Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?Didst not thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
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… kingdoms of the nations, power and might are in your hand and no one can withstand you. Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people, Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend? I want to preach a message today, write down the title. is called All Eyes on You. All Eyes on You. I know Tupac said all eyes on me. We as a church are saying all eyes on you. 90s kids are like... all eyes here's what we're doing for a year as a church we are going to get our eyes off of ourselves we're going to get our eyes off our circumstance and we're going to get our eyes on God our eyes are going to gaze at the beauty and the radiance the magnificence and the glory of the living God. All eyes on you. See, because I really believe that you're going to find whatever you're looking for. And it's not about what happens to you. It's about how you respond to what happens to you. In fact, I will say that it's not what happens to you that defines you. …
… mind with right thinking and really good theology, you getting the attention of heaven. Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend. He's just harking back to the moment when Joshua brought the people across the Jordan River and God led them in to possess this promised land. They've lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, if calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your name and will cry out to you in our distress. When we are desperate, we will cry out to you and you will hear us and save us. But now let's recap. I know you already know, but let me just recap for you really quickly. Here are men from Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt. …
… And in your hand is there not power and might so that no one is able to withstand you? are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever and they dwell in it and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name saying if disaster comes upon us sword judgment pestilence and famine, we will stand before this temple and in your presence for your name is in this temple and cry out to you and our affliction and you will hear and say, and now here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them. And here they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. Oh, our God, will you not judge them? …
… ain't you God? Are you not, verse 7, are you not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people, Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham, your friend, forever, and they dwell in it and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying, verse 9, if disaster comes upon us, sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine, I like this, we will stand before this temple and in your presence. somebody ought to say amen somebody say I came to church today to stand in the presence of the God that I love and I serve for your name is in this temple and cry out to you in our affliction and you will hear and say look there's a shot look and somebody say he will hear and say say it again he will hear and say anybody here believes that when we call out to the God that we serve he hears us how do you know that Pastor Jenkins I know it because I've called on him in the past and he's answered my prayer. …