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Genesis chapter 12 and verse one. Says, now the Lord had said on the Abram, get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred, from thy father’s house unto a land that I will show thee, and I will make thee a great nation, I will bless thee, make thy name great, thou shall be a blessing, and I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curses thee. And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed, I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curses thee.

This is the division of the world. all deals with the nation of Israel. Those who bless Israel, God says, I will bless. And those who curse Israel, God says, I will curse. And that’s the way it’s been down through time. And that is exactly what is going on in the world today. God has blessed Israel and Great Britain with the great freedoms away if enjoyed because of our stand in protection of the little nation of Israel. That’s what I believe because it’s in the Bible.

And there’s many nation that have chosen to hate Israel and America, and they’re going to be chasing because of it. But how did it all start? How did all this begin? I want you to look there in chapter 16 concerning the birth of Ishmael. He says in verse 11, And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child. Now he’s talking to Hagar. Hagar is an Egyptian bond woman a slave thou will have a child and shall call his name ishmael because the Lord had heard by affliction he will be a wild man his hand will be against every man and every man’s hand against him and this is exactly the way it is today in the world and it says there in verse 15 and Hagar bear Abram a son and Abram called his son’s name which Hagar bear ishmael.

God’s the one that says it will be a son. Call him ishmael. You see here’s Abraham. He had a wife, Sarai, but she was old and she could not have a child. God had promised Abraham that he was going to have a child by which the Messiah would come into the world and all the families of the earth would be blessed, receiving salvation by grace because the one that would be born would make a payment for the sins of the whole world.

Abraham didn’t have this son yet and so impatience caused them to think differently. So Sarah at that time called Sarah, she told Abraham since I can’t have a child. Why don’t you take Hagar the bond slave and have a child by hurt and maybe this is the way God wanted to do it. No, God means what He said. But Abraham took the slave woman, the Egyptian woman, and had a child by her. And this child was Ishmael. Well, now look there in verse 15 of chapter 17.

And God said unto Abraham, as for Sarai thy wife, thou the thou shalt not call her Sarai, but Sarai shall her name be. I will bless her and give thee a A son also of her. Yay, I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations. Kings of people shall be of her. The neighbor of him fell upon his face and laughed and said in his heart, shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old and shall share that is 90 years old bear.

And Abraham said unto God, oh that ishmael might live before thee. So he says, why not, why not ishmael? And God said in verse 19, “‘Sera thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him.'” So it says here in verse 20, as for Ishmael, I have… I have heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him and I will make him fruitful and I will multiply him exceedingly.

12 princes shall he beget and I will make him a great nation. But he says the covenant that I made with you concerning I will bless him and he shall be great and he will be the one through whom all the families of the earth shall be blessed because there’s going to be seed coming down the line which would be Jesus Christ himself. be through Isaac, not Ishmael. So you have a man, Abraham, who has fathered to children. One is Ishmael, who’s about 13, 14 years older than Isaac.

And as time goes on, both of these sons get married, have children, and produce great numbers of people. And as you read the Scriptures, it begins to reveal that these two wore all the time. And God says that He’s using them as an allegory, a story to teach a great truth. Now this happened, you’re talking about almost 4,000 years ago. And isn’t it amazing that the children who came from these two children are still fighting over the very same land.

All your Arabs, all these Arabs, they came from Ishmael. Later on, yes, there was Esau and Esau took the wife of one of the daughters that came from Ishmael and yet there’s many Arabs all over the world and they have greatly multiplied. And the Bible says that there are so many more that are the children of the bondwoman than of the free woman and he uses that to show us something. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Galatians, Galatians in chapter 4.

Look there in verse 19. The days in which we live are revealing to us the same hatred that Esau had for Jacob. And here you’re talking about the hatred that is embedded within them and that you can’t get this hatred out, except through a new birth through Jesus Christ. I said this earlier, but just to re-emphasize it one more time. Sodom Hussein and Mohammed, who wrote in the seventh century, when he founded this religion, are two peas in the same pod.

They both were exactly the same way. Sodom Hussein and Mohammed did exactly the same thing as far as their own people, and forcing people and terrorizing people, and dictatorial. I’ve read many things concerning Mohammed in the way he was and all the wives that he had and all the things that he promises people that they would fight and die in jihad. It’s all in there. Most of it you can read it in the Koran, which is a war manual that is not a holy book, not a divine book.

Some have been lauding or thought of Hussein could have wrote the Quran. It is not a very well-written book. There’s nothing exciting to bot the whole thing. I’ve read every word of it. I know where I speak. There’s no comparison between that book and this divinely inspired book. Now here in the book of Galatians in chapter 4 and verse 19, in writing to the Galatian Christians, he says, my little children of whom I prevail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.

It’s one thing to win somebody to Christ. When in a person to the Lord sometimes it’s a very easy thing. The hardest part is raising a child. It’s very easy to have children, isn’t it? You can have a child. But raising a child to be a godly individual is very difficult. Takes a lot of time, a lot of years. And he says, I travail again until Christ be formed in you, until you have within you the principles, the disciplines, the Christian character that separates you from the world.

Otherwise, if you don’t let Christ be formed within you, according to his character, you’ll look no different at, no different top, no different be no different than the world. But there’s something that God wants more from you and I to realize that we live only by the grace of God in our lives are like walking on eggshells. And yet… God gives us opportunities to live. I want to honor him as much as I possibly can. I’m not afraid. I think about it every time I come out of the radio station, whether somebody’s going to be waiting across the street and put a bullet in me.

Or whenever I open my car door, whether it’s going to explode with a bomb. Or every time I walk into the partially over there, whether or not it’s going to be rigged or something’s going to happen. I think about it all the time. I think about even while I’m up here talking one day, somebody’s going to be in the car. going to walk in that door and maybe do dammies to somebody. Personally, I have absolute no concern about whether I live or I die.

It doesn’t bother me. I fear for other people whose faith is not strong. I don’t want something happening to you. I would hate for something to happen to you. And I know that there may be people who are scared to come to Northside because of the way I say things on the radio and stuff. I do not wish to live my life in fear. I believe that it’s God’s will that Christ be formed in me. I don’t believe Christ lived his life in fear.

I believe he lived totally dependent upon his heavenly Father to totally take care of him. But there are some people who never grow strong in the Lord. They are afraid of what’s coming. They’re afraid of the future. They’re afraid of their life. They’re afraid of growing old. They live in fear. Well that’s mainly because they have not allowed Christ to be formed in them to where they can totally trust the Lord. He says, I desire to be present with you now and to change my voice before I stand in doubt of you.

I’m not sure whether or not he’s saying I questioned your salvation because once you trusted Christ to save you, you have eternal life. But he says in chapter one and verse eight, he says, I marvel that you’re so soon removed from him. They called you into the grace of Christ into another gospel because they’d now believed a different message than what he had delivered to them. And if they believed that, or did they ever really believe the truth or you that no Christ is your Savior and you won’t grow in the Lord and you wonder whether or not will they ever mature will they ever grow up.

Some Christians are so caught up in every little bitty thing that goes on. Let nothing ever come between you and the Lord. Always stay faithful to God. Always stay at it. When I die when I die and I’m going to one day of God should teary. I don’t want it to be that Lord I was in I stop going to church or I stop reading the Bible I stop praying I stop being concerned I stop supporting mission I stop I don’t want to stop anything.

If there’s anything I want to do, I want to do more than what I’ve ever done for God. And as long as I can draw breath, I believe God’s got a purpose in my life. It’s not how long you live, who’d you live for the time that you did have. But he makes a statement here in verse 22, he says, for it is written, now he tells a story here that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond made and the other by a free woman.

Remember, look up here. Here’s Hagar and here’s Sarah, and she had a son and she had a son. She was a slave, so her son was a slave. Sarah was a free woman. Her son was free. This is a type or child of the flesh, and this is a type of the Spirit. You see, God produced a miracle. He took an old man, an old woman and produced a child by faith because God said so. There was nothing physically that they could have done that could have produced this child if God had not intervened.

This was a miracle child, a faith child, a child that was promised by God. And because they believe God this child was born. You see you and I when we’re born into the world which came first our flesh or our spirit or flesh over here. Hey Gar she was a slave and so she gives birth to a slave and a slave has no rights and you and I when we were born into this world we were born from a slave.

We are slaves ourselves. We have a sinful nature and we are a slave to sin. We’re a slave to death. We’re a slave to fear. We’re in bondage. We cannot free ourselves. Impossible. Ishmael and all the Arab people represent the flesh. Look at it today, still flesh the hatred that’s there. For anybody, that’s a child of the promise. If you are a Christian or you came from the nation of Israel, the flesh. Lust against the spirit. The spirit lust against the flesh.

And this is a battle that’s been going on for 4,000 years. And it is coming to a peak in our lifetime. Because God says something is about to happen. And it’s going to happen, I believe, very, very soon. The world is choosing sides. And if you read the book of Ezekiel 38 and 39, it mentions about Russia and Germany. And I ran and I ran. It names these countries and are they not the allies today? Just like it says in the Bible?

Yes. Coincidence? No. Now look what he says here in verse 23. But he who was of the bond woman was born after the what? See, I didn’t make that up. That’s in the Bible. But he of the free woman was by promise, flesh, promise. When you were born into this world, you are a child of the flesh. You are a slave. You cannot free yourself. And when you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for you, and you believe that promise that if you trust him you’ll be born again, born from above a faith child, miracle child, the new birth born of God, spiritual birth.

He makes this statement in verse 24, which things are an allegory for these are the two covenants, the one from the Mount Sinai, which is the law and gender of Kabbandh which is Heigar, look up here. The flesh to control the flesh, God gave the law. The flesh is under the law. The spirit not under the law. That’s why he says when you were lost you were under the law but no longer we are under the law be that we are under grace.

We don’t want by sight, flesh, we walk by faith. What God says, the child of God is born by faith, he lives by faith, he walks by faith. What God said and believes that. How shall a Christian live in this world when it seemed like the world is falling apart? The world is like one gigantic insane asylum. And we’ve got a you nuts running it. But look what he says down. Verse 25, for this Hagar is Mount Sinai, law in Arabia, an answer to Jerusalem, which is in Israel.

Now look at this. This was written over 2,000 years ago. And what’s it talking about? Arabs? Israel. Yes or no? It’s right there in the Bible. In 2,000 years ago, this was the problem and is it still the problem? This war is being fought because of the Jews and the Arabs. If it wasn’t for America, what would happen to Israel? Did not in the 60 war, 1967, what did they try to do? They tried to destroy Israel? Did they do it?

No. Now look at verse 25, for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and answer to Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with her children. So here you have the children of Ishmael. And now they’re in about every country in the world. And many more are the children of bondage than the children of promise. Matthew 7 says the same thing. Broad is the road that leads to destruction. Many few. And there’s many more Arabs than there are Jews.

Yes or no? The Bible said that 2,000 years ago. Had the wars that have been fought, mainly been fought to annihilate the Arabs or to annihilate the Jew, to annihilate the Jews. Remember, we hear about Hitler doing Second World War, tried to murder six million Jews, but the total number of all the people was about 30 million people that died. about 30 million people that died. When you think about some of the battles that they have fought, whether it’s the Second World War or the Korean War, Vietnam War, one out of every five people were killed.

Look what he says here in verse 26, but Jerusalem, which is above, is free, which is the mother of a psalm. Now look up here, the flesh is of the world. The new birth born again, born from above. So when you trust Christ, you’re saved, you’re born. From a ball, miracle child, spirit, and the flesh hates the spirit. What have we done for them to hate us so? It’s the nature of the flesh. That’s the nature of the flesh.

The Koran was written to fire them up against the spirit, confir the word of God against the nation of Israel. All this has to deal with Jesus Christ. The Koran was actually written and states in it. We do not believe that God had a son. What is that in there for? To rebuke the word of God, the truth. Written 700 years after Christ came. Then he says here in verse 27, “‘For it is written, rejoice, thou barren, that bareth not, break forth in cry, thou that travaileth not.

For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath a husband look up here.” many more children than she which hath a husband. You see, Sarah was the real wife and Abram was her husband and she didn’t have as many. There’s not as many Jews as there are Arabs. Arabs control about 51 countries in the world. You know one of the things that even France is afraid of today, they’ve got too many Muslims living in their country. He makes a statement here in verse 28.

Now we brethren, as Isaac was, or the children of promise, but as then he that was born after the flesh, did what? Persecuted him that was born after the spirit. So it is now. What did the spirit do to the flesh? Nothing. What did we ever really do to the Arab nations? Nothing. Well, it’s because we don’t know how to negotiate with them. Yes, we do. You either constrain them, control them, but buddy, you don’t let them in your nation to destroy your nation.

I said this, and I mean exactly what I’m saying. Bush didn’t call me up and ask me my opinion on this, but I believe every Muslim in America. If they swear they’re loyalty and they’re old to the Koran, they ought not be permitted in America, and very nicely and sweetly we should have helped them get back to whatever country they wanted to go to. You see, well, there’s a Muslim that are really nice. And they’re, yes, okay, okay. Then they’re not a good Muslim.

Because a good Muslim must obey the Quran. Just like don’t we expect good Christians to obey the Bible? Do we have some Christians that don’t obey the Bible? Yes. I’m not being cruel. I’m not being mean and ugly. And he says here in verse 29, as then he that was born after the flesh You did him that was born after the Spirit. When you trusted Christ says you’re saved it, you were born again. That’s that second birth that you have.

Inside of you, inside of you, you have this flesh, this old nature. But I’m talking about you have within you something that hates your new birth. Inside of you, you have the lust of the flesh that’s trying to destroy your life. Doesn’t want you to grow spirits. It doesn’t want Christ to be formed in your life. Doesn’t want you to mature. You see, that’s where your fear comes from. Fear does not come from the new birth. It says, Christ has not given us the spirit of fear, but of love, power, and what?

A sound mind. Fear didn’t come from God. Came from that old nature that you have. And this is why the next chapter really explains that, but we’re not going to get it, but looking verse 30. the less what saith the scripture cast out the bondwoman and her son for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. They can’t be heirs together because they see the slave, the first birth has no claims to the riches of the son of promise.

But he wants them and tries to steal into rob. You have within you an old sinful nature that’s going to do everything possible to ruin you as a Christian to rob your peace and your joy and your happiness because he hates you. You don’t have to worry about your neighbor. You don’t have to worry about your wife or your children or the people in the world. Inside of you is somebody who lives that’s identical to Sodom Hussein. Sodom Hussein lives inside of you just as wicked.

Just it. Osama bin Laden, you got one of those guys living in He’s a terrorist living inside of you. So in verse 31, so then brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman. We’re not slaves to the flesh. You don’t have to be a slave to sin. You’re a flesh birth. Well, that was your first birth. And now he says, you’ve been set free. You have a new birth. Serve God. Serv them with all your heart. And don’t let him put you in bondage.

That’s why, and I want you to get this, look in verse 1 of chapter 5. Don’t let that little Osama bin Laden or that little Osama Hussein who lives inside of you put you in bondage and cause you to live your life in fear. That’s what they’re trying to do physically in the world. But I’m talking about spiritually or Christ will not be formed in you and you’ll not be strong enough to defeat that little Sodom Hussein that lives there.

And so he makes a statement, verse one. Stand fast therefore in the liberty where with Christ has made us what? Free. And be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Don’t you allow Sodom Hussein to cause you to live your life in fear. Don’t let him terrorize you. Cause see, I have already died. I’m already a dead man. I died long time ago. His death was put to my account and I’m a dead man. You don’t have to be afraid no more.

What can the world do to me? They can kill you. I don’t have to live in fear. Somebody wrote this and his author’s unknown says, I got your bang. I’m a small and precious child. My dad seems I’ve been sent to fight. The only place I’ll see his face in my dreams at night. He will be gone too many days for my young mind to keep track. I may be sad, but I am proud. My daddy’s got your back.

I am a caring mother. My son has gone to war. My mind is filled with worries that I have never known before. Every day I try to keep my thoughts from turning black. I may be scared, but I am proud. My son has got your back. I’m a strong and loving wife with a husband soon to go. There are times I’m terrified in a way most never known. I bite my lip and force a smile as I watch my husband pack.

My heart may break, but I am proud. My husband’s got your back. I am a soldier serving proudly, standing tall. I fight for freedom, yours and mine by answering this call. I do my job while knowing the thanks it’s sometimes lack. Say a prayer that I’ll come home. It’s me who’s got your back, author unknown. Isn’t that good? And even then I write, they don’t hate us because of what we’re doing. What we’re doing is not going to cause terrorism around the world.

It’s mainly because of what we are. It’s who we are. It’s because you see, the Quran been a war manual. They hate Christians and Jews, and they teach that to their children. You notice the children that were paraded around on TV that’s in Palestine and the Gaza. And you’ll see that they teach their children this hatred. America didn’t teach them to hate. It’s their parents who teach them to hate. It’s the emons of their mosques that teach them to hate.

They’re only responding to what they’re been taught. And So it’s not because of what we’ve done, but if America does not contain them, they will destroy us. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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