Summary
That's just, that's just the reverse, that's so often we can be tempted to think that I don't know what I'm doing, but I must be doing something right because, boy, my life seems to be really going good, right? The king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebiusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, you will not come in here, even the blind and the lame will turn you back, thinking, David cannot come in here, nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, which is now the city of David. If we go to collusion, so right now we're in the book of John, we're going to go over to the right, pass the book of Acts, pass the Romans and 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, and then we're going to find ourselves at Philippians, go one more to collusions, chapter 1, verses 16 through 17, where we read in him, that is Jesus, in him, all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all things have been created through him and for him. I don't know that it's a saying anymore, but but when one person would make a covenant to another where they would say, my word is my bond and that could be trusted or perhaps a covenant to deal is made with a hand shake, a firm hand shake and it's known that because of the person shaking my hand, I can trust the promise being made. Every week we come here and we come to the table and we pray and we make a contract with God that we repent of our sins, we make a contract that we're going to do better, that we're going to be better, that we're going to try harder, but we're just making a contract because we leave the doors and we enter into our daily lives and we find that that contract to repent, to do better, to be better, to try harder, well it's changeable. We find Elijah meeting Elijah in first Kings toward the end of the book of first Kings chapter 19 verse 19 where it says so he said out that's Elijah set out from there and found Elijah.
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