The sermon titled 'A New Era Of Precious Promises' concludes a series on Genesis 1-11, focusing on the genealogy of Terah, which sets the stage for the story of Abraham, referred to as 'the friend of God.' The text serves as an introduction to God's promises to bless the families of the earth through Abraham's lineage, emphasizing the theme of God's exceedingly great and precious promises. The sermon discusses the historical and geographical context of Terah's family, including their idolatrous past and their journey from Ur of the Chaldeans towards Canaan. The narrative highlights the selective nature of biblical genealogies, the significance of progressive revelation, and the fulfillment of promises in Jesus Christ. Through faith, believers are considered children of Abraham, showcasing the importance of faith over lineage. The sermon closes by emphasizing the ultimate praise due to God as the object of faith, who redeems and fulfills His promises.

The title of the message this morning is A New Era of Precious Promises. This is our final exposition in Genesis. We're done. Next week, there'll be a summary sermon just trying to capture some of the big themes that we've been studying in Genesis 1 through 11. Today's text is a genealogy or a family tree, But it is less bare than last week's genealogy, meaning that we get at least a little information about the people in the family tree.

Last week's genealogy was a very bare tree. Almost no branches and no leaves on the branches. You got almost no information about any of the names. So at least we get a little bit of information about the people on the family tree. So a few branches and a few leaves for us this week.

The great purpose of this text is to launch the reader into something that we won't get to because we're leaving Genesis, the life of Abraham, the friend of God. Listen to what God says in Isaiah 41, verse 8. We find this phrase in Isaiah 41 verse eight, Abraham my friend. So, makes me wish we were going on to Abraham if it's somebody who God calls his friend, we should study him. Even though we won't be studying Abraham, this is still a great way to exit Genesis because it shows us more of the promise of God to bless the families of the earth through this family line.

So we at least get a down payment or a little taste of God's promise to bless the families of the earth. Hey, I'm part of a family of the earth. God has promised to bless me, the family I'm from, the family that is from our marriage, through this family line of Abraham. Thus the title, A New Era of Precious Promises. In 2 Peter 1 verse 4, we encounter this phrase, Peter says, speaks of exceedingly great and precious promises.

So we've already hit a couple in Genesis, but now they really start to ramp up in Genesis now these exceedingly great and precious promises. And as you work through scripture, you get more, you get more, you get more, and then you hit the New Testament, and then you find them fulfilled again and again and again and again in the life of Jesus Christ. So it's a great way to exit Genesis as it's really putting forward these promises that are fulfilled in our Lord Jesus Christ. Let's ask God to help us. God, one final section of scripture to try to explain in Genesis 1 through 11, thank you for all that we've been learning.

I Thank you for the truths that I've seen in this text. I pray that you would help me to unfold them in a way that would be helpful to everyone who's listening. Thank you for your word. Every word, true, profitable. Help us in Jesus' name.

Amen. We have six verses, so we're just going to break them up two verses at a time. Hopefully your Bibles are still open to Genesis chapter 11. Follow along as I reread verses 27 and 28. Genesis 11, 27 and 28.

This is the genealogy of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. And Haran died before his father, Terah, in his native land in Ur of the Chaldeans. These two verses we have a father, three sons, and a grandson in Babylon.

Babylon is not a word that occurs in the text, but Ur of the Chaldeans is within what would become the Babylonian empire. So I'm saying Babylon. It's a little bit of an anachronism, but humor me. We think of it as that territory. A father, three sons, and a grandson in Babylon.

Terah is the head of this genealogy, and he was introduced to us last week in verses 24 through 26 so just look back a few verses let me re-read where we ended last week verses 24 through 26. Nahor lived 29 years and begot Terah so this is our man who is at the head of this genealogy. Nahor lived 29 years and begot Terah. After he begot Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and begot sons and daughters. Now Terah lived 70 years and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

So that brings us to today's text. So Terah was born when his dad Nahor was 29 years old. Then when Terah was 70 years old, he fathered these three sons, Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Notice that we see the name Nahor twice. That is the name of Tara's dad and then Tara used that name to name one of his own sons.

So a grandfather and Grandson have the same name. This happens in our culture all the time, where granddad's name becomes the name of a son. It happens here in our text. Now, Tara's family tree. He fathered three sons, Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

I know I'm saying that different than James. I don't really know who's right. I was just thinking, can I change to how he said it? And I thought, I probably can't. I've been saying it this way, at least in my head all week and I didn't think I could make the shift so forgive us.

He probably right not probably wrong but you're stuck with Huron. There you have it. Did he father any other sons? So we have three names. Did he father Any other sons?

Don't bet against it. He lived a long time, but we don't know. Did he father any daughters? Don't bet against it. He probably fathered some daughters.

I'm guessing he did, but we don't know. Remember in the genealogies that we've been studying really all along they've been selective genealogies, meaning my guess is we don't have many names with all their children at all in all the genealogies that we've been studying. So undoubtedly this is another selective genealogy. Why these sons named and captured in Scripture? Because each of them will play a significant part in upcoming histories.

Abraham is renamed Abraham and his life spans Genesis chapter 12 all the way to Genesis chapter 25. He'll die in chapter 25. In other words, there's more about Abram than we've been studying for the last 10 months. Okay, so we've been in 1 through 11. Abraham's life takes up 12 through 25.

So it's obvious why we have his name. Women from Nahor's family line will in time become wives of Abraham's son Isaac, will marry Rebecca. That is a granddaughter of Nahor. So we're being introduced to a family line that through marriage is going to continue to be a part of this story. Also, Isaac's son, Jacob.

So Abraham's had Isaac, Isaac had Jacob. Jacob marries Leah and Rachel. These are great granddaughters to Nahor. So again this family line is an important part of the story. And Haran has a son named Lot that we'll learn more about in this text.

He's also prominent in upcoming chapters in Genesis, including a war, five kings against six kings, and Lot is taken captive, and Abraham goes and gets his nephew. He defeats kings to go and get his nephew and then later on Lot settles near Sodom and Gomorrah. At first he's near there then he's right there at the city then he's living in the city and integrated into the life of the city that God judges and wipes off the face of the earth. So Lot is important and he's the son of Haran who is the son of Terah. Expositors Bible commentary says this, supporting cast is important and the parts they play sometimes need introduction.

That's exactly what is happening here. That's exactly why these are the three sons that are named. It is because they are a supporting cast to upcoming history, and they're going to play important roles. So in this genealogies, they are introduced. They're not main characters in these stories, but they're important secondary figures.

Two other important things from this subsection. Thing one, the native land of this family was Ur of Chaldeans. Where are these people from? They're from Ur of the Chaldeans. Whenever you hear Chaldeans in the Bible, think of people living within the region of what would become the Babylonian Empire.

So there's no such thing as the Babylonian Empire yet, but there will be such a thing as the Babylonian Empire. This is that region, Ur of the Chaldeans. When you hear Chaldeans in the Bible, this is that region. In this case, Ur is not far at all from Babel. So the people stayed together, they built a tower to make a name for themselves, and God came down confused the language, scattered the nations.

That was Babel. Ur is close to that when you look at a map of that time period. By the way, if you have a MacArthur study Bible, it's got a great map that has to do with today's text at the end of Genesis chapter 11. This is modern day Iraq. So where are these things happening?

It's modern day Iraq. And Ur of the Chaldeans is very near where the two great rivers the Euphrates and the Tigris meet. So if you look at even a modern map these two rivers the Euphrates coming, the Tigris coming, they join at a certain point, Ur of the Chaldeans is right really in the V of those two great rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris, meeting. Listen to this note from the ESV Study Bible. ESV Study Bible has this note.

Ur of the Chaldeans is unquestionably the ancient city in southern Babylonia, the remains of which are located in modern Iraq. Archaeological investigations by Leonard Woolley, Bet you've never heard that name before. Me neither. Archaeological investigations by Leonard Woolley from 1922 to 1934 uncovered evidence of a highly developed urban culture in the time of Abram, a culture that developed around 2000 BC. So 100 years ago, they're doing archaeological excavations in this area of Ur of the Chaldeans, and they uncover evidence of a highly developed urban or city.

It's a highly developed city culture here at Ur of the Chaldeans. That was thing one. The native land of this family was Ur of the Chaldeans. Thing two. One of Terah's sons, Haran, died while the family was still living in Ur of the Chaldeans.

I looked at the Hebrew word translated before Haran died before his father Tara and before is a perfectly good translation as long as you are thinking of position, I am standing before you. I am holding up this Bible before me, position, and not time. I eat breakfast before lunch. It's not time, it's position. So he died positionally before his father.

So I assume this means that Haran died in the presence of his father, Terah, while they still lived in Ur. A sad event that left a son Lot fatherless. So now when Lot goes with Abram who would be renamed Abraham to Canaan, now we know why. His father died and he went with his relatives to Canaan. Okay, next two verses, Genesis 11, 29 and 30.

Follow along as I reread Genesis 11, 29 and 30. Then Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milka, the daughter of Haran, the father of Iska. But Sarai was barren, she had no child. In these two verses, Abram and Nahor each take a wife.

If you're taking notes on the handout, filling in blanks, wife fills in blank. Abram fills in the blank. Abram and Nahor each take a wife two of the three named sons are still alive Abram's alive Nahor's alive Haran had died and each of these living sons takes a wife. Abram marries Sarai, Nahor marries Milka. And the identity of these two women makes us a little uncomfortable.

Makes us a little uncomfortable. Why is that? Because Milka who Nahor marries is Nahor's niece. Milka is the daughter of Haran. Nahor is the brother of Haran.

And Sarai, who Abram marries, is Abram's half-sister. How do we know that? Abram tells us himself in Genesis 20 verse 12. So if you go to Genesis 20 verse 12, Abram and Sarai have gone to Gerar in the land of Canaan and Abimelek is the King of that territory and he's told his wife. He's told Sarai because she's beautiful say you're my sister Because he's afraid that men will see this beautiful woman and kill him to have her.

Now, we look through American lenses and we stand in judgment on Abram. It was a different world then. Be careful in seeing these texts through American 2025 eyes wasn't like that. He might have had good reason to be afraid for his life. Not sure he should have done what he did, but his fear was probably well-founded.

In any event, The king does take Sarai into his household and God says, essentially, if you touch her, you're a dead man. And so the king then demands an Explanation from Abram and here's what he says in Genesis 20 verse 12, but indeed she truly is my sister She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother and she became my wife So they had this the same father, but not the same mother. They were born from different women but had the same father. So these two brothers, Abram and Nahor, marry close relatives and that makes us uncomfortable. That sounds disturbing, but it needn't make us uncomfortable.

Why not? Because this is still near the beginning of the repopulation of the earth after the global flood and also the choices have been narrowed by the confusion of the languages and scattering of the people at Babel. Remember, they all spoke the same language one day, and the next day, miraculously, because of a supernatural work of God, different family groups now speak different languages. They don't understand each other and they move to different locations where different family groups speak the same language. So there's not a lot of options.

It's like Adam and Eve and their children had no one else to marry but other close relatives. So after the flood, they're restarting, repopulating the earth, and the choices are very narrow. Marrying close relatives like this become unlawful when the law is given at Mount Sinai, but that is still a long ways off chronologically from where we are. So it sounds disturbing, don't be disturbed at the beginning of the human race. And then when they began to repopulate after the global flood, these really were the options.

It only became unlawful later. Finally, in this subsection, we get what can seem like an offhand comment, but it is far, far from being an offhand comment. Verse 30, but Sarai was barren, she had no children. As those familiar with Genesis know, Sarai's inability to bear children is going to play a significant part in the history of Genesis. In the end, Abraham will be 100 years old when her barrenness comes to an end and she has a child and she'll be 90 years old.

So once again, Moses, our author, the author of Genesis is Moses, is introducing now something that will be important later. We just get this one verse, she didn't have children, she was barren, and it just seems like an offhand comment here, but it's so important to what is coming in Genesis, and our author Moses is introducing it now, because it will be important later. God actually works in Sarah's life in this way so that Isaac, the child of Abraham and Sarah, very eventually will be a child of promise and not a child of the flesh. This is really important. Isaac needs to be a child of promise, not just naturally occurring as we think of babies being born, but a miracle child.

It's important that Isaac be a miracle child because God is doing miracles through this family line. He's communicating that by waiting until Abraham's body is as good as dad. That's what we see in Hebrews chapter 11. Might be James. His body is as good as dead, but God brings about a child of promise to teach us what he's going to do through this family line.

So that is Abram marrying Sarai, his half-sister, Sarai his half-sister and Nahor marrying Milka his niece. Finally verses 32, 31 and 32 Follow along as I reread Genesis 11 verses 31 and 32. Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to Huron and dwelt there. So the days of Terah were 205 years and Terah died in Huron.

And in these two verses a family heads to Canaan. If you're filling in blanks on the handout that's how you're taking notes. Canaan fills in the blank. A family heads to Canaan. Tara goes out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan.

Terah takes one son, Abram, with him. One son, Haran, is dead. But Haran's son Lot, who is now fatherless, goes with them. And one son, Nahor, stays put in modern-day Iraq, or we might say Mesopotamia, or we might say Chaldea, or we might say Babylon. I'm just telling you that because when you see these they're used interchangeably.

Technically they're not perfectly interchangeable but it's close enough that we use them interchangeably. Modern-day Iraq is Mesopotamia is Chaldea is Babylon. Did they make it to Canaan? Not in this text, not all of them. For whatever reason, possibly because Terah simply is unfit to continue the journey since we learn that he dies that is makes sense as an explanation why they settled in Haran instead of making it to Canaan he dies There so maybe just he got there was unfit to continue the journey They settle in this place called Haran.

Now a few things about this place called Haran. First it's a different Hebrew word than the person named Haran. So if you're not paying attention, this gets confusing fast. We have a son named Haran, and now they go to a place named Haran. It's actually a different Hebrew word.

Same in English, not sure why. Different word in Hebrew. So if you thought that the person might have been named for the place or the place might have been named for the person that's really unlikely. They're geographically very far apart and they're different Hebrew words. Second, if one of us looked at a map we would say that's no way to get to Canaan.

When you leave Ur of the Chaldeans and you're going to Canaan, you just go due west, you go straight west. If you're looking at a map, you take a hard left. You just go left, west until you hit Canaan. This Haran is actually north, northwest following the Euphrates River, which makes the journey to Canaan more than twice as long as it needs to be as the crow flies. But Those who know the region know that due west of Ur is a brutal desert.

So why didn't they just take a hard left? Go west, go the short route because that's a brutal desert with no relief from high, high temperatures and no access to water. On a modern-day map you're traveling through a large portion of Saudi Arabia and a portion of Jordan. This is high heat no water desert. So unless you can travel fast and light, and they're not traveling light, they have families, flocks, an aging father, and so they can't travel fast, So that's not the way you go So it actually makes sense if you understand the map.

I finally listened to this quote from the ESV study Bible according to texts composed by Assyrian traders who clearly understood such matters. So we're talking about writings from Assyrian merchants who know these areas. Haran was an important crossroads and commercial center in the ancient Near East. The location in modern day Turkey is now called Eskiheran, Old Heran. So there's actually a place in modern day Turkey named literally Old Heran.

So you can go to the place where they settled and where Tara died. While they're dwelling in Huron, Tara dies at the ripe old age of 205 years old. Okay, observations and applications. Let me give you four. Number one, let's ask and answer this question.

Who were these people? Tara, Abram, Nahor, Haran, Lot, Sarai, Milka. Were they the good ones that God determined to use because they were unlike their contemporaries? God is scouting the earth. Which family line should I work through?

Oh, some good people. I'll work through that family line. That's what's happening. Listen to Joshua 24 verses 1 and 2. So in Joshua 24, it's the last chapter in Joshua, and old Joshua has gathered the people one more time to charge them to follow the Lord.

This is the famous, choose this day as for me and my house is that chapter. Here's how this chapter begins. Joshua 24 verses 1 and 2. Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers. And they presented themselves before God.

And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the river in old times and they served other gods." So Joshua wants, he gathers all the people, he's giving them one final charge in his old age before he dies and he wants them to know where they came from. Where did we come from? We came from across the river. What were we when God put His hand on our family? We were over there serving other gods.

Who's the they? They served other gods. It's the people who are named. It's Terah, the father, and Abram, the son, and Nahor, the other son. Generations later, When Jacob, who has come back into the land of the Chaldeans and gets wives and is there for more than 20 years, when he's coming back to the land of Canaan with his wives, one of his wives, Rachel, steals the household gods.

Do you remember that? Okay, so this is generations later, they still have their other gods that they put alongside the God who has revealed himself in our scriptures. They're still idolaters. They were idolaters before they left and then when Jacob goes back and gets wives, they're stealing the family gods to take them with them. So who were these people?

The good people that God decided to work through, no, they were idolaters that God decided, I'm going to make them trophies of my grace. I'm going to show off by taking idolaters and making them mine and then working in a mighty way through their families. Listen to Genesis 18 verse 19. This really puts the finger on it. Genesis 18 verse 19.

This is God speaking. God says, for I have known him, for I, God, have known him, Abraham, in order that he may command his children and his household after him that they keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has spoken to him. So, let's go backwards in that verse. God wants to do what he speaks to Abraham. He wants to keep his promises.

So What did he do about it? God brought Abraham into relationship with him so that he could fulfill his promises through him. I'm going to read it again. Test me. Make sure I'm not pulling a fast one here.

God says, for I have known him in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has spoken so that he can keep his promises he's going to make him promises and he brought him into relationship with himself God brought Abraham into relationship with himself so that He could make him promises and keep those promises. Amen. Look at these promises. We're now peeking ahead into chapter 12. We're never actually going to dwell there, But look at the beginning of chapter 12.

Now the Lord said to Abram, get out of your country from your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." This is just like our study of Noah who found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Did God find Noah a faithful man and say, I'll preserve the human race through you?

No. He found a sinner And Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and God worked in his life to make him righteous. You have to get these in the right order or you think wrong about God's workings in the world. Matthew Henry says this. Those who are, through grace, heirs of the land of promise, ought to remember what was the land of their nativity, what was their corrupt and sinful state by nature, the rock out of which they were hewn what is Matthew Henry saying he's saying as err of the Chaldeans and Canaan are to Abram so are our past histories and God's grace in our lives are to us.

He's saying Abram was given the land of promise and he should never forget where he came from where he was when God found him and brought him into relationship with himself. So too the Christian. So too the Christian. You better remember that when God put his hand on you, you were an idolater worshipping unworthy things, having an affection for unworthy things, and you would have happily continued that into destruction if God hadn't decided I Claiming her I'm claiming him never forget the land of your nativity, the land of your birth. It's a pagan land, serving things that don't deserve our affections.

Number two, Just in these 11 chapters of Genesis, we are witnessing progressive revelation unfold. What do I mean? I mean, God didn't reveal everything at once. He didn't start with the gospels. The gospels is the fulfillment of so much revelation leading up to the fullness of time is what's called in the New Testament when Jesus was sent.

It starts in Genesis 315 with a promise that the seed of the woman will crush the head of the serpent. You know that probably didn't mean much to them in the Old Testament. It means so much to us. It's precious to us who can look back through the lenses of Jesus coming and doing his work. We could say, that's what that is.

For them, it could have just likely have seemed like Cain stepping on the head of an actual physical serpent. They didn't have a frame of reference to know exactly what was being promised there. But then throughout the Old Testament, there's a building from this promise that the seed of the woman will crush the head of the serpent and now this through you and your family all the families of the earth would be blessed then in Deuteronomy you have a promise that a prophet like Moses will come but they'll actually hear that prophet and he'll be a perfect prophet. And then in the Psalms you have all this about Jesus. Only Jesus's name isn't named yet, but he fulfills it all.

And then in the prophets There's more and more so that by the time guys like me are giving exposition of the Gospel of John, we can use this phrase, the marks of the Messiah. He's told us just to expect, just what he'll be saying when he comes, just what he'll be doing when he comes. The blind will see, Jesus did that. The deaf will hear, Jesus did that. The dead will be raised, Jesus did that.

So we can look at the life of Jesus and say, God's been promising this man all along, He's the fulfillment of all of these things. There were more and more precious promises, progressive revelation, progressively revealed, so that as we see Jesus fulfill each one in the gospels, we can be so sure that we're not believing myths that our feet are planted on a rock. Don't you see that? That's what's so important about progressive revelation. You could say over a thousand years God is making these promises and we can see in the gospels, he's keeping that promise, he's keeping that promise, he's keeping that promise, he's keeping that promise, all through the Lord Jesus Christ.

So I can know, I don't just happen to believe one of the religions of the world. If I was born in a different place, I would believe a different religion because my parents would have taught me that. It's equally valid. But no, we can look back and say God made a thousand years of promises, a couple thousand years of promises. He fulfilled them all in the Lord Jesus Christ.

And with what we recited out of Luke chapter 1, we can be so certain that the things that we believe are based on eyewitness accounts, people who saw with their own eyes that all these promises were fulfilled so precisely in the life of Jesus Christ. Here's the bottom line. God promised to send a Savior. Jesus is that Savior. If you need a Savior, it's Jesus.

There's not another one. Sinners need a Savior. God promised to send a great one who would save and Jesus is that one. Number three, if you have saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, you are more a child of Abraham than a genealogical Hebrew. If you have saving faith in Jesus, you're more Jewish than Jews.

You are more a child of Abraham than a genealogical Jew. Romans 4 16. It's Paul. Who's he writing to? Romans.

Are Romans Jews? No way! These Roman believers are just barely out of paganism. Just barely. A few years out of paganism here's what Paul writes to them therefore it's salvation therefore salvation is of faith that it might be according to grace so that the promise might be sure to all the seed not only to those who are of the law Jews who had the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham who is the father of us all.

Paul, the Jews Jew, the Hebrew of Hebrews, the son of a Pharisee, says, looks at Roman believers and he says, Abraham is the father of us all. Because faith makes Abraham our father. Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Based on his faith righteousness was put into Abraham's account. You know, no one's ever been saved any other way.

Now we're in the New Testament age, so we take up the name of Jesus on our lips. Amen. I'm glad. But the mechanism for faith has always been belief and has never been law keeping because no one has ever kept the law. It's always been faith.

It's always been trust and trusting ourselves to God, trusting God, believing God and having righteousness accounted to us based on our faith. Number four and finally, listen to the final analysis. With Noah we kept going back to Hebrews 11, the great hall of faith. All these ones who trusted in God and found God to be reliable, this great list. Let's do the same with Abram who becomes Abraham and Sarai who becomes Sarah.

Listen to Hebrews chapter 11 verses 8 through 12 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place Which he would receive as an inheritance and he went out not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he waited for the city which has foundations whose builder and maker is God." The author of Hebrews is saying he never got to live in a city. He didn't care. He was looking forward to a greater city.

He dwelt in tents. It didn't bother him to dwell in tents because he knew there was a city whose builder and maker is God and God had destined him for that city by faith. Now Hebrews 11 verse 11, By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed. She bore a child when she was past the age because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore from one man and him as good as dead were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore." These are our heroes.

Wait, no. God, the object of our faith, is the one who deserves all the praise. Please don't go to Hebrews chapter 11 and say, hero, hero, hero, hero, hero. Their claim to fame is that they grabbed hold of the object of their faith and he's the one who deserves all the praise. The people in Hebrews 11 don't deserve any praise.

We don't deserve any praise. The object of our faith ought to be honored through eternity for His goodness and proclaiming sinners and doing something with them, doing a redeeming work in them. Let's give thanks. Father that's so true. You deserve all the praise.

We are just like Tara, Abram, Nahor. When you put your hand on us, the objects of our affections, you weren't the object of our affection we were chasing thing after thing never satisfied always chasing But you have revealed yourself to so many of us in this room and showed us that you satisfy. Everything else fails, you satisfy. Everything else fails, you satisfy. Thank you for Jesus, who he is as the perfect Son of God, what he's done, voluntarily coming and laying down his life for sinners.

Thank you for these exceedingly great and precious promises that are fulfilled one after another in the gospels. We Praise your name in Jesus name, amen.