Are You Called to Greatness?

Moving along. Are you called to greatness? Well, well, that's great news because I mean, isn't that great that you're called to greatness? Well, here's Joshua Hubble of the Patricia King gang. Explaining to us about well being called.

Abraham, the Promised Seed, and Salvation by Grace

To greatness. Here we go. You were called to greatness. I am me.

No. Sorry, you're talking to the wrong person.

When we look at the life of Abraham in the scriptures.

God called him out of a place. Yes, you're talking about Abraham, right? You know, I have the same faith as Abraham. I have a faith of an as equal standing of Abraham. But I God promised to bless the entire world through the seed singular of Abraham and that would be Jesus Christ.

He's the one who was called to greatness. Don't you think?

Called him to not just be great, but his seed would be great. Yeah, that would be Jesus. Yeah.

Have you read the book of Galatians book of Galatians the Apostle Paul? Writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit goes into great detail of pointing out how the promised seed singular was Jesus.

The Lord gave Abraham a prophetic Vision or promise. Uh-huh. Yeah. And said Abraham if you will obey me your seed will be as great as the stars in the sky or the.

Sands on the sea if you will obey me. Hmm. I don't seem to recall God saying that. Well, let's open up our Bibles. We'll begin at Genesis chapter 11 starting at verse 31. So we get a little bit of context here where Abraham was first called now Genesis 1131.

Tara took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran his grandson and Sarai his daughter-in-law and son and His son Abram's wife and they went forth together from Ur the Chaldeans to to go into the land of Canaan.

But when they came to Haran they settled there. The days of Tara were 205 years then Tara died in Haran. Now the Lord said to Abram go from your country to your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

And I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you and make your name great. So that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and him who dishonors you. I will curse and in you all the families of the earth shall be Blessed.

Now notice it says that God's gonna make his name grace Great and that in him all of the families of the earth would be blessed through Abraham through his seed. That's referring to Jesus, okay, and it doesn't say here that Abraham had to obey that was not it at all.

That's not even the point that's going on here. In fact, I would point you to Romans chapter 4. Okay, Romans chapter 4 is a great passage that talks about salvation by grace alone through faith alone by Christ's work alone salvation apart from works of the law.

Salvation by grace through faith. And Paul writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit points us to none other than Abraham. Here's what it says Romans chapter 4. So what should we say then was gained by Abraham our forefather according to the flesh.

For if Abraham was? Justified that means to be declared righteous by works. Well, he has something to boast about but not before God for what does the scripture say Abraham believed God and it was? Credited to him as Righteousness.

Now to the one who works his wages are not counted as a gift. But as is due and to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly. His faith is counted as righteousness. Just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one whom God counts righteous apart from works.

Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin. Is this blessing then only for the circumcised or also for the uncircumcised?

For we say that faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness. How then was it credited to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after but it was before he was circumcised. He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still on Uncircumcised now going back to Genesis chapter 12.

I think it's important to note here that God didn't say oh if you obey me, I'm gonna make you great. God came to Abraham and literally just offered him this blessing. Gave it to him. He had done nothing.

He hadn't left at all and God said I'm gonna make your name great. I'm going to bless you and I'm going to bless all of the families of the earth through you through your seed. Nothing about obedience.

God just unilaterally acted right? That's what the text shows. So, oh, well, we got a problem here. And that is is that well Joshua Hubble doesn't seem to understand what's going on in Scripture because he thinks this is all about you being called to greatness.

And by the way, this promise given to Abraham not given to me. Not given to you. It was given to Abram. By the way, all of the families of the earth will not be blessed by my seed or your seed.

Just saying a.

Blueprint of the promise that God had for Abraham's life. But in the midst of the promise Was the beginning of the process.

Yeah in the midst of the promise was the beginning of the process. All right. Did you create this alliteration yourself?

And we know the story of how that God speaks to Abraham. To take Isaac to the mountaintop.

Yeah, you kind of skipped all the other details of Abram's life. Okay. And Sacrifice him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Now I would like to share a few key points with you.

Concerning that right there. Okay, go right ahead. You can try for one. God speaks to Abraham.

Yes, and Abraham being an obedient servant of the Lord.

Yeah, but Paul pointed out that he the reason he believed he did all this by faith.

And the one who loved God more than his son. Let me just hit on that right there because I feel that in the spirit.

Well, you you felt that in this. What did it feel like indigestion? I mean, what does it feel like when you go? I just felt that in the spirit. What happened? Did you get a gut check? Well, I mean, what was it?

You have to be careful.

There's not something else in our life that we love more than the Lord and I walk with him. Oh, yeah, it sounds so proud sure. We don't have other idols in our life. Yeah, or any idols for that matter, but the God is number one in our lives and Abraham gathers everything he needs to his son Isaac and his servants and the scripture says that they headed for the mountain.

But I love what the scripture also says at the base of that mountain God looks at his sir. Excuse me. Abraham looks at his servants and says wait here while the boy and I go worship the Lord and sacrifice.

Yeah, okay. Now friends, I want to share something with you right there the Lord recently revealed to me. Really? Okay. Like direct inspirational hermeneutics. Got it. You see if Abraham had taken his servants To the top of that mountain with his son Isaac.

Yeah. Would they have stood by? Helplessly and Abraham lay his son on that altar to sacrifice him. Abraham left his servants at the base of that mountain. Because as Abraham was going up to another level that God was calling him to he was going up to another level.

See, you know, you just descend and y 'all that that equals going up to another level.

Really he had to leave the unbelief at the base of the mountain.

I see. So he left his unbelief down there with the servants. Got it. Yeah, so they were watching his unbelief for him while he went up to the other level. Got it. I mean think about it.

Oh, yeah, I'm thinking what his servants have stood by and done nothing if he just said well I'm gonna sacrifice my son Isaac. No. They would have tried to stop him and said Abraham this doesn't make sense.

The very promise that God gave you. Now you're gonna lay it on the altar and sacrifice it or you're gonna put your very son On the altar and sacrifice it. How can your seed become so great if you're gonna sacrifice your seed?

That would preach in so many ways right there. Yeah, I don't think so, but I just want to encourage you. Abraham left the doubt of the servants at the base of that mountain. He left the doubt of the servants.

Okay, see because God hadn't spoken to the servants that Abraham was to do this.

God had spoken this directly to Abraham. Yeah, I can read that. I knew that part. Yeah.

So Abraham didn't need anyone for outside of his vision. Trying to stop what God had told him to do in obedience. You have no clue what that story is about. Do you? We know the story. Abraham lays Isaac on the altar.

But God also spoke one thing to his son. Let me just backtrack for a moment there if I may because the Holy Spirit just quick. I mean.

Really? So you got another gut check from what did it feel like an electrical shock? Acid reflux, what does it feel like when the Spirit does that?

Abraham told his son Isaac when Isaac said father we have everything but where is the sacrifice. And Abraham looked at his son Isaac and he said the Lord will provide. Yeah, that's right.

That's kind of the major punchline of that particular story.

And friends we know the story. Abraham goes to the mountain and he sack of puts his son Isaac on the altar to sacrifice him and he prepares to do it. He he holds the knife up to drive the that to sacrifice his son and the Lord stops him says Abraham stop I was testing you.

That's not exactly what he said. But what does this again have to do with my being called to greatness?

I'm very confused. And it goes on to say that they saw a ram in the thicket over at the distance. Yeah heard a ram in the thicket. And that Abraham took that ram out of that thicket that was caught and he sacrificed that ram to the Lord.

Yeah. But in the midst of Abraham going to that mountain with his son and his son saying father, where's the sacrifice? I believe friends.

Abraham was prophesying to his future when he really you believe he was prophesying to his future. Really. Wow, that's. Wow, where'd you get that idea from? Was it from one of those little acid reflux electrical shock things that you get from the Holy Spirit?

He said God will provide. Yes. I feel the anointing. No, you don't. No, you don't. God will provide in the midst of this. I don't know how it's gonna happen. I know what I've been told to do. It doesn't make sense why God's told me to do this.

But I'm willing to sacrifice my seed. If that's what God's telling me to do. I will sacrifice. What again.

Does this have to do with me being called to greatness? I'm again very confused. That's my seed. I'll lay it on the altar.

I feel that prophetically for somebody watching God is testing you to see if you will give your best and lay it on the altar. Oh.

So you're talking about money? You want people to lay down their best and put it on the. I'll write you a check. Got it. Okay. So so really the story there in Genesis about Abraham and Isaac is about us following the example so that we can achieve greatness by sacrificing our Seed air quotes there.

That would be money on the altar. Got it. Yeah, I want to encourage you.

Whatever God is telling you today to do obey him and that yeah, he's telling me to avoid you like the plague.

Okay, let's take a look. Wow, is that bad? Let's take a look though at that story because there is a very important thing going on in the story of the sacrifice of Isaac okay. This is a type and shadow that points us Directly to Christ.

In fact, there's many pieces of the story that you sit there and go. Wow, there seems to be some very interesting parallels between this and the sacrifice of Jesus. Okay, and that's what the story is all about.

Remember it's through the seed singular that the all of the families of the earth are going to be blessed and that would be Jesus. Jesus is the singular seed Of Abraham that was promised by God that the whole world will be blessed through.

Okay. So here we go. Genesis chapter 22. We'll start at verse 1. Here's what it says after these things God tested Abraham and said to him Abraham and he said here I am. He said take your son your only son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Moriah Moriah and Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.

Okay, now point this out here along the way. Isaac is not Abraham's only son and Yet God makes a point several times of pointing out that Isaac is your son your only son. Weird. Language being used here.

And the reason why is because this story is Almost like a living historical Parable that points us to the sacrifice of Christ, by the way, do you know the name of the mountain? Which the Temple Mount sits in Jerusalem Mount Moriah?

Do you know the name of the mountain on which Jesus was crucified. Answer. Mount Moriah same? Mountain as the Temple Mount just outside of the city gates at the time Jesus was sacrificed on the slopes of Mount Moriah.

This is important stuff. Okay, so offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you. So Abraham rose early in the morning saddled his donkey took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac.

And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and rose and went to the place which God had told him on the third day. Listen when God is me when there's third-day stuff going on pay attention. Okay on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

Then Abraham said to his young men men stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go over there and worship and come to you. Come again to you. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his on Isaac his son.

So here we have young Isaac Carrying the wood for the burnt offering the wood which will be the implement the basically the implement for the sacrifice. Okay, and you're thinking man. There's I can think of another person who carried the wood for his sacrifice on this exact same mountain and that would be Jesus right.

Exactly. This is a type and shadow that points us right to the cross. So he took in his hand the fire and the knife and they they went both of them together and Isaac said to his father Abraham my father and he said here I am my son.

He said behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham said God will provide for himself The lamb for a burnt offering my son, so they went both of them together. Truer words could never have been spoken by the way God does end up providing for himself the lamb for the offering on that very mountain thousands of years later Jesus Christ The son the only begotten son of God, right?

Now when they came to the place of which God had told him Abraham built the altar there and Laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. I Can think of another person who was placed on top of the wood of his sacrifice on that same mountain?

Can't you think of somebody his name is Jesus? Right. Remember he was laid down and bound to the wood, but he wasn't bound with ropes. He was bound with nails To the wood of his sacrifice on that same mountain, by the way.

Then Abraham reached out his hand took the knife to slaughter his son. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said Abraham. Abraham. He said here I am. He said do not lay your hand on the boy or do not do anything to him for now I know that you fear God seeing that you have not withheld your son your only son from me.

Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold. Behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Hmm stop for a second now in this historical event. Who was the one? Who was at that point the closest to the Messiah in the genetic line?

From Adam to Jesus. Answer Isaac. So Jesus is literally in the loins of Isaac at this point. Christ is there on the field genetically so to speak. Okay. That's what this is all about. This is a picture.

Just a little historical picture. Foreshadowing of what God's going to do on that very mountain and notice that there there was a ram Caught in a thicket notice even there's the thorns the crown of thorns is right there for this ram in the thicket.

Okay. Abraham went took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called the name of that place. The Lord will provide now notice substitutionary sacrifice now. So the ram dies as a substitute for Isaac.

Jesus dies as our substitute on the cross and Abraham called the name of that place this Mount Mount Moriah. He names it the Lord will provide and it is said to this day on the Mount of the Lord it shall be Provided and you know what?

It was on that very Mount Sacrifice the sins of the world was made. By none other than the Son the only Son of God Jesus Christ. This story has nothing to do with you offering up a seed offering or giving money to anybody.

This has everything to do with what God gave for you and that is his son. So that every family on earth would be blessed at the seed of Abraham Jesus Christ. Who turns out to be the lamb whom the Lord provided on the Mount where it will be provided?

For your sins and for your and for mine as well so that we can be forgiven and pardoned by God. This story Genesis 22 isn't about you and your greatness. This story is about Christ and his sacrifice for our sins and because of that.

It's all about his glory and his greatness. All right. We're up on our second break if you'd like to email me regarding anything you've heard on this edition or any previous Editions of fighting for the faith you could do so my email address is talk back at fighting for the faith calm.

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Perseverance as the Path to Greatness

Heading back to Las Vegas to listen to a Vince Antonucci sermon.

Supposedly about your greatness. Here we go. Hey, ho.

The good the bad and the ugly we review it all here at fighting for the faith. We're an equal opportunity sermon reviewing service. Today's sermon comes to us via the Verve in Las Vegas, Nevada. Vince Antonucci presiding.

He'll be our mar text for today the name of said Masloration is renegade. Perseverance is the path to greatness. Already we got a problem here. And that is is that going into a sermon with a name like that?

You can start to talk about the assumptions of the sermon. Do you really think that the Bible is all about giving you advice and tips and strategies and principles that you can apply on? Your path to greatness.

Really? Yeah, no, it's see it's not it's not like that at all. The it's Jesus is the one whom every knee will bow to and every tongue confess that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father. In fact, if I'm not mistaken in the book of Revelation even when we receive the crown of life We end up taking our crowns off and throwing him before the feet of Jesus because he's the one who gets all the glory because He's the one who saved us.

We did nothing to contribute to our salvation except for our sin and getting lost in the first place He's the one who found us. So, yeah the Bible isn't about you being on a path to greatness and that's the Assumption of this sermon that has to be challenged up front because if you don't challenge it up front you realize you can get really Far into the sermon without realizing.

Whoa, wait a second. The whole premise behind this sermon is like off. Right. The premise itself is skewed off and like focused 180 degrees on the wrong person. Okay, the Bible is not a mirror that you hold up to look at yourself and go.

Oh, look how wonderful I am. Whoo. Look at the progress. I'm on on my path to greatness. No Christian faith doesn't look at itself. It looks to Christ. Mm-hmm. Yeah, because Christianity is all about him and the scriptures are all about him so that any further ado here is Vince Antonucci and his Manifestation entitled renegade perseverance is the path to.

Greatness. Here we go. I will finish the song. All right.

It's a show where these kind of scientist II kind of guys will take a commonly believed myth and Examine it to find out whether it's true or not. So for instance myth if you drop a penny from a skyscraper It would kill a person that it hit far below on the sidewalk turns out.

Yeah, not so much. It wouldn't do that all. Myth busted myth. You can curve a bullet shot from a gun like they do in the movies, you know around things turns out. Yeah, no, you can't myth.

Busted myth, let me bust another myth. The Bible is not about you on your path to greatness myth.

Busted. A Baseball hit with a bat filled with cork will fly further than a baseball hit by a normal bat. Turns out. No, it doesn't. Not at all. Myth. Busted myth. If you microwave metal the microwave will ultimately blow up.

Turns out. No, it doesn't. You will get some sparks, but the microwave will not blow up. Myth busted. Today, I want to talk to you about a myth of greatness. A myth about greatness and here it is. Myth.

Luck is the path to greatness. I Think we all believe that that luck is the path to greatness. That there are some people who are just lucky. That they were born with extraordinary talent and it's that talent that was their path to greatness.

There are some people who have the right connections in life and it's those connections that has been their path to greatness. There are some people who are born extremely intelligent. They're just lucky enough to be that smart and their intelligence has been the path to greatness.

There are some people who just get the right Opportunities in life and it's those opportunities that has been their path to greatness. But that's not true. It's a myth that there may be a few rare occasions where that is what happens.

But but for the most part that is just a myth. The truth is that.

Perseverance is The path to greatness. Why would I need to know this at church? Because I'm not on a path to greatness. I've been called to deny myself take up my cross and follow Christ. I'm not on a path to greatness.

Nor am I experiencing burps and hiccups along the way that are keeping me from achieving my path to greatness. When I was buried with Christ, I you know. You know in my baptism greatness. Became something that I'm not interested in pursuing.

I'm interested in pursuing the glory of Christ, which is the proclamation of what he's done for us. That doesn't make me great. As Luther said we're all beggars. You get what I'm saying here. So notice the assumption here that you know, this is something we need to hear at church.

We need to hear that. Perseverance is the path to greatness. Why. Well apparently you're on you're on a path to greatness and you know Vince has got to make sure that he helps you. Get to where you're going, right?

We continue. Perseverance is the path to greatness. And by the way, this is really good news for you and me.

It is it means really it's good news for me that the perseverance is the path to greatness. I'm not trying to be great. I care less about being great.

That it doesn't matter if you have incredible talent or the right connections or you're well educated or you have the right opportunities. What matters is that you persevere and that's cool because you can persevere and I can persevere now.

This is something that we can do and it turns out that perseverance really is the path to greatness. We see this in every arena of life. For instance, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team because he wasn't good enough.

You see Michael Jordan story is not in the Bible.

See it in music. You too got off to such a poor start with their career that they had to put their third world Tour on their managers credit card and the tour did so poorly. They couldn't pay the payments on the credit card and he lost his credit card.

Mm-hmm. And you too.

Their stories not found in the Bible. Again why is this good news to me at all? I thought the good news that Pastors are to proclaim at least Christian pastors is that Christ was crucified for our sins and raised again on the third day for our justification.

That's the good news. Not that well the secret to the to achieving greatness. Well on this that well, it's perseverance. This this is this isn't good news to me at all. I care less about this.

Steve Jobs started Apple computers and then got fired from Apple computers. And all those people ended up doing pretty well for themselves. But it wasn't because they were lucky. It wasn't an easy path for any of them.

It's because they didn't quit. Perseverance is the path to greatness. It's true in every arena of life and it's also true maybe especially true with God.

There are people. Really why would it be true with God. Because nowhere in Scripture does it say that I'm called to greatness. Who.

Live great lives with God and there there are people who have like great intimacy with God. And they have great influence in the world for God. They just really do good with their lives. It kind of people you look at you're like.

Yeah, and you think there's got to be something special about that person. I mean, they were just there's nothing special about these people. They're sinners. Who have been called by God to do particular things.

It's pretty straightforward. God is the one doing the work through them, but God's the one doing the work. God's the one who's great.

Born different than the rest of us. You know that that kind of person just has you know, I don't know some incredible Spiritual talent or God has blessed them in ways. He hasn't blessed the rest of us, but that is not true.

Boy this sounds like something that's feeding the sin of envy to me.

When you look at the lives of people who live great spiritual lives what you discover is that perseverance is The path to greatness. The difference between people who do extraordinary things and ordinary things is that the extraordinary people just didn't quit.

What define extraordinary and ordinary. Because I see Christ calling us in his word To all of us to do ordinary things. The only extraordinary person that I'm aware of who've ever who's ever lived on this planet truly is Jesus Christ.

Yeah when everyone else did. Perseverance is a path to greatness. People Achieve greatness when they keep looking up. Even when life is upside down. When they keep moving forward even when the world is pushing them.

Backwards. Did you read this on like a Hallmark card? I'm curious. Where'd you get this from. Keep finding opportunities when all they can see are obstacles.

So let me show you what I mean with a few examples.

There's a guy in the Bible in the very now watch what he does here. He's gonna actually read several well, not really read. He's going to mention and kind of summarize several biblical stories and He's not actually going to really preach any of them from the text in context and so we're gonna get now as the Mandatory obligatory synopsis of a biblical story to create the impression that this is a biblical teaching but notice what he hasn't done yet.

Okay. We're five minutes ten seconds into the sermon and he has yet to produce a single passage that says That you and I and everybody else listening to him that we're called to greatness and that the path to greatness.

So the you know, the way you achieve it is through perseverance. So we basically have an entire thesis the entire thesis of this sermon as not being anchored in any Biblical text. So now he's searching through biblical stories that he thinks are going to buttress his thesis.

But he's not at all proven that his thesis is actually sound and what God wants us to hear.

Very first book of the Bible called Genesis named Joseph and Joseph is this guy who's got lots of brothers and he happens to be his father's favorite. Which is nice like when you're the favorites kind of nice for you, right?

And so you'd think well, it probably wasn't hard. It wasn't difficult for Joseph to have faith in God and to live for God because he's the favorite, you know. Life is easy when it's going easy. Yeah, these little details that he's thrown in here.

Um.

They're not anywhere in the story of Joseph.

Where'd you get these from? You know it life is easy when everything is good. You know when your marriage is good. Your kids are good. Your job is good. It's not difficult and it's easy to believe in God and no it's not.

Actually, if you're familiar with biblical passages biblical passages talk about the deceitfulness of wealth. How wealth if you have too much of it causes you to not trust God? Yeah, see, yeah.

Live for God if that's something you want to do because look at my life. It's great. But here's what happens with Joseph.

His brothers, I mean Jesus himself said it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for rich man to enter heaven.

Strange yeah weird. Finally just get fed up with the fact that dad loves him more and so they beat him up. Throw him in a pit.

Sell him into slavery. You forgot about his dream.

I'm surprised at you. And then go home and tell their father that he got killed by a wild animal. And now this again.

He's summarizing the text. He's not actually reading the story and When you do that you can Embellish or chop away any pieces of the details that suit you and your agenda. Remember he has not Proven his thesis to be biblical that God wants you to be great and therefore you need to hear this encouraging message.

That the path to greatness is all about perseverance. Do you think your life is hard? It's like, okay. Like like that's pretty bad, you know, and so We'll pick up the story there. I want to show you some of this in the Bible.

We'll put it on the screen for you. If you don't have a Bible if you have a Bible turn to Genesis 39 and if you need a Bible like to own one We give them out for free at the Velcro bar, which is our connecting place.

It's a place for you to meet someone if you want to to get connected to sign up just to ask questions. So Bibles are back there. So We're gonna pick up the story with Joseph just got sold into slavery starting in verse 1 of Genesis 39 Says now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt.

Potiphar an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh's that's like the king Pharaoh's officials the captain of the guard bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master.