Going the Extra Mile

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• Going the Extra Mile
• The Test of those Chosen to be Blessed
• (Story of Rebekah)
• Genesis 24

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• The TEST before the blessing!
• Q What is one primary reason that God would
  choose NOT to bless a person?
• A If the blessing would become a burden or if
  they did not have the character to handle the
  blessing.
• People who are candidates for
• huge blessings must be tested first.

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Verse

• Genesis 2410-11
• 10 Then the servant took ten of his master's
  camels and departed, for all his master's goods
  were in his hand. And he arose and went to
  Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. 11 And he made
  his camels kneel down outside the city by a well
  of water at evening time, the time when women go
  out to draw water.

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Verse

• Genesis 2440
• "But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I
  walk, will send His angel with you and prosper
  your way and you shall take a wife for my son
  from my family and from my father's house.

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Verse

• Genesis 2412-14
• 12 Then he said, "O LORD God of my master
  Abraham, please give me success this day, and
  show kindness to my master Abraham. 13 Behold, I
  stand here by the well of water, and the
  daughters of the men of the city are coming out
  to draw water. 14 Now let it be that the young
  woman to whom I say, 'Please let down your
  pitcher that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink,
  and I will also give your camels a drink'--let
  her be the one You have appointed for Your
  servant Isaac. And by this I will know that You
  have shown kindness to my master."

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Verse

• Genesis 2415
• And it happened, before he had finished speaking,
  that behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel,
  son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's
  brother, came out with her pitcher on her
  shoulder.

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• Genesis 2417-20
• 17 And the servant ran to meet her and said,
  "Please let me drink a little water from your
  pitcher." 18 So she said, "Drink, my lord." Then
  she quickly let her pitcher down to her hand, and
  gave him a drink. 19 And when she had finished
  giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water
  for your camels also, until they have finished
  drinking." 20 Then she quickly emptied her
  pitcher into the trough, ran back to the well to
  draw water, and drew for all his camels.
• The opportunity of a lifetime can only be had in
  the lifetime of the opportunity.

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Verse

• A camel can drink approximately 20 gallons of
  water at one time.
• Elieazar had 10 camels.
• Rebekah drew approximately 200 gallons of water
  for the camels.

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• Genesis 2421-23
• 21 And the man, wondering at her, remained silent
  so as to know whether the LORD had made his
  journey prosperous or not. 22 So it was, when the
  camels had finished drinking, that the man took a
  golden nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two
  bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels of
  gold,
• He wanted to know if she would finish what she
  started.

062
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Verse

• Sometimes God ask you to do the ridiculous to get
  the miraculous.
• There are people who commit themselves to
  EXCELLENCE. This one thing sets them apart from
  everyone else.

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Verse

• THE SPRIT OF EXCELLENCE!
• Excel means to go the extra mile!
• Proverbs 124 An excellent wife is the crown of
  her husband,
• Proverbs 177 Excellent speech is not becoming
  to a fool,

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• Daniel 512 Inasmuch as an excellent spirit,
  knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams,
  solving riddles, and explaining enigmas were
  found in this Daniel
• 1 Corinthians 1231 But earnestly desire the
  best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent
  way.
• Philippians 110 that you may approve the things
  that are excellent, that you may be sincere and
  without offense till the day of Christ, 11 being
  filled with the fruits of righteousness

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• Hebrews 86 But now He has obtained a more
  excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also
  Mediator of a better covenant, which was
  established on better promises.
• 2 Peter 117 For He received from God the Father
  honor and glory when such a voice came to Him
  from the Excellent Glory "This is My beloved
  Son, in whom I am well pleased."