Abraham and Sarah
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Map of Genesis. Many things have occured from Noah to Abram. It is believed by many scholars that from Noah’s offspring Japheth, Ham, and Shem that areas like Egypt, China, Japan, and Indo-German Tribes are being established. Man has begun to spread out and they have started to inhabit these different areas forming different communities and setting in motion the creation of different cultures.
Genesis 12:1–9 (ESV)
1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
8 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
9 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.
Abraham came out of the area of Ur and Haran which was in modern day Turkey. The land of Canaan is where Modern Israel is and is where the promised land would be for the Israelites as they leave Egypt.
6 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Sola Fide: Justification by faith alone.
Abraham had so much faith in God that he was willing to leave everything and follow where God would lead him. All through out scripture Abraham is praised for his faith. The thing about Abraham, though, was that he was not perfect in his faith. He had moments in his life where he screwed up royally.
10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.
11 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,
12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
13 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”
14 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
15 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Not once but twice.
Then Sarah gives her servant to Abraham to have a child because of their lack in faith.
Faith-In God’s time
Faith-In God’s way
Faith-In God’s process
Faith-In God’s purpose