R U Willing

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R U Willing?

• Youth Hour
• Feb. 16, 2002

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Are you willing. . .

• To answer the Call
• To live the Call
• To fulfill the Call

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Cell Phone Mania!

• In 1994 16 million Americans Subscribed to Cell
  Phones, today more than 112 million
• By 2005, estimated 1.2 billion cell phone
  subscribers world wide
• 1.5 of all vehicle accidents are due to a cell
  phone distraction

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Genesis 2211

• But the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham. He
  said to him, Abraham. Here I am, he replied.

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• Translated as Here I Am
• Really should be I am ready
• To answer the call of God one should have an
  attitude of readiness.

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Are you willing to live the call?

• You had little indeed before I came, and your
  wealth has increased enormously. The LORD has
  blessed you from everything I do! But now, what
  about me? When should I provide for my own
  family?" 31 "What wages do you want?" Laban asked
  again.Jacob replied, "Don't give me anything at
  all. Just do one thing, and I'll go back to work
  for you. 32 Let me go out among your flocks today
  and remove all the sheep and goats that are
  speckled or spotted, along with all the
  dark-colored sheep.

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Are you willing to live the call?

• Give them to me as my wages. 33 This will make it
  easy for you to see whether or not I have been
  honest. If you find in my flock any white sheep
  or goats that are not speckled, you will know
  that I have stolen them from you." 34 "All
  right," Laban replied. "It will be as you have
  said." 35 But that very day Laban went out and
  removed all the male goats that were speckled and
  spotted, the females that were speckled and
  spotted with any white patches, and all the
  dark-colored sheep.

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Are you willing to live the call?

• He placed them in the care of his sons, 36 and
  they took them three days' distance from where
  Jacob was. Meanwhile, Jacob stayed and cared for
  Laban's flock. 37 Now Jacob took fresh shoots
  from poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled
  off strips of the bark to make white streaks on
  them. 38 Then he set up these peeled branches
  beside the watering troughs so Laban's flocks
  would see them as they came to drink, for that
  was when they mated.

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Are you willing to live the call?

• 39 So when the flocks mated in front of the
  white-streaked branches, all of their offspring
  were streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 Jacob
  added them to his own flock, thus separating the
  lambs from Laban's flock. Then at mating time, he
  turned the flocks toward the streaked and
  dark-colored rams in Laban's flock. This is how
  he built his flock from Laban's.

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Who told Jacob what to do?

• Angel of The Lord
• Check it out. . . the angel of God said to me in
  the dream, 'Jacob.' I answered, 'Here I am.' 12
  And he said, 'Look up and see that all the male
  goats mating with the flock are streaked,
  speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that
  Laban has been doing to you. 13 I am the God of
  Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you
  made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and
  go back to your native land.'"
• Angel of the Lord God

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What God tells us to do, does not always make
sense to us.
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Are you willing to Fulfill the call?

• Not enough to answer the call
• Not enough to live the call
• Will you fulfill the call

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Jonah

• Answered the call
• Was living the call
• But he couldnt fulfill the call, he couldnt
  finish

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Are you willing?

• To answer the call
• To live the call
• To fulfill the call

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And be sure of this I am with you always, even
to the end of the age."
-Jesus