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To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 The complexity of the human body is awe-inspiring. We take for granted that we each have some 34 trillion cells, each one packed with volumes of information. As our amazing Creator, God knows us completely.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Hide-and-seek is a classic and beloved favorite among children, but this game cannot be played with God. By virtue of His perfect knowledge and His all-present nature, He knows our location and even our thoughts. He has an exhaustive knowledge of all things, both actual and potential.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 In Psalm 90, Moses wrote, From everlasting to everlasting you are God. He compares Gods eternality to our short spans of life, reminding us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. What can we learn as we consider Gods eternal nature?

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 The Bible tells us about God and His purposes. Not everything is crystal clear, though. There are mysteries we cannot understand in this life, especially as we consider the nature of God Himself. But in this message, we delve into the mystery and seek to understand God as best we can, according to His Word.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 To make sure we understood Calvary, God gave us Mount Moriah. There Abraham, a picture of God the Father, was told to sacrifice Isaac, the picture of Christ the Son. To read Genesis 22 is to weep. In this message, we plumb the depths of a story only God could have written.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 There are few places in the Bible that draw more tears than the account found in Genesis 22. Abraham was told to sacrifice his son Isaac, the son of promise, the son through whose line the Redeemer was to come. By the command of God, Isaac was to die.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Sodoms debauchery was relentless to the end. The brimstone was coming as God mercifully sent two angels to rescue Lots family before the destruction arrived. Lots story is a message of compromise, and his faith was too weak to stand against evil. In short, he had A Worldly Faith.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 God had agreed to spare Sodom if ten righteous were found. Abraham had worked hard, thinking that he had struck a sure deal as he negotiated with the Lord. There had to be 10! But then the smoke rose in the distance. Was his prayer worth it? What is the real purpose of prayer?

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 One day, Abraham came out of his tent and saw three men standing there. But these men were not ordinary men! With keen spiritual insight, he sensed that he was in the presence of the Lord. As Hebrews 13 says, some have entertained angels without knowing it. Two were angels, but one of the men was the Lord Himself.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Genesis 21 tells of the parting between the two sons of Abraham. Ishmael was cast out of the house along with his mother Hagar. Gods clear intention, as carried out by Abraham, was for Isaac to carry on the line of the promise.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 For 99 years he was known as Abram. But according to the purposes of God, he was then called Abraham, the father of many nations. How could this be? Ishmael was a teenager, and Isaac was not even born! Yet this was a crucial point in history.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Sarahs idea for Abraham to father a promised heir through her maid backfired. Sarah grew jealous, and Hagar ran away to escape the torment. But God found her and comforted her in the midst of her troubles.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 Sometimes, we try to engineer circumstances to bring Gods will to pass. Abraham did that when God promised him countless offspring. Since his wife was too old, he slept with their Egyptian maid Hagar. The result was conflict and enmity.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 In Genesis 15, God makes an unconditional covenant with Abraham. God says He will do what He promisesno matter what. Lets learn why that covenant means that the work of Jesus is all thats needed for a believer to gain eternal life.

To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29 In Genesis 15, God promises Abraham many offspring and pledges to give them much of the Middle East. Now thats a big promise! God guaranteed a land and a people to bring forth the Redeemer.