and he just informed Abram of it. And you know what happens
when the Lord speaks effectually to one of his children? You know
what happens? Look at the next verse. What's
verse 4 say? So Abram departed as the Lord
had spoken unto him. Did our master say this? Did
he fulfill all scripture with the word of God in his mouth
because he was God as he walked this earth? He said, my sheep
hear my voice. I know them. They follow me. They follow me. They obey God. Nicodemus is the longest record
we have in the scriptures of God dealing with somebody. People
say, well the Lord's been dealing with so and so for 55 years.
I don't know about that. You might be around the gospel
in proximity, but if God speaks to you, if you truly hear his
gospel, you either bow or you grit your teeth and fight him.
It's one or the other. The Lord dealt with Nicodemus.
Nicodemus came telling everything he knew. God corrected him. He
said, you've got to be born again, Nicodemus. He preached Christ
to him. And then the next thing you know,
Nicodemus says, what does this man say? Let's kill him. The
next thing you know, let's hear him out. Hold on now. About a
year later, And then whenever our Lord had willfully laid down
His life, Nicodemus walked right past Him with a hundred pounds
of aloe and myrrh. That don't fit in a tiny watch pocket. He
probably had a cart he was pulling to go anoint our Lord. I bet
they mocked Him the whole way. What you doing? I don't care
what you say. I'm going to anoint my Lord's
body. I'm going to honor Him, a person. I'm going to bow to Him, a person.
But Abram knew the Lord. The Lord manifest Himself to
him. He spoke to him. The Lord of glory. It's only
mentioned three times in the Scriptures. Once in Psalms, once
here. We'll see hopefully here in a minute in Acts 7. The Lord
of glory, the triune God, manifest and crossed our Lord, spoke to
Abram. And he said, here's what I am
going to do. Not what you need to do, not
what you're pretty well pleased to do. I heard a lady say she
thinks she's getting called in the ministry to preach and she
said, you know, the Lord's asking me to do this. Just like he asked
Abram. Did he ask Abram anything? No! He said, this is what I'm going
to do. Abram knew he was God and he bowed to him. That's what
he did. We need a little background on this though. We're going to
be looking at Abram, Abraham. The Lord's going to rename him,
give him a new name. We're going to be looking at
Abraham for quite a while. And all throughout Scripture, he's
referenced. His name's been made great, hasn't it? Everybody's
heard of Abraham. The Lord didn't lie, did he?
He doesn't lie. We're going to be looking at
him for a while, so we need some background on what happened.
Look here in chapter 11. We'll look in verse 31. And Terah
took Abram his son. And Lot, the son of Haran, his
son's son, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they
went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to go into a
land of Canaan. And they came into Haran and
dwelt there. And the days of Terah were 205
years, and Terah died in Haran." Now, what this is a record of,
the Lord is telling us what happened. That's about six years of what
just took place. He's telling us what happened.
It's written chronologically, and then he goes back and explains
how this got started. What's that sound like to you?
Tara, the dad, took Abram, his son, and his family, and they
were going to Canaan. What a lovely dad. Isn't that
just wonderful? You ever heard somebody say,
well, they learned the gospel through me. I brought the gospel
to them. I wrote something. I said something.
I sat them down and I wrote the Bible. And boy, they heard something.
They heard me. They didn't hear nothing if they
heard you. I played that game and the Lord showed me brutally
it was of Him. If the Lord is going to speak
to somebody, He's going to do the talking. That might be through a nursing
vessel. It might be through some means. But here the dad was taking
his son and his family. That's what's recorded, isn't
it? And we'll see how that's just going to get somebody right
in their crawl. down the road 2,000 years later, 6,000 years
later now, however long the Lord decides to do it. But Terah took
his sons. And I thought, how could that
be? Could you imagine the Lord speaking to Abram? They were
going to go to Canaan, and they didn't head straight west to
go to Canaan. They'd go across a big old desert in southern
Iraq. I've been there. It's bad. You don't want to walk
across it. So they went north. We'll go up to Turkey, and we'll
skirt around through the mountains and come back down. And they
got up to Haran, because the father named that city that.
He said, well, I went far enough. We'll just worship God here.
That's what we'll do. Well, why was he even with them?
God spoke to Abraham. You ever met a man that God's got a hold
of? You can't buy him. That's like
that last present we had. Everybody hated him because you
couldn't buy him. And everybody loved him because you couldn't
buy him. Same reason, wasn't it? God spoke
to Abram. The Lord gave him something to
do, and he was going to do it. They said, Abram, why are you
leaving everything? You've got a good business here. I don't
care about that business. You can keep it. You've got a nice house built.
You and Sarah's got a pretty place. Sell it, burn it. I don't
care. I'm leaving. God spoke to me. We're going.
Pack your stuff up. What about this? What about your friends
and family? I don't care. I'm leaving. Well, I'm your dad. You're going to leave me. God
told me to. He said, get out of your house.
I'm leaving. Something's got to hold him. Lord must be moving
on this person. I'm going to be wherever he is.
That's what the daddy said. I'm going to go with you, Abram.
Let's pack up and go with him. There's a movement starting.
You know, religion can just accept any religion. They might disagree
on some things on the size of hats you wear, or how many times
you do something, or what the color of the gold thing you swing
with the incense is in it, but they can all get along. They
really can. I've had people try to get along
with me until they hear what I believe, the God I believe,
and then they can't stand it. But Terrell was packing along.
He said, you know what? I'm going to help you, Abram. I'm the dad.
I ought to be in charge. I'm the oldest. I must know better.
You're going to do what I tell you. So let's go. That was about six years that
took. It took Abraham about a year to pack up, get everything in
order, and to walk much further to Haran than it was to Canaan. About 1,600 miles further. They
had to go all the way up through there. It took them a long time
to walk it, and they were settled there about five years, and then
his dad died. God killed him. Is that the order
of things? Did the Lord speak to him in
Haran, or did the Lord speak to him in Ur? It's confusing
to us. The Lord's going to use this
to take away every stumbling stone we have and every safe
haven we have in thinking of who our daddy was, who our family
was. I'm so tickled out here people
don't know my family. It's my expectations that come
with that. I don't want to remember. I don't want nobody knowing them.
You expect some things out of me you ain't going to get. The
Lord had that stumbling stone in Abram's life and he took it
from him. And he used that as a stumbling stone for those Jews.
Turn over to Acts chapter 7. Acts chapter 7. Stephen's about
to preach here. They've heard of his miracles
these high priests had. He was doing them. People were
believing the gospel he was preaching. They gathered him up, they arrested
him. And they said, are these things so? We've heard all this
stuff about you, Stephen. We heard what you said. Are you
telling, is that true? And he begins here in Acts 7, verse
2. And he said, men and brethren
and fathers, you old folks, you young folks, everybody, you listen
to me. Hearken. The God of glory appeared unto
our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia before he went
to Charon, that's Haran, and said unto him, Get thee out of
thy country and from thy kindred and come into the land which
I shall show thee. Then came he out of the land
of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charon. And from thence, when
his father was dead, he removed him." God removed him into this
land where you now dwell. And he gave him none inheritance
in it. No. Not to set his foot on. He didn't
just give him land. He didn't give him stuff. That's
what they're worried about. Yet he promised that he would
give it to him for a possession and to his seed. singular after
him. When as yet he had no child,
and God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a
strange land, and that they should bring him into bondage, and entreat
them evil for four hundred years. Stephen tells those high priests,
he said, you know, you guys just stand on the Word of God and
you don't have understanding. And you stand on Abraham. You
love Abraham being your daddy, your great-great-granddaddy,
more than you love Christ who's coming. And he tells them, everything
you think is wrong. You don't know. You're so worried
about lineages, and you're so worried about what Terah do.
This is the order of things. You know how they got mad at
the Lord? He come in and changed things up. You're messing us up. Why are
you doing this?" And Stephen stood on his hind legs and he
said, everything you know is wrong. You need to look to Christ. You
need to look to Christ. That's who you need to look to.
God told Abram, get out of there. And Terah followed him and acted
like it was his idea, but the Lord kept him with him. The Lord
kept him with him for five years. They got afraid of Herod and
they stopped and they dwelled. Let's look back at our text here
in Genesis 12. Abraham who they loved. Let's
turn to Joshua 24 first. Abraham who they loved, these
Pharisees who they put all their stock in, their genealogies.
He was an idolater. He was a sinful man just like
every sinner that Christ saves. And his daddy was too. Here in
Joshua 24, look in verse 2. And Joshua said unto all the
people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, your fathers dwelt
on the other side of the flood in old time. It's speaking of
the Euphrates, not the flood of Noah, but the Euphrates. On
the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father
of Abraham and the father of Nacor. And they served other
gods. Did Terah take Abraham? No he
didn't. It says in verse 3, And I took
your father Abraham from the other side of the flood and led
him throughout all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed
and gave him Isaac. The Lord took this man. He chose
him. He came to him. He spoke to him.
Manifested himself to him. This old idol worshiper. and
he saved him. He gave him his covenant of grace.
You know how hard that is? But Paul said that whenever he
was here. Take a 75-year-old man and tell
him something. I'm going to change your whole
way of thinking. I'm 41. You probably ain't going
to change my way of thinking. First set my ways. God can, can't
he? He can. I'm going to ask a couple
questions with this. Why did Abram wait five years
before he just resisted his dad And why did he just leave him?
Why did he stick with his daddy and do what daddy said? Why did
Abram wait until his dad was dead before he went? You know
what I come up with? He was a sinner. Just like me. Our great father Abraham was
just a sinner. He was saved by grace, but he
was only a sinner. He was the Lord's. A new heart
was in him. A new man was in him. But it was housed in this
body of death. He still was. He was still subject
to the woes of this world. Paul gave us wonderful advice.
Whenever you get married, children, leave your homes. Depart from
your mother and father. It's wise counsel, isn't it?
Well, Abram left and his dad stuck with him. He should have
run him off. Why didn't he? He couldn't. And
then what Paul told us too in Romans 7, he said, everything
I wish I could do, I don't do. I do the opposite. and everything
I don't want to do. That seems like that's all I
do. And it makes me miserable and it's like there's a law about
it. Inside of my body is a war going
on. There's an old man and a new
man fighting. And I'm so thankful Paul wrote that. That's how I
feel every day. I don't have this lottery religion
people talk of where they're just health and wealth and everything's
great all the time. My life ain't that way. Brother
Don, you say, I spend more time in the valleys than I do the
mountaintops. And I say, well, sure don't seem like it to me. He must just
be making a point. I spend more time in the valleys
than I do the mountaintops. I do. I spend more time looking
at my error and my wrongdoing than I do anything good I've
ever done. The Lord's allowed me to do. He's used me for. I
don't remember those things. Why didn't God just condemn Abram
for disobeying? The Lord said, I'm going to take
you to Canaan. He took him. That's what happened. He took
him 4,600 miles north. Took him way up there and let
him hang out with his father for a while and keep his old
traditions and his old grave clothes alive. Why didn't God
just kill him right then for disobeying? Why don't the Lord
just condemn us? Why didn't he just condemn me
right now where I stand? Because he showed mercy. And
then you know what happened? He showed mercy. And as we go
through the story of Abraham, you know what happened next?
God showed mercy. You know what's going to happen again? God's
going to show mercy to his child over and over again. That's the
difference in sonship and daughtership. Being a child of God. Those Pharisees
come to our Lord and said, we ain't going to believe you unless
you show us a sign. And he said, you ain't getting
no sign but the sign of Jonah. Beat it. Thomas said, I need
to sign. I ain't gonna believe unless
I touch your side. He said, come here, Thomas, put your hand right
here. Come here. You don't see my hands? Touch my side. That's
all right. What's the difference? Isn't
that the same thing? Being a child of God's a difference, isn't
it? Abraham was a child of God. You
who are his, Lord's gonna be merciful and merciful and merciful
and long-suffering to his people over and over again in spite
of ourselves, regardless of me. And that doesn't make me go out
and live like a heathen. It makes me want to serve Him and honor
Him. That's love. That's what love is. Love honors. Love covers all things. Love
believes all things. Hopes for all things. That's
what makes me want to do. That gives me hope. Abraham,
over and over again, he just disobeyed God and he didn't do
what was right. and God show mercy. That gives
me hope. It gives me hope. As worthless as I am, as miserable
as I am, as faltering and prone to wonder, the Lord will show
mercy to me. He delights to show mercy. God
doesn't deal with His people according to our perfection,
and He doesn't deal with His people according to our obedience.
Aren't you thankful? If you've got an ounce of like,
well, I did pretty good, Lord help you. Pride comes before
a fall, doesn't it? And it's going to hurt you high
up. In his covenant of grace, God dealt with Abram according
to Christ. He dealt with him according to
Christ. Abram disobeyed. He went the wrong way. Jonah
disobeyed. He heard the word of the Lord
and went another way. I disobeyed. I knew the Lord
and I ran. I could do it by myself. Maybe some of you have done that.
We see this, but what does God say about it? It's recorded here
for us to know, and I'm thankful. For me, personally, I'm thankful
this was recorded, that he went with his father away. Gives me
a blessing. What does God say about it? Turn
over to Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews 11, verse 8. By faith Abraham, when he was
called to go out into a place which he should after receive
for an inheritance, obeyed. Oh, don't that get you? He obeyed, and he went out, not
knowing whether he went. By faith he sojourned in the
land of promise, as a stranger, as in a strange country, dwelling
in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of
the same promise. For he looked for a city which
had foundations, whose builder and maker is God." What horrible
sin is recorded of Abraham? Nothing. What a good servant,
a profitable servant the Lord has. Look how strong his faith
is. Oh, he's brilliant. Magnificent. Look at him. Is that merciful? Is that compassion? When the
Lord will look on me and see his son and he says, well done. Oh, every time I was sick, you
came to me, comforted me. Every time I was hungry, you
fed me. Every time I was thirsty, you gave me water. When I was
in prison, you visited me. I said, Lord, when did I do that?
You've done it to the least of these, you've done it to me.
Lord's won with His people, isn't He? I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful He's removed my
sin and my disobedience and my arrogance and everything else
as far as the East is from the West. It's blotted out. It won't
be remembered no more. Not for His people. That's a
blessing. We'll have an eternity we haven't
even entered into. There'll be no memory of this world. All
the pain, dental chairs, won't happen. It'll be gone. Back in our text here in Genesis,
the Lord promised some things to Abraham. He says in verse
12, I'm sorry, I keep saying verse, Genesis 12 chapter, Genesis
12 verse 1. He gave us the account of Terah
taking his family and it says, now the Lord had said unto Abram. With that information there at
the end of chapter 11. The Holy Spirit uses Moses to tell us
some information. Now the Lord had said unto Abram,
Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from
thy father's house into a land I will show you, and I will make
of thee a great nation. Did he do what he said he promised
him? He went to this covenant with Abraham. Did he make a great
nation? Millions. Billions at this point in our
day and age, hadn't it? Throughout time. Physically,
just the physical offspring of this man that had no children.
Multitudes have, physically. Spiritually, is there any like
him? Is there any disobedient that was worshiping a false god,
thought they were doing wonderful and God came to them and spoke
to them? Saved them in his grace and mercy? We have that love,
we have our father Abraham, don't we? Because we're saved just
like Abraham was. We have the same faith Abraham was, the faith
of Christ. His faith. And he says, I'll bless you. And he did. We gotta read those
Beatitudes. The blessings don't always look
the same. That's what we think, does it? We have the same faith,
we have the same Lord, same birth. But in those Beatitudes, blessed
are the poor. Blessed are the meek. That's a blessing for the
Lord to give us those spirits. He said, leave your family, Abraham.
I want to make your name great. What was this great name of Abraham?
Everybody knows him. Muslims know him. Billions of
them, too. Oh, we know Abraham. Yeah, he's
our father. That's Ishmael's dad. We know him. Is that the
great name the Lord was talking about? You just be famous or
infamous, depending on which side of the fence you're on?
No, it's not. Look here at James chapter 2. James 2 verse 23, And the scripture
was fulfilled, which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed
unto him for righteousness, and he was called the friend of God. What a great name. Do you want
a great name here on this earth? We ought to not bring reproach
on the gospel. We ought to have nothing that
men could condemn me for that they could use against the gospel.
We ought to walk uprightly and be peaceable with all men. We
ought to have a debt of gratitude, love. That's what we ought to
do. But is my concern making a name for myself on this earth?
Leaving a legacy? Or is my concern being called
the friend of God? Can you imagine that? I know
what I am. I know who I've sinned against. It's imputed to him. He gives
the faith that's imputed to him to righteousness. It's counted.
It's already there. Righteousness. And he says, that's
my friend. That's my brother. My child. My family. That's what it says.
What a thought, isn't it? Back in our text in verse 3. Genesis 12 verse 3. I got it
that time He says and I will bless them That bless thee and
curse him that curseth thee The Lord takes note This is his child
He gives that promise when he gives what when he tells his
child what he will do is I'm gonna save you and I'm gonna
keep you forever and I'm gonna protect you we forget about that
so often don't we and The Lord gave us means. He gave us seatbelts. Wear one. I'm not some fatalistic
crazy man that's going to not wear seatbelts. The Lord gave
them. But he protects his children. He watches his children. He hears
and he takes note of who blesses and who curses his children.
Doesn't he? What did he say to Saul of Tarsus?
Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting my people? It was took note of,
wasn't it? It was remembered. This covenant
with Abraham is the same covenant. Here's what I'm going to do,
Abram. I'm going to keep you, and I'm going to keep track of
you, and protect you, and guide you, and I'm going to do everything
for you. You're mine. You're mine. Mine anointed. My
purchased possession. You're mine. That same covenant
with Abram, all the blessings that come with it, that's the
same covenant for you and me. If the Lord comes to us and He
speaks to us and gives us a new heart, there's nothing different.
There's nothing different. He said, I've loved you with
an everlasting love. I'm going to keep you forever, and I ain't
going to lose one. What a thought that is. You know,
all true sinners, not kind of sinners, not people that's kind
of bad, those are just absolutely miserable in their sin. They
keep standing, they wake up and look in the mirror some days
because they know what they are. That's who His covenant's for.
Come to him. Worship him. Bow him. Praise
him for who he is. You can take a sheep and put
it in a paddock and that thing could run circles around that. I mean hysterically going, I'm
not a sheep. I don't know if I'm a sheep. That shepherd would be mean to
whip it. No, he'd just laugh at it and comfort it, wouldn't
he? Feed it. That's what it is. Feed it. That's
what our brother read this morning. Those men were afraid and the
Lord showed him his hands and his feet. I wish every time I
was afraid I wouldn't be looking at me and looking at this world
around me and looking at my daddy who's tagging along with me and
looking at my family and everything else and I'd look to his hands
and feet. You ain't gonna find assurance in this world. You
ain't gonna find assurance in yourself. You're gonna find assurance
in the one who is our assurance. He said, I'll bless you, I'll
keep you, and I'm going to watch after you and protect you. It's
because of that covenant of mercy. How could this be? How could
God be just and a justifier? How could He remain holy and
let this horrible idol worshiper be one of His children? must be through Christ our propitiation,
our bloody mercy seat. Think of that mercy seat they
go in and sprinkle blood on. Think how many times they sprinkled.
They didn't have pressure washers back then and SOS pads. That
thing was covered in blood, wasn't it? Wasn't pretty. He came in this world without
form or comeliness for His people. Let's look at this text as our
Lord in it. Now the Lord had said unto Abram,
Lord spoke to His Son. The Father spoke to the Son and
said, Get thee out of thy country. You're in heavenly places right
now. You must descend. And from thy kindred and from
thy Father's house, you're going to have to go away from me, Son.
We'll speak. I'll hear you always, but you
ain't going to be in my presence. You have to go down there into
a land I'll show you. You have to come to this earth,
and I will make of thee a great nation. Where's His kingdom? His people? His body? His church? His members? Is it magnificent? Is it great? It's just like Him. The Lord said He's made His people
holy. If somebody wants to get holier than that, I don't know what
to tell them. I don't know what to do for them. You know something
better than Christ? I don't. He's made us like and unto Him.
He maketh thee a great nation and I will bless thee. What do
you pray in that high priestly prayer? Lord, glorify me with
the glory that I had before the earth was, when I was with you.
And the Father said, I will. Blessings to honor and to respect.
Another meaning of this word, bless, here. And the Father openly
from heaven said, this is my Son in whom I'm well pleased.
Hear Him. That's it, you do. And make thy
name great. Paul wrote to Philippians and
said, He's given him a name which is above every name. At the name
of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that
He's Lord. He's Lord. People don't have
a problem with Jesus. Nobody does. They got a problem
with Lord Jesus. The one that's worthy to bow to. And thou shalt
be a blessing. Oh, is He. And I will bless them
that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee. That's the
question. That's the most important question
anyone could ever be asked. What think ye of Christ? What
do you think of him? Do you bless him? Do you praise
him? Do you honor him, bow to him,
throw all your care on him? Trust him. Trust him. He's worthy
of being trusted. Or do you curse him? If you don't
bow to him and honor him and worship him, you're cursing him.
There ain't no fence to ride, it's one side or the other. There
was a king one time, Spurgeon used to tell this story, and
he had a servant that done something, and he was going to reward this
servant, just a lowly, lowly hired hand, he was going to reward
him, and he said, you ask anything of me, and I'll give it. And
that servant said, I want a quarter of everything you have. You give
me a quarter of your land, a quarter of your wealth, a quarter of
your food, and how many daughters you got? I want a quarter. He
wanted a quarter of everything. And one of his head servants
says, I'm going to chop his head off. You want me to kill him
now or do you want me to do it outside? This guy's crazy. And he said,
don't you touch him. He said, he took me at my word.
He took me at my word. He believed me, give him everything
he asked for. Do we take God at his word? Do
I? Do I take God and His promises?
When He says, come unto Me, all you labor and heavy laden, I'll
give you rest. And I got the nerve to walk this earth and
say I'm tired. Say I'm wore out. Oh, if I could
take Him as Word, I'd go to Him. And I'd have rest. He said so.
He said so. Well, thank ye of Christ. It
says at the end of verse 3, "...and in thee shall all families of
the earth be blessed." If there's going to be any blessing, people
say, I'll have a blessed day. That makes me... But they don't
have knowledge. One of you all said it's different.
They're against sonship, it's who? If I could see Christ, they'd
give us our daily bread. People think that's got something
to do with flour and salt and water. I don't need to ask. I need Christ for my daily bread.
If we're going to be blessed, it's going to be in him. And
his family is a blessed family because he's ahead of it.