📖 ABOUT THE SERIES: There are many things at war for your affections and worship. But they are all counterfeit gods. Join us to identify what they are and learn to surrender them all to the one true God. - - - ✏️ MESSAGE NOTES: “I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.” {Genesis 12:2} The Lord came to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him. {Genesis 21:1-2} “Take your son…your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.” {Genesis 22:2} WHEN GOOD THINGS BECOME SUPREME THINGS, THEY TAKE THE PLACE OF GOD AND BECOME IDOLS. Do not have other gods besides me. Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth. Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God… {Exodus 20:3-5} OUR HEARTS ARE AN IDOL FACTORY So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about…Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.” {Genesis 22:3, 5} Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together. {Genesis 22:7-8} But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He replied, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.” {Genesis 22:11-12} Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. And Abraham named that place The Lord Will Provide… {Genesis 22:13-14} - - - ✝️ ABOUT SWERVE: Swerve Church is a new church in the neighborhood of Bushwick in Brooklyn NYC. Join us Sundays at 9:30 or 11 am at 239 Stanhope St. - - - 🔴 IMPORTANT LINKS: ✅ Follow Jesus: swervechurch.com/congrats ✅ Next Steps: swervechurch.com/nextsteps ✅ Connection Card: swervechurch.com/cc ✅ Give: swervechurch.com/give

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