"I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Genesis 28:25 Read the full passage, Genesis 28:10-19, below. This is a sermon preview for the fourth sermon in the “Promise & Threat” sermon series. To watch the recording of any of the sermons in this sermon series, visit our website. I heard something once: "Americans are foolish enough to think 100 years is a long time, and Europeans foolish enough to think 100 miles is a long distance." We live in a large nation. I flew to Las Vegas last weekend, and that is an incredible distance! But many of our currently existing cities have not existed very long in their current form, even if Native Americans have lived in the United States for thousands of years. This can make us forget how deep roots can go in a particular place. When in South Korea, I once asked one of my co-teachers, Mr. Lee, why he left Seoul. After all, Seoul was a booming metropolis with 26 million people in its metro area. He had worked in finance. Now, he was back in Uiseong, a town so rural it was considered too small to support a movie theater. "I had to return to my family house." He said, simply. "Oh really? Did your parents build it?" I asked. He laughed. "It has been our family home for 500 years," he said. That was unfathomable to me. I could not name a single building that was 500 years old in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Lee family had deep, deep roots in Uiseong in Gyeonsangbuk-do. [Read the rest on our Blog website at the link below]